This is the Vernee Mix 2, an Android 7 smartphone with a 6 inch IPS display
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In this video I'm gonna be reviewing the Vernee Mix 2
But first I'll just want to thank gearbest for sending this out to me
No money has exchanged hands and thoughts and opinions are definitely my own
So with that all said let's rewind a little bit and let's get on to the unboxing
So I'll open up the box
And we'll put the smartphone to the side for now
The inside of the box looks really nice
And inside they've included a few things, have included the wall charger
USB Cable
Screen protector
The front and back
Some little information there
SIM card eject tool
And a really cool clear case
So let's have a look at the phone
So the display looks really really nice crisp and clear being that it's an IPS display
Let's peel that front bit off
And whilst we're at it
We've also got a back screen protector as well
That goes through and labels where all the different ports are
Including the fingerprint scanner
So I might leave that on just for a moment
First of all let's talk specs
So this has got the Helio P25 CPU inside
Which is an octa-core 2.5 gigahertz CPU
The GPU is a Mali T880
And this particular model comes with 64 gigabytes of storage as well as 6 gigabytes of RAM
There is also a 4 gigabyte model in the description below as well as this 60 gigabyte model
The other interesting thing with the RAM is that it's actually DDR4 which is a great addition
Most of the tech gadgets that are reviewed in the past have been ddr3 memory
So this is a nice change
Also we've got bluetooth 4.0 on board
And Wi-Fi up to AC at 5 gigahertz
Which is really nice
The operating system is Android 7.0
And this particular phone isn't rooted
The inbuilt battery is 4200 milliamp hours
Which with my testing works out at roughly about 7 hours of use
The front camera is 8 Megapixels whereas the rear camera is 13 Megapixels
And like I mentioned before it's also got a fingerprint scanner
The screen itself is 6 inches which is an IPS panel
So really nice crisp and clear colors
And the screen resolution is 2160 by 1080, so just a little bit bigger than 1080p
Okay, so with the specs out of the way let's look at what ports it's got on board
So underneath you've got a micro USB port instead of the USBC that we're seeing with more and more with modern phones
So a little bit disappointing there
Over on this side here we've got the SIM slot as well as the MicroSD card slot
So that trail just ejects and you can put both in there at the same time
Over on this side here we've got the volume rocker buttons as well as the power button
And up top for you headphone fans we've got the three and a half mil jack
So they managed to squeeze it into this one
So with the specs and the ports out of the way let's have a look at some benchmarks
So having a look at the AB A1 SD bench we can see here that the internal read speed is 121 megabytes per second
And the write speed is at 200 megabytes per second
Very nice indeed
So when we have a look at the SD card slot we can see we get a read rate of 56 Megabytes per second
And a write rate of 72 megabytes per second
Next up we have the RAM and that reads at 4544 Megabytes per second
So some pretty decent specs there
Under testing the Wi-Fi, we use the app speed test here and we had 109 megabits per second download rate
And an upload rate of 70 megabits per second
So it's definitely taking advantage of the AC and the 5 gigahertz channel
Next up we've got some N22 results
Now N22 tests out the 3d capabilities, the CPU, the RAM and the user interface to see how it all performs
And in this case the overall score is
65699
We get a 3d score of 11605
UX score of 28513
A CPU score of 20391
And lastly a RAM score of 5190
Next up we've got Geekbench
Which when we run that we get a single core score score of 838 and a multi-core score of
3832
And the next app that I use is 3DMark and this is to test out how games and so forth will run on this device
And in the slingshot test we get
A score of 987
And the slingshot extreme tests we get
A score of 734
Next up in the ice storm test we get a score of 11862
And in ice storm extreme we get a score of 8957
So with the benchmarks out of the way the next thing that we want to look at is the actual streaming capabilities of this phone
And Netflix looks like it streams at the 1080p resolution, which is great
And when it comes to native YouTube videos we can see that a 4k video
Even though it is meant to be streaming at 4k it only streams at 1080p
Which is fine for most people since this phone is a
Basically a 1080p phone anyway
Next up with all my tech gadgets I like to test out these streaming capabilities of 4k footage
Now in this case I've done it both on the SD card as well as via the Wi-Fi network
Which both have enough speed there to be able to transfer
And when we go into Kodi and try and stream Big Buck Bunny at the 30 frames per second 4k resolution
