Motorola One Fusion + Android Smartphone Review

Introduction

The Motorola One Fusion + looks like a lovely phone with a rich feature set. One Fusion + is Moto's second phone with a flawless screen thanks to a pop-up selfie, and is trying to give a big bang for its € 299 price. Its HDR10 screen, uninterrupted at the time, is perfect for movies and games. Then there is the powerful Snapdragon 730 chip - one of the best options for the midrange category.

There is more. Fusion + packs a quad-standard camera on its back - standard, ultrawide, macro, and depth - but offers a variety of shooting options, including Night Vision.

Then there is the huge 5,000 mAh battery which should last at least two days by Moto rating. We'll see about this a little bit, you bet.

One Fusion + clean boots OS 10 clean, but not part of the Android One distribution. It's the purest version of Google with a host of unknown Moto add-ons here and there, including dedicated Mode and a standby screen.

Motorola One Fusion + Specs

Body: 162.9x76.4x9.6mm, 210g; Gorilla Glass front, plastic frame and back. Splash resistant.

Screen: 6.5 inches LCD, 1080x2340px resolutions, 19.5: 9 aspect ratio, 385ppi; no cutout, HDR10.

Chipset: Snapdragon 730 (8nm): Octa-core CPU (2x2.2 GHz Kryo 470 Gold & 6x1.8 GHz Kryo 470 Silver); Adreno 618 GPU.

Memory: 6GB of RAM, built-in UFS 2.1 storage, (shared) microSD slot.

OS / Software: Android 10.

Rear Camera: Wide (large): 64MP, Quad-Bayer, 1 / 1.72 "sensor, 0.8 pixel size, m, 26mm in diameter. , PDAF.

Ultrawide: 8MP, 1 / 4.0 ", 1.12µm, 13mm, f / 2.2, AF. Macro: 5MP, f / 2.2. Depth: 2MP, f / 2.2. Video recording: up to 2160p / 30fps.

Front camera: 16MP, Quad-Bayer, f / 2.0, 1.0µm, fixed focus. 1080p / 30fps video recording.

Battery: 5,000mAh, 15W cable charging support.

Misc: Fingerprint reader; FM radio; 3.5mm headphone jack.

Like many other Motorola budget phones, it also packs this waterproof nano-coating, which provides a basic ban on cheating between the phone's cast and its ports. This is far from water and is like peace of mind, but it can save your Moto once or twice in an accident. And we can all do it inevitably. And in case you were wondering about the typical One Fusion model - you probably never heard of it. The standard (and cheaper) version is limited to Latin America and the Middle East, and Motorola has not participated in any of the wide-release plans. 

Design, Making, Operating

The Motorola One Fusion + is a well-designed phone with invisible paint and a screen with no holes. As it is a budget device a few cuts have to be made along the way, but it is all together in the end. The front is entirely Gorilla Glass, and the rear is a single plastic one. Of course, there is no standing frame, the back panel covers both sides of the fence and its back. We have the Twilight Blue version in that it has two different shades of dark blue mix, and an S-like surface texture below.

Unfortunately, while all these layers of paint and plastic look good, the back is a digital fingerprint, and everything will deteriorate very quickly. The combined case is helpful, even if it removes the cool look. It is a difficult decision. So, the star of the show is definitely a 6.5 ′ ′ screen, named after Total Vision. It is the second Moto image so far with a free design and the name really deserves it.

The selfie camera is housed in a pop-up module with engines on top of Fusion + so there was no need for a pixel pile.

The good news is that this is really the best way to get a more focused viewing experience. But if you’re expecting a screen below the bezel, you might be disappointed - One Fusion + has a noticeably large chin under the display. Low-density bezels are common in the midrange, especially when the panel is a single LCD as it can be as small as OLED and requires more space, while its driver is often hidden under a pointed chin.

However, for the € 299 phone, this is probably the most premium screen you can get with high resolution, HDR10 support, and cutting that, so we welcome that bezel. In fact, we think it would be better to have it when using the phone with one hand. The pop-up module is the same as all the other add-ons we have come across - with the engine and you can hear the underlying equipment as it goes up or down.

It has a 16MP Quad-Bayer selfie camera and nothing more. Module pops only when needed and installed fall detection and appears automatically if you get One Fusion + free-kick.

There is one very small earring at the top of the screen, which is almost invisible. Unfortunately, Motorola has chosen not to include the LED notification light in Fusion +. As we mentioned above, the phone has about 1cm sides, but the outer frame is part of the back panel - something we used to like to be empty in the past.

Good touch, even if done as part of a cost cut. On the sides of the panel, you will find all the buttons, a 3.5mm jack and a USB-C port, there is also a hybrid-SIM tray at the top, and a speaker at the bottom. Fusion + puts Google's Computer Assistant key over its volume and does just that - pleads Helper. We were unable to enable its operation. The plastic One of the Motorola One Fusion + is beautiful, there are no two ways to it. The two blue hues change gracefully, and the subtle texture made by S looks really nice nearby. If you want to keep this beauty, regular cleaning should be like a fingerprint of love and an overdose.

The quad-camera shows just a little bit and is made in the form of a 3 + 1. A single-LED flash is all around us, too. One Fusion + has its own back scanner and the Moto logo is painted all over. It is always of the same type and works seamlessly.

The Motorola One Fusion + measures 162.9 x 76.4 x 9.6 mm and weighs 210g. That’s not a sleek, or light 6.5-inches, but what we would expect from a phone with a large 5,000mAh battery. And when we used it we felt it was strong, but not shorter or softer than expected. The Motorola One Fusion + felt hand in hand, guilty or not, safe and strong, and we loved the time we spent with Motor. It is a highly constructed wire and its non-slip water retention adds an extra dimension to its shape. It’s a great call, and if you have a good heart with that, you’ll love it as easy as we did. 

Layout

The Motorola One Fusion + packs an IPS LCD 6.5 ′ ′ screen in 1080p with 20: 9 features. The panel has no cutouts or anything, and is protected by a Gorilla Glass clip, an unspecified update. The Total Vision screen, as Motorola calls it, is 396ppi sharp. It supports HDR10 and thanks to Widevine L1 DRM, you will be able to enjoy high-quality HDR10 content from Netflix and popular. We measured maximum brightness when 454 nits in manual mode, and 562 nits in auto mode. That’s almost in the middle of the LCD, and we’ve seen the panels brighter. Still, we had no problems even on very light days.

The dark levels of the One Fusion + screen come out well, and, and generally, the panel offers an excellent measurement of about 1400: 1. The minimum light to the left of the bar is 6.2 nits - good. Colour reproduction is always good in One Fusion +. Saturday's default mode has a DeltaE rating of 4.3 compared to the DCI-P3 limits, and we naturally rated DeltaE 2.0 directly in terms of sRGB. 

Battery Life and Charging

The Motorola One Fusion + puts a massive 5,000 mAh battery, which should last more than two days for normal use according to Motorola claims. The phone supports TurboPower fast charging and the 18W charger supplied also includes about 30% of lost battery in 30mins. Note that Motorola claims that the phone is charging at 15W, which means that the adapter you receive comes in excess to get the job done.

Unexpectedly, the One Fusion + turned out to be the best maker in our battery test with an endurance rating of 136 hours. It did a great job in all the tested situations - video, calls, web browsing and stand-alone functionality. 

Speaker Test

The Motorola One Fusion + has a single speaker that shoots down the fence. Don't cry too much, and get 'Good' points from our test. One Fusion + also offers equal audio output with a good presentation of bass, mids, and highs. 

Audio Output Quality

The Motorola One Fusion + has excellent audio quality. 

Android 10 with my UX

Motorola has gained a lot from Android stocks on its smartphones, even those that are not part of the Android One app - like the One Fusion + here. However, there is a wide range of custom features that are well integrated into the Moto App. Car Actions is a smartphone communication system - including a karate chop for turning on or off, twisting to move the camera app, action of fingerprint sound, accelerometer silencing accelerometer.

The Moto Display has one-way single in One Fusion + - Peek Display - a non-existent display. It will display notifications and allow you to interact with them right there on the lock screen and will alert you when you select your phone. The directional display, a feature found on some Car phones, is not in Fusion + because the selfies camera is hidden and cannot track your face all the time.

There is a new custom feature that lets you customize the look and feel of your Moto. You can play the size and shape of the icons on the home screen, change the system font, and choose a colour to highlight quick toggles. Moto Game Time is a set of company mobile game development tools. Allows you to filter calls and notifications, block Fire Actions, performance section allows you to turn off active brightness. The floating game floating icon in Toolkit gives you instant toggles for calls and notifications, access to your choice of dual messaging apps and access to full game time settings.

The Motorola One Fusion + relies on touch detection with one long long button in the middle. Swipe upwards to take you to the home screen, the edge swipe pops up the latest apps menu, with a tablet swipe (left or right) to switch between last used apps. If you want Back, just swipe anywhere from the edge of the screen. If, on the other hand, you want to have three ancient button navigation, you switch to it from the settings. All this aside, the rest is as good as Android 10 as Google intended it to be. The Motorola One Fusion + also supports FM radio and there is a pre-installed app for that. You don’t see it every day, not least. 

