On this episode of the podcast, we talk about the Red Hydrogen 1, a new $1,300 cell phone from a camera company, and how it compares to the iPhone 8 Plus and the Samsung Galaxy S8. We also talk about why it's a good idea for a smart phone, and why it might not be as bad as you think it is. Thanks to our sponsor, Red Dragon! Red Dragon is a company that makes a modular camera that can be attached to a variety of different devices, including cell phones, smart watches, and other gadgets. We talk about how it works, what it's like to use it, and what it means for the future of the cell phone industry. We also hear from Lou, who has been with Red for a long time, and talks about his thoughts on the new camera and the new cell phone, the RED Hydrogen One. And, of course, we answer your burning questions! We hope you enjoy this episode, and have a great rest of the week! Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. All rights reserved. Please don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe to our other shows on Apple Podcasts! and leave us your thoughts on whatever you're listening to! If you have a question or suggestion for our next episode, we'll be looking for a shoutout in the comments section below! Timestamps: 4:00 - What's your favorite cell phone? 5:30 - What do you want us to talk about? 6:15 - What kind of cell phone do you're looking for? 7:00 8: Which is your favorite one? 9:30- What is the best cell phone you like? 10: Which one do you like most? 11: What s your favorite piece of technology? 12:40 - What are your favorite thing? 13:30 What are you looking at? 15:00 What s the best piece of tech you're getting the most interesting? 16:00 How do you'd like to see me talk about in a movie? 17:00 Are you looking for the best camera? 18:00 Do you think I should get a cell phone or tablet? 19:00 Should I get a bigger or less expensive? 21:00 Is it better?
00:00:14.000But you're so good at covering all the bases of whether it's cell phones or any kind of weird technology that's coming out, and you just...
00:02:20.000I was expecting the camera to be amazing.
00:02:22.000They don't make this sensor, so the camera's not amazing yet.
00:02:27.000But I think the modules will make this what it is.
00:02:32.000I think the phone by itself is not really a $1,300 phone, but its support for upcoming things that they're planning, I think, will make it good.
00:02:42.000Is it a problem when a company tries to get into the cell phone business and you're competing with Samsung, Apple, Huawei?
00:02:50.000There's so many companies that are so advanced.
00:02:53.000For you to be Red, who's essentially a camera manufacturer, they make video cameras.
00:02:58.000Really high-end, for people who don't know.
00:04:16.000So that's what you're looking at is just the computer and the sensor and that side piece right there is the SSD reader.
00:04:23.000Everything else, all those pins you see on the top and on the side, that's where you connect what you want to make it The rig.
00:04:29.000So if you were doing this eight years ago, you would attach a viewfinder, you would attach a couple monitors for directors, you would attach controls, follow focus, the lens obviously, the mount, all this stuff has to attach to it.
00:04:43.000But for just me and my use, I'd use it more kind of like what you might see in another image, which is just a monitor, an SSD, a controller, and a lens.
00:05:13.000That I think is what I think a lot of people were super hyped about because obviously RED's good with not just the – they make the silicon for the camera, but they're good at color science and autofocus and all these different things that cameras should be good at.
00:05:26.000So when they come out with a phone that has a camera on it, you just kind of expect it to be amazing.
00:05:30.000So when it's not the best, I kind of firmly believe this is the best camera.
00:06:05.000I think everyone's into the notch, obviously, which is a little different from what you might see in an iPhone or a Huawei phone or something.
00:07:20.000It's never going to look as good as daytime, but there's a...
00:07:23.000I don't have the update yet, but there's going to be an update to the pixel that has night sight or another night mode that does the same thing, where it's taking a bunch of exposures and long exposures and uses stabilization and hopefully gets a much brighter image that looks way better than that.
00:07:37.000What would be different from the update?
00:08:22.000A lot of calibration, a lot of knowing exactly how good the optical image stabilization is in the lens, and then electronic stabilization as well, a lot of algorithms knowing what part of the photo is moving versus what isn't.
00:08:34.000So there's a lot of computational photography is what it's called happening.
00:09:26.000What would be the benefit of having 10 gigs of RAM? Like what software would run?
00:09:30.000Basically the advantage to having more RAM is keeping apps open and running in the background longer.
00:09:36.000So if you have your camera and your Twitter and your Instagram and your web browser and all that...
00:09:41.000A lot of high, maybe a couple games, all running at the same time, and then you multitask and switch between them.
