Saturday Morning With Tech ep 67 - OnePlus Watch Xperia 1 III Xperia 5 III TCL 20 Pro 20L Razer ANZU By TK Bay

And we are live, we are live Sarah, everybody Navajo and welcome back to another episode of Saturday morning with tech. I am your host. I am your compare in this entire episode. Furthermore, I guess um, you know it today is the 17th. So it's april 17, 2021. It is episode, 65, 66, no 67, I want to say it's 67 and hopefully I actually uh numbered them correctly, because I think, if I'm not mistaken, I think Cohen always does that.

He always make fun of me but uh naming them incorrectly, but I can double-check real, quick um. So today is Saturday the 17th of April uh. We are actually a nice day here in southern California. Hopefully you guys are doing well also um el Jose's. In the comments about how Sam hey man, how are you doing Jermaine as well, how are you uh today we're actually going to be streaming into three different locations? I didn't realize that my account allowed me to do three locations.

We're going to be on periscope YouTube as well as twitch. At the same time, something very interesting: oh Devin, Devin Davis is in chat as well. Good morning, good morning, welcome back um. Today this week has been actually a very interesting week of announcements for me, because uh two of my favorite brands in the US are been making announcements on the same day. So Wednesday was like the biggest thing and of course, on Tuesday the day right before that uh we had the guess the embargo was lifted on one plus watches OnePlus watches started, making becoming available for people to be able to pick up uh and, of course, for anybody that is uh.

Basically a like OnePlus fan or loves the OnePlus brand uh. This sounded like a good like you know it should fit, and it works perfectly, and they did actually sell out quite fast. I'm surprised how fast they were able to do that as well. Um Sean Pfeiffer's in the comment: hey man, um any new tesla mods this week, uh, you know I didn't actually do any mods specifically, but I am in the process of doing new ones. Um, I'm! Actually.

I don't know why. For some reason I woke up this morning at night and I started thinking you know. I saw some videos on, I think, was it on tick-tock or something like that where they were doing a kit, like you, know, Knight Rider mods on to the actual tesla like opening up the mod, but I actually want to I'm trying to get that led strip. All the way in the front because I got mine is all black, as you guys know, and obviously this just begs to have the mod. You know the kit lights, that kind of goes back and forth.

So I think that's probably going to be one of my no, my new mod mods that I'm looking at uh, but overall from what I've done. I've installed um a separate phone holder with wireless charging. I installed a screen protector. Furthermore, I installed uh blue LED lights. Furthermore, I can, I replaced the original LED lights that were inside the car um, I'm working on trying to put in a light strip a LED strip in the car itself, just to get that RGB life kind of going on um, but I'm liking it.

Furthermore, I'm really liking the actual aesthetics. But I do also want to see if there's a there's, a few mods that allow us to actually get android auto running in it, not on the main console but like a separate screen that can feed off of the ODB connection into the actual screen, and we can run like android auto functionality. So I don't have to worry about keep using tesla's built-in music services because they use slacker. They use Spotify, which are very popular services, but I'm a Google play music, uh subscriber, and I've been since the actual beginning of it. I was at I o the the first time they announced it, and I'm still running on the grandfathered account.

So I am. I'm google play music for the longer for the long haul. Let's just say that much um uh is to swivel the means. Yes, so uh, uh m bamboo. Hopefully I'm saying that correctly, I think uh.

He said the display swivel. I saw that and there's a few mods in there's a there are two versions: there's the one that just does the swivel there's one that actually uh does more of a slightly articulating but also lowers the display, and I feel like that. That would be the better option um for me, it doesn't bother me much because I kind of sit higher in the car, but I felt, like you know when I'm working with when I see in some of those options, it's like the ability of having to just at least tilt it to my perspective, as opposed to where you know somebody's sitting there, and of course you can tilt it. Both sides uh and it didn't seem like it was that hard of a mod it was more about um. You know just given enough time, unscrewing a couple of screws in the back and then there's that nice mesh fabric that they kind of put on the back.

So I've seen those as well um Gary as well, is in there mas by's in there Sarah everybody uh, so that that one's definitely something that I've been uh looking into and uh the Dragon Ball z, like uh lighting, may be better than the night rider, so their skins also. So I was thinking about maybe skinning the actual tesla's like trying to put some, maybe some DBZ logos on the side or something to that effect kind of because when you have such a like a plank, you know canvas in a way you can actually kind of skin it really nicely, but um. The one I definitely did was very interested in is the one that SAF did where he kind of went matte black on the entire car. So the set it's almost like a matte finish to the car, as opposed to the reflective mirror finish that we almost have in there. So looking definitely very much into that uh Richard uh rather is in.

There is Ned Ganesh good morning, man or good evening, depending on where you are uh. You know it's been an interesting week. I should say that I've been on a couple podcasts. Obviously you guys have been with us on the best of our week on Thursday night on a little early with Juan Carlos and myself uh, and then yesterday I was actually on the uh. What's it called the pocket now podcast with uh josh as well? So I don't know if you guys follow it there as well uh, so that was also nice.

Uh Hammett tech talk uh Salem Thomas uh Matt's in the chat good morning. Hope you all you guys are doing well. I have to go back to work catching up with all of you guys, tomorrow's show, so tomorrow's show first met uh, Matt and Sam with uh, basically across the podcast, so uh the biggest announcement. Obviously this week for me, was the Xperia line, so we knew we. So I was part of like a little of a.

I guess was a news briefing that was going on a little before so we kind of knew a little of the information on the Xperia one mark ii. Sorry, the experience maxi area, one mach 3 and the 5 mark iii, and so, although we've kind of covered a lot of the specifications over on Wednesday or Thursday show and yesterday's as well, the summary of the changes from the one mark ii to the three to the one mach 3 are not necessarily subtle there. There is a difference, obviously the main primary two sensors um they're, still running on 12 megapixel sensors in the back, and they're still running an 8 megapixel on the front, so the heavy focus is still on the back facing sensor setup, the telescopic lens on the back changed from being just a 70 millimeter to up to 200. Now it has two separate distinctive focal lengths, so you have now 24 sorry, 16, 24, 70 and then now a 105. , the 105 is an actual focal.

