WEBVTT

00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.839
yeah i know my video's late because i didn't get an

00:00:03.280 --> 00:00:10.719
iphone 10 until d brand actually bought one skinned it and shipped it to me but

00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:15.679
unlike some people i'm not going to make a big salty song and dance out of it

00:00:13.120 --> 00:00:20.400
because frankly if i was apple i probably wouldn't feel like spending the

00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:22.000
thousand dollars or even 370 dollars to

00:00:20.400 --> 00:00:27.680
hear what i'm about to say about their latest and greatest either

00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:31.279
especially in front of their store which is under renovation i wanted to do this

00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:36.559
in front of the cube today's video is brought to you by mac weldon i was going

00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:40.480
to wear the shirt but it's so cold mack weldon believes in smart design premium

00:00:38.480 --> 00:00:46.030
fabrics and simple shopping use offer code tech tips at the link below to get

00:00:42.800 --> 00:00:54.239
20 percent off on your next order

00:00:54.239 --> 00:01:02.000
now if the iphone 8 and the 8 plus are fraternal twins then the 10 is kind of

00:00:59.440 --> 00:01:06.320
like the love child from that brief but intense affair that everyone knows mom

00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:12.080
had but that no one talks about unless uncle gordon's had too much to drink

00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:14.720
apple reused almost every major internal

00:01:12.080 --> 00:01:20.320
component making the 10 with its beefy battery three gigs of RAM and dual rear

00:01:17.759 --> 00:01:25.439
camera system something familiar kind of like a plus in a regular sized body and

00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:31.040
yet something totally different because as i fix it revealed in their fantastic

00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:33.680
tear down to achieve this spectacular

00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:39.600
density they actually went back to a technique so old we haven't seen it

00:01:36.320 --> 00:01:42.159
since the original iphone a dual pcb

00:01:39.600 --> 00:01:47.119
internal layout that in another creative move uses dual lithium ion batteries for

00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:52.479
maximum density but while in some ways physically the 10 is

00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:55.680
what i've been asking out before for years

00:01:53.600 --> 00:02:00.560
less concerned with reducing thickness and weight and more with increasing

00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:06.479
battery life and features like wireless charging this comes at the cost of it

00:02:02.880 --> 00:02:09.440
feeling well kind of heavy and thick

00:02:06.479 --> 00:02:14.800
to be clear i still vastly prefer the form factor of the 10 compared to the 8

00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:19.599
plus its size makes it much easier to hold on to even if it's slim bezels mean

00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:22.720
an accidental drop is more likely to be fatal

00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:27.599
it's just that the slight increase in unwieldiness compared to the 8 is

00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:31.680
compounded by the 10's unfamiliar new gesture based controls

00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:36.640
before i get to those though let's talk about the screen

00:02:33.040 --> 00:02:39.280
i am sorely disappointed that my 120

00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:43.519
hertz prediction didn't come true but otherwise it's everything that you could

00:02:41.440 --> 00:02:48.720
hope for from a top of the line phone in 2017. apple took the best mobile OLED

00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:54.239
screen technology on the market from samsung and tuned it to damn near

00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:58.800
perfection it's the brightest OLED i've ever seen making for the best direct

00:02:56.720 --> 00:03:04.400
sunlight viewing experience that i've seen yet and the best rendering of HDR

00:03:01.440 --> 00:03:07.840
content that i've seen yet and the ultra tall or

00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:13.760
ultra wide depending on how you look at it aspect ratio combined with the stereo

00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:20.400
bottom firing and earpiece speaker combo makes it great for watching cinema

00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:22.560
aspect ratio content like movie

00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:26.319
is what i would say if it weren't for the notch

00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:32.560
now for the vast majority of the content that you'll find on youtube or netflix

00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:38.560
it and the rounded bottom corners will end

00:03:34.959 --> 00:03:41.360
up cut off by pillar boxes but in movies

00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:45.040
it is a literal black mark on what is otherwise the standard by which mobile

00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:51.120
displays can be measured and while it's far less obnoxious i did

00:03:48.239 --> 00:03:55.040
also notice it in day-to-day use a lot of people might not care about

00:03:52.959 --> 00:04:00.159
something like this but there's no room at the top anymore for your battery

00:03:56.879 --> 00:04:02.239
percent or your vpn connectivity status

00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:07.760
requiring a swipe down from the top right to bring up the control center

00:04:04.640 --> 00:04:09.920
blah so what do we get in return then in

00:04:07.760 --> 00:04:14.239
tech enthusiast terms we get a marvelously densely packed not to

00:04:11.920 --> 00:04:19.519
mention incredibly sophisticated array of sensors emitters and cameras that had

00:04:17.440 --> 00:04:23.759
me hardcore nerding out but everyone else just calls it face id

00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:28.400
without getting into the theoretically reduced security i mean no one that i

00:04:25.919 --> 00:04:33.280
know was able to unlock my phone here's what it does really well

00:04:30.400 --> 00:04:39.199
downloading apps buying stuff or logging into websites is in a word

00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:40.880
amazing it worked nearly flawlessly

00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:44.639
across all manner of challenging conditions from cold days where you

00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:50.160
don't feel like taking off your gloves to touch to bright sunlight to pitch

00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:54.479
blackness and even with a kid in my arms or a toothbrush hanging out of my mouth

00:04:52.400 --> 00:04:58.320
and the feature that hides the details of your notifications until it

00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:04.240
recognizes you is a biometric authentication game changer okay cool

00:05:01.919 --> 00:05:10.320
now here's what's less awesome because the 10 only auto wakes when it's right

00:05:06.880 --> 00:05:13.120
side up and has no obvious landmarks

00:05:10.320 --> 00:05:17.520
when the screen is off like an always-on clock for example and because it

