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so this is the tell me me eight and it looks familiar in fact it looks a lot like a lot of other Android phones on the market today but that's not necessarily a bad thing with a little glass body and optically stabilized lenses this phone feels just as good if not better than the top Android phones on the market today what matters most here is the value that Xiaomi is offering with this phone and my briefing they told me that their entire value proposition is to offer better or the same specs as the highest competition on the market and at just about 421 dollars that is exactly what they're doing here MEA is running a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 six gigabytes of ram up to 256 gigabytes of storage in a three thousand four hundred million power battery that seems to be the new standard for these flagship killer phones and it's nice to see Xiaomi catching up with Samsung and the other Giants in the industry this phone comes standard in a variety of color ways but the model that you're going to want is definitely the Explorer edition this model has a transparent back similar to the translucent back on the HTC u12 plus and it has a decorative overlay to show the components inside this model has some extra RAM at 8 gigabytes and just a little bit less battery at 3,000 million hours instead of 3400 we're just hoping it doesn't significantly impact the battery life on that six point two one inch AMOLED screen the most important aspects of the Explorer edition though are the in screen fingerprint reader and the 3d face unlock now we've only seen that fingerprint reader in phones like the vivo X 21 and we think that show me can probably do just as well this reader is pressure sensitive - meaning it'll only ping the display when you're pressing down on it which should significantly save battery life the rear cameras are both 12 megapixels and the primary camera is actually optically stabilized the front-facing camera is 20 megapixels - so your selfies should look great on this phone the face unlock on the Explorer edition is actually pretty similar to the iPhone 10s creating a 3d map of your face using infrared light this should only work with your face - and because it uses a 3d scanning technology it shouldn't be fooled by pictures this technology also led ShowMe to create a studio lighting feature and a features very similar to an emoji which is coming later in a future update another quick thing to know here but the chummy me8 is one of the first phones to use dual frequency cheap yes this should make their GPS much more accurate and it is a lifesaver for me because I hate using walking GPS in San Francisco it is always an accurate the regular model will cost between 421 and 515 dollars depending on the model you get and the Explorer edition is going to come in at five hundred and seventy seven dollars with only one model available eight gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabytes of storage what are your thoughts on this phone the Explorer edition is definitely the model to look out for because it utilizes two technologies that are only available in a handful of phones today as usual leave your thoughts in the comment section below hit that Bell and stay tuned to our socials because of course we are your source for all things Android hey guys so I just got back from that event and I just wanted to address a couple things that I couldn't really say there first of all yeah this phone looks exactly like it iPhone I mean even down to the camera placement iPhone like someone would probably think this was an iPhone if you pull it out of your pocket but I really actually just want to know if you care about that cuz like I mean it's still a really good design still so it feels really great in your hand if it's gonna have the face unlock and use the an emoji like it doesn't in the same way but like do you care like I I don't really care but you know it's up to you I actually want to know like do you guys think that they need to be making a completely different design let me know in the comments section obviously the other thing is there was a lot of controversy around this phone specifically the Explorer edition I don't know if you've heard about it but the transparent back that shows the components the story is those are not real like components I try to have Xiaomi and they were giving me some vague answers what I've read online that they are real parts but they are just there for an artistic touch so you could theoretically take those off and it wouldn't change the function of the phone they're really just there to like show the art of Technology that's what Xiaomi told me I still think it looks really cool so I don't really care it's it's definitely up to the marketing like whether or not you think they need to be I think they should be totally honest with it they're just being very big so I'm not really sure what is the case but that is what I read online when I got home because I was like really curious about that I heard a lot of controversy about it so I'm hear from you guys like do you think that it's okay for manufacturers to do something like that you know make a transparent back glass that is not necessarily representative of what the actual components look like but is kind of like artistically placed I mean in a way it's just like a color right so but you know it's up to you I do want to know that I really actually want to know so leave the thoughts about both those things in the comment section below I just wanted to make sure you guys were aware of these things so I wasn't just like spouting off specs and stuff so let me know your thoughts and I'll talk to you later all right