WEBVTT 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:03.400 This year, Santa really let my kids down. 00:00:03.400 --> 00:00:10.200 Way to go, Santa. Look, the point is that sometimes Santa gets busy, 00:00:10.200 --> 00:00:16.280 but he always makes it up to them, right? And this year's special surprise is a new phone. 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:20.280 But while Santa has gone through his fair share of phones throughout the years, 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:25.520 the only thing he hates more than switching phones is deciding which phone to switch to, 00:00:25.520 --> 00:00:30.000 which is why I, Santa, won't be picking their phones. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.200 My kids will. Now, there are some restrictions. 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:38.760 They can have a golden iPhone, for instance, but I also didn't want to influence their choices. 00:00:38.760 --> 00:00:41.960 So I hired a living wage elf to gather up 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:45.920 all the best options, then help my son and youngest daughter make a decision. 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:50.320 Then, because ultimately it is, after all, Santa's credit card on the line, 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:54.460 before they check out, I want to at least see what they settled on. 00:00:54.460 --> 00:00:57.860 Just like I want you to see this message from our sponsor. 00:00:57.860 --> 00:01:09.340 There are only two real rules for my elf. 00:01:09.340 --> 00:01:13.020 One, I love my kids, enough to get them a phone, 00:01:13.020 --> 00:01:18.620 but not enough to buy them just any flagship they want. So 2,000 Canadian rubles is the max. 00:01:18.620 --> 00:01:23.660 It's about 1,400 freedom bucks. And that ties in closely with number two. 00:01:23.660 --> 00:01:28.100 Every option that our elf presents needs to support at least five years 00:01:28.100 --> 00:01:31.660 of both operating system and security updates. 00:01:31.660 --> 00:01:36.140 Unfortunately, that does rule out some admittedly pretty cool niche products, 00:01:36.140 --> 00:01:40.180 but as you can see from my son's phone here, I don't like replacing my kids' devices 00:01:40.180 --> 00:01:45.300 any more often than I absolutely have to. I view device costs on a yearly basis, 00:01:45.300 --> 00:01:49.140 with my budget working out to a little under $300 a year. 00:01:49.140 --> 00:01:53.980 And if they break it before then, then they can get a job and buy themself a new one. 00:01:53.980 --> 00:01:57.860 That's the deal. That left us with these options. 00:01:57.860 --> 00:02:03.180 They're allowed as much time as they want and can ask any questions they want, except for the cost. 00:02:03.180 --> 00:02:07.340 I don't want them to pick the most expensive one just because it's more expensive. 00:02:07.340 --> 00:02:11.060 I'd be really surprised if my son goes for an iPhone. Not because an iPhone is bad, 00:02:11.060 --> 00:02:15.500 but because he's coming from Android, he's perfectly happy with it. And unlike the girls, 00:02:15.500 --> 00:02:18.540 he doesn't use any i-devices in his daily life. 00:02:18.540 --> 00:02:22.460 My daughter, on the other hand, regularly uses an iPad Pro for sketching, 00:02:22.460 --> 00:02:25.860 and I wouldn't be surprised if she wanted to go for something like an iPhone Air 00:02:25.860 --> 00:02:30.940 just because it's so handleable. I mean, she's got her dad's size hands. 00:02:30.940 --> 00:02:36.020 Foldable screens are super cool, but I pretty much guarantee that my son takes the S25, 00:02:36.020 --> 00:02:39.660 and my daughter, I'm between the Flip and the iPhone Air. 00:02:39.660 --> 00:02:44.740 I don't think either of them even knows what a pixel is. Okay, Santa has decided to get you guys 00:02:44.740 --> 00:02:49.300 a phone for Christmas, okay? Have you guys looked into any type of phone you want so far? 00:02:50.180 --> 00:02:54.020 No. This'll be great then. You have a phone currently, right? 00:02:55.460 --> 00:03:01.260 Holy cow, what did you do to that thing? He took the case out, and then he dropped it. 00:03:01.260 --> 00:03:05.380 Yeah, like father-like son. It's a one plus six T. 00:03:05.380 --> 00:03:08.980 Okay, so kind of old, so this is gonna be a very big upgrade for you, 00:03:08.980 --> 00:03:12.140 and you don't have a phone, do you? That one's basically mine. 00:03:12.140 --> 00:03:15.300 But this will be like your first phone then, basically. Yeah. 00:03:15.300 --> 00:03:18.860 Obviously, your dad has tried many phones over the years. Has he ever talked to you? 00:03:18.860 --> 00:03:22.540 A million of them. Yeah, he gets a new phone every week. 00:03:23.820 --> 00:03:27.380 Has he talked to you at all about his choices? Nope. 00:03:27.380 --> 00:03:31.980 How about we start with Google? How did it, being under a certain dollar amount 00:03:31.980 --> 00:03:35.740 and receiving updates for five years, just leave us with seven options? 00:03:35.740 --> 00:03:40.500 While there's a lot of phone companies out there, not a lot of them promise five years of updates. 