00:05:15.520 --> 00:05:22.800
requires a swipe after it identifies you

00:05:19.840 --> 00:05:28.960
i often found that it took me longer to unlock the 10 when i wanted to use my

00:05:25.520 --> 00:05:31.520
phone face id to be clear is much better

00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:36.880
than samsung's iris scanner across the board but it still requires a special

00:05:34.880 --> 00:05:40.880
dance move to do something on your phone while it's sitting on the desk or table

00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:46.160
next to you and back to that notification hiding thing i really wish

00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:50.240
that it was a little bit faster like i've been using my old iphone 6 as an

00:05:48.400 --> 00:05:55.440
mp3 player lately and man

00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:58.160
i forgot how much worse first gen touch

00:05:55.440 --> 00:06:01.520
id was and how much better fast biometrics are compared to just having

00:06:00.400 --> 00:06:07.440
them at all all right fine then apple a notch in the

00:06:03.840 --> 00:06:09.440
display for unlocking with wet hands

00:06:07.440 --> 00:06:14.080
okay i can wait a little longer for you to put all this stuff behind the panel

00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:18.000
and besides the notch actually bothered me far less than the interface and

00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:22.639
navigation changes that were necessitated by the tens lack of a home

00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:26.319
button all the new gestures are easy to remember and felt natural within minutes

00:06:24.960 --> 00:06:32.000
to the point where i actually found myself swiping up on other devices

00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:37.919
but multiple aspects of the new control scheme are marginally slower reinforcing

00:06:35.280 --> 00:06:42.319
my belief that apple is either run by or caters to people who just

00:06:40.400 --> 00:06:47.120
don't have a lot to do these people i assume have all the time

00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:51.440
in the world to type names into their address book like a cave person instead

00:06:49.440 --> 00:06:55.919
of using t9 dialing interact with their touch screen however

00:06:53.759 --> 00:07:00.080
little it might be to quick launch their camera instead of double tapping a

00:06:57.520 --> 00:07:04.560
hardware button they have time to pause mid gesture to wait for multitasking to

00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:09.759
show up instead of pressing one button though the slide to the right is quite a

00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:12.160
bit better they have time to hold

00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:16.800
then swipe or reach to the top of the screen to force close a frozen app and

00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:22.240
finally and yes i'm repeating this one they don't mind swiping their screen

00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:24.400
every time they unlock their phone

00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:29.120
now i'm not saying that apple did nothing right here control center from

00:07:26.479 --> 00:07:33.599
the top right is much more reliable now that it no longer gets confused by the

00:07:31.039 --> 00:07:38.479
on-screen keyboard and on that subject the dictation button under the on-screen

00:07:35.599 --> 00:07:43.440
keyboard is super convenient which wait a second under the keyboard

00:07:41.599 --> 00:07:48.720
leave it to apple to figure out the most obvious stuff that everyone else missed

00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:52.800
i've been complaining for years that on devices with small chin bars it's harder

00:07:51.440 --> 00:07:59.360
to touch type and they just went and put a space in there brilliant anyway in fairness to

00:07:56.479 --> 00:08:04.960
apple the navigation isn't terrible it's just also not as advertised it's

00:08:02.400 --> 00:08:09.280
not like a quantum leap forward in the way that i interact my phone and if

00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:14.960
anything it makes me miss the Android back button even more than i normally do

00:08:12.080 --> 00:08:19.360
on iOS not less now i'm not going to spend a ton of time on the camera or

00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:24.720
animojis other than to say that if you like the excellent eight plus camera

00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:29.599
and if you're a portrait mode focus fiend you'll like the tens camera and

00:08:27.440 --> 00:08:34.159
that until apple allows animojis to be recorded and sent as video clips in

00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:39.680
third-party chat apps easily i will be even less inclined to create awkward

00:08:36.800 --> 00:08:43.919
moments in public than i already am so that brings me then to my conclusion

00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:48.399
the original iphone was first gen execution of a brilliant idea and the

00:08:46.560 --> 00:08:51.680
device that was created to celebrate its 10-year anniversary is brilliant

00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:56.800
execution of what feels like a gen idea it really

00:08:54.640 --> 00:09:01.360
seems to me like apple was trying really hard to make an innovative device then

00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:05.680
make you like whatever they ended up with rather than looking forward to what

00:09:03.760 --> 00:09:09.440
people wanted to do in their lives and building a solution around that an

00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:14.000
approach that probably would have involved some more investment in siri so

00:09:11.760 --> 00:09:17.680
bottom line then the iphone 10 is what it took to make me more excited about

00:09:15.760 --> 00:09:21.760
the 8 and the 8 plus and ultimately

00:09:19.040 --> 00:09:27.440
go back to the s8 so that i can stop carrying around this stupid bag of

00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:27.440
headphone dongles

00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:34.800
so this video was brought to you by the dbrand grip

00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:39.920
my mother is so present never drop your phone again its key features include

00:09:37.760 --> 00:09:44.720
their revolutionary grip their world-class d3o shock absorbing

00:09:42.160 --> 00:09:49.040
technology an industry first carbon composite frame

00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:55.040
full dbrand skin compatibility so you can customize it still however you want

00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:59.279
using the dbrand site and finally ultra tactile buttons i don't know quite how

00:09:57.519 --> 00:10:05.040
they did it but they managed to make the buttons on your phone feel better for

00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:08.080
having their case on it so check it out down at the link in the video

00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:11.040
description so thanks for watching guys if this

00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:14.399
video sucked you know what to do but it was awesome get subscribed hit that like

00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:18.320
button or check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in the video

00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:22.800
description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like the one

00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:27.279
that i'm bundled up over top of and our community forum which you should totally

00:10:24.640 --> 00:10:27.279
join