Does Your Next Smartphone Cost $200? #Helpful Post

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hey guys Zhou stood with flagship

smartphones costing in excess of a

thousand dollars sometimes it really got

me thinking is it possible to get

yourself an actually decent smartphone

for less than $200 which brings us here

so in front of me I have four phones all

costing less than $200 so it just a look

at the Nokia - as part of my widest nuki

exists in 2018 video and my verdict on

it was actually really positive so for

$100 you're going to be getting some

premium build quality features like an

actual aluminum chassis a giant 40 100

million power battery solos decent

software a nice screen it really wasn't

a lot to complain about

besides the performance move up to the

blue and for another $40 you're getting

a much larger phone so this actually

looks a lot more modern in a lot of ways

I feel like the main thing that you're

going to immediately notice is the 18 by

9 aspect ratio on the screen they're

still going to be bezels but there are a

lot smaller than on the Nokia one thing

that is that on the blue though is a

rear-facing fingerprint sensor something

that is really nice to see on a budget

device like this it's been in another

$30 though and you can get yourself the

do G mix now this phone easily feels

like it could cost twice its price so

the first thing you notice is the near

bezel this design yeah there's gonna be

a tiny bezel up top and there's a fairly

big chin but it looks very distinctive

and that combining with the heft as well

as the nice metal build the glass front

and back this really does feel like a

phone that could easily cost $500 of

course it's not going to be perfect so

with that chain comes a fingerprint

sensor that's going to be down here

unfortunately you still have on-screen

Android keys which feels like a little

bit of a waste and also very bizarrely

the front-facing camera is on the bottom

right side I guess they didn't really

have anywhere else to put it

with the new g3 you're getting something

that looks very very similar to a

certain series of Samsung Galaxy devices

that's less you're not going to be a bad

thing in my opinion

so around back it's got that same sort

of curved edges you've got the dual

cameras as well as a fingerprint sensor

but interestingly you're also going to

be getting a tapered glass finish on the

back as well as even on the display it

does curved a little bit on the edges

and bizarrely even though they did add a

USBC port you only have these phones

that actually does have USB see they

removed the headphone jack which weirdly

the Galaxy S nine actually was able to

keep this generation as far as the

screens go all four phones actually do

have decent displays so the nokia 2 has

a 5 inch 720p panel step up to the

and you're getting that taller 18 by 9

aspect ratio with a 1440 by 720

resolution however it's going to be

stretched on a 6-inch display which does

look a little bit soft sometimes the

doogee is rocking a 5.5 inch 720p panel

and interestingly this is actually going

to be a Samsung AMOLED panel now the

colors to my eye are going to be a

little bit oversaturated but it's a

good-looking panel however my favorite

it's actually going to be on the new so

this is still a 5.7 inch 720p panel same

as basically all of these however the

color the brightness the contrast

especially the viewing angles really do

set this a slight bit above the rest of

the other phones when you're spending $2

on a smart phone you shouldn't expect

any kind of crazy performance however

two of these phones actually do perform

pretty well one of the phones that does

not however is being Nokia too and this

is honestly a case where I feel like

Nokia made a lot of the right decisions

when they were designing this phone but

I think the cheaped out just a little

bit too much when it comes to

performance so inside you're going to

find a Snapdragon 212 processor which is

a very old very slow quad-core chip and

that is one be paired with a mere one

gigabyte of RAM and eight gigabytes of

storage now the eight gigs of storage

you can kind of get around because you

do have a micro SD card slot there only

one gig of ram and that slow cpu just

makes android feel not great move up to

the vevo and you're going to be getting

an upgraded snapdragon 425 processor

that's still going to be quad-core

however they're going to be updated

cortex a53 S which is pretty much shared

with the rest of these phones and

importantly you're going to be getting

three gigs of RAM as well as 32 gigs of

storage that's going to be plenty to run

pretty much any kind of Android app or

game right now and on top of that what

you're going to be getting is a pretty

decently sized 3000 milliamp hour

battery interestingly both the doochie

as well as the new are rocking very

similar specs so they each have the

immediate X 67 57 eight core processor

they're both paired with four gigabytes

of RAM and they both also have 64

gigabytes of built-in storage with micro

sd expandability

the biggest difference here is that

while the new has at three thousand

milliamp hour battery the doogee is

going to have a slightly bigger 3380

milliamp hour cell that was a lot of

words use these phones in the real world

though and you'll see this is one of the

best examples of why specs and

benchmarks aren't everything

so inside Geekbench what you're going to

find is that the do

you are going to be significantly faster

but in practice that's actually not the

case so the blue actually feels really

nice sure on paper it's not going to

have quite since back and quite as much

memory but it's fairly snappy it's going

to be responsive and it is going to have

the power to do some gaming however when

you step up to the Yugi what you're

going to find is something that feels

really really old-school there's one

clear reason for that these software is

straight garbage town now I think what

it is is going to be a really poorly

optimized build of Android pairing with

a pretty heavy skin so what I'm

scrolling around here where I feel is

just the frame rate is slow it doesn't

feel responsive it really feels like I'm

using a foam from five six seven years

ago and that's totally not OK at any

price especially when you consider that

cheaper phones are going to perform and

feel much much better the best of both

worlds though is going to be the new so

now that you have the on paper specs and

the potential of those specs but you

also have a build of Android which is

going to be fairly clean and you know

not laggy and slow not sure if you put

the side-by-side with something like a

pixel it's not going to be able to hold

up but for a normal person just to pick

up the phone and use it is going to be

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while it might be slow the nokia 2 has

