buying the new phone these days isn't exactly easy there are so many choices out there and
they're all so similar to each other not to mention the marketing strategies used by most
companies are a bit misleading you see one thing in a presentation by the time you actually get
that product well it's not exactly as you hoped for and the one thing that most phones most new
phones have in common is the high price if you're looking to buy a flagship from samsung or apple
for example you're looking at spending over a thousand dollars and let's be real not everyone
has a thousand dollars to spend or not everyone wants to spend a thousand dollars for a phone
so what can you do well you could buy a budget phone but with many budget phones there are some
compromises and compromises that some people aren't willing to do so what else could you
do well you could buy an older phone a phone that's like a year or two years old and in
many cases those phones are actually half the price or less than half the price of a flagship
take this oneplus 9 for example um it so happens that i got this phone about three weeks ago and
this one is about half the price of a samsung galaxy s22 and this is in fact even cheaper than
one of the latest um xiaomi devices that we got this is the xiaomi 12x so this one is actually the
more expensive device out of the two so is this cheaper from the oneplus 9 better than this xiaomi
12x what we're going to find out in today's video so i'm gonna be comparing these two phones and see
which one is the actual better device and which one will offer the best value for your money now
for a video like this i could have used any older phones i could have used an older samsung galaxy
s 20 or xiaomi mi level or any other phone that's a year or two years old and now it sells for like
half the price or even less than half from its original price the same kind of goes with this
one plus nine and since i got this one i figured i might as well use this one but this is a phone
that now you can get for about 450 dollars maybe 550 depending where you're buying it so it does
offer really good value taking in consideration the specs that we have in this mostly when
compared to a new phone like the xiaomi 12x so let me turn this around i'll show you the specs and
we'll talk about them so based on specs alone the oneplus 9 here is actually better than the xiaomi
12x this one is using the snapdragon 888 where the xiaomi 12x is using the snapdragon 870 they both
have eight gigs of ram and in this situation this one has 128 gigs of internal storage and this one
has 256 gigs of internal storage i have here the scores that i got on the antutu benchmark so the
oneplus 9 gets a score of about eight hundred and six thousand where the xiaomi 12x gets a score of
about 692 000. now both the scores are really good don't get me wrong so both devices are super quick
but this score for a phone that's over a year old is higher than this newer phone and just to
to give you an example here this is the latest samsung galaxy s22 so the score on this one isn't
that much higher than the score that we get on a phone that's that old so i just wanted to to
give you an example and this would be the score that you'd get on the geekbench five
so the multi-core score on the oneplus 9 is 3600 the multi-core score on the xiaomi
12x is 3200 and the multi-core score that we get on the samsung galaxy s 22 is 3500
so the oldest phone out of the three actually gets a higher score than these two newer phones
so you can find a lot of older phones that are more powerful or equally powerful with a lot
of new phones another thing that will kind of make you rethink buying a flagship these days
is the charging speed for these devices i included the s22 in here as well
so the oneplus 9 here gets a 65 watt fast chargers so it supports 65 watt fast charging the samsung
galaxy s92 doesn't actually come with a charger but this one supports 25 watt fast charging and
the xiaomi 12 x supports 67 fast charging so the oneplus 9 and the xiaomi 12vx well you can charge
these ones in about half an hour from zero to 100 work this one is going to take about half an hour
longer inside these two so inside the xiaomi 12x and the oneplus 9 we also have 4 500 milliamp
hour batteries and i do have the screen on time here now keep in mind that i took these samples
basically i had the phones on wi-fi and i just had them playing videos for the
duration of the battery so this one the oneplus 9 we get eight hours and 21 minutes on one charge
with the xiaomi 12x we get about eight hours and eight minutes on one charge and i have the same
thing on this phone somewhere so this one i think we got about eight hours and 57 minutes so it is
pretty insane that we can still get really good battery life from a device that's that
old and of course much faster charging that you would get from a flagship these days
moving on to the part of each phone that we use the most and of course those are the
screens and we have three beautiful screens on these three devices here we have a 6.28 inches
amoled screen then we have a 6.1 inches amoled screen and then we have a 6.55 inches amoled
screen they all have 1080p resolutions and they all support them 120 hertz some refresh rates so
you do get really good on screens on all of them but my point was even on the oldest device which
is the oneplus 9 we do have a really nice looking screen so it's just going to open display here on
