Even though it's good value what you get is not enough. By that I mean not for the price, but the phone itself is not enough. When you are spending so less there is no point. You can do nothing other than the usual browsing.

I use a moto G6 right now..I buyed it for 200 euros unlocked it does all I need for a phone and more.

im using a moto g4 plus and galaxy note 4. The g4 plus has better specs than the e4 plus for cheaper

@@theambergryphon4266 bruh its a damn phone not a computer

@@JT-cu2vn So you're telling me you can live with a $90 phone? That's less than half the price of my headphones. I can't live without any flagship like my note 9 512gb. A phone is something you use the most of every day, it doesn't matter if you spend a little more on it.

Drogheda Drones & Fun agree :)

Is there any difference between the note 5 and note 5 pro, ive read that the pro is just the chinese version

I just checked, theyre exactly the same, the pro is just sold in India

GUMBA yep, multiple names, slightly different options on the ram and storage

GUMBA pro has a 660 snapdragon while note 5 has 636

Try redmi k20 pro

You can get the LG V35 around $200 new on eBay. Way better than any "budget" phone you could get for $200

Shafer Hart I’ve tried out the v35 before and it is good but I think the redmi note 8 pro excelled in every way, guess that’s just how much better new cheap tech got

@@kevinwagner3636 that Xiaomi is just a huge budget phone, it doesn't have flagship specs at all. The LG V35 was flagship two years ago (with all that it entails) but it's still more powerful than cheap "mid" rangers of today.

Shafer Hart Redmi Note 8 pro has a higher benchmark score and a decently better camera in my opinion. Past 1-2 years budget phones became really good

Nasif I oh i have 6 xiaomi phones,4 mi bands,3 mi power banks,3 mi lights,3 pens,3 headphones,1 speaker,1 notebook,2 backpacks All from xiaomi XD

Nasif I And 2 mi water boiler XD（1 for home,1 for office）

3 earphones for 2 phones????

@@knockedout4741 obviously the other phone is not xiaomi

You need to cut back. I am not obssessed with buying things made in the USA but c'mon...a little moderation is a good thing...

Apple is good I have been brainwashed I use a Mac for gaming.

Henrique Rodrigues lol

Henrique Rodrigues lmao

Older flagships are the way to go you can get a 2015 flagship like the g4 for $45.

At least flagship companies respond to your concerns. Small or chinese companies offer horrible or nonexistent customer service

Joshua Patel if they made the vid 1 sec longer they would have made way more cash xd

Nope

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The automatic subtitles say: *I T A L I A N F R I E N D L Y C O N T E N T*

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FBI

Zucc The robot lizard overlord

Noticed it too. Still curious.

Adib Ariman after effects

That one is killer .poco is .apple killer .should be compared with flagships..its $287 right now in india but..still it beats that $1500 iphone xsmax in india...beats..in literally everything except raw cpu performance

@@anandsuralkar2947 best one is razer phone

@@muqikhan5593 yupp but razer phones.is expensive...

@@anandsuralkar2947 well its worth it it costs $600 iphone xs cost $1,500 but its bs

Useless in the USA

Or get the Mi A2 for $220 which is way better than both I believe

Aditya Patel it's not better lmao look at the reviews and comparisons, still good, it's the second best

@@sebastianhernandez1228 Are you talking Mi A2 vs Redmi Note 5 Pro?

Or get the iphome xs 😀

True

Unless that's a video and not a ghost...

Unless it's a video of a ghost playing Dino chrome!

Lol I didn't notice till you pointed it out but now I'm concerned.

The power if wireless keyboards.

Antank It's an AI. Look it up.

Moses Jonson my friend ! I use redmi 5 plus 2 !

I think they made $1 profit from it LOL

It is indeed an awesome phone. easily leaves phones with price with twice as much in the dust.

may man im going for xiaomi redmi 5 plus to

I'm in my 6th day using redmi 5 plus, and it's awesome!

The Moto G phones at not bad at around the same price either, but sadly since Lenovo took over the software updates have not been as good.

Kadu Penuela Or just flash it and install any other OS? AOSP solves everything

Kadu Penuela even Google does spying (PRISM, search it), so no Android phones are exception.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

Racka Nurdin buy yourself oneplus 6 or some shit u broke ass kid

True.

