Marques Brownlee

"This S26 Ultra obviously doesn't have a screen protector on it. But if I just turn on privacy screen, it turns off individual pixels to achieve the exact same effect, which is pretty sick."

"Like the Galaxy Note Edge back in the day where like one side of the display curved over the bezel for the first time."

"They all got the spec bump we expected: Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy. We've seen this non-Galaxy version of the chip be excellent already."

"This time, the S26 is $900, the S26+ is $1,100, and the S26 Ultra is $1,300."

"And then of course Galaxy Fold, which is super early and risky."

"And there's also some big claimed improvements with Bixby now being LLM-powered. New Bixby could be good."

"They also added their own version of Magic Queue, which they're calling now Nudge, which basically lives in the keyboard and gives you suggestions of things to bring in from other apps."

"Inside, it's even the same Tensor G4 chip from last year."

"Welcome to your first look and hands-on with the brand new Google Pixel 10A."

"Can we just pull up the Pixel 9A really quick right next to it? Okay, they're actually the same."

"It's covered in a slightly newer Gorilla Glass 7i instead of Gorilla Glass 3."

"The Tensor G5 is their latest chip and for years the Pixel has had the A series comes out a little later but it actually has the flagship chip."

"It seemed like such a ridiculous omission to take out MagSafe."

"Quick Share works natively like with AirDrop."

"I remember when the new OnePlus flagship came out last January, and it made this huge jump from 5,400 mAh straight to 6,000 mAh by going with silicon carbon"

"But in other markets where people can just use WhatsApp and be happy about it, then there's way more hardware competition"

"like enabling the ultra thin ones like Galaxy S25 Edge and iPhone Air because they could be super super thin, but still with silicon carbon have normal battery capacities"

"So, this is an iPhone 17 Pro Max. It has about a 5,000 mAh battery"

"but this is the Honor Power 2. Yes, it's absolutely a clone of the iPhone, but it's also thinner than the iPhone and has a 10,000 mAh battery"

"like enabling the ultra thin ones like Galaxy S25 Edge and iPhone Air because they could be super super thin, but still with silicon carbon have normal battery capacities"

"This is the Honor Power 2. And if you want an Android phone, but you don't want your friends to know you have an Android phone, well, this might be tempting."

"So, this is an iPhone 17 Pro Max, but this is not an iPhone 17 Pro Max."

"It was running CyanogenMod. So this developer friendly clean no bloatware experience."

"There was Pocophones and Sony Xperia phones and Nothing phones and all sorts of stuff in between."

"Some tried to make the transition smoothly and gracefully like Asus with the ROG phone."

"Now they had their own flavor of Android Oxygen OS, which was this super smooth and fast optimized software."

"It had all these flagship specs with the latest gen Snapdragon 800 series chip and it was $300 somehow which was unreal."

"It has a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, LPDDR5X RAM, UFS 4.1 storage, so performance is pretty great for a camera."

"So this is a Leica camera, but now this is the Xiaomi 17 Ultra Leica Edition."

"You probably remember the Xiaomi 17 Pro and Pro Max from last year, which pretty clearly took after the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max as far as design."

"I kind of love the circular volume buttons with the plus and minus on them, kind of a throwback to like the 2010s with the iPhone 4 days."

"I also shot most of my Tesla Model Y performance review on the autofocus channel with this phone in video mode and it looks great."

"It's running the same software as other Xiaomi flagships, HyperOS 3 on top of Android 16."

"It's running the same software as other Xiaomi flagships, HyperOS 3 on top of Android 16."

"Google's paid Apple billions of dollars over the years to be the default search engine in Safari."

"Siri, as you know, now will kick out to ChatGPT for any complex request that is too much for Siri to handle."

"The Snapdragon 8 Elite chip inside is great"

"You might remember a video I did a couple years ago on those Caviar phones. And as ridiculous as those were, you could pretty clearly see their angle for trying to charge so much for a phone"

"I remember seeing that on the Galaxy S9 back in the day and it was pretty useful. Like that was an innovation to control the amount of light hitting the sensor"

"And now the latest version, M5. And every year, there's some slide or some graphic with an impossibly big number of transistors on one chip"

"I can walk around on the keyboard deck of this MacBook Pro, which is now the size of an apartment building"

"Windows XP is the most widely used desktop operating system. Good times."

"In my Nothing Phone 3 review, when complimenting the display, I mentioned that it has a 1000Hz touch sample rate"

"I wrote iPhone 16 Air accidentally. There obviously is no iPhone 16 Air"

"In my Samsung Galaxy S25 review, when talking about why Samsung plays it safe in the US, I used OnePlus as an example"

"OnePlus 13 did end up working just fine with Verizon, like a lot of other previous OnePlus phones"

"And it doesn't really work with every carrier. Like Verizon, you can forget about it"

"In my PowerBeats Pro 2 review, I actually quoted my pre-release briefing in a meeting with Apple and Beats"

"In my Nothing Phone 3a/3a Pro review, I said the phone would be getting six years of software updates"

"In my Nothing Phone 3a/3a Pro review, I said the phone would be getting six years of software updates"

"In my M4 MacBook Air review, I accidentally called it a MacBook Pro once near the end"

"In my Bionic Ability hand review, I talk about the way that users will control the hand with EMG technology"

"In my CMF Phone 2 Pro review, I said this year it's also modular, but doesn't work with basically any of the accessories from that last CMF phone"

"In my top five Android 16 features video, I said and this latest update is almost purely aesthetic, especially in this first beta"

"Samsung actually still does fit a vapor chamber in the S25 Edge. They've made one that's thinner and wider, and they deserve credit for that"

