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Leo Laporte: Hey
everybody! Welcome to Before You Buy, the TWIT product review show, where we
get the most interesting new products on the market. Sometimes
great, sometimes not so good. We give them to our staff, let them try
them out in a real word situation, and then they report back to you. Coming up,
our first review, Jason Howell has had this for a while, I think the HuaWei Ascend mate 2. The first US entry from
the massive Chinese phone manufacturer. He, of course, is the host of
All about Android, so this is right up his alley. Let’s find out what Jason
thinks of the Ascend Mate 2.
Jason Howell: Hey what’s up? I’m Jason Howell and I
am here with the Huawei Ascend Mate2 4G LTE. Now Huawei is a Chinese manufacturer
of hardware devices, and in the states, they’re kind of, I hesitate to say they
have a bad rap, but they’re more known for low to midrange devices, and
carriers haven’t really taken hold, you know, brought them into the fold as
they have with other manufactures like HTC and Samsung that we’re used to
seeing. But Huawei really wants to break through in the US, and this is the
Ascend Mate2. Which is kind of their attempt to do so. You’re not going to find it on a carrier actually, you’re going to get find it
on their site, if you go to gethauwei.com. It preorders through June 22nd.
And if you preorder within that time, you actually get a free case, and a 50
dollar prepaid SIM card along with the device. You can tell it’s a pretty large
device, so let’s take a look at the specs real quick. It has a 6.1 inch IPS LC
display. Showing 720 P video. It has a quad core 1.6
gigahertz snapdragon 400 processor. It’s not an 800, it’s a little bit, and
they had to peel back the specs a little bit to get to really competitive
price, which I’ll talk about in a second. With 2 gigs of RAM and 16 gigs of
internal storage, if you want to increase that you can. There’s a micro SD card
slot in the back, right there you can see, you’ve got your slot as well as your
SIM card slot. This battery, this is a big differentiator for this phone. It’s
a 3900 milliamp hour battery. It’s non-removable, although you could probably
get it off if you had a tiny little piece of screwdriver. You know, tiny little
screw driver to pry it off. But at 3900 milliamp hours, you probably not going to need to remove this battery. And if you’re
really impressed with the battery capability, you can actually plug in an
optional accessory into the bottom and plug it in to another phone that needs a
battery charge, and this device will actually charge that phones battery.
Really super cool stuff. It has a LCD antenna for GSM, CMA plus, here in the
states. So you’d be able to run it on T-Mobile. Or sprint. You’re not going to
be able to run this on the Verizon network. It’s running 4.3 Jellybean. That is
not Kit Kat, and they don’t know when it’s going to get upgraded to Kit Kat, so
that’s probably something to keep in mind. It has a 13 megapixel rear facing
camera, and then on the front you have a 5 megapixel front facing camera, which
is definitely a step up from most front facing cameras. And just as a general
kind of bonus, it does support an 802.11 AC WIFI, so that’s pretty cool. Now
it’s sold unlocked, and I mentioned the price earlier being a competitive
price. Its 299 dollars, unlocked. That’s unsubsidized, so you go to their site,
you’re dropping 299 dollars for this device this phablet, essentially. And
that’s incredibly low cost for this kind of hardware. The design, I’m pretty
happy with the design to be honest. It’s plastic, make no qualms about it, so
if you don’t like plastic you might want to reconsider, but it’s not a flimsy
style plastic. It actually feels very firm in the hand, it’s not quite as solid
as say HTC devices, but defiantly feels better than a lot of the Samsung
devices out there. A little bit heavy, but at a 6.1 inch device, you’re
probably going to get a little bit of extra weight there. And overall, I was
pretty happy with the design of this. The back casing prevents it from slipping
out of your hand very easily, so little touches there. Like I said it’s a 720 P
display. It would be nice on such a large screen for it to be 1080P, but I
would say, having said that, it really didn’t bother me that much. Looking
close you can kind of detect the pixels, and maybe our eyes are getting use to
not seeing those. So maybe it’ll stand out, but I think it’s kind of a
tradeoff. You get the lower cost, you still get a large screen, and it’s still
HD, it’s just not the full 1080P. I thought it was a good tradeoff. The camera. So Camera performance, this is definitely one of
the differentiators here. They’ve built in a lot of extra features here. One is
the grufy, which is if you’re on the front facing
mode. There we go. Oh this is pretty cool! So when you’re doing a front facing
picture, it gives you this little preview up there, right? This is for your
selfie, so If I’m looking at myself. Let’s see there. If I’m looking at myself,
and I’m taking a picture, I look up there, the camera is right there. So if I’m looking up at that preview to frame myself, and the
picture is taken. The image actually looks like I’m looking at the
camera. I thought that was a neat little touch. They have little software
features in the camera, along those lines there’s also, like I said, the gruffy, which essentially is like a wide angle selfie. It’s groofy because you can fit a bunch of people in. So
you take your picture, which I’ll do right now. And then it asks you to move it
to the side, where it takes another pictures and then another one. It’s like a
modified panorama, but for taking extra wide shot selfies I suppose. And there we go, super wide screen selfie. Other features about the
camera, let’s see here. We’ve got, you know, your standard ones. Panorama, HDR,
sound and shot, which is you take picture
and then add 10 seconds worth of audio to it. Which I
wouldn’t find incredibly helpful. Overall, 13 megapixels is great, and I
would say the quality of shots in the daytime were actually pretty great. Nice
level of detail, if I really zoom into the pixels, I felt like a saw a lot more
than I see with other camera phones. But ultimately low light performance,
maybe not the best in the world, you have to figure again, they’re cutting
corners in some way. The camera is kind of midrange as far as that’s concerned.
