hey what's going on people i hope you guys are doing good typically on this channel i cover a
lot of expensive flagship phones but today i partnered with Tecno to showcase a phone
that's under 200 bucks this is the spark 9 pro and we're going to spend the entire day using it
so before we dive too much into this phone i want to talk about battery life because this
phone has a 5 000 milliamp hour battery which is the same size battery that's in the sony xperia
1 mark 4 and the galaxy s 22 ultra so the battery life on this should be legendary so i'm going to
do a quick check on the battery life so it's almost 11 35 and we're at 97 and we'll check
back in throughout the day and of course at the end of the day to see what the drain is like
so now let's talk about the design of the spark 9 pro and i honestly think that for a sub 200
phone this phone feels great in the hand and it looks really high in it's mostly made of plastic
but the plastic on the back is very resilient to fingerprints and it feels great because it has
a matte texture the top part around where the camera bump is glass like Tecno calls
this the dual ring galaxy design and i think it has a nice pop to it and it looks really high-end
it has a squarish or boxier design similar to what we've seen on current flagships it features a
headphone jack which is something you don't see on flagships and they include headphones in the box
plus you get a micro sd card slot you even get a fingerprint scanner that doubles as a power button
so you're getting a lot of great features for a phone in this price range Tecno even includes
a case inside the box to protect the spark 9 pro and you also get a pre-installed screen protector
so i know that i said that Tecno includes earbuds inside the box which is great if you want to take
advantage of that 3.5 millimeter headphone jack however they also have their own little
ecosystem such as wireless earbuds these are the Tecno high pods h3 and they're around 30 bucks
and you get a lot of cool features for the money the ipod h3 wireless earbuds include this charging
case which also acts as a protective travel case it has a 350 million power battery inside when
combined with the earbuds you get over 12 hours of use and the earbuds themselves get over four
hours of use so i'm gonna go ahead and put them in my ear real quick so this is the right one
i'm gonna go ahead and put that in and you can see this is what it looks like when it's in ear the
h3s are pretty comfortable once they're in ear and they sound pretty good it just depends on the tip
that you fit make sure you pick out the silicone tip that is appropriate for your ear canal because
you want a nice tight seal in your ear to get the most base if that's what you're looking for what's
crazy is for wireless earbuds that are around 30 bucks you get three stages of anc you get anc on
anc off and a transparency mode you'll know exactly what mode you're in because the led ring
around the earbuds themselves will glow a specific color for instance blue is anc on no led is anc
off and then orange is transparency mode i really like whenever i open up the earbuds
or when i'm connecting them for the first time you'll get like a little pop-up on the phone
so it should pop up right there and it gives me my battery life as well as whether or not
i want to use them right now so this just shows you how their little ecosystem works
and how everything is um you know unified i think it's kind of cool so yeah that was a quick look
at the h3 wireless earbuds i think as a pair with the spark 9 pro this is pretty awesome
or even as a stand-alone budget pair of wireless earbuds they do a pretty good job so i'm going
to drop a link in the description if you feel like checking them out it's um it's about 1 30.
i'm going to go ahead and get some lunch because i'm starving but before i do that let's go ahead
and check in with the battery so here's a quick check in it is 1 37 p.m and we are at 89 percent
so in roughly about two hours a little bit more than two hours we've lost less than 10 percent
so we're about to go get some ramen real quick but i quickly wanted to talk about one feature
on the camera which is the front-facing bokeh mode it's only in 720p but i gotta say the
actual subject detection works pretty good i mean i'm pretty impressed with the with the subject
detection i think it actually looks not bad at all but um we're gonna go get some ramen and
we're gonna continue with this camera because that's the next thing we're gonna talk about
so believe it or not this sub $200 phone has a really interesting camera system on the back
we have a 50 megapixel main camera and then two more cameras that assist that camera at getting
better photos so we have an ai camera and then a bokeh camera on the front we have a 32 megapixel
selfie camera and inside the app there are a lot of really cool features so let's talk about those
now so inside the camera app the main mode is the ai cam and the ai cam is really cool because
it uses the ai camera on the back in conjunction with the 50 megapixel to determine your subject so
like right now you can see it says hdr backlight if i point it over here it says street view hdr
if i point it up at dennis this is a really weird angle for me you can see it says portrait and hdr
and when you take the photo so i'm going to go ahead and snap this picture
it's actually going to use ai to process it differently to give you a better looking photo
now let me go in and turn off hdr and then point it over here and then snap the photo
you can see there is a difference look at this guy this is no hdr and then now look at this guy with
hdr up at the top we have our hdr like i just showed you you have your flash you can turn on
a 50 megapixel mode if you want to get the most the sensor has to offer and you can really crop
in with 50 megapixels here's a couple examples of that and you can see just how much detail is
resolved in that 50 megapixel shot if you don't want to use 50 megapixels it uses a bend mode
to give you better compression for like low light and things like that you can switch up your aspect
