hi guys I've been daily driving the Xiaomi show me whatever you want to call
it me eight for the last two weeks exactly let's go ahead and do a full
review after two weeks let's go and take a look baby
okay guys I am pretty amazed at this bad boy
I know the poco phone is out I have the box I haven't unboxed it the reason why
I am doing a review of this obviously because I've been using it for two weeks
and I really want to give you guys my thoughts right now but yeah before you
go on to the rest of the review if you want to get the best phone under 450
dollars this would be it now this phone is not gonna work for everybody but I'm
gonna go ahead and mention all the good things and bad things and let you decide
for yourself but personally I could use this phone over the galaxy s 9 the 1
plus 6 the LG G 7 especially considering this is so much cheaper its retail that
420 dollars but if you're in the u.s. you're mostly gonna have to pay like 10%
more so I actually pay 460 um even that 460 dollars it's not gonna break my bank
let's first go and talk about the design um there's been a lot of controversy how
the xiaomi phones are really clones of iPhones I mean I don't use iPhone too
much I don't read iPhone use but definitely
the camera part sort of looks I phone ish and honesty
I wish show me would actually design their own phones instead of copying um
some people even call it this is like this is a combination of Samsung Apple
and LG they could be right alright but if you can overlook that
fact maybe you're an iPhone user who wants to use Android without paying
iphone prices but you still want to look like you're using Apple then this could
be a perfect phone for you pretty beautiful back as far as display it's
got a Super AMOLED display of 6.21 inches now one thing you guys are not
gonna like is the knotch I've actually got it turned off one of the things that
sucks about this phone is that you get no notifications up here in fact the
only way you'll know you'll have notifications don't know you will know
is vital eating your sound or vibration on alright because you'll see I have a
little ton of notifications already but there's no space because of the damn
knots now that wasn't a huge deal breaker for me I got sort of used to it
but yeah you will get no notifications in the notification bar something to
think about but the display itself is very very nice very nice viewing angles
in fact it's actually just as bright as many of the flagships all right I'm
gonna go ahead and put it on full brightness and compare it to the Galaxy
S nine let me go ahead and adjust the camera a little bit so you can see
better it's almost just as bright as the Galaxy S nine and it's also just as
bright as the LG G seven I've had zero issues in sunlight I was actually really
amazed you were getting flagship display for half the price I will go ahead and
measure Velux real quick LG G seven boost mode I'm getting around
seven sixty uh actually slightly high with me eight Galaxy S nine and 653 now
the Galaxy S nine the brightest mode does not get activated unless you're an
actual Sun but you can see that it is pretty damn bright alright no issues
there at all nuts at all now for those of you have been following me you know
that I don't like reviewing budget phones nevermind use it um but I did
order this and I am super impressed considering you get the same snapdragon
845 use on the s9 the g7 the note 9 you get the same performance it is pretty
amazing and in terms of thinness which I think manufacturers not making its thin
anymore which i think is still important it's thinner than the galaxy assign
samsung take some lessons take some notes down it is thinner than the LG G 7
and this is a 420 dollar phone alright that says a lot
I know it's iPhone clone but still it's thinner than all the flagships in fact
it is almost as thin as the one plus six one plus six is like a tad thinner in
terms of size it's actually nearly same as one plus
probably this is my favorite phone this year and now this is also my favorite
phone now it does grab a ton of fingerprints as do all phones with Mir
back and if you're worried about cases you can get a speaking case to protect
the back and the front I've linked on this and I really like using this case
very good protection really like it no more no more fingerprints of course
there is also always on display alright pretty simple always on display the
fingerprint sensor works very fast let me try it 1 2 3 1 2 3 if you want
something with a pretty large screen 6.21 inches and you want the latest
snapdragon 845 and the base version i've got here the 64 gigabyte model has 6
gigs of ram but you can get the 8 gigs of ram if you spend a little bit more
but i've had zero issues at 6 gigs of ram obviously at this price you're not
gonna get wireless charging but I don't think that's a deal-breaker because it
does have quick charge 4.0 it charges much quicker now it does not have
wireless charging but one of the benefits it has quick charge 4.0
charging is ridiculously fast in comparison to my galaxy s 9 I'm also the
LG G 7 now LG G seven still has quick charge 3.0 the Samsung's still have
quick charge 2.0 and a phone that retails for half the cost has the latest
quick charge 4.0 now I've tried show me films a few years ago it was really
