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it's uh it's called the zenfone 6 I know nothing about it to be honest I mean will he do just he just showed up whether he said it's interesting and exciting and it's a bit different something that it does is a bit different so I'm kind of pumped to check it out in fact all right so interesting phone here today zenfone 6 got my hands on it it's apparently pretty interesting a little bit different has a feature that I feel like I saw before a really long time ago a feature that I think some people might be a fan of it's got a Snapdragon 855 8 gigs of ram it's a case or oh it is okay basic kind of case this is the device so you can start to see some of the specs here as I mentioned Snapdragon 820 5 latest flagship from Qualcomm it's got a six point four inch all screen a lot of people using that terminology these days nano edge display with Corning Gorilla Glass 6 so it should be pretty durable you see a little diamond there and the flip camera which is the interesting part of this particular device front and rear 48 megapixel Sony I MX 586 and then a 13 megapixel ultra light now why would I want some crazy flip II camera there it is by the way oh that's cool and of course the reason is because you get your best camera to always be your camera your best camera is always on the rear side of your device for obvious reasons now on this one I guess that's not the case somehow this thing is gonna flip around and you're gonna get access to a dual and setup you have your basic big sensor lens and then you've also got your wide-angle you're gonna get that wide field of view that I'm such a fan of and also actually happens to be quite useful on a front-facing camera so when the thing flips around you can imagine that one being a popular choice there's still a fingerprint scanner in the rear uh you know what I'm not such a that's not such a problem for me I like these fingerprint scanners I find them fast and reliable USB type-c down on the bottom here and also a headphone jack there's also a textured what is this some sort of a shortcut button I'm guessing wills telling me this button it can trigger Google assistant so it's an assistant style button Oh or you can customize it to do something else so that's kind nice nice little switch and it doesn't have a texture it has a tiny little texture to it now I should also mention while I'm showcasing the outside of this device it's got a huge battery in it that's another differentiating factor and they really have a couple of differentiating factors in this phone we've got type-c cable there's a semi-decent pretty decent looking headset included as well interchangeable ear tips to go with that headset and then a quick charge power brick here let's boot this up see if it has any power here oh it definitely does okay cool yes it's an all screen design there's a bit of a bezel around the sides and a chin as well but no knotch so the display is IPS and it's six point four inches fhd plus so another cool thing about this device is it's expandable it's actually got a triple slot look at the size of this SIM card tray it's got a triple slot setup so you can have two SIM cards two nano sims and a micro SD card up to two terabytes of course who's buying two terabyte s DS Micro has these but that said on an earlier episode of Lew later downstairs we showcased the one terabyte micro SD card so that is a thing you can get right now so if you're a big fan of local storage not necessarily storing things in the cloud you can put a large micro SD card in here expand your storage from the available 256 gigs that comes on the phone alright so this is pretty cool this is the smart key that I was mentioning earlier which can wake up Google assistant and it actually is multifunctional one press will call up Google assistant press twice it calls of Google assistant and then runs your personal updates press and hold and keep talking to Google assistant and then when you release assistant will respond immediately that's kind of cool you can also customize this Marquis function to fit your personal need all right I like that this is set up let's get the brightness cranked up okay so obviously not an OLED display it's not all bad it does one thing it helps to bring the cost of this thing into you know we're kind of an attractive range retail price $4.99 kind of diving into the territory that oneplus just left honestly I'm having one plus vibes just on a home screen here the bezel it's a bit bigger here then on the oneplus device around the edges but not so much so that it's gonna be offensive it looks like the experience here is pretty stock very stock in fact they're calling it Zen UI but it's a very similar experience to stock Android okay now I'm not even gonna try to snap a rear camera yet because I'm just too curious I got to hit this button here we go oh it flips out it flips up did you witness this Jack why has no one thought of that look at this ready it looks to me like we are fully in the era of motors on smartphones 2019 is the motor year for smartphones that is crazy why you me you've got this amazing camera on the back of the device why not utilize it twice now of course it's not all rosy this means you've got this mechanism in place that motor you're gonna have to trust it I'm gonna switch between the portrait the the kind of typical focal length and wide so this switches over to the wide-angle a 48 megapixel Sony IMX 586 flagship sensor and then the secondary camera is a 13 megapixel 125 ultra wide 125 degree field of view ultra wide it's got some sort of an HDR process going on right away I'm definitely beautified I got a toggle that back jack that's not me what what is this am I not beautiful enough to you already so without HDR on you can immediately pick up a little more contrast in the old beard there that's the wide one to give you an idea of focal range and then we have the slightly closer one it's a nice selfie it's a good selfie I still feel like in the skin tones it's a bit softer a little more forgiving yeah it's pretty impressive man I mean if you're into taking pictures of yourself I mean you're just getting way