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hey it's a knife from the verge it's like Monday morning 10:00 a.m. just walked out of a meeting with Apple and I've got it see iPhone 10 this is gonna be a weird one it's not how it usually is I've only got 24 hours for me this phone that's all they're giving us so here's what gonna do we're gonna publish a first video today as quickly as we can of all the features wicked stuff take our impressions then I want your questions put them in the comments below I'll publish a much longer video answering all those questions in a couple of days all right well roadblock number one I need to put my sim in here and I don't know about you but I am not in possession of a paperclip currently nor would I want to do that operation in the bathroom moving car but the screen looks nice so we're here in the studio I'm gonna give you some quick impressions of the big stuff the screen the cameras and face I need this screen there's not no getting around it it's right there at the top of the screen I will say that even just using it after a few hours I've stopped thinking about the notch or caring about the notch you will notice it in two places right away the first is an apps to play video so we run the Star Wars trailer on YouTube YouTube is optimized for the phone it looks weird because you can either go fullscreen and the notch sits over the left side of the video or you can shrink it down so it doesn't but then the video is piller boxed and letterboxed and that means it's really small which is just not great so you've got two not great options the other thing is apps that aren't optimized for this display are kind of broken so like dark sky has a weird black bar at the top Google Docs which is an optimized yet has huge borders the top and bottom they're basically fake bezels other apps that use auto layout like my news reader app news if I it's just broken there's lines cutting across the status bar usually Apple developers are really great about fixing their apps for new versions of iOS but the last time Apple made a change this big was the iPhone 6 and it took some developers years to make their apps work on I six ice cream so we'll see how it goes the screen is a 5.8 inch OLED display and I would say the experience of using it so far is actually somewhere in between the iPhone 8 and the iPhone eight plus it doesn't act like a plus size display it doesn't have tabs in Safari and landscape the keyboard is about the same size of the iPhone 8 the reason is it's got the notch at the top in this control area at the bottom where the home button used to be so the vertical real estate of the screen is actually little bit smaller than you think so you get a bigger screen than an iPhone 8 and it will look bigger but in terms of usable area it's not as big as the 8 plus it's right in the middle so I know there's been a lot of controversy about the pixel 2xl display and that's led to a lot of controversy about OLED screens in general and I'm just gonna tell you looking at it for a few hours this display is great it's made by Samsung but Apple is really insistent that they actually designed and engineered it themselves so Samsung is just manufacturing it and it's a pentile arrangement if you're that kind of nerd I know I am but Apple is doing a lot of custom work to eliminate some of the problems spent all this Way's have had in the past the colors are vibrant they're not muted like the pixel 2 they are not super exaggerated like the s8 if basically it looks like a much brighter version of the iPhone LCD I know I said in the iPhone 8 review that I think the iPhone LCD is the best screen ever made and people don't really mad at me but this looks like an even better version of that and I think that is really great as for cameras it's basically the same setup is the iPhone 8 plus a big difference is that both the wide and the telephoto lens have optical image stabilization here on the 8 plus only the white has optical image stabilization this will probably be a way bigger difference in videos when you're shooting with the tele lens but we've got to do a lot more testing to find out right now and just some quick tests pictures basically look like the A+ and if you watched our A+ review you know they're pretty competitive with the pixel and the si in the node 8 I think the pixel looks a little bit better and now that the pixel 2 is out we've got to do a deep head-to-head and we're going to be doing that test coming up soon the front camera because it has the true depth system can now see a portrait mode selfies which is fun and you get to use an emoji which are super silly and I think are probably the best feature of the phone so face ID that's the big one now Bo got rid of the home button they got rid of the fingerprint sensor get rid of touch ID changed all the gestures on the phone of how you use it because now you unlock the phone just by looking at it and I got to be honest with you it's been a little bit inconsistent for me so inside it basically works all the time sitting at my desk walking around in dark places mostly when I'm walking around it works fine the problem has been when I go outside into bright sunlight particularly when I'm walking around in bright sunlight or when I go into places with weird fluorescent lighting like hilariously the deli across the street and I think the reason for this is that when you're in the dark it's shining the IR light on your face and the camera can just see it it's like a flashlight in the dark when you're outside there's tons of IR interference from the Sun or from those crappy fluorescent lights and the camera is a harder time seeing the IR beam illuminate your face this is just my theory right now but it's kind of what's been happening so we got to do a lot more testing I'm gonna ask Apple what's going on we're gonna figure it all out or and have all that information in the full review but right now I'm just gonna tell you it hasn't worked great all the time so that is what I know after these first few hours of playing with the iPhone 10 I think it's a really good iPhone I think there's some big questions we answered around face ID consistency perfectly outside I think there is some deep camera testing I want to do especially against the pixel - I can't really tell you about battery life yet because I just haven't had it long enough but I think if you've pre-ordered this phone you're gonna be pretty happy you're gonna be on the face ID journey of discovery with the rest of us as we figure out where and when it does and doesn't work if you haven't pre-ordered and you have questions ask us because I want to hear from you so leave questions and a comments on this YouTube video hit me up on Twitter hit us up on the website we're going to take all those questions we're gonna go back to Apple we're gonna ask them some additional really hard questions and we're to answer them all in our full review coming in just a couple days hey Joanna how's it going it's good I just got my iPhones and do you have one yet I'm special get back here Stern