So it's a setting that where it's not digitally zooming, it's actually manipulating the elements. The lens elements that are inside the telescope telescopic camera in the back of the phone. So this is the weird part about it. So here's, as you can see here, there's three sensors setup looks pretty much the same aesthetically. I think the finish has changed, but the camera, the third camera, which is the telephoto, is now going to be mounted sideways on the phone enabling us to have something similar to what we saw with Samsung's uh.

You know the camera setup, not the space zoom, but the setup just more so that it's sitting sideways but Sony's, actually putting in moving elements to enable us to have two separate focal lengths, the 70 and the 105. Uh battery capacity. As far as 4500 uh we're able to go up to basically 30 watts of charging wire charging wireless charging is still in there. Reverse wireless charging, a major revamp into the camera system application. So the standard default application that we normally have on the Xperia one mark ii or the five has been changed.

It's going to be now more of a simple version of the Xperia camera pro app so similar aesthetics, but definitely built with more. I guess the camera pro functions, but we're using a simpler uh UI element, I'm hoping it changes by the time it comes out. So more like you know, default mode or standard mode, and then you have cinema pro and camera pro, because those are pros. So when you have a pro you don't go pro simple: you go pro default or standard, so we'll, we'll see um Gary the fireman's in there as well uh DAV and everybody else, uh, so opera, 5, mach 3 is going to be 1100, so uh, my bomb, sorry, my jumbo is saying, is uh, so there's been some rumors so yeah I saw the 1300 all the price tag so um. We can start talking a little about the price tag and what they're offering there's a few things to mention the Xperia one mark ii was selling, I think at the beginning, and I think it would, may still be selling for about 1200 bucks till the three comes out, and that was the price point that it came out in the U.

S. We did not have a 5g. Furthermore, we had 4g LTE uh, the Xperia pro, which came out later and then actually earlier in 2021 and that one's a much different, uh smartphone, the Xperia line for what you're getting from 2020 to 2021 you're, getting the 888 as well as a processor you're, getting 5g connectivity you're, getting the new telescope, the new camera system on the back with the 16 24 70 and 105 uh focal length. So those are all going to be built in all still focusing on the major 12 megapixel sensors that are slightly the bigger sensors that Sony's able to put in there. And of course we also have the ability of going up to 30 watts of charging.

We have an additional dedicated button now that we didn't have before. So, if you really kind of consider the upgrades that they did from last year to this year, asking for another 100 on that price is not really that far-fetched. Now, obviously, the price is in the 1300s. Now it's no longer in the 1200s, I'm not confirming this. Obviously, I'm just saying this is what it was announced.

Sony did not share with us, at least from the U. S. side. Nobody was shared with as far as pricing, and they didn't announce any pricing at the launch or the announcement um actually uh, varied's uh, uh shame. Actually, that's a good question.

Opp watch versus OnePlus watch and I want to talk about that in a second uh but yeah. So I think when you look at pricing and specifically since we now also have the 4k 120 frames per second refresh rate on the panel, like the amount of improvements that they've done here are great and crazy, and they literally only went up a little on the price mind you, it is already in the premium tier, so it's the twelve hundred to thirteen hundred dollars, we're not looking you know from you know a thousand to twelve. So I would probably say this if you ever were a Xperia line fan. If you were a big fan, you had the Xperia one or the Xperia one mark ii. This is definitely a easy transition because it's really feeding into what you normally like the headphone jack is still there.

The design is still very much a similar design. The nice longer form factor the 4k panel creator mode, great stereo speakers with support for 360 sound. So I can definitely say that those are things that I feel are great for people to actually look for. So I love that part um so, but I did want to jump back real, quick, um yeah. No, definitely the 4k 120 hertz uh will eat up the.

So you have to understand, I think, more than likely it's going to be an adaptive rate. It's not going to be running at 4k 120 all the time and even when we're running standard mode like when we're running different applications. The panel itself adjust goes up and down the resolution to save you battery, because, if you think about it, we had like somewhat of an upscaling up to 90 hertz from the 60 frames last year, but at the end of the day, you're going to have the ability of toggling between the 60 and the 120 to whenever you want that, and I feel like those are going to be the sum of those options you want to do and creator mode as we had before had some auto mode. So when you switch over to watching content like Netflix and so on, it automatically turns on creator mode. So you get those features and it disables them.

The moment you get out of the app, so I'm hoping more management on the profile side as well and HS power control as well, is also uh in there um, and it is going to be an OLED panel. Yes, from what we understand, it's going to be a Vanessa's asking it's going to be an OLED panel, uh and, of course, uh the same of these. I think the other additional things that they in there now we're going to have 12 gigs of ram on the Xperia one mark ii, uh, and I think uh 256 gigs, as micro SD card support still in there uh and, of course, the camera, sensors and, of course, mass optics with a time of flight sensor on the one mach 3 in no time of flight sensor on the 5 mach 3. Although the 5 mark iii is going to continue being a 1080p 120, which is what we saw last year, but then you get the new camera system dedicated button, there's a bunch. Oh, and of course the biggest thing in my opinion is the fact we're going to actually have colors.

I mean not a lot, but literally in the U. S. for the one mark iii, it's going to be a black one and a purple one, and I think for the um five mark iii. There's going to be three colors. I could be wrong, but I think at least in the US it'll be the green and the black one uh.

So you have a choice and I feel like that's a great opportunity, because if you guys remember last year when I was trying to wait for the uh for the Xperia one mark ii to come out uh the whole time, I was trying to find the one how to get how to import the purple. One from I think Europe, or even trying to get it from Hong Kong. So for me those are things that are very interesting, um, a quick segue, because the question came up, and I don't want to uh skip that too far. So it could be a comparison right when, when we want to compare the one plus watch and the Oppo watch now, I have to compare obviously the ones that are international, I'm not going to compare it to the Oppo watch, that's based in China and the reason I say that there are two versions of the Oppo watch, the ope watch that's running an OS that is similar to OnePlus operating system, and I don't have access to that. The one I have is the one the opal watch.

