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00:00Hey what's up, MKBHD here, and I got a couple phones, three phones I want to talk about
00:07today.
00:08Well, four if you include the iPhone.
00:09But all three of these phones here that I'm holding have one bleeding edge hardware feature
00:17that the iPhone has managed to avoid for one more year.
00:20So in case you've been living under a rock and somehow missed it, in which case, I would
00:24love to check out that rock.
00:26But there is a new iPhone, and the whole iPhone 13 lineup just got announced.
00:30It's a relatively minor upgrade, as I've mentioned, but there's a solid checklist of things that
00:34are new this year, including promotion on the pro phones.
00:38I made an entire video summarizing it all in one place.
00:40So to get all that info, there's a link right below the like button for you.
00:43The iPhone plays it safe with the hardware, notoriously.
00:46I mean, I think it's more obvious this year than ever.
00:49So fresh off the heels of all the people who have just showed up to the channel for the
00:53first time seeing that iPhone, I give you three phones, and each one of them has some
00:59hardware feature that is so bleeding edge that it's actually kind of a bit risky.
01:05And there is a reason why each one of these hardware features isn't in the iPhone yet.
01:12So I'm going to go through each of these.
01:13And if you don't mind, I'm going to reference the iPhone 13 for each of them, because the
01:17difference between what Apple is doing with four new phones per year versus what some
01:23of these other companies do with dozens of new phones per year is kind of massive.
01:27So first up, this is Xiaomi's brand new 11T Pro.
01:32Xiaomi makes a ton of phones.
01:34It actually just became the number one smartphone manufacturer in the world in terms of sales.
01:39And a lot of their phones have some pretty crazy hardware.
01:42This one definitely comes with a charger in the box.
01:45You know why I say that?
01:47Because this is the charger, a massive brick that, yes, is going to hit 120 watts at its peak.
01:54120 watt fast charging.
01:59It's kind of incredible.
02:00Now, that'll take this massive 5,000 milliamp hour battery from zero, dead, all the way
02:05up to 100% full in less than 20 minutes.
02:08It's kind of crazy.
02:09Now, before we all go down to the comments to leave your explosion jokes or your fiery
02:14hot takes about how this will probably nuke your battery life, I've seen a lot of those
02:18on Twitter, and that's been a common concern.
02:22But batteries these days are better than ever.
02:25And I know it's natural to have the concern that something that could charge this fast
02:28would probably have just awful effects on your battery after a year of use or something
02:33like that.
02:34But Xiaomi, of course, has considered this.
02:35They actually had a slide up during their presentation for this phone that directly
02:39addressed that, showing they expect about 80% battery health after 800 charge cycles,
02:46which they say is actually better than some other flagship phones.
02:49Now, I don't know if I buy that it's going to be better than other flagship phones, but
02:5320% degradation after 800 charges, which for context is about one full charge a day for
03:01two years straight.
03:03That's actually pretty good.
03:04Now, this is by no means the first fast charging phone.
03:06We've had 45 watt fast charging, 65 watts.
03:09There's a couple of hundred watt phones floating out there, but this is the fastest I've seen
03:13yet at 120 watts.
03:15And for context, the iPhone 13 is still charging at 20 watts.
03:20Now, it's not for no reason.
03:22It's not like Apple could easily bump the iPhone to 120 watts without trade-offs and
03:26they just don't want to.
03:28For one, this is a split battery cell for faster parallel charging, which technically
03:32does shrink the total battery capacity a little bit.
03:36And you also do generate quite a bit of heat with this type of voltage.
03:39So Xiaomi is doing a lot of cooling and a lot of thermal monitoring to make sure the
03:43phone does this as safely as possible.
03:46But I do still believe that the top reason why we haven't seen this extraordinarily fast
03:50charging in the iPhone yet is still long-term battery health.
03:54So my iPhone 12 Pro that I've been using since it roughly came out for about a year is sitting
04:00at 95% battery health, which is pretty good.
04:04After two years, that's about 90%.
04:06And to Apple, that's a more desirable feature than super fast charging.
04:11I mean, this is the company that shipped a five watt charger with the iPhone up to the
04:16iPhone 11 and who would rather throttle down your CPU speed and make your phone slower
04:21than risk overworking your battery.
04:23So it's not something I see them switching up anytime soon.
04:27And I'm sure if you ran the numbers, most people do most of their charging overnight
04:31anyway.
04:32But you got to admit the sheer convenience of fast charging is super important.
04:39And to people like me who've gotten used to it, it's kind of indispensable.
