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So, I've made a few references over the past couple years to that time that the FBI visited the studio, and I was asked not to talk about that for what I feel like are pretty obvious reasons. So for years, I haven't, but it turns out I am now finally able to tell that story. So, here we are. So for those of you who don... | 0 | |
It's like an office building. It's not exactly like an office building, but, you know, there's a front desk and security and all that, and I've been in this building long enough that we have a pretty good relationship with them. So, we have this one rule, basically. So there's the guy at security at the front desk. | 0 | |
We'll call him Bob, just for this, but Bob and I have this one rule, which is that if anyone ever shows up at the front desk and asks for me that he doesn't let them in, I have to come out and meet them to confirm that I was expecting them, and then I bring them back to our studio. So if someone just randomly shows up,... | 0 | |
So in June 2020, it was pretty early in this new space that we have, and it's also right around, like, peak COVID. So I had sent everybody home, and it was just me and Andrew coming into the studio to work on basically building furniture and making videos and recording the podcast every week. So I got here pretty early... | 0 | |
And Bob basically says, hey, Marquez, there's some people with badges at the front desk to see you. I, of course, didn't let them in, but if you would like to, they're up there. And then he just walked away. And my first thought is confusion. Like, what? What did I do on the way here that someone with badges would show... | 0 | |
I'm a little concerned. I'm not sure what to think. So there was a solid minute where I just, like, stood there in the doorway like, okay, do I go up there? Or do I just stay here in the studio without asking who the people with badges are? And then I just went up to the front. I went up. I went up to the front desk. A... | 0 | |
And they're like, Marquez, good to see you. We've got some questions for you about the Escobar phone. So immediately I'm relieved, but I'm like, oh, oh, oh, the Escobar phone. Oh. Because, see, a few months earlier, I had published a video about the Escobar fold. | 0 | |
If you guys haven't seen that video, basically the story goes there's this company parading around and selling this $400 gold folding phone, which they're going to use to destroy Apple and Samsung. And they had these insane marketing campaigns and all this. But really what they were doing, as I uncovered in my video, w... | 0 | |
And then not shipping any of the other orders from regular people or the audiences that watch those videos, those people were getting scammed out of their money. And honestly, in hindsight, I don't know how they thought they were going to get away with this. Like, it felt pretty obvious to me. But, you know, eventually... | 0 | |
I just didn't, I didn't realize they were just going to show up one day. But here we are. But, you know, shout out to Bob at the front desk for sticking to our rule. Even though he probably had a bunch of people like flash FBI badges at him, he stuck to our rule. And that was great. So I appreciate that. But yeah, so I... | 0 | |
Like any and all communications that I had with them, any email I'd ever sent or received from them ever. They wanted everything. And actually it was funny. Another tidbit is Andrew at the time had just started running the business email account here. And when they were asking, like, has anybody else on your team possi... | 0 | |
And, you know, first thing he sees is like me in an empty studio with a bunch of people in suits, like waving him over. So he has a pretty funny alternate perspective on this story. So the FBI actually took the half -peeled Escobar Fold and the scratched gold iPhone from my videos as evidence in the case. They literall... | 0 | |
Also honorable mention to the Escobar Fold 2, which I also don't have on this desk because it is in the possession of the FBI. Someday I'll be able to tell that story. So as they're leaving, you know, they've asked me all the questions as the FBI and IRS people are leaving there. They're like, hey, don't talk about thi... | 0 | |
But also like, when could I talk about it? Like, how long do you think before I am allowed to? And they said, we'll let you know. So I've been biting my tongue for years, not talking about it, hinting at it a little bit, but not anything too serious. But since then, a lot of the dominoes have started to fall. You know,... | 0 | |
So they'd switched to this only non -refundable direct transfer thing with Klarna. And then they stopped working with them too. And then eventually the whole operation starts falling down. And the guy at the head of it, named Olaf Gustafsson, this guy, finally ends up getting arrested and going to prison in Spain for f... | 0 | |
So I've been holding onto this, not really knowing, like, okay, is it cool now that he's behind bars to talk about it? So we actually reached back out to those same FBI agents because they left their cards. And they're like, oh yeah, no, it's cool now to talk about it. You're totally fine. So there unfortunately is no ... | 0 | |
