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right here because I'm trying to do this is like the this is like the markiplier set up right here any YouTube people out there who watch markiplier right a ser actually but I decided to try my G type my G track Pro which is literally my favorite microphone it's hilarious but the TSA broke into my bag and forgot to put my lock back just because they wanted to figure out what this was well nothing bad happened right even if they didn't put the lock back oh thank god no it's like everything's here I think like all my socks were accounted for my underwear was sadly account well the Jeep track that's a Logitech right so it's like notice this is a Samson Samson is a music more music company well that messes up my segue but because I thought it was a Logitech one I was gonna be like oh that's a gaming mic let's talk gaming but that's that's our first story for today is a little bit of gaming news um I think a lot of people are still reeling from the announcement from Nintendo not of the Nintendo switch pro but of the switch light bit of a swerve from Nintendo there there is a high me switch - I hear it's at home in its dock alright so we are probably actually it's kind of fitting because since it's the two of us on the podcast we are the switch players I don't think Brendan really does switch a whole lot I don't think Brandon has a life now yeah so you have always been a fan of the switch enjoying you bringing it on trips I have actually gotten away from bringing it on trips but I personally think the switch light might make me bring it on trips well is it so is it just me did you notice that it's smaller than the switch mm-hmm it's a flat point five inch screen I think because that is one reason why I would buy it mmm exactly quite but the biggest question I guess I have a lot of like I have a lot of questions that Nintendo hasn't really answered like if I already bought games for it and these are all digital games will I be able to port them to my other console and play them in my separate switches this question one that is a really good question I was thinking that the entire time that that video was showing and it you know what it looks a lot of fun to play because the hardware is probably really good and you're right it's small it's easy to use it's something you could just pop in and out of a bag I completely agree with that but yeah we're all digital gamers I don't know and I think quick shout out to David Emmel will have him on pretty soon but he and I were talking about it for a while and he was like so there's no kickstand does that mean there's no expandable storage that is a good question like I don't know like there are a lot of questions over like I did a full version of the pocket out daily I actually had to read that segment because there was so much information on this product and yet so many questions left over like I had to clarify to people this is what you need to understand about the Nintendo switch light number one why is Nintendo calling it a switch I understand that it plays switch games but it doesn't have the functionality of the switch you can't dock it to your TV you can't replace the joy conjugant and joy cons to it but then that's a separate purchase and so I've been debating the whole concept of actually wanting to use this product if I already like why would I ever buy that if it's only a hundred dollars cheaper than the switch yeah exactly and I I think I think I'm right there with you and I tweeted out about this and a few people agreed with me that the price at $1.99 only really makes sense on Black Friday when it goes down to like 179 149 but the other thing that they're gonna do a Nintendo inevitably does this is the switch light will probably go on sale in a bundle of it in another game and that makes it make sense that's why yeah but this this is the thing like think about I remember when I unbox the original switch the first time I was like men you get a lot of stuff for $2.99 like you get the dark you get that like pad to be able to snap your controllers on you get the snap ons for your joy constant go separate you get the USB see like you get a lot of like you even get an HDMI cable I don't think you get that with a Playstation yeah I don't remember actually it's been so long what the ps1 yeah yeah but so that's the thing like you get a lot of stuff and so if you think about if you were to separate the price like think about it the dock alone is $100 the joy Khans alone or 70 bucks just any other accessory is 30 $40 like how much are you really paying for the switch alone yeah that's true I wonder it's probably gonna have a USBC cord that's it so yeah so this is the thing I feel that the switch light is too expensive for what you're getting mm-hmm this is me I think that it's too expensive for a portable console like if Nintendo would have priced this at 149 oh my god that would have been that would have been like a sleeper hit cuz I would have had no problem I would have had no problem in like buying that for each of my kids and being like this is all you get you don't get to dock that thing and you know what I like I noticed that my usage of the switch is very different to my ten-year-old son I only play the switch docked for me I love the comfort of the pro controller like the pro controller is everything for me and like the experience of playing Odyssey for example I love this whole idea of using the control for motion gestures and stuff like that where like this switch the switch like doesn't bring motion it doesn't bring motion at all like you know these are like the controls don't vibrate there's no IR detection and so if you want to play with with any of those kinds of games you need to buy separate joy Khan's yeah that's true or just the pro controller or the programmer yeah yeah and then you're putting us a 5.5 inch screen you know yeah I mean even it's smaller than your standard smartphone mm-hmm whereas makes me wonder like stray that's true 5.5 and little standard switches 7 inches so that thing is not really that big mm-hmm yeah it's small looks big it looks big in that video though which means that that Japanese guy is small yeah exactly well he put it he brought it out of a breast pocket which I was like oh okay okay I see you I see you right now all right so but that's the thing like there's a there was a note that I was making here and also I won one David Emmel and I were talking about it we were like oh they're all these things about it that we don't like doesn't dock we don't know