Performance and Benchmarks

The Motorola One Fusion + is powered by the Snapdragon 730 chip - one of the most popular midrange platforms from Qualcomm. The Indian version of Fusion + works on the Snapdragon 730G chip, which has a slightly different GPU clock but in a different way - similar to the 730.

Both 730 and 730G CPUs are the same - octa-core processors with two Kryo 470 Gold (Cortex-A76) processors built at 2.2 GHz, and six Kryo 470 silver (Cortex-A55), operating at 1.8 GHz. They are all built-in an 8nm LPP area and that is why the power works so well.

Both chips also have the same Adreno 618 GPU. But one in the 730G clock is 75 MHz higher and stays at 575 MHz. This is the only difference between the two groups.

One Fusion + is sold in only one setting with 6GB RAM and 128GB UFS2.1 storage. We had a few benches, and the CPU moulded it as a very good player. The Kirin 810 processor is more powerful, but it's only available on the smallest Google phone now. The Snapdragon 720G counts the higher part, but has a higher clock speed (2.2GHz vs 2.3GHz). The same thing applies with graphics - Huawei beats it all, but Google is stepping in. After that the Adreno 618 inside the Snapdragon 720G (Redmi Note 9 Pro) is a bit better than the Adreno 616 as part of the Moto's S730 chip. 

However, GPU performance is sufficient in the classroom. Throwing all the ingredients together in Antutu, One Fusion + is in line for Realme 6 Pro and Redmi K30. Once again, Huawei's Kirin 810 proves to be superior, while the S720G-powered Redmi Note 9 Pro offers fire with fodder.

The Motorola One Fusion + offers many bangs for its attractive price and shows solid numbers every time it tests, no matter the functions. In the end, the sharpest challenge - to play - doesn't just happen in Fusion +, but it's a good thing. 

Quad Camera with Macro and Deep Snappers 

The Motorola One Fusion + has a quad-rear camera with three snappers and 2MP deep sensors. There is a 64MP main scanner, an 8MP ultrawide spray, and a 5MP macro image. One LED flash is nearby, if you need it. The main camera uses a 64MP Samsung ISOCELL Plus GW1 1 / 1.72 "sensor with 0.8µm pixels and f / 1.8. The autofocus detection section is supported.

The ultrawide camera uses an 8MP Samsung ISOCELL S5K4H4 1 / 4.0 "sensor with 1.12µm pixels behind the f / 2.2 lens. Focus is optimized. with 1.12µm pixels. Supports autofocus between 4cm and 10cm. This camera can capture 720p videos. The deep camera has a 2MP OmniVision OV2180 sensor. The pop-up selfie camera offers a 16MP OmniVision OV16A1Q 1 / 3.06 "sensor with 1.0µm pixels and a Quad-Bayer filter. Bayer module, selfie cam takes 4MP photos automatically, but this one can be set to 16MP shooting output if necessary.

Motorola has been installing its own custom Camera program on the best-selling Android software, and so has One Fusion + as well. It is straightforward and works with a swipe action switch between stills, video, and enhanced modes (tapping on thumbnails also works). A quick set of settings is available in HDR viewer (Auto / On / Off), Flash modes (Auto / Off), self-timer (Off / 3s / 10s) and active photos (Auto / On / Off). There is also a shortcut in the settings menu in the view. Night Vision Camera and Macro camera can be found within the Modes selection. Manual mode is accessible from other changes in the viewing screen - not additional modes. Allows you to drive on your ISO (100-3200), shutter speed (1 / 6000s-1 / 3s), or exposure compensation (2EV to + 2EV to 1 / 3EV and 0.5EV upside), and selecting a white balance with a light temperature (marking normal types of light), and you can manually change the direction - all is normal. 

Image Quality

The main camera saves 16MP automatically and the one we took during the day went well, especially at this budget stage. The pictures have a very nice contrast and a strong range, and are true with the colours of life. No visible noise. Sharpening is one of the most aggressive choices we can make, but it does not harm the overall quality. We shot pictures with Auto HDR as intended by Motorola. And it causes all the time during the day. It tightens the strongest range, too - it also removes noise. There may be several loss of detail due to HDR, but it is not visible, and we suggest leaving the HDR setting to Auto. There is a high resolution of 64MP and it does a very good job. 64MP images look like a real auction with special details, great contrast and colours. They can’t be achieved with Auto HDR, so their range is huge not as great as the default images. Note that shooting at 64MP takes a few seconds and one image weighs about 30MB.

The Fusion + has an 8MP ultrawide camera and its images increase by 16MP when stored. And they are far from good - the details are very bad. The images fit perfectly inside because of the 13mm lens, their contrast and colours are very good, as there is a strong width, but these images will not go further.

The 5MP macro cam has a dedicated shooting mode, and is very focused on the themes. The photos don’t go over in detail or separately, but they’re great. We offer Motorola points to make macro mode easier by giving this camera autofocus capabilities - a few donors.

2MP depth sensor comes in handy when shooting graphics. 16MP graphics taken with a large camera go well - lots of detail, great contrast, and subject separation is enough for this class. Mental-blurring looks good, too. If Auto HDR decides not to rip, you will get images that are not very good. We recommend leaving Auto HDR on a regular basis - as intended by Motorola.

Night Vision is available on the One Fusion + main camera and does a great job of making the night image brighter, colourful and contrasting. It comes with a lot of detail in the most beautiful images and shadows, and makes for a picture of a blossoming night, with a twist of certain details and sharp. Ultrawide photography is no worse than any other similar night camera, but the up to 16MP makes them look bad. You can see what's in the pictures, either 16MP or 8MP. We doubt that anyone will be using this camera under extreme conditions. 

Selfies

The Motorola One Fusion + selfie camera is in the pop-up module with the engine and pops up every time you switch to selfie mode. The snapper has a 16MP Quad-Bayer shooter behind the f / 2.2 lens centred lens. It saves 4MP photos automatically, as it should, but if you want - you can set it to save 16MP enhanced images instead. 4MP images display beautiful details, colours and contrast. Powerful distance is limited, but Auto HDR helps to extend that much. Photos are possible with a selfie camera and are not bad - subject separation is not perfect but mask algorithm is blurred and the results are acceptable. We've seen the best, but we've also seen the worst. 

Video Recording

The Motorola One Fusion + records 4K @ 30fps videos and 1080p @ 30 / 60fps videos with its main camera, while the ultrawide and macro snappers are limited to 1080p @ 30fps clips. 4K exposure from the main camera has good resolution details, even if we were expecting more of the video embedded at 50Mbps video bitrate. The colours are well filled and the contrast is good. A strong distance can be they were high, but not bad either. 1080p clips shot at 30fps are great across the board - details, contrast, colours. They are not excessively sharp, while the dynamic range is limited.

After that Full HD videos at 60fps from the main camera are not very poor in detail and the processing tries to hide this with excessive pressure. You should stay away from this mode. The 1080p clips from the ultrawide camera are very soft, but otherwise very good. You can use electronic stabilization in any camera and in any mode, or it could only work in 1080p @ 30fps mode on the main camera. Maybe a software update will fix that. 

Wind-up

The Motorola One Fusion + joins a wide range of attractive budget offerings. A mid-range phone, with some high-tier components, and yet - one is quite cheap. Really, it provides your big belt and you won’t be disappointed in the event you get it. 

One Fusion + has a lot to offer - the HDR10 notch screen is still a plethora of visuals, and many will love it just because maybe not for romantic lovers, but still. Then there are its snappy hardware and a large battery that will allow for long playing sessions, or days of normal use.

The camera was amazingly beautiful, day and night, and it works in many ways enough to compel you to take creative photos. The ultrawide camera needs some upgrades and you definitely hope Motorola will get it out in the end.

Lastly, a clean and fast Android 10 with Moto enhancements will be a delight to use for Android cleaners. Renewals are often done on Moto phones, so that's another bonus. Of course, there are a lot of cool offers, so let’s take a look at a few.

Alternatives

The Motorola One Fusion + costs € 299 in Europe and comes with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage. Realme sells 8GB + 128GB Realme 6 for the same price and its exciting offers with a 90Hz screen, the same input power, and the same quad-camera. The Realme 6 beats the Moto with a larger upgrade rate, faster charging, and a better ultrawide camera, but the One Fusion + has a free HDR10 screen, better battery life, and a bigger speaker.

Then there is the Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro. Its 6GB + 128GB model is cheap at around € 40 per Moto, while compatible with Moto’s speed and camera capabilities, its screen has punch-holes and its MIUI is anti-vanilla Android. If you are OLEDs, then the Samsung Galaxy A51 is a good alternative. It has a 6.5 inches Super AMOLED with a small punch-hole, great playback capabilities and a uniform camera design. Its battery life is very low, but there is no water protection, and the screen does not support HDR10.

