Gadgetory

so this device in front of me my goodness you guys have been shouting at me on Twitter Lou you got to get your hands on this guy right here everyone's talking about it the oneplus killer it's from Xiaomi it's called the Polka phone a budget phone but the crazy part about this phone the specs are not budget at all this is the global version that I have right here and this is where things get spicy snapdragon 845 liquid cooling system dual camera setup with a 20 megapixel front-facing camera four thousand milliamp hour battery dual SIM built-in what would you be willing to pay for something like that well let me blow your mind this thing is supposed to start at 299 299 dollars maybe that does have a shot maybe that is the oneplus killer because of course as you know the oneplus device around 500 bucks that's a bit of a gap if it can deliver on the expectations it might be just the go to phone in general I don't know let's go ahead and crack this open I just I just noticed mind says f1 armored edition see that Jack right there we'll find out in a moment here so first things first we have the device they've included a case as well kaboom and a nice texture I'm a big fan of that texture it's got some grip to it no fingerprints unlike the glossy finishes that we're seeing on so many devices circular fingerprint scanner if I'm being honest here you might confuse the lens unit for the fingerprint scanner let's see here all right USB type-c on the bottom here along with your speaker unit a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on the top in the Box we have a quick charge power brick once again that quick charge 3.0 a Type C cable to charge it up SIM card tool right there okay my first impressions on the build quality the thing feels solid really do just clarified the back panel here is made out of aramid Kevlar fiber and it's cool that someone's putting it straight onto a phone and not just in a case okay so we're gonna set up the fingerprint scanner here here we go I'm gonna scan my finger in here so the display is six point one eight inches its LCD IPS so it should have pretty good color reproduction quick comparison here P 20 pro on this side which is an AMOLED display and then we have the LCD in the left hand on the f1 and you know I mean you see how the OLED stays more vibrant at different viewing angles but dead on it's a toss-up right let's launch the cameras here let's get a couple prophets on the desk here Jack's favorite action figure big fight coming up just in the standard mode we have three different items feels pretty quick off the bat what do you say Jack your boy Connors not looking too shabby okay so the dual lens setup is 12 megapixels and 5 megapixels and then the front camera is 20 megapixels try out this portrait mode focus in on him he's actually it's a little blurry behind him it kind of grabbed the edge pretty decently right around the hairline and it looks pretty decent even with this this fake little dude here 20 megapixel selfie camera is what they are saying and we're looking for detail we're looking for beard hairs ooh Jack Attack what do you say about that Ryan can you count some beard hairs come over here Ryan come on in and say hello Ryan is in Toronto oh I didn't think you're gonna have me on I didn't think I was either I don't know you got me fired up there that's a front-facing camera hey I have to compare it looks good though not that yeah I mean it's sharp dude yeah that's pretty good it looks better than I look in real life it's pretty good it's a lot of detail it's good right that's good you don't expect this for $2.99 starting price I haven't had nowhere near the number of tweets about a particular device the bad boys it's kind of like the phone I have with the case right now right but you don't need a case if you drop this it's still gonna be okay I mean don't go dropping it right but if you do drop it $2.99 I would use it the build feel solid yeah just my times down here folks oh there he goes and he goes back to Calgary and who knows if we'll see when when and if we'll see him again by the way this is a good time to test the fingerprint now that it's law three two one three two one Oh three two one ah tell you something I don't think they skimped on that now you guys know I care about the speaker if i cover up this unit right here you still hear a little treble out of the earpiece section okay hold up P 20 Pro let's go real quick remember P 20 Pro much higher price point the P 20 Pro sounds better okay fine right there's more depth I think it kind of lands actually right where I expected I'm even iPhone sounds better than that do we have an iPhone okay under this bunch I'm gonna say the iPhone 10 sounds the best but not only is it on fair price why is this also just like it's not a huge it's not a massive gap you would have thought they would have skimp even further he would have thought there's a possibility that it could have sounded even worse at this particular price point he's my first exposure to this brand to this device I have to say it's impressive right now at this price point I hear you I know why you guys were yelling at me to look at this thing now stuff is happening this phone matters we got a rearrange our thought process on this stuff and these other devices are coming out of the thousand plus it's like are they really that much better better enough snapdragon a four five six gigs of ram and various storage options starting at 300 bucks four thousand milliamp hour battery with quick charge 3.0 starting at 300 bucks six inch plus display not OLED but not ugly starting at 300 bucks fingerprint scanner which is quick and a camera which I have to say I'm a bit surprised by I'm kind of buying into the hype a little bit right now and I don't do that very often if you want me to use this thing more extensively I could do a challenge I can throw a sim in and we can figure out where this industry's going like how good is this at this price point does 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