if there's expandable storage we don't know how it's gonna work with this or that it's not really a switch because of that but that doesn't mean we're not gonna buy it still that's how much we hate ourselves is that we're still we're still gonna buy it I will I want that yellow one but here's the thing I think that Nintendo probably missed out on certain design elements like for example if they actually made a you know a switch that's you know more portable more compact I would have loved the the joysticks to have been a different design do you remember the the P what was it the Sony Xperia Play you remember that sort of like capacitive d-pads that it had mm-hmm give they like if they would have made that switch light to be like a flush controller and then the these buttons over here if they would have figured out a way to place them in a different way and make it just the flesh switch on the front on the back that you could actually put like in your back pocket that would have been awesome yeah I agree with that and it but the thing is again the whole size of it the the 5.5 inch screen and all that stuff it's so close to a smartphone and also Nintendo has been diving into the mobile game space I don't know if you tried dr. Mario yet I came out on Android yeah I mean who knows maybe one of these days we'll get something that is literally that small can you imagine like a like a like a like a pixel 3a with some controllers on the sides like that's like the deal of it I would love it like I would love I wouldn't even mind a product that's like the Galaxy Note hmm you know with with joy cons it's just the problem is like right now my biggest problem with carrying the switch with me is I can't carry it on my on my backpack for example because the because of the sticks and the way that the that left and the right buttons in the front are designed you need to be carrying it in a case if not it's you know because it's a plastic screen and everything you don't want it to get scratched and so like I can't carry it on my backpack and so this thing is bulky it's not a small product yeah it's it it is still portable but you're right it's not it's not the sleekest thing no it's not all right so we do have one other headline that I wanted us to cover on the show so Apple is back in the news and after all of the hubbub over the iPhone 10 the iPhone 10's all of the current generation phones doing away with the home button and thus doing away with touch ID it looks like we're going in the exact opposite direction now because there are some reports stating that not only will face ID go away it's because that notch and all of the tech that was in that notch that made it special is going to go away and now there's going to be a in display for reader which will make Touch idea returned apparently so according according to the the news that we covered yesterday this was actually Meng Zhi Kuo it's a prediction from Ming Chu quo and he always gets stuff right so apparently this year all iPhones are gonna have notches in face ID all iPhones next year apparently there will be two models with face ID but it would be a smaller notch and then there would be the flagship new unique device which so these are they're kind of polarizing rumors because before the rumors were that there's gonna be a special iPhone for China that would only have touch ID in order to make it less expensive and so but now we've got Meng Zhi Kuo saying that know that this device is gonna be like the know like that launch of the iPhone 10 where we had the iPhone 8 may plus but then we had the 10 which was like the new more expensive flagship so apparently this device is going to bring in all the split it's not just an on display it's an all display fingerprint scanner you could place your finger anywhere and roll all that expensive though that's my first reaction to that so apparently this is one of the major reasons why we're getting rid of 3d touch because 3d touch is a separate module within the display that makes it makes it thicker and so apparently to be able to accommodate for this they're gonna need to get rid of 3d touch so it's a couple of things that Apple is getting rid of to be able to accommodate this fingerprint scanner I just feel like that's that's one well there might be a couple of other functions to something that is across the entire screen but I just feel like 3d touch would ultimately be more useful in more situations than just a fingerprint scanner so I mean is that a trade I never use 3d touch dude ever I kind of liked it like 3d touch out is only useful for me when I want to launch like the camera from here and I just press the button that is the only reason or the flashlight these are the only reasons why I use this thing and then other than that like I because so my biggest problem with 3d touch and this is what I've always said is that the context menus are different like if Spotify has different controls than whatsapp then and obviously these are different apps they have and functionality but I feel that a lot of these shortcuts should not be left to the developer because it's so unpredictable and then with every software update you get new functions or things get swapped around and so for me I have a problem like every time that Spotify changes its design I get so pissed because I'm like crap like where do I find my albums now and so that's the same mentality with 3d touch where if I use Google Calendar there are certain controls but then if I use another there are others and then there are apps that have no 3d touch command so it's just like share the app which is like that's the stupidest thing you could ever add to the function and and you know I don't feel that people really care about it or the peak and the pop I'm like whatever you know yeah I agree but I just don't think it has any the fuse I don't even use it on the Magic Trackpad like like the push to extra no I just two buttons two fingers and that's it I never use the press and hold ever mmm fair enough and I guess I guess when I think about the Android side of things it's almost as if they were like if you go on to any application on Android right now you just have to tap and hold there's no 3d touch involved you get the same context menu yeah and depending and depending on the phone you get you get like there's literally all you need is a context menu not a context menu for a context menu and so it's it's one of those things where it's like I'm not gonna miss 3d touch I will miss face ID during the winner mmm no yeah when I when I just I don't I can't