this phone is cheaper than a pair of airpods and not even the pros regular
airpods and that may sound crazy Poco is known for making affordable phones while
still having a lot of specs that can compete with a lot of flagships and this one hopefully is no different today we
have the Poco m5s which is one of their newest phones here along with their M5
that we're not going to really spend much time on because this is the interesting one but what's really
interesting is a scent free loot oh baby
we got the Poco juice yeah that's right delicious Poco juice
where's the juice nothing in it there's nothing in it boy someone's gotten here first oh
they're trying to win me over and I'm I'm not gonna lie it's working look at
this wow I can really represent
what else we got all right we got the Poco headband and a very very nice bag
don't worry I promise not to let this bias me all right let's take a look at
what's inside the box here it's a very simple Box by the way no information
about specs of the phone so I don't actually know what we have here but
there we go first little intro tells us a bit about the phone itself but let's
take a look at what's in the box here first
wow okay so we got this phone carrier
there is something inside it's very heavy and oh perfect I don't think a lot
of people make cases for these phones but that could just be pure ignorance on
my part but squishy squishy case also in the box we
have a charger so it's a 33 watt quick charger this is not going to be
everywhere so this is a European Standard thing so since we have the European model whoa cool orange tip now
for the phone itself obviously we've all been waiting for very exciting and you
know it looks pretty cool it is a 6.43 inches so it's pretty decently big but
doesn't feel heavy so it is a plastic frame and a plastic back but it doesn't
feel cheap so I did use the Samsung s21fe before in the back I didn't like
the texture kind of just made it feel like really plasticky but this no it
doesn't feel bad at all still has a little bit of hatch so it's 178 grams
this one here is a good balance it doesn't feel heavy on one side of the phone or the other doesn't feel like
you're going to be fatigued from holding it up to your face when you're on the bus you know FaceTiming your mom or
whatever so we have the white here but it is also available in blue and black and I wasn't able to find it on like
AliExpress or anything like that but on their website they do show a yellow otherwise on the right side of the phone
here we have our volume rocker and power button and the power button is also the
fingerprint scanner which is pretty convenient on the top here we have one
of our dual speakers and an IR blaster so this is not in a ton of phones but I
absolutely love having an IR blaster it's super convenient for if you lose
your remote or anything like that it's becoming rare and rarer to see but it is just like a nice to have why not throw
it in and then we have our mic hole on the left side of the phone we have our SIM tray and I believe if we open it up
it is also an SD card slot which is
again something exceedingly rare in phones these days but a great way to
save some money by being able to get a lower storage option and throwing in your own SD card and a dual card slot
which is again super convenient it's not super common here in North America it's
only just getting to that point in Europe and other countries I know it's a bit more common but it's super
convenient while traveling or like for myself I actually Rock two phones at the
same time one with my work phone number and one with my personal phone number and being able to put that all in one
device is super convenient on the bottom of the phone we have our other dual
speaker as well as a USBC port and a
headphone jack checking all the boxes I know people in the comments are already
going crazy you've got this in your cart but slow down we're going to finish this
video on the back pretty simple I don't know is a hot take or something like
that but having the certifications so
big on the back of the phone ugly I use my phones caseless I have a
pixel 7 Pro in one pocket and an iPhone 13 Pro in the other pocket both naked
nothing no scratches no cracks anything
like that I just don't drop your phone if you don't want to use a case if you want to save some money stop dropping
your phone or AppleCare I don't know but I feel like if there was a huge
certification on the back of this I actually might get a case just because
it doesn't look good other than the certifications there is this big kind of
Poco logo I don't mind it as much like I mean I feel like I'd be a little bit of
a hypocrite because Apple does have the giant Apple logo the pixel has the G
logo on the back it's just not like a super high-end brand it's not like this
is going to be like yeah I've got a Poco so on the back we have four cameras we
have our 64 megapixel main shooter our 8 megapixel wide angle shooter our 2
megapixel depth camera and a 2 megapixel
