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hey guys Boston the iPhone 10s is expensive starting at $1000 in reaching fourteen hundred and fifty dollars for the maxed out max if you see what I did there it's easy to say that this is the most expensive flagship ever on the other hand I recently took a look at the cheapest flagship you can buy the 300 hour poco phone app one even then it's $400 armor configuration which is what I have here it is an incredible bargain to be clear I don't think anyone is cross shopping these two phones but I also don't think it's a crazy idea now sure if you've got the kind of budget for a high-end flagship like the iPhone by all means go pick one up I think for a lot of people if you can get a very similar experience for a whole lot less why wouldn't you which brings us to the rear question of this video can a $400 poco phone match up to $8,000 plus iPhone this is probably the strongest case for the iPhone 10s it has incredibly nice Hardware Melly is it rocking glass on front and back but unlike most phones which are made out of aluminum this has a stainless steel chassis now of course that's something that's up to personal preference some people won't like the idea that it is going to scuff a little bit easier specifically with the Silver Edition but as far as I'm concerned it looks nice and gives you a nice sense of heft which feels very premium on the other hand the poco phone is primarily made out of plastic now that's not necessarily a bad thing if you take a look at the jerry-rigged everything video he did a really solid test of seeing how durable it is and it did hold up pretty well unfortunately though plastic is never going to feel quite as premium as stuff like stainless steel on glass to be fair the armoured edition I have here is a slight upgrade over the standard version as the back is made out of aramid fiber as opposed to plastic it feels nice and it does give you a little bit of grip enos to the iPhone lacks but there's a clear winner here and build quality it's the phone that cost three x bar there are some advantages to the poco phone's hardware however USBC versus lightning is kind of a wash as far as I'm concerned what the polka phone has the iPhone lacks is a headphone jack and less sure techrax and you Joe on end the iPhone 10's is gonna be using a whole lot of dongles on adapters to listen to music but balanced line is that you're losing basically any kind of water resistance with the poco phone f1 the iPhone has no problems with with a full ip68 water resistance hey look I didn't even press the screen it's not work so you won't find wireless charging on the poco phone something that is standard on the iPhone however the poco bond does have a fingerprint sensor and be fair both phones have a pretty solid implementation of face unlock the Ida advantage here is if you don't want to you know stare at your phone unlock it just easily drop a finger on the button and unlock it like that let's be real though the vast majority of people are going to put these phones in a case regardless and the build quality is good enough that neither of them really worry me all that much now yeah the polka phone can't quite keep up with the iPhone but considering how much more expensive this is yeah I would hope so usually when it comes to a budget phone one of the biggest things you have to sacrifice his performance but I was actually the strong suit of the poco phone inside you'll find a snapdragon 845 paired with 6 gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of storage and that's not a perfect comparison but in context the iPhone only has 4 gigs of RAM and 64 gigs of storage on the base model and again it's $1100 that is really impressive for phones that's this much cheaper however as soon as you start trying to do any kind of benchmarks you're going to find the polka phone just can't hang with the iPhone it shouldn't be a huge surprise finale is the Pogo phone going to be significantly slower than the 10s but even the one plus 6 is going to be quicker even though it has basically the same spec it's much the same story on the graphics side the iPhone is a huge huge leap over what's available on the Android side full stop and the polka phone is no exception surprise surprise this does apply to real world use so I don't think anyone would call the Pogo phone slow but putting side-by-side with the iPhone and you will notice that there is a responsive difference responsive difference responsiveness difference a difference in responsiveness perhaps a responsive difference one thing I think is important to mention is that while the polka phone is a global phone it's not necessarily meant for the US market don't get me wrong it is available to be purchased here in the US but it doesn't have full LTE support for all the carriers it's pretty good on AT&T and t-mobile but Sprint and Verizon are a bit hit or miss this is all a lot more straightforward than you might think yes the iPhone is faster and that really shouldn't be a surprise but we consider the enormous price difference and the fact the polka phone can totally hang with the iPhone some ways and slightly surpasses it and others is incredibly impressive take a look at the screens and you're going to find that they look very very similar the polka phone has a slightly smaller 6.2 inch display whereas the iPhone is rocking a 6.5 inch panel but they're actually really close there's no doubting that both these phones have quite the knotch I can't complain too much so both the poco and the iPhone do have nately their selfie cameras here but they also do have some face id Tech feel to unlock the issue here is that while the iPhone looks pretty much uniform on the rest of it the poco does have a pretty large chin considering that it's at their the price though I really can't complain too much run the phone's through our display tests and what you'll find is something kind of surprising yes the iPhone has a terrific display and some of the things that our test doesn't really show is the excellent viewing angles as well as the contrast but that being said color accuracy and brightness on the poco phone is right up there in addition to having a slightly higher screen resolution the real advantage for the iPhone is that it's using an OLED panel versus LCD there's nothing wrong with a solid LCD like on the poco but you're not going to get quite as vibrant of a pictures on the iPhone still though I'm incredibly impressed with just how close this gets surprisingly both the iPhone and poco phone share the exact same size 12 megapixel sensor now mind you there are some other advantages with the iPhone including having optical image stabilization as well as an actual telephoto lens but on paper they look pretty close it might not look particularly exciting but this actually should be a reasonable test of the camera now is there a lot of detail on the tree we've got a lot of vibrant colors as well as some serious dynamic range it does seem like the iPhone got the white balance just a little bit more accurate detail wise they're fairly close I will say there's a little bit more dynamic range on the iPhone here and it did do a good job with sort of warming up the image but it's not a huge difference oh that's a much bigger difference the iPhone really was able to pull in a lot of that sky whereas the Polka foam totally blew it out yeah the polka phone just does not hold the shadows as well as the iPhone it also seems like it's a little bit over sharp in this photo the iPhone does look a little bit more natural it shouldn't be a huge surprise that the iPhone has a better camera but I'm also curious about is the video capability this is what 4k video looks like straight off of the poco phone f1 so of course you guys can be the judge for yourself I will say that there's not quite the same level stabilization so we can move a little bit left and right you'll be able to tell but based on that in the audio not back on the other hand this is what you're going to be getting on the iPhone 10's max here we're recording at 4k 24 frames although it is important to note that the iPhone will go all the way up to 60 but first of all you're going to be getting stereo audio something new for the iPhone on top of that to my eye this is going to be a little bit more of a natural image with a little bit less sort of crunchiness a little bit less compression next up we have the front-facing cameras whereas the iPhone has 7 megapixels to work with the pokel phone has 20 but is it actually any good I will say I like the iPhone colors a bit more and there is more dynamic range but I've got to give this one to the poco phone it's wider which means of course you're going to be able to on your selfies if you're super popular like Ken but almost more importantly than that it's a nice sharp image those extra megapixels are definitely doing something so does the $400 poco phone f1 match up to the $1100 iPhone 10's max well subjectively the iPhone is a better phone there is no doubt in a lot of ways it's actually a pretty significant difference but in most ways that people care about I think the poco phone is right there and it is incredibly impressive that I'm even having this comparison right you might think that of course an iPhone is going to be way way better but considering that's nearly three times the price it is nowhere near three times the phone