be taking my finger out from my gloves in New York City when it's like really cold just to be a what are they my phone what about that magical thing that they I have to admit it's one of those features that actually enjoy on an iPhone is when you bring up the phone and when it recognizes your face all of the info and the notifications comes down and I was like oh that's kind of good kind of like that that's the coolest thing about iOS titude which the only OEM that replicates that on android is wall way only wall way has it but you have to dig into settings to pull it out mmm that's fair I do think so if there are gonna be a couple of other phones that still have face ID I guess that's cool does face ID actually require all of that tech in there why not just use the front-facing camera that is already there anyway that's the question because it is so it's just like the galaxy s 10 plus with its like ultrasonic fingerprint scanner where it's it's like a 3d map like Apple this is like literally that ultrasonic fingerprint scanner is just like face ID but designed for fingerprint unlocking and so it creates a 3d map of your face and so you need a dot projector to be able to create the 3d map and so the dot projector is what notices that it's a person and not a photo and so that dot and so for you it's the dot projector plus you need an IR camera to be able to have face ID work during the night and so this is the reason why so it's not that you need all that technology for it to work it's just for it to be secure and that complete and for it to work every single time in the darkest conditions like have you noticed that like it could be pitch dark and you can take out your iPhone and then it'll unlock where it's not the same case with face to unlock on any other phone the only other phone the only other phone that has that is the galaxy note NR galaxy s 9 plus with its infrared camera but again it's an infrared camera using the iris scanner so it's you can't so it's two cameras it's one that creates the infrared camera is the one that creates like the you know that aspect of black-and-white and that makes it work at night and whatever and then the other one is picking up your iris and so you either need an iris scanner or you need that whole ensemble that Apple came up with the knotch okay I guess I'm just thinking of the end-user result like is all of that tech needed to create that that that effect of the notifications expanding oh well and here's the thing about Android in the case of Huawei it's only if you activate the facial recognition that that works like it's only if you because in the other case if you used the fingerprint scanner on the display it'll immediately just unlock the phone and that's it but it's only I've showed wait a second there's another Oh am i think it's LG LG with the g8 because they've got that zyy camera the g8 yet the g8 is another phone because it has it's like if Android is limited to only if you give me like a really secure way to unlock through facial recognition well I allow you to show notifications after your face is seen and so I think those are the only two phones that have that okay there yeah so it's all looking for that yep but then you grab the p30 Pro which doesn't have the ensemble face ID thingy and that one works just like the main 20 Pro so that's the reason I was like yeah it could it could not be you don't know so many different bits and pieces for so many different choices when it comes to this kind of stuff speaking of too many choices as promised I did say that in our highlight reel from last week I was going to respond or we were going to respond or just react to a few top comments from that show so we're gonna go in and do that right now in this segment leading into our mid break so there were a few things that I wanted to respond to because one of the main stories that Tiki and I talked about last week was Facebook and Instagram and whatsapp thus going down and we actually had that problem like happen again yesterday when was yesterday yeah it was yesterday at the time of recording this podcast when Twitter went down so the whole joke yesterday was Twitter's down the whole joke was Twitter's down go to Instagram to say it because that was what was happening the other way around was Instagram was down so they went to Twitter to tell people I'll tell you I'll tell you this much wait you have a comment sorry read it and then I'll tell you something there were a few people it was basically I'm not going to name off it cuz since I'm since there's a group of people that are all saying the same thing so pretty much saying that I guess the term I'm gonna use is good riddance like you know because social media is such a crazy thing now that some people are saying oh it went down it should have stayed down okay that's my comment okay there you go we weren't in Japan right now and I guess I had never I guess I had never come to the realization that I notice everybody like I had never been in a train so silent as the subways in Japan as the metro system in the but the interesting part is every single time that for some reason somebody was close to me and I noticed what people were doing with their phones because a hundred percent of the people were on their phones and the hundred percent of the people were on Instagram no I had not noticed I had not noticed that Instagram was such a phenomenon like and so it kind of worries me like it does worry me it's it's like people are not there but they're in this like what is Instagram it's like this over glorified beauty you know beautiful photos and people posting their stories but then these are people you know I thought that people were like working or reading email or doing different things you're communicating with somebody no everybody was on Instagram just doing this scrolling scrolling photos scrolling photos a hundred percent of the people and that kind of worries me and dude that that's like a very boring society in a way yeah I mean it's it's it's they use the term info snacking its content snacking if a photo or a 15-second IG story so easy to go through so so incessantly every single day I mean we were I made the comment last week that one of the toxic things I do is I wake up in the morning and the first thing I do is open Instagram half the time dude dude yeah right now I open the YouTube studio laughs oh what time but it's one of the it's one of those things where I've made it a habit to turn off my phone at night now yeah like I saw that and I was like no man like I remember so one of the