Finally, if you can travel without Google services, the Huawei P40 Lite would be a good choice. The Kirin 810 is a medium-sized and excellent gaming console, its quad-camera camera for the same setting is good in quality, and the battery life and charging speed are unique. The good news is that the P40 Lite is about € 100 cheaper than the moto. It remains to be seen if that is how important Google stuff is to you.

The Decision

The Motorola One Fusion + is among the best phones you can buy cheap. It has an excellent immersive screen, excellent game performance on the go, smart camera flexibility, and amazing battery autonomy. That’s why it’s really easy with One Fusion +. If your budget is around € 300, it should be at the top of your shortlist.

Advantage

Large HDR10 flawless screen with excellent contrast

High battery life

A dehydrated body

Skilled equipment suitable for sports on the go

Vanilla Android 10 with nice Fire tricks

Good image quality day and night with a great camera

Beautiful photos, macro, selfies

FM radio, MicroSD slot, 3.5mm jack. 

Dis-advantage

The ultrawide camera requires some work

The video capture is like this

No NFC

Using a selfie camera with its own questions - it is slow and there are concerns about trust over time but we think it should be good

Vivo X50 Pro Plus Android Smartphone Review

Vivo X50 Pro Plus Review

The Vivo X50 Pro Plus is the high-rise end from the X50 series.

Vivo

Chinese phone maker Vivo recently unveiled its X50 series, marking the official launch of its first international citizenship this year. Vivo, one of the top 10 phone manufacturers by sharing the market despite the unknown in the West, advertises its latest phone as "professional photography." Introducing the gimbal camera system in the series, which is being sold outside of China for the first time.

There are three phones on the list, the X50, X50 Pro and X50 Pro Plus. The X50 Pro has a cutting processor that contains Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 (as seen on the Galaxy S20, among others), while the X50 and Pro both have Snapdragon 765G CPUs. But while the X50 Pro has a slower processor, it also has a gimbal. Vivo has said it has chosen to add a gimbal to the Pro, rather than the more expensive Pro Plus, to make the feature more accessible.

The company claims that the X50 Pro system has a 300% increase in the performance of traditional robust technology. That’s thanks in part to that gimbal, which uses “double ball construction to achieve triple-axis rotation,” effectively allowing the camera to locate the inside of the fence.

Vivo

While the X50 only has a gimbal with hyped-up, all three devices support 5G. All three phones have the same 6.56-inch display, too. But there is another important difference: the processors these phones work on. The X50 Pro Plus gets an excellent CPU, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, while the Pro and X50 both run on the Snapdragon 765G.

Vivo says it currently has no plans to disconnect the phone in the US. But X50 phones will be released in parts of Asia, Africa and Europe in the next three months, so it will be easier to import.

Price details are not yet shared, but costs will vary from country to country. In China the X50 Pro starts at 4,298 yuan, which translates to $ 610 (about $ 490 or AU $ 880), while in India it starts at 49,990 rupees or about $ 660. As always, you can expect higher price tags in Western countries. For more details on the specs, scroll down to the chart below, which compares all three phones.

X50 Pro cameras in depth

The X50 Pro's rear camera system is pushed by a 48-megapixel main camera, which anticipate on a gimbal-like camera system and image stabilization and electronic image stabilization technology. When I first tried it out, I likened it to a one-generation iPhone XS Max while running during the day, but I didn't see much difference between the two phones, nor did I install cameras. Both phones capture stable footage without obvious impairment. The difference was noticeable, however, when I handled the video while working and in the dark.

When using ultra-solid or anti-shake mode, the Vivo X50 Pro technology for video durability is identified by note. That’s when the difference between the iPhone XS Max was most noticeable. The footage I captured was smooth and dull without stitching. Even when I was shooting with my innocent hand, which usually produces shakier videos, the footage was unusually smooth. There is a trade-off anyway: Couldn't capture more details on distant topics. From what I have collected so far, the Ultra-solid solid mode is like a great shooting tool that stays close.

The Vivo X50 Pro (pictured) has a 6.56-inch AMOLED screen.

The Vivo IX50 Pro has 4 rear cameras

In general, the X50 Pro has made it easy to take crisp, precise and healthy photos and capture my amazing location. I would have to spend more time on the phone, but so far I have noticed that in some lighting conditions - at sunset for example - the pictures were full and nailed to the top. The iPhone XS Max took pictures that were real-life, by comparison. Any photo you like maybe a matter of personal choice, but you can see the difference in the pictures below.

The Vivo X50 Pro snapped a sunny orange (left), and the photo taken by the iPhone XS Max (right) was a real-to-life experience.

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There are four cameras on the backside of the X50 Pro. In addition to the 48-megapixel main Shooter, you'll find a periscope zoom lens and an 8-megapixel wide-angle lens. There is also a 13-megapixel portrait telephoto snapper. I am looking forward to trying out the X50 Pro camera system with more depth.

The X50 Pro has a 60x zoom

The 8-megapixel periscope lens is one of three (three) side-by-side large 48-megapixel arrows in the Vivo X50 Pro. I was blown away by the power of Vivo X50’s 60x Hyper Zoom. Although the photos were short - 60x still very far, after all - they were able to get details that I could not see with my own eyes, including a sign at the hotel on the other side of the harbour in Hong Kong. I would like to compare you to the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra’s 100x Space Zoom.

The Vivo Pro X50 Pro is in the distance. Using its 60x hyper zoom, I was able to zoom the sign to the hotel on the other side of the harbour. I could not see the sign with my naked eyes and did not know it was there until I got close to the phone.

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This photo was taken in the default settings (1x).

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5x zoom.

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10x zoom.

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Zoom to 60x.

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Four types of side zoom.

Sareena Dayaram / CNET 4,315-mAh fast-paced battery

In the few days I have used the phone, the battery life of the Vivo X50 Pro's 4,315-mah has been strong in the default settings. My daily work usually involves a few short calls, frequently using WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, checking emails, reading news apps and playing music on Spotify. I have also used social media, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. I do not use my phone to get heavy games. The X50 Pro battery lasts easily all day long.

Using a 33-watt Vivo flash, I was able to charge the battery in 52 minutes. Good, but not as fast as Oppo's official Get the X2 Pro shows, charging its battery for 38 minutes. Surprisingly, however, it was when it recharged the dead battery by about 60% in 15 minutes.

Vivo X50 specifies - Vivo X50 Vivo X50 Pro Vivo X50 Pro Plus :

Display size, resolution 6.5-inches AMOLED 6.5-inches AMOLED 6.5-inches AMOLED Dimensions (Inches) 6.2x2.86x0.31 inches 6.28 x2.97x0.29 inches 6.2x2. Dimensions 8x0.34 inches 15mm.54x75.4x7.55 mm 158.46x72.8x8.04 mm 158.5x73x8.83 mm Weight (Ounces, Grams) 6.16 oz, 174.5 grams 6.4 oz, 181.5 grams 6.77 oz, 192 grams 10-megapixel (main), 8-megapixel (wide-angle), 5-megapixel (macro) Camera 10 13-megapixel (portrait telephoto) 48-megapixel (main), 8-megapixel (Ultra) wide), 8-megapixel (periscope), 13-megapixel (portrait telephoto) 50-megapixel (main), 13-megapixel (super) wide angle), 32 megapixel (portrait telephoto) Front-facing 32-megapixel 32-megapixel 32-megapixel processor Snapdragon 765G Snapdragon 765G Snapdragon 865 Storage 128GB / 256GB 128GB / 256GB 128GB / 256GB RAM 8GB 8GB 8GB 4,200 mAh (33W Vivo flash charge) 4,315 mAh (VW Flash Charger) 4,350 mAh (44W Vivo flash) Fingerprint Sensor Yes Yes Yes Yes USB C C USB C USB-C connector Headphone jack No No Special features 20x digital zoom, 90Hz rate Gimbal-like, 60x hyperzoom, 90Hz frequency refresh rate 120Hz, 60x zoom

Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra Android Smartphone Full Review

Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra Android Smartphone Full Review

The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra has 5G, 108-megapixel camera, four other cameras, a huge screen, a high refresh rate, a 1399 dollar starting price. The S20 Ultra goes big, I mean you recognize, literally big, check out the phone. and searching at it I feel one thing is blindingly obvious. Samsung seems like it's something to prove. the simplest word that I can come up with to explain the S20 Ultra is, imposing. it's an outsized and nearly as heavy as just about any phone that I even have ever used. Now the most reason this phone is as big because it is is in order that you'll have this screen which is 6.9 inches diagonally. and since this screen doesn't have a face unlock sensor thereon, it can cover nearly the whole front of the phone. Now I figured that I'd be annoyed at having to travel back to an in-screen fingerprint sensor rather than face unlock, but I wasn't. The sensor is fast and accurate enough. But the important reason I feel that this screen shows that Samsung has something to prove with the S20 Ultra, is that they finally added the choice to modify it to 120-hertz refresh rate. Now, it comes outta the box at 60 hertz to save lots of battery but I hopped into settings and turned it on directly and never looked back because I feel it's enough battery life to handle it. And 120 hertz does make scrolling and screen animations look better and smoother. Samsung even says that it stopped bothering with any variable refresh rate supported the content of the screen nonsense. It's just locked to 120. Oh, by the way, you cannot have both 120 hertz and therefore the phone's maximum 3200 by 1440 resolution. But, I feel the trade for 1080 by 2300 to urge 120 hertz is worthwhile. And in fact, the screen looks nice. Looks nice indoors, outdoors, at different angles along with HDR content. Samsung knows the way to do that by now, it's extremely good at it. And again, because it's nearly seven inches diagonally, it's good 'cause it's just huge. Samsung has already done the make the phone bigger than everybody else thing. That's not actually what the S20 Ultra is about. It's about being bigger in every way, not just size.