00:03:40.500 --> 00:03:45.020 Sometimes they promise two or three years, and then also some premium phones, 00:03:45.020 --> 00:03:48.340 like your dad's foldable one, that is more than the dollar amount, 00:03:48.340 --> 00:03:53.320 so you're not gonna get any super fancy phones. So this is like kind of fancy, but not? 00:03:53.320 --> 00:03:57.940 Let's just say you guys will be some of the coolest kids in schools with these phones, 00:03:57.940 --> 00:04:01.380 but you're not gonna be the coolest. I don't think phones to school, because we're not allowed. 00:04:01.380 --> 00:04:05.460 I like that. That's good. We're gonna start with our Google phones though, okay? 00:04:05.460 --> 00:04:10.220 There's two options. There's the Pixel 10, and there's the Pixel 10 Pro. 00:04:10.220 --> 00:04:13.580 What makes this Pro is the screen is a little bit better quality, 00:04:13.580 --> 00:04:16.900 so if you're watching like a movie or something, it'll look a little bit better. 00:04:16.900 --> 00:04:21.060 It has less battery life, which maybe doesn't make it as pro. 00:04:21.060 --> 00:04:24.100 It's like barely any. It is, you're right. 00:04:24.100 --> 00:04:29.280 It is so close, you guys probably wouldn't notice it. The cameras though on this one are a lot better. 00:04:29.280 --> 00:04:33.740 So basically this is just better. Yes, but the colors are different. 00:04:33.740 --> 00:04:37.320 But that doesn't matter. How about you each get one? You can start with the Pixel 10. 00:04:37.320 --> 00:04:41.420 Oh, I got the better one. Start poking around. Oh, it's so smooth. 00:04:41.420 --> 00:04:46.600 That's because these have 120 Hertz screens. Your phone probably has a 60 Hertz screen. 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:50.040 So for gaming, this is gonna be a lot better. I don't know how much you game on your phone. 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:54.440 I won't do any gaming on my phone. I won't do any gaming on my phone. 00:04:54.440 --> 00:04:57.680 Go right into the photos. What? 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:01.720 Look at how good this camera is. Mine doesn't even load. 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:05.680 There's no back button. Oh, yes. So because it's a newer version of Android, 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:09.000 you could add those buttons at the bottom, but Android has gestures. 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:12.160 So if you just like swipe to go back. Oh. 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:16.960 You can always go back. So you're like, I wanna go to the home screen or something. Okay, we're gonna switch then. 00:05:16.960 --> 00:05:21.520 Are you gonna take the same photo? Being Santa's help is hard work. 00:05:21.520 --> 00:05:25.640 Which camera looks better? Do you think this one looks better? Why do you think it looks better? 00:05:25.640 --> 00:05:28.760 Like more detail. Oh yeah, there's the photo. Can you bring the photo back up? 00:05:28.760 --> 00:05:31.840 Oh yeah, you're more zoomed in on this one too. Way more zoomed in. 00:05:31.840 --> 00:05:36.120 Is that like enhanced by anything? Well, it looks like. All of these phones have some sort of 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:40.880 post-processing on their photos. Whether it's Google's magic, Samsung's magic, or Apple's. 00:05:40.880 --> 00:05:44.160 In terms of the colors, which colors do you like? I don't even care. 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:48.640 It's the color. It doesn't matter. That's a big selling feature for people though. 00:05:48.640 --> 00:05:52.600 How? It has a G on the back. Sorry, you don't like it? 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:58.320 Cause it has a G on the back? I unfortunately will not be able to remove that for you. 00:05:58.320 --> 00:06:03.200 Okay, we're gonna put these ones to the side. How about we look at Apple phones next? 00:06:03.200 --> 00:06:08.480 Ew. These are the iPhones that you can choose from. 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:12.600 There's the base iPhone 17. And then there's the iPhone Air. 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:17.760 Which, the selling point of the Air, is it is crazy, crazy thin. 00:06:17.760 --> 00:06:22.000 But that doesn't matter. I don't care about style. You're gonna put a case on it, 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:25.560 which is gonna make it thicker. I can see why Linus didn't want to do this now. 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:28.640 He just wants me to do this. Dad was supposed to be here? 00:06:30.320 --> 00:06:35.680 Whoa, this just got really awkward. No, no, he's busy. 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:39.960 He's at the North Pole. No, he's not. Yeah, he's probably driving home right now. 00:06:40.960 --> 00:06:44.840 It's apps are weird. It's apps are weird. Why do you say they're weird? 00:06:44.840 --> 00:06:48.560 What's weird about them? No, I wanna know. They look weird. 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:52.080 I'll show you. Yeah, I wanna see. Look. They look weird compared to- 00:06:52.080 --> 00:06:56.200 I couldn't even tell what this is without reading it. This is actually a really good camera. 