Now let’s talk about the performance. Now it’s running snap dragon 400, so
that’s obviously a corner that they cut a little bit to bring the price down.
You don’t really notice it in the UI, the UI is pretty fluid as well as a lot
of the apps, web browsing, things like that I didn’t have any noticeable
degradation in. Where I did notice a little bit of a difference was in the
running of games. Particularly Riptide GP2, there were points in the game where
I’d hit a turbo, and you’d expect those polygons to increase in order to render
everything a little bit faster. And it’ would kind of stutter and get a little
bit choppy. So you kind of start to see a downside in the fact that it’s
running a lower system on a chip, like the snapdragon 400. Now for the
software, it’s called Emotion UI. And it kind of mimics the IOS layout in that
there is no app drawer. Right? It’s all done
horizontally. I find it to be a little messy, so you have to be a little
organized when you install apps, and moving them and creating folders. You
know, organizing them so that it isn’t just a wall of all of these apps, and
you’re always hunting and pecking to find them. So keep that in mind, I wasn’t
a big fan of that part of the UI. They have a few different home screen configurations.
So if you are a first time smartphone owner, and you want a more
simple interface, you can select simple, and it kind of breaks it down
to the main categories to make it easier for you to kind of transition to the
smartphone world, and make things a lot larger. The battery is so good in this
device you might never really need to touch those. I made it through an entire
weekend without charging the device. That’s how good the battery is. It
literally charged for almost 3 days straight. Settings to determine which apps
can use WIFI and mobile data. So you can actually say, Netflix never use it if
I’m on mobile antenna, but yes use it if I’m on a WIFI connection. That’s
pretty cool, and good for saving batteries. Another other kind of flair like
WOW, that’s windows on windows. It’s like a floating browser, or floating
window on top of all of your other apps so you can multitask better. Alright so
let’s get to the pros of the Huawei Ascend Mate2 4G LTE. First
of all the battery, its top notch. Honestly I’ve never have had a phone
that had as high of battery stock as this phone does. So if battery is your
highest priority, this is the phone to get. Value, 300 bucks, almost 300 bucks
for all of this screen real-estate, and battery I think is a great price. LTE, its super-fast connectivity. And the design, I actually
quite like the design, even though it is a little large, I’m a large person so
it worked for me. Cons, performance kind of broke down in certain places, but
that’s to be expected with the snapdragon 400. The Emotion UI is not my favorite
overlay in the world. You can always just install a 3rd party
launcher on there to get rid of a lot of those complaints. And then launching
with Jellybean, and Huawei doesn’t have a specific
idea of when kit Kat is going to roll out, and who knows? Any
versions beyond that. So do keep that in mind, you’re going to be back
out of date right out of the gate. Now what’s my recommendation for the Huawei
Ascend Mate2 4G LTE? I recommended it as a buy! It’s pretty hard to maximize
value here. 299 dollars for a lot of features that people
find really important. Yes it is big, it’s a phablet, because of that
you get a huge battery on the back and if you’re priority is making it through
a single day without ever having to think about, being worried even, about plugging it in to charge it up, then this is the device for
you. Let alone multiple days, so it’s really, really impressive. That is it for
my review. I’m Jason Howell and thank you for watching my review of the Huawei
Ascend Mate 2 4G LTE.
Leo: Thank you to Jason, Jason Howell, the
host off all about Android. Every Tuesday, round about 5 Pacific, 8 PM eastern
time. On the TWiT network. I
have been a big fan for a long time of the GoPro camera, boy, they’ve got great marketing anyway. You
see them at every extreme sports event, from people jumping out of the air, to
diving under the sea. What if you can’t afford a GoPro?
