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hey guys this is Austin 2017 has been an interesting year for smartphones gone are the days of having a headphone jack on every device screens been getting bigger while the bezels are shrinking instead of having a removable battery you're oftentimes getting something like fast charging or wireless charging but if you are picking up a flagship this year what do you actually need to get up and running the first thing you're probably going to want to have is a pair of wireless headphones and big shout out the Sennheiser for sponsoring this video and sitting over there HD 450s for me to take a look at what makes these really interesting is that not only are they going to be a wireless pair of headphones with bluetooth support but you're also getting active noise cancellation now in a pair of headphones that cost less than $200 this can actually be really helpful especially if you spend a lot of time on stuff like trains buses or planes you should also expect a good battery life anywhere between 20 to 25 hours depending on if you have active noise cancellation on and they also do fold up if you want to make them just a little bit more portable in addition to bluetooth 4.0 they also have support for app decks which deliver even better sounding audio and of course since their Sennheiser you should expect quality oh man it is always such a trippy feeling when you put on the active noise cancellation like it just feels like the whole room just got super dead what is that I hear actually oh it's a plane I couldn't hear it because I had my awesome active noise cancellation headphones on it's crazy I actually didn't realize I had been listening to these on an iPhone before and they sound good actually being able to take advantage of app decks on something like the pixel there's actually a noticeable difference in audio quality it really does sound like I'm listening to a wired pair of headphones okay so before ken has to watch me dance anymore this isn't good these sound solid but one of the nice things is in addition to being wireless you actually do have the option of plugging in a standard three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack or headphone cable cable to be fair both the iPhone and pixel do come with a headphone adapter in the box but the issue is is that if you want to plug the headphones in and also do something like charge your phone you can't do that at the same time until now companies have started making adapters that not only allow you to listen to your music but also charge your phone at the same time so let's start with the USBC adapter which special bear high temperature sign the superficial dent design maintain the best conjunction I mean you do need the best conjunction after all oh wow that's actually really terrible Wow first step will this catch our phone on fire oh man that's that's not a good fit if we plug it into the phone it is not charging okay so in theory you can pick up a USBC adapter that actually works but in this case confirmed garbage town let's try the iPhone now I do at least like the design at this one a little bit more so you can plug it into the phone on the top and then on one side you have lightning on the other you have a headphone jack plug it into the phone okay nothing's on fire yet good sign so it actually does show up as a USB 2.0 device so this actually might just work it sounds about like a normal headphone adapter so you're not expecting any kind like hi fight DAC or anything but the real test is can we actually plug this in in it not catch on fire alright here goes nothing oh hey charging and the light is turned on hey guys this is Austin and welcome to using a smart phone in 2017 basically everything that supports a wireless charging these days is using the Qi standard now thankfully this has actually been around for a few years there are plenty of accessories to choose from so the first is really straightforward it's the power port Qi 10 from Anchor no one might not look too impressive what you're getting here is something that not only supports standard wireless charging but it also supports fast charging it's also super thin none of the iPhone 8 and 10 support wireless charging something that this could work not only for these devices but also for other phones to support up to 10 watts but the idea is we just drop it on and in theory it will start searching in theory charging will happen oh it helps when you plug the charger in protest drop the phone on and it immediately starts charging so with this you can prepare for the 2018 feature of having 0 ports of any kind on your phone there are also some cool options like the mobile pal wireless charging bank so the idea here is that not only this a portable batteries that will charge your phone via qi wireless charging but you can also use qi to charge the battery bank means theory you could never plug this thing in Oh interesting it's not like can you if you want use USB to charge it you also can use a lightning cable that's actually really unique I don't think I've ever seen that before so the first step is to see if we drop our phone on there we go Amelie starts wireless charging that's actually kind of cool one of the problems with carrying around a battery bank isn't you have to keep all the cables that becomes a mess but this this is pretty easy but if you have a wireless charging pad not only can we drop the charger on to start charging it then it will pass current up to the phone so essentially we have a chi sandwich this is cool though this is really cool I mean maybe not the most practical thing but I can actually imagine a scenario in which say you have this by your bed you leave the battery on it at all times you just drop your phone on top and when it comes time you take your phone but if you also want to take the battery take it to super simple as always links to everything I talked about including those dopes Anheuser headphones will be linked in the description I'm curious what you guys put in your smart phone starter kit let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one