Gadgetory

so it's been a little while to be living on any one specific smartphone in fact with the speed at which these phones are launched it's it's pretty much as much time as you can spend I got this thing going on where I'll take my main SIM card my main phone number the phone number that everybody has and I will put that SIM card into a device and use it exclusively as my daily driver whether you like that terminology or not for that entire period and in this case with the iPhone 10's max it has been maybe even a little longer than usual and I kind of felt the need to do that because switching over to iOS is a one-time deal it's like once a year so many devices to choose from in the Android space and they're getting launched at various intervals but in the iPhone world you get new iOS devices once per year so I put a little extra time on it to make sure that I really absorbed it as much as possible so this is the 10 s max in front of me I thought might as well go for the bigger one since it's newer I guess then the regular 10s slightly bigger battery bigger screen and the 10 s is a lot like last year's 10 which I also used for an extended period of time so this phone here in front of me is a good phone I need to get that out of the way everybody wants to make this discussion black and white a discussion of contrast that like one thing is the thing and the other thing is not the thing and honestly it doesn't break down that way it's like so many other things in life there is a gradient there is a gray area and the vast majority of things if not everything lives somewhere in that spectrum this phone is a good phone I used it for an extended period of time it did what I wanted it to do in fact in some cases very well and in some cases better than the various Android counterparts that I've used recently compatibility in and out of multiple cars where I have Bluetooth connections this one has been the most stable instantly connecting and never requiring any kind of manual input part of that is a benefit of scale this one set of hardware and software that is is combined in this product and then proliferated amongst this huge group of people all using the exact same hardware so if you're an auto manufacturer and you're working out your Bluetooth profiles or compatibility iPhone is going to be at the top of your list and of course there's various other products like that and accessories and so on that can benefit from the scale of iPhone there's also certain apps on here that I would say are a little bit better possibly than their Android alternatives this part of the discussion has been converging of recent I would say Android has gotten a lot better in this space but there still is this scale advantage when it comes to compatibility and iOS of course market share is something that's changing rapidly so this is not a static thing this is a dynamic part of the conversation and this may change in the future as well but nonetheless compatibility very nice it's solid it's robust the build quality is something that I like now you know I'm not a huge fan of glass phones but I will gladly switch to a glass phone in exchange for wireless charging which this device happens to have not the fastest charging device but it has that feature and I like it now when you pull this thing out of the box it's important to know that you feel like you were dealing with a quality device you feel like you are dealing with an expensive device certainly more so than some other products you'll pull out of a box you guys know I raved about the recent polka phone f1 299 dollar maybe that does happen we know what it was about it was crazy delivery of specs for not such a crazy price that's kind of the opposite of this phone here this phone has the price tag to match you pull this out of the box and you feel like you're holding on to something expensive so I commend Apple for being able to deliver a premium phone that truly does feel premium the camera in most situations is also good I was mostly critical of the front-facing camera and some of the things that was doing to skin tones now that issue doesn't exist nearly as much if at all on the rear camera which otherwise can produce some amazing images Apple has its own version of computational photography capable of merging multiple photos together you saw the smart HDR functionality that stuff is only gonna get better with time as the sample size increases and so on and of course Apple can go in there and make updates to things like Beauty gate if people don't like the effect that it's having on their skin tones that can be tweaked I think a lot of people are gonna go ahead and compare this camera to the upcoming pixel device the pixel 3 pixel 3 Excel totally different implementation here of course as you know we have the multi lens scenario a lot of where we're living right now is somewhere in the nuance the grey thing that I was talking about before I don't really think your life is gonna be impacted all that much by using this smartphone camera first is the pixel 3 Excel for most people in most circumstances either of those two phones is going to suffice in delivering the type of results that you happen to be looking for it's gonna be a matter of taste yes that's right it's taste a lot of it has to do with what you're comfortable with or what you have pre-existing knowledge of or what your family members happen to use like all these pieces actually add up to your eventual decision on which smartphone is best for you and it is important to remember it is a question of best for you rather than best overall even in the case of those DxO scores some people still pick other images down the list on different smartphone cameras that they consider to be more pleasing it comes back to this idea that there is no best just the best for you now we can't talk a little bit about the notch here it's not City right now like my whole Twitter is essentially talking about notches it's amazing Apple they come out with it and then boom it's across the board I knew when I saw it on the original iPhone 10 it was gonna be an earthquake a notch quake so all of a sudden you have all these bones coming out with notches and I probably looked at a dozen phones with notches since the iPhone 10 if I can disable the notch I'll disable it I'll get rid of it now Apple doesn't natively give you the ability to do that so I put a black and put a black background until you launch into an app in which case you become more aware of the notches existence what I do like in the iPhones case is that there's no chin to go along with the notch at least the rest of the device is relatively symmetrical you're housing some some pretty cool tech when it comes to facial rec Nishan and so on but I should talk a little bit about this facial recognition it still suffers from some of the same issues that the iPhone tended I'll be lying