And there's no better place to start out talking about what meaning, than to only jump right into the most important number of all, the 108-megapixel camera. (relaxing music) So let's just get into it. If you count the depth sensor, there are five cameras on this phone. And three of them have just silly megapixel counts. The selfie camera is 40 megapixels. The telephoto is 48, the regular wide-angle is 108 megapixels. the sole camera that may not out of bounds megapixel wise is that the ultra-wide which is 12 megapixels. But the S20 goes further than that. So almost like what Huawei did on its phones, the zoom lens here actually hits a prism and a mirror and redirects the sunshine across the body of the phone into the sensor, sort of a periscope. It means the phone can get real optical zoom up to 4 X and something specialized up to 10 X. Then there's this thing that Samsung calls Space Zoom, which pushes the zoom bent 100 X. That's one among the explanations that Samsung went with a 48-megapixel camera on the telephoto, in order that it's more pixels to settle on from when it starts cropping in. It also does this thing where it takes multiple photos to assist get data from all the sensors to assist. So how does all that tech work? Well, I tested this zoom against the iPhone 11 Pro, and therefore the Pixel 4 XL, both of which have telephoto lenses. And for fun, I threw within the Sony RX100 VII. The Pixel 4 XL maxes at 8x zoom, so I just compared it at that level and that I used a tripod for all of those photos that you are looking at. I feel the RX100 wins, but you recognize, it is a standalone camera so in fact it's gonna. once you just check out the phones, the S20 Ultra embarrasses the iPhone, and that I think it edges out the Pixel 4 too. thus far so good, but what about this Space Zoom thing? Well, you'll impress your friends with little who moments by zooming into 100 X, but truthfully, I feel they appear like splotchy messes at that zoom level. I used to be ready to get some fairly nice stuff at 30 X, usually by propping the phone on something stable. But, it still seems like a phone photo to me. Well, Samsung is performing some weird tech stuff here too. So, by default, the 108-megapixel sensor makes 12-megapixel images because the hardware automatically combines nine pixels into one big pixel. it is a process called binning. And combined, those binned pixels are about as big as what they would've been on a lower megapixel sensor.

This does help this camera avoid some of the usual problems that you get with high megapixel sensors.  Like bad low light, and noise. It mostly works. See, to make this entire pixel binning stuff happen, Samsung still has to do a lot in the software. Now, generally, I think the S20 wants to smooth out lighting especially on faces, it wants to keep things bright, and it wants to shift towards less red tones. And those are often really good instincts for photos. Samsung sometimes steers the S20's tuning just a little too far. So, compared to the iPhone, or the Pixel, this photo of me is just plain over smoothed and over brightened. It is super weird. As soon as the S20 camera sees a face, it brings up the shadows too much it smoothes skin too much, and it tries way too hard to adjust the white balance and often gets it wrong. Turn your head 45 degrees where it doesn't see a face, and it's fine. Turn on pro mode, and it's fine again. Turn on Bixby Scene Optimizer, and well, okay Bixby makes it worse, but still. In a lot of brightening conditions, I got nice pics of faces but in challenging conditions it got rough. Samsung tells me that it's looking into it, but there's no setting that you can change to change the default behaviour of what this thing does with faces. The weirdest part though, none of this applies to the selfie camera. Which is great. Now Samsung also lets you take full-on, 108 megapixel photos, and there's yet more camera tech involved in this like re mosaicing but the bottom line is you need a lot of light to get a decent photo at that resolution. And even then, my 108-megapixel photos were noisy enough in the fine details when I cropped in, that I never really saw the point. Now, when it comes to low light photos, Samsung is doing better than it ever has, partly because the sensors are so big here. But it still has a lot of work to do to catch up to the Pixel 4. And on portrait, again, better than it ever has, but it still has a lot of work to do to catch up to the iPhone. The selfie camera though, which is 40 megapixels, is my favourite camera on this entire phone. It doesn't do the same bad over smoothing on faces, I just really like it.

Now as for video, the headline feature is that you can shoot and edit in 8K, and I don’t know, I think that's kind of gimmicky but I do like that you can pull a still photo out. More important to me is the slightly improved video stabilization because I have pretty shaky hands, but you should know that still doesn't work in 4K and not in 8K. Especially when I was shooting video. I also really like this new feature called single take which does as many of Samsung's weirdo camera modes as possible in one long shot. It's fun, but I wouldn't depend on it for anything important 'cause the quality is like, not that good. So, that's a lot. It's a lot of camera which makes sense because this camera bump is so huge right? I mean, okay. Where do I think it all lands? Well, I think Samsung has a little bit more work to do on its photo algorithms. I think it's going to take a minute for them to learn how to take all of these huge megapixel counts and turn them into something that works in every single context.

 Now the S20 phones are the very first mainstream 5G phones. There have been a few before, but they have never been the default and with the S20 line they are. Now you should know that only the S20 Ultra and the S20 Plus support the super high-speed millimetre wave-5G that you can only get at like a few street corners. But, all of them support the slightly slower, but much more widespread mid-band 5G. On T-Mobile's mid-band, I was able to pull anywhere from like 45 down, which is not much faster than LTE, up to 120 megs per second in a pretty good spot. That's fast. But it's not as fast as what I could get on Verizon's millimetre wave, where I saw download speeds hit over 1300 Mbps.  Which is incredible? I got that on one street corner, if I held my phone right, and I didn't turn my body around. And I didn't walk half a block away. And if I was lucky because sometimes it would drop down to LTE anyway in that spot.  Samsung always boasts the best possible specs for an Android phone on the Galaxy S line, and this year is no different.

The Snapdragon 865 processor, which is fast but it's not in a way that I think people are going to notice over the 855. It has 5000 milliamps battery here, which is huge and has let me run a full day with very heavy use. I have done it several times now. 5G might bring that battery life down a tick, but I was clearing six hours of screen time with 120hertz refresh rate turned on. The RAM matters too, you get 12 or 16 gigs of RAM depending on which model you buy and that means that apps close less often in the background and you can even pin apps to memory which means that Android won't be able to close them in the background. This might seem like a weird power user feature, but let's be honest this is a weird power-user phone. Samsung is also sticking to its guns by offering expandable storage and it's not keeping the headphone jack. And it is okay to be sad about that, don't let anybody tell you different. The other side of performance is software, and for the most part, Samsung is doing a solid job with One UI on top of Android 10. I still like it, but Samsung is starting to Samsung it up a little bit with feature creep. Everything that it's ever made is still here, and too much of it is sitting in the settings tray and it's ready to confuse you.

There's Quick Share, which is like AirDrop but only for Galaxy phones. There's Link Share, which lets you throw stuff online for a private link for people to download for a day or two. There's Music Share, which let's other people with Galaxy phones play their music on the Bluetooth device that's paired to your Galaxy phone. But it's not as weird as Samsung Daily which sits next to the home screen and just doesn't offer useful cards for anything. Or, as weird as Bixby which sits under a long press of the power button and it's still just Bixby. Overall, the experience on the S20 Ultra is quite good, but it takes a day or two of dismissing prompts and turning off stuff that you don't want. Which is super annoying. So, Galaxy S20 Ultra. Did Samsung prove that it could make the best screen on a smartphone? Yes, it did. Did Samsung show that it could make 5G a dominant feature for phones? Well, yes it did but that doesn't mean that your city or your carrier has it. Did Samsung prove that it could throw every single performance spec possible into a single phone? I mean, it did. This is Samsung. It also proved though that it's starting to lose it's restraint a little bit on software. But the biggest thing that Samsung had to prove is that it could stay in the camera fight and do so with big megapixel sensors and zoom. And I think on zoom, Samsung has proved that its hardware can beat Google and Apple at around 8x, but it's not magic enough to get something great beyond that. I'm more worried about how the camera treats faces though, because I think Samsung is still Samsung in' up a little bit too much there. Mostly though, Samsung proved that when it wants to it can still go all out with the phone. I mean, they did call this the Ultra, which is another way of saying a lot. And yeah, this phone is a lot. That's all about review. Thanks 😊😊😊😊

Samsung Galaxy M31 Android Smartphone Review

Samsung Galaxy M31 Android  Smartphone Review

Samsung Galaxy M31 comes with a Super AMOLED panel. It’s brightness peaks to 547 nits, And it’s arguably one of the best in the segment, after all this is what Samsung does so well. Next, when it comes to design, The Galaxy M31has an Elegant looking design, not too flashy nor fancy, it just looks elegant which some people might like. It does attract fingerprints & amp; unfortunately, they did not even include a case in the box. Another point that is worth mentioning is that the weight of the phone is impressive because it has a 6000mah battery. And a few things I do not like are, I am not a fan of this oval-shaped fingerprint scanner, yet they continue to put the same thing after so many iterations. 