ratio by tapping on 4x3 so you can do one by one full or four by three and you have different
filters that you can choose from before we dive out of ai cam there's a few things that we need
to talk about when it comes to the front-facing camera so i'm gonna go ahead and switch to the
front and right off the bat you can see the ai is still working so it's saying hdr portrait and
backlit so that's really cool and we can toggle on and off hdr we also have a flash this is something
that's really unique to this phone i've never seen this on any other phone i don't believe correct me
if i'm wrong down in the comment section but this actually has a dedicated flash on the front so if
i turn it on here you can see there is a flash located up here in the top right and then the
actual screen will flash as well giving you like a ring light so you're getting like a double flash
i'm going to go ahead and toggle that off now next to hdr we have the 32 megapixel shot so you
can take full advantage of that sensor if you want to otherwise if you don't you can just toggle that
off and then it's going to give you a bin shot so here's a quick shot of the 32 megapixel camera
and i'm going to go ahead and toggle it off and you can see how much detail is maintained
whenever you shoot in the 32 megapixels you also have different aspect ratios and filters on the
front-facing camera as well in terms of modes there are quite a few modes including short video
which gives you like templates to choose from if you want to get like a special look to your video
like disco things like that i mean there's a lot to choose from you also have your regular video
mode this phone can record video in 720p 1080p and 2k some other modes that i want to go over include
beauty mode so if you want to really soften your skin or do things with your physique you could do
all of that inside of beauty mode they have a lot of really cool things in here like the ability to
slim down your waist and stuff you can slim down your cheeks you can smooth out your skin
i don't really do a whole lot of beauty stuff but if you're into that type of thing they do
have a dedicated mode for it and you might find it useful they have a portrait mode which works
with the rear-facing camera and the front-facing camera and i got to say the results are pretty
good just take a look at these examples for yourself and let me know what you think of
the portrait mode on the spark 9 pro i think that the results are quite surprising given the price
point of this phone it really did take me by surprise we also have super night mode and this
is actually really interesting because i haven't seen this on a budget phone before but you can get
really good or really clean night shots so here's a couple examples of regular versus super nights
and you can see there is definitely a difference a much brighter photo when using super night mode
to get to all the other modes you're just going to swipe up and you can see we now have
access to ar shots panorama a document scanner slow motion and of course time lapse so a lot
of features crammed into this camera and i gotta say the performance itself is not bad whatsoever
so now it's time to talk about the performance and specs of the spark 9 pro so this phone is rocking
the helios g85 processor this is more or less an entry level processor however you could definitely
do some casual gaming i was able to play grim velour on this phone without any skip frames
overheating or any stutters it actually played back really smoothly and it surprised me to go
along with the processor we have four gigabytes of ram and thanks to android 12 being on this
phone we can also assign virtual ram up to three gigabytes if you're ever in a position where you
need a little bit more ram in terms of storage we have 128 gigabytes but as i mentioned previously
this can be expanded with micro sd cards basic everyday stuff like checking emails browsing the
web checking social media or looking through your google now feed is going to be just fine on this
phone speaking of gaming we have a 6.6 inch full hd plus display and i have to say this display has
really surprised me it gets nice and bright as you can see we are outside i'm not under direct
sunlight i am in the shade but look how bright this display is let me go to my home screen you
can make out everything on the display perfectly and i have to say for a 1080p panel it is really
sharp the blacks get nice and inky and the whites get nice and bright so the contrast ratio is quite
good it is only 60 hertz so if you're looking for something that has 120 hertz refresh rate for
gaming this may not be the phone for you but based on everything that i've done so far on this phone
including gaming it's been a great experience it has a teardrop notch Tecno calls this a dot notch
in my opinion it's far less intrusive versus some of the other notches on other flagship phones
before i wrap up this video i want to do one more final battery check so it's 6 20 close to 6 30
and we are at 66 battery so in seven hours we drained around 30 percent of our battery that's
not bad at all so this is easily an all-day phone and it could probably get you into a second day
so i would say that the battery endurance on this phone is really good and that's thanks to the
helios processor and the full hd display all right so let's wrap up this video i remember back in the
day 200 bucks would get you a terrible smartphone it would have an awful display the battery life
would be like two hours and it would have a potato for a camera and not to mention the lag now 200
bucks or less can get you a solid phone it has a great display a solid camera a 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack a micro sd card slot and Tecno has their own little ecosystem so you can pick up
a pair of wireless earbuds for around 30 bucks and have a great little combo here so you're getting a
great value for this phone i really hope you enjoyed this video if you did please consider
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