I was I was in Kyoto I people you know obviously people are there during their touristy thing and it was all about taking a photo of myself to post on the gram and I was like man that's so boring like this place is so much more than just what you share on social media oh hundred percent a hundred percent which is why whenever we travel and you saw how I was with it it's all about the food like yeah the sites are great and all that but it makes you feel like you need to take a picture of it to send it somewhere I'd rather experience something that's more for just me and no one can eat the food that I'm eating dude I had like obviously if you're in Japan you'll have the best ramen in the world but I have to take you to a specific place in Kyoto for the best ramen I've ever had nice we would definitely do that okay so a couple of comments here ace Lucero though this was this was the question that I posed to everybody what the hell happened to texting a salut Sarah right here says use SMS problem solved do you text a lot still like do you actually text whatsapp on whatsapp yeah but I'm talking like the one tied to your phone like your number actual SMS messaging oh dude it's the the here's the problem the problem is called us carriers and Honduran carriers and carriers everywhere one of the biggest problems I think that people have become irritated with SMS because it's full of spam oh yeah I literally get a lot of that - yeah dude so there's this company that reached out to me recently about a new ad system that they have and they and they the guy dude the guy even called me on the phone like the sales guy with this like app like ad based service where it's using push notifications to send me ad to send people advertisement and I was like I'm sorry dude please stop contacting me I don't want to use your product I don't want to spam users with the new video that we just posted and they dude people are I get overwhelmed like and there is nothing that I've realized that there is nothing more overwhelming for me about notifications than using Android and you want to know why because these are not chronologically ordered one of the things that I like about using an iPhone and this is gonna sound stupid and I'm gonna get back to SMS in a sec is that the most recent notification is going to be at the top and so I literally just look at it I see what the most recent one and I just decide right there it's important or it's not important but Android forces you to interact with product because it makes sms's always be at the top and then it's telegram and I have looked everywhere for a way to stack my notifications chronologically I just want to know what the most recent one was but no with Android you immediately you get this stupid block and then it's all small little icons and it's always gonna be SMS at the top so I always have spam messages at the top and it just irritates me because sms's are not more important to me that's a good point because Google Voice for me is the top most thing and I noticed and I think about it it always yeah it it's always at the top and I just Android I really want you to cater to me not to whatever you want and so it forces me to drop down all the notifications and slide down and then it's funny cuz the other day somebody I think it was in the podcast and the comments was like your notifications quarter I'm like no I don't react to notifications I am NOT a reactive person I have things to do and so notification Android you kind of need a SmartWatch if you want things to be chronological you kind of need to you'd be using where OS if you want things to be stacked in order mmm fair but back to SMS messages when's the last time you actually you like actively did use it no because I've become soured by it I've become soured by it and also there's so much more functionality and services like whatsapp if I want to tell somebody where I am I just pin my location and send it if I want to send the photo I can send it if I want to reply like if it's walkie-talkie and we're in like a trade show and I want to send something quick and I I'm carrying like a backpack full of gear and I'm or I'm dragging my stuff I can simply just respond with a voice message and it's immediate and so SMS is just so obsolete for me it's extremely obsolete yeah that's that's a fair point let me see here there were a couple of other ones and you know what it's funny since I mentioned on the podcast last week that we have a few people that we have converted over to telegram and we've been using telegram since then yeah there are a few people in the comment sections that agree for example Ibrahim Azhar done telegram is for all of the reasons that you said is better many functions and privacy on another level I don't know I'm not too sure about the privacy part yet but I will admit it's not it's not tied to Facebook though so that's good so the beautiful thing about telegram that very few people know is you can create secret chats and you can have your messaging expire oh I didn't know that yeah and so if there's a specific conversation that you don't want people to use on the record you know or something like that or is something that you just don't want to be repeated you can literally create a secret chat and you can define how long those messages are gonna be in the feet or these can be deleted and so for me tell up for me telegram is about the functionality of like I hate WeChat I hate WeChat because it's locked to just one phone I hate whatsapp because it's locked to just one foot and I know that the average human doesn't have my problem they don't have to be swapping phones every week that's why but in my reality I need a messaging service that works everywhere but it's also secured so what I like is that if I start a secret conversation like what's a telegram is epic knocks like it works everywhere it works on your iPad it works on your computer and like notifications are like really good my problem with whatsapp is like sometimes I get notifications on whatsapp immediately if I'm using an iPhone but if I'm using an Android phone sometimes these are my five minutes later like their notification server is terrible whereas on telegram it's like immediate it's really good like I will notice both like vibrate at the same time or stuff like that that's good but then the other thing about telegram is if I start a secret conversation on phone one and I have my computer and my this and my that active even with telegram those products will not be in the conversation it will only be in the device that I