Speaking of fingerprint scanner, It is quick in unlocking the phone and even the face unlock is quick and it does unlock immediately in pitch dark conditions as well which is impressive. But I would recommend to use the fingerprint scanner because it is more secure. The most impressive part of Samsung Next when it comes to Performance, the impressive aspect is its memory management. Memory management is excellent. Usually, memory management on Samsung phones is not that great especially when you compare it with other phones in this segment but this time they improved it. They made a great choice by including 6GB RAM for the base variant. 

When it comes to the gaming part it is not the best in this segment. When it comes to battery life, this is Samsung Galaxy M31’s USP, no other phone in this segment offers this level of battery performance. It lasted me for 2 days and I think the only way you can kill the battery in a day is probably by playing Pubg all day. The provided charger takes 2 hours 40 minutes to charge the phone from 15-100%, which is probably the only disadvantage of having such a huge battery. 

Now let’s talk cameras, The low light selfie is good, it has got a good amount of detail barring some softening in certain areas like the forehead, apart from that it’s a pretty good low light selfie. Moving to the Daylight selfie they’re really good, especially the wide-angle selfie has no exposure issues whereas if you look at the standard selfie the sky in the background is a little overexposed. Rant starting in 3,2,1. But with portrait selfie you’ll get an average image as there’s no HD selfie available and this is the problem because even if the HD selfie is available for standard selfie, it’s not the default option, I mean you can switch to it, but why does Samsung want its users to take average selfies. I know it just takes a swipe to switch to higher resolution selfie but why not put that as default. Let’s be honest, Whoever from the Samsung’s team decided okay let’s go with it has probably no clue what he is doing. The reason why I am ranting about this is because there are so many people who have complained that an entry-level Smartphone takes better selfies than the M31, seriously go read the reviews. Moving to the rear camera under low lighting conditions, there is noise even in the highlights, I mean I understand if there’s noise in the shadows but there’s noise even where there is ample amount of light. And this applies with the shots taken in night mode as well. So yeah the M31 is absolutely struggling in low light scenarios. But in daylight, this is where the GalaxyM31 shines, the colours are vibrant and sometimes look boosted to my liking, I personally like natural-looking images. Pictures taken Indoors is the same as well, this buddha picture is beautiful and it’s really sharp, very impressed with how it turned out. This is a wide-angle image and It’s wide enough and on par with most phones in this segment. When it comes to 64MP image, the only issue I found is, it doesn’t have great dynamic range, especially for this sunset image, 

Moving to macro shots, It’s just terrible 😒 Is there any other way I could describe it. Here’s a comparison with Redmi Note 8 Pro that was launched in 2019. As you can clearly notice that I am not very close to the subject as well. Yet the M31 is absolutely struggling. 

Next, let’s talk about the video capabilities of the M31. As you can see the video looks Beautiful and It also can shoot in 4K, which many phones do not. Moving to the video from the rear camera, the 1080p footage is too stable. I don’t know for me it felt like the footage is too stable and I’m probably the only one who’s complaining that a video is too stable. 

So who should be buying the Samsung GalaxyM31? Well, let’s see, Do you want a Gaming phone? Then M31 is not the phone for you. Do you want a camera-centric phone? Then the M31 is not a great option. Do you want a great display? Then yes the M31 is arguably the best option in this segment. Do you want a phone with great battery life? In that case, no other phone is better than the M31. But what’s the point of having great battery life when the phone is average at doing everything else? You can probably have great entertainment experience thanks to the Super AMOLED display & Huge battery.  But apart from that theM31 is mostly average in all other departments. But if you want a phone that is the best value for your money, then Poco X2 and Realme X2 are two of the best phones in the mid-range segment.  Thank You.😀😀😀😀

POCO X2 Android Smartphone Full Review

POCO X2 Android Smartphone Full Review

Here is my take on the POCO X2 after using it for 3 months. it also gives the Smartphone some time to mature. By that time some of the early bugs are ironed out with software updates, and it also gives us a fairly good idea of how the hardware is going to hold up over time. Before getting started, let us gets a few things straight, this is not the successor of the POCO F1. It did come out almost 18 months after the POCO F1, but it doesn’t come with flagship specs. If we are being honest, it not even a POCO phone, to begin with. It is, in fact, a re-branded Redmi K30. But being re-branded doesn’t take away what it actually offers.

 So what does the POCO X2 offer? A 6.67inch display with 120Hz refresh rate, Snapdragon 730G processor, 64 megapixel Sony IMX686 sensor as its primary camera, a 4500mAhbattery, and Glass sandwich design, at a starting price of Rs.16,999. This is the new price after the recent hike in GST rates by the Indian Government. I got this phone on the launch day at Rs.15, 999, but even at its new price of Rs.16, 999, POCO X2 offers you a lot of value for your money. Well now that you know I like this phone. 

Let us start with the design and build quality. To begin with, it is a huge Smartphone with a 6.67-inch display and it has gorilla glass 5 at the front and back. So design-wise, it is already a huge leap over the plastic back of the POCO F1. I was never too fond of the plastic back on the F1, so big thumbs up to POCO for putting the glass back on the X2. It makes it feel so much more premium for its price. I have said that it is a big phone, but how big exactly is? Here is a size comparison with the iPhone11 Pro Max which is the biggest of all the iPhones Apple launched last year; this should give you some idea of the scale. While this size means we do get a big display and more room inside the device for a bigger battery. But I still think phones with 6 or 6.2-inch displays are the right size for most people hands. It does get a slight curve to the back, which makes it a bit easier to hold, but for my average-sized hands, it is definitely a 2handed Smartphone. Now the frame where you actually hold the phone looks like anodized aluminium, but it is in fact made of polycarbonate or plastic. The chases inside the phone are aluminium, but this frame is Plastic. We get Gorilla Glass 5 protection at the front and back, and in my experience, it is surprisingly resilient against scratches. On some of the other phones with gorilla glass5, I have seen a few micro scratches show up with time, but not on the POCO X2. At the back, the camera module is surrounded by this circular optical illusion, which looks like a dome or a carved sphere from certain angles. It is a nice design choice to separate the POCO X2 from all other glass back phones. These Cameras stick out quite a bit, and the phone does rattle a bit if you place it on the table, but only if you tap on top left or right corner. But when a phone is placed on a table, you are more likely to tap on the bottom part, and while doing so, it doesn’t rattle. If you want it to stay flat, just put the case that comes in the box. It protects the camera hump, and has a lip at the front to keep the display raised and protected. This case also helps the back from gathering fingerprints, so most of the time; I used my phone with it. At 208 grams, it is not exactly on the lighter side, but the weight is distributed very well throughout the phone, so it doesn’t feel top or bottom-heavy. It sports a P2i nano-coating, which means it is splash resistant and can withstand some light drizzle, but don’t use it in heavy rain or don’t take it for a swim, because it is not completely waterproof, and any kind of water damage is not covered under warranty.

The most marketed feature of the POCO X2 is the Reality Flow 120Hz high refresh rate display. It is an IPS LCD panel, and it supports HDR10 playback. Although it is an LCD panel and not an OLED one, it does manage to reproduce very accurate colour and wide viewing angles. While it is not the brightest LCD display, it gets bright enough to be easily viewable in outdoor lighting conditions. The highlighting feature here is the higher120Hz refresh rate. This makes the phone feel so much smoother and faster. Now I have shown it to a few of my friends and there were mixed reactions. Some of them noticed the difference right away, and others didn’t even feel that it is anything different, even when I switched it from 60 to 120Hz in front of them. I for one can tell the difference between60 and 120Hz, and I am glad that companies are pushing this tech out to sub Rs.20, 000 Smartphone. If you don’t like this mode or if you want to prolong the battery life, you can switch back to 60Hz. It’s a huge display, so it is great for playing games and consuming media. There are dual punch hole style cutouts because there are 2 front-facing cameras on this phone. Through software, POCO makes it look like it is a single pill-shaped cut out like on the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus. But these are in fact 2 separate cutouts, and there is a screen between the two, which is coloured black via software. While this might lead many people in believing that it is a longer cutout, the effect would have been more believable it was an AMOLED display. The notch is still smaller than what we had on the POCO F1, and after a day or 2; I didn’t find it to be intrusive at all. It is definitely noticeable because we are used to looking at the top right to check the battery %, but as I said, it is not too intrusive. Now since it’s an LCD panel we don’t get an in-display fingerprint sensor. Frankly, I am glad for this because the in-display fingerprint sensors on budget Smartphone are not that good, to begin with. So the fingerprint sensor on the POCO X2 is placed on its side, under the volume up and down buttons, and it also doubles as a power button. 

