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  • So here's a new one for you, a smartphone with two screens.

  • This is the Nubia X – an Android smartphone that comes with two built in screens, one

  • on the front, and one on the back.

  • You know we couldn't let this one slip by without a full on durability test.

  • Let's get started.

  • [Intro]

  • So supposedly if you want to work this contraption, there are two fingerprint readers on the sides

  • that when gripped allow whatever's displayed on the front screen to slip over onto the

  • back panel while retaining full functionality.

  • You can run the whole phone from back here.

  • When the rear screen is turned off, it looks just like a normal phone.

  • Let's see what happens when we scratch test both screens.

  • This Nubia X comes with a builtin screen protector which is nice.

  • I'll pull that off.

  • The interesting thing with this phone is that there's no notch, there's no front facing

  • cameras or sensors that need to be hidden, which allows the whole front of the phone

  • to light up edge to edge, as a display with pretty much no bezels.

  • As we see from the scratch test, the front is made with tempered glass, scratching at

  • a level 6, with deeper grooves at a level 7.

  • We've got to be fair to both screens though.

  • I'll grip the sides and flip it around.

  • The rear screen has a much lower refresh rate than the front screen, and has kind of a yellow

  • tinge to it.

  • It's also covered with a screen protector.

  • I've found that the yellowness is just a blue light filter that can be removed.

  • I'll show you that in a second.

  • The blue backing on the phone is kind of like reflective film that acts as a 2-way mirror,

  • that hides the second screen when it's turned off.

  • And once again we get scratches at a level 6, with deeper grooves at a level 7.

  • The rear screen is covered with the same glass.

  • Part of what makes the front screen so bezel-less is how small this earpiece is.

  • I almost missed it.

  • It's barely the thickness of my razor blade.

  • The sides of the phone sound and look like anodized aluminum.

  • You can see the silver color shining through under the blue coating, even here on the blue

  • power button.

  • One possible weak point in the frame is this flattened portion where the fingerprint scanner

  • resides.

  • It looks suspiciously like the design flaw we saw on the iPad Pro, and we know how that

  • one turned out.

  • This phone has 2 of them, one on either side.

  • I'm kind of nervous.

  • The top of the phone has more metal and what looks like an IR blaster up top for changing

  • the channels on your TV.

  • On the other side we have the SIM card tray, volume rocker, and another flattened fingerprint

  • reader...because why have just one fingerprint reader when you can have two?

  • Two is kind of the theme of this phone.

  • There are 2 SIM card slots as well, which pair nicely with the two screens.

  • Just one USB-C port down here at the bottom alongside the loudspeaker holes.

  • You might be thinking to yourself, 'Jerry, why in the world would anyone want two screens

  • on their phone?'

  • Well let me tell you.

  • There are no front facing cameras on the Nubia X, just these two dual rear cameras: a 16

  • megapixel and 24 megapixel.

  • One regular and the other one for that portrait mode stuff.

  • So when you want to take a selfie, you get to use the powerful rear facing cameras while

  • seeing your face at the same time.

  • It's an interesting solution to the notch problem, but also a solution that actually

  • works.

  • I'm impressed with the ingenuity – I genuinely did not see this one coming.

  • Like dual everything else on the phone, there are two fingerprint scanners.

  • You can use one or set up both for added security.

  • And even with the damage inflicted on the right side, the phone can still sense and

  • unlock my fingerprint.

  • Not too shabby, but at least there's a backup if one ever fails.

  • Now here's where things get interesting.

  • This front screen is a 6.2 inch 1080p IPS LCD, meaning that after about 10 seconds we

  • see the pixels getting hot, turning off and going black, until the heat is removed, and

  • then they slowly recover.

  • They do recover completely though.

  • Checking the back screen though, is where we see one of the brilliant parts of the Nubia

  • X design.

  • An LCD screen when turned on has light shining through every single pixel, even the black

  • ones.

  • So the whole display lights up.

  • An LED screen or an AMOLED screen does not have light shining through the black pixels,

  • so you really can't tell when the screen is on or off because the blacks are so black

  • and emit no light.

  • The Nubia X is using a 5.1 720p AMOLED screen on the back, an LCD on the front, and AMOLED

  • for the rear.

  • You can see the pixels going white and not recovering.

  • Both technologies on one single deviceburn test justification.

  • Checkmate on the haters.

  • The rear screen can act like an always-on display without showing the actual edges of

  • the screen.

  • This provides the aesthetic illusion that there's no screen at all on the back panel.

  • Whether the screen is lit up or not, you can't really see the rectangular edges due to the

  • super black AMOLED pixels.

  • It's interesting how all these innovative smartphones keep popping up out of nowhere.

  • No complaints from me.

  • Here's a quick look at the rear display with the blue light filter turned off.

  • It looks completely normal and has as good of quality as the front screen.

  • I'm not sure why the Nubia X had that setting turned on right out of the box.

  • I think it looks pretty good.

  • All of these awesome gimmicks though mean nothing if the phone can't survive in your

  • pocket for a few years.

  • Here on my channel we put phones through years of abuse in just a few minutes.

  • It's time for the bend test.

  • The dual fingerprint design on both side rails might just be fatal.

  • With a solid flex from the front, we get minimal bend, but no catastrophic damage, creeks or

  • snaps.

  • The rear screen looks fine.

  • Even when bent from the front, the phone remains intact and fully functional.

  • No complaints here.

  • The Nubia X is a structurally solid device, even with all that fragile tech packed in,

  • and while having screens on both sides, this phone survives.

  • As a side note, if one screen does actually break, you can always just use the other as

  • a back up since it does come with two.

  • Do you think this phone is the future?

  • Is a dual screen phone a better solution than a motorized front facing camera?

  • Which one do you prefer?

  • Back to back screens are definitely fascinating.

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  • Thanks a ton for watching.

  • I'll see you around.

So here's a new one for you, a smartphone with two screens.

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