more resolution than you would typically get on a on a selfie image whoo I feel like portrait mode has done even better now the beard is even more distinguished of course it's also capable 4k video you're out like this and you got the full resolution that Kirk's right so another advantage here you now have a flash on the front of your device and that's the wide aspect ratio right there and then slightly more zoomed in on the standard focal range lots of resolution very vibrant of course I've got to evaluate the speakers first let's check out some dialogue on unbox therapy here oh wow okay so they've included something called audio wizard including DTS surround sound it's currently in normal mode with volume maxed so let's head back to the video here okay my usual test here where I check to see exactly where the sound is coming from vast majority is out of the bottom of the unit benefit there is gonna give you a little bit more detail coming straight at you but all your low-end most of your frequency range is gonna come out of the bottom and you can block that unfortunately it is possible let's say I go to vocal on the DTS it really works as well that's a cool feature see that's one of my my problems with a lot of these devices is that like out of the box they can be muffled in exchange for some extending the the base piece of your sound profile this one gives you the option to select I'm curious when I play some music so let's go ahead and do that Wow okay now keep in mind it's currently this is loud okay so it's currently in voice enhanced mode oh I don't know let's try pop mode it really changes the performance of it I'm just gonna play it on the iPhone here just for comparison I'm putting a flagship territory that's that's the iPhone it's a thousand dollar phone I think I have to say a 499 I'm impressed regardless that's the way I'm gonna put it it's up to your it's gonna be a subjective choice there I'd say I was a bit concerned at first it felt a bit muffled before I went into the audio wizard that's installed by default when you hit the settings on the volume meter again is this something you could achieve on a lot of smart phones if you install some sort of third-party equalizer maybe but they've done it right out of the box and some of their preset sound great so at 499 I'm pretty impressed with that package right there sound wise this device is not OLED so to give you a breakdown of how that kind of a fit might affect you there's a quick one - they're just gonna show you I'm out if you need to click on a picture to show you what you're giving up when you go away from all that you might get slightly better battery consumption out of the LCD app will try to convince you of this with the iPhone 10 R I think the main thing here is you're getting a lower price point just way more contrast over here especially when you see the white now if I click on an actual pizza here I mean this is still like a pretty nice display from a detailed perspective it's not gonna pop like this one like the red over here it's not a bad looking display it's just let's not let's not pretend that it's OLED cuz it isn't alright so what can I say about this device I think it's kind of promising at this price I mean well I'm constantly bringing a price because that's really what it comes down to of course if you had unlimited money you know why are you picking this phone over some other one unless you're just really attracted to the motorized camera component maybe they're like a professional snapchatter or a Instagram user or something then this is really the only way to get 48 megapixels big size sensor facing you with a monitor to view it and a Snapdragon e55 that's the chip that you want right that's the horsepower you're looking for and it's becoming a little bit more difficult to find that chip at an accessible price especially when it's paired with a half-decent camera and a five thousand milliamp hour battery so I think it's a pretty competitive price point at $4.99 I think the big question here is gonna be if you just absolutely want to have OLED but if you're like hey man I only really care about the oullette thing when I see them side by side then that just exposes the fact that they look different and you might be right in this environment this display it looks good to me and I'm counting my extra dollars saved while I'm flipping around my fancy camera so there's a case to be made for it and then the other angle is the giant battery 5,000 milliamp hour battery that's no joke I think on this hardware that's gonna give you some serious battery life you're definitely gonna be charging this less than a lot of other competitors at this price point and other price points for that matter and of course how could I forget no not as a consequence you're just looking at all display so when you pop open that YouTube video it's no distraction and I think that's worth something I think that's actually a pretty pretty valuable thing and it's increasingly the case we have we'd have more options notch list options or a real thing in 2019 and that's a good thing but there's also gonna be those of you that are apprehensive in the know motor camp you're the same people that were commenting into one plus seven pro video was saying that's just not for me I'm not ready for a motor in my smartphone and that's a valid point as well now I'm sure in this case the testing has been done as well just like three hundred thousand times I know one plus side but you just can't change the fact that it's a moving part moving component and there's a motor in your smartphone and up until now that just even wasn't it wasn't even a thing now you have options for which phone you want and which motor this one has a cool factor can't take that away you're probably using some boring slab right now that's a party trick you pull that baby out for the group selfie and people are like this man is onto something you're doing something I'm not so we got to add a little value there as well I think it's an interesting package and I think it probably deserves some is the zenfone 6 but maybe the coolest craziest camera contraption I've seen definitely in a long time you