1) Fingerprint- Ok, So a lot of people have issues with it and I agree with you all BUT listen me- the easiest way to solve it is register your thumb twice (or thrice which I did) and VOILA! It works absolutely amazing after that-and if you use power button before unlocking it with your thumb then you will get confuse why people were having so negative view regarding this amazing fingerprint sensor. The thing is while registering your finger second time use different angles as much as possible and If you are like me who don’t have issue registering thrice then you won’t face any issue
Fingerprint-Conclusion-Who registered twice- 80/100 (if power button NOT pressed) and if power button is used then- fingerprint working ratio is 95/100 ( and for those did thrice forget about issue-but remember-Different angles-okay!
Question-1- But why should I do that-is it not a flagship?- Answer at conclusion.
2) Battery- (Read complete before leaving-IMP) For a massive size of 4500 mah it disappointed me, I mean its not poor but it is not phenomenal either and bad thing about it is battery drop when phone is not in use (But still SOT is far better than OP-7T 3700mah-lemme explain)
With normal to heavy usage you will get around 5:05 to 6:15 (still with 20 to 28% left which I am not counting)
Now listen me carefully- To solve this issue there is a trick.
If you are a office guy or do work from home then this is definitely for you The phone has Power mode which three categories:- Balanced (default), Medium and Max battery saver. Choose the Medium option- (why?) It restrict CPU power to 70% and reduce MAX brightness level by 10% (which you can still stop if you want). “Believe me” Even on multiple app usage(25 apps at once) I have not faced a single drop in performance and even have played games like “Alto adventure” and “dan the man” (Mario of android) and everything ran smoothly with no issue as such.
I even went in sunlight to check how much brightness levels are reduced from max- Well everything was still pretty clear and you can reply messages or make call even in direct sunlight.
With that applied you will get an hour extra easily and also less battery drain in idle condition.
BONUS tip- if you are not in hurry then turn fast charging mode off and let it normal charge which will help in later years and preserve the battery.
Question 2- again why do all this if battery performance is not good? (answer in conclusion)
3) Cameras- Well rear cameras are flagship levels no doubt on that and it is having the most useful setup- 12MP ultrawide,12mp main and 12 mp telephoto (2x zoom without quality loss).
Unlike other brands no depth or macro sensor is given which is a wonderful thing because all these cameras are practical in real life unlike depth or macro.
Also video quality is amazing and OIS does its job phenomenally. So rear cameras are 10/10 which makes it most useful camera setup under 40k segment.
Front cameras- mmm many people are not happy with it and I understand that the optimisation done on front cam is pretty poor BUT (here comes the but again) to the surprise it is same sensor as S10 lite, it just needs the better software update.
QUICK-FIX- use google camera and see the wonders by yourself- you will clearly see the difference- and if you don’t know how to import the Google camera watch any reputed youtuber’s video(eg- technology jock)
4) General Usage- (S-pen-upcoming) Well as I have told you earlier I am using phone on medium power usage, I mean I was just testing it out and after that I forgot to turn it off because I didn’t even noticed any lag or performance issue it is that smooth and at a time I even had more than 10 apps running in background still not issue and I even played games like “alto adventure” and “dan the man” while this mode was on ( you should play alto adventure on this beautiful amoled display believe me it look wonderful)
So no matter how many apps you throw at it you will not face issues.
5) S-pen and headphone jack- If you have come this far reading my review let me tell you some more secrets(NOW READ IT*)- I got this phone at 31k (5000 citi back which I have NOT got back YET and 2000 for my father old phone) See the thing is both the S pen and the headphone you will NEVER get them at this price point. Whether it is One plus 7t or one plus nord none of them has them and the best thing is it is not Chinese. To be honest I never wanted the S-pen but what I wanted was a great set of camera which had great recording capabilities and a headphone jack to insert my mic and I watched more than 20 to 25 complete review to find great camera phone at this segment which was around 33k. Honestly I wanted S10-lite to be priced at 33k because it camera capabilities are phenomenal no one plus 8, vivo , oppo can come near it believe me. Not even Iphone SE but that never happen.
But what I got was this – quite unexpected, I knew two year old exonys will never be good decision but at 31k everything was justified to me so I went with this one.
For the questions that I placed at the top-
1) The answer is you have to register your thumb twice or thrice and this problem will never come to you believe me on that- there is no other way.- (register thrice with different angles until you feel satisfied.
2) Exonys are always been like that- The answer is to use its power uage modes- go for the medium and change setting of brightness to stay normal after that min 6 hours of Screen on time is not going anywhere .
And even if you don’t do that fast charger is pretty fast so on daily basis you won’t face any problems. Only in case of traveling you will notice it BUT for that there is MAX power saver which to surprise also allows youtube for some unknown reason. But is quite is useful if you want to binge watch some web series on youtube with the charger.
That is it for now- will update later.
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