00:06:56.200 --> 00:07:00.680 It is a very good camera. I think that the iPhone cameras, that's definitely one of the selling features for them. 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:04.000 I actually don't even use my camera though, so. 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:07.240 What do you use your phone for then? You don't game on it, you don't use your camera. 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:10.880 What do you use your phone for? Messaging people. Messaging people. 00:07:10.880 --> 00:07:14.040 Discord. Discord. That's what he uses it for. 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:18.680 Now I'm starting to get upset. Why is your dad buying you a phone if he'll use it for his Discord? 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:24.960 I don't know. Business expense? Okay, what do you use your phone for? 00:07:24.960 --> 00:07:28.640 Do you take lots of photos? Do you like how thin it is? 00:07:28.640 --> 00:07:32.480 No. No, why not? Cause it's weird. 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:36.040 It's weird. And I'm used to holding a really thick phone. 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:39.240 That's fair. It also has a really big camera bump. But. 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:43.120 Also, this thingy is on the side instead of like all on one side. 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:47.040 Oh, you're talking about how the volume is on one side and then the power button's on the other. 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:50.720 Do you not like that? You like them all on one side. Yeah. 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:54.640 You wanna trade? I wanna see that one. All right, we'll trade. It's kind of nice that it's really thin. 00:07:54.640 --> 00:07:59.240 It feels nice. It's light. It is very light. The downside of it being this thin 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:03.320 is you get one camera. You get less battery. 00:08:03.320 --> 00:08:06.120 You get, you know, less phone. 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:13.800 The times you would notice the... What? So what you just did is you tapped two iPhones together 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:17.960 and if they were fully set up with all your information you would have just shared your contact information. 00:08:17.960 --> 00:08:22.280 One of the benefits of having an Apple device is if your friends have Apple devices 00:08:22.280 --> 00:08:25.600 you can kind of mingle together better. Whether that's through... 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:30.840 None of my friends have a phone. Well, so you can just get someone's phone number. 00:08:30.840 --> 00:08:35.080 Yeah, but like, this is convenient. You're like, oh, you have an iPhone? 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:38.840 You both get your phone number now. But I already have all the phone numbers of all my friends. 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:42.480 Do you guys like these ones so far better than the Google ones we looked at? 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:46.680 Just because these are Apple, I like the other ones better. Why? Why do you hate Apple? 00:08:46.680 --> 00:08:50.400 I don't know, I just didn't. The whole point of doing this experiment without your dad 00:08:50.400 --> 00:08:55.480 was so that his vibes wouldn't rub off on you. Well, he's kind of my dad and I kind of live with him. 00:08:55.480 --> 00:09:00.120 Oh, one really cool feature of the iPhone you guys might like is actually the selfie cam. 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:03.320 I don't get it, I don't know how many... I've like never taken a selfie. 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:07.600 Well, guess what? We're gonna do one today. If it's just you, if I step out of the frame, 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:12.160 you notice how it's kind of zoomed in on you? Yeah. If I was like, hey, I wanna take a picture with you, 00:09:12.160 --> 00:09:15.560 you notice how it kind of crops and zooms better? It's kind of cool, right? 00:09:15.560 --> 00:09:20.240 We're gonna go to our last batch, which is the Samsung phones. But this is like the worst direction it can fool 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:24.320 because if you fold it this way, you can multitask, yeah. 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:28.560 Sure, on the plus side, if you guys were just using the outer screen, 00:09:28.560 --> 00:09:32.440 sometimes it's good to just check, oh, I got a quick notification, I can ignore that. 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:35.800 We gotta look at the other phones too. Okay, the other Samsung phones we have 00:09:35.800 --> 00:09:41.000 is the S25 and the S25 Edge, okay? The difference between this one, bit bigger, 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:46.160 but it also kind of goes for that Apple Air look. It's really, really thin, so it means it's a lot lighter. 00:09:46.160 --> 00:09:50.880 This one though will again have a bigger battery and it has more cameras, 00:09:50.880 --> 00:09:54.720 even though this one has a better camera. So you guys can take a look at these ones. 