in bed for example sometimes it'll just miss or you know the the place where I'm holding the phone is a little bit closed and I find myself doing these types of motions is it the end of the world no absolutely not does it require me to condemn the entire device no absolutely not but it is something that you should know about with the lack of a fingerprint scanner on this phone there are those circumstances in which you find yourself either doing that or typing in the passcode it's not every time it's not every person's face some people wear hats sometimes I wear glasses it's not all the time but it is sometimes and so it's worth knowing about I would still prefer if this phone and I said this about the previous version had some alternative authentication system like a fingerprint scanner in the back they'll never get rid of the Apple logo but how cool would an Apple logo fingerprint scanner be in conjunction with face unlock so you have both whichever picks up first that's the one you go with the display on here is nice OLED it's a must at this price point as you know this one has it I do also enjoy having access to a dedicated switch for dealing with audio issues silencing the phone and so on something they don't like is that we still have this effect here this is not my favorite effect yes there are times where I use the device on a flat surface and I'm just not a huge fan of this breakdown right here where you know not a deal breaker once again not a deal breaker there's been a lot of talk about the asymmetry on the bottom of the device I rarely would even look at the bottom of the device here what's more interesting to me is the reason for it Apple is no longer working with Qualcomm at all in fact apple and Qualcomm not-so-friendly right now there's various lawsuits disputes going on between the two brands you know Qualcomm they're giants out here when it comes to chipsets networking components and so on because of the dispute Apple chose to go with Intel you can see there's an extra antenna band here to support the latest wireless protocol and this is the first time that Apple has gone all Intel on their device some people but the previous gen I phone ended up with Qualcomm some ended up with Intel it appears to me looking at this from a distance now and seeing this transition it might not be the greatest thing for customers how much of the Wi-Fi issues that have been reported maybe Hardware related to an internal design that Intel is responsible for or possibly it's a software hardware communication thing going on but what we do know is Qualcomm is the market leader when it comes to these type of communication components so will the networking be as rock-solid on this as the last one time will tell I did notice that the Wi-Fi would drop out from time to time but then again twelve point zero point one the latest software on here actually claims to fix some of that or hopefully fix some of it okay sound I was really impressed with the sound the sound coming out of this is definitely an improvement over the previous one and it's one of the best sounding smart phones that I've heard as of right now this is one of the best sounding smart phones out of the speaker unit that's out there in the marketplace it's a bit unfortunate to me that they didn't move to USB type-c I get it there's a lot of peripherals out there that utilize the Lightning port but but honestly for me I have so many accessories on type-c it would have been nice to just see native type-c in there fast charging in the box I just want to talk a little bit about notifications in general not a huge fan of the way that iOS deals with notifications comparative to Android I just find the individual cards and even the way that notifications are stacked within iOS are not quite as streamlined this is a preference thing I feel the need to reiterate this as a preference thing that said iOS has made a number of improvements regarding nested notifications so at least now they're stacked on top of each other if you are a heavy user and you get a lot of notifications that was a huge issue in the past Apple has addressed that but to me it's still a step behind what's happening on Android that said it's a taste thing battery life I should say I was concerned about the battery on here because it is smaller than some of the other flagship devices like say for example the note 9 there's some power management stuff going on here that is obviously very effective because at the end of the day and similar numbers in terms of leftover battery life it's not like I'm hunting for a charger with this thing if you are locked into the iOS ecosystem and you want battery life you can go with this max or you could wait for the ten are as depressing as that screen might be or will be or who knows that thing should be really good and on Apple site they've even listed it as the battery champion for runtime so that's something to keep in mind I'm not gonna go out there and tell you that there's a $400 phone on the market that's gonna give you the same overall picture as what this iPhone is going to give you as fine or good or quality this product continues to be the real question comes down to cost it comes back to cost again because ultimately that's my job here is to evaluate these things from a cost performance perspective you're going to be determining what works best for you in comparison to what you want to invest it's the best I can do it's the best thing to talk about for me speaking and thinking as responsibly as I possibly can to the average one of you to the person out there who's a customer who's looking at smart phones who's considering buying a new one I'm gonna have to say this phone is great but I still don't think you should buy it and this cost this one in front of me is 1100 bucks USD and in certain markets it's even more than that when adjusted in some places like India for example the thing is almost 2 grand equivalent the iPhone 10's max is a great phone the iPhone 10s is a great phone they have problems every phone has problems but for those of you in the audience looking for advice concerned with cost to performance ratio I do not think the 10s max is worth 1100 bucks or whatever price it is in your local market not compared to what else is out there if you got money falling out of your pockets if you got boatloads of cash go ahead disregard everything I said and just be like I don't care I can have 10 of those but I can't be that useful to you anyways that wraps up this video as you know I'm doing this switch thing I got a switch to another phone I gotta bring the heat so let me know down in the comment section which phone am i switching to next I will be switching and I won't be holding back stop it I'm bringing fire to all of them I'm looking to give you value wherever I can I'm gonna keep doing it all right comments-section what am i switching to