00:09:48.000On a phone with less RAM, you'll find that you'll switch from the game to the browser, and you go back to the browser, and it reloads everything, because it completely garbaged that from the memory after a while, because it was trying to save space.
00:09:59.000So on a phone with four gigs of RAM, this happened to me a couple times where I'd be listening to music, and I'd open the camera, and I'd take a few photos, and then the music or the podcast or whatever would just stop.
00:10:09.000And it killed that app in the background with only 4 gigs of RAM. I'm not doing that crazy things with multitasking.
00:10:16.000I think it might have been a bug because the camera uses a lot of memory and for whatever reason it just picks the other big memory app and kills it.
00:10:25.000I've had it happen to me since I landed yesterday, like a couple times.
00:10:28.000But I think a phone with 6 or 8 gigs of RAM. The last phone I was using for a while was the OnePlus 6. It has 8 gigs of RAM. And that never happened to me.
00:10:38.000Every time I'd multitask and go back five, ten apps ago and open it, it was right where I left off.
00:10:44.000Is the Google Pixel 3 your favorite phone, or is it just your favorite phone because of the camera?
00:11:57.000I have a bunch of theories on why they don't update their software as quickly as they probably could.
00:12:04.000I think a lot of it in the U.S. especially has to do with carriers.
00:12:08.000When you want to push a software update to a phone on Verizon, for example, not only do you have to rewrite the software and optimize it and everything, but then you have to submit it for certification from Verizon.
00:13:01.000That's why I'm a fan of phones that keep the skin light and update quickly, which is what you'll find with Pixel and Essential and OxygenOS and stuff like that.
00:14:14.000Yeah, I guess you'd be like, this is the best phone.
00:14:16.000Like I said, if I say this is the best phone right now, then maybe that's not a 10 out of 10, but it's like the best you can get.
00:14:21.000But that line just keeps moving, so I don't give things numbers.
00:14:24.000See, for me, the things that you said that would be a pain in the ass, that your music would shut off because you're using the camera, that's kind of big to me.
00:15:20.000But then when I found out that it was real, I was like, you assholes.
00:15:26.000The problem was the way they didn't tell people.
00:15:29.000They could have just avoided the whole PR, whatever you want to call it, by just telling people, look, this is what we do when your phone's getting older.
00:15:38.000We need to preserve either the CPU or the battery, so we need to either voltage down the CPU or save your battery.
00:16:45.000They paint this picture that's really upright and like, we want you to have the best experience as long as possible, which involves not replacing your battery, which means we'll just slow down your phone just a little bit so that it lasts longer and the battery can keep up.
00:18:28.000But your experience often says the opposite, so that's why people like to not listen to what Apple says and just...
00:18:34.000Evaluate it without listening to that particularly for writers for someone who writes And you write on a regular basis you want a comfortable keyboard and you know I've Constantly searched for the best keyboard right now.
00:18:48.000I think it's probably the ThinkPad but I've heard great things about the Razer the Razer Pro which is the really large gaming one it has a mechanical keyboard for the first time ever on a laptop and Yeah.
00:19:00.000And that's supposed to be really good.
00:19:02.000I have tried the Blade, and I've tried...
00:19:05.000What I'm using right now is the Surface, the Microsoft Surface Laptop 2, and that's got a pretty good keyboard.
00:21:20.000And, like, they claim, like, oh, yeah, once you get used to it, like, the surface area of the key being circular makes it easier to type faster after a while.
00:23:13.000Like, the magnet on the back, like, I don't know if you've seen a Surface, the tablet with the little kickstand, you kind of have, like, a couple notches where you can adjust it.
00:23:21.000And I think the new version has infinite adjustment, but this is the same thing.
00:23:24.000Like, there's a magnet in the back of the Surface, or the Pixel Slate.
00:23:28.000That lets you adjust the tablet to any angle, watch videos, type, whatever.
00:23:32.000Apple's the only company that makes keyboards that I know that had it better in like 2012 than they do in 2018. If you get a 2012 MacBook, you go, ooh, this is kind of better.
00:23:58.000Apple has been Not a victim of their own desire to make great design, but they often, very often, make compromises, sometimes to the detriment of how good a product can be, to make it look better.
00:24:14.000Classic example was the Mac Pro, the little circular trashcan-looking Mac Pro that came out in 2012 or something like that.
00:24:24.000It's this sleek, modern workstation that's going to have the Xeon chips and big GPUs.