How about this? It looks a lot like a GoPro, it’s called the eXpo high res
action cam. And we gave one to our GoPro aficionado, Bryan Burnett, our technical director to
take it for a ride on his motorcycle, let’s see what happened.
Bryan Burnett: Bryan Burnett from Before You Buy, and I’m taking a look at some action cams here, and one
is not quite like the others. Here we have for example the Hero 3, the Hero 2
and the pile Expo action cam. So first look at the
Expo, it’s a little bit bulkier than your average go pro. It has the power
button on the side, and on the underside of the camera is a little mount for
hooking up to a tripod. And on the far left side is a micro USB, a Micro SD card,
up to 32 gigabytes, and a HDMI out. Word of warning for anyone trying to put in
the SD card, it can be kind of a tight fit, so you should get someone with
fingernails to try that. Now obviously the biggest advantage this action cam
has over something like a GoPro is an LCD screen
integrated. It does make it more bulky but for positioning the camera it helps
a lot. Also, navigating the menu is a lot easier having a full LCD screen on
the back. It does come with an app for IOS or Android, but I could not for the
life of me get it to work. But with this LCD screen you don’t really need to
connect it to your phone anyway. On the front of the camera underneath of the
camera is a 1050 milliamps battery, which gave me about an hour and a half
worth of recording time. And side by side with the Hero 3 you can see that it’s
a tad bulkier, mostly because it does have the LCD screen included, and it is
much similar in size to the Hero2. The expo comes with a couple of sticky
mounts, where you have to apply the stickers yourself. A
handlebar mount with some screw hardware’s, a WIFI remote for remotely
starting and stopping recordings. And the hardware does look very similar to
what GoPro offers, but is slightly different, so you won’t
be able to use any of your existing GoPro hardware
with this camera. So now that we’ve introduced the hardware mounts, let’s take
it out for a spin. I’m at a secret location where we will be testing this,
because obviously if you’re going to be doing an action cam,
you’ve got to be doing some action. So why don’t you come on
a ride with me and we’ll see how this camera does. Now right off the
bat, you can tell the audio isn’t that great on the camera. But the video does
work pretty well. If you’re going to be testing action camera, do it in full
gear. So the pile Expo will record at 1080, 960, 720, or 480. At 1080, it’ll be
able to do 30 frames. At 720, it can do 60 frames. So pretty
similar to the GoPro hero 2 or the Hero 3 silver
edition. The pile also sports a 3 megapixel image sensor, which is large
than anything GoPro offers, as the goPro hero black has a 12 megapixel camera. Now that
doesn’t equate to a better image than the GoPro black. I would say the black still has the advantage there. But where the 20 megapixel
sensor comes in handy, is low light situations, like
riding through shadows, and things like that. It’s on par with the more
expensive GoPro cameras. But the actual video is a
little bit grainier and, I had the white balance set to auto, and it definitely
looks a lot more saturated than the GoPro cameras. As
for pros and cons, first and foremost, the LCD screen helps the Pile a lot! It
does add to its girth, but when navigating the menu and setting up shots, the
LCD screen is super helpful. Another pro is the features. The Pile comes with a
motion sensing feature, where you can have it set to start recording whenever
it senses motion. And in the settings you can dial in your exposure meeting,
ISO settings, or light frequency options. And another pro is with the 20 megapixel
sensor the low light video is on par with the black edition Gopro cameras. As for cons, the first one is lack of mounting hardware, there’s not a lot of options for where you can mount them,
and you have to apply stickers yourself to the mounting hardware you want to
use. Also the phone app is pretty much worthless. And it’s also negated because
it does come with an LCD screen, so there’s not much reason to want to use the
phone anyway. And the last con is the size, it’s big, it’s bulky, it feels a
lot heavier than the GoPros. So is the pile Expo
action Cam a buy, try, or don’t buy? If you’re looking for something with an
LCD screen, then I’d give it a buy. But if you’re looking for the best bang for
your buck, the GoPro silver edition is still probably
that. So it’d have to give it a try for most people. But then again, the Pile
is a solid action cam that is trying to mimic the GoPro,
but doesn’t quite reach the same heights. This has been Bryan Burnett from
Before You Buy, thanks for watching!
Leo: So that, there you have it! I’m
actually surprised, but this wasn’t, I have to say it’s not cheaper than a GoPro, is it Bryan? It’s close the
same price.
Bryan: It’s
pretty close. 250 dollars, so it’s a little bit cheaper, the video was good, but
not as good as the high end GoPro.
