Marques Brownlee
FollowEverything Marques personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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"I actually used a phone this year that got me not two but three full days of like all day carefree high brightness mixed use. like 10 plus hours of screen on time from a 7300 mAh battery. This phone has me so excited about what the next years of smartphones could turn into."
"As someone who's been using a Mac Pro and a Pro Display XDR since they came out, the immediate first thought when I saw these announced was, should I be switching to the Mac Studio and the Studio Display XDRs?"
"The Studio Display XDR specifically is a much better pair with the MacBook Pro. Now there are lots of other options for monitors that you could get to pair with your Apple computer."
"This is officially the best video stabilization I've ever seen in a smartphone. So, as long as you turn on this S26 Ultra's horizon lock right there and hit record, you can have the least steady hands in the world."
"It's because of the way I've edited in Final Cut Pro for like the last decade. So you can blame Final Cut Pro for this, but I have a mouse and a magic trackpad."
"As someone who's been using a Mac Pro and a Pro Display XDR since they came out, the immediate first thought when I saw these announced was, should I be switching to the Mac Studio and the Studio Display XDRs?"
"They said, no problem. We take PayPal. So, I had to open up PayPal on my computer, send the money to Vertu"
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"I was just scrolling top rated phones on Amazon a couple days ago and I saw this one has gotten incredible ratings"
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All episodes →"Apple tried to make before Apple silicon a 12-in MacBook. It was running a 1.1 GHz dualcore Intel processor that throttled if you looked at it for too long."
"And also, it reads a lot like it was written by ChatGPT. I'm not even going to link to it."
"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."
"I got a popup ad for McAfee Security on this $2,000 brand new laptop, which to be fair is probably a Dell problem."
"It's asking me to use Microsoft 365 and then OneDrive and then all these other services, etc., etc."
"Microsoft actually requires a dedicated co-pilot button on the keyboard of every new Windows 11 laptop now to be classified as an AI PC, whatever that means."
"That could still be a dozen exploding Note 7s like it was in 2016"
"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."
"It's asking me to use Microsoft 365 and then OneDrive and then all these other services, etc., etc."
"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"
"Apple continued for the last couple of months to just spin their wheels and Siri continued to suck."
"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"
"It's basically like a Spotlight search replacement for Mac because Spotlight has also been dog water for years."
"these are much healthier than doom scrolling TikTok or Instagram or something like that"
"I have been using this phone for a couple weeks now, and there are some things about it that are actually better than a regular phone. I hate to admit it, but also there are absolutely some things about it that are not worth it."
"Windows has felt like a weak link and every single Windows laptop will have to suffer for it... it's just lacking the super premium feel that wins everybody over."
"The whole world, including myself, was baffled at the lack of magnets in the iPhone 16 when that came out."
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Clear filters"I remember doing a video about this phone, and this thing was nuts"
"the last phones LG did release before they died were the LG Velvet and the LG Wing"
"it appears to just be a single screen that kind of bends over both edges, like a lot of those older Samsung phones"
"This part actually kind of reminds me of the Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha, if you remember that phone"
"This is the same company that also made the G8X, which was right at the beginning of the folding phone era"
"Let's take this photo from every Google phone ever made from Pixel 10 all the way back to T-Mobile G1"
"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"
"all the way back to T-Mobile G1, the first Android phone ever"
"It's roughly the same size as a Nexus 6. A little bit smaller, actually."
"you could technically still find your way over to Instagram on the Boox PALMA"
"That's HomePod jumping into the world that already existed of smart speakers"
"that opens up to an almost 8 in wide screen kind of like a portable iPad mini"
"that's what the original iPhone did, jumping into the already existing world of mobile phones"
"that's Vision Pro jumping into the world that already existed of VR headsets"
"when this all got started 7 years ago with the Galaxy Fold 1, it was really exciting that it folded in half, but there were obviously a ton of compromises back then"
"This phone has a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 inside, but a bend version with one less core. So, for all intents and purposes, I think we can say it's a flagship chip"
"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."
"It has a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, LPDDR5X RAM, UFS 4.1 storage, so performance is pretty great for a camera."
"For context, the iPhone 17 Pro Max is also just under 9 millimeters thin and around 230 gram."
"So, this is an iPhone 17 Pro Max. It has about a 5,000 mAh battery"
"So, this is an iPhone 17 Pro Max, but this is not an iPhone 17 Pro Max."
"In the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max review, I compared it to the iPhone 17 Pro Max. Naturally, it's what everyone wanted"
"this phone has the same ISO HP5 sensor that's in the S25 Edge, 200 megapixels, one over 1.56 in optically stabilized"
"I took the same picture from every single iPhone from the 17 to the one"
"I took the same picture from every single iPhone from the 17 to the one"
"So, this is iPhone 17 and I'm trying to see something."
"the iPhone 17 just came out for 100 bucks more than that, this is a perfect slot for nothing to just jump right in"
"The iPhone 17 base is actually slightly narrower and slightly taller than the base iPhone 16"
"it can be a progress bar indicator for an upcoming Uber or Google calendar notification"