The NIGHT VISION Phone!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,487 words · ~7 min read
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now i'm not saying you shouldn't open this
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but you remember that scene from raiders of the lost arkansas
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i never saw it what
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that's the first one right what i've like i've seen parts what do you
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mean that's the first one why don't we get on with this this is the doogie i
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think it's doogee i don't care s s90
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the modular phone that claims to
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actually matter will it
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let's see
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so somehow on a phone this size
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they still didn't manage to include a headphone jack
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how does that even happen i actually think they get a pass
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really yes because this is a rugged phone this phone is ip68 rated it's also
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ip69k
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oh rated so that's the like high temperature like high pressure sanitize
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although what you're doing with your phone where you need to put it under a high pressure spray
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to clean it i mean foreign directors ebola crisis
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response team okay who knows and then drop wise how
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are we doing on this thing i don't think there's actually any
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drop numbers per se but they do advertise military grade durability with
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its ballistic proof and salt corrosion spray proof and mold
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proof so feature wise this thing actually has like kind of
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pretty much everything it's got a 5 000
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milliamp hour battery 5050 sorry excuse
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me it's got a 16 megapixel rear camera 8 megapixel front camera it's got micro sd
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expansion it's got an eight core helio p60 processor six gigs of RAM 128 gigs
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of storage dual sim support uh it's got whatever this is what the
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sims in there oh the sims in there that's a waterproof thing it's a waterproof sim thing
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the only thing that's missing is the headphone jack
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really though the thing that attracted us to it is
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this accessory package so included with the phone you've got
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what appears to be an antenna you've got
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okay that's just a regular type c cable this one's pretty cool this is just a
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type c to type a it comes with that so you can plug in pretty much
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any usb device you'd like it's got this wall wart that we're going to have to
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use a different one because that's incompatible it's got
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whatever this is oh my god is that what this is yes is it
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a walkie-talkie it's a walkie-talkie
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that's pretty cool okay we're gonna have to try that later gradienter what is a gradienter
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yeah it reads 86 and we're definitely
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dude you're not even 90. i am 90.
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go i'm i'm not moving at all go check
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she's broken peter all right guys so welcome to Linus
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tech tips we're going to be checking out the uh doogie s90 it's reading annoying
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boss
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what happened you did that right in my ear
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put this back on your
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i think you can throw it i think it's fine yeah that's the idea right oh
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oh oh doogie
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oh doogie oh no
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why
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yes yes
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so i think it's pretty fair to say that in spite of our abuse this thing doesn't
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even have a scratch on it well we were lucky that we didn't throw with any
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accessories on it because these accessories
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are not rugged at all or waterproof oh okay so they just clip on and then
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i mean it stayed on hey i think it was trying to give us instructions the
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accessories can cause significant errors in compass applications connecting otg
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when back clip power is connected neither will be available
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oh so basically they have just rerouted the usb type-c
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interface here that's a sweet interface though
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boom what the hell is water camera the interface does not support touch
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function press volume up and photo key to capture oh that makes sense oh you're
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underwater and you can't tap it yeah so you use the buttons this is not an
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amazing camera so this is the rear camera the auto
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focus is abominable like it keeps grabbing you and then just completely
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losing you it's a samsung camera
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it's gonna have a really hard time with that this thing it struggles at the best
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of times okay give me your best um action hero pose
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yeah this is really not a strong performance
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should we see okay i think the walkie-talkie working no i think we should move on
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all right cause no one's gonna buy that people are gonna buy this the battery one an extra
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five thousand milliamp hours this doesn't feel like 5 000 milliamp hours i
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bet it does when it's on there and you still can't use otg that's pretty
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annoying and you also lose your fingerprint reader it's covered now
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this thing is really unwieldy like compared to the 13 000 milliamp hour
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ulefone that we checked out recently this feels so much more ungainly like if
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you're gonna have a big phone it is so much more space and weight efficient to
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just have a bigger battery in the phone in the first place versus trying to clip
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on an accessory this is why i think every
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modular phone concept up until now has failed now one thing doogie is doing a
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little bit differently is they're trying to build accessories that someone might
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actually want and this night vision one is really
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the most unique one you know what i think people would think it just looks
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like one of those pop-up things what are those calls oh those those pop rings it
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looks like you got a camera themed one you know like you can get those coffee
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mugs that look like lenses like i work in film so i got one of these lens
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yeah so it works in the day there's a lot of noise a lot of grain
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here i don't think this is night vision at
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all i think this is just a big lens that captures more light
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like yes in a very dark situation
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i could hold this up in front of me and like kind of be able to see but
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with the same amount of preparation i could grab a flashlight you know
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i mean honestly the phone itself i don't
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really have any particular issue with if you
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want a rugged phone there aren't a ton of options out there there's those
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underpowered ones from cat there's that ulefone that we checked out recently but
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that is not waterproof even though it's got like a really kind of beefy
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rugged-ish feeling built so i mean i'd pay i'd say 350 bucks 400
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bucks is fair when the kickstarter ends it's gonna be 370 us dollars it has
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wireless charging too doesn't it yes it has wireless charger except that if you
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go and put an accessory on it you lose it correct so there's a couple things we
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missed there's a game module that's like a game controller or something like that
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and then apparently the modules kind of
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aren't that amazing right now but they could
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make more in the future like the 5g one so this could extend the lifetime of
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this device right but it's the same issue we run into with every modular
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phone where that assumes that they sell enough of these things and the modules
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to fund the development of future
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modules which is something that to my knowledge simply has not happened yet
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those of you rocking the moto z force you know rock on baby power to you
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if it makes you happy to have a rugged phone at a decent price
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that's kind of unwieldy in the hand are you trying to stand it up to about 87
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degrees is that what you tried to do there then go for it otherwise
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get a pixel with night sight or anything else
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