Leo: But it is kind of nice, now not for
when you’re riding your dirt bike, that’s completely useless. But there are
occasions when having an LCD on the back would be useful.
Bryan: The most handy thing is setting up the shot, because otherwise if you wanted to check with the GoPro, you’d have to log into your phone and use that
as a viewfinder.
Leo: Alright. So a decent try,
for the Expo high res action Cam. And boy, it sure, even the… did you try the
housing on a GoPro to see if it fits.
Bryan: It’s just far enough off that it won’t
work, and the screws and the actual mounting hardware is just slightly off that
you can’t. So great, thanks!
Leo: How funny! It looks, but I guess GoPro can’t really copyright or trademark this kind of look
and feel.
Bryan: It’s trying too hard to look like a GoPro.
Leo: It really does. I don’t think it’ll
confuse anyone anyways. Thank you Bryan Burnett, I appreciate it. Bryan is a
great technical director here in the TWiT Brick house
studios. As is Chad Johnson. He is one of our great
producers, also host of OMG Craft, and our newest show Reddit up. We thought, boy, you know, this TV, its 400 dollars at Walmart, its 50
inches. Could this Sceptre stand up to the Chad test?
Let’s find out.
Chad Johnson: Hello, my name is Chad, I’m with TWiT and Before You Buy, and today I’m reviewing the Sceptre 50 inch LCD television. This is LED backlit. It
comes in at a full 1080 resolution. The main selling point is that this only
costs 399 dollars at Walmart. So 400 bucks, and you
get a fifty inch television. Some of the features that it has, is it has 3 HDMI
ports. One of them in MHL compliant. It also has a USB
port, a VGA port, and Aux audio in, An SPIF audio in. and A TV tuner which is
just your normal aux Ajax connector. This is a 60 hertz refresh rate. So none of that fancy 120 or 240 hertz refresh rate. It does
have Vsim mount on the back, or the connections for
the Vsim mount on the back. And it also has internal
speakers. You know, they’re not all that amazing. And that’s about it! I mean,
there’s not much more. It’s a television that’s a 60 hertz and does a full 1080
P. So other than that, it’s really, really cheap, and I mean really cheap! How
cheap? Well you can use it almost anywhere! At your desk, in the car! And
finally the place I know you’ve all been thinking. The bathroom! So let’s get
into the pros and cons of the Sceptre 50 inch
television. On the pros, it is cheap! Also the Mhl port, the MHL HDMI port is a nice feature. It has a USB port as well. Basically
all the ports are a nice feature. On the cons, the base was difficult, and
pretty flimsy once installed. The installing it required 5 different screws, a
separate O ring and it was a ton of pain. And you can see that it’s just a
little bit wobbly. It does tilt back and forth, and it will stop before it gets
too far. That’s a nice feature, but all in all, this base was way wobbly as you
can see by just a little bit of pressure on the side. And at last, con, the
blacks where a little bit washed out. We did some tests where we, in a very
dark room, and blacks weren’t quite nice. They were pretty gray, in fact. Buy,
try, don’t buy for the scepter 50 inch television? I’m
going to give this a try. You know who you are, if you want this television.
You’re not going to be a discerning viewer of pure, great content. You’re
looking for an inexpensive television, sure go ahead and pick it up. Should I
recommend this to my grandma? Maybe not, but hey for 400 bucks you can have a
50 inch television almost anywhere in your house. Give it to the kids, put it
in the playroom, and have a good time with it. Although, I
can’t really recommend it for everyone. Thanks so much for watching, I’m
Chad with TWiT and Before You Buy, see you next time!
Leo: Thank you Chad! It makes sense, we buy a lot of really bad, cheap TVs for the studio,
because it doesn’t need to be perfect, it’s going to be just another set. And
nowadays even a bad set, not a great set like that is pretty good. A lot better
than a lot of the old TVs. Alright, we’re going to take a look at that pen in
just a second. Mike Elgan, the host of TNT is here,
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Mike Elgan: Yes.
Leo: And you’ve been terrorizing the staff with
your pen.
Mike: That’s right. It’s painful I know, but
sometimes you have to do this. So this is a pen, and as you said, it has 4
gigabytes of storage, but it’s also a camera, a still camera, and a video
camera. So it’s a spy camera.
Leo: What the hell! Now you’ve left the
labels on, but presumably you’d take those off.
Mike: Yeah, you’d take those off, because you
want to be a sneaky person.
Leo: Is it an actual pen as well?
Mike: It’s a pen, and it actually comes with
multiple pen points you can put in there. Some different
colors and so on.
Leo: And it’s not much bigger than a regular
pen.