macro camera and I say four cameras because yes it does have the depth
camera but you're never going to be taking a photo out of it it's just as used for the portrait mode so it's there
there's no telephoto which some people might care about I personally never use
a telephoto lens on my cameras and with a 64 megapixel sensor if this actually
takes decent photos you'll just be able to crop in and get a zoom that way so
that's about everything on the outside of the phone so all we need to do is turn it on but first you need to hear
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decent screen so it's 2400 by 1080p full HD Plus ammo LED screen yeah one
disappointing thing about the screen though is it is only 60 hertz a lot of
modern phones or higher end phones or even just different kind of budget
phones will have a 90 Hertz screen or even greater and this one being locked
at 60. once you get used to something higher it is rough going back again it's
not going to really show on camera because obviously your screen is going to be a different refresh rate than what
we're filming at or anything like that but just trust me it does feel a bit choppy another disappointing thing I
forgot to mention is that this is Gorilla Glass 3 which is I think we're
on like the 7th or 8th gen one Saving Grace about this phone knows that the
screen does get bright so its average brightness is about 450 50 Nets but it
can go up to 700 nits in its auto brightness mode if it no zero in the Sun
and has a peak brightness of 1100 nits which is competing with a lot of
Flagship phones that's really great to see so yeah as we can see here we're on MIUI 13 and for specs we have the 128
gig of storage and 6 gig of RAM model though as you notice here it does say
it's six plus two so it has a dynamic RAM system where it can allow you up to
an additional two gigs of RAM when you need it which is interesting I don't
know why you just wouldn't have eight like maybe it's a battery saver thing it's also powered by the mediatek g95
which is again a couple years old and it was already a mid-rager then so we're
going to see if it affects performance at all but battery savings price savings
it could all still be worth it one other thing I want to check out is the fingerprint unlock speed it does have ai
Face Unlock but it's just a regular camera so I don't know if I'd really ever trust it even Windows hello
requires an IR camera to get a special scan of your face to make sure it's
actually you know and not just a picture of you well I've got a nice little happy face though it kind of makes me want to
use it when you see the little happy face does that not make you want to use that I am not super used to a
fingerprint reader anymore I've been using the iPhone Pro since it came out which is all just
face ID and the pixel 7 Pro has the under display fingerprint scanner which
I actually have learned to like a lot because when your phone is face up on the table you can just put your finger
on top see your notifications or do whatever you'd like so I'm not quite sure how I feel about the fingerprint
scanner on the side it just means you have to kind of pick it up and hold it if you want to use it let's see how fast
this fingerprint scanner is oh that's fast super satisfying gets you right
into the phone but as you unlock here you can see there's a lot of apps that come default on the phone there's a ton
of bloatware it's got Netflix Poco Community tile fun though usually they
charge for that so that's pretty impressive I mean it just creates a lot more work we have to go through and
uninstall all the stuff that you're obviously never going to use like the me
remote I mean I guess no it's got the IR Blaster I'm sold keep the bloatware
foreign that's not bad it was a little dicey at
the start I feel like uh it was just the high ends weren't sounding super great
I'm not an audio file I use air pods but
uh I did think it sounds pretty good it sounds pretty wide there wasn't a ton of
stereo separation but it did sound pretty decent and the screen looks good
I still think it looks really good for the fact that again this is cheaper than
airpods you get all this nuts now we've
seen the screen I heard the speakers let's check out the cameras that's obviously something that's really
important too everybody most people UI is very iphone-like so
you have the shutter button at the bottom the gallery I'm assuming that's going to be the flip as well as all of
your different kind of shoot modes so let's take a picture right off the bat
and just see what it looks like if you were to take a picture standard bog
standard there he is the ultrawide is 0.6
you know for a 10x just crop Zoom because that's not Optical that actually
looks pretty decent I'm not gonna lie this is just a kind of standard suggested 2x again looks pretty clear
it's not super bright over there and I am in a brightened area and it still
looks pretty decent like uh you're not gonna be punching into these photos and
you know posting just James's handsome face and then this is the wide angle oh