00:24:30.000And I loved it, but it only had one fan for a $7,000 workstation, and they constantly overheated and would throttle, and eventually it was a nightmare for them.
00:24:42.000Wasn't that something that was going on with the latest laptops?
00:24:49.000The Core i9, they put in this super thin laptop.
00:24:52.000They made this laptop so thin, and they kept the fan speed so low, because it's got to So they just throttled the CPU down so it wouldn't get so hot that they had to kick up the fans that high.
00:25:03.000So the actual performance, even though the CPU is more powerful, was not as good as the last model.
00:26:09.000Of the chips that came from all these, this server company, or this company that makes the chips that sells to all these big companies like Apple and major, major companies, and now everyone's compromised.
00:28:20.000Like, I text you with a green bubble, which Apple decided, first of all, to differentiate iMessage versus text message, which is hilarious.
00:28:34.000I'm sure in a software update, they tweaked that green to make it look extra harsh.
00:28:38.000Well, you know what it is, is they figured out with pool tables a long time ago.
00:28:43.000Like pool tables, the cloth generally is green, right?
00:28:47.000But when they started playing in professional tournaments, they realized that blue cloth is actually easier on the eyes and you can differentiate the edges better.
00:28:57.000So, a lot of, like, really high-end professional matches are played on blue cloth now.
00:29:03.000It's like a light blue sky blue cloth.
00:30:09.000But you've got to deal with Windows 10, which is a little bit of a pain in the ass, I've got to admit.
00:30:14.000It's like the updates are almost daily.
00:30:16.000There's something going on with firmware or something going on with this or that.
00:30:20.000I've gotten used to it, mostly though because most of what I do on my laptop is pretty web-based.
00:30:26.000So I'm just living in Chrome or Safari or whatever, so it's not a big deal.
00:30:29.000But then, yeah, once I have to go out and...
00:30:32.000I'm going to go in Lightroom and do some photo work, and then suddenly I'm digging through files, and I'm in Windows, and then you start to feel like you're different.
00:30:40.000Yeah, the first time you have to update a driver, you're like, what is it, 1996?
00:32:22.000And then Apple also made this huge desktop, this Power Mac, or I don't know what it was called at the time, but it was, again, massive.
00:32:29.000You could take the graphics card out, put a new one in.
00:32:31.000You could take the RAM out, take the CPU out, but it was, like, this weird system where, like, they were on, like, decks and you had to, like, take this big metal slot out and then do the CPU there and then put it back in.
00:32:43.000It was really satisfying to, like, change the hardware and, like, yeah, I did that.
00:32:47.000And then you boot it up and it's like, that's exactly right.
00:32:49.000Now it's got 8 gigs of RAM. Yeah, especially, I don't know, I think it's a man thing, too.
00:33:03.000I think even one generation after that, because it had basically elevator levels to it, like the top level and then the bottom level and then the hard drives and the power supply and the top, like all that stuff.
00:33:14.000If you go over to someone's house and they have that now, you're like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
00:33:18.000But that's the thing about, like, that was the most accessible, modular desktop Apple ever, ever made.
00:33:25.000And now they're making this promise again, like, alright, we listened, we know that little trash can Mac Pro was not good, thermally or design-wise for anyone, so we're gonna make a modular, professional desktop Mac Pro again.
00:34:00.000If you buy a $7,000 iMac Pro, you will have that spec forever.
00:34:06.000Apple doesn't want you opening anything in that thing.
00:34:09.000So when they say, yeah, we're going to make a modular, updatable, real, well-designed Apple desktop, I'm like, I really hope they're doing that.
00:34:50.000I mean, the iMac, they have those desktop internals in it, but you're still going to be restrained by how closed off that space is, how many fans they can fit in there.
00:35:03.000So if they really want to do a true desktop, they've got to open it up and make it huge, which is not very like Apple.
00:35:10.000So it's going to be interesting to see what they do.
00:36:05.000That's actually how I started my channel, was I bought a 17-inch laptop.
00:36:08.000And I was trying to figure out which one strikes the balance of where I want to be with taking it off the dock once in a while and walking around the house maybe, but planting it back here and it's my desktop and it's a 17-inch screen.
00:37:05.000I mean, it's a pretty good sized bezel, but I'm still hoping for a bezel-less laptop.
00:37:10.000Have you ever thought about going with the Huawei?
00:37:14.000Not really, mostly because I switch laptops so infrequently that I was just like, if it's not massively better than the MacBook Pro, I don't really feel the need to switch.