Liar, phones making phone calls is just a myth

God damn you are everywhere

Yeah... It's like people buys phones to watch netflix? wtf?!

Yeah, what can i say about myself... I am using IPhone4s for my basic phone and an old in good shape with no scratchew, blue original nokia 3310 for secondaryx. Its TRUE!!!

call quality is good but speaker is mediocre

Mi a1 bruh

Yeal mediatek chips are shit

Yeah I bought a note 5 for the same price and am happy with it.

Mindereak actually i will get one tommorow. Ppl are dumb. Well said

Or just get a used flagship phone that's a generation behind. OG Google Pixel is ~$250 and it's still strong af.

Real me 😍

I have an SE. I’m from India.

It was

The Moto G line is great in this price point.

Galaxy s5 is not bad

Galaxy S5 and any Motorola are shit. Go learn some brands FFS.

galaxy s5 is good but it has ram that become slower after 1 - 2 years

I just bought a Galaxy S7 on ebay for 220 USD

mamma mia...

PietroSoft Yes!

Yep man. I would be a nice a redo of this video with a better phone.

For $250, xiaomi redmi note 5 is a steal tbh

Yeah, I cannot believe they used this shitty phone for their review. A Xiaomi A1 goes for less and has out of the box stock Android (support for 8.1). Only trade of is you get less battery capacity but the Xiaomi phone has a better camera.

Woah, I am a big fan, love your content dude. Didn't expect to see you here.

Wat

just eat the coffee beans ...

Go for the note 4 global ;)

I picked up the Redmi 5 Plus last week and it's been surprisingly good for the price.

redmi 4a here, the bloat is a serious letdown, but if you can root it, the specs are great for $80

I got the mi a1 recently and it's amazing. Stock android sold it for me, and it's the cheapest phone I've ever owned.

cherrypieforever reply on a mi a1 :)

no surprise, it uses a Mediatek Processor...

I had an LG G6 and it sucked. The camera was pretty much unusable, especially when filming video. I called LG and they said that I needed to PAY to get it fixed even though it was under warranty. Two months after I bought the phone, the phone's battery swelled up and overheated, resulting in the back of the phone getting pushed out. I contacted LG and they refused to fix it. I destroyed my LG G6 by throwing it at a utility pole and I just bought an iPhone. By the way, it was a steel utility pole.

AegisRick one problem bro. This is not Xiaomi, but umidigi - which only make phones unlike Xiaomi.

Xiaomi ftw

It is

Zenfone max pro m1 for just 190 dollars they provide you SD636 processor. Updates till android Q , good sounding speakers , awesome display quality ...pure stock experience

cool Redmi note 5 has better display and speakers with same specs

Look Eastway rn5 uses snapdragon 636 so I can play games smoother than helio p20

C2Lception I wouldn't even call it cheap more like Sensible lol.. Spending 1k on a phone thatwill not benefit you more than a phone that costs 500 is what I mean

Exactly, So By Your Logic: It's Like; Not Wanting To Pay 3 Times The Cost of An Item; Just To Have The Latest Popular Flagship Product, Is Somehow Being A Cheapskate?!? What??? No! It's Just Simply Called: Being Smart With Your Money! 💸 So Just, Wow!!! So I Gotta Ask: Do You Work For A Phone Company/Tellecom Giant? or Are You Just That Dense? LOL Not To Be To Hard On You, But Over 80 People Seemingly Agree With Your Comment Which Is Hysterical! I See That Corporate Propaganda Is Working On Some People Still... Or There Wouldn't Be This Backwards Mentality, Still Today! This Is Why We Need Freeier & More Open Healthy Competition. With A Lot Less Hard Handed Tactics of Limiting It, With Long Lasting Legal Monopolistic Protections of Trademarking, Intellectual Property Secrets & Century Long Patienting Right's! It's Supposed To Be "He Who Designs The Best Mouse Trap, Who Wins." & NOT Instead Twisted To Fit: "He Who Can Legally Stifle Any Competition From Entering The Market & Also Who Can Help Slowdown Any New Innovations, & Keep A Strangle Hold On Market Share/Controll, Who Is Instead The One Who Wins" That's Not How Capitolism Is Supposed To Work... That's Chronie-Capitolism Instead! Those Thing's Now-A-Day's Really Only Just Help Allow Those Company's & Individuals To Not Have To Imstead Innovate At The Same Pace, That They Should Be Going At Just To Stay Up To Date With Consumer Demand & They Also Let Them Charge Consumers What Ever Outrageous Price That They Want (Whether It Is Reasonable or Not) & They Also Never Have To Lower It Due To What Would Be: Healthy Competition In That Marketplace... While This Phone That Linus Is Reviewing Is Not Perfect, It Is Defenetly The Single Best $200 Phone Out There, That Is Definetly Helping To Push Down The Extremely High Sticker Price For All The Name Brand Flagship Devices Out There In Direct Competition. And That Absolutely, Benefits All The Early Adopting, Technolusters, Like Me & You, Out There, To Pay Significantly Lower Prices, For Our Devices, If We Only Had The Patients To Wait To Buy Them! So Please! Educate Yourself First! & Don't Leave, What You Think Is A Quick Whitty Response, When You Are Buying Into The Hype Yourself!

