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what's happening Gabriel um my name is
Alex and welcome back to a new review
and this is in fact the 4-3 view for
2019 so today we are checking out
another budget-friendly device from lf1
Kota lf1 a5 so you can buy this phone
for about $200 but the phone looks and
feels like a phone that's about $1000
the phone looks like an iPhone and the
back looks like the Wow a p20 pro so his
glass of the front glass on the back and
a metallic frame we even get a 3.5
million all do jack and that's something
that we don't usually see these days and
the sound quality from the audio jack is
also pretty good the phone can also take
an SD card so you can either take an SD
card and a SIM card or two SIM cards and
that SD card can also be used as
internal storage so the phone is powered
by the mediatek helio p6 this is a cpu
that has a similar performance to the
snapdragon 616 and that cpu is spelled
either 4 or 6 gigs of ram 64 128 gigs of
internal storage I was also happy to see
that the phone can be used with some US
carriers I mean you can use the phone
anywhere in the world but some of the
bands match some US carriers and that's
not something that you usually shoot a
lot of Chinese devices but definitely
make your own research before buying
this device and make sure it actually
works on your carrier alright so moving
to the front of the device on the front
we have a 6.1 8 inches screen this is an
IPS panel the 1080p resolution and the
screen looks absolutely gorgeous and it
gets bright enough so you can use the
phone outside now unfortunately we get a
big notch in there and the notch cannot
be hidden from the software and in the
launch that we have a 2 megapixel camera
and a 20 megapixel camera and
unfortunately there is no notification
light the picture quality from that 20
megapixel camera is decent if you have
plenty of light but as soon as you don't
have enough light all the pictures are a
bit out of focus and the second camera
I'm not sure if it's real or fail
because it doesn't seem to do anything
as I mentioned earlier the phone's frame
is made out of metal and yes the frame
looks gorgeous but keeping the frame
clean it's not the easiest thing out
there because every single time you
touch it you're gonna leave
fingerprint tonight and the fingerprints
don't look that great on it so uh on the
right hand side we have the volume keys
the power button and the fingerprint
scanner as the positioning of the
fingerprint scanner is a bit more
unusual but the fingerprint scanner
works really really good so you just
touch it and the phone unlocks and this
is actually faster than a lot of phones
that I've tried in the past at the
bottom we have the holes for the
microphone and of course the holes for
the speaker and the USBC port so this
one supports OTG and fast charging but
the fast charging is not that fast so
charging this one from 0 to 100 is done
about 2 hours and 20 minutes so
definitely not that fast but I guess
that's alright considering that we have
a four thousand milliamp hour battery
but we'll talk about that in a second so
this one has only one speaker me as the
speaker gets pretty loud but
unfortunately it's only one speaker so
they can really do that much and this is
a quick sample so you can hear how the
speaker sounds
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and going back to that four thousand
milliamp hour battery well I have to say
that I was a bit disappointed so I was
never able to get more than five hours
of screen on time actually just under
five hours of screen time and from a
four thousand milliamp hour battery
that's not that great so the software
optimization at least for power
efficiency isn't that great
however the software optimization for
performance is better than a lot of
other phones that I try to the Helio P
60 so pretty much all the apps that
you're gonna use this device like
Facebook Chrome YouTube or even gaming
everything seems to work a bit better
than other devices using the Helio P 60
so I'm not sure if that was done on
purpose to get better performance and a
lower battery life but on the phone
works better than other devices own do
YouTube app the maximal resolution that
you can select is 1080p at 60 frames per
second I love the fact that when you
zoom in the notch is not in your video
and that's important for me I also
played games like pop G and the graphics
settings are set to medium and as you
can probably see for so the phone
performs really good and I haven't
actually noticed any skipped friends so
as I said before the software
optimization is done mostly towards
perfor was not exactly towards um power
efficiency and moving to the back of the
phone yes the back of the phone looks
identical the Huawei P 20 pro now if I
have three cameras on the back there the
main camera is a 12 megapixel sensor
then we have a five megapixel sensor and
a 0.3 megapixel sensor now the last
camera seems to be fake or it doesn't do
anything so you are only gonna be using
the first two cameras so I took a bunch
of pictures through this phone during
the dent during the night and if you
take pictures during the day the
pictures turn out really good even the
portrait mode turns out really good edge
detection around the subject is recent I
mean maybe not as good as you'd get from
the Google pixel but definitely decent
for a phone around $200 but when you
take pictures in low-light well the
pictures aren't as sharp and if you
start zooming in you're gonna notice
that the pictures the subjects basically
are a bit out of focus so this phone
will be great for daytime pictures not
that great for nighttime pictures send
well we have a fake camera on the back
there as well moving on to the GPS unit
inside is formal it works really really
good it only takes a second to find a
location
in fact she works better than a lot of
other forms that I've tried in the past
and it doesn't seem to lose your
location even if you drive in between
taller buildings four sensors have all
the sensors that you would find in a
flagship device including a gyroscope
connectivity wise as I said before you
can use this from pretty much anywhere
in the world and here in Canada I was
able to use it on 2g 3G and on 40 of
course we get dual band Wi-Fi but we
don't get them and I've seen so
definitely check the band's before
buying this phone and make sure that the
phone actually works on your carrier the
speaker on top here seems to get loud
enough for most conversations so no
complains about that it's for the speeds
over the 4G network and the dual band
Wi-Fi they're also pretty good and on
par with other devices at the same price
range and it's time to conclude this
video so for under $200 you get an
absolutely gorgeous phone that gorgeous
screen on a couple of fake cameras and
they could have just got rid of those
fake cameras because of the pink just is
happy the performance is also better
than other phones and using the same
processor but the battery life isn't
that great and I was kind of expecting a
bit more from a four thousand milliamp
hour battery so for $200 I think it
offers pretty good value but there are a
lot of other phones around $200 that are
also pretty good alright guys hopefully
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