started the secret conversation with oh okay that makes sense and that's pretty good I like that yeah you mentioned you mentioned WeChat actually there's one other person here will will will Newcomb WeChat here in China it's all things to all people but in a good way not just payments and shops transfers to friends but also paying your small cash to street vendors yeah yes it's Chinese and there are risks but you don't get Facebook Amazon and goo which have risks and like we've seen they've gone down so there are there are those arguments in both situations but this is what I find interesting about this comment is it's the opposite direction where we use so many different messaging apps for so many different reasons meanwhile in China there's one it's only one for all things yeah there's one app that replaces Facebook it replaces Instagram it replaces everything it's fascinating for me the WeChat effect is fascinating because I don't even find the app to be optimized for other things yeah it just happens to be the only place where you can do those things yeah yeah I know I think that Tencent like really killed it with that service and it's it's fascinating WeChat is it's just for me the problem with WeChat dude like dude I wrote you the other day I'm like I'm sorry I was about to curse I was like my god I I was finally able to unlock my WeChat after like 2 years because the last time that I used it was in my Nexus 6p and so that they wanted to force me to activate the Nexus 6p to be able to use and in the phone doesn't turn on anymore mm-hmm it doesn't way it doesn't turn on anymore that's that's weird like I don't know what happened to it it probably didn't like being stuck in a drawer and it got pissed that I got one more comment I just wanted to add one less layers of this whole discussion mic may I hope I don't know if that's actually your last name and that's kind of funny Mike may MBH now I'm using line and viber the reason I wanted to bring this one up is because one interesting phenomena I noticed about messaging applications that we just bought of WeChat is that often their geographical so yeah line and viber nice night it's Japan it's Japan yeah yeah exactly what's one in your neck of the woods that's what's that here here what's happens everything dude like your whatsapp it's funny but companies it's like WeChat to a certain degree but but there's no payment and that's literally all that whatsapp is missing like literally I wake up in the morning and the first thing that I do is I text my coffee shop and I make my order from the text message oh that's such a great idea and so and so and so usually usually there are services like the airline like there's an airline that I that I use a lot here and so I will I can text them that I want a plane ticket from point A to point B and they will respond to me with their bank account number and then from my phone I just make a bank transfer to their account and pay for my plane ticket that way and then they send me a receipt that I just paid for my plane ticket okay makes it so yeah we chat is more practical but literally Hondurans use whatsapp like Chinese people use WeChat it just needs the payment functionality that's all it's missing and you know why is trying to do that I mean they're even trying to put out their cryptocurrency and it's all gonna hopefully be in one place but then again that goes back to the same issue that TK were talking about last week like if Facebook creates a messenger or their messenger or a service that has all of these functions and then it goes down what are you gonna do right so well we can actually be regular humans and use cash and like dude like right now my whole car so here's the thing I didn't remember the last time I had ever been to an ATM until right now that we were in Japan because like hearing on dudas I could literally pay for anything with a debit card or a credit card whereas in Japan it's like the other way around it's a cash country I was shocked there's a little refreshing to what you say well but my biggest problem is like if the problem is the currency if the currency like there are a lot of coins and for me it's annoying to carry coins that is true that wasn't annoyance for sure that was a horrible anoints like I've got a ton of Japanese coins that I couldn't get rid of oh yeah because he can't exchange metal like you can only exactly and so and so I found myself sometimes buying like ice cream or stuff like that just to get rid of coins oh my goodness I just remember - I still have did you still keep your was it the pasmo card I do but I I do but I I well you why you return it you can but if you plan on coming back you know you might as well just keep it but I'm totally further back yeah so for a one-time tourist let's call them they go they buy the the suite go or the pasmo card put money on it and then if you really feel like you're not gonna use it ever again you can return it and get the money that's in it back interesting yeah so it's interesting little tidbit for and I feel like 300 yen it wasn't really much yeah it wasn't too bad all right cool so with all of that so thank you so much for commenting and I do have one question I want to put out to everybody on this episode of the podcast make sure you get into the comment sections and let us know and next week we will 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it's an easy question are you excited about the no 10 dude I am like I totally am like that thing looks sleek it looks nice it looks like a p30 approach what I like the most there are a few aspects we're gonna get into about that yeah but like every year we're excited for the note and it's it's it is a cool thing the s10 made a bit of a splash in a few different ways and we're excited to see what the note 10 brings I mean Samsung still has that that that public hype is on that hype it's it's nice every single year like I'm currently by the way I'm currently working on the after the buzz for the note 9 I'm actually working on - after the buzzes right now note 9 in pixel 3 I just don't know which one's gonna air first because the process of after the buzz is a little different to the way we review products where you know I'm actually more exhaustive about what I do with a product during and after the buzz because it's all about aging it's all about how it performs after and so the more I use the note 9 the more I miss my S 10 plus know why and this is the first time this has ever happened usually like for example then between the no date and the s 9 plus or was it