Mike: Yeah, it’s, there are ordinary pens
that have this. Now you can see that little light there that means that it’s
on. It flashes so it’s not super stealthy. Now to take a picture, I’m going to
take a picture of Burke behind the camera there. I just press the button.
Leo: Oh you’d never know that.
Mike: So of course, you want to clip that
into your pocket, and you can be running video. So you can set there and record
video. Now this is about a 40 dollar product, you can find it on tiger direct
or something like that for like 29 dollars, or
something like that.
Leo: This is very cue.
Mike: Yeah, it’s very cue. I think that maybe
10 years ago, this would have been really bleeding edge. Nowadays, we’ll get to
the actual details of this as an actual consumer electronics gadget. But
essentially, let me just show you this one, how this works. It’s USB, so you
unscrew it…
Leo: oh my god! That’s hysterical! So 4 gigs
of memory, that’s a lot of memory.
Mike: That’s right. You plug it in there.
There’s actually a little tiny switch in there on this side to toggle between
video and still. And you know, it’s pretty straightforward, you just plug it
into your laptop or computer, or whatever. And you see the media there. It
comes with a little mini CD with software and drivers, and things like that,
which you completely don’t need.
Leo: Because it’s standard.
Mike: Yeah, it’s pretty standard, you just
get the media. Ultimately the problem with this device is multiple things. One
is that it’s creepy to have a spy camera and go around…
Leo: And you say this as a glasshole.
Mike: That’s right!
Leo: At least they know if you’re wearing
Google glass.
Mike: They know, and they can see the picture
when you take it in your eye. Google glass is a terrible device for being
sneaky. This is actually a pretty sneaky device. And for that reason, it’s
probably not a good idea to use it.
Leo: Is it legal? I bet there are rules.
Mike: There’s audio recording as well. And
audio recording, there are some laws around audio recording. But it’s, like any
other sort of camera. It’s like a smartphone camera, you could be a sneaky creepy
spy with your smartphone too, but it’s an etiquette issue more than anything
else, and a curtesy issue. So that’s one reason to not buy this.
Leo: Because it clearly is a stealth. I mean, you get a better camera, if you don’t
mind it looks like a pen.
Mike: This is the worst camera I’ve ever
seen.
Leo: Is that right? Do you have any video we
can see?
Mike: We do. So this is video of Burke.
Video: Hi,
I don’t know why you’re pointing a camera at me.
Mike: I don’t know what you’re talking about,
it’s just a pen. If it actually had that functionality that
would be a huge improvement.
Leo: The frame rate is pretty low.
Mike: It’s low. It’s a pretty well-lit space,
and it’s just blurry. This is some pictures I took, they’re all bad, all the pictures I’ve taken have been bad.
Leo: But this would hold up in court, I
mean…
Mike: When you’re being convicted of spying
on people you mean? Yeah, this would be perfect for that! But as you can see,
they’re low quality pictures. And by the way, it’s not a very good pen either. It’s
kind of a cheap ball point.
Leo: Now wait a minute! Which one do you
want?
Mike: Needless to say, this is a don’t buy! It’s cheap.
Leo: Okay, even at 30 bucks, if you get it
that cheap.
Mike: No! It’s wrong! It’s cheap, its low
quality. If you want to take pictures get a good camera. Use your smartphone, you know you have a smartphone. If you want a
nice pen, get a nice pen. If you want to spy on people, I’m not going to
recommend any way for you to do that. So this is a don’t buy.
Leo: But if you did want to spy on people.
This would work.
Mike: You know, don’t spy on people. That’s
all.
Leo: Don’t do it, but if you did want to do
it…
Mike: No.
Leo: Alright, I’ll take your word for it.
It’s a do not buy. So what is the name? It’s kind of generic, right?
Mike: It’s called the Swann pen cam 4
gigabyte.
Leo: but that’s Swann who sells it, I bet
there are a hundred companies that sell it under different names.
Mike: There’s lots
of different companies. This is not a new product. This has been around a couple
of years actually. And there are lots of pens just like this, and they’ve been
around, the whole category is kind of cheesy, and sleazy, and don’t recommend
it.
Leo: There it is Swann, the Swann Pen Cam. Thank you Mike Elgan. Mike is our
news director, in fact he’s going to be back tomorrow.
He’s going to be covering the amazon announcement at 10:30 PM pacific.
Mike: That’s going to be exciting.
Leo: We think it’s a phone, but we don’t
know for sure. I can tell you one thing as soon as we can get it, we’ll have a
review unit and put it on Before You Buy.
Mike: That’s right.
Leo: Thank you mike. We’ll see you tomorrow
morning. Thanks also to Bryan Burnett, to Chad Johnson and to Jason Howell, our
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