04:42It's amazing.
04:43Having like knowing you have to leave in like five minutes and your phone's nearly dead
04:48and you just realize you have to charge it up real quick and getting like 30 to 40% just
04:52like that is something some people will go a lifetime without knowing about.
04:57But because of all the things we've talked about, overall battery capacity, thickness,
05:02thermals, long-term battery health, Apple has decided, yeah, 20 watts.
05:08So all right, this is the ZTE Axon 30.
05:12This is a $500 Android phone with a Snapdragon 870, 6 to 12 gigs of RAM, pretty huge 6.92
05:19inch, 120 Hertz display and a solid battery with fast charging.
05:24But what could this modest mid-range phone have that the iPhones don't?
05:27Well, it's that, it's that right there.
05:30That is the new second generation under display selfie camera and it is way better than the
05:37first one.
05:38So I recently did a whole video on the first generation version of this and it was pretty
05:43rough, not gonna lie.
05:44It was still very visible in a lot of situations, especially with the lighter colors and the
05:49image quality that came from the camera behind the screen is just bad.
05:54It's just foggy and hazy, blurry, not great, right?
05:58This second generation camera here to my eye, honestly, and the camera gets it pretty well,
06:03it's nearly invisible, like it's a huge improvement.
06:07And you can see it looks like they've doubled the pixel count in the rectangular cutout.
06:10So now objects and sharp text passing through this area are only mildly pixelated this time.
06:17And they even do a great job with the UI of making sure things typically don't pass through
06:21that area anyway.
06:22So it rarely catches your eye during any sort of regular use.
06:26Also I believe adding those pixels back also helps with perceived brightness.
06:30So it's legitimately really hard to see anything back there.
06:33Now the photos it takes, still pretty trash.
06:37And this is the part that I wonder how long it will take to improve because honestly,
06:41the hiding it behind the screen part is now functionally perfect.
06:45So I wonder how many more generations it's going to take to make a selfie in perfect
06:50lighting, not hazy and soft.
06:53I mean, it's serviceable.
06:55It's fine for an average video call or a basic selfie, but nobody would ever say the quality
07:00is really good.
07:02So despite the defogging algorithm, there's still blooming and highlights and discoloration
07:07and a lack of sharpness.
07:08So people who buy this ZTE phone today or the Xiaomi Mix 4 or the Galaxy Z Fold 3 for
07:16that matter, are going to be people who don't care as much about the highest quality selfie
07:20in the world.
07:21And that might again be the exact opposite set of priorities as the iPhone, which has
07:26had now the largest notch in the entire smartphone world for a couple of years now, because it's
07:31got face ID and the selfie cameras up front.
07:34But this is the first year that they have actually shrank the notch on the iPhone.
07:38The iPhone 13's compressed the same face ID and selfie stuff to be 20% smaller this time.
07:44But it looks like that's mainly for moving the earpiece up top.
07:47And it also looks like you don't really get any more info on that extra screen real estate.
07:51I was hoping maybe there'd be like a battery percentage up there, but looks like same idea
07:55as last year.
07:56So another year with a notched iPhone and another year with a bleeding edge selfie camera
08:01behind the display, but that still definitely has its drawbacks.
08:05Maybe the third generation is when it graduates from gimmick status to a genuinely something
08:10we could see other phones using.
08:11But for now, it's a little uncommon, a little risky and a little rare.
08:15But all right, last but not least, this is the Infinix Zero X.
08:20This is a really competitive budget phone that I haven't talked too much about.
08:24It's also pretty new.
08:25And aside from the pretty squared off sparkling design that reminds me a lot of a Nexus 4
08:30from a couple of years ago, there's not a whole lot striking about this phone.
08:34But it does have the numbers on paper going for it.
08:37And one of those numbers is a 108 megapixel main camera.
08:43That's right.
08:44You've seen it now a bunch.
08:45A single digit megapixel count has made its way all the way down to a sub $300 phone.
08:50It means almost nothing about the actual quality of the photos coming out of this phone, but
08:54it's still pretty impressive.
08:55Now, all of the cameras on the iPhone 13 lineup this year did take a leap forward, which is
09:00pretty sick.
09:01We've got bigger sensors all around.
09:02We've got that sensor shift image stabilization on the primary cameras.
09:06You've got wider apertures.
09:07I mean, I am really looking forward to testing these cameras and I talk all about this in
09:10the summary video again.
09:12If you haven't seen it, check it out and the review should be in the works shortly
09:15after.
