Gadgetory

so a little while back I opened a box downstairs and this was in and I asked you in that video if you wanted to see a more comprehensive look at this particular smartphone and you guys came back with a bunch of thumbs the elephone s8 probably never heard of it before which is fun as my good pal ryan would say but before I tell you the price I want to show you the spec list mediatek helio X 25 deca core processor 4 gigabytes of RAM 64 gigabytes of storage 8 megapixel front camera 21 megapixel rear a 6 inch 2k screen fingerprint sensor and a 4 thousand milliamp hour battery and one of the most impressive screen to body ratios I've ever seen on a smartphone alright so how much should all that cost around - 39 to 49 in that region so under two hundred and fifty dollars you can get that spec list it's quite shocking and as you can see there is almost no bezel at the top or the sides there's a bit of a chin but that exists to house what is a fingerprint reader and your forward facing camera reflective blue mirrored finish this is the 21 megapixel camera a single 21 megapixel shooter the speaker as well as a USB type-c connector power switch has a texture on it which is a thing I've been talking about for a while put a little color on it as well they were able to fit a couple of sensors up in this slim bezel at the top the construction is glass as well as aluminum so it feels high-quality you've got a little sim tool they've included a case just in case you've got a case that's not such a bad look surprisingly high quality cable metal tip there USB C 2 headphone adapter included no headphone jack on this device bit unfortunate especially considering its scale it's like you could fit it in there dual SIM tray face to screen that's that's nice so you don't put it in backwards I have never seen that before so I have the unit booted up now and you can now appreciate how much of the front of it is display now the displays 1440p which is another thing you probably wouldn't expect in a device that's under $250 close to stock Android and surprisingly snappy feeling this is all stock stuff and you can see here it's running Android seven-11 the home button also operates as your back button so a single tap will take you back and a push and hold will bring up your multitasking I've looked at a lot of displays in this environment and because it's so bright in here some of them get washed out but this one is actually quite decent I mean you look at the beard hairs Jack detail in the beard is always a very good sign and that looks good that's from a previous video which is honestly I mean it was a serious mind blow for me put your headphones on go watch that video it'll be worth your time this is kind of incredible actually that this is only 250 speaker time although my expectations are not super high it kind of lets you turn up the volume to the point where the audio is crackling a little bit so I don't recommend doing that you probably want to be a couple notches down from max I think you're probably gonna have some headphones plugged into this or have some Bluetooth ones or something like that it's really too bad because the display is incredible there's no room up top for the front-facing camera they've had to put it down here it's lower than you would normally have it not such a big deal just hold it up a bit higher not too shabby actually how the monitor here shows the phone with my hand holding it that's artistic jack we can adjust exposure there's various different scene modes everywhere from auto night sunset party and so on adjustments for white balance sharpness hue saturation toggle it in for whatever your taste is it can shoot raw surprisingly this phone at this price can shoot 4k video mmm kind of move in a bit some color so that's a 21 megapixel picture I have just eliminated the shutter delay I turned off anti-shake and face detection and left zero shutter delay on so if you have the other processing turned off you can get that zero shutter also on top we have panorama mode a picture-in-picture mode that's kind of interesting also in HDR mode this fingerprint scanner here so it's pretty quick it's not the fastest I've ever tried but it's nice it gets the job done that's the package right there find it for around 250 bucks you might pay a little bit more you might pay a little bit less but this is good news for customers phones are getting better at lower price points this might be my new favorite phone under 300 bucks I wish the speaker was a little bit better I understand why they went with a single lens system glass on the front glass on the back this might be the coolest smartphone that people have never heard of and I bet if you carry this thing around you're gonna have a lot of people asking you hey man what is that where did you get it and you're telling me you only paid 250 for it