That's the international model. That's running, Wear OS! So first thing we'll talk is the design. One is more of a rectangular with curved displays kind of like a smartphone. The other one is a circular design. So look more as a traditional watch.

Opp's approach was very similar using a lot of inspiration, obviously from the Apple Watch, but more making it into an outpost. Smartphone design, it's running, Wear OS connects really nicely, and I think it gets a solid day, maybe a day and a half worth of battery life, mostly because the capabilities that that smartphones can do so. Everything that Wear OS can do assistant replies, there's a custom UI running on top of Wear OS from opp. That allows it to run very nicely, and it's running the where3100 processor so fairly recent processor, one of the faster ones, not the 41, but definitely one of the faster ones and about two days worth of battery life. When you compare that to what we're getting from OnePlus currently- and that's essentially, is a proprietary operating system, uh and, of course, uh it runs about.

I think, if I'm not mistaken about 10 to 14 days, I think that would about 11 days solid from my first charge, and I then had to charge it up to 100 again. Charge is very fast um. It does not have any of the Wear OS functionalities, and I mean by no no assistant function, no currently no mobile payment, although it actually does house a NFC chip, so that could be coming in the future. And of course, the other thing that we're talking about is the design, the aesthetics it's designed only to work with android devices, where the opal watch works with android and iOS because of OS. So there's that, basically, if you kind of want to put them together as far as a conversation which one is better, it comes down to what you need if what you're looking for a great fitness tracker or a fitness tracking device, that does pretty much a good job at fitness tracking, but not necessarily so much at responding in messages and uh being able to do assistance functionality.

Smart things I feel like the OnePlus watch, does a very decent job of that right. Now, it's going to get better with more updates and get better with improvements. The hardware is very solid. Battery life is very nice and the features that were removed to make it have a long battery life. I feel like it's an easy trade-off where, if you want to be able to get the tracking, but don't necessarily want to have to respond from your watch like 90 of the time when you're trying to respond to your from your watch, your phone is in within reach right.

So, if you're trying to do it mostly work here, anyways I feel like the OnePlus watch does a decent job to top that off. The OnePlus watch sells for 159 159 on their site if we're able to get it depending on the unavailability. So I look at that, and I feel like it's something that you can definitely work at and enjoy both watches they're, not necessarily competing for the same market share because they're not running the same OS, uh and, of course, opposed watch. In my opinion, I feel like again it's feeding into the norm: mainstream, Wear OS experience, we don't know, obviously, if OnePlus will be able to you know, replace it or, if they're going to try to replicate some of those features um hold on. Let me see here I think, if I'm not mistaken, uh that ROG phone five- oh okay, so I think here I was hoping for an es squad pro dag uh, like the kg phone feature, actually uh, so the DAC on the Xperia one mach 3 or the Xperia one mark ii is definitely a step above any of the other headphone jacks that you see in the market, I'm with you as far as the quality of the uh, the actual um, the audio interface.

As far as the audio processing, it's still very, very nice, considering uh what you're getting it with that and some other options on the market right now, no flagship on the market right now other than like, and I'm talking about, top-tier flagship- includes a headphone jack. That's supported very nicely. I mean lg was the one of the last one and unfortunately lg, as we know, will no longer be providing new hardware or making new hardware, so, at the end of the day, they're literally the only game in the market. So I agree it would have been nice to upgrade it uh, but they that could also be something that they can do next year. But I think at this point the fact that it is still much better than most of the um existing systems that we have on the market is still something to appreciate from what you get with Sony.

Keep in mind. This also works as an audio input for Sony devices as well as USB uh. The support for that now with an adapter allows you to use uh much closer features that what we got with the Xperia pro, that is literally, that has an actual HDMI cable coming in there as well um, so that you can see. I think. Hopefully I answered that question for you right there.

I think I'm going to scroll down, and this is going to jump like crazy uh. It's an OLED panel. Okay, here uh, I would like to get a Sony opera. Okay, so here um, uh, uh, my bomb, I'm saying, is um. I would like to get a opera, but I'm going to wait, uh for the before uh, hoping that it will have an ESS, quad deck and will probably stick to the lg v20.

So I think the v20 is still a very decent processing, uh overall, as far as audio and, of course, the removable back, the removable battery that little smart tick display that we had on the top. There was a lot of things that a lot of people loved about the lg v20 the build quality alone is definitely very nice. It's not v10 quality build like uh. I think the build quality, but I've definitely loved what the v20 did and again like once the battery kind of degrades or whatever replace the battery jump on to the next one. That's the beauty of it, but I'm with you yeah uh.

You need to upgrade to the one that makes sense to you. I don't think Sony's trying to market the Xperia line, at least the one mark ii, a mach3 and the five mark iii for everybody, it's feeding into their existing base, that love opera, the love, the camera, the alpha camera experience on the smartphone one of the many things that I love about the Xperia is that it's a great content creation phone. It has the horsepower to process almost anything you want to be able to get it uh throw at it. The one thing that I always felt like for me, that was a limitation for me- was the fact that the one mark iii or mach 2 was a 60 frames per second panel with somewhat of an upscaling to 90. I mean it's definitely better than 60, but it wasn't truly 90 so to go from one to from 60 to 120 that refresh rate, especially for gaming.

It makes the one mark iii a very compelling, well-rounded smartphone now, because it touches on the gaming side. It touches on the creative side. Furthermore, it also touches on the content consumption side on a unique level, because we have front-facing speakers. We have 4k 120, we have you, know HS power control to power, our smartphone as we're playing games, so we're getting a lot of those features that I feel like we were missing last year, and now we finally can use them. So those are things it makes for a compelling story.

I don't know if it's a smart enough, if it's compelling enough to take somebody from the one mark ii to the five mark to the one mark iii. Mostly because again, if you, if you dropped 1200 bucks on a smartphone last year, does it make sense to try to jump on another one? A year later, I feel like this is a good upgrade for the original opera, so the Xperia other, I would say the one uh, the one that came out in 2019 um. Let me see here Jermaine, oh, I think German is answering uh Dominic on that one uh color OS in China, it's color yeah uh. So in China, the uh, the smartphone, the OnePlus, sorry, the opp, which is running color OS. It's a color OS style right.