known 8 an essay yeah it was no date an S 8 I preferred the note 8 between the note 9 and the s 9 I preferred the note 9 but then when the s 10 came out dude it's just that jump that they did to triple cameras that jump that they did to do - have you noticed just how just grow go grab an S 10 plus and compare to a note 9 size-wise and heft wise like I don't know what Samsung did on the internal chassis of the S 10 plus but it's lighter than a ton of phones and so like the other day for example I grabbed out of the Lu the pixel to excel do yourself a favor go grab a pixel to excel in compared to any other phone it was so light and so it was a big phone but it was light and so that's how I feel about the sm+ it feels almost so really large and so Wow shifting back to the S to the note 9 man this thing is heavy and so you know I can't wait for Samsung to apply all that engineering into the note 10 and to actually have an s10 with extra functionality so we have we have a render of the note end that came out allegedly a while people are saying it's the official render so we are actually getting a real look at this phone obviously s-pen the infinity Oh display has it in the center now quick hot take on that yeah I I noticed though that the note 10 only has that one camera though while the S 10 + 2 cameras so what are your takes on that like is that going to be did you ever use the secondary camera I mean like like here's the thing are the are the selfie portraits on the s10 plus great they're not bad they were not great there are no pixel shots these are not pixel shots and so if you can't give me that then I'd rather you just give me one camera mm-hmm how about its location like it's cuz it's straight up in the middle like right there i / you know what i find so funny about it though it's so close to the top edge of the phone that I'm like why not just you coulda just made a teardrop at that point you know what I mean yeah I get it I get it it's just I think it looks cool alright you know and I wasn't bothered by by the by the notch I by sorry by the Infinity oh and like I really like the wallpapers anyways I like it on the center it's a way to differentiate the phone here's the thing though they go into any bongs Instagram right now and notice the photo that he just posted where he's comparing the footprint of the note n compared to the note 9 in the node 8 and hopefully you can post that as an overlay to the video yeah but dude like that note 10 look small and I like it what do you buy small though because in the renders I keep thinking this is gonna be light at it look at it alright I feel is so so what Samsung is doing yeah but don't the thing about it is forget about the render and look at the comparison between the note 9 and that than that note 10 okay like that phone is gonna be significantly smaller like it's literally at least half an inch smaller from the top than the note 9 once you kill the bezel so what they've done is in what they've done is instead of think about it and I like that idea usually the biggest problem with Samsung is that whole idea of we need bigger screen bigger screen six point nine seven inch we need something crazy and for the note 10 what they're doing is like you know what we're gonna kill the bezels but we're not gonna take advantage of that extra space and give you more screen you know what now let's just make a smaller note mm-hm yeah cuz it's less about having a bigger screen in just the fact that it's all screen I feel like yes to think yes I don't need a bigger note I don't need more screen I just I need a product that doesn't feel like a tank in my pocket and also gives me that functionality yeah I do see no bear in mind there's pretty nice bear in mind I think that this is the no 10 Pro sorry I think that this is the standard no 10 which is only a half three cameras and then the no 10 Pro is most likely gonna have the same footprint of the note 9 and offer a larger display with the four cameras mmm wait for count well we're one of them is time-of-flight i'll gotcha what only still single on the front though we're not gonna see like only still single on the front alright family from apparently from the front they'll both look the same and it's just from the back that we're getting an extra camera the beckoned dude I don't mind like seriously I would love like if they were like here's your wide-angle selfie camera like the pixel oh man yeah give me but give me a notch the size of Texas I don't care it's literally literally the only way that I love the pixel 3 like I hate selfies unless I'm using a pixel 3 mm yeah that's fair it's just my cheeks don't look all over the place because if you use the wide-angle selfie camera and you actually look like a human that's not 30 pounds heavier that's my biggest wrong with selfies like people even have angles for selfies you've never tried to taken a selfie with Fisher oh my goodness okay have you noticed that like he will only take selfies from a specific angle it's always like it's gotta be like that yeah pretty much yeah yeah and if you ever if any of you fans out there ever get the pleasure of actually hanging out with Fisher and you get to take a picture of him for something he will tell you higher yeah well yeah that's the which would see that's that's the benefit of being a short guy that I don't have to be telling people higher it's gonna be higher by default I guess that's true for me as well but yeah I mean I do think that there might be different versions of the phone and it might have some some some features that are in and out of particular I don't know what a no 10 II might be if they're even gonna try to do that but here's my question another report I was dude that'd be so cool yes true right something a little so I would launch yeah hold on I'm gonna sorry for the interruption I would love in no 10e where there's no S Pen stuck to the phone like it's literally just a smaller device with a Wacom digitizer and then I would probably have a pen you would have to like carry the pen in your pocket or whatever I would be totally down for that that's a great idea I didn't think about that yeah like I don't I don't need a bigger phone like dude I've been using the pixel 3 so I did the Japan trip and the whole idea was I asked for Google to send me a pixel 3 for the after the buzz because I didn't like the 3 XL and then I loaded Android Q on it and so the idea was to bring the three to Japan but it didn't arrive on time but I've been using the 3 ever since dude this is such a delicious form factor it is so good