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my new phone arrived I just have to choose it and I got to admit I'm a

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little scared I don't know what's worse the Android Fanboys who are going to

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tear me apart for choosing an iPhone or the Apple Fanboys who are going to tear

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me apart for picking the wrong one in front of me I've got the 16 16 Pro 16

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plus and 16 Pro Max and by the end of this one will have replaced my trusty

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Galaxy Note 9 I already kind of missed

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my stylist you know I use it as a camera shutter button more often than anything

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else so you can use the rear camera and remote trigger but hey I'm not going to

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need that because across the whole lineup we get Apple's camera slider

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control button thing that I've heard about but haven't actually gotten a

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chance to use yet in spite of the fact that a shocking number of people here at

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the office have already upgraded to these phones dude Andy whipped his out

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on my recent trip Bella you've already got one you guys are crazy and we'll

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talk about that but first first let's decide whether a titanium versus

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aluminum chassis is worth the additional money not to mention the extra

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accessories that are included with the promo sorry I'm just kidding they all

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just come with a standard USBC to USBC cable and a Sim removal tool even though

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the Pro Models do support usb3 transfer

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speeds with their type-c port they still only come with a USB 2 capable cable

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because Apple wants you to spend a bunch of money on a cable I mean Apple wants

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to say Save the Planet by including less copper one cable at a time oh wait I

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didn't bring my 12 Pro so you guys don't know this but I'm actually kind of a

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closet semi- Apple user already I have a 12 Pro for when I need to take a picture

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where the quality matters so instead of just a 48 megapix Main shooter and 12

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megapix Ultra wide you get a 48 Main 48 Ultra wide and a dedicated 12 megapixel

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telephoto though it's possible that won't even matter that much to you

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because the main shooter on the 16 can apparent ly operate in like a pseudo 12

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megap telephoto mode with Optical quality digital Zoom whatever that means

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anyway we've gotten off the point a little bit the camera bump is bigger and

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thicker and the whole phone is actually a little bit thicker and more

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importantly is a little heavier it's not a huge deal if I wasn't holding them

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side by side I wouldn't care but this kind of reinforces my original leanings

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that I think I want the regular 16 I don't think I'm willing to pay the extra

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for the phone it took me until now I've actually had them on for about 10

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minutes while I did retakes to notice the thinner pel I totally forgot about

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it it's nice aluminum titanium don't really feel that different to me am I

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missing something here there's also a slight size difference too aside from

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just the bezels yeah oh so there is very

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very small but you know what that's probably contributing to the difference

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in the like weighty feeling of it okay not now Siri oh my God stop

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oh the dynamic Island ha I get to experience that fresh Joy but I'm

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probably going to get to that more in the full review over on LTT for now I

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want to talk about a feature that genuinely excites me and that is the

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action button it's not strictly speaking new we already saw it on the 15 Pro

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Series but it's new to the regular 16 meaning this is the cheapest you've been

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able to get an action button which is essentially just a macro that can be

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programmed for all kinds of cool things so you pulled to by default but it can

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be configured to launch various apps perform a variety of system functions oh

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my God this menu is terrible just give me a scrollable list what the hell is

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wrong with you no what do you mean no

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this is awful no it's pretty I don't care I can't see what the all the

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options are I have to scroll through the whole goddamn thing okay let's look at

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what we got here focus camera wait don't

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I have a don't I have a dedicated camera button okay well whatever I can also use

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the action button to launch the camera because I'm into it like that accessibility options that's super cool

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hold on a second can you can you set it to like double tap and triple tap and

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long press no oh well um fine I'm going

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to go with flashlight yeah

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buddy wait what oh I got to hold it oh

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you can can you configure it to be a toggle

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no okay well wait I got to now I got to hold it

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again okay well progress new across both

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models though is the camera control I

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don't know whether to call it button or slider or I'm going to call it interface

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so you press it once and it launches the camera press it again boom you've taken

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a picture that was pretty darn fast was

