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I follow me as an Apollo A96 and today I will go over unboxing along with a quick view of the actual spec list
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So anyway, let's just pop it straight open. I'll make
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I'm going to make. I'm going to cut. I'll get it. I'm going to cut
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I'm gonna Okay, so that's all we get in the box
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Now we do get a fairly decent charger at 33 watts, so that's really nice
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Let's also turn on the device. Thank you. So the back looks actually fairly interesting, something fresh, I would say
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Not a normal color as you can see, it just reflects in all kinds of rainbow
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It actually reminds me of the back of the CD but with a matte finish to it instead of like
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shiny one reflective that back of the CDC have. But yeah, anyway, let's just wait for it to turn on
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And while it's turning on, I'm going to quickly go over the screen right here. So we're looking at a
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6.59 inch display. This is a IPS LCD display, though this one is rocking a 90 hertz refresh rate
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So that is actually really nice. We also have a typical brightness of 480 nits along with about 600 peak
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brightness or higher one I guess vara 84% screen to body ratio along with
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401 pixels per inch so the display right here is actually fairly decent as you
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would expect for a device that came out this year and additionally I'll also
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mention that this device costs about 300 euros so that should be fairly
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interesting comparing to like rest of the specs just so you know what you're getting for the price
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And right now already the display is, I would say, fairly good for the price
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Obviously it could be better, but we are getting this device at a, what I would consider a low, mid-range price
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Now, with that in mind, moving on to the internals, we are racking a Snapdragon 680
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It is just a 4G chipset, not 5G certified. you not getting it out Probably if you would get a 5G that would be about 50 bucks more most likely Though I kind of pulling that number out of my rear end so don quote me on that one
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I have no idea how much company would charge for 5G version of this
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So, with that in mind, we also have one version in terms of RAM, which is 8 gigs and two options for storage
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so 228 and 256 gigs. And I believe there is expendable storage
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so I'm going to quickly check if I'm correct. And yes I am
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So we have the SD card and two SIM card trace. So we do have expendable storage past the 100 or 256
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Now when it comes on to this phone, I probably would recommend just going for the lower one, 128th
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and just popping in SD card instead. You're going to save up a little bit on the price for getting a lower storage
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and you can just kind of pop in SD and then if you're done with this phone you get a new one
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you can always just take that SD out and put it into a new device
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Also making the new device has the SD card. So that is actually fairly nice
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Now when it comes onto cameras, they should have just stuck with only one instead of the two
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just because the second camera is a 2 megapixel depth sensor. Now the main one is a 50 megapixel wide one so that one should be doing okay with the two
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megapixel come on come on still. I genuinely hope that manufacturers stop doing this because we do get to pay for these
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cameras even though they're absolute shit. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it like this camera has literally no usage here
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What am I supposed to do a two megapixel depth sensor? Capture a crappy portrait photo which blurs out the hair in the wrong spots
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Yeah no thanks. I think I'll just stick with the solely 50 megapixel and capture the photo to photo mode instead of the portrait one and not have to deal with that
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So yeah, that's basically the downside of all these lenses, 2 megapixels
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Another contender for this kind of trash sensor is the 2 megapixel depth, though this phone for some reason ditched it
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I mean, it's a good reason to ditch it because it's useless. But for some reason, a cheaper version of this phone, this one decided to stick both of them up
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And it also rocks a 50 megapixel sensor. Hopefully this one is going to be doing a little bit better in terms of photos
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so I'm going to quickly check it. Completely disregard my absolutely fake plant right here
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And yeah, this one is going to be doing. is doing better. So it didn't blow out the back as much as a..
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I'm just going to show it as a... just so you can see it
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The comparison. So this is basically the same shot, same environment, even the same
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background almost. It's nothing really changed much here. And as you can see, the
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plant itself is much more vibrant and brighter while the background isn't as
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blown out as it is right here. So there we go, that's actually a..