So one Pablo Escobar Fold 2 mobile flip phone, aka Samsung, and one Pablo Escobar Gold 11 Pro mobile phone, aka iPhone 11 Pro. But hey, now you basically know the story. Yeah, pretty serious business out here making videos about phones sometimes, you know? | 0 | |
Apparently also, if this guy Olaf ever does get charged in the United States, then it's very likely my videos would show up somewhere in those court documents, which is crazy. And also the phones that they took may show up as evidence. But yeah, I do want to get back into a little more of the more investigative, deep d... | 0 | |
But still, they are fascinating stories when they do. By the way, that's not the only encounter that we've had with the FBI in running this YouTube channel. But that's another story for another day. But hey, if you want more fun stories like this one, let me know in the comments. But also, the latest episode, the bonus... | 0 | |
But yeah, that's basically it. Thanks for watching. Catch you guys in the next one. Peace. It's a story of how I became a villain for at least 24 hours. I was hated. A couple weeks, I would say. Yeah. Oh, really? A couple weeks. Well, because the video had to come out. Hang on here for a second. I'm going to go get him... | 0 | |
He goes, hi. Oh, good to meet you. And he's filming me now. Okay. Oh, no. So now he's filming me. A couple weeks later, I log into YouTube. And everyone on Twitter is like, why is Marquez such a jerk? | 0 | |
All right, I have good news and bad news. Which do you want first? The good news, great, good call. It's still a Pixel. The bad news? It is still a Pixel. The Pixel 10 has had some high hopes and hype behind it for the past couple months. It's the 10th generation, it could be special. | 0 | |
The first one with a TSMC chip could be special. Some other things could be revamped alongside Android 16. It was looking really promising to potentially reboot the whole Pixel thing, to finally have it really competing with flagships. Now instead, it is very much all the things we liked, and all the things we disliked... | 0 | |
I can't say I would have spent the money the exact same way if I was in charge of the Pixel program, but hey, that's why I'm the reviewer and they're the Google executives. So, unlike the event, let's just focus on the phones. So, this thing is very similar to last year in design, in materials, and in character. Like t... | 0 | |
Even as an enthusiast about this stuff, you could probably show me a Pixel 9, and unless I knew exactly which one was the new gray color, it could be easily mistaken for the new one. And to me, honestly, that's fine. I love this design. The camera bar is nice for holding the phone. It gathers some dust, sure, but you'l... | 0 | |
The bad news, though, is that the things that the Pixels of the past have been lacking, this one is still lacking. Pixels have never had the biggest numbers or the most bleeding edge hardware. And these Pixel 10s are still Pixels, so they don't have super fast charging, they don't have a brand new massive silicon carbo... | 0 | |
This Pixel 10 actually does have an ultrasonic fingerprint reader now, and it's faster than Pixel 9, but just a slight beat behind the other ultrasonic flagships now. But that counts as technically new. So hey, while we're at it, here's everything that's technically new with the Pixel 10s and my take on them. The main ... | 0 | |
After that, it's a bunch of subtle things that sort of combine to make it feel a little more flagship -y, but without actually leapfrogging into ultrophone territory. So the fingerprint reader, like I said, is ultrasonic now and slightly faster, and the display that it's built into is a bit brighter too, so it looks be... | 0 | |
And the physical SIM card tray is now completely gone. This phone in the US is eSIM only, which I don't like. eSIM support, great. Forcing me to use eSIM, not my favorite thing. Only the carriers win with this. And to be fair, maybe I'm over -indexing this just a little bit because I test a lot of phones. I move my phy... | 0 | |
So I don't like this at all, but yeah, eSIM only. The batteries are about 200 milliamp hours larger in these phones across the lineup. That's a nice win. But the internals that are going to make a real difference that people are actually going to care about are Tensor and Pixel Snap. So, alright, we've got to talk abou... | 0 | |
And then the Pixel 6 was the first one to use their in -house design Tensor chip instead. And the promise of Tensor was never really clear, but the idea was to give Google much more control over these chips and for optimizing for exactly what they want to get out of a Pixel. The thing is, the first Tensor chip wasn't t... | 0 | |
And so a couple generations in, all of these first few Tensor chips were sort of co -designed with Google and Samsung and it was heavily based off of an Exynos chip and actually still fabricated by Samsung. So, fast forward to today. | 0 | |
The Pixel 10 is powered by a Tensor G5 chip, the first version of a totally Google -designed Tensor chip on a 3 -nanometer process and manufactured straight by TSMC, which seems like the perfect opportunity to make a huge leap in power, in efficiency, in achieving the original mission of doing their own Tensor chip. An... | 0 | |