I just I wish the display were larger like take up the whole screen and and and have that 2 selfie camera man I'd be down like that's all I want yeah for sure that's why the pixel 3a has been such a refreshing breath of a breath of fresh air but it doesn't have a dual selfies dude that's the thing yeah that's true but still just a little bit whiter before we get too far into that tangent speaking of the speaking of the features that might be on different versions of the note 10 there's one feature that people are alluding to that might not be there anymore and that makes me question whether this is gonna be the all for everyone phone anymore the power user phone if there's no headphone jack like okay tell you what if Samsung bundles the Galaxy buds in the box I'll forgive them I don't know about that though because as good as the Galaxy buds might actually be the fact that they are they are good the moment they run out of battery though you're gonna think to yourself oh Frick I wish I had that headphone jack still which is which is one thing that I have to hand to Apple with air pods like the battery life on air pods the the ear pods to dude it's like epic like really epic and then it charges them so quickly which I oxy buds don't really charge that quick and then they're like yeah but you can reverse charge it and put it on the back of your phone I'm like I'm not gonna leave my phone with a screen on the table and it does it more like life doesn't work that way it's a cool thing to do but then the screen scratches so what WTF like you know no yeah yeah exactly I dunno that's how I feel about it because the one feature of that truly wireless earbuds need right now is ten minute charging gets you at least an hour that's gotta be a bare minimum and the guys don't very minimum ya know so code the thing is maybe there's gonna be a new galaxy buds there's actually a some thought that there might be a watch active - I'd unpack there are things that we're expecting to happen alongside the phone so yeah we'll see what happens there but if there's no headphone jack man I just don't know like the note has always been the easiest phone to recommend to someone who wants everything now something is missing yeah I you know I hate I hate that hold like I tweeted yesterday I got a lot of retweets for that or something like I love how companies lately have been like we're giving you a better foe but we're taking features away mm-hmm you know I I don't get that mentality like and I don't get how much Samsung has made fun of every single company that kills the headphone jack and now they're doing it over what excuse like I get it if the standard no.10 ditches the headphone jack fine if you're giving me a more compact no 10 and we're getting a larger battery and listen that then that makes all the sense in the world fine fine but then give me the pro with everything just give me one where I have the choice and then you'll see which phone sells more yeah indeed you see my my my you're making me that's right you're making me feel better about my my power issues let me go turn it off the quick it's just man this note 9 feels big now like big ok finally like I look at that I look at the top of the phone and I'm like man you're so unreachable right now actually I had okay no that's that's beside the point I had a thought but all shared and another episode final thought on design though I'm looking at the renders and I keep forgetting that there are other renders of this phone I'm just looking at the black one right now but the picture that I kept using when I was putting together the that my thoughts for this show was on this gradient like Samsung is actually throwing it in like you said it looks a little bit like a p3 Pro so I guess I little bit like I can't wait for that comparison p30 Pro versus no 10 are you kidding me I kind of like this though like if this is really it I hope it looks like this in real life because sometimes it does the same same I love I love the fact that they gave us that white bearing of the s10 mm-hmm for review I dude I love the s10 don't get me wrong man III need to go back to the SME it's just the promise they gave me a locked phone and so I'm not always using t-mobile but it's just like for me the s10 was like Samsung maturing into so many things and coming up with a more refined device that looks like the previous one but it's not and so that's the so that's why I'm so looking forward to this no 10 I just for me the only problem with the note line is it launches at a point where you're so close to other devices like the pixel four and the next iPhone and then and then the s11 will launch so early in the following year so the time that I ended up using the note is too little that's true unless you make the effort to be like mr. two phones another Fisher reference well no no but but that's me so here's the thing the I think that the only way and this is something that Paul calm hasn't done in a while it would be nice if it would happen where like do you remember when the when the pixel launched it was the time of the 820 snapdragon 820 and then they launched the pixel with the Snapdragon 820 one they launched a new process like a new processor that was better for the pixel for the pixel for the original pixel and so but ever since then like we've had the 840 like the 835 the 845 now we've got the a 55 if really I think that it would make it would have improved the longevity of products launched in the fall if Qualcomm would come up with a newer chip for this you know for the next pixel and for the next because it's it's right now I'm using an 845 on this pixel 3 you know mm-hmm yeah that's true and now we're at where we are where we are yeah but yeah the I I do think that I going back to the whole design aspect I I hope that there are more gradients it's not just the one personally oh yeah I think that would be I yeah I just I don't understand why companies don't just like I get it they're boring people that want to stick to their black phones I used to be one man I spent two years you know it was the first film that changed my mind about that was the one plus six in red I was like wow that phone looks really cool and so I feel that it you know phones don't necessarily have to be black I mean why not come up with like if you notice the 1 plus 7 it come there's no black anymore it's like that gray variant for people that are adult but that gray actually looks really cool that mirror gray you've got that that almond which I love it's my favorite and then you've got that blue which