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it that much faster than the double click on my Note 9 and then pressing a

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volume button I don't know but it was definitely fast and it does more than

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just that I can do a light press ooh

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that is a really light press and I can adjust my zoom that is why does Apple

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scroll everything backwards why do they do that does this

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not feel backwards to you you're like a lifelong Apple user it's natural you're

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pushing it away or bringing towards it's left and right it's not away or toward

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you the bigger issue is that compared to pressing the screen clicking the button

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causes a little bit more camera Shak so one of our camera guys Andy who already

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got himself a 16 Pro is like yeah I'm not going to use it I'm just going to

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use the on screen button wow it really doesn't seem more convenient it would

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need to be here has anyone talked about the location of this button yet H I

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don't know Apple I think you missed the mark by like 2

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cm wow I can almost read the LT on that

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cable tie I could probably find the Easter eggs that incriminated casify on

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your laptop this is awesome the only problem for selling me a pro is that the

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regular 16 is also like freaking awesome

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I don't think I've seen anything yet to convince me to go with the pro so right

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now we're comparing you know crappy digital Zoom to optical zoom oh dude

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dude you look like trash but here look

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at that glorious okay regular 16 you're

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making him look too glorious right now stop it that's the rare shiny though

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Shin it's cuz they're touching they're not touching the point is is that's a

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lot better enough to spend another couple hundred I don't know especially

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when you could spend that money on our sponsor debrand what are they featuring

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today oh it's the new applicator thing

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for the screen protector okay I saw their videos of this what this pixel

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this is all pixel stuff uh yeah we don't have the iPhone on but we do have a

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pixel and these are so easy that you can apply them with a blindfold

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on Pyramid logo at the top and pull tab

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near the charging port all

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right oh buddy swipe wait 5 Seconds

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remove the tray I peeled the whole thing off am I

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an idiot oh dude the glass is on

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it it's so easy I didn't know I successfully did it and this level of

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perfection can be yours with the prism 2.0 atl.com we're going to have that

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linked down below both of them support new photographic

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Styles you can change your I don't know

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your undertones yeah I could do that right

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I'm sure my kids would love this you know one of the other big

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differentiators for the camera is support for 120 frame per second 4K

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recording on the Pro Models and one of Apple's justifications for this like why

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you would ever need that is 120 FPS can

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actually be perfectly reduced to any

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other frame rate that you would want to use and I remember having a conversation

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with one of our old camera guys Brandon like eight years ago I was like yeah we

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should just shoot everything at 120 because then we can upload at any frame

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rate we want and he was like that's the stupidest thing I ever heard lonus you

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wouldn't get the proper feel during panning shots that you get from like

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that cinematic 24 frames per second so we're going to put that to the test oh

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since we're in here this audio mix stuff is kind of cool you can change it to

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either sound like a standard phone camera or like more like you were in a

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you know Studio or whatever else did I

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say 100 FPS here let's let's play it

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25 yeah that's not what I meant by that

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well I'm sure there's a way to do that and I will either figure that out for

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the full review or I will not care about it because I don't care about it let's

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talk about what's under the hood both the pro and non-pro are getting a18

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class silicon which is an improvement from last generation where non-pro users

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got last gen silicon but we're getting an a18 Pro versus a regular a18 the main

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difference between which seems to be a slightely more powerful GPU a bit more

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cache an upgraded display engine as well as image signal processor and video

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encoder all of which are supposed to contribute to more of those pro video

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features like that high refresh rate 4K recording I don't know if any of those

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things are the kind of thing that the average person is likely to miss dayto

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day although I will say that the differences are starting to add up let's

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have a look at the screens now let's play a game I'm not going to tell you

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which of these phones is which you're not going to look that closely at the

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bezel okay you're just going to try and tell from the screen wow they look good

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do you know which one is which if you said this is the pro congratulations

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you're right but shame on you you're a cheater because to the eye the

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difference between these is not discernible even Apple's own specs says

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that they have the same performance when it comes both to Peak brightness and