The main complaint that I and other Redditors would have about Tensor chips of the past was that they were simply not flagship -level power of CPU and GPU. And this is a thousand -dollar phone. Like, for this price, I could just get a Galaxy S25 Plus and have a Snapdragon 8 Elite or an iPhone 16 with an A18. So this ne... | 0 | |
And I'm starting to think that's not even really one of its goals. Tensor G5 benchmarks like a mid -range phone. Like, the CPU is about 30 % better than last generation, but is a solid amount still behind the Snapdragon chips in Samsung phones. And it's closer to, like, the 8S Gen 4, the one in the nothing phone 3. And... | 0 | |
For some reason, Geekbench 6 OpenGL scores are literally half of the Pixel 9s and a full, like, 600 % behind the Snapdragon 8 Elite. Jesus. Its strongest area, though, is definitely the TPU, where this one is 60 % more powerful than last generation. And that is intentional. This is the Tensor Processing Unit that's spe... | 0 | |
This is what Google has decided is most important to them with these phones and these chips. They want them to be the fastest and most capable AI devices. So, in the real world, performance -wise, this Pixel 10, it is a really smooth phone with everyday tasks. I've been flying around Android 16, multitasking, flying th... | 0 | |
I will say, though, when I went in after a few days into display settings and flipped from high resolution to max resolution, things sharpened up a bit. But the phone also did get slightly, just barely noticeably slower. Just a few dropped frames here and there, which I didn't expect. And I would also not be shocked at... | 0 | |
It also lacks hardware -accelerated ray tracing. But that's just not the big strength of this phone. It never has been. And it's still a Pixel, so I'm not expecting it ever will be. What I can say is, at least the battery life for my use has been solid. It's been solid. I've been mostly testing the Pixel 10 Pro, not th... | 0 | |
My main concern is now shifting to how well this phone will age. So maybe trying to come back to this in six months, one year, two years, just to see how well this does compared to previous Pixels. But for now, the Tensor chip, it's not some miraculous savior that makes it an ultra -flagship, but good chip. Good chip. ... | 0 | |
It's just such a quality of life improvement, especially as someone who is a card -carrying member of Team No Case. So these phones have Qi 2 wireless charging now, and it's only at 15 watts or 25 on the XL, but it's so incredibly convenient to just be able to slap the Pixel onto any of my existing MagSafe accessories,... | 0 | |
Even if you aren't someone with a bunch of existing MagSafe stuff sitting around, it just opens you up to this massive world of options for magnetic accessories for things you can attach to your phone, or things you can attach your phone to. And I even think this is actually slightly stronger than MagSafe magnets on th... | 0 | |
It's like it was already a phone that didn't have very fast wireless charging, and so it still doesn't have very fast wireless charging, but it just gained a ton of functionality. Thumbs up. The two things that always make a Pixel a Pixel though? Well that would be the cameras and the software. So, I have good news and... | 0 | |
These phones all ship with Android 16 out the box, all of the fun Material 3 expressive updates, the fun smart wallpaper cutout effects, the animations, the haptics, the notification jiggle physics, all this stuff. There's some weird stuff that's not all perfect. Like, I don't love how massive some of the buttons are g... | 0 | |
So much dead white space between them. Or the phone app now too. They're making these buttons huge. This new Gmail app, these archive buttons are absolutely massive. And look at this stopwatch. Jesus. But, you know, for the most part, I'm loving how colorful and clean and fluid everything has been. And there's so many ... | 0 | |
Super flexible. You're welcome. And then there's all the AI stuff on top as well because, you know, Google. And there's a lot of this stuff that sort of just pops up as you start using this phone. And you can choose to engage with it or just kind of ignore it if you're not into it. But any one of these features could t... | 0 | |
And so the big new one on the Pixel 10s that's got its own section in the settings and everything is called Magic Queue. And this Magic Queue, it's a very Google thing that's supposed to take data from across your different apps and services and then surface them where you need them. At least that's what it's supposed ... | 0 | |
But it rarely seemed to work exactly the way I wanted it to, like it did in my original demos. The thing it did the most often was it just kept giving me a link back to like open my calendar and check for the information myself, which is still kind of helpful, but only half as helpful as advertised. | 0 | |
I have all the settings turned on, so it's supposed to be able to look into any of these apps, screenshots, email, messages, also keep and contacts and calendar to return the answer to the question pulled from inside the app. A few times I did actually get that to work for me, but sometimes it was wrong. Like I have An... | 0 | |