So it's its more of the uh, the smartphone. The smartwatch experience, and unfortunately I don't have access to that um I would have imagined, though I mean realistically, if it was going to be something running, that is not where OS that it would have been leveraging heavily on opp's existing ecosystem, because my understanding at least the one in China that watch had a lot more functionality than what we currently have on the OnePlus. So there could be an evolutionary upgrade to that level right now, though, it's consistent, it's uh, it has a lot of watch faces, has a lot of set uh. You know functionality for training, for exercise, so on it's ip68, five atmospheres of protection. You can go swimming with this raining all of that stuff.

It looks nice and it's thin and light. I'm surprised how light it is for how long it lasts. But again you have to kind of keep in mind it's really more of a fitness band and a smartwatch body, because it's heavily focused on fitness tracking. It's not heavily focused on smartwatch functionality, which I consider to be responding to text messages, getting true notification from the actual applications without getting together. The what I mean by this is um the notification right now that we get are in a system where it's aggregating, like a RSS feed, with the name of an app you're, not getting an app logo or an icon.

So you don't really get the chance to look at it say: oh, that's a WhatsApp message, or you look at it. Oh, that's you know Instagram or whatever right now. You just see the name of the app right on top, so you have to kind of spend a little more, and it seems like they're still working on the software part, which I feel like that's. Why I'm waiting to do my full review at least till the next update pushes out once that update gets out, and we have a better syncing for the data we'll be able to make it better decision. Let me see here real quick, I'm pretty sure, I'm very bad on the uh, so um my jumbo is actually throwing in a very uh.

So let me jump real quick Devon Davis. Uh Sony does purple awesome as former z as the ultra owner of the purple uh it's one of my favorite colors on the phone. Absolutely that was the so, except the fact that I didn't want to get the phone without getting us banned support like I wasn't sure if I got the European model and that I got it in the US that it would work the exact same way. So there was always that in hindsight I think I would have done much better than because I think it would have worked and probably updates would have been pushing to the model that I have much faster. The US for some reason we have.

We were actually one of the last ones to get android 11. I mean it was a running um gag between my Juan Carlos and I, on the best of our week, uh. For a few weeks before we got the update where we're like, hey TK, let's go ahead and do the update, and we like to double-check swipe down. Let it refresh nothing happened, uh, but I am with you um my jumbo jumping on a very, very serious subject for obviously a lot of us here. The 888 is not necessarily the the disappointment.

I feel like a lot of people. So it's hard to say that the chip is a disappointment. I feel like the processing power or the sheer horsepower of the 888. Is there um, and it's actually very much- it's obviously an upgrade from what we got with the 865. The concern and the reason why we'm saying this is that we've seen now different variations of the 888 meaning it's present in multiple versions from different carriers right or OEMs.

So we have OnePlus, we have Xiaomi. We have Xiaomi, actually multiple devices running it. Uh Samsung, of course, running it as well on their devices and when your notice is that when you see carrier OEMs actually putting time to put in the cooling mechanism to provide that processor, the amount of you know cooling system to let it run at the power that it needs to run. There actually is some improvements that we can see there. So when we see what's going on with, let's say devices like Xiaomi, where they are getting warmer well, that's because they decided not to throttle the smartphone, the actual processor, but they also, I feel like they didn't, maybe address the cooling system on it any ruggedness enough for it to basically have a better heat management situation.

At the end of the day, though, playing games on the me11 ultra is I mean I just got an update yesterday has been smooth, there are no issues with it itself. It does get warm and, if you're holding it obviously and using it without a case, you'll feel the heat uh. But I feel like that's, also the opposite situation. What we saw with Samsung, where they throttled the experience and for you to truly get the experience right, you'd have to go in first increase the resolution and the refrain and the frame rate to be able to get the games to play at that level b, going to turn on high performance mode so that you can get the processor to run on um on, I would say, on unconstrained and in a way, and then you'd start noticing the heat, and then you start noticing some performance issues dipping it's because it wasn't really considered at the time of you know putting it together. I feel, like that's to decide, the sign issue there uh, but then, when we see what OnePlus is doing, you appreciate what's going on, and you see that where OnePlus is able to manage some of those thermals and have a consistent performance on the 888.

So I really think it's going to come down to every care. Every OEM's approach to managing the chipset, as opposed to just assuming that the 888 is pretty much just a 865 upgrade. But you just need to house it. You have to address it and um gaming phones are doing a much better job like the dog, the black shark, as well as uh. You know what we have now uh with red magics, the red magic six, which, by the way, I'm going to be dropping the review for that one.

Next week, I'm finishing up my testing on it. Um there's a lot of things to be said, of course, um earl Owens. My next phone will be a Sony. I honestly I'm already with you on that boat man. Honestly.

I cannot wait to check that out. Uh Sony, uh, Dominic's, jumping back here, says: Sony doesn't sell the Xperia pro in Europe because of MMA 5g. It's not live in Europe. Yet uh. We only have a sub 6 600 subs 6, basically 5g in Europe, and I feel like yeah.

The Xperia pro was pretty much I felt like was designed for broadcasters and for the five for the ultra-wide band.5G connectivity uh. It works with sub 6. This is the weird part about it. It actually does support Verizon sub 6 millimeter weight, is sub 6 5g in the US and where I feel like the way their approach to sub 6 in the US they're using sub 65g to download, but the upload is still being run up on LTE, so there's a little of a disconnect there. That's why I feel, like ultra-wideband, when you're able to do like 2500 down is like crazy and uploading, and basically you know like it's just the numbers that come out of that smartphone is just crazy, crazy, nice um! I love it when I get calls in the middle of my live stream, but no, we are not going to take any solicitors uh.

Today, uh Davis Davis is saying: Sony has always done, uh a good DAC um and the um and the amp that is always combined, which me, which seems to be weaker than uh than it should be, and I think that's the concern they didn't specify what they're doing differently this year's uh other than obviously that it will be using a higher quality audio interface. So we need to kind of go back into that. My hope is, it is definitely improved. Maybe improvements on the amp there uh, but nothing that we can't get a fit or fit uh to make sure obviously to improve the life there um I like uh, okay, so uh, Abdullah, Abdullah saint. I like the icon phone, Samsung and opp.

