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The Redmi K20 Pro is the most request unboxing in a while. It's the latest value smartphone from Xiaomi. The starting price for the Redmi K20 Pro converts to roughly $360 USD making it an incredible value. The K20 Pro features a Snapdragon 855, 4000mAh battery and OLED full-screen display.
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So this is the most requested smartphone in a while. It's in the comments section
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I'm publishing videos. People are like, Lou, where is the K20 Pro? The Redmi K20 Pro
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People telling me it's the next Pocophone. It's kind of crazy, actually, when you look at the spec list and then you look at the price
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Snapdragon 855, top tier chipset, 4000 mAh battery, full screen display, AMOLED, pop-up camera
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You're like, okay, I hear you, I hear you. This thing, when you do the conversion, the starting price, $360
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Now, quickly, I should tell you, available in China first, India next
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So keep that in mind. If you're in North America, you may have to import this thing. But that's a crazy spec list when converted to the North American price, as far as I'm concerned
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Now, my version is the top spec version, which is a few more dollars than $360
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As you can see on the side, this one is 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage
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Starts at 6GB RAM, smaller storage, and that's what you get for the $360 USD
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We have a case as well to get you up and running. It's a pretty simple, I guess it's a little nicer than simple
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Sometimes you just get that plastic-y clear case, the TPU case. This one is thinner, so I'd be more likely to use that than the typical freebie case that you get
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really crazy pattern on it. Look at that. I mean, that's the first time we've seen that. That's
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like some Game of Thrones thing, right, Will? That's Targaryen. So, Willi-Doo, he's the in-house
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Game of Thrones expert, and he claims this is inspired by Game of Thrones. When it comes to
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differentiation, it's not enough to just be a color now. You've got to have color shifts and
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crazy sandblasting going on, and this is just the latest version of it. This gives you a look at the
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Camera module as well. You have a 48 megapixel camera in there. Same sensor, Sony sensor, same sensor as the OnePlus 7 Pro
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And then a couple of other modules, including an ultra-wide, which that's a must for me
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Something that the OnePlus 7 Pro doesn't have, a headphone jack, still on the device
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And this also gives you a glance at the pop-up camera. That's because it's a full display, AMOLED, and this is motorized
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It's going to pop up. Bottom of the device gives you your SIM tray as well as your USB Type-C connector
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and it's quick charge as well. I believe it's 27 watts, I think I looked it up
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27 watt quick charge, okay, very nice to have. Let go ahead and see if it has any power Okay so as I mentioned Xiaomi device so MIUI 10 pre We should do a quick comparison actually with the OnePlus 7 Pro Alright so both AMOLED that the main thing
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That's kind of what you're looking for. Of course, that gives you the rich tones and the dark blacks
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I should also mention on the OnePlus, around the edge, the glass curves
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You don't get that on the K20 Pro. But these two devices, even though the specs are quite similar, the price is not
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Now as I mentioned before, it's running MIUI so for me that's a bit foreign, that's not my typical operating system
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I'm more of a stock Android or close to stock Android guy and since I've been using the 7 Pro, it's been crazy quick
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There's almost no animation in there, in fact you can turn it off completely but just by default, it's hardly there
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So I'm probably not going to be an immediate fan of this UI comparatively but it does feel relatively snappy at the moment
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and let's check out the pop-up camera. Pop-up camera. So, that's a lot for your money
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It's actually kind of insane that that set of features has now trickled down to that price point
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This is just common now. Alright, let's try a selfie while we're here. And, ooh, okay
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We are fully in beard hair territory. Lots of contrast, which is what I look for
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as well as not blowing out the brightness on the cheek here
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Another thing that I'm looking for with a front-facing camera. That said, look how black the black is
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It blends right into the unused portion of the display, the black of my shirt
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I'm gonna try HDR on this one, auto. So it's obviously very hot once again
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and there's not much you can do about it. This is a very bright environment to shoot photos in
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but the detail is there, man. The beard hairs are there, And again, this is kind of wild that we're talking about anything comparable to a flagship type of performance in something that's nowhere near that price point starting at 360
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All right, let's try the rear camera. So this is at 1x, no HDR
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2x, no HDR. Ultra wide. Ooh, I've got to get my hand out of the way
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So that's 0.6 ultra wide. that rounds out your three different options