actually didn't like that blue that much this year it felt really it felt really simple but at the same time just a tiny bit boring yeah like it's it's a good blue but it just didn't make the fun pop and then the almond arrived and was just like okay cool where we were where we should be now yeah but I can't wait for a red one +7 Pro man that would be pretty nice alright so final thought on the note 10 most thing the thing you're excited the most for this one I just I can't I for me the note is is that phone that's everything it's literally like the no date was a disappointment and then comes the note 9 where it's like alright fine you guys were complaining about battery life and the placement of the fingerprint scanner and like here we go here you go here's the note with everything you really wanted and so they launched it and so I love using the note I actually do use the s-pen um I do love the extra screen real estate I do love the aspect of having a phone with all-day battery life that also has you know there are certain things like the edge menus on Samsung I actually do use these things and that pairs like I do depend on them it's it's funny like the other day somebody was making this comment over split screen how how often Josh do you do split window on your on any other Android phone that much you I never do no but I was I will tell you though there is one thing I use all the time and that's picture and picture at YouTube which is kind of a same vein say I'm saying the same but I do I do picture in picture YouTube but then if it wasn't for the the app pairs on the side menus for Galaxy phones I would never use foot screen and so I think that that was genius and so those are the little things that make me miss using a samsung phone yeah and so for me like the S line is always great but the note line always has like the extra charm like I would even wish that Samsung would launch the note at the same time as the s and B like he like the S 10 plus would be the note variant and just have all of them and just pick the one you want and use it for a whole year not use it for so little yeah that would be me that would be me obviously our our experience is very specific though like you know there are people who could get this phone coming up and then use it for a whole year yeah but but here's the thing like like Qualcomm has been pushing ever since the 8:45 like for the last two years they've been like really pushing their processors and they've been pushing them in ways we're like in the past I didn't feel much of a change between the 8:35 in the 20 or the 8:10 but then comes the 8:45 and it was like great battery life great discrete that and then comes the 855 with HEV C and so many other things and so it's like really hard for me to not want the latest processor that's the thing yeah makes perfect sense I think it's really go ahead sorry I was just gonna I was actually going to start signing off on here I was gonna say that the one I'm just looking for as always with these phones I'm looking forward to the cameras obviously there's gonna be that wide angle even at EOF as I'm looking at this the back of this particular phone there's there's a lot to be excited for I will miss a front like a like a wide front-facing camera hopefully it's still wide enough they tend to be so I think where it will be okay yeah and 4k front-facing camera recording ooh yes for or it's 2 quad HD but yeah maybe 4k front here's the thing though whereas with the s10 they announced that Adobe Premiere rush was going to be a thing eventually it is now so that means that the note 10 will be able to start being a video like monster out of the box so that's why I'm excited yeah so the cameras need to be what they are gonna be good but if there's something even better this time around can't wait to put that into it like some some some some editing some vlogging on the go with that right I would I would never edit a video on a phone that's the thing I'd still want to try and this is where I'm gonna try it because I haven't really used it a whole lot I want to but I feel like I should keep it for this phone like get ready for it like III I did I did iMovie on the iPhone a couple of times I even did I'd movie on the iPad and I even have a luma fusion on the iPad and I still find the hole I like I wish that Apple or these companies would embrace like the whole concept like I would probably use it in a case like Dex ah with that fine I could probably like I feel that video editing like it's very hard like the texe menus with finger with finger gestures and everything it's just kind of cumbersome I believe I'm right but let me subvert that spen bro s-pen okay fine I'm a believer now all right precision editing on an S Pen yes but but then it's Samsung would have to be smart enough and partner with Adobe and come up with things that only the S Pen would do now that the S Pen is a replacement for your finger true there should be more to it than that but the S Pen will just make it more comfortable it's my point all right no because if it's optimized for finger travel it's never good like that's the problem well I mean I've edited with a with a Wacom tablet before and I do like that like precision like like that precision I do like it so hopefully that'll be that will translate here but you're right there should be some extra features as pin on rush all right cool so that's our thought on the note tent and yeah there are if you look at the renders and I'll have it linked in the description yeah these are no 10 plus no 10 renders so there are different versions of the phone so make sure you take a look at it on there and yeah let us know what you want out of the note 10 the note 10 plus man a note any like we said would be pretty awesome but yeah let us know in the comments and next week we will respond to some of those and react to some of those comments on the show all right I should do it let's go ahead and get to the outro and on that note we're gonna go ahead and call it on this one thank you so much for watching or listening to the PocketNow weekly podcast now we're turning in it's full format here on the YouTube platform after that you can share the show to whoever you think might be really inside just hearing these discussions every single week and also like I said at the beginning of the show don't forget to give us your feedback let us know what you want to see out of the podcast moving forward and then don't forget to answer the question of the week what do you want 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