horrible the bill was horrible the software was
lackey it was really horrible but I gave them another chance to see her with the
me 8 and man it's right up there I'm really impressed are each of course
there's no waterproofing either right if you enjoy using your phone your water
that could be a deal-breaker but again price is so damn cheap another benefit
of this phone you can easily route it and install custom rom as far as
performance on this there is initial reviews that people have uploaded on
YouTube now those I believe are actually beta units they're not retail units and
lion runs superfast even the benchmarks um
just as fast as the LGG 7 Galaxy S 9 no zero issues with heat playing games as
far as a UI it is really really fast I've made a few changes of course it
does come with my UI launcher me UI launcher which I didn't
like so I just installed a nova launcher over it so I know a lot of your property
wondering what the regular launcher looks like and it is just horrible it
looks like an iPhone and it looks yucky you you know it's like you and you don't
even have an app drawer you don't even have a choice to do it you just got this
big giant mess just like an iPhone now some of you may prefer this but I
obviously hate it I installed nova launcher and that was
that and look at how much better it looks so if you guys are worried about
the launcher just get nova launcher is free I got some nice icons and boom it's
a new phone I got it set it to 2 for 6 by 7 a grid size which is awesome for
this size phone and yeah I've had zero issues of course one thing I changed was
changed animations from 1x to 0.5 X that made my UI slightly even faster and if
you haven't you show me phones yet performance I would say it's actually
slightly faster than the LG G 7 it is even faster than the galaxies probably
most galaxies like I said man I'm telling you show me is on the come-up
and you know what I bought this with my own money I have absolutely no reason to
tell you nothing but the truth if you've never used the show-me phone like the v8
you got a really try I really opened up my eyes and really got me believing in
budget phones alright so so pretty pretty awesome stuff if you're worried
about performance it's still gonna outperform any LG or Samsung UI sorry a
420 dollar phone as far as 4G LTE bands I've had zero issues on my t-mobile AT&T
now if you live in that area where you actually must get certain bands to get
service you may want to dig into the 4G LTE details but I've seen zero
differences between this my g7 the s9 actually really liked this phone alright
next let's go ahead and talk about the camera oh man I
taking a ton of photos a ton of videos are each what's good about it man the
camera is really good now there are some issues where the highlights sometimes
get blown out but other than that it keeps up too many of the flagships out
there um I did compare it to with the pixel 2 which I feel is a king of
smartphone photography and it kept up quite well even in low-light selfies the
back camera it wasn't too far behind the pixel 2 with the Google HDR camera so
that was really amazing and yeah one thing I noticed was
focusing was a little bit slow on most shots it's a little tad laggy but I
could live with that I could wait a little microsecond for getting a
discount on the phone so that was nice and as far as microphone a lot of the
previous show me phones I guess had very bad microphones a lot of you were
telling me um this has pretty decent microphone I've uploaded some samples on
my other channel Island Android I'll put the links in the description if you guys
want to check it out but pretty Diesel you won't have problems with doing that
I did a bunch of periscopes with it live videos and have zero problems with it
what is wrong with the camera definitely it has no no type of stabilization in 4k
video recording if you want to use this for 4k recording with your hands it just
doesn't have it um but if you're gonna do like videos for example Instagram and
stuff you're gonna do landscape videos you'll be just fine without
stabilization that's what I was in the whole week another reason why this phone
works for me is that I obviously carry a lot of other cameras like the GoPro you
know I got the gh 5 there's absolutely no reason for me to record 4k stabilized
on my phone these days um so if you're in that boat and you want to save some
money maybe you're already a photographer videographer you got you're
already carrying your camera everywhere then who cares right but in the worst
case but in the worst case you can go ahead and grab a gimbal and you know
with the gimbals you actually want the stabilization off to get the best
quality so if you do use your gimbal a lot this could be actually a better
option um so so it really depends on what you need out of the phone but at
four hundred and twenty dollars I can definitely make up some excuses to not
apply flagship phones at flagship prices but yeah overall camera experience very
very good now I will have unboxing in comparison with the poco phone and I
think they do have the same camera not the second camera but the first cameras
are same so I'll have a defi comparison on that that's probably coming next but