And that would be fine if I could go edit it before I send it. But if I click it, it just sends the whole thing automatically and doesn't also include some of the information I would think you want, like the flight number. I can see the promise here. It's just it feels like it's still a work in progress. The other thin... | 0 | |
But it's potentially a game changer because it's semantic photo editing from text prompts. So it understands what you're asking for and then does the editing for you from simple stuff like, you know, brighten up the faces or remove the road sign or even just make this picture better, which usually does like a nice crop... | 0 | |
Or delete the cars and make the sky bluer. And then it does it. It just does a surprisingly good job just from hearing what you said. Google, genuine question. Is video editing next? Is that even possible? Should I be concerned? Excited? I don't know. We'll see. There's a couple other things like the Journal app and No... | 0 | |
Like, it's supposed to be tailored to me and relevant to my day. But, yeah, that's not really a ton of useful information here. But overall, like I said, the software is really good. And if there's anything that pops up that you don't like, you can literally just ignore it. So that is the good news. So then, the bad ne... | 0 | |
But the bad news is that it does feel like the cameras are slipping a little bit. The Pixel has leaned heavily on elite software processing for years. They, surprise, never really had the biggest sensors or the best hardware. But they pioneered HDR Plus and the Pixel camera always had this sort of confident contrasty l... | 0 | |
And in some ways, they're kind of falling behind a bit now. Triple cameras, like I said, are awesome to have on the base phone. So that 48 megapixel main camera, the ultrawide and the telephoto is a 5X. And then the Pros have a bigger 50 megapixel main camera, a bigger higher resolution ultrawide, and a bigger higher r... | 0 | |
You know, sure the sensor is a little smaller on the base phone, but they both do a great job with sharpness and dynamic range and lots of detail and usually pretty great color too. They have that look, night sight is still elite. But past that, it's just not good at any type of zoom like I was hoping it would be. The ... | 0 | |
And then trying to zoom in was like surprisingly bad, at least compared to other flagships with decent zoom. Almost every photo I've taken, even on these Pros that zoomed in, is just soft. Like colors would be fine and it's bright enough and it's not a terrible image. Mission still accomplished, I guess. | 0 | |
But like this super res zoom feature on the Pros that kicks in for everything past 30X really feels like it encourages me to take a bunch of zoom photos because once I do, it'll run it through the processing and sharpen things up and resolve detail out of thin air with a little machine learning. But yeah, the results j... | 0 | |
All the pictures I'm taking are like 30 to 50X and they kind of look like they have a cartoon filter over them, even compared to a pretty mediocre zoom like the iPhone 16 Pro. And it gets absolutely smoked by a good zoom like the S25 Ultra, even though that's more expensive. Maybe I shouldn't be complaining about 50X z... | 0 | |
And then the wide photos are still obviously really good. It's just the gaps in zoom performance are a little weird considering how much it seems to encourage me to take zoom photos. And then there's video performance, which is still also beat behind the flagships. If you want to see samples, I'm planning on shooting t... | 0 | |
But yeah, it'll be all the A -roll shots and then the B -roll will still be from the iPhone so you can compare the two. So the Pixel 10, it's still a Pixel. It feels like the Pixel is a finished slash complete thought for now, just based on the way Google's acting and working around this phone. And they're not making a... | 0 | |
So if you didn't like the Pixel last year for certain reasons, like, you know, oh, it's not the best hardware or it's not the most powerful, then you still won't like the Pixel. But if you love the Pixel of previous years, because, oh, it's this cool design that you like, or it's got great stills or awesome software, t... | 0 | |
Maybe they really believe in Jimmy Fallon and the other celebrity endorsements that will be their savior and finally make it happen. Me personally, I think the other half of their strategy of like directly addressing the masses that are on iPhones here and giving them reasons to switch with like Pixel Snap and other di... | 0 | |
I'm probably going to switch to this Moonstone Pixel 10 Pro as my main daily driver phone. And then I'm probably going to switch off of it to something with more tempting, interesting hardware features. And then I'll probably switch back when I get bored with the other weird software experiences and I want this feeling... | 0 | |
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All right, welcome to the Smartphone Awards 2025. It's all in front of us, all the smartphones of the year. And you know, somehow in a world of AI devices and smart glasses and XR headsets, the smartphone is still OP. Like, this is still the center of our personal computing lives. And we got a lot of stuff coming out t... | 0 | |