colors look a bit better uh or at least kind of warm and saturated so it just
appears better and then the standard 1X again this looks pretty darn good I took
a footage behind me just so you can see something it's a little bit more kind of consistently lit yeah it looks pretty
darn good again this isn't going to compare to the pixel or the iPhone with
their computational photography or anything like that now we're gonna try some video so it can do up to 4K 30 and
then it does 1080p 60 or 30. a lot of phones do 4K 60 but again I don't think
most people are shooting at 4K 60 and at this price point I don't really think
that's much of an issue all right we're taking a video you can hear the
microphone I'm gonna Joss a little bit uh that does pretty well it's a little
blurry but again the colors are pretty consistent if maybe a bit muted but I
think for if you just need a quick video something or when you're out with your kids I just want to get that special
moment this will do it it might not look absolutely amazing but it does look
pretty decent me and my Poco uniform so great oh I
gotta check for AI beautify because while my voice might be smooth my face
is not that smooth all right you can see in the settings here you have the AI
which actually was not on but there is a beautify Little Star icon down here that
shows you your smooth and you can change that higher or lower
slender didn't do a whole lot I guess it can't work miracles am I right and we
got big eye mode wow quite Desi all
right let's take a picture without all those AI filters on yeah it looks okay I
don't think there's anything we're like I want to go on a hot date so I got to spruce up the profile but I mean that is
somewhat what I look like so last thing I want to check out is gameplay as it
does have a middle ground SOC so I want to see if you can still kind of hold up with games kids are playing like I don't
know pension impact ever play against champagne
don't join my clan it does run pretty
smoothly and I am screen recording at the same time say this one's pretty
decent it does feel like it's running at the full 60 hertz of the screen and uh
there's minimal hitching that I probably would just Chuck up again to the screen
recording though it seems like I've been kind of poo pooing the fact that it's
got mid-range Hardware I do think that it actually has a huge benefit because
this has a 5 000 milliamp hour battery which means that this thing should last
you a long time they actually quote as
37 hours of calling 19 hours of video
playback or 11 hours of gaming and
that's a long time my iPhone lasts the
day doesn't make it into the second day my pixel does not make it into the
second day and I'm not using these phones super super intensely so being
able to say that this lasts that long shows that going for something that's
maybe not the highest end but just sips away at battery means they can actually
use this phone for probably a couple days which is really hard pressed to
find another way to keep down costs is the fact that this doesn't have any 5G
there's no Wi-fi six there's no wireless charger or anything like that but I feel
like a lot of those features aren't super necessary or anything that you're really going to notice in a day-to-day
scenario 5G is barely available and if it is you have to be outside standing by
a tower but it does have ip53 water resistance that means you can't submerge
it but it will do fine in the rain now we haven't actually said the price yet
just that it's cheaper than airpods this thing starts at 169 dollars nice nice I
can't go from there when you get the higher storage whatever like that but if you think about it the one terabyte SD
card that this thing supports could cost more than the phone itself it's a
screaming deal and there are quite a few players in the space including Poco Zone
M5 this thing is 140 but you lose the
water resistance you get some slightly weaker cameras slower charging but
interestingly enough it has a 90 Hertz LCD screen another reason why I wish
this one was more than 60 hertz but there's a lot of great options in this
price range but I think this one has a really good balance again that battery
life is insane the cameras were serviceable and the speed it kept up
with genction impact and that's no slouch most people just use it for
Instagram or emails and this thing should be able to tank through those with a breeze obviously this is Quick
unbox Settings I don't know how this is going to last in the long term again some of that Hardware is already
starting to age if you're in need of a phone or a mobile device just in general
as a music player and Camera this seems like it could be a really solid choice
and as someone who's only really used premium phones I don't think I would be
that upset if I had to use this for work or uh broke my phone I was ready for
replacement and use this instead it seems like a great stopover and that
price unbelievable
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