hi guys Chris here back with these in phone 5 so I have been using it now for
a day this phone and there's been a lot of questions going on now they're not
you can see at the moment I have hidden it now when I first look for the setting
to hide it because I thought it's got to have it oneplus have it
Huawei have it and I'm pretty sure that they would have had this option it
wasn't actually originally in the firmware it seems so what you have to do
is just simply go into display now does there of course and I'll show you what
it's like without the the knotch hidden so there you go you know you either like
it or you don't I think most people don't like it it certainly takes a while
to get used to but I prefer to have just the straight black at the top and I
think it looks perfectly fine like this they could have released the phone like
this I think without any issues whatsoever so in a few comments on some
of the things about the phone here that people been asking about so this AI
booster mode that does tend to speed things up a little bit you can
definitely see it probably more so when you're gaming now someone's comments and
the unboxing later they said well what it's actually doing is overclocking by
200 megahertz the CPU so maximum two instead of one point eight is now then
two point two zero I don't actually believe that is the case and they said
the GPU is also boosted up the performance though is so close to the
snapdragon 660 of this that i can't really tell the difference between going
from snapdragon 616 devices like their me 6x and this one here so as those have
done an excellent job with the UI it is very quick just opening and closing
things i think a lot of it is down to optimization over see but they've also
set a very fast rendering for when you open things up so in steven like slow
the animation sorry not the rendering but the animations so if you for example
launched chrome it comes up pretty quick and just even the scrolling everything
so it is a very quick phone indeed and it almost feels like a flagship phone in
terms of speed so excellent job there ahead soft orso's they've done really
well I feel because okay there is a little bit of bloat you get a lot of Zen
that's in there but the good thing is that those apps can be disabled so even
if you can't stall it if you decide I don't want web
storage so you want to uninstall or hey a bad example I can understand install
this one so a lot of them you can but otherwise if you can't then you can
simply just disable that application and that's okay it's not understand it
completely but it's just getting rid of it which is great so the screen okay I
pointed out in my unboxing that I'm getting a little bit of Darkness around
the edges especially around the knotch there so that is a slight annoyance but
it definitely is a nice panel no sir I feel then the redmi note 5 screen so the
Rema note 5 has also a very decent screen on it therefore an IPS but this
one just has better color reproduction it's just a little bit more premium
there now a lot of questions in the comments to have my unboxing video
people asking please do a comparison between these two now it's pretty
straightforward to me which one you would go for so if you want to save
money the readme now at five of course is the one to go for there are three key
reasons I've found out so far to go for this model here so that is the build
quality the build and the design is far superior so you do have just a glass
back on it and the full metal frame around it you don't have the plastic at
the top like you do with the redmi note 5 so it just in hand it feels so much
better these in phone five so that's one reason the other reason is front facing
camera on this one has electronic image stabilization if you do take a lot of
v-log sort of style videos then that'll be the one to go for definitely unlock
better in that regard there and then what I've just been mentioning the speed
so the ROM does feel overall a little bit faster and in benchmarks 2 when I
showed you the Snapdragon scores that this one here even though they're the
same exact chipset that we have in here the Snapdragon 6-3 6
thus is the definite winner there so those are the three key reasons now in
terms of camera performance a lot of hype basically from Azusa and tech
influences I wouldn't call them reviewers they'd have really been hyping
up the cameras on this now I've showed you a few examples in the unboxing
already and what is very disappointing to me is this one here the wide-angle
it looks extremely poor and any photo you would take any lighting conditions
it is washed out so here are a couple examples that I'm showing you and look
what happens when you zoom in and not even zooming and you can see it's just
lacking details awful photos I think the culprit is the lens and also the sense
of the gone wave isn't wonderful so it's quite cheap it seems to me that only
algae can do the wide-angle lenses right which is a real shame that we have that
so apart from that disappointment now I will have a camera comparison between
both of these and I'll give you a little bit of a spoiler that I feel that the
readme not five can actually take a better photo
now that's focuses better because it's got the dual pixel face detection
autofocus so it's a little bit faster there but saying that the focus
on the Zenfone 5 is really quite good so that's good there now battery life
there's being a lot of questions - I'm still on my this basic my second cycle
now of the battery it's stuck at 100% at mode and it's for some reason it's been
on home scene for a while you're looking about with my tests that I always do
you're looking at about seven hours on screen time so I'll have a full complete
update of this in my full and final review so I can get 9 hours with my test
out of this one here because it's got a four thousand milliamp hour battery and
you lose about two hours on screen time with the zenfone here and it does
definitely burn through the battery a lot quicker when you're outdoors because
of the super bright screen so if I was to crank up the brightness right now for
some reason I have it on auto it shouldn't actually be on auto brightness
when you crease that I mean it's gonna completely overpower my camera you can't
see anything it is super bright it's a lot brighter than the redmi note 5
screen so that's part of the reason why it will burn through the battery when
you start taking photos of course the screen goes on to an increased
brightness mode when you're doing video and photo so you can see an outdoors it
just kills the battery is straight away so it's definitely gonna be a one day
battery life phone perhaps too even stretched out maybe if you use the
battery saver mode there so I have a lot more coming out so overall a decent
phone yes it is good the build quality is good the not just something you're
either going to or hate but the camera is definitely
overhyped I don't think it's as good it is as they claim anyway it's not not on
my testing anyway and the other thing too is this is
expensive it's around about 350 euros 350 u.s. maybe a little bit less and for
me that's pretty overpriced considering what it is and the chipset I do feel
that they need to lower the price down so as I mentioned I will be back with a
full review on this one and I'll give you a full update on battery life and a
lot more things will be coming with that hopefully in about a week's time so hope
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