09:16But Apple has stuck with the same 12 megapixel resolution for the rear camera on the iPhone
09:21since the iPhone 6S.
09:23Now what I'm not saying is that Apple just needs to jump to a hundred megapixel camera.
09:28No, I kind of doubt they'll ever do that actually.
09:31But what I am saying is I would really like to see, and I've always been curious what
09:35Apple could do with a bit more resolution.
09:38This is something I also wondered about the pixel for the past couple of years with a
09:40couple of 12 megapixel primary cameras in a row.
09:43And it looks like we'll finally see with the pixel 6 jumping to a newer, bigger 50 megapixel
09:48sensor.
09:49But this isn't just about numbers.
09:50This isn't just about getting a higher DXO mark score.
09:53I find those as useless as anybody else.
09:55But 12 megapixel photos from the iPhone or older pixels, while they look great while
10:00you're looking at the wide, as soon as you zoom in a bit, they start to break down.
10:04Like they look fantastic full screen, which is how you look at most photos most of the
10:08time.
10:09But the second you want to crop in a little bit at all, there's not much detail information
10:13to work with, and it looks worse than something higher resolution.
10:16Also with video, if you've ever wondered why the iPhone doesn't do 8K video while some
10:20other phones do, 8K video is 33 megapixels per frame.
10:26So they can't do 8K video until they jump to at least a 33 megapixel sensor.
10:31But the higher resolution cameras is funny enough, the thing I'm least expecting Apple
10:36to do anytime soon, because, if you've noticed, every single one of these super high resolution
10:42primary cameras, whether it's this 108 megapixel Infinix phone, or this 108 megapixel Xiaomi
10:48phone, or this 108 megapixel Samsung phone, they all do what's called binning by default.
10:56So every smartphone sensor is subdivided, of course, into a matrix with X amount of
11:01total pixels.
11:02That's the megapixel count.
11:04So the higher your megapixel count, the smaller those individual pixels or photosites have to be.
11:09Now in brightly lit environments, that can be fine, but in lower light, the pixels are
11:13so small that not a lot of light hits each individual one, and you end up having to really
11:19boost ISO sensitivity to make up for it.
11:22That introduces noise, graininess, I'm oversimplifying a bit, but that's the general physics of it.
11:28So what they do is combine typically groups of photosites, and then without bumping sensitivity,
11:34you can take in more light per effective pixel to get more accuracy, and thus lower resolution
11:41in the final picture.
11:43But these also happen to be smaller file sizes too.
11:45So this Infinix, for example, does have a 108 megapixel sensor, but by default, when
11:50you're taking normal photos, they're all binned down to 12 megapixels every time.
11:55Now if you want the higher detail, but also potentially higher noise shots, you can turn
11:59on 108 megapixel mode, and most others also have like a special separate high resolution
12:05mode you have to switch to to shoot the full 108 megapixels.
12:09So the iPhone has just stuck with their normal higher individual natural pixel size, 12 megapixel sensors.
12:17So there is definitely a marketing advantage to being able to say you have a 100 megapixel
12:21sensor, and there is an occasional shot, maybe a landscape, where you will get the
12:25most out of having all those pixels, and it's worth it.
12:28And you can print it on the back of the phone and run commercials talking about it, but
12:33is it actually worth it?
12:34I guess the real question is, how often do you actually go over and switch to the high
12:37resolution mode if you actually have it?
12:41I hardly do, I'm guessing most other people hardly ever do, and I also think most people
12:45when they realize they're going to want to crop later, just zoom in or use the telephoto
12:50that's on most of these high-end cameras anyway.
12:53So yeah, Google didn't budge on this for years, all the way up until Pixel 6, and iPhone
12:59is still sticking with it.
13:00How long they'll do this, only time will tell.
13:03So yeah, those are some big phones with some big numbers, and some big interesting pieces
13:08of hardware.
13:09I also could talk about foldables, which are obviously another huge hardware risk, and
13:13that's another thing Apple probably won't jump into for a long time until it's fully
13:18ready.
13:19But I just wanted to show some things that I haven't shown on camera yet, which is these
13:21three new phones.
13:22But I'm curious if any of these are things that you would want to see in a new iPhone.
13:26Is it fast charging?
13:27Because I feel like that's the one a lot of people would be most interested in, but
13:31let me know in the comment section below which of these features you'd be most interested
13:34in seeing in an iPhone 14 or 15, somewhere down the road.
13:39Either way, thanks for watching.
13:40Catch you in the next one.
13:42Peace!