"It's just the iPhone Air. You obviously knew what I meant"

"In the OnePlus 13S review, I correctly said up to half a terabyte of storage, but the on-screen graphic accidentally says 1 TB of storage"

"The iPhone 17 base is actually slightly narrower and slightly taller than the base iPhone 16"

"The iPhone 17 base is actually slightly narrower and slightly taller than the base iPhone 16"

"My AirPods Pro 3 review talking about the new heart rate feature. I said apparently it's using its own algorithms and software"

"In the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max review, I compared it to the iPhone 17 Pro Max. Naturally, it's what everyone wanted"

"In trying to make my point that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 was really, really good"

"In my OnePlus 15 review, I talk about the ceramic back and how tough it is"

"In the final section with the Nikon Z9, I said with a 24 megapixel stacked CMOS sensor, semi-stacked officially"

"In the Xiaomi SU7 car review, when talking about the prices of the car, I used the local price in Chinese yuan converted to US dollars"

"For the Tesla Model 3 Performance price, I used the US price of $55,000"

"I was inspired to do this and to make this video by Tom Scott in 2023 he did a video going back over all of his previous mistakes"

"This is technically not the first trifold smartphone. This is the Huawei Mate XT that I made a video about back in 2024."

"They're essentially the same ones as the ZFold 7. The cover display up front is also essentially the same as the ZFold 7."

"It's a Snapdragon 8 Elite 4 Galaxy inside. It's obviously only a year old, so still a really great chip."

"The Galaxy S25 Edge is another one. Again, not a product that anyone in particular was asking for or needs, but a much more brutalist really rectangular version of the ultra thin smartphone. And it actually has a flagship main camera and a little bit more of a usable battery."

"This phone I really liked. This is the OnePlus 13S. S for small, allegedly, and it did a lot of things great. Pretty simple, small, strong, and slick design, smooth, and smart software."

"This 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 200 megapixel telephoto that takes sometimes shockingly usable really good far zoom shots just for fun."

"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 as I thought they were going to be."

"The phone that I tested this year with the largest capacity battery which is this chunk right here. This is a Dooji S200 Ultra 11,000 mAh silicon carbon battery."

"This is the Realme GT8 Pro. And you see this camera bump, which kind of looks maybe a little bit generic, but there's two screws on it. It came with a screwdriver so you could pop this camera bump off and change it out to a different shape."

"Already those are specs on paper on the level of like a Tesla Model 3 performance, which today costs like $55,000"

"But it kinda handles on the same level of Model 3 performance or BMW i4. This is a really capable car"

"Like I know people wanna compare this to Porsche Taycan. This is not Porsche Taycan levels of sporty, but it's like one notch below that, which is still really good"

"And the vacuum is a little Roomba on the ground."

"I mean they've been a thing for years from Boston Dynamics back in the day and they've gotten more and more advanced all the way up till now."

"You've probably seen my video on the Neo, which is a soft cloth little 60 lb humanoid chore robot thing."

"Like this actually reminds me of one of the hot takes from last time or like 2 years ago I did this video and someone's take was that the Cybertruck would outsell the Ford F-150 by 2026 which that obviously aged poorly."

"People use Claude and Perplexity and ChatGPT all the time for all kinds of stuff. These things have, you know, in the past few years become super high usage tools and have changed the landscape of business."

"There's been a million advancements in AI assistance over the past few short years, like Google's Gemini getting way better, more capable, and faster."

"But also Amazon's new Rufus AI powered assistant. And of course, all the game-changing advancements with LLMs that aren't even necessarily assistants."

"Also, things like home automation, if you have HomeKit stuff, that works. Okay."

"People use Claude and Perplexity and ChatGPT all the time for all kinds of stuff. These things have, you know, in the past few years become super high usage tools and have changed the landscape of business."

"People use Claude and Perplexity and ChatGPT all the time for all kinds of stuff. These things have, you know, in the past few years become super high usage tools and have changed the landscape of business."

"But people don't realize how popular the Ford F-150 actually is. It's been the number one bestselling truck in America for like 46 years straight or something like that."

"Google found a way to make Quick Share, which is the Android protocol, work with AirDrop."

"The whole world, including myself, was baffled at the lack of magnets in the iPhone 16 when that came out."

"That could still be a dozen exploding Note 7s like it was in 2016"

"And also, it reads a lot like it was written by ChatGPT. I'm not even going to link to it."

"Apple continued for the last couple of months to just spin their wheels and Siri continued to suck."

"It's basically like a Spotlight search replacement for Mac because Spotlight has also been dog water for years."

"They're using a Sony IMX906 sensor, which is the same as we've seen in Samsung's A55 and the Honor 200 and a bunch of other sub $500 phones"

"In my Pixel 10 review, I said my personal biggest annoyance with the Pixel 9 was the optical underscreen fingerprint reader was kind of slow"

"The Pixel 9's fingerprint reader was in fact also ultrasonic. It was still bad and it was still one of my biggest annoyances"

"The Nothing Phone 3 was sort of a uniquely disappointing phone this year. Not because it was a particularly bad phone, but it was just a big delta between what their very passionate fans were hoping and expecting from this phone and what they actually delivered."

"The mission was actually pretty simple here. Apple was looking to create a new entry-level iPhone at the bottom of the lineup. So, they made a smaller, less premium iPhone basically by taking things out of the base phone. But no, the starting price was $5.99. Just a crazy swing in a miss here."

"Really just the fact that the Magic Mouse's design still now in 2025 hasn't changed since I was in high school and it's still like $80 and it still has all the downsides it has from all those years ago is crazy to me."

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