I'm not sure, I'm not sure what that means. Maybe if you can, if you haven't, should be able to read it and translate it for everybody. Um Dominic saying is uh yeah the 4k 120 on the Xperia 13 was very impressive and then finally uh. It finally has the dual sim tray and in the European versions as well so yeah uh last year. I've noticed that the Xperia 5 and the US had the dual sim, where the Xperia one did not, but again, Sony is really doing it and they're also sticking with the tool-less experience.

You still can actually remove the sim and insert uh. You know memory cards and so on without needing an actual pin, ejector tool. Furthermore, you just literally use a little of your nail and then peel it out, and it keeps the water resistance that we have there uh gluten Morgan, good, Morgan, vogues uh. We have um girl goblins in the chat as well um. Oh man, okay, I just jumped like 6 000 comments.

I am so sorry. Let me see here: okay, we're gonna uh go through uh you'll, see if we can do a speed round, uh the best camera smartphone. Why phone reply? Wobble technology? I think it's its hard to tell which one is the best camera experience right now I can tell you that the mi 11 ultra is doing a great job. Samsung does decent job with their cameras as well um, and when you go also for Sony, I feel like Sony is more of the manual. It's really.

The creators like we're talking creating and sitting in there and composing your subject, but they also do a decent job when it comes down to auto mode as well. So hopefully that helps um. Let me see here: Dominic uh love from India man. Thank you. Thank you very much uh.

Hopefully, I'm saying that correctly, hey welcome good morning, uh yeah! No again I love yeah Jermaine. Definitely great answer here says it really depends on um there. This sorry there is a thing that comes down to preference. So what your? What is your preference when it comes to images? What type of images are you looking at social media? You know, I would say you know high HDR, popping colors kind of type of experience, or you're looking more true to life and something that you're able to work with a little more on it on your phone, maybe a snap seed type of experience, or you're. Also, looking for something, maybe like more of what, like pixel smartphones, do pixel does a great job into you know allowing us to have that auto picture that just you know it's going to come out perfectly beautiful every single time, so it really depends on the smartphone that you're looking or the experience that you're looking for- and I think Jermaine encapsulated that one very nicely um my bomb was saying is I would love to test the Sony, Xperia headphone jack quality with the dt770 pro 600? Oh, the 600 ohms, even higher than the one I have uh.

Would it be able to play it without a partner um? I can tell you right now that at least with the one mark ii uh, the 280 ohms version of the 770s works perfectly fine, I'm not sure if the 600 is going to be able to. Obviously I don't have one to be able to test out on the existing hardware um, although I'm pretty sure the v60 could handle those very easily, but I'll, I'll see, maybe I'll be able to get a pair of those by the time. The Xperia one mock three comes out, or it becomes available for us. Actually, uh varied is saying um smart devices, smart device marketing is developing, is developing rapidly. Rumors is that new Google Pixel watch will be more of a tracking app, a tracking type of smartwatch, and that's true, so we're starting to see rumors about the pixel watch, but you have them.

Remember: we've seen and heard about rumors of the pixel watch. For years, people have been wanting to google to release a pixel pickles pixel, not a pickle, a pixel smartwatch line of smartphone or wearables like what we have with wire with their smartphones. I mean glass was one of their earlier developments, that kind of went away uh they went over, and they bought word last night, the glasses by word- and you know those hopefully will eventually come back as a smart wearable of some sort and maybe a next generation of those. So there are things going obviously, and google always works on it. The smartwatch from Google will definitely be an interesting approach.

I'm hoping is that with them, focusing on releasing a wearable that their heavy focus will be more to uh, improve the platform, bring better connection and less uh connection connectivity issues to android. So those are things that we're looking for. On top of you know, obviously, white chapel- that's going to be coming up later this year with the pixel 6 on their own soc, so they're definitely working on those things. So those are the things I wish uh. Definitely in there as well um.

Let me hear Kobe uh take care of your family man, um harry. Thank you very much hope you're doing well and yeah. Be careful, of course, the current situation, with all things like that, of course, um. Let me see, I think, I'm missing. Oh, Ganesh is jumping in real, quick um seems it's only so sorry, it seems only so much we could do without uh without frying the phone due to thermals uh phone manufacturers need to put more thoughts into the management here as well, and this is something that I feel like.

We need to see more focus from the mainstream smartphone manufacturers, gaming. For smartphones, by definition or by default, like seriously the the black the red magic 6, has a dual cooler fan that literally kind of mounts to the back of your smartphone and actually here's a little tip, which I don't think a lot of. Maybe some people may not mention this. Cooler actually works with other smartphones. It has an app that you can download directly with the book that comes in the box, and you can use this to put on any smartphone on the market to be able to basically just connect it over us bum or even if you want to you, could just connect it to any power bank it'll turn on, and it has RGB colors.

So yeah cooling is going to be a big concern. I think the one thing that I feel like that always ends up being a concern for us is um when they don't focus on it, and then they sell it as in it's a great gaming phone. So the approach here is also what you do with maybe heavy workloads like compression um, basically stabilization, editing, videos, uh, maybe stitching some of those created content that you did on that phone, using the cameras that are in there to post them on social media or send them to friends. Those are the things that you really care about, and you don't want your phone to start heating up. Enos has been known for that for Samsung smartphones for the last couple of generations, even the 2100 seems to have some concerns, so at the end of the day, when you're looking at things like that, it's going to make the user base feel weird like this is going to affect the next generation of the smartphones, not even necessarily this one, because the people that are deciding to buy the current generation of the smartphone are probably coming from like two or three years or older generations.

Right so for Samsung they'll be like the s9, the s10 and jumping into the s21, not realizing they no longer have a SD card. Those are things that you kind of keep in mind. So what I would probably say is just make a decision based on what you're looking to do. If gaming is the life span of what you think that the smartphones needs to do, focus on buying a phone that addresses those and obviously do some research and get the smartphone that feeds that, if you're doing it mostly for camera, video and content creation for social media and general usage, then get a smartphone that is focused on those uh. There's going to be an option, I mean this is not a.