00:37:23.000This came on my radar in the last, like, two weeks, and I decided to try it.
00:38:47.000Yeah, I mean, you could probably get away with any number of I like to do photo editing a lot, and so basically I have to have some way to read memory cards.
00:39:21.000It's still easy to find, but eventually it'll be like 2020, and I'm like, I don't want this in 2020. Yeah, that Razer Pro, the Razer Blade Pro that we were talking about, what's interesting about that is it has a trackpad on the right-hand side, like a mouse, like as if the mouse is on the right.
00:39:37.000And then it has this enormous keyboard, and a mechanical keyboard, which I'm a really big fan of.
00:40:19.000It's technically a backlight, which is useful, but other than that, you're just kind of getting into the gamer aesthetic, which is pretty fun.
00:42:58.000That's actually a huge battery, but still.
00:43:01.000Yeah, that's one of the things that I like about, not this model of Lenovo, but some of the Thinkpads have a swappable battery that you could swap while it's on.
00:43:16.000There's an internal battery and there's an external battery.
00:43:18.000So you pop out the external battery, which is a big, thick band in the back if you want to get the full jammy that goes like 25 fucking hours.
00:43:48.000But it's, you know, there's that balance of like, what are you looking for?
00:43:52.000Like, are you looking for something that can do everything?
00:43:54.000Are you looking for something that's just, I mean, most people, for a lot of people, you could really get by with one of those Google Chromebooks.
00:44:03.000That's where I'll probably end up getting my parents into a lot, like, You're good to go.
00:44:32.000Yeah, that's another one of the things about, especially when I was talking about this phone, not only does it only have 4 gigs of RAM, it also only has 64 gigs of storage.
00:49:23.000Yeah, so there's another event where something wasn't working, and he's like, I need everyone in this room to turn your Wi-Fi off so that this will work.
00:49:30.000I need everyone to stop blogging, close your laptops, get off the Wi-Fi, and then this will work.
00:49:36.000And it was kind of like a couple minutes of like, haha, that's funny.
00:52:51.000They know that they can hold people hostage on iOS as long as they want if they can't get iMessage anywhere else and FaceTime and things like that.
00:53:38.000Like, all the things that they let you do that I wish Facebook would let us do, of, like, Sharing with certain groups of people and, like, all these different things with circles.
00:53:45.000It was kind of a shit show with, like, how they did it.
00:55:05.000As a reviewer, I'm always trying to figure out what is a real, genuine, use-it-everyday feature that's worth paying extra for, and what is a cool demo feature that'll get you to brag about the phone and show your friends, but you'll never use it.
00:55:44.000So, like, I'm usually pretty good about, like, dividing things into buckets of, like, yes, this is something we will use and is worth paying.
00:55:51.000This is dumb, but it's really cool to demo and it will just sell people and they'll never use it again.
00:56:13.000My thought was, I'm going to use this, and I'm going to put my set list on my phone, and that way any time I go to the lock screen, the set list will be there.
00:56:22.000I'll just be able to scroll through my set list when I go on stage.
00:56:41.000Well, one thing that is kind of cool about it that I've never used once, but kind of cool about it is the fact that you can use that pen as a remote control.
00:58:09.000Well, one guy, I don't know what happened to him, but there was a famous guy who was a tech guy who died because his battery exploded and his house caught on fire and he died in the fire.
00:58:38.000I followed that all very closely and all the cases of...
00:58:42.000Because it started off with not only were the Note 7s starting to explode, but they started recalling them and sending people replacements and then the replacements started to explode.
00:58:52.000At that point, I was like, this is amazing.
00:59:21.000So that's when your phone starts exploding and your Samsung, you have to fix that.
00:59:26.000There was that famous video of the guy who parked his car in the driveway and put his phone in the charger and left it there, and he came outside to his car bursting into flames.
01:00:25.000But I wonder if that would have happened to an iPhone.
01:00:28.000What kind of nightmare that would have been.
01:00:30.000I also think there's probably no way it would have happened to an iPhone.
01:00:33.000You would think there's no way it would happen to Samsung, but somehow it did.
01:00:37.000But there's this whole process of getting a battery supplier for your phone and then trusting their quality testing and then using that supplier for your manufacturing and all that.
01:00:47.000And I don't know how different that process is for Samsung versus other manufacturers like Apple, but it just seems like Apple would never let that sort of oversight slip.
01:01:00.000But if it did, how crazy would that have been?
