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"
"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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"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"you can watch Zack from JerryRigEverything's video because he also got one and he took those screws and took them out"
"This is a good minimal phone, especially for the price. It's undercutting the competition by, from what I can tell, quite a bit."
"The MacBook Neo, which is one of the best deals in tech in a long time, 600 bucks and more efficient and more capable and better built than almost every other laptop in that price range."
"Not only is this really good, I think it's potentially Apple's most disruptive product in the last 10 plus years."
"Two of the most compelling new budget phones available right now. The 4a is where it's at."
"If you want the best possible display to complement the MacBook Pro for that one cable plugin and come to life desk setup, it's this one."
"These are incredible. I think they're better than AirPods Pros... as of right now, these are the ones to beat. My favorite wireless earbuds 2026."
"My take is the Ultra feels like a little bit of a refresh and it's a cool place to try this privacy screen thing. I'm very excited to see it in person and try it out, looks pretty sick!"
"That's genuinely really sick! This is a hardware-level control over the pixels on the display that can be turned on or off whenever."
"Quick Share works natively like with AirDrop. If you have Apple devices and Google Pixels, they can file share between them and it's kind of sweet."
"I think my favorite OnePlus phone of all time would be the OnePlus 7T Pro. That thing I genuinely believe I could still use today and be totally happy with."
"Circle to Search is one of the absolute most useful AI features to me of the entire last 5 plus years where you can circle whatever's on your screen."
"I think Gemini on Android phones is already really good. They've looped in now a lot of the old Google Assistant features. So Gemini as a product is really good."
"this is Epic Spaceman, one of my favorite creators and of course a massive help with this video"
"In trying to make my point that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 was really, really good"
"This is a device that's actually starting to make foldables make sense to me. For the right person who knows what they're getting into, this can be worth it."
"If you deleted all the slab phones in the world somehow and made me daily drive something that folds, it would be this one. Not because it's the thinnest or has the best specs or the best cameras. It doesn't. But it's just it's the most rock solid across the board and usable as a daily in every way."
"What they've ended up with is a phone that feels crazy. It feels impossibly light. It looks impossibly thin. It kind of resembles a piece of jewelry in many ways, but also really appeals to the minimalist in me. It's just one of those phones that feels so good in the hand and is so impressive."
"The iPhone 17 Pro which also leveled up again this year both in the photo and video departments. The larger main sensor looks really good. They also bumped to a 4x telephoto which I think is the right move. And these iPhones are still the undisputed king of video."
"For $279, this phone is modular, cheap, and fun. They built a phone that feels like it's literally double the price. This is a 6.8 inch 120 Hz screen that's actually good-looking and bright. There's a 5,000 mAh battery, so the life is actually pretty good."
"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 time around."