Fearbleeds but spending more on a oneplus6 does bring tangible benefits, one of them being a dual camera setup that actually works

Kyle Shebilske 1070s are better value than 1060s, but 1060s sell better because people like cheap stuff just because something is cheaper doesnt mean its a better option against something that is better I agree with the forcing of better tech down the price range, but that still makes you a cheapskate if you buy the cheapest shit that works

C2Lception I have a oneplus 5t so I know what you mean. Also the 1070 is not more value, you pay roughly 50 percent more for a 1070 yet only gain about 25 percent, so it's mathematically not more value. However if you have a certain performance target, the 1060 may not be an option

Dap 99 Neo they have a different strategy to earn their money and hope it will success worldwide as it did in China

Ditto. Feels slightly pointless posting this from dark South Africa where everything is a few years behind the rest of the world (and everything we do actually have is a little broken), but I love my Xiaomi.

Also Lenovo..i have both ...Xiaomi gives little better spec for the money but Lenovo gives bigger batteries and feel more solid build

I bought my Xiaomi Redmi Note from china around 4 or 5 years ago and I still have it to this day. It was 180$...

That's an elispe ...

Harsh sd 800 series is the way to go

+Michael Johnson Only if you have $500 or more.

ウィーアブー you can get xiaomi mi5 with sd820 for only about £250

IKSDE XD compared to sd636, it isn't

I'm using redmi 5a sd425 ,I'm poor and im gonna save up for a better phone, anyone can make a list for me b/w price range of 100-200?

exactly what a shame

Whats so bad about marshmallow? Isnt that just a version of android? Whats so bad

Sean Gamble It's an outdated OS. Marshmallow is Android 6.0 while most modern android phones run Oreo, which is Android 8.0.

koopahermit, I use Android 6.0 and although it may seem a little shabby conpared to 8.0, it's not impossible to use.

You are right but Linus explained everything in video itself.

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Aakash Kharod buy it from a brick and mortar store/ import it from China

yeah, not just xiaomi, in indonesia asus do that flash sale thing too to sale their good phones

Charg - Luckily bro I got it from flash sale..😁

Aakash Kharod Where I live, xiaomi phones arrive 18 months late, and probably the redmi note 5 won't even come to my country and if it does, it's gonna be twice as expensive. Which is why I'm shipping it from China

negligible to the point where they dont even need to build repair shops. Software (update, support, security) is the real problem, imo

Me and my family use xiaomi devices for over a year now and nothing failed yet. Paid under 1000€ for 5 powerful devices. My Redmi note 4x even survived when it felt 5 meter downstairs. Nothing broke

Pulsar sounds Samsung at best

Not all will be defective. It just takes an extra 1 out of a 100 000 to bring down a plane

Did you follow the news in the last couple weeks? I read that not only the note 7, but also the galaxy S8 and i think it was the S5 exploded. haha

Thanos great choice

Thanos I bet you snapped half the price away

TOXIC Flicks Or if you want stock Android the A1 and A2 are good as well

Slippy Sloth Yeah the A2 also has a better low light camera. But the Redmi Note 5 is Still quite good as for the specs and value. MIUI is actually not so bad although a bit heavy.

TOXIC Flicks that's what I thought

xiaomi redmi 5 plus pls

simocity99 Redmi note 5

Cuzeg Spiked are you comparing old flagship to budget phone?