01:01:01.000Well, Samsung comes out with new phones way quicker, right?
01:01:06.000So they come out with phones more often, but they update their lineups at the same rate, like once a year for Note, and also once a year for Galaxy S. But since they're six months apart, it looks like they made four new phones.
01:01:20.000So we're going to get a new phone every April.
01:02:43.000When I hear about the iPhone's battery not being so good, I've heard that the XS... Regular has better battery life than the XS Max because the Max has the larger screen.
01:04:30.000But if you just look at the screen and use it, which is most people walking in a store and just saying, hey, this looks fine and it's $250 cheaper, I think I'll just get this one.
01:04:38.000That's why I think the XR is going to be a great seller for Apple.
01:07:25.000Why do you like the Pixel 3 better than that phone?
01:07:28.000Because I've heard great things about the OnePlus.
01:07:30.000Yeah, I love the OnePlus still, and I would have no problem using it today, but this camera is so much better than every other phone, yeah.
01:07:37.000Now, is that because you take a lot of photos for YouTube and blogging and that kind of thing?
01:08:25.000Did you do any comparisons that are online that we could pull up right now?
01:08:29.000My last one I compared Pixel 2 to iPhone X to OnePlus 5T. Yeah.
01:09:04.000And a lot of times when you put them side by side, you'll notice iPhones like to boost the shadows a lot more so that they're much more evenly lit.
01:09:31.000So another thing about these is it helps to see it in a high resolution because the difference in detail and sharpness between them is another thing I paid attention to.
01:09:40.000Which one's E? I want to say that was the OnePlus, but I forget now.
01:09:54.000And that was a big issue with the screen as well, right?
01:09:57.000The Pixel XL? Yeah, look at this contrast.
01:10:01.000All these are pretty good, but when you see B, and you see how much more contrast that has, and you look at A, and how much it's lifted the shadows...
01:10:48.000They all look pretty much, like, the same.
01:10:50.000And C, but C, you're a little closer up.
01:10:53.000Yeah, C is a little bit tighter, so I'm going to go with C as the iPhone because the iPhone has a little bit of a tighter selfie camera.
01:11:00.000A lot of Android phones have a wider angle selfie camera because you can fit more people in them, but Apple's always told me they go with a tighter angle because there's less distortion and they want it to feel more natural.
01:11:09.000You just take a picture of yourself and you look great.
01:11:44.000So this is a portrait mode comparison.
01:11:46.000So I remember I was trying to test the blurry background versus an actual good camera.
01:11:51.000And whenever you look at these portrait mode photos, what they're doing is they're sort of trying to outline the subject, keep it sharp, and then blur the background artificially.
01:12:01.000And year after year they've gotten better at this because the fall off between the blur isn't just like a cut out in real life.
01:12:06.000You get sort of like a gradient of how much blur you have.
01:12:10.000So Pixel 2 has typically the sharpest cut out and the best like separation between the background.
01:12:17.000Where the iPhone kind of just takes the face, keeps the face sharp and then sort of has a more natural fall off so your body might not be in focus.
01:13:25.000It's like whenever I'm airdropping, like when I'm publishing a video on the go, like I have the thumbnail from airdrop on this phone.
01:13:30.000But just things like Snapchat and Instagram, Instagram Stories, Instagram Live, a lot of apps with camera stuff are better optimized on the iPhone than they are on any Android phone because they're built for iPhone.
01:13:44.000So I carry an iPhone and the best smartwatch is the Apple Watch Series 4. So I wear an Apple Watch Series 4 because it's good.
01:14:10.000But I mainly am using this for fitness tracking now, which is kind of entertaining, just like keeping track of workouts and calories and standing hours and all the stuff it does.
01:16:48.000And so I'm planning on staying so far ahead that they must die in order to beat me.
01:16:54.000The iPhone or the Apple Watch, when you have people connected with the fitness part of it, it will literally notify me when one of my friends has finished a workout.
01:17:04.000And tell me how many points they just got.
01:18:06.000But here's the thing about that MEPS points, and we were trying to figure out why...
01:18:10.000It gives you the same amount of points for 80% of your max heart rate as it does for 90. So like the first day, I said, I'm just going to sprint and try to bury these guys.
01:21:32.000I worked out more last night and this morning than he has in a whole day.
01:21:37.000The other thing though, my problem, when I play Frisbee, so I take the watch off when I play because it's a wrist thing and I'm constantly moving and gripping.