From within the settings menu, you can either set it to read your fingerprint when you press the button, or you can even make it read your fingerprint just as you tap on it, which is a bit faster. This fingerprint sensor is very fast and accurate. Although it is more accurate than the in-display fingerprint sensor and is easier to reach then the rear on, I still think it is placed a bit high for my hands to comfortably reach it. Since it’s a tall phone, I would have liked it to be placed a cm or so lower. Anyways, I still like this placement. We already saw that the volume buttons are above this fingerprint sensor/power button. At the top, there is a noise-cancelling microphone and an IR blaster, which lets you use this phone as a remote controller for your home appliances. On the left side, there is the SIM card tray. It is a hybrid SIM tray, which means you can either use 2 nano sim cards or a nano-SIM card and a microSD card at a time. And at the bottom, we have the speaker grill on the left, a microphone, USB type C port for charging and data transfer and everyone’s beloved 3.5mm headphone jack on the right. I am more of a wireless audio person, but if you like listening to your music via wired earphones, output via this audio jack is of very high quality. The speaker on this phone can also get pretty loud, but just like with most budget Smartphone, it lacks the depth at higher volumes and might sound a bit tinny. 

Coming to the cameras. Primary one gets the 64-megapixel SONY IMX686 sensor with F/1.8 aperture and a 26mm lens. Then there is an 8-megapixel sensor with a13mm ultra-wide-angle lens and F/2.2 aperture. Followed by a 2-megapixel sensor with F/2.4aperture and a macro lens. And finally, there is another 2-megapixel depth sensor with F/2.4 aperture. To put it in simple terms, Cameras on the POCO X2 are the best on any Smartphone under Rs.20,000. Now the macro camera is getting quite a bit of heat since the last couple of weeks. Sure it's just a 2-megapixel sensor, but when you think about it, it needs to capture a very tiny part of the scene, and as far as the focus is set properly, it doesn’t really matter how many details are in the remaining part go the image, because most of the times those parts are out of focus anyway. I definitely agree that having higher resolution would be better, but I don’t think this kind of lens needs to have a multiple digit megapixel count. You might not agree with me, and that is totally fine because if you know what you are doing with it, even a 2-megapixel macro camera can take amazing looking images. Although it gets 2 front-facing cameras, and one of them has a 20-megapixel sensor, selfies from the POCO X2 are not the best. There are some other Smartphone at a lower price, which does a better job than this. But it makes up for it by taking amazing videos. POCO X2 can take electronically stabilised4K 30fps videos, and these videos look specialized. 

A part of why the POCO X2 is so good at taking images is the image signal processing capability of the Snapdragon 730G processor. It is paired with Adreno 618 GPU for smoother graphics, and you can choose from either 6 or 8GB of RAM, coupled with either 64, 128or 256GB of built-in storage. Overall performance of this phone is very smooth. App opening and switching is a breeze, and since the G in the 730G processor stand for gaming, the gaming performance of this phone is really good. Games that support higher refresh rate of120Hz on a Smartphone are just s treat to play on this phone. POCO X2 not only shows better benchmark scores than the competing phones in its price range, but the overall daily performance also shows that it is a very capable Smartphone. There are a few frame drops in the 120Hz mode if you are pushing it for a long time, but it doesn’t happen too often. This was a major issue when the phone was new, but with software updates, POCO has fixed the issue. The phone does get a bit warm if I use the camera for a long time or after playing a few games, but I won’t say it got so hot that I would be worried or anything like that. A little bit of heat is expected, especially in the summer season, like we are in right now. As long as we are on the topic of issues, many people had a few of them with the battery on this phone. 

There were complains that even with a 4500mAhbattery, their phone won’t last long enough on a single charge and that they even faced ideal battery drain. While I got 5 and a half to 6 hours of screen on time with 120Hz mode on all the time, I think I could have made the battery last longer by switching to 60Hz. I still think the battery optimization should have been better because a battery this large should last for at least a day and a half. But then again, I was comparing its battery with the Note 9 Pro, which had a much larger battery. I did face the ideal battery drain issue, where my phone was losing close to 13-14 per cent of battery overnight, this issue has since been fixed, and overnight now it looses just 2-3% of the battery. When it’s time to charge it up, we get a 27watt charger in the box, which is pretty quick. Although there is a glass back, there is no wireless charging, but for this price, we don’t even expect phones to pack in this feature. POCO X2 packs in all the necessary sensors like the ambient light and proximity sensor, gyroscope, accelerometer, IR sensor, GPS, Bluetooth 5.0, wifi 5.0, dual VOLTE and it also gets FM radio, which is very important to some people.

 Coming to the software side of things. Even if this is technically a Xiaomi phone, POCO X2 runs a version of MIUI 11 that is specifically tweaked for POCO Smartphone, on top of Android 10. Now since it is still technically a version of MIUI 11, there are a few aesthetic similarities, but the POCO launcher has a few new features of its own. Well, first of all, there are no spam ads on the UI of this POCO X2. That being said, you will still see the seeds if you open Mi browser or Mi videos app, so the best thing to do is download Google apps like chrome, as soon as you get this phone, and never use the preinstalled Mi apps. There is an app drawer, where apps are classified according to their category or you can even group them by colours if you think that makes it for you to find them. This not unique to the POCO X2, as the POCO launcher is available on the Google Play store, and you can install it on any android Smartphone. There are a few good features on this UI, but I am still not a big fan of MIUI in any form, so given a chance I would definitely install a different launcher on this phone, and make it look more like Google Pixel. While the experience was not all that smooth when this phone first came out, there have been a few software updates since, and everything seems pretty smooth now. So my overall experience has been pretty smooth with this phone. I did not encounter any performance issues or excessive heating issues, so it has been smooth sailing for me. Ya about the frame drops I mentioned, as rarely as they occur because the normal experience is so smooth, those drops stand out like as our candy to my eyes. And if POCO or Xiaomi could just stop the shady ads and ton of notifications altogether, the experience would be so much better. The best thing you can do now is to not use their apps altogether, and turn off all the notifications for their apps. If you are ready to use a huge phone, and you want the best Smartphone under Rs.20,000 right now, I think you are going to love the POCO X2. Big display with 120Hz refresh rate is not only amazing for playing games, but it offers an overall amazing experience with very good brightness levels and a good amount of contrast with accurate colours.

Snapdragon 730G processor ensures a smooth experience overall, and the cameras are simply the best in this price range. POCO has proved that if there is an issue on the software side of things, they are fast enough to push out updates to fix it. All of this makes the POCO X2 the perfect Smartphone for anyone willing to spend Rs.17,000. That is it for this video guys. Please subscribe our website with email id in given subscription option given (right hand) on the page. So, that you can get out the latest review on time without any delay. Take care.😊😊😊😊

Nokia 7.2 Android Smartphone Review

Nokia 7.2 Android Smartphone Review

The Nokia 7.2 is closer to the entry-level end of the smartphone pool, which is actually saying a lot considering its feature set. At just over $300 from stores like Wal-Mart and newegg.com, you may find your needs met by the phone which puts the "ok" in Nokia.

 I'll explain it (upbeat music). Right now the most important thing you need to know about the Nokia 7.2 is that it is an Android One phone. If you don't know what that means, you're going to get an Android phone which is guaranteed to receive at least two years of updates to the Android operating system, which ensures you have the latest features and security improvements during that course of time. This also means you're not gonna get a bunch of carrier or manufacturer bloatware, so you'll be getting as close to the stock, pure Google Android experience as possible. Besides being a Pixel phone. The Nokia 7.2 ships with Android 9.0 Pie but the official timeline for it to be updated to Android 10 is sometime in the first quarter of 2020. We'll see. So, now that you understand what makes this an Android One device, let's take a look at the hardware and see if that helps you decide if it's the one for you.

 I'm reviewing the charcoal variant of the phone, which is also available in cyan, green and ice. The phone is wrapped in Gorilla Glass 2.5D, which isn't the high suspect for Gorilla Glass, but it's okay. You'll get a 6.3 inch full HD plus LCD display, that's 1080x2280 pixels, which is this tall 16x9 aspect ratio. It does support HDR 10 and I have to say, that this is not a bad looking display at all. The phone is available with either four or six gigabytes of RAM. My version is the one with 128 gigabytes of internal storage, and six gigabytes of RAM. The volume rocker and power button are on the right side of the phone. One of the design elements on the phone I enjoyed was that the power button doubles as a notification LED. It pulses and glows white when you have new notifications, but if you aren't feeling that, you can turn it off in the settings. On the left side of the phone, you'll get a micro SDXC slot, and depending on what you buy, you'll have either a single or dual SIM slot. Below that is the Google Assistant button, which I turned off as I always do, because I have a tend encrypt activate it by accident often. Top of the phone, you'll find a microphone and 3.5-millimetre headphone jack. Bottom of the phone, you'll find a mic, a USB-C charge port and the speakers. The phone comes equipped with a 35 hundred milliamp-hour battery, which Nokia says you should get two days out of, but I didn't find that to be true for me. With their adaptive battery technology, your battery life should get better over time, but initially, my results were just mediocre with me hitting about 20%left at the end of my days, which should be obviously a lot higher if you're gonna get two days out of it. 