all three devices just so i can show you the refresh rate so refresh rate here
here and this one is under advanced if i remember correct so 120 heard some refresh rate on all
three devices and once again as i said this one is twice the price of this one and this one is
also more expensive than this one now the maximum brightness on the samsung galaxy s22 is 1300 nits
that's the peak brightness and on this one the xiaomi 12x and the oneplus 9 is 1100 nits so
that's the peak brightness so yes if you do go outside in direct sunlight the s22 will be a bit
brighter than these two but overall these two still have really nice looking screens both phones
have fingerprint scanners as well and even though the oneplus 9 is the older out of the two devices
still works just as fast as the 12x and the same kind of goes for that s22 but it's a bit um
difficult since i don't have the third hand to unlock that phone as well but yes the fingerprint
scanners do work great on both these devices for build quality i kind of feel that the xiaomi 12x
is the better one mostly because um on the xiaomi 12x we have a metallic frame where um on the
oneplus 9 we have a plastic frame so the way the xiaomi 12x feels in hand it does feel a bit more
premium i'm gonna say but overall the oneplus 9 is still a pretty beautiful looking device so
um at the top here they both have second speakers um even though on the xiaomi 12x you can actually
see the holes for the speaker at the top on the oneplus 9 the speakers are um on the front here
and the speakers do sound equally good on both devices and um i think that next i'm
going to show you a quick example just so you can see how good those speakers are on both
giving up devices
after listening to that again maybe the oneplus 9 does get the better speakers alright and turning
these around and looking at the cameras so even though the oneplus 9 is a phone that's over a year
old i still think that the cameras on its back do really good now you may not be able to get
the same quality for videos that you would get from a flagship but i'm going to show you
some pictures that i took and what pictures and videos that i took with the xiaomi 12x
and the oneplus 9 just so you can get an idea what this older device can do when compared to a newer
device so here we have some pictures they took during the day on auto mode now talking about
misleading marketing practices of course oneplus try to hype the cameras on the oneplus 9 and the
oneplus 9 pro like they're the best cameras that were ever invented i can't say that the cameras
on the oneplus 9 are bad but i don't feel they're the best cameras out there i mean if you do have
a samsung galaxy s 22 or an iphone 13 i feel that those will do better than the oneplus 9
so with a device like this of course there are some compromises that um you may have
to make even though i feel the cameras on the oneplus 9 are still pretty decent so
maybe it's not quite a compromise because you can still take really good looking pictures and
videos so this was just an example so you can see how um the pictures um taken by these two devices
would look like all right you have a quick video test between the oneplus 9 and the xiaomi 12x for
this recording i'm using the main cameras on the back of the two devices and recording in 4k at 30
frames per second both devices can actually do 8k with the main cameras the xiaomi 12x can do 8k at
24 frames per second where the oneplus 9 can do 8k at 30 frames per second but for this recording
we are only doing uh 4k 30 frames per second we're gonna run a bit just so we can see how
steady the image is while running so both devices support instabilization this resolution
and we'll go this way
and i'm gonna stop here i'm gonna pan left slowly
and then we'll walk straight for a bit so 4k at 30 frames per second between the oneplus 9
and the xiaomi 12x performance wise well most phones have gotten really powerful
and we do have more power and more ram than we can actually use on most phones so even
if you buy this one that's a year old or this one that's brand new or the samsung galaxy s22 that's
the most expensive out of the three all phones are gonna feel
equally fast so just to give you an example we'll open the youtube app here
let's scroll up and down so as you can see they both perform extremely well now one plus some
devices are typically known to have the fastest ui so uh i was kind of expecting that the oneplus 9
would maybe feel a bit quicker than the 12x but realistically for day-to-day usage most phones
from a year or two years ago will feel just as quick so buying a phone that's a bit old doesn't
necessarily mean that you're not gonna have enough power for day-to-day usage so to quickly conclude
this video even though new phones do seem a bit more trendy you can easily find a phone that's one
or two years old and i'm not talking about used phones i'm talking about a new phone that was made
like a year or two ago but still a new phone you can find a lot of older new phones that are just
as good as brand new phones that we get today and they also have a lot of performance they also have
really good cameras really good charging so you should consider an older device as a way of trying
to save money and not spend as much money on tech because older tech is just as good these days all
right guys hopefully this video was useful thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next one