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this video is sponsored by clash Royale hey guys Zhou stood with flagship smartphones cost in excess of $1,000 sometimes it really got me thinking is it possible to get yourself an actually decent smartphone for less than $200 which brings us here so in front of me I have 4 phones all costing less than $200 so it just a look at the Nokia 2 as part of my widest nuki exists in 2018 video and my verdict on it was actually really positive so for $100 you're going to be getting some premium build quality features like an actual aluminum chassis a giant 40 100 million power battery solos decent software a nice screen it really wasn't a lot to complain about besides the performance move up to the blue and for another $40 you're getting a much larger phone so this actually looks a lot more modern in a lot of ways I feel like the main thing that you're going to immediately notice is the 18 by 9 aspect ratio on the screen they're still going to be bezels but there are a lot smaller than on the Nokia one thing that is that on the blue though is a rear-facing fingerprint sensor something that is really nice to see on a budget device like this it's been in another $30 though and you can get yourself the do G mix now this phone easily feels like it could cost twice its price so the first thing you notice is the near bezel this design yeah there's gonna be a tiny bezel up top and there's a fairly big chin but it looks very distinctive and that combining with the heft as well as the nice metal build the glass front and back this really does feel like a phone that could easily cost $500 of course it's not going to be perfect so with that chain comes a fingerprint sensor that's going to be down here unfortunately you still have on-screen Android keys which feels like a little bit of a waste and also very bizarrely the front-facing camera is on the bottom right side I guess they didn't really have anywhere else to put it with the new g3 you're getting something that looks very very similar to a certain series of Samsung Galaxy devices that's less she's not going to be a bad thing in my opinion so around back it's got that same sort of curved edges you've got the dual cameras as well as the fingerprint sensor but interestingly you're also going to be getting a tapered glass finish on the back as well as even on the display it does curved a little bit on the edges and bizarrely even though they did add a USBC port you only have these phones that actually does have USB see they removed the headphone jack which weirdly the Galaxy S nine actually was able to keep this generation as far as the screens go all four phones actually do have decent displays so the nokia 2 has a 5 inch 720p panel step up to the and you're getting that taller 18 by 9 aspect ratio with a 1440 by 720 resolution however it's going to be stretched on a 6-inch display which does look a little bit soft sometimes the doogee is rocking a 5.5 inch 720p panel and interestingly this is actually going to be a Samsung AMOLED panel now the colors to my eye are going to be a little bit oversaturated but it's a good-looking panel however my favorite if I should going to be on the new so this is still a 5.7 inch 720p panel same as basically all of these however the color the brightness the contrast especially the viewing angles really do set this a slight bit above the rest of the other phones when you're spending $2 on a smart phone you shouldn't expect any kind of crazy performance however two of these phones actually do perform pretty well one of the phones that does not however is being Nokia too and this is honestly a case where I feel like Nokia made a lot of the right decisions when they were designing this phone but I think the cheaped out just a little bit too much when it comes to performance so inside you're going to find a Snapdragon 212 processor which is a very old very slow quad core chip and that is one be paired with a mere one gigabyte of RAM and eight gigabytes of storage now the eight gigs of storage you can kind of get around because you do have a micro SD card slot there only one gig of ram and that slow cpu just makes android feel not great move up to the vevo and you're going to be getting an upgraded snapdragon 425 processor that's still going to be quad-core however they're going to be updated cortex a53 s which is pretty much shared with the rest of these phones and importantly you're going to be getting three gigs of ram as well as 32 gigs of storage that's going to be plenty to run pretty much any kind of Android app or game right now and on top of that what you're going to be getting is a pretty decently sized 3000 milliamp hour battery interestingly both the doochie as well as the new are rocking very similar specs so they each have the immediate X 67 57 eight core processor they're both paired with four gigabytes of RAM and they both also have 64 gigabytes of built-in storage with microsd expandable 'ti the biggest difference here is that while the new has at 3000 milliamp hour battery the doogee is going to have a slightly bigger 3380 milliamp hour cell that was a lot of words use these phones in the real world though and you'll see this is one of the best examples of why specs and benchmarks aren't everything so inside Geekbench what you're going to find is that the do you are going to be significantly faster but in practice that's actually not the case so the blue actually feels really nice sure on paper it's not going to have quite the sense back and quite as much memory but it's fairly snappy it's going to be responsive and it is going to have the power to do some gaming however when you step up to the Yugi what you're going to find is something that feels really really old-school there's one clear reason for that these software is straight garbage town now I think what it is is going to be a really poorly optimized build of Android pairing with a pretty heavy skin so what I'm scrolling around here where I feel is just the frame rate is slow it doesn't feel responsive it really feels like I'm using a foam from five six seven years ago and that's totally not OK at any price especially when you consider that cheaper phones are going to perform and feel much much better the best of both worlds though is going to be the new so now that you have the on paper specs and the potential of those specs but you also have a build of Android which is going to be fairly clean and you know not laggy and slow not sure if you put the side-by-side with something like a pixel it's not going to be able to hold up but for a normal person just to pick up the phone and use it is going to be totally respectable of course what better way to take advantage of those awesome specs then by playing some clash Royale the sponsor of today's video don't you love my super clean Segway I've had a lot of travel lately which is giving me a lot of time to play some mobile games and I found the clash Royale has little gently taking up almost all of my phone gaming time clash Royale is a free-to-play game we can duel players in real time while unlocking arenas cards and collecting treasure now I got to say I'm not usually into freemium mobile games but clash Royale is really well dying so it's really simple to be able to get into a match and once you get in there while it's easy to learn there's plenty of depth to make it challenging and you can still play with your