And I'm about to give them some trophies. Every single phone on this desk in front of me came out during the calendar year 2025. And it's a bit of a tradition around here to reward some of the best and most notable of them. So that's exactly what I'm going to do. As usual, we have a set number of categories. | 0 | |
And for each one of these categories, I'm going to give one overall winner, which I will also award this very nice premium trophy, which I'll literally mail you if you're watching this, if you're the company that made the phone. And then, of course, I'll give some honorable mentions and some runner -ups if there are ot... | 0 | |
So the awards I give are the ones I deem worthy. And without any further ado, let's just jump into it. First category, best big phone. Now, I've been doing this show a long time. And back when I first made this category, it was when there were like several distinct sizes of phones. Like there was normal phones, there w... | 0 | |
So if you're going to carry a gigantic phone in your pocket, you might as well make the most use of that space. A runner -up that I want to give at least a mention to is this one over here. This is the Oppo Find X9 Pro. This is a 6 .8 -inch screen size and packs in a huge triple camera system on the back, including a 2... | 0 | |
It's an awesome phone. It's very big. But not enough to win this award. The winner is going to go to this guy. This is the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max. This is a really big phone that is really loaded with features. First of all, it's a 6 .9 -inch phone. | 0 | |
So basically as big as a phone gets before it's a tablet. But it also feels like the most phone you can get if you're trying to maximize everything. Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which is shaken out to be the most powerful chip of the year. 7 ,500 million power silicon carbon battery. All of the RAM. All of the storage. Tr... | 0 | |
It's everything. This is one of those phones that made a statement for the design and how well it used the massive thing that is the camera bump on the back of the phone. Really well done by Xiaomi and well deserving of the best big phone of 2025. So that brings us to the next category. Best small phone. So like I said... | 0 | |
Because I feel like it's more important than ever to reward the ones that are actually doing the most with the least amount of space. Because it's so rare now. And so last year, the small flagship phone basically went extinct. There are no really good flagships with an under 6 -inch screen anymore. So the winner last y... | 0 | |
S for small, allegedly. And it did a lot of things great. Pretty simple, small, strong, and slick design. Smooth and smart software. Sorry, I'm overdoing the S thing again. But that wasn't quite enough to win this award. We also had phones like the iPhone 17 and 17 Pro, which had 6 .3 -inch screens roughly. That didn't... | 0 | |
Because if slab phones aren't going to do it, then I feel like we should reward the phone that's actually trying to do something to be smaller. And so the winner of the best small phone this year is this. The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7. So Samsung has been on this path where they're kind of slowly refining all of their ph... | 0 | |
Because this phone is now a 6 .9 -inch full -size smartphone when it's unfolded, which is massive. But now more than ever, you can use this phone when it's folded in half. Which doesn't just make it easier to pocket, but it also lets you use the full 4 .1 -inch corner -to -corner cover screen a lot more. And I actually... | 0 | |
It's like this was the perfect amount of useful as a small phone. And then it always had a full -size smartphone lurking underneath if you needed it. But definitely worthy of the best small phone. I think you could argue all day between the folding and flipping form factors. Like which one's better for most people, whi... | 0 | |
So next category, best camera. Now this has always been a very interesting category for the smartphone awards. Because every year, we get a ton of innovation in smartphone cameras. It's no surprise. Matter of fact, a little inside baseball. Basically every single one of these phones that comes out, it gets sent to the ... | 0 | |
And sometimes like half of those pages are just on smartphone camera features. So we got new flagship phones this year with 200 megapixel cameras. We got brand new super advanced stabilization in some of these. Some new formats. Almost everything actually in front of me here has at least triple cameras. Usually three f... | 0 | |
But then you ask the people who actually use the cameras here for a living. And it seemingly always boxes us in to one answer. The i... Oh, oh, oh wait. That's not. Oh, would you look at that? The 2025 camera winner is the Oppo Find X9 Pro. This phone did basically everything right in the camera department in my opinio... | 0 | |
But a 50 megapixel main camera, a 50 megapixel ultra wide, a 200 megapixel telephoto camera. And they put out consistently great photos, great sharpness and dynamic range, really good color calibration. That was a really good base. And then all the little intangibles too, like a really quick responsive camera app, quic... | 0 | |
