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- Do you want me to (beep) on this phone? What is gonna get us the most clicks?

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I wanna do whatever gets us the most clicks. (Jono laughing) (sultry music)

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This isn't the real box. - [Jono] Yeah, that's all they had.

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- Is this a joke? - [Jono] That's all they had! - I'm a professional video host.

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- [Jono] Engineering sample! - We're about to get the Galaxy S22,

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if all the rumors are right, in a short amount of time.

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Here we have Samsung launching the Galaxy S21 FE,

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which stands for Fan Edition. - [Jono] Yeah, or founders edition.

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- Well, it's not founders edition because you're already almost a year late.

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And this is their shtick now, I guess what they do, right? They release the main phone

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and then they release an FE version of the phone, which is like a little bit stripped down, but cheaper.

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And is that, oh, new colors. Oh, the colors. I see them now.

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Oh, that one's really good. Yeah, so the Galaxy S21, in case you were wondering, Jono,

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I'll let you know it's 699 for the 128 gig version,

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which is $100 more expensive than the Pixel 6.

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This thing starts at 599 and this thing starts at 699,

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and so that's why we're gonna be kind of looking and comparing them a little bit.

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- [Man] It's recycling. - I do not feel respected in this moment right now.

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This is not the true unboxing experience I was anticipating

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when you asked me if I wanted to host this video. And I come on here, bubble wrap?

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On the plus side, I think this is actually what comes in the real box, basically.

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You might have some like documentation and stuff. So it comes with a USB-C to C cable

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and a whatever, SIM ejector thing.

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And no power plug, no wall plug.

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And here comes the S21 FE 5G,

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oh me oh my. Olive is the color. Is that what that is?

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- [Jono] Yeah. - I am not usually someone to actually care at all

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about the aesthetics of a phone, but I like this color. It's plastic, but it's got this sort of like,

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like there's a bit of like a shadow too. Like it looks like the logo on the back is sort of raised

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a little bit above through like using some clear acetate or something.

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I don't know. I don't know materials, but it looks cool.

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We have the power button and a volume rocker I'm assuming.

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On the bottom, we got a USB-C type C port

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and one speaker grill. Disappointing a little bit, but it's the FE edition.

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It looks kind of like an iPhone with the metal ring on the outside and the bands.

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Okay, so we got the hole punch situation going on. Okay, so 6.4" display,

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120-hertz refresh rate, which I believe is the same as the Pixel 6

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in terms of the size anyway. This Pixel 6 has a 90-hertz display.

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OLED versus AMOLED. It's kind of interesting, the more budget friendly options that aren't the,

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these companies are now putting out are like this is the more budget friendly one,

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it's got 120-hertz display. That was on the flagships a few years back. Nice job.

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It's also got a Snapdragon 888, so it's got that flagship power,

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at least until the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1s start showing up.

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Six gigs of RAM by default, which is okay in these days.

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128 gigs of storage at the 599, at the 699 price point

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and then it goes up to 769 if you go for the 256 gig option.

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On the back, we got three cameras. One's a 12 megapixel primary,

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then there's a 12 megapixel ultra wide and an eight megapixel telephoto.

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Apparently this thing can go 30 times combined digital and real zoom.

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30 times is okay, you don't need more than that. On the front camera, you got a 32 megapixel.

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It's got an IP68 water dust resistance rating. It does have 5G, which I guess is just the default now.

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And that's about it for the regular specs.

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For me, the immediate comparison is going to be, as I said, with the Pixel 6.

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I'm generally a fan of the Pixel line. The Pixel 6 is a little bit bigger,

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but they're supposed to have the same size screen, 6.4".

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Google's whole like selling point is that it's a Google phone, right?

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They have their Pixel exclusive features. It gets Android updates first.

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You know, they got their Tensor chip on here now, they're custom made with the good AI stuff.

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You know that good AI stuff. They got Magic Eraser on the Pixel 6.

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They got the Face Unblur. But the thing is that Samsung

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is not just another Android manufacturer.

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They have their own One UI custom variant of Android.

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I mean like when you go to their settings, it almost seems like a completely different operating system

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compared to the Pixel operating system. They both have advantages over the other,

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but this one's $100 cheaper. Thankfully, Samsung knew that launching the S21 FE

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a month before the S22 is going to be, is kind of sketchy,

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maybe they're not gonna sell as much, so Amazon was giving you a $100 gift card if you,

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I think they're done with that now. To be fair, Jono-

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- [Jono] You can go on Samsung's website and get a Samsung $100 credit.

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- Oh, what? - [Jono] Yeah. - Let's take a look at the camera, why don't we? Because that's probably one of the most important things.

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There you are. Oh, beautiful.

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Oh, that was pretty good. You're looking pretty nice, Jono.

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- Thanks, man. - You're looking crisp, bro. Okay, that was just like a regular rear photo,

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but which, oh, okay. So I got the ultra wide. Whoa.

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- [Jono] You can't call me fat. - 0.5 times, one times, three times.

