The Phone Apple Couldn't Make...
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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2,064 words · ~10 min read
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this is so ridiculous so this video is gonna have a couple of
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firsts uh it won't be the first time that i've just like read off of a
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product review guide because i don't know anything about the product but it
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will be the first time that i'll have a juiced up edition phone
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it will be the first time that i'll be showing off a fingerprint sensor
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under the screen of a commercial product and it will be the first time that we
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have shot an entire video on a
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stabilized gimbal setup move it around move around
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whoa look at that he's like he's walking man walk more brandon you got this
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so vivo is a phone brand that we've never really checked out before in the
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past but there are a couple of things about this guy that are actually
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pretty interesting so first of all this is the first phone that i've yet to get
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my hands on that has qualcomm's new snapdragon 660
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a i e processor in it so it's a i and like
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experience engine
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it was engine all right so let's fire this up it's running the fun touch os
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which i think has to be the best name for an Android skin yet
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and the first thing that you're going to notice about this thing is that
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screen to bezel ratio they have actually
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cracked the 90 barrier thanks to their use of a notch
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which you can feel however you do or don't
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feel about it it's a thing it's not going away and thanks to their use of an
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under screen fingerprint sensor which also lets you not have the fingerprint
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sensor on the back which some people like but i'm not personally a fan of
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it's actually kind of amazing how few features you have to give up with like
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these more value-oriented phones now
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like it doesn't have wireless charging or anything but it at least has nfc
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that's if i could find the antenna anywhere yeah
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does it not
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connect it to the usb port
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nope apparently still a thing no nfc
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so this is it this is the big moment
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add fingerprint four-digit password oh
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wow they've got security questions what was the name of your primary school and
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but central elementary
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whenever the fingerprint sensor is active and it's under the screen right
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here you can't see it pretty much at all
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you're going to have this this blue and greeny kind of light up
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better recognition with a slightly deeper press
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okay well it didn't get me that time
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okay
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so it's pretty slow compared to some of
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the more modern not under screen fingerprint sensors that we've become
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used to it's especially noticeable when you compare this to uh shoot what phone was
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that recently that i checked out where you could just swipe your finger down
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the sensor right the s9 and it would register the whole thing
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this is this is pretty tedious
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wow this thing is actually not that cheap so rumored pricing is around 36 000
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indian rupees which would make it about 540
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us dollars so it's not up there with like flagship phone pricing but it's
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actually not that inexpensive here this is our first chance to take a look at
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this functionality in action you see that
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the OLED screen lights up bright that gives the sensor under the display
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enough illumination to read the identifying ridges on your finger
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okay let me try it again so ran for oh that's nice so it's got an OLED display
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so that means that it can have just the fingerprint pixels active so you can
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actually wake the whole thing without pressing
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that's not bad you know what here why don't we just do like a a fingerprint
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sensor speed test let me grab a couple of other devices and
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uh here what do you want to start with do you
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want to start with like the other like chinese brands or should i start with
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like something kind of more flagshipy like the s9
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chinese brand okay so here it is next to the mix 2s
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oh how do i the sensors are on either side okay you
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guys are gonna have to take my word for it i'm pressing it at the same time one two three go
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not bad it's not far off all right
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pixel 2 xl
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faster but not worlds faster like we're not talking iphone 6 here
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uh is this embargoed i actually don't know uh
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mate 10 pro
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galaxy s9
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iphone 10 my face id is broken so
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no fingerprint sensor why did they take it off
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right because they didn't have apparently the technology that
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vivo has i should do a video where i try and get
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apple to fix it get started face id is not available
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trying it later doesn't work by the way
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so like any modern phone one of the big features is the camera
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so i'm just going to be testing the stabilization while i walk down the
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stairs and i'm also giving you guys a look at the stabilized rig that
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brandon's using to shoot this i don't know if i'm at the bottom yet how close
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am i i don't know okay i'm at the bottom got this uh so
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i've got an iphone 10 compared to the vivo x 21 here
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hi taren i'm lacking stability with this door oh the iphone 10 handles that
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backlight a lot better in spite of the ai camera features whoa
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that's not helpful but thank you anyway so i actually really like taking test
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pictures here because you've got this these really bright colors you've got
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this nice blue sky and then you've got these hard shadows and that's something
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that even with HDR is quite difficult
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for smartphone cameras to handle so now i want to see how it handles
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lower light i mean that really is the main
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difference for cell phone cameras these days is
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how they handle processing the image as opposed to
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the sensor is really getting a lot better generation by generation
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it just crashed huh i never thought i was going to
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capture that on camera since after i've done my review i have
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had a few just random hard resets like that
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and i asked samsung about it and they were like no no idea what you're talking
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about so this thing's got all kinds of tech
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that you might not expect on sort of a mainstream performance phone and it uses
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micro usb what year is it
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does it have wireless charging i guess i could consult my
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doodad here so the glass back is for looks
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um and for feel and it actually does look and feel pretty good uh was not to
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enable wireless charging anyway
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oh man that end screen unlocked that is so cool
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i gotta give them credit the specs to price ratio
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pretty impressive if that's correct because it's got 128 gigs of storage so
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you can take a lot of those photos and six gigs of RAM
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so overall impressions here are decent like obviously it captured the image but
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it lost a lot of detail in the darkest parts of the scene here that was
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retained by all of the other cameras
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even if xiaomi didn't do a great job of their color science here you can tell
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these greens are like these are like neon bushes and then as
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for low light the pixel 2 xl and the s9
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plus were the ones that got the color closest and then the iphone 10 the mix 2s
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and the vivo x21 all kind of land all yellow and have a
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lot of processing and noise artifacts yeah the x21 was the worst in the low
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light scenario and the construction doesn't really
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stand out either it's well balanced in the hand i've got to give them credit
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for that and this curved glass back actually both looks and feels better in
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person than the camera is probably capturing but i do have to say the way that
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they've joined the front panel assembly here to the
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rear casing uh is pretty last gen you
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can see a very noticeable ridge between them
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with all of that said though the screen
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looks fantastic it really does feel like a giant display floating in your hand
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the cost is very reasonable they ship it with an included screen protector and
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lo and behold they weren't able to make it waterproof obviously that's not
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anywhere in the rating but it's got a headphone jack
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so for the price i'm actually liking this thing a lot even though this was
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far from an in-depth review
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i've yet to see where they're going with the whole ai processor aspect of it
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it's supposed to optimize both battery life in terms of
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giving less resources to stuff that you don't care about and more to stuff that
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you do as well as helping with the camera but that's something that's going to
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take time to continue to develop
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it wasn't giving us the audio quality
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on the subject of audio quality that i might expect
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the speakers on this do leave a lot to be desired
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synchronizing audio in post is fine for future films but it's a nightmare
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they get loud so that's not bad but i've actually come to expect now a powered
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secondary speaker up here so you get a little bit of stereo effect at the very
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least man that screen looks good though i love
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ultra wide displays which is why it's all the more a mystery why this isn't
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stretching to the edges i'm gonna have to find something else
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for that man this display looks good for like a
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value phone though isn't that crazy
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even got p3 color space support
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