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:58.920 I think this one's just better. It has a better resolution. 00:09:58.920 --> 00:10:03.080 It does, it does have, I think this is our highest resolution out of all of the phones today. 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:06.400 So one of the things about the folding phone that you'll need to be a little concerned about 00:10:06.400 --> 00:10:10.800 is it's not very good with dust or water. So if you're someone who pulls your phone out 00:10:10.800 --> 00:10:16.080 when you're outside, maybe when it's raining a little bit, or if you put it in your pocket and has lint at all, 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:19.880 it could damage the phone. Ew! What? 00:10:19.880 --> 00:10:24.440 A whole bunch of weird dots. You're right, actually. It does do some enhancing to his face 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:29.640 that the other cameras didn't and I would say it definitely doesn't actually do 00:10:29.640 --> 00:10:32.960 just to that. It makes it almost look like he has goosebumps 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:36.960 all over his face, which the other phones doesn't and you definitely don't, you know, delete that photo. 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:40.800 You really didn't like it. Okay. This one, I think I'm taking this one over this one 00:10:40.800 --> 00:10:44.240 cause it's bigger and the resolution's better. 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:48.160 Yep. You know, all that good stuff. Do you think this is your top pick so far 00:10:48.160 --> 00:10:53.920 out of like all of the phones? Probably cause I put my phone in like water all the time. 00:10:53.920 --> 00:10:57.320 But you've dropped the phone in water? Yeah. 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:01.000 What? We've got all of the phones back out here now. 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:04.800 So far you said your front runner is the S25 Edge. 00:11:04.800 --> 00:11:07.200 Yeah. Give me your reasons as to why. 00:11:08.160 --> 00:11:14.320 Bigger screen, better quality screen. Which out of these ones is maybe your favorite right now? 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:17.760 I like that one. It has a lot of battery. It has a lot of battery. 00:11:17.760 --> 00:11:21.320 That's right. This one does have a pretty chunky battery. I think- 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:26.440 Their phone runs out a lot. You guys have to make a decision today. Otherwise Santa's gonna get really mad at me. 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:28.940 And then for you, are you leaning towards this one? 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:33.800 Kind of. Kind of. I prefer this one though. You prefer this one though too. 00:11:33.800 --> 00:11:38.320 You want the same phone as me? You guys can both get the same one. I just have one for today. 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:41.960 But you guys, when your dad orders them or when Santa makes them. 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:45.480 When dad orders them. When Santa makes them. When dad orders them. 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:48.560 From Santa. When he orders them from Santa. He can order too. 00:11:48.560 --> 00:11:52.000 When he orders them from whatever phone shop they're from. Okay. 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:55.360 Well. I don't know. Maybe. You keep going back to this one. 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:58.680 I don't know. Do you like how thin it is? Cause you, that was like the first thing you mentioned 00:11:58.680 --> 00:12:02.840 when you picked it up, right? It's kind of thin. It's kind of thin. You keep picking up and playing with this one. 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:07.760 These are both the thinnest phones that we have. Cause the S25 edge was Samsung's attempt at 00:12:07.760 --> 00:12:11.360 like a really, really thin phone. But then we have the same phone. 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:14.720 Like that's just weird. It's not. Yeah. Thankfully. 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:18.360 There's two different colors. I call white. Okay. 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:21.840 Sure. I don't care what color I have. Very interesting. 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:26.480 You guys both settled on the exact same phone. 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:29.960 Do you think your dad is going to be happy, disappointed? 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:33.240 He would be proud for not picking up. Okay. 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:37.860 Remind me. What was your predictions again? I thought my daughter could go for the iPhone Air 00:12:37.860 --> 00:12:41.680 or the flip seven. There's no way that my son's going to go for a gimmick. 