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how's it going everyone long hear from Android Authority and today we're taking a look at the Xiaomi me a2 this is an Android one phone and as of right now you can find this phone for under $300 which is pretty affordable and if you're not familiar with the Android 1 program this is where device OMS or manufacturers take care of the hardware side of things and then Google does the rest with the software and the security patch updates and Google does allow OMS a little bit of leeway when it comes to customizing these Android 1 phones but for the most part the experience is very much stock Android so for example you'll find shammies camera app pre-installed on here you'll also find shammies me remote app that lets you take advantage of the IR blaster that's on this phone which is a feature that we don't really see on smartphones anymore but you can use this phone to control your TV or other peripherals in your home but for the most part the experience is pretty much just stock Android now because of the price point this phone is missing some key features it doesn't have IP certification wireless charging and of C expandable storage and it also doesn't have a headphone jack so if any of those features are a deal-breaker to you you might want to explore some other options the main reason why I wanted to talk about this phone today though is because it recently just got updated to Android Pi sort of it's not an official OTA update it's actually a leaked beta ROM and if you want to flash it it requires you to have root access so if you guys want to check it out we'll leave a link to our written article down in the description below so you can check it out for yourself if you want to try Android PI on the me a too early but because it does require root access flash it at your own discretion the Android Pi update brings all the things you would expect from Android Pi like adaptive display adaptive battery and the PI gesture navigation controls but one of the things that I like about the me a 2 is that you actually have the option of picking between the gesture navigation and the now old-school standard Android soft keys if you rather use those instead but performance on this ROM even though it's just a beta has been very smooth and very responsive I haven't noticed any major bugs it's definitely daily driver material if you want to use it as your daily driver which I have been doing for the last four or five days and battery life on this ROM has also been extremely good I'm getting anywhere between five to five and a half hours of screen on time very consistently with what I would consider heavy usage I'd play a lot of games I have watched a lot of YouTube and this phone still comfortably gets me through a full day with around 15 to 20 percent left at the end of the day as far as the rest of the phone it has a pretty modern design with great build quality it's an all-metal build and the design sort of reminds me of older oneplus devices like a 1 + 5 or 1 + 5 t it also has a pretty large screen on the front with a 6-inch display an 18 by 9 aspect ratio and it also doesn't have a notch so this is a pretty solid option if you don't like notches but the bezels are a little bit on the thicker side but the screen itself does look pretty nice it's very vibrant very colorful I just wish it was a little bit brighter because I did find it to be a little bit tough to see outdoors on the rear you'll find a fingerprint sensor and dual cameras the main camera is a 12 megapixel sensor and the secondary sensor is 20 megapixels which is for portrait mode photography and also better low-light performance and I was actually pleasantly surprised by this camera it produces really great colors has really good detail and also pretty good dynamic range low-light photos do get a little bit too noisy for my taste but it actually does a really nice job of maintaining a lot of these shadow and highlight details and also preserving a lot of the color the front-facing camera is also 20 megapixels so there's plenty of resolution if you want to take front-facing photos and it also has portrait mode and also a beauty mode for softening the details in your face if you're into that sort of thing it's not really something that I really like on my front-facing photos but it's there if you want to use it so that's pretty much it for the Xiaomi me a - it's a really great Android 1 smartphone that's extremely affordable it offers a modern design a lot of modern features and also has a very streamline Android experience and the early access to Android Pi on this phone makes it even sweeter but if you guys want to know more about the Xiaomi me a to make sure to check out our full written review which will be linked down in the description below and as always thank you so much for watching this video give it a thumbs up if you did enjoy it subscribe down below hit that notification bell so you don't miss out on future videos and I will talk to you guys in the next one