Let's talk about these cameras next. The front of the phone is where you'll find a 20-megapixel quad pixel camera, which takes some pretty solid portrait and your standard selfies. Portrait modes can produce some very nice selfies, with beauty mode activated. But that software-based background blur can be aggressive at times. As you can see in some of these photos around my beard, and the sides of my forehead where the light blooms where it hits. In addition to that, you get a pro model on the front camera, which is something you don't see on many phones. And something I am a big fan of. You will also have some options to choose from in that front-facing camera, which will affect how background lighting looks as it's blurred out. I played with this in a few different environments and I found that unless you have very specific lighting, this isn't gonna be a feature which you'll probably use all that often. The back of the phone, you're gonna get Zees Optics for the 48-megapixel wide-angle lens, and an 8-megapixel ultra-wide lens. Additionally, you'll have a 5-megapixel depth sensor lens for effects. The images from the 48-megapixel lens produce photos with solid colour reproduction. But in low light, they can be a bit noisy, but the overall noise I experienced with the camera, is persistent there. The interesting difference found in the photos in terms of noise was that the use of portrait mode seemed to produce deeper blacks with less noise in low light conditions. You lose some image sharpness by utilizing portrait mode, but as you can see, in these image comparisons, you will notice the deeper blacks of the bars, while also seeing that the lettering in the signs is not as sharp. Overall, the camera's produce images which I think most people will be happy with. If you are a photographer looking for a solid point and shoot, you're probably not looking here anyway. If there's anything overtly negative to point out about the camera, it's that it actually has noticeable lag as you move through the different modes and it isn't long, but it isn't instant like some competitors. (Easy listening music) The software experience with the Nokia 7.2 is actually better than okay. 

The fingerprint sensor around back, it worked reliably and consistently, and the face unlocks functionality was fast and reliable as well. Though the phone uses the Snapdragon 660 chipset with Adreno 512 graphics processing, moving between screens and animations are smooth and fast. As a reviewer, I get to play with a lot of phones. Many of the high-end flagship models, so using this phone you do notice that it isn't quite as fast as some costing hundreds more, but we also have to remember, I think that the average user doesn't have as many phones go through their hands. And a phone like this, which may seem slower than others, still moves at a clip fast enough that you aren't going to be waiting for apps to launch. It isn't instant, but it isn’t 56k dial-up either. You've got mail! The overall interface uses a card-based design language. This is an Android One device after all. So swiping from the bottom to the top of the navigation bar, the dot will open up the app drawer when you're on the home screen. And going only a quarter of the way up brings you to the app switcher, which also shows your five recently launched apps on the bottom of the screen. Moving between apps in the app switcher is lightning fast. Pressing the home button takes you back to the home screen.

 Swiping left to right also switches you between apps with wonderful quickness. This phone does not have rise to wait but does have tap to wait, which I found to be hit or miss. I'll chock that more up to muscle memory on my part than anything because these taps to wait for phones have a rhythm to them. And it could just be me getting used to the cadence, which will wait for the phone consistently. When getting into the notification, shade options, and the menu options, you'll find that there is not a whole lot to look at. Some phones allow you to customize everything to the nth degree, but you're not really going to see that with this phone. With the Nokia 7.2. I don't think that's a negative thought. Some folks don't want to spend all their time playing with icon shapes and colours and that's okay. One oddity in the menu with this phone though, and this is, you see this in a lot of Android One stock, close to stock Android phones is when you switch to dark mode, the menu stays white. Notifications, the shade goes dark automatically but that's it. When in the display settings, it allows you to change the theme to the "dark theme", emphasis on the word "theme". Shouldn't that mean that everything else on the system level is affected? Nope! Want dark mode in your messages app? You have to enable it. Phone dialer. Enable it. Chrome. Enable it. And therein lies the disconnect. This is an Android One phone, but it is still a Nokia device

So, some system apps follow super changes while others which seem like system apps, due to the lack of bloatware and Nokia OS enhancements, well, those others may seem like system apps, but they're Google apps. And you'll have to go into each one, one by one, and turn on dark mode. (upbeat music playing softly) Okay, okay! Maybe not. Maybe not. So, "OK" is in the middle of "Nokia" and that kinda says it all for this device. It's pretty much stock Android with no user interface enhancements. And for those who don't want to spend their lives customizing their phone, that's "OK". Photos overall are "OK". Battery life, for me, it so far has been "OK". But at around $300, your bank account will be "OK" after you buy this phone. Instead of nagging you for spending money, you didn't really have, on a phone with 300 features you aren't really going to use. Okay?  Thank You. 😊😊😊😊

OnePlus 8 Pro Vs Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra

OnePlus 8 Pro Vs Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra

We are going to be doing a detailed comparison between the OnePlus 8 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. We have both the best smartphone OnePlus 8 Pro as well as Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. Now we will compare all of the key differences.  

So, let's initially look at the built and design. Now, both devices are very premium. We've got a metal frame with curved glass bowls on the front and the back, and both devices are also IP 68 water and dust resistant. The S20 Ultra does however only come in two options, and they are both glossy. We've got a cosmic black and a cosmic grey, which we see here. So, it's pretty plain and we also have this pretty larger rectangular camera module. The OnePlus 8 Pro comes in this frosted finish of this glacial green, which we have here. There's also a glossy onyx black, as well as an ultramarine blue, which is currently not available in the UK. The camera module is central lined. 

Now, looking at both side by side, I would have to say that the OnePlus 8 Pro does have a better design in my opinion. I do like the central line camera module, which makes things symmetrical. I also really like this frosted matte glass finish, which attracts fewer fingerprints and it also has this really cool effect, depending on the way the light hits it. Now, in either case, you can customize the look of these devices with skin, they've got a huge variety and you can swap things around once you get too bored as well. 

Now, I'm looking at the differences in terms of size. Both are large devices, but the S20 Ultra is slightly larger in the height, the width, as well as the thickness. It's also around 20, 21 grams heavier. But both devices are large and that's because they have large displays. We've got minimal bezels with a punch-out. Now, I would say that the S20 Ultra does have a slightly smaller bezel on the top, but they're very, very similar. Both displays also curve from the sides. However, the OnePlus 8Pro is a bit more curved on the sides in comparison to the S20 Ultra. Now, the OnePlus 8 Pro has a 6.78-inch display. The S20 Ultra has a slightly larger 6.9-inch display. Both of these are using AMOLED technology. Both have up to a Quad HD+ resolution and both also support a 120 Hertz refresh rate with 240 Hertz of touch input. But, there is a little bit of a catch. On the S20 Ultra, you can only have the 120 Hertz refresh rate. If you're at Full HD you cannot have this at Quad HD. 

Now, this seems to be to save on battery life, but on the OnePlus 8 Pro, you do have that option. So, if you do want to go all out and absolutely kill your battery, you can do that. And I like that this option is here, because maybe you do want that very high resolution, as well as that high refresh rate, and this is an advantage that the OnePlus 8 Pro has. The OnePlus 8 Pro also has MEMC technology, so that's motion estimation and motion compensation. This is essentially going to take content that's at a standard prime rate, say 25, 30 frames a second and make it seem as though it's at a higher frame rate by applying motion smoothness and things like that. This is something that you may, or may not like. It is supported across lots of popular apps, such as Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, as well as YouTube. Now, generally speaking, I don't think you can go wrong with either of these displays, they are some of the best displays out there.

The OnePlus  8 Pro you are getting that advantage of Quad HD+ with a 120 Hertz. On the S20 Ultra, you're getting a centre punch-out, which I do personally prefer a little bit to the side punch-out here on the OnePlus 8 Pro. And the display is also a little bit flatter, compared to the very curved display of the OnePlus 8 Pro. Now, another thing is that the S20 Ultra does have an Always-On Display, which is something that I personally find really useful. You can just see things at a glance. The OnePlus 8 Pro unfortunately still does not have this. I am sure it can come with a software update, but currently and its state right now it is not there, unfortunately. 