Unfortunately it starts out okay, but then it just stops and starts really lagging so unfortunately
That's
Something that you won't be able to do with this device
And the 60 frames per second Big Buck Bunny file just didn't want to play anyway
Next up I do the jellyfish test a different bitrates
And the 55 megabit per second bitrate does play fine and looks like it does achieve
Almost the 30 frames per second, but
Any of the other jellyfish files and unfortunately it doesn't want to play at all
So playing back 4k media on this device is probably not something that you're going to be able to achieve
With most files anyway
Okay so now that we've got streaming out of the way the next thing we want to look at is gaming
And in particular most Android apps are going to run on this fine
So Android gaming like beach buggy and so forth
Mortal Kombat
Is all gonna work fine
But what I really like to test out is how the Emulators work because there's a lot of people out there that like to play their emulated games on their phones
So first up I look at PSP gaming with the emulator PPSSPP, which is just recently coming out with a version 1.5. So if you're lucky enough check that out
So with Power Stone we're seeing frame rates of around 35 to 45 frames per second
Which isn't the best but you'll still be able to get a little bit of gameplay out of it
And then when we switch over to God of War, unfortunately, you're only gonna see between 10 and 20 frames per second here
But that's purely a limitation of the device itself
And emulation of course
With a little bit of tweaking you can probably get about 30 frames per second out of this
If you change some settings there
If you did want to see a video on me providing some tweaks for Android phones to get more frames per second out of it
Then leave me a comment down below
Next up I chest out some PlayStation emulation
So that's ps1 with the emulator FPS I
So here we can see the fan favorite Final Fantasy 7
Running up the full 60 frames per second
And it definitely brought back some nostalgia there
Next up was the really sneaky Metal Gear Solid
and again it hit those marks at 60 frames per second
And lastly the one that sometimes struggles with some devices is Tekken 3
And you can see here that it's working fine at the full 60 frames per second
And it's really good, got no problems at all with Playstation gaming on this phone
And lastly we'll look at the Dreamcast simulation with the emulator Raycast
So the first game off the bat is Sonic Adventure 2
And you can see here that we're getting 40 to 50 frames per second
Which isn't too bad, there's a little bit of slowdown, but nothing too bad anyway
You could probably get away with playing this and not really notice it that much
Next up is the fan-favorite Shenmue
And we're getting about 25 to 30 frames per second here, and this one is capped at 30 frames per second, so
Almost at full speed
I don't think you'll have any problems playing this game at all
And lastly another fighting game, and this one is Soul Calibur
Now the graphical glitches that you're seeing here is quite common with the Raycast simulator, so
Don't judge the game for that
But in terms of frames per second, we're getting about 45 to 55 frames per second here
Still good enough to beat someone up if that's your thing
So overall that's the Vernee Mix 2 and what I've done is I've left for last
The camera because that's one of the things that I really want to talk about
Unfortunately the camera positioning with this phone is not in the best position at all
When you're holding the camera
Your palm could actually go over the camera lens itself because it's positioned down the bottom
So this is a major downfall in my opinion
And from what I've researched you can actually find this in the Xiaomi Mix 2 as well
So it looks like what they've done is they've used the same design of the case but just change the internals
The Xiaomi Mix 2 is more powerful obviously
So when it comes to the downsides of this phone in particular I've got to say the camera front-facing is one of the major downsides
One, it just doesn't look good, and two, there's more than likely a chance that you're gonna cover the lens
The other thing that I'm not a real fan of is the fact that this has a micro USB port down the bottom instead of a USB type-C
Now most modern phones and gadgets are all going to USB type-C at the moment, so
I don't see why this one couldn't have as well
So with those couple of downsides out of the way do I think it's worth it? Well
For $199 smartphone with a six inch IPS display, 6 Gig of RAM and a 64 gigabyte storage inbuilt
It's not bad
Just don't buy it if you're looking at that front facing camera
And like I mentioned this is $199 smartphone you do have the cheaper one which has four gigabytes of RAM
That one comes in at about 165 dollars, so
Links are both of these will be down in the description below, but also
If I do find any coupon codes I'll put them down there as well
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