Gadgetory

what do you got today Willie do show me they announced a hundred and fifty dollar redmi note 7 with a 48 megapixel camera okay so recently we did a video about some upcoming Samsung devices targeting this part of the market this sub $200 price point they were calling their series Galaxy M but setting right in their crosshairs the redmi brand from xiaomi so i think it's probably not a coincidence that we end up hearing about this shortly after that news came out now this looks equally compelling to go up against those Galaxy em products and it kind of fits the narrative of what we've been talking about regarding this innovation and unusual specifications and features popping up in devices that are nowhere near flagship level for example a 48 megapixel camera on a hundred and fifty dollar phone and we talked about it before where these smartphone manufacturers are willing to experiment with different types of features they can take bigger risks at that end of the market now there's something interesting about this 48 megapixel sensor because I know a lot of people watching this or sitting there thinking look it's not all about pixels all right you can have a camera with tons of megapixels and have a terrible image come out of it but the way that this sensor is going to be implemented into the camera from what I understand is that it will be capable of taking super-high resolution 48 megapixel pictures in good lighting conditions but then you can actually pair the pixels together so you get a bigger pixel for shooting in low-light so you get greater sensitivity and it'll just knock back the megapixel count a little bit for a low-light style mode so there's the rest of the specs now keep in mind 150 dollars is the starting price there will be some different versions just like there was for the Galaxy M stuff em 10 M 20 and so on the note 7 here it says a 6.3 inch display with a 1080 P screen snapdragon 616 so mid-range snapdragon nothing wrong with that at 150 bucks the selfie camera will be 13 megapixels of 4,000 milliamp hour battery will be in there that's one of the best things happening at this end of the marketplace where everyone's clamoring at the top end on the thousand-dollar phones for batteries like this for four thousand milliamp hours it turns out the better selection of big battery phones is actually at the bottom of the marketplace it seems insane it seems surprising it seems unusual it seems weird you pair a 4000 milliamp hour battery with a Snapdragon 660 then you've got a phone that's gonna last for a very long time now if you remember in the Samsung announcement it was sort of more of a rumor we didn't find out in the article that we were citing or any that we could find at the time what the processor was going to be in that Samsung device so it's tough to stack them up head-to-head at this point we know what a snapdragon 616 we know it's a great choice but we don't know what Samsung is going to use in their devices to compete directly with this one also Xiaomi we know has operated really well in this marketplace this low-end mid to low ed marketplace 150 $200 price point so we know they can deliver value at that price point whereas Samsung is a bit more untested in this space at least with their new brand the Galaxy M ok so here we go the starting price around 150 bucks will be a three gigabyte model with 32 gigs of storage that goes up to 200 for 6 gigs by 64 gigs of storage I want to mention it has a headphone jack it has a headphone jack it's sticking around I think I have phone jacks actually important especially at this end of the market place if you think about like a hundred and fifty dollar phone you have a lot of Bluetooth headphones that are 150 bucks or a hundred bucks or 50 bucks right the ratio there the difference between the cost of the device itself and the headphones are gonna pair with it I mean it seems kind of crazy that if your headphones cost as much as your phone so having a headphone jack for the target audience that's going to be in the market for this phone I think is a big deal it has to be there now does say here at the bottom this device will actually be available in China first but or it makes its way to India and the other regions that Xiaomi would normally sell the red meat brand so we're gonna have to keep an eye out for it maybe we'll get our hands on it but it's exciting stuff well we continue to be amazed at what's happening at this end of the market and what it's doing the kind of disruption it's applying to the entire market to the brands like Samsung and Apple we've seen Samsung's play we're waiting to see what Apple is going to do about this but it's obvious there's a giant market at this price point and it's becoming increasingly important especially for the low-end I mean you have like the honor of u-20 the huawei Nova for the view 20 is in the mix so it's a little pricier but you're right the view 20 with the pinhole display you're seeing a lot of experimentation at this end and that's why it's important for us to talk about it to give it some coverage even though it might not necessarily be on the radar for some of our viewers North American viewers and so on it's actually become the place where we're seeing the most interesting stuff happen in the smartphone space so $150 redmi note 7 6.3 1080p screen 3 gigabytes of RAM 4,000 milliamp battery do you think this is a worthy competitor don't forget to 48 megapixel camera oh yes I I don't know it's really hard to criticize any device at this price point like a hundred and fifty dollars not too long ago would get you nothing or get you some kind of long contract and you'd be paying something off over a period of time I'm still so amazed at what they're able to deliver at these price points in general I would find it hard to imagine that this could be a bad buy with that spec list I think we're seeing some great competition happen here I think this is going to be something worth checking out and evaluating just like the galaxy M stuff and maybe we can ask people in the comments now if you were forced to choose between this upcoming redmi note 7 or the rumored galaxy M devices we covered in the previous episode which one would you pick and why