Now, both devices do have an in-display fingerprint scanner, which is very, very, fast. However, the technology is quite different. The OnePlus 8 Pro has an optical in-display fingerprint scanner. The S20 Ultra has an ultrasonic in-display fingerprint scanner. So, the technology is superior on the S20 Ultra. It is actually measuring the ridges in your fingers. However, the OnePlus 8 Pro can be a little bit faster I have found. Now, one thing that I do not like on the OnePlus 8 Pro is that you do have to wake the device before you can use the fingerprint scanner. So, there is an extra step involved. You have to either tap to wake it, then press it, or lift the device to wake it. Whereas on the S20 Ultra it is always on and you can just tap in this area whenever and it's going to unlock your device. So, I know a lot of people do praise OnePlus devices for the fingerprint scanner and how fast it is, but for me, that extra step actually makes it slower. So I do personally prefer the ultrasonic in-display fingerprint scanner on the S20 Ultra. 

Now, let's talk about the cameras. We'll start with the front-facing cameras. You can see here that we do have the punch-outs. The S20 Ultra does have a high resolution, as well as a wider aperture. And you can see some samples here. I think both of them do a pretty good job overall. I do find that the OnePlus 8 Pro does still overexpose for selfies. This is something that I've noticed on previous OnePlus devices as well. It does make you look a little bit fairer, compared to how you actually are. The S20 Ultra, although it is not my favourite selfie camera and it can still lighten your skin a little bit. I would still prefer it overall to the OnePlus 8 Pro. And also for video, because the OnePlus 8 Pro can only film at 180p from the front-facing camera at 30 frames a second. The S20 Ultra can film at up to 4K, 60 frames a second from the front-facing camera. So, for those reasons, the edge does go to the S20 Ultra for the front-facing camera, but things are quite interesting when we look at the rear-facing cameras. So, we do have a Quad camera setup on both of these. The three main cameras are similar in the sense that we have got an ultra-wide camera, we've got a primary camera and then we've got a telephoto camera, which is going to give optical zoom. The fourth camera is different. The S20 Ultra has a Time of Flight sensor, which is going to help with depth information. The OnePlus 8 Pro has a colour filer camera, which I'm still a little bit confused about. I'm not sure what the exact use of this is, because as far as I can see a lot of the filters that you get on there you can actually apply in a post anyway, but nevertheless, it's there. Now, you can see a few samples here, the primary cameras I would say are very good at both for most situations. They do have good dynamic range overall and good colours. For the ultra-wide cameras, I think both do a good job. The S20 Ultra is slightly wider, which I do prefer. And for the telephoto cameras, the S20 Ultra does have much more optical zoom. So you can get in much closer to your subjects and this is a lot more noticeable when you go to the likes of 10 times up to 30 times. 

 Now, I know it does seem 100X here on the S20 Ultra, but you guys probably already know how I feel about this. It's not really practical, it's not really usable. I am not sure why Samsung has plastered 100X on here when it is at this level. It is fine to have and you don't need to use it, but Samsung doesn't plaster it on the freaking device. Now, for low light, it was quite interesting because in certain situations I did prefer the S20 Ultra, in certain situations I preferred the OnePlus 8 Pro. Here you can see an outdoor shot. The S20 Ultra for me is a lot better, there is a lot of processing happening on the OnePlus 8 Pro's shot. But, on this indoor shot, I did prefer the OnePlus 8 Pro which did better maintain the colours and the detail compared to the S20 Ultra. The OnePlus 8 Pro also has a macro mode which lets you get in super up-close using the ultra-wide camera. This is something you do not have on the S20 Ultra. Now, for video both did seem to do a good job. One area where the OnePlus8 Pro is definitely better is in autofocus. This is something that the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra has a struggle with, even after numerous updates. It just doesn't have that dual pixel autofocus, which Samsung has been known for, for a long time and it can struggle a lot of times with focus. 

The OnePlus 8 Pro is definitely faster and better here. And rear-facing cameras. We can switch to ultra-wide on both. And we can also zoom. It is three times on the OnePlus 8 Pro and there are five times on the S20 Ultra. The S20 Ultra, however, does offer 8K video. Now, this is a great addition. It does crop in quite heavily and you do lose some stabilization and things, but it's definitely a nice option to have if you do want to play around with it. This is something that's not available on the OnePlus 8 Pro. Now, of course, this is not a detailed Super Saf style camera comparison. I just wanted to show you a few image and video samples. I will hopefully do some more in detail camera test when the lockdown is over. Right now I can pretty much just shoot in and around my house, which is quite limiting. 

Now, let's talk about performance. So the OnePlus 8 Pro, it is all about speed. It does come with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset, along with the X55 modem for 5G. The S20 Ultra comes in two options. So, you guys may already know about this, but depending on your region you are going to get either the same, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, or you might get the Exynos 990. The Exynos chipset, unfortunately, is just not as good as the 865 when it comes to performance, but more so when it comes to power efficiency. 865 is just better in my experience. Unfortunately, you do not have a choice about this. So, depending on your region the OnePlus 8 Pro might actually be the faster devices, or it might be quite equal. This is something that, you know, hopefully, Samsung will improve over time and have some more consistency. I just like if they went all out on the 865. 

For storage, you do have a base of 128 gigabytes, UFS 3.0. The S20 Ultra is available in a 512-gigabyte version. The OnePlus 8 Pro is also available in a 256-byte option. For RAM the S20 Ultra does come with more RAM straight off the back?  So, you have got 12gigabytes of RAM as a base, you have got up to 16 gigabytes. The OnePlus 8 Pro comes in either eight, or 12 gigabytes of RAM. And now in speed and performance, generally speaking, both of these are going to be really, really good. The S20 Ultra does get one advantage and that is that it does have a micro SD card slot, so you can expand the storage here on the S20 Ultra. You cannot expand the storage on the OnePlus 8 Pro. The OnePlus 8 Pro also comes as default with dual SIM functionality, so that's great. The S20 Ultra, again, this is going to vary depending on your region. Some regions do have dual SIM, others do not. 

Now, let's talk about the software. So both devices do have Android 10 out of the box, and they come with their own skins. So, on the OnePlus 8Pro, we do have Oxygen OS. The S20 Ultra comes with One UI. Now, realistically speaking these are some of my favourite skins. They are my top two, they have very clean, very functional and they also do add features that you don't get as defaults on stock Android. So, I'm very happy with both of these. A lot of it is going to come down to your personal preference. One advantage that I have to give to the OnePlus 8 Pro is that OnePlus is really, really good with updates. They do generally provide updates much faster than the likes of Samsung, as well as many others. So, if updates are important to you then the OnePlus 8 Pro is going to be a great option. 

Now, for speakers, both devices do have stereo speakers. We've got one bottom-firing and then we have got one in the earpiece. Both sound really, really good. And now let's talk about the batteries. So the S20 Ultra does have a larger battery, and in my usage, it's been really good. However, this is once again going to come down to your region. The Exynos version is not as power-efficient, which means I am getting around 20% less battery life on my Exynos version, compared to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865. And I am generally getting over six hours of screen-on time on a regular basis. So, I've been very, very happy with the S20 Ultra. Now, bear in mind this is full HD+ at a 120 Hertz, with the Qualcomm version. I have not had the OnePlus8 Pro long enough as yet to give you a proper conclusion of battery life. Generally speaking, it has been pretty good for me and does get me through the day. For charging, both of these do support very fast charging out of the box, however, you do get a slightly faster charger with the OnePlus 8 Pro, compared to the S20 Ultra. However, you can buy a 45Watt charger separately, which is going to charge up the S20 Ultra very, very fast. And the OnePlus 8 Pro for the first time on an OnePlus device does have wireless charging. This is something that I have been asking for, for a very, very long time. And not only that, but it is also very, very fast compared to the S20 Ultra. The S20 Ultra is around 15Watts and the OnePlus 8 Pro is going towards 30 Watts. So, you're getting from one to 50% in just 30 minutes. This is wireless charging, so it's something that I'm very, very happy to see here on the OnePlus 8 Pro. And both devices do support reverse wireless charging. So, this is where you can use the devices to charge, maybe some accessories or something wirelessly. 

Now, the S20 Ultra here does get the advantage, because it does have faster reverse wireless charging, compared to the OnePlus 8 Pro. The OnePlus 8 Pro also has a new feature, which OnePlus has introduced and that is smart charging optimization, which is supposed to give your battery longer lifespan over time. And what this essentially does is it delays your charging based on your usage pattern. So, say for instance you wake up at 8:00 a.m. every day, and then it's not going to charge your device to really 100% until you wake up. and this way it should help your battery health in the long term.

 

Now, let's talk about the price. The OnePlus 8 Pro has gone up in price, compared to the previous generation, something we've been seeing from OnePlus year and year again. So it is starting at around $900. The S20 Ultra, however, does start much higher at around $1400, or around1200 pounds here in the UK. So you are going to be paying quite a bit more for the S20 Ultra compared to the OnePlus 8 Pro. And the OnePlus 8 Pro, let's be real, is the better overall deal here. You are getting a lot of features for that price. The S20 Ultra is a really good device and it is offering some unique features such as that extensive zoom, but is it worth that higher price tag? Also, let me know which device you would pick overall, the OnePlus 8 Pro or the S20Ultra Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra.  Thank You 😊😊😊😊