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This is the eight millimeter telephoto. Wow, the stabilization. Stabilization is really good.

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Now I'm on the 30 times zoom.

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Stop moving. Stop. There he is. (laughs)

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I have located the Object Eraser feature,

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which was the star of the show of my Google Pixel 6 Pro ShortCircuit unboxing.

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And I wanna try it out. Object Eraser, it's got an N there 'cause it's new.

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Okay, so just like on Pixel, we can just tap or draw around anything you wanna erase.

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Get rid of that chair. Get rid of that chair, get out of here. Erase.

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That is pretty good. Dang, Google, watch out.

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What about this shelf? I wants the whole shelf. Get rid of it.

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Hmm, it's pretty ugly.

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We can bring up, oh, that was pretty good. We can bring up the comparison from the Pixel 6 Pro video

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and put it next to each other. But this is a battle of the content and ware fills on phones.

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I'm pretty impressed, but it's a Snapdragon 888. Because part of the reason Google said

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that their phone could do this fancy new AI stuff with the Magic Eraser is what they called it

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and the Face Unblur and stuff is because they were like harnessing the power of their new custom made Google Tensor chip,

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which is based on a Samsung processor.

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From what we hear. But here we have Samsung using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

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to achieve very similar results. I mean, it's a little different.

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Put them up side by side, I don't remember what it looks like, but that's pretty good.

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Did this just get scratched? Oh, is that? Wait, is this a screen protector?

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- Yeah, that's a screen protector. - Oh. Oh man, you don't want that to happen to your phone.

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So I guess you should get protective things from dbrand.

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- [Jono] Our sponsor. - Our sponsor, but not if you're buying the S21 FE

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because dbrand's not supporting it because they think that this phone is dumb,

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which is fair enough. (laughs) But if you have other types of phones,

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dbrand has some good skins, I guess, do they even care about me saying that?

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- No, just don't buy- - They got cases, they got screen protectors, they got skins.

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Go to dbrand and get your stuff or don't. It seems like they don't really care.

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- [Jono] The leather is pretty sweet though. - The dbrand leather? dbrand has leather apparently, I'm being told.

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dbrand, get a thing on your phone made from a dead animal.

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So now our Pixel 6 is charged. Thank you so much, Jono.

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And I'm gonna check out the camera. Oh man, I feel like I'm really softened more on the Pixel

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instead of the, and less on the Samsung for some reason. I expected it to be the opposite.

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Okay, so this is an interesting benefit. If you're into selfies more,

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if you're doing TikToks and looking at your face a lot,

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'cause you're a narcissistic piece of,

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you might want the S21 FE. It's got a 32-megapixel selfie camera.

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And I'm guessing this is something like 8 megapixels, maybe 12?

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It's a lot blurrier and that's super obvious.

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Let's take one of these. Oh, we got a little bit less visual noise on the S21

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than the Pixel 6 in the dark areas of the photo.

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Although it does seem like things are a little bit more,

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the brightness is up on the S21, but we got a little bit more color saturation

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on the Pixel 6. I mean, they're both great cameras and great photos.

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And at the end of the day, we're really nitpicking here. But I don't know.

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The point being that there's not a clear winner. It's not like I can look at one of these and be like,

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"Haha, this thing's a piece of crap. No one should get it." And same thing for this one.

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I think there are pros and cons. If you're into the Google ecosystem, if you're in into the Pixels, the Pixel 6 might have some,

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especially with the Tensor stuff. I don't know, are they gonna add more AI stuff?

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AI is a cool buzz word and that's not to be discounted.

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Whereas on the Samsung side, I mean, if you're kind of tired of Google slowly adding the features

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that other Android manufacturers have put in their phones already for years,

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then you might wanna go with a Samsung because, or with another manufacturer

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because they have their own features like the Object Eraser, which we took a look at.

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4,500 milliamp-hour battery is a little bit bigger than the regular one in the S21.

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The Pixel 6 has like a 4,600 milliamp-hour battery. But you know, it's around the same.

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It depends on how the software is gonna do. I think the moral of this story

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really that I wanna tell though is that the landscape of budget slash value flagship phones

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is pretty good right now. I mean, we were in a dark spot there

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where literally every phone that people wanted to buy was like going for near $1,000.

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And now Google came back to the light with the Pixel 6,

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they priced it at 599. And then if you wanted something fancy,

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you'd go for the Pixel 6 Pro, which is like 999, 899?

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Whatever, it's more expensive. And Samsung has seen the light once again.

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They're doing another fan addition of the phone, so it's cool.

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You know, you don't have to buy a $1,200 phone if you don't want to.

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All right, one last thing we gotta look at is the speakers.

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(bright music)

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- [Jono] I like that better.

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- I don't know, one doesn't sound particularly worse than the other to me, they just sound like a little different.

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This one has a little, there's a little bit of mids missing from this maybe.

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And like, you kind of hear it. This is a bit more fleshed out. Either way, they're fine. (laughs)

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