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another day another notch or in this case lack thereof a not CH a more beautiful presentable notch I think they're calling it like a teardrop this is the f9 Pro and it has a notch on it reminiscent of the essential phone maybe even a little prettier than the essential phone that's right I said pretty and of course the whole goal of this is like every other notch to increase the screen to body ratio while maintaining a position for the forward facing camera I actually at first glance I kind of like this implementation it's reminiscent of remember the movie neverending story the princess she has the crown that kind of comes down in the center now this type of knotch I think it's the first time I've seen it outside of the essential phone it's gonna start popping up on more devices I think it's kind of a nice compromise if we're gonna have a notch let's make it as small as possible this is a kind of mid-range device the price is gonna be somewhere around 300 bucks when adjusted for the US dollar this one is six gigs of RAM 64 gigs of storage if I turn the cameras 16 plus 2 megapixels and then 25 megapixels in the front it's a 6.3 inch display LCD display no OLED love at this price point 3500 milliamp hour battery with voop fast charge which they claim can give you like 75 percent battery life in about half an hour there's no Snapdragon in here the processor is from media tech so keep that in mind this one also happens to be made in India we've included a case oh that's a really different color set up there whoa check that out whoa magenta to red that is different fingerprint scanner is where I like it on the back here the SIM card tray which I believe is dual whoa okay dual SIM and storage two Sims and storage all at once oh that's really weird it's still micro USB I'm gonna boot this up I think this type of layout should be adopted by other manufacturers yes you have to have a forward facing camera the motorized stuff is a little iffy people are wondering if it's gonna be reliable this might be kind of compromise where we have a knotch but it's not very big we have the USB cable you see it has the Luke identifier on there a headset reminiscent of some other brand of headset I'm hoping this is a speedy you fingerprint scanner I'll put it in the mid-range for speed it's not the fastest I've ever tried but it's quick it's quick enough that's for sure okay it has face on lock as well we can give that a shot boom boom boom it's pretty nice is it as secure as some of the other face unlock technologies probably not it's just a forward facing camera as opposed to infrared or something like that this gives us our first glimpse at the display it is LCD as I mentioned very minimal in fact if you compare this to like an iPhone 10 or something this is almost non-existent can I get an iPhone 10 in fact so you tell me which one you would prefer having the notch on the iPhone has a lot more tech built in and the face unlock should be more secure because of that it's nice to see something a little bit different even if it doesn't pack all the identical features of the iPhone knotch let's launch a video so we can see what happens with the knotch it bites into your display a little bit kind of elegant actually and of course if you pinch out you get giant bezels but most people are gonna watch like this the whole phone actually feels pretty high-quality and at this price point that's kind of a big difference when compared to something like the polka phone the Oppo device here is gonna feel a little bit more elegant and most people I'd say if they pick them both up would think this is the more expensive device but if they know anything about them they know we got snapdragon over here mediatek over here you can't really compare one to one I'm gonna play some music yeah I would say the polka phone has a little more low-end possibly a little more volume but there seems to be a little more clarity on the f9 Pro mid-to-high sort of thing how about the camera unit of course 16 megapixel plus 2 megapixels so secondary lens there's gonna be used for that bokeh effect there's some filters and things built into the app as well as a beauty mode now the thing is for me these portrait modes they're really hidden mist there's so few of them that I actually like to use or would even consider using the original actually looks a lot better to me than the portrait version which just looks softer in general it's not really something I'm using on most of these phones so it's really tough to evaluate I think it's sort of a gimmick on most phones it's got to be perfect or near perfect to be usable in my mind so far there's just so few phones that can do that on the front facing side holy beard man yes holy smokes all these cameras are getting better if you so hard for me to just grab one of these now and have it absolutely sucked like that's not happening anymore we used to have some real crappy front-facing images and rear facing for that matter blur you can't get a good frame that's not the case anymore men we are seeing some improvements at all aspects it's a cool device the story is of course the notch here I know though it's gonna be tough to pick this one up because the polka phone exists with the snapdragon 84 5 and you're like what am i doing then I get it it's a pretty phone loo it's all looking good I get it loo but I need I need the guts myself personally I'm not using the infrared face unlock anyway I don't need all those sensors up there I'll take a nice fingerprint on the back if you're heavy on the face unlock you're gonna have an alternative point of view nonetheless this is a nice looking form-factor a nice screen to body ratio and what is this color code the sunrise red ladies and gentlemen sunrise red that's a fingerprint e sunrise the whole premium feel the whole glass phone thing like oh but it feels premium I don't know how value can you put on that I've been using this polka foam for how long now it's like at no point of my like name I missed the premium feel like that doesn't cross my mind I'm just like I'm using it I'm living I'm out here living guys and in fact I gripped this one nice how does it come back to this phone follow up on this phone coming up very shortly all right don't miss it subscribe I got a lot to say