00:12:41.680 --> 00:12:44.840 I think he would see it as a personal point of pride 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:49.760 to go for something that's a pretty normal phone. So I think there's no way that he went with anything 00:12:49.760 --> 00:12:53.800 other than the S25. Okay. They both actually picked the same phone. 00:12:53.800 --> 00:12:57.120 So you're going to have to go out and buy another one. What? 00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:01.360 Yes. Hold on. Hold on. This throws me for a loop. 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:04.040 We had a 10 and a 10 pro. 10. 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:08.920 They actually didn't like it. Your daughter said, I don't like the G on the back. 00:13:08.920 --> 00:13:12.660 And I was like, you can put a case on it. 00:13:12.660 --> 00:13:17.000 So she ruled it out because of the G. They both didn't pick Google then. 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.560 Okay. Cause if your daughter didn't like the G, those are out. 00:13:20.560 --> 00:13:23.640 Not a top G. Can't blame her. 00:13:23.640 --> 00:13:28.080 Shoot, this is hard. You're like nervous cause there's like a 40% chance 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:29.800 they both just put the iPhone. 00:13:31.800 --> 00:13:35.840 It wouldn't even surprise me that much if they had done any research going into this 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.400 because I use family link to manage their app access 00:13:39.400 --> 00:13:44.040 and screen time. To my knowledge, it's not available on iPhone. That would have been crazy. 00:13:44.040 --> 00:13:47.880 So if they were like super smart, 00:13:47.880 --> 00:13:51.680 they might have both gone iPhones, but I'm going to say they didn't. Okay. 00:13:51.680 --> 00:13:56.720 You are correct. But your boy was very close to picking the air. 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:00.840 Really? Yes. Yes. He had the other one that they ended up picking, 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:04.160 but he kept playing with the air. It really is sexy. 00:14:04.160 --> 00:14:08.800 And I kept calling him out. I was like, you haven't put that one down yet. He's like, it's just really thin. 00:14:08.800 --> 00:14:13.320 It like feels good. So that was a very close possibility. 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:17.560 That makes me wonder if maybe the S25 edge 00:14:17.560 --> 00:14:21.080 also had his attention. But if we're being honest, 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:25.680 the edge is not as sexy as the air. It's a thin brick. 00:14:25.680 --> 00:14:28.800 I'm going to say they didn't care about the gimmick of the flip. 00:14:28.800 --> 00:14:33.080 They played with it. They thought it was cool. They did not pick it. I think they both went edge. 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:36.440 Correct. Really? They both picked the edge. That's funny. 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:40.480 It's not what I would pick. When I presented all the other gimmicks or the offers of the other phones, 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:45.360 they just couldn't care. It seemed that this one gave them the comfort in the hand, 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:48.800 the higher quality screen, and ultimately it was just a phone. 00:14:48.800 --> 00:14:53.160 It didn't fold. It wasn't Apple. They just wanted a phone. 00:14:53.160 --> 00:14:56.960 But I was very shocked at how close your boy was to picking the air. 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:00.880 Really? Yeah. Ultimately, the reason he didn't was he said, 00:15:00.880 --> 00:15:04.080 my dad wouldn't want me to. What? Yes. 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:07.080 I wouldn't care. I tried to tell him that you weren't here 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:11.400 to make a decision, but then they tried to flip that on me as you abandoned them. 00:15:11.400 --> 00:15:15.560 And I was like, whoa, what do you mean? They're like, why isn't daddy here? 00:15:15.560 --> 00:15:18.840 And I was like, K, I don't like this conversation anymore. 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:23.000 Elijah's your new dad. Sorry to break it to you this way, kids. 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:26.240 Please, no. Well, you wanted kids so badly though. 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:29.680 That's why I had a vasectomy. Nice. 00:15:31.280 --> 00:15:34.120 Okay, anyway. You know what else has no balls? 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:39.320 This segway to our sponsor. If you guys enjoyed this video, 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:42.320 you might enjoy the other entries in this series 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:46.720 where Elijah represents kind of a minimum wage employee 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:51.600 helping to guide people through the process of picking an Android or an iPhone. 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:55.360 And with follow-up episodes about a month to two months later, 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:58.880 talking about what people liked or didn't like about making the switch.