friends as well and if you really want to get into it they released a new feature called clan wars where you can assemble a clan and compete against others in a series of battle modes to see who's the best so if this will school you you can check it out the link in the description or you can just search up clash Royale on Google Play as well as the App Store while it might be slow the nokia 2 has the cleanest build of Android here now right now it's running on Android 7 although we'll be getting an update to Oreo pretty soon but even though this isn't an Android 1 device it really does feel like it there's essentially no bloat and actually no key has been pretty good with updates to the new three isn't far off now yes there are a couple of apps and they've done a little bit of tweaking but for the most part you are getting a stock build of Android which you're not necessarily getting though is there any real guarantee of solid Android updates in the future but right now it seems to be working out okay if you don't mind taking the risk come over to the blue and well we've got some software issues first of all is a pretty offensive skin so now I do not even have an app drawer but there's a lot of bloat on this guy no get it they've got to make some sacrifices to be able to hit this price point but if this is me I put some serious work into cleaning up as much as I could changing the launcher because right now yeah not good whereas the doogee has 12 some straight garbage town software that i've already complained about but yeah it's just not good but what could be good are the cameras on all four of these phones or they might not be good actually they are less than $200 so yeah so to start with let's give me $100 nokia to a try and this guy has a single 8 megapixel rear-facing camera so as with a lot of things on the nokia - the performance is not going to be fast when it comes to taking photos and to be fair this is a really challenging shot which it really doesn't hold the highlights well in that's a very white sky mm-hmm there's some detail there although and what seems like the processing is a little bit soft although I say processing most likely it's the less than stellar optics on this tiny tiny little camera stepping up in the budget range to the $140 blue we do get a 13 megapixel camera and well it looks bigger so it must be better right allow camera to phone why yes I want my camera to phone that's definitely something I want all right so let's throw that really contrast II shot at it so it's definitely more detail with the blue shot however actually feel like there's even less dynamic range it really does have a hard time with those highlights whereas the Nokia actually did a better job of keeping them in here's gonna be a shot it's a little bit more normal get a exit close-up of one of Ken's waifu's yeah that's actually not bad at all it's actually fairly sharp the dynamic range really isn't as big of a problem here with a less contrasty shot I'm actually pretty happy with that especially for a hundred and forty bucks now a lot of smartphones have some sort of beauty mode in the camera but something I've never seen is on this blue we have a beauty video mode alright so this is a test of beauty video so you guys can be the judge for yourselves I'm whether I am more beautiful or I look exactly the same and there's a stupid softening filter on my face step up to the $170 doogee and we're going to find dual cameras now here we're going to be getting a 16 megapixel main sensor paired with an 8 megapixel telephoto camera you know that's actually not bad so it does still have issues with the dynamic range but there's a lot of detail it's nice and sharp and importantly a kept exposure of the main subject pretty much all in here let's try blur mode oh wow let's not try blur mode a serious that's a photo I just took in 2018 some some quality doogee images right there that is Wow well last but certainly not least we have the new g3 at $200 and this guy's also going to be rockin dual cameras however what's different about this one is that while they're not only going to be slightly lower resolution 13 plus 5 as opposed to 16 plus 8 but that secondary camera actually doesn't really function as a telephoto option this is just going to be there for extra depth data for stuff like the portrait mode first thing I noticed is that the processing seems to be a lot faster when you take a shot that really isn't that huge shutter like that there was on some of the other phones oh man this portrait mode is not good oh I can tell already this is not gonna be pretty I think you could do something a little bit creative with this but uh yeah portrait mode not really gonna be the strong suit of sub $200 smartphones comparing the selfies the first thing that jumps out to me is the do G the color is just really really washed out sure there's a detail there but it just looks terrible the nokia actually has very vibrant rich colors I think it's a maybe a little bit soft there's definitely some sort of chromatic aberrations going on or it looks like there's some weird filter almost it's passable the new doesn't do a terrible job of getting detail in there's plenty of dynamic range but the color just looks off it just looks very sort of cool very d saturated and not not a fan what should be no surprise is that the blue takes the best selfie now a big part of that is that not only does it have a front-facing flash but it also has a 16 megapixel selfie shooter something that's way beyond any of these cameras alright so it is conclusion time now coming in at number 4 is the Nokia 2 but don't get me wrong there's a lot that I like about this phone the build quality is nice the battery is going to be massive and the software is really clean however what really undoes it is going to be super low-end internals now I can kind of get by the low-end processor but only one gig of ram really makes this almost unusable especially when consider that for only a little bit more you can get a ton more phone a solid third place goes to the do G mix now there's a lot to like with this phone the idea that it has a nearly bezel this design really does make it stand out I love the heft the way that the phone feels and the hardware is great but what undoes it is the software I said before and I'll say it again it is a straight up deal-breaker for me a very solid second place goes to the blue vivo XL three plus and there is a ton to like with this guy $140 price tag feels like it's right in the sweet spot you're getting a solid build you're getting a nice sized screen you're getting decent performance the cameras are decent the selfie camera is great really the only major problem is that the software is going to need some tweaking now if you don't mind putting a little bit of time into your phone to customize things like your launcher then the blue is really worth a look if you're buying a phone under $200 though I really do like the new g3 it pairs an awesome build that really is very similar to phones such as the galaxy s 9 which cost three four five times as much with a really nice screen you're getting that taller aspect ratio the camera is going to be decent but importantly the software is clean and the performance is top-notch it's a close one I feel like a lot of people might be happier with the blue but if it's my money I'm going to spend a little bit more to get a much nicer overall package