I would probably say this is not an apple situation. This is very much an approach to what we normally like and get the phone. That kind of fits you and that's what android offers us Jermaine is going to be off in a bit have a good day. People, hopefully you're doing well. Definitely, thank you very much Jeremy for stopping by as well.

Thank you very much. Let me see here: um, oh Dave Davis, so the 888 is much better is a much better version than the 810b uh, comparatively uh, but uh not really when it compares to the 810a. So if you guys remember, Qualcomm obviously had a massive issue with the a10 chipset back at the beginning. I think it was a few years ago around the pixel 6. I want to say the 6p, the 6p, sorry and one of their biggest concerns.

Obviously, is it felt like that? Chipset ran hot, regardless of what you were doing, so it was literally overheating. A lot of people were having a lot of problems with them and then later in the year, Qualcomm released the a10b, which is the second generation of it, addressing some heats by under clocking the processor a little so that it allowed us to have better thermals and the phones were able to run better. It was still overpowered for the sense of what you needed, but at the end of the day it was more. The approach was very different. Will the 888 have that when we go from the 888 to the 888 plus, I don't know, will there be an 888 plus, or it can be called like an 881 or an 80? I'm not sure how Qualcomm will address it, because I think at this point not enough statements have been made.

General usage for easy, quick access, jumping in jumping out kind of thing, doesn't incur that type of heat. It's mostly on consistent push like if I'm using the phone to play games for a couple of hours, you're going to feel it um, and it doesn't matter which one you're going even with the gaming phones, you're still gonna, feel it. But then again we get. We get the red magic device that has a built-in fan and then also you're able to pick up a xr2 fan. So this phone is seriously running a cooling system on the back of it.

So at the end of the day, when you're playing games, you're playing them in a very type of kind of unlocked it for us here as well, uh you're getting that kind of experience there, which I think again they're addressing it, and they know what's going on. But red magic has been doing these gaming phones for a few years now and when they're talking about basically cooling they've they've, almost kind of felt like this is all they focus on because they tend to overclock, and they tend to they tend to push their devices. To the limit I mean this smartphone has 165 hertz refresh rate, it's faster than the monitor behind me, but that's crazy. Let me see here, oh okay, so here's a good question. So do you think Samsung will be switching to where uh to Wear OS on their galaxy watch for um? Will it will that make it better? So I'll answer the second part first, because there's actually that that statement is a little of an easier to answer.

First I'll, say this: Samsung watches with ti zen OS run very nice. The concern or the limitation that you're getting there is that you're tied into Samsung's ecosystem, and you're tagged into you know you have. The ability of downloading third party great watch faces you're able to download third-party apps there's a market to supporting it, so they're very some sorry they're very similar in the sense of what they offer. What I feel like if they do switch over to Wear OS, it makes it more consistent across the board. Okay ti zen is a great operating system when it comes to smartwatches and I feel, like Samsung has evolved it enough that if they do switch over, I almost feel like they're, going to lose some of those progress that they've already done, because some of those optimizations came from them separating from one from Google back in the day, and we all wondered was it would it ever survive? Will it ever make it, and those are things that we never really got an answer for uh till you know, as generations of ti zen OS smartwatches came out, and we noticed that it actually runs very nicely.

There's a lot of functionality, but you lost a lot of a big portion where all the major uh you know, companies that were releasing smartwatches, they're, all obviously, betting on Wear OS, because that's the open side that you're able to use Samsung was not allowing third parties to use ti zen and Samsung only makes their own watches, so they're not really going to benefit, so does it benefit Samsung to switch? I think it makes sense. I think it becomes more easily comparable to some other options on the market, and then they can start focusing on their software side to provide you that unique experience that moving this. The spinning crown the design uh their integration into their smartphones that are already running where android, I feel like will be definitely a great solution there. So hopefully, that kind of makes sense there. Let's see here, uh yeah man, of course um uh on yeah, I hope so to harry.

I hope that peoples kind of get on board with that as well Greg is in the chat. Man, hey, how you doing Greg, say: hi everybody uh, oh man, Greg's in there as well- oh yeah. I think you guys already had I'm a little late, earl, Owen, uh! Let me jump ah nexus. Yes, definitely um uh is googled smartwatch? Oh, okay. If Google is smart, perfect timing for the snapdragon 865, so Moran Petrovich, I'm with you, I think Juan and I were having a discussion about the 865 or what you know.

The current 2021 version of the 870 would have made perfect sense for the eighth for the pixel line uh. My only concern that I think would end up happening is that we had that conversation and literally the next morning we started seeing all the information about white chapel, so I think kudos for Google for trying it. I think they're, the right company, obviously to be able to do it to this work with Samsung, to try to create a soc that runs their hardware, which again, I feel like, if you don't have true control over the entire system, the ecosystem, the all the way from the processor, the software, the design of the hardware that you're going to get there it's hard to kind of compete in a market where apple, just literally, does all those things um directly so uh, seeing what we can get from them, and hopefully some better thermal management than what we're currently getting with the higher end side, but also seeing what for how many versions they release I mean: are they going to go for one s, basically, one skew, meaning one version of the soc that runs on the pixel six and then, whatever the larger version of the pixel 5 5a is going to be, or is it going to be a more separate, a separate approach, so the 5a? If, if history kind of repeats itself, we should be hearing about the pixel 5a very soon in about a month and at Google? I o uh the live, the virtual Google. I o that's going on. So if the pixel 5a does live up to that, and there's a good chance that that one will run a snapdragon processor uh, then we'll have to basically see what google does as far as improving the performance and, of course, seeing which one they go with the 5a, because the 5a is typically their budget line so 350 to 400 or so but again I'm very excited to see what they're offering, but the 865 seems like, unfortunately, not an option for them at this point: um uh.