Zenfone max pro m1 will beat it easily

Cuzeg Spiked you’d have to be stupid to buy a OP3 in 2018... benchmarks aren’t everything. Processors are way more efficient these days.

Its series about top selling items. He doesnt get to chose ^^

Xiaomi Note 4 was the Top 10 most sold phone in 2017 globally. Note 5 was only introduced recently.

从来没听过UMIDIGI这个牌子，在中国用HUAWEI和XIAOMI的人比较多。

But this is about specific top seller list :). I have 300$ Hyundai phone, Better hardware then competitors and great build quality but noone knows about those phones. There is lot to chose from if you dont need latest iphone like those filthy rich Americans :)

that's why the best OS is lineage since quite a few phones are supported

root any phone and get any update.

Easier said than done. It needs to be supported and comes with a lots of bugs and driver issues.

Psychotropni Lachtan exactly. I don't see why common users are so afraid of their phones being hack.

epSos.de one*

chandan thakur mcDonalds and Pizza Hut are cheap😐

You can already get a $5 dollar (3.50USD) value range Pizza at dominos... I mean, what else do you expect?

@@harshitbadam3724 not in India.

Ritwik Reddy bhai ₹600 me 1800 calories Aur kya chaiye

@@harshitbadam3724 no a burger costs 6 $ I think

Anthony smartphone brand such as Honor,Asus,Xiaomi are producing very value for money smartphone in this year.Think about Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1.

Nfc??

Galaxy Note 4 is the best; IR blaster, removable battery, QHD Display, S-pen & other note series features.

Sony Xperia XZ1 and Nokia 8 are good options

TL:DR

World mania 800$ galaxy s9 plus aganist any 800$ laptop s9 plus will kill it in everything Unless u gone spend 3000$ for a laptop whatt also just good for 2 years ... so no thankd

Prakash Gurung enjoy it until you get the inevitable emmc failure. It is a nice phone but has a critical design flaw

Why do that? If you can afford it, why shouldn't you get the best you can get? If you work hard, spoil yourself. Done.

Prakash Gurung I think you are a bit confused. My current phone is still a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 that I bought back in Feb 2015, and it was working really well until Feb 2018, when it started playing up. Right now it's straight up painful to use because it has slowed to a snails pace and I'm just waiting for the Xiaomi Mi A2 to be released since I'm done with buying expensive phones that are planned to fail no matter how you treat them. If you google "Note 4 emmc" you will start to understand what I'm trying to say here Your idea of buying an old flagship is really great, but the specific choice you made, if you are expecting the phone to last for a long time, is wrong because as I said it has a design flaw and it will eventually fail no matter how well you treat it

Thomas Kettunen honor 7x too for $200

Rzepson The difference between kirin 950 and helio p20 is pretty much non-existent. Huawei probaby bins higher quality parts as well.

We are talking about 200$ smartphones here, as far as I know they are not supposed to have the best CPU's money can buy...

*Z E S T*

"Acer Liquid Zest Plus" Sounds like something I would use to wash my clothes with.

Eew Acer

Emma Rose No you don't

Nate wu the Liquid zest is a disgusting phone. Owned one, broke in a month.

Bought it 2 months ago. Totally agree with you :-)

Crushonius bought the Xiaomi redmi 5 plus, love the Xiaomi products!!

Have the note 4x but when this one breaks down already decide its gonna be replaced by the latest redmi note at that time. Even the camera is great. And battery life is ultimate

Redmi Note 4X user here

How does this 5 version compare to Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro because that phones benchmarks more than the Redmi Note 4 version. It's like the Intel 2500K of Xiaomi low-mid end phones.

Sully Chowder for what it's worth the s2 doesn't give you ads or anything. I've got one and my only complaints would be the screen and some weird app issues that may/may not be phone specific.

tripple... lol

Marko420 I had a dilemma between triple and tripple

clearly its trippple

I think you'll be reasonably happy with it. I own both a power 3 and the S5 Pro

Oxrad typing this on my Umidigi S2 lite, good, cheap, big phone with amazing battery life and stock Android, monthly updates

Mediatek phones don´t receive any kind of updates you will be stuck on android 7.0 forever

Oxrad do I care? No. Problem solved

But to be fair if I waited a few weeks I could have bought one of the new Xiaomi budget phones and have had a better deal

Oxrad I think Huawei is also another good pick