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my first jammy phone was the me mix to a cutting edge nearly full display phone that gearbest.com helped me get my hands on last year and that I abandoned reviewing after spending four hours fighting with bootloader unlocking crap in an attempt to load the English ROM on it only to find out that Xiaomi had a bloody English version coming a couple weeks later anyway the me makes 2s so called for it's speedier snapdragon 845 processor presumably is better across the board anyway including the out-of-the-box support for English but I still can't figure out why anybody in this hemisphere is buying premium phones from brands like Xiaomi is there something on the surface that I am missing here like for example a sponsor for this video like madrenas coffee madrenas coffee blends specialty cold brew coffee Zin two 16-ounce grab-and-go cans for everyone's convenience check them out and use offer code Linus to save 40% at the link below it's really easy to fall in love with the me mix to s it manages to have the sex appeal of a nearly bezel is design coming just 1% shy of the screen ratio of the iPhone 10 and that's without resorting to an unsightly knotch and the work that they've put into their ceramic-coated back has paid off in spades glass backed phones are back in vogue now to enable wireless charging but as hard as you might try a glass back will never feel as premium nor via as durable as this and after a similar amount of time in my pocket my one plus six is noticeably more scuffed up and it's packed full of all the right hardware sporting the latest generation Snapdragon 845 processor up to eight gigs of RAM up to 256 gigs of non expandable storage blah blah blah blah blah so it's super fast I think you guys get the point and the price is right too lining up right across the oneplus 6 as a flagship grade phone for hundreds of dollars less than you would pay a tier one like Apple or Samsung and it's got lightning-fast fingerprint unlocking the ability to choose between button based or gesture based navigation and even wireless charging which as we outlined in our video recently has the potential when used properly to improve the lifespan of your non removable but respectably sized 3400 milliamp hour battery so uh wait why was I so down on this thing a couple of minutes ago I still can't figure out why anybody in this hemisphere is buying premium phones from brands like jelly that seems kind of unfair doesn't it I mean even the dual rear camera absolutely blows away previous generation efforts from Chinese phone makers like this low-light shot here does have more noise than any other camera that I tested but it avoids the over sharpening of the may 10 Pro and the undesirable flaring of the Galaxy S nine so I mean at least Xiaomi isn't actively processing the image to make it worse and then in this challenging situation the me makes two s ends up noisier than Samsung and with less true-to-life colors from the one plus six but it looks better than both the iPhone 10 and the pixel to Excel and under ideal conditions you can get some really nice images out of it so let's talk about some of the weaknesses of the me macstew s the earpiece speaker isn't amplified for stereo sound there's no water resistance at least nothing officially IP rated 1080p slo-mo only goes to 120 fps rather than 240 the display is IPS rather than OLED which means almost no potential for burnin but at the cost of ambient or always-on technology and there is no headphone jack so you will need to pull out an adapter every time you want to watch my little pony at the back of the bus without anybody finding out so all that is kind of a drag but again it's hundreds of dollars less for tops back hardware and it's got no display knotch so I can accept that stuff even if I don't like all of it the part that is unforgivable is the software me UI is like going back in time to when samsung still thought that having a bunch of bloat in there okay well that's Samsung still has a lot of bloat in there so so um okay whatever in jammies defense some of the stuff that they include is legitimately useful like a screen recorder app and a quick link to my downloads but there were just so many annoying things that I ran into that ground my gears from having in my pocket for two weeks let's take Google Hangouts if I got a message an hour ago but left it unread because I wanted to deal with it later every new message that I get or even opening up another conversation sometimes will make it pop up again why when I create a folder on the homescreen doesn't pull up the keyboard automatically for me to start typing why the included weather app wants access to my phone for some reason when all it should need is my location not to mention that it cannot be removed or even hidden so you have to create a useless crap folder iOS style there's no obvious way to expand a notification from the lockscreen and reply to it which is good for security but I would like to at least have the option for my convenience I can't install Netflix off the App Store the workaround seems to be to track down the apk and install it manually it wakes the screen for notifications which is nice but not when you lift the phone something that I've come to take for granted these days and there is no hardware button to launch the camera yuck now taken individually every one of those things would seem like a pretty insignificant little gripe and there are things that their software does reasonably well so there screenshot management something that I use a lot blows one plusses out of the water and a separate account for another user it's super handy if I want to give the phone to my kids but I don't want them accessing all my stuff the bottom line though is that this device was annoying to use for me and not just compared to a flagship one like the s9 plus compared to other devices that cost the same Yami would do well to take a page out of one plusses book on the software side of things there isn't really such a thing as stock Android anymore I mean even Google's on pixel lineup customizes stock Android but they would do well to try to get a lot closer because the hardware and the design are already really impressive so I'm looking forward to seeing continued improvement speaking of improvement the only thing that could improve this video is this message from our sponsor Corsair Corsairs unplug and play series we'll get rid of the wires in your life the dark core RGB se Mouse is quick featuring one millisecond 2.4 gigahertz and low latency Bluetooth connectivity and if you opt for the wireless charging model you can actually charge it with Corsairs mm 1000 or any compatible qi wireless charging pad there k63 wireless gaming keyboard features the same low latency connection options and Cherry MX red switches with a blue LED backlight and you can check out their entire lineup at the link below so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you 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