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I think it the same sensor though it works better on this phone So here we go So the camera here is doing okay I do appreciate the not inclusion of a 2 megapixel macro sensor so that a positive
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And with those cameras, unfortunately can still only shoot at 1080p, 30 frames
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You don't even get the 60 frames, which is... It's 2022. Come on. 60 is not that much to ask for
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So I do have to say I'm disappointed with the frame rate of video recording right here, only at 30
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That is quite low and outdated, I would say, and you do get to pay for this device 300
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Now, I never really paid much attention for how the video recording works on like mid-range or budget devices
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So I can't really confidently tell you if there are better devices at this price range that will be able to record that, for instance
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since, 1080p 60 frames, which would be something that I would consider to be an improvement over this
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Obviously, it's not really a consideration, it's a fact. So, I am disappointed that it records at 30, but I don't know if there are phones of this price range that I record faster
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So take that as it may. Now, moving on to the next part, we're looking at 5,000-mphra
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battery and as you've seen we did have the 33 watts charger included that is
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really nice and advertised as charging speeds with this is 50% in 26 minutes so
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that is fairly good it's something absolutely like mind-boggling in terms of
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speed but it's still decent enough now one thing that I'll mention because
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this basically would kind of conclude all the like spec lists right here of
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this phone is if you're looking for a device to buy and you don't mind getting like used the devices i do recommend looking into them
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because that's 300 euros you might find device that has been used by someone but it's been treated
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like a baby and it's basically in mint condition costing as much if not less than this while boasting
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similar or sometimes even better specs than what you get right here so that is something that
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I recommend. Now I will point out one thing because there are two differences. Right here
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we get no 5G so older flagship devices also did not have 5G that will be cheaper and this one
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doesn't either. But what it does have over the old flagships is a higher refresh rate. So
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this is boasting a 90 hertz refresh rate something that like I said most of the older
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flagships for instance like the Samsung Galaxy S8s made 20 pros and so on
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will not have. They were just finding the 60 typical 60 Hertz refresh rate
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So you get more. But there is one flagship which actually might be fairly decently priced
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and I'm actually going to check right now which is the one plus 7 pro I believe
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So, let see um i looking at this just so i can give a confident answer on this
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So right now I'm looking at One Plus 7 Pro, which, yep, it's used, mint condition
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maybe not as meant, but it's fairly decent. And yeah, it costs basically 300 euros
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Now, more precisely, at least if anybody's interested, it costs 1,450 PLN, which is the Polish value
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But when it comes down to like euro comparison, it's basically a quarter of it, if not more
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I think like one euro is 430 or something like that. So that is for the people interested
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But still, you can get it fairly decently. And in this case, comparing to this phone, it has way better processor, better display because it rocks an omelette
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and it still has the high refresh rate of 90 hertz. Now, this is probably the most expensive out of the flagships and probably one of the more recent ones
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So that's why it costs a little bit more. Majority of the old flagships will cost roughly $200, $250
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so obviously they are really cheap in current times and they still will perform really well
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so that is kind of what I would recommend for people that don't mind looking into an older device
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that has been used and most likely doesn't have a warranty anymore but for people that
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don't really would like to bother with this do prefer to have a warranty or maybe aren't
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for instance as keen on spotting scams as an example because some people
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will try to sometimes sell you a damaged device. I do understand this
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That happens. So if you don't really like test the device in front of them
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just check if everything works. You might get just kind of played and buy a kind of, in a way, broken device
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So for people that don't really know how to look for this, I probably would still recommend you to stick with a newer device
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even though it might be less less money effective. Because obviously this is more expensive
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while offering less. But you do have that warranty that if something happens
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with this device, you can always have it fixed, returned or get a new
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one. And at the end of the day, $300 for this device
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seems to be doing, seems to be roughly, fairly priced. I can't say that it's
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overpriced or underpriced. It has a decent camera and decent display, which
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for just those two things, I think it's worth that much. though this is my personal opinion of the devices and what I look for them and kind of how I
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well what I would consider valuable I don't see anything else here that would bring up the value
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but those two things do make up the price and I do have to say it is a okay price device so
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anyway that being said my little rent right here if you found this video helpful don't
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