01:21:47.000Do you play like that Frisbee disc golf?
01:24:51.000A lot of shorter, faster people who aren't as explosive but are really, really quick are handlers.
01:24:57.000And they'll go around, they'll squirrel around, and they'll have awesome strength, and they'll be able to throw anywhere.
01:25:03.000But they won't necessarily go downfield and try to go score on someone We're good to go.
01:25:28.000So if you watch a game unfold, it's very fluid.
01:25:31.000You constantly switch between offense and defense, like basketball.
01:25:34.000You're scoring in an end zone and then the point's over and then you pull again to start.
01:25:38.000But as the point's going on, you kind of notice certain players are mostly doing certain things, like mostly throwing, mostly getting the disc back.
01:25:47.000Other people are mostly going downfield, threatening deep.
01:28:29.000I have an HTC Vive, and that's been the most common use of VR. We have a Vive in the studio, and the two games that come to mind the most are called Superhot.
01:30:17.000It looks like you're in the ring, and the guy's looking at you, he's mean mugging you, and throws punches your way, and when you get hit, you see a flash of white.
01:31:50.000There's a bunch of really well done ones.
01:31:52.000There's a great one that you're in a castle and you have like an old school bow and arrow and then there's these almost like South Park looking monsters that are coming towards your way.
01:32:02.000And they're like, it's still kind of cartoony, but like the graphics are crisp enough that you like feel like you're a cartoon character in a way.
01:32:23.000I think about VR a lot just because as a video maker, you're making content for the platform that people view it on.
01:32:31.000And we started to get this little creeping up of 360 videos getting really good and interesting applications of 360 video.
01:32:40.000And it's still kind of early and I don't really know if it's going to take off or if it's just this medium stepping stone format to what might be a more immersive version.
01:32:50.000Or maybe just AR is going to be way better.
01:32:52.000I don't know yet, but I pay a lot of attention to it just because it's new.
01:36:04.000So it's hard to tell, again, I try to separate things into buckets of this is something you're going to use every day and love, or this is a total gimmick that you'll never use again.
01:36:14.000And I started with it in the bucket of this is kind of like a gimmick, but they've put so much effort into making it good, and all these different conversion techniques and...
01:37:14.000So you can take photos and videos with the camera on the phone that are in this 3D. And that's maybe the best use of it because you can see what's actually in the room around you the way it would show up in a direct translation.
01:37:57.000If you take a capture and then look at it, and you kind of move the phone around a little bit, it's kind of shimmery in a weird way, but kind of 3D, sort of.
01:39:39.000That's the best way to calibrate to your eye what it's doing.
01:39:42.000If you just look at a video of it, you're like, alright, it looks 3D, like it's coming at me.
01:39:46.000And they had a couple, like a movie trailer type of thing, where again, it was mostly shot for this format, and things would kind of go past you, and the speakers are also really good, so they have this sort of a 3D conversion technique for audio as well,
01:40:53.000So that was another thing as I tried, I won't even say the name, but like another, like much newer version of that, where again, it was like a small projection to a prism that you could see but no one else could, and it would fit into something that looked more like regular glasses.
01:41:09.000So it had a battery, it had everything, but it didn't have a camera, and you still had a screen that you could look up into the corner to.
01:41:15.000And I was like, well, I wonder if I'll notice the difference between regular glasses.
01:41:18.000And I went down and I met the guys who were showing it to me in the lobby, and immediately I was like, that guy's wearing it.
01:41:28.000So it was like, it's an interesting concept, and I don't know...
01:41:35.000Where it goes from here, if it has to be glasses-based, or if we'll eventually have some sort of a chip in our eye, or what the deal is, what the next move is, but it's a cool concept.
01:41:46.000Yeah, it's one of those things that sort of, it's kind of been flirting with, like, for the longest time, people thought virtual reality was going to be I mean, there was virtual reality concepts 20 years ago.
01:47:17.000I obviously have to think about that a lot.
01:47:19.000My compromise in my own head, personally, is I don't have privacy and I know it, so I might as well get something back for it, which is convenience.
01:47:30.000So if I'm going to have this Google Assistant on my phone...
01:47:35.000I already have a GPS and Wi-Fi and all these sensors in my phone.
01:47:38.000I might as well, like, Google, of course they know where I am.
01:47:41.000So I might as well get something for it.
01:47:42.000So maybe I'll get, like, shortcuts to, like, where I need to go.