And then they just loaded it up with a ton of extra features that honestly sometimes work, sometimes don't. But like it's cool to have them if you want. Like there's the stage lighting mode. So if it detects you're taking a photo during a concert, it can change the lighting to look kind of nice. Also, the fourth sensor... | 0 | |
It also has good portrait mode. And it has good night mode. And very respectable film emulation. And also, you know how most of these on the table, 48, 50, 100 megapixel sensors are mostly giving you bend down 12 megapixel shots? Not this one. This one's giving you, if the lighting is good enough, 50 megapixel shots fr... | 0 | |
It'll do log. And the microphones are pretty good too. And then on top of all of that, they also made this, which is an attachment lens, a Hasselblad telephoto attachment that you put the case on the back of the phone. You attach this to the case. And then this turns into a 10x optical zoom on this already really good ... | 0 | |
This has the fundamentals and the fun, the numbers and the look. Like, this is an incredibly well -rounded smartphone camera. Well -deserved and also happens to be a really good phone in other ways too. So, Oppo Find X9 Pro, well -deserving, camera of the year. And then my runner -up is, in fact, the iPhone 17 Pro, whi... | 0 | |
They also bumped to a 4x telephoto, which I think is the right move. And these iPhones are still the undisputed king of video. Like, it's not even really up for debate. If you want the most compatible, best -looking, easiest, most consistent video in the biggest variety of situations, especially with social media apps,... | 0 | |
They take it very seriously. And that's why this is the king of video. So, that's my runner -up for smartphone camera. And I also want to give one more shout -out to the Vivo X300 Pro. Came out late this year. Also, ridiculously good cameras. Really, really impressive sensors and huge sensors. Just not quite as refined... | 0 | |
So, shout -out to the X300 Pro. All right, next category. The value award. And, yeah, here we are. This is always one of the most competitive categories. Because in the battle of giving you the most for the least, that's where the customers are, of course. But also, that's the most challenging as far as development. An... | 0 | |
So, like, you might get a super cheap phone, but at least the camera doesn't suck because I like taking pictures. But my winner is one that I found didn't really suck at anything, which was really nice. It was just a result of an extremely aggressive pricing strategy from this company. Yeah, this is my winner. This is ... | 0 | |
This tends to be one of the harder phones to explain because I'm already trying to explain to people what Nothing is, which is like a new brand of kind of budget -y phones. And then the Nothing brand has the A -series phones, which are even more budget. But then Nothing made a sub -brand called CMF, which is even more ... | 0 | |
This is a 6 .8 -inch, 120 -hertz screen that's actually good -looking and bright. There's a 5 ,000 milliamp hour battery, so the life is actually pretty good. It also still has three cameras, where lots of phones at this price tend to drop one. The specs are solid, and the software is probably its highlight. It's reall... | 0 | |
I literally titled my review of this phone Budget Phone of the Year in May. So some pretty intense foreshadowing there, but I'd say well -deserved. And a nice trophy headed out to the folks over in London for that one. Now, I also want to give a shout -out to the Moto G Play. Maybe it's because Motorola is really not v... | 0 | |
Headphone jack. This is one of the best phones under $200. It's like $180 right now, and it will probably only drop from here. Very much worth it. And they've been killing it in this space for a year, so this isn't a surprise. This is a really good option. Among all the competition in that price category, well done, Mo... | 0 | |
You can see that there isn't really any camera bump because they sort of filled it out and gave it a 5300 milliamp hour battery and a great battery life as a result. Still great software for me in a Pixel. Really good cameras on the back. So overall, if you're after something smaller, this is $499, but I've seen it lis... | 0 | |
Shout -out to the base iPhone 17 for finally stepping up to the plate and doing all the things that the base iPhone should. Flagship chip, really good cameras, great software obviously, but also the new ProMotion display, a massively upgraded selfie camera, some kind of sweet new colors. It's actually a good deal this ... | 0 | |
It feels like we should just be marking this year down on our calendars or the history books, I guess. This is the year that smartphone batteries finally took a meaningful leap up. Or some of them, I guess. I feel like it started in January at the beginning of the year with the OnePlus 13, which launched with a 6 ,000 ... | 0 | |
And then suddenly, with this silicon carbon advancement, we can have all of that in a phone that's actually just as thin as its predecessor. But not every manufacturer has adopted it. Now, whether that's a price thing or a yields thing or a safety thing, a longevity thing, we don't really know. All I can really say is ... | 0 |
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