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Back in the studio ready to make a fresh video and I feel compelled to do so
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You have one of the most unique form factors that's been attempted by a smartphone manufacturer
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Xiaomi has had the mix type device with this close to bezel-less layout for a couple generations now
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This model, the 2S, comes in white It has this really nice looking ceramic back to it
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This generation, previous generation, bit of a fingerprint magnet. Okay, you can see, there you go. Boom
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Tends to bug me, so you look at the white one. Seems elegant, but it hides the fingerprints
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Now this is where you've also probably noticed, now we have a telephoto and a wide
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Of course that's on both of the devices. Still have an LCD display 1080
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It's actually a pretty nice display considering it's not OLED, but as far as LCD displays go, it's pretty bright
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Now you're probably noticing the interface at this point. This is me UI. There are people who are big fan of this interface
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You know me, pure Android guy. Pixel stuff, Nexus stuff before that
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I'm just a big fan of stock Android. As far as skins are concerned, this one, it ends up quite snappy
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It's one of the better skins that I've seen. And on top of that, they give you the ability to theme it
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Now something else has changed here is with the earpiece hidden in the top edge
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It's really actually quite the feat of engineering to be able to get an earpiece
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in such a slim portion of bezel at the very top there
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Now, previous versions I was told they were using a bone conduction technology
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It was vibrating in order to create sound around the ear. In fact, I did a video on some bone conduction headphones previously
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You can check that video out and see how that technology works. In this device here they gone with a more traditional kind of speaker unit so you not gonna have such a problem with that now another thing we do have wireless charging here through this ceramic back
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xiaomi they're going to put out their own first party wireless charger and it's only going to be
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15 bucks you of course have usb type c on the bottom and you're going to get quick charge via
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that port 3400 milliamp hour battery in here a couple of sim card slots in there but you don't
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micro SD expansion on there. Not such a big deal in the case of my two devices here. These are both
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256 gigs of storage so you probably don't need to expand beyond that. They have a lot of RAM too
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These are both 8 gig of RAM devices so you can see some some pretty top-end specs there. I'm told
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it's gonna be somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 US, something like that. Fingerprint scanner
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is on the back very fast. Here we go. Boom. It's one of the faster ones I've tested. Feels really solid and I only registered the finger once. I'm happy with it. So let's go ahead and check out this new camera unit. So here we go Molson Canadian. Let's frame this up. You get a real taste for what it's capable of. This plant in the background is completely out of focus comparative to the bottle here in the foreground. Keep in mind these are not retail units. That's why I don't have the bottle
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yet but so far so good. Let's go ahead and turn this camera and I'll show you what happens when
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you go to the front-facing camera. I flip around to there it'll tell you to rotate your phone
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otherwise you're getting all chin alright or in my case getting all beard. You know you frame
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yourself up you you you puff your you poke your lips out you what do you do yourself you do a
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selfie. We were talking about this the other day when you catch a person taking a selfie I mean
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How dark is that? Like you in public and you lock eyes with them but you had that experience before all right Mo Alright here we go Selfie time The beard test holds up so far
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Now, granted, we're in a really well-lit environment here. I always need to remind you guys of that
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I'm a little curious about the speaker. Let's load up some audio here
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Fortnite on a $20,000 gaming PC. Oh my goodness. What kind of maniacs are we
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Okay, now I'm gonna show you guys the benefit of living a notch-free lifestyle
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You can watch it like this, no big deal. If you decide you wanna use a little bit more of your display, you just grab in there and you fill her up
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Okay, you zoom the fill. You're not cutting off too much, cause you haven't adjusted it all that much either
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And there's no notch in your way obstructing your view, it's a completely clean video frame
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So there is a little bit of sound coming out of the earpiece region when I cover up the bottom
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What a video hey? Hilly who? Willy do hilly who? Hilly whooooooo
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Let's get back to the speaker evaluation. It's uh, not the best I've heard
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You talking about speakers on smartphones, I'm the guy. I feel like I've tested so many
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Most of them fall into this kind of like average territory like it'll work
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Don't have extremely high expectations for that okay. This is a quick kind of a first impression situation
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It is the Mix 2S from Xiaomi. What's shaping up to be kind of a nice little value in the space
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Especially for those of you that are notch haters. And if that price actually does come in under 500 bucks
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You looking at a value here with the Snapdragon 845 3400 mAh battery 8 gigs of ram 256 gigs of storage I think it a cool phone I want to see it here
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I want to see it in more people's hands, more players, better for everyone
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It's all about value right now. The value stuff is getting me excited because it's putting better devices into more people's hands
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It doesn't have to be $1,000. I've been saying it. I'm going to keep saying it
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A lot of innovation happening right around that $500 price point. This one here, no exception
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