the cleanest build of Android here now

right now it's running on Android 7

although we'll be getting an update to

Oreo pretty soon but even though this

isn't an Android 1 device it really does

feel like it there's essentially no

bloat and actually no key has been

pretty good with updates to the new

three isn't far off now yes there are a

couple of apps and they've done a little

bit of tweaking but for the most part

you are getting a stock build of Android

which you're not necessarily getting

though is there any real guarantee of

solid Android updates in the future but

right now it seems to be working out

okay if you don't mind taking the risk

come over to the blue and well we've got

some software issues first of all is a

pretty offensive skin so now I do not

even have an app drawer but there's a

lot of bloat on this guy no get it

they've got to make some sacrifices to

be able to hit this price point but if

this is me I will put some serious work

into cleaning up as much as I could

changing the launcher because right now

yeah not good whereas the do G has well

some straight garbage town software that

I've already complained about but yeah

it's just not good but what could be

good are the cameras on all four of

these phones or they might not be good

actually they are less than $200 so yeah

so to start with let's give me $100

nokia to a try and this guy has a single

8 megapixel rear-facing camera so as

with a lot of things on the nokia to the

performance is not going to be fast when

it comes to taking photos and to be fair

this is a really challenging shot which

it really doesn't hold the highlights

well in that's a very white sky mm-hmm

there's some detail there although and

what seems like the processing is a

little bit soft although I say

processing most likely it's the less

than stellar optics on this tiny tiny

little camera stepping up in the budget

range to the $140 blue we do get a 13

megapixel camera and while it looks

bigger so it must be better right allow

camera to phone why yes I want my camera

to phone that's definitely something I

want all right so let's throw that

really contrast he shot at it so it's

definitely more detail with the blue

shot however actually feel like there's

even less dynamic range it really does

have a hard time with those highlights

whereas the Nokia actually did a better

job of keeping them in here's gonna be a

shot it's a little bit more normal

get a exit close-up of one of Ken's

waifu's yeah that's actually not bad at

all it's actually fairly sharp the

dynamic range really isn't as big of a

problem here with a less contrasty shot

I'm actually pretty happy with that

especially for 140 bucks now a lot of

smartphones have some sort of beauty

mode in the camera but something I've

never seen is on this blue we have a

beauty video mode alright so this is a

test of beauty video

so you guys can be the judge for

yourselves on whether I am more

beautiful or I look exactly the same and

there's a stupid softening filter on my

face step up to the $170 do G and we're

going to find dual cameras now here

we're going to be getting a 16 megapixel

main sensor paired with an 8 megapixel

telephoto camera you know that's

actually not bad so it does still have

issues with the dynamic range but

there's a lot of detail it's nice and

sharp and importantly a kept exposure of

the main subject pretty much all in here

let's try blur mode oh wow let's not try

blur mode a serious that's a photo I

just took in 2018 some some quality

doogee images right there that is Wow

last but certainly not least we have the

new g3 at $200 and this guy's also going

to be rocking dual cameras however

what's different about this one is that

while they're not only going to be

slightly lower resolution 13 plus 5 as

opposed to 16 plus 8 but that secondary

camera actually doesn't really function

as a telephoto option this is going to

be there for extra depth data for stuff

like the portrait mode first thing I

noticed is that the processing seems to

be a lot faster when you take a shot

that really isn't that huge shutter like

that there was on some of the other

phones oh man this portrait modes not

good oh I can tell already this is not

gonna be pretty I think you could do

something a little bit creative with

this but uh yeah portrait mode not only

gonna be the strong suit of sub $200

smartphones comparing the selfies the

first thing that jumps out to me is the

doogee the color is just really really

washed out sure there's a detail there

but it just looks terrible the nokia

actually has very vibrant rich colors I

think it's a maybe a little bit soft

there's definitely some sort of

chromatic aberrations going on or it

looks like there's some weird filter

almost it's passable the new doesn't do

a terrible job of getting detail in

there's plenty of dynamic range but the

color just looks off it just looks very

sort of cool very least saturated and

not not a fan what should be no surprise

is that the blue takes the best selfie

now a big part of that is that not only

does it have a front-facing flash but it

also has a 16 megapixel selfie shooter

or something that's way beyond any of

these cameras alright so it is

conclusion time now coming in at number

four is the Nokia 2 but don't get me

wrong there's a lot that I like about

this phone the build quality is nice the

battery is going to be massive and the

software is really clean however what

really undoes it is going to be

super low-end internals now I can kind

of get by the low-end processor but only

one gig of ram really makes this almost

unusable especially when consider that

for only a little bit more you can get a

ton more phone a solid third place goes

to the do G mix now there's a lot to

like with this phone the idea that has a

nearly bezel this design really does

make it stand out

I love the heft the way that the phone

feels and the hardware is great but what

undoes it is the software I said before

and I'll say it again it is a straight

up deal-breaker for me a very solid

second place goes to the blue vivo XL 3

plus and there is a ton to like with the

sky 140 dollar price tag feels like it's

right in the sweet spot you're getting a

solid build you're getting a nice sized

screen you're getting decent performance

the cameras are decent the selfie camera

is great really the only major problem

is that the software is going to need

some tweaking now if you don't mind

putting a little bit of time into your

phone to customize things like your

launcher then the blue is really worth a

look if you're buying the phone under

$200 though I really do like the new g3

it pairs an awesome build that really is

very similar to phones such as the

galaxy s 9 which cost three four or five

times as much with a really nice screen

you're getting that taller aspect ratio

the cameras going to be decent but

importantly the software is clean and

the performance is top-notch it's a

close one I feel like a lot of people

might be happier with the blue but if

it's my money I'm going to spend a

little bit more to get a much nicer

overall package