Okay, so I'm not sure if it is we still streaming guys. Can you guys see? Uh, oh yeah, that's right! I noticed that the number kind of just dipped massively um- let me know if you guys- can still see me um. On my end, it doesn't seem like there's going on any problems. Let me see here I'll jump on the YouTube app just to kind of see how the stream is going. Uh actually hold on a second, I mean.

Why am I not seeing it? Oh, I'm! Actually, in the account, that's why if you don't see the stream okay. Let me see here it seems like it's still going I'll, keep it on for just a little just to kind of make sure. Let me skip this thing. Yeah yeah, I don't know, I think it seems like it back, back up and running and let's just double-check here, and I'll. Do that? Okay, so um yeah.

So I'm not sure if it's back for you guys as well. Uh, hey Dominic! Let me double-check here. Uh, oh earl, Owens um. Does anyone mention the Sony ecosystem? You think Sony would make uh should make a smartwatch. I so I'm not sure if it makes sense, I mean realistically, Sony is really known for their optics.

I mean they're they're they're more about movies, they're, more about TVs, content consumption. Furthermore, I mean don't get me wrong. It wouldn't hurt for them to make a smartwatch, but I don't necessarily feel like a smartwatch is something that would fit into the ecosystem. That's going on right now. I think maybe better integration between their Sony, smartphones, and obviously you know, so you have Sony smartphones, you have Sony PlayStation, you have Sony TVs.

You have Sony cameras if you notice they're all about the content, consumption and content creation level, and I'm not sure if they're focusing on smartwatches for wearables the headphones. Obviously the department, for you know wearables are definitely very nice, but I wouldn't be so. I wouldn't be disappointed, and I would be very much looking forward to seeing what Sony has to bring into that ecosystem. As a, I would say, basically a foray into giving us a smartwatch that is Xperia like the Xperia watch. That would that actually has a nice sound to it.

Um, oh, so the uh, so Davis actually has a quick question. So how's the heat um on the Poco f3. So the f3 is running an 870 processor, no heat the heat is very, so I would probably say this. The experience with the f3 is very similar to what we get with the a65. No overheating, no, no normal issues throttling on that.

It actually runs very nicely. I haven't been able to run any benchmarks on them due to the fact of some kind of software bug that uh Poco mentioned, and they said they're going to be pushing out an update. Hopefully that fixes that issue, but overall seriously the 870 is pretty much an 865, although overclocked still not pushing any type of thermal issues. The way we have it. You have to keep in mind that the 870 and the 888 are very different architecture.

It's literally almost like an 88 to 865 architecture, difference so yeah no issues on my end um does anyone mention? Oh, I think we already kind of talked about that one. Sorry, Errol uh, do you have a few stress tests on the 870 a60 all run too high? Okay, so in the amount of stress tests that we've done so for me, as stressed, as is to be able to play the games and see consistently no issues, no drop frames and no no throttling done on a smartphone for about one to two hours and that's typically what I do to stress that every single phone now there are other options. I mean Juan does also different, that type of stress test when he's doing file compression he's doing video rendering, and I do to actually uh video rendering on those on the smartphones when I'm wanting to create content straight off of them um, but at the end of the day, those are not necessarily always things that I personally use. That's the thing: it's like a personal use, type of situation. Do we all create videos and edit them and produce them, not necessarily, but you want to be able to know that when you do that the phone's not going to bonk and that you're not going to be sitting here as if you're running on something from like two generations ago, the 865 handles a lot of the performance, very similarly to the 88, with better thermal management, so the 870, the 865, the 865 plus all had better thermals um, and also it had a separate uh architecture, because the modem wasn't even built into it? So again, 888 has an inherent issue, but it needs to be addressed.

I don't think it's an issue where it made it not work. It's just that if they don't address it in the manufacturing and the cooling it's hard to actually justify it. You know your approach should not be. This is just another chip from Qualcomm. This is a.

This is a chip that runs a little warm when it runs at full throttle and for us to keep it consistent. You have to cool it better, it's kind of like a PC. If you know you're going to overclock, you always have to put better cooling if you don't you're going to get a crash, so it's one of those. Let me see your same so not as easily. No.

My jumbo is actually asking is: is our new Sony phones uh rooted easily? No they're, not pixel, they're? It's its not well I'll. Take that back. The problem is when you root a smartphone and or if you let's say you unlock the bootloader, you lose the DRM which is 90 of the functionalities that Sony disables in there. So, even if you are able to root it uh the steps to go through to keep DRM support built into the smartphone drop, it becomes more of a complicated, and it's very easy to damage a smartphone that is like that and what I mean by that essentially, is that if you try anything- and it goes something wrong- the phone is literally end up. Basically, you lose functionality and may not even boot uh and then.

Lastly, your warranty is voided, so there's the other part. This is not an OnePlus approach. OnePlus doesn't care as long as the phone is working, uh, they'll, they'll honor the phone, even if it has uh root, if it even has an unlocked bootloader on it um. What's the actual differ, okay hold on a second between the 865 think of it think of it as it's not really close to the a65, so the 865 and the a65 plus was an overclock. So it's a 1.2 from 2.7 to 2.8. The two point then, and then you go into the 870 essentially is data rebranding, the 865 plus for a for 2021 by slightly overclocking it.

So we're not talking noticeable difference on your end or on my end, it seriously is in the background, so comparatively performance wise. If you really want to basically say, is it truly like that much better? Yes on paper, it definitely is in real world usage. It may shave a one or two second off of the process of a render process that you're going through. But it's not going to be the know: 888 performance at an 865 architecture, there's much more difference there on the hardware than just um, just an overclock there's the architecture of the processing power, the prime core. That's running there, the supporting cores as well as the ISPS that are building you have a triple ISP on the 888 to a dual ISP on the 865 and the 870 carries that over.

We have a next uh, basically a x55 modem to a x60 modem. One integrated one separate, so there's a bunch of different things that are different uh at the end, I would probably say anything running the 870, the 865. You won't even know the difference between that and the 888, because at that point seriously the normal day-to-day functionality it's pretty much on not really very noticeable. But again there are other things that they can do with the processors that you'll notice uh. Obviously, the processing through utilizing the triple ISPS or even just getting better 5g compatibility, because the x60 actually is more of a wideband.