01:48:23.000What it's going to do, and I know it's going to do this, is it's going to tell me when it's time to leave based on traffic, Based on my location to arrive to my flight 90 minutes before the scheduled departure.
01:48:36.000Because it knows where I am, it knows where the airport I'm leaving from is, it knows my flight, it knows my flight time, and it knows I need to get to the airport 90 minutes before the flight.
01:49:36.000I'm fascinated by all these advances and where they're taking us and I spend a lot of time thinking about it.
01:49:44.000I spend a lot of time thinking about what where the future holds or what the future holds and where all this stuff is going and I never would have imagined 20 years ago that we would be all addicted to our phones,
01:49:59.000and one of the big issues would be one of the new features in the iPhone shows you how much screen time you have.
01:50:06.000Because when we're doing this fitness challenge, your screen is on all the time because you're looking at your screen because it shows you the score.
01:50:14.000So it's like, your screen usage this month is up 900%.
01:50:22.000I'm not counting this month, obviously, because of that, but there's something to addiction to phones and addiction to technology and the fact that it's so a part of our life that I can only imagine it's going to get more and more immersive and we're going to become more and more symbiotic with all this electronics.
01:50:39.000I mean, you're wearing a watch that's telling you things all the time.
01:50:45.000On one hand, I know that it's gotten...
01:50:48.000At least recently, a little more in the spotlight.
01:50:50.000Like, Google just added the same thing, a digital well-being feature, which tells you how much screen time you've had in certain apps and will let you restrict your usage of Instagram by, you know, a certain number of minutes, whatever.
01:51:34.000But, like, when we go play a tournament, that's, like, you'll have, like, five games in a day.
01:51:38.000So we'll get up at, like, 7.30, you go to the fields, you put your bag down, you warm up, you play a game, you warm up, you play a game, you warm up, you play a game.
01:51:51.000It's amazing you're not wearing your watch.
01:51:53.000Yeah, I'm missing out on a lot of points, man.
01:51:56.000I'd be whooping some people in this competition thing, but I'm clearly not.
01:52:00.000So yeah, like all day, and then we'll have a team dinner, and then shower, sleep, wake up the next day, day two of the tournament, Saturday, Sunday.
01:53:48.000I know that there's talk about a contact lens that was being in development that was going to be some sort of a lens that's going to allow you to do a lot of minority report type shit.
01:54:05.000Tech as I know it is too far from that to make that work.
01:54:09.000Just because you need, like a contact lens you think of as just like this clear thing, maybe some circuits on it or whatever, but like you need a battery, right?
01:54:27.000Like, even if you do operate off of some other power source, you need to get that power source to connect to the electronics to make it work, which still takes some space.
01:55:52.000What if it gets, like, many, many generations better than this, where it has, like, Luke Skywalker, when he got his hand chopped off by Darth Vader?
01:56:00.000Remember, he got that robot hand, and he opens up.
01:56:03.000There's people working on this every day, so I kind of figure we're headed in that direction, where, like...
02:01:12.000But then they made this whole thing where, like, oh, but it has to connect to your other phone, and then it uses the same phone number, but it works sometimes differently.
02:01:23.000And Steph Curry is their ambassador, and I don't know anymore why someone would want to get that.
02:01:29.000So how close does it have to be to your regular phone?
02:01:32.000I think it has its own data or something.
02:03:00.000It was a smartwatch that has a digital screen but then had a mechanical hand so that it looked like a normal watch when the screen's not on.
02:03:12.000The problem with that is when you go to look at your notifications or whatever you get...
02:04:16.000But for the most part, I think what a lot of people don't understand about product development is it happens many, many, many, many months before you ever see the product show up.
02:04:25.000So I don't know if you remember like all the leaks about the Pixel 3 XL? All of them.
02:04:30.000Guarantees six months before the phone came out it was done.
02:04:32.000Like they knew that that's what it was going to look like.
02:04:34.000More than I think any phone that I can recall.
02:04:36.000Yeah, so that's the same as the iPhone.
02:04:39.000Whatever the next iPhone is, they've been working on that iPhone, and it's probably gonna be a couple more months, and then they're finalizing design and things like that.
02:04:48.000And so when you start to see phones come out around September and October, and they start to all kinda resemble each other, and then another one comes out and it looks the same, it's not like they saw the phone in early October and they were like, let's copy that, and then they made the next phone two weeks later.
02:05:06.000The whole notch thing was, people were like, oh, I hope Google's trolling us and that's not really the notch and they're going to have this phone with no notch.