yeah just a me eight camera man it lives up to the flagships other than no
stabilization for 4k and another thing that I really love about my one plus six
as many of you guys know is the 240 frames per second slo-mo now the me
eight also has 240 frames per second 1080p slow-motion and I did a
side-by-side comparison and as you can see here it's nearly on par with the one
plus six you're not gonna tell a huge difference by buying the cheaper me
eight alright so I was really impressed with the 240 frames per second my
daughter's golfing all the time and man I really like this phone now there is
also dual GPS GPS works great I haven't had a time to dig into doing a more
detailed comparison which I'll have soon after this I'm also another thing that I
wasn't able to test yet it's actually the infrared face recognition battery
life has been excellent day with this phone okay there are times when I'm
using the Chrome browser especially and I'm typing and sometimes it will freeze
yes it will freeze the keyboard will not work for of like like two or three
seconds alright or sometimes it will just freeze and know how to close it out
that's the only hiccup I've seen it only happens like once a week so it hasn't
really bother me but another thing you can do obviously with this phone you can
go ahead and view it you can go ahead and install a custom ROM which I'm going
do next if you don't like the MIUI interface then you can go ahead and put
lineage OS resurrection remix you could route it now you do have to wait 15 days
in order to unlock the bootloader unlike many of the snapdragon samsung phones
many of the LG phones so that's another reason why I decided to you know try out
show me just like the oneplus sixth you can root
it unlock the bootloader just the way you want to and customize your phone and
when your phone gets old you could still upgrade it to Android nine ten eleven
twelve thirteen yeah I'm actually really really impressed with this phone
especially the performance especially the display I know a lot of this is
copied from other manufacturers but there are good things like the
quick-charge 4.0 which LG and samsung still not doing which is kind of funny
you know new technology in a budget Android phone while you don't have it on
both of these and lastly but not least there is no headphone jack now if you're
using just earbuds I have a lot of these USB type-c earbuds and actually don't
like them but that's an option or use a bluetooth now the poco phone does have
headphone jack so let me try to see if this phone can live up to the me eight
but yeah overall after two weeks am I satisfied I am damn satisfied your money
will go a long way if you're a students maybe you're going through financial
hard times but you still want to get the latest snapdragon 845 processor you have
gsm networks like AT&T t-mobile or you live anywhere outside the u.s then you
can go and use this also it is dual SIM so you can use two SIM cards which is
great for travel the good thing with this phone is a budget phone that's also
very widely sold it's not a budget phone that's not popular it's a phone that's
very very popular you're gonna be able to find some nice accessories I'm so you
can also protect your phone and new features yeah there are things not to
like about this phone also but I've found that if you want to really save
money this year on maybe you want to skip a year for the
next flagship then this is gonna definitely get you by for another year
maybe - this is simply a very good deal for the price is definitely the best
phone you can buy if you're talking in retail prices this is definitely the
best phone you can buy under four hundred and fifty dollars now I do like
the oneplus 6 a little bit more performance is a tad faster you get
eight gigs of ram if I had choice then I definitely get the one plus six also
there's no 15-day ôm on lock jail there's also the camera is better
especially with the 4k stabilization if you're thinking about the best budget
Android phones I mean I think these two are it of course I will have unboxing of
this coming next and full comparison with the me8 so watch out for that and
we will figure out together whether the poco foam could possibly live up to the
me eight this is a $300 phone this is a 420 though it's an exciting week but
again this is not for everybody this is for those of you who want the best deal
in Android but I think show me has really hit the sweet spot this year
especially the camera lives up to this flagships now again there's no 1440p um
that could be a deal-breaker for those of you who enjoy a lot of higher quality
content because that's six point two one inches you can tell the difference
between 1440p and 1080p but you could be the type of person who never watches
1440p stuff got 1080p and lower um so if that's the case you're gonna you're not
gonna have a problem with this but anyway guys that's pretty much it for
today I hope I covered everything if I forgot to cover something I'm do let me
know in the comment section below and I always do a written version of my
reviews where it may have extra information that I didn't include the
review in my video review so check that out I'll have a great day and as always
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