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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocket now the vivo NEX has a 6.6 inch display and yet it has about the same footprint as like an iPhone 8 plus or even a 1 plus 6 it's able to achieve this because it has almost a 90% screen to body ratio because it does some pretty interesting hardware tricks to hide certain sensors and features so that he can achieve this massive screen to body ratio and give you a 6.6 inch screen definitely one of the most impressive devices to come out this year in this video I want to show you all the quirks and features of the vivo NEX and talk about using it as my daily driver for a couple of weeks to experience this very futuristic phone so let's get to it okay so let's talk about the vivo necks and how they were able to achieve this really high screen to body ratio and talk about all the interesting things that this phone does so quite simply this phone got rid of everything on the top which has a few compromises so first of all the front-facing camera by going to the camera by the way I'm running a third-party launcher action launcher because I didn't really like the launcher that came on this phone with the fun touch OS that's seriously what it's called it actually has some nice touches which I'll show you in a sec so first of all I'm gonna go to the camera and you can see when I turn on the front facing camera it pops out of the top now you might be wondering is that another thing to break well vevo claims that they have tested this to go up and down successfully 50,000 times furthermore there's a safety feature beat built-in so that if you tap it by accident it just kind of goes away like it like a cd-rom drive so really not that big of a deal if we bring out the 1 plus 6 which has actually a very similar footprint you'll notice that the 1 plus 6 has this notch at the top that contains the front-facing camera which is covered by the retractable mechanism it's got a speaker and it has a proximity sensor and an LED notification light the v1x does not have an LED notification light but it does have a speaker it's just built into the screen and it works really really well so if you look closely at the top you'll see that there's literally no speaker on the vivo necks instead it uses a piezoelectric technology I forget exactly what the term is where it vibrates the screen so when you're on a phone call you can put your ear here here here or anywhere on the screen and you can still hear the person on the other end and it surprisingly sounds really good probably not as crisp as a regular traditional earpiece like on the 1 plus 6 but for a new technology it works really well and it gets loud enough for you for you to be able to hear it in loud environments so let's dive in the operating system a little bit more like I said this is called fun touch OS and it's actually on Android 8.1 which is good this phone is really good specifications by the way it's got the snapdragon 845 8 gigs of ram i find it to be very very fast and the operating system is actually pretty nice and it reminds me of a combination between iOS and Android P like look at the notification style if they're kind of rounded it's really not that bad actually and there's a lot of control that you get for navigation you'll notice that I have these three lines along the bottom they're kind of like the one plus gestures kind of like the iPhone gestures to really wear like a swipe up brings you back home there's a lot of configuration options for these navigation controls along the bottom which I love let me show you what they look like and as you can see I'm swiping up from the right to go back if I swipe up from the left oh I love this so in the notification shade you don't have any of your quick toggles but instead vevo has created this iPhone like control center along the bottom which is actually super convenient because you don't have to reach all the way up to the top of the phone to be able to access it and literally it's the same it's almost the same as control center on iOS except that as shortcuts to your recently used apps you can adjust screen brightness volume turn on all of the different modes and so forth and scroll over to the side and you can actually customize it so really nice use of space by placing that little shortcut on the bottom ok so let's go over to system navigation you can have navigation keys if you want standard navigation keys and you can change the order if you like your back button on the right your back button on the left here's a hint back buttons should be on the right shouldn't they because if you're right-handed that's where your finger is going to go oh well some people will disagree that's okay so you can have on screen navigation buttons you can have navigation gestures and there's all these different customization options on where the back button is and exactly what happens in various modes but like the cool thing about these navigation gestures and I'm just going to leave them on now is that it gives you the full six point six inch display without obscuring it with anything like not on screen nav buttons so you really get an immersive experience it's really fantastic so how does it look when you're watching YouTube let's check it out because this is obviously a media consumption device so I've got some subscriptions here some random things let's go to alright so here's the pocket now daily I just zoomed in to get a full screen experience and by the way there is a loud speaker on this phone a single loud speaker listen and you can of course cover it up easily but it's pretty loud actually if you turn it up all the way it's okay it's not great but watching videos on this phone and I wish that it would have expanded all the way to the navigation area but this is still a really immersive experience to watch videos on a six point six inch nearly bezel this display it just looks really great the viewing angles are awesome the screen has a really nice pixel density above 400 PPI and it's AMOLED too so it's super crisp and the colors are also quite nice let's talk about the back of the vivo NEX which has a really interesting pattern with little dots that reflect the light it's kind of hard to see but when you get the light just right it kind of reminds me of the Nexus 4 with that kind of glistening pattern so it's really nice it's extremely slippery although it comes with a case in the box to add a significant amount of grip but also bulk we've got two cameras up here and the the primary camera is a 12 megapixel F 1.8 lens it's got optical image stabilization the second camera is five megapixels effort point four and is used primarily as a depth depth sensor the front-facing camera eight megapixels and F 2.0 and actually the the photos that this takes is really good surprisingly I say surprisingly because it's not a phone from Google it's not a phone from Apple but I've taken some pictures at night the low-light performance is surprisingly good it can see a lot of light in the dark so the camera interface looks just like an iPhone interface honestly with the slider on the bottom you can record in 4k but not for k60 unfortunately we can go into AR sticker mode and do really strange things and then there's a full manual mode which is nice and its overall snappy camera experience with very little shutter lag I really like the camera on this phone I think it's a surprise bright spot so I'm going to use this phone I set this up it's got my sim card in it this particular version does work on my carrier AT&T in the US I'm getting 4G which is also LTE on AT&T and the the reception has been actually pretty good for a phone that's not intended to be used in the US but I'm going to use it I'm gonna use it as my daily driver for a week or to see what it's like to use a phone that's almost entirely screen on the front very futuristic see if the strange camera configuration with a pop-up is annoying at all the only place I could see that being annoying is that it just adds time if you're trying to take a quick picture with the front-facing camera I mean I mean how long does it actually take it's not that much of a difference so let's see you have to click this button and then one two it's like three seconds but you know three seconds is a lot when you're trying to take a picture real quick so that's the only real downside that I see pretty strong in terms of its components so that's just a quick look at the quirks and features of the vivo NEX I'll definitely I will definitely discover more things about this phone as a you my daily driver for a couple of weeks let me know in the comments if there's anything you want to see specific to this phone or if there are any comparisons you you want me to do maybe a direct comparison with the oneplus six or maybe the iPhone 10 or something drop a comment let me know thanks for watching that's it for now