02:05:15.000No, they've been working on this for a long time.
02:06:29.000So that's the idea is like we're in this sort of a race to get to a bezel-less phone.
02:06:36.000And I guess that's the closest we can get right now.
02:06:40.000It's just having a little mechanical thing pop out.
02:06:42.000I think what we want is the stuff to be behind the glass.
02:06:46.000Yeah, a camera behind the glass, but then how would you see the image?
02:06:50.000Yeah, so I think, based on what I know about the physics of the technology, you need an OLED display, and you need the camera to be behind the OLED display, and then when you light up The camera, you need a little black circle where those pixels are off so that they can shine through.
02:07:10.000I don't know if this is all making sense.
02:07:12.000I think you're still going to always have some sort of a black circle in the front of the phone somewhere.
02:07:18.000Well, what's fascinating about iPhone versus Android is that there's so much more room for possibility with Android because you have so many different manufacturers.
02:08:21.000But it's, again, when you look at, like, how much you have to pay versus what extra you're getting, you might as well just get the Mate 20 Pro and not worry about the extra design stuff.
02:08:31.000People want that Porsche design thing just to go, look at me, I'm a baller, I'm a private jet, bitch.
02:08:38.000They did the same, like, Porsche does that, Lamborghini does that, Ferrari does that, Tesla does that.
02:10:03.000We have the iPhone X starts at $1,000, right?
02:10:06.000So then the iPhone XR came out, and I think they could have priced it anywhere from $650 to $850, and they just nestled it right in there at $750, and you're like, oh, that's way cheaper.
02:10:35.000What's so much better about Pixel 3 than Pixel 2 that it's $150 more?
02:10:42.000The market has just lifted everything plus $200 so that $1,000 is a high-end now.
02:10:49.000And I think that's what's convinced companies like Huawei.
02:10:51.000If we want to compete with Apple and really make what seems and looks like a premium phone, we have to charge $1,200 so that people know it's better than the iPhone.
02:11:00.000If we charge $800, they're not going to think it's better than the iPhone.
02:11:04.000We have to charge more than Apple's charging to prove that we have more in our phone.
02:11:09.000But OnePlus is interesting because they're really reasonable, but their specs are very high.
02:11:14.000They've had a good history of, like, they usually listen to what people seem to want in a phone, and they're also good at, like, picking high-end numbers that look great on paper and usually translate pretty well to, like, using the phone.
02:11:42.000We hardly ever use a second camera, but it's dual cameras.
02:11:45.0008 gigs of RAM, Snapdragon 845. A lot of phones have the same specs now these days, but they've gotten pretty good at going the opposite direction.
02:11:53.000We're not going to charge a thousand bucks.
02:11:55.000We're going to make The same phone, trust us, it's the same, but for way less money.
02:12:01.000That's a much more popular direction to go as far as sales.
02:12:04.000Now, have they done the same strategy for the newest OnePlus?
02:14:23.000I wonder if there's ever going to be a time where something happens technologically where the walled garden of Apple sort of dissolves and everything becomes accessible.
02:14:33.000Apple will fight till they die to let that wall go down.
02:14:46.000Other than brand loyalty and other than the prestige of having an Apple product, which is all very high, that walled garden, that's where it's at.
02:14:54.000Have you ever tried to leave an iPhone?
02:16:55.000Well, there was a whole thing about just whatever phone.
02:16:59.000There's a lot of people who do sponsored videos where they'll talk about a phone as if they use it, but they don't.
02:17:06.000And that was one of the things that at CES specifically that we kind of had a laugh with at our studio because you would think, like, if you watched everyone's videos, like, oh, everyone's using a Huawei.
02:17:17.000I guess Huawei had a big budget for CES and they just paid a bunch of people to make Mate 10 Pro videos at CES. So if you went into watching that video, like, what phone is in everyone's pocket?
02:17:29.000I think you would just assume everyone's got a Huawei Mate 10 Pro and nobody did, which is really funny.
02:17:36.000And then the other thing is about Huawei, I hate trashing Huawei, but I also kind of love trashing Huawei, is they have a lot of money to pay celebrities to tweet ads for Huawei, basically.
02:17:52.000So she's tweeted a bunch of Huawei ads, and I noticed that while she's a brand ambassador for Huawei, tweeting ads about how much she loves her Huawei phone, if you look in the details of the tweet, it's always via Twitter for iPhone.