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So this being the widest as you can see it an incredible frame I think it should be sufficient for what most people are looking for when they take a wide shot And as I move through that your zoom That pretty nice actually Quite detailed
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It's only a 2x zoom, so keep that in mind. No crazy reach, no hybrid, no 10x like the Oppo device I featured recently or anything like the P30 Pro
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Standard, out the gate. There's your zoom. There's your ultra-wide. Triple camera setup
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Unbelievable. $360 bucks. Next up, let's give the speakers a quick check
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That's a must. Let's try some Lulater first. The titles that were going to be available on Stadia, for those of you that haven't been following along
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this, of course, is Google's new gaming service. Yesterday's show, we speculated on what Google was going to say today
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particularly in relationship to price expected for Stadia. And it turns out the pricing is a bit more complicated than we had imagined
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So I would say volume is similar the k20 Pro may cut through a little more
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But Jack just mentioned it could also be perceived as tenure. I also hear more low mid low
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low-end kind of frequency in the oneplus device, but Honestly, I'd say they're kind of comparable. Neither them sound amazing
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My takeaway, like considering the price differences, to each their own, I mean you guys heard it, I guess you can kind of try to decide for yourself, but like it's not a big difference
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three different price points represented and I'm like man the audio is very close
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Okay, so let's go ahead and test out the in-screen fingerprint reader real quick here
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So it works like those other optical image based fingerprint scanners. Rotate your finger around, you try to get the scan in
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Now let's go ahead and test that out, alright. It's about the same
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It's fast enough. I don't mind the look of the animation there
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I turned it off on this device on the 7 Pro. I just turned it off
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So it just takes me straight in. Little race here. Three, two, one
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You can see it feels faster on the OnePlus But here the thing I keep referencing and comparing this device to the OnePlus device like as if they are completely targeted at one another And while they are
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they're obviously different price points. You could almost get two of these. That's a lot of
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value. It's a ton of value. This has so many elements from a hardware perspective that make
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the OnePlus 7 Pro special. They're sitting in here at a much lower price point. If you can look past
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the skin which might not be to your taste at least for me in the north american market i'm i'm sure
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people in china are completely used to me ui and they're happy with it they're going to use this and
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and so forth but me i like to have the app drawer yeah i like to have something closer to a stock
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android experience it's just more where my head is at but if you think about this from the standpoint
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of like okay i'm going to put my own launcher on anyways now it becomes hard to justify spending
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the extra cash on the oneplus i get it it's a bigger display the fit and finish is probably a
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step above with the curved glass going around the edge, the brand name here in this market
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specifically, but then you make the argument towards this one where you're like, you know, maybe you want a slightly smaller form factor. Maybe you want to have a headphone jack. And
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all of a sudden you're like, hmm, both have the same chipset. Both have the same battery
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inside. It's like that's becomes a difficult choice to make, especially price considered
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So 360 bucks. Of course, this is just an unboxing video. You know, I'm just looking at this
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for the first time. I'm just popping off the cameras for the first time. For me, the finish
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being glossy, I mean, that's going to be up to your own individual taste. I'm starting to feel
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like this might be the value champion. I'm starting to feel like this is going to be tough to beat. I just keep referencing that price. I feel like people in North America, we don't get enough
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exposure to this type of value. It's hard to imagine that in other parts of the world
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people are getting all this for that money. It's like a whole different spectrum of discussion
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when you get into the price conversation. And that's what happened with the Pocophone last time around
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It was like, man, we need to adjust our perspectives on how we're evaluating this stuff
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because it's no longer just, hey, does it have the spec list I'm looking for? It's also, how does it match up price-wide
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Because so many things have the spec list you're looking for now, this one included
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So for me, for the time being, my SIM is going to stay in the OnePlus 7 Pro
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I'm not finished with it yet. I want to use it a little bit longer, but it's starting to look like I might pop it in here next
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That's a crazy value, starting at $360 USD. That is the Redmi K20 Pro
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