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even to sustained brightness and we recorded the same in our lab for both

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the non-pro and the Pro Models which I think is a really good thing because it

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means that content creators can Target One display essentially for this entire

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generation of iPhones with the only difference being the slight size

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difference and of course the elephant in

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the room which is the difference in refresh rate so once again the non-pro

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does not get a promotion display meaning that it will only run at 60

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HZ have you seen the controversy around the pro where they took a high-speed

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camera and found that it only ever reaches about 80 HZ instead of the

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advertised 120 dude it's noticeable do

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you see that stutter here come come look in person yeah I guess a little bit is

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it just with the 16 Pro uh do you notice the difference between my 15 Pro and the

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16 Pro do you notice the difference between the 15 Pro and the 16 Pro a

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little bit I'm hoping that's a software thing the good news is that the other

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standout feature of the display having always on display does work yeah that's

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pretty cool and it goes all the way down to one knit which I am a huge fan of

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because I okay I'm sorry I use my phone late at night in my bed I know I'm not

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supposed to but at least this is going to make it I don't know less bad let's

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continue the side by side but this time let's look at audio

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that is an incredible amount of Rumble

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for a tiny little phone

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speaker Things Fall Apart a little bit once you get past about 80% but that's

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outstanding okay Pro

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now do you hear that it almost sounds like it has like a bit of subwoofer r

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Rumble that should be

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impossible my God these sound good are they vibrating the phone a little bit

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dude it almost feels like like a little bit of that sensation of bass like H

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have you heard of the baselet it's like a a wearable device that's supposed to

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kind of like vibrate your wrist a little bit to make you feel more bass it wasn't

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that effective but if they're doing something similar on this it's working I

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can't to my ears tell the difference between these two they both sound

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flipping awesome though they both have Wi-Fi 7 so that's a non-factor they both

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get the ceramic Shield which is apparently Apple's toughest glass ever

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and it was already freaking amazing they both get satellite messages both

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outgoing and from a select contact emergency contact incoming and they both

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have sensors that detect if you've been in an accident and will call 911 I guess

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the last thing is for me to look at the ergonomics of the different sizes make a

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final call here I guess now's a good opportunity to talk about base models

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and pricing apple is still shipping phones so for the 16 and the 16 plus

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with 128 GB of storage which is

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absolutely pathetic in this day and age and then they are charging an obscene

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amount to get more the pro Max starts at

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256 but the regular Pro doesn't it

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starts at just 128 gigs of storage as well so the amount of money that you're

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paying to get a pro Max that starts with 256 you're better off buying a lower

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spec phone and um I guess paying an

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exorbitant amount for more storage I mean it's no secret why Apple's doing

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this their customers will pay it and they will then turn around and pay them

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even more for an iCloud subscription so that they have somewhere to put all of

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their stuff but it's very frustrating for me and it does make the decision

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more complicated because I feel like no matter which one I get I'm kind of

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paying a lot more than I'm really comfortable with it's not necessarily

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about whether I can afford it or not it just bothers me like they start over a

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thousand dollars so what in for a penny in for a pound do I just go pro you can

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still buy last generation iPhones and they're still G to get like you know

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five six seven years of software support anyway so that's actually a viable

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option on the iOS platform I could see why people wouldn't want to upgrade

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these things very often dude you run into so many people that are like still

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using their iPhone 8 or whatever and it's like yeah because the lineup is so

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confusing now and it's not even that it's confusing it's that it's so

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expensive weighing these different options against each other it's like

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stressful they even all kind of look the same on the table in front of me they

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all got the same ip68 water resistance oh they all have faster wireless

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charging right Meg safe this will be my first time in the Meg safe ecosystem

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kind of excited about that half an hour for 50% charge love that you know what I

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think I'm going to go with my initial gut feeling 16 plus 256 gig and then

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anything we left off here I guess we'll cover in the LTT review you know like

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the video on the real Channel sorry about subscribe to ShortCircuit though