Sorry, an international 5g compatibility was much better implemented there than what we had with the x55. The x55 was more regional, so you get 5g for the US, but you don't get it for Europe, but carriers or OEMs can actually unlock their phones to run on all the 5g bands across the know across the globe. So those are very big differences as well, and I know I figured what you meant uh Gordon. Are you meant more on performance honestly, not really uh, the 82, the s20 and the s21 for the general data usage did not really do much difference as far as performance, boot, up running applications, opening and closing applications that plays a role in a certain way right? So if we think of them as a PC or think of it as like, what are the components that are contributing to the speed of our device, so the processor is one part. It is always one part it's kind of like your PC.

The CPU is a part of a chain, so you get the CPU, you get the ram, you get the storage, and then you, of course you have the pro. You also have the bandwidth of your ram. So how fast is the data able to transfer from the CPU to the ram and back and forth reading right on the piano on the phone? So if you're running a phone that ran, like you say, UFS 3.1, LP ddr5 with an 865 it could. It could very well perform very closely to the 888, and you wouldn't notice it on the daily again: it's when you start doing numbers, and you crunch numbers, and you're processing- is when you're going to see some benefit going from 865 to an 888 and, of course the temperatures go a little warmer there. But no, I definitely wouldn't say you can notice them at all.

Um. Oh man, uh sir critics is saying, is uh Tikki? How are you doing love from the UK brother uh, loving the Miku? Ah, the maze 18 pro um. I'm I'm glad that you're loving it man. I know I got no response back from maze, but which is I'm again very, very happy that you're liking. It uh always appreciate when people love the hardware that they're able to you know take on and enjoy that, of course um.

That's what I heard. Oh apple, okay, so let me double-check here. Stream seems good on mine. Thank you David. I appreciate it yeah.

I didn't see it on there. On my side, gary, going in with the with the YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube, always um. We had to refresh yeah. I guess something went up, I'm not sure what ended up going on uh, Qualcomm's really lagging behind. I had am duh.

If AMD joined, it would make uh we would make a better arm. Processor. So AMD is from what I understand at least they were going to jump in on the GPU side, more so than the than the CPU, but I'm with you, I think AMD can definitely disturb the market if they had to jump into it. Um I think MediaTek is, is coming up very quickly, but they're still not in that same realm, where we can say they're very much in competition with what Qualcomm is offering. I feel like media MediaTek, focuses on everything else on the market, like your smart speakers, your smart TVs, your smart uh, whatever device that you have in the house like a smart switch.

All of those things are running on using the um MediaTek processors, and I think MediaTek is more thing in more things than we know, but Qualcomm is still in a certain way and at a very top you know premium experience where I feel like a lot of people like um. So it's one thing we'll have to see if the AMD does jump in uh, we'll have to see how that kind of works, but again with the GPU system. I think that's still a very big strong approach to things. Uh missed, missed comment over the last oh dude. Okay, it seems to be the only me we had to refresh uh yeah.

It seems like there was something that went uh. Well, I guess when Devin is responding back to Gordon's going in there uh, yes, uh gamers unboxing it yeah. It always ended up being that with all of all the fans, all obviously the the supporters from India. They always end up being the whole time difference kind of going on. I mean, if I'm not mistaken, I think we kind of CR.

We get to the point where it's almost midnight. I think, if I'm not mistaken, uh the timing wise on our side here, uh Aditya, doing uh hitting up out of the park. Thank you very much with the super chat, Ramadan Mubarak, TK, um and all hopefully uh, and to all who celebrate it um. I have a blessed month ahead, take care of yourself and don't hesitate to take time off if needed, uh. You know what I'm not going to lie.

First. Thank you again, Aditya the first couple days, uh first, two or three days that kind of started with Ramadan the adjustment period that took me a little of adjustment um. I can. I can still say that, at the end of the day, like around three o'clock or so um yeah, let's just say, focus level is not as sharp as it is like early in the morning. That's why, Saturday morning with tech works, great uh and then of course um it just it's partially.

You know, like you get used to two or three days you don't even get hungry, and it's not the hunger by the way believe it or not. You can go for a lot longer time without eating. Then you can go without drinking, so I feel like because we've done it too, my wife and I have done the um. You know one meal a day or eating between certain hours. During the day, like you know, fasting for 20 hours and then eating between four hours or so uh and those, I typically don't have that many problems with at all, because I'm able to drink water, I'm able to stay hydrated, of course, and of course, have my coffee in the morning, but with Ramadan, that's the shift.

So if you guys are not familiar with it, as I've, you've probably heard uh the uh. The thing is essentially is we just don't eat from sunrise to sunset, and we were able to have a meal before, so you're able to start your day right but yeah. Thank you. I appreciate that very much um yeah, so uh Amir is actually uh is actually saying. Yeah, AMD's joining in uh and uh AMD is joining Samsung and, and of course, MediaTek is uh in video is joining media tech uh.

If you've heard of the news of any future media tech, socs, possibly getting RTX dude the moment that happens. Sign me up. I want DRT on everything. I've been on the hunt for a 3080 for the longest time. Furthermore, I can never find one, and I feel like at the same time when the 30 80 ti drops we're going to be like.

Where is the 30 80 try? It's just never going to happen. I'm still running on the 2080, still very powerful it just every once in a while with any of the latest updates that I've been receiving from NVIDIA I'm starting to see some hiccups in the performance. When I have dual monitors, because I actually use the monitors behind me by the way, not only just the game, but when I edit videos, I use the top monitor as my viewfinder. So I have a big display to see the videos playing and then my timeline was playing on the odyssey. The 59-inch uh cross a diagonal there, a 49, sorry and um.

So overall the experience works great, but every once in a while there's a little of a hiccup. So I've always looked at everything um. So Gary, I think yeah. So that's the challenge, especially for the Saturday morning with tech, because it is a typically, as you guys know. I always have my glass of you know water.

I put some tang in it, or I put some Fanta. Furthermore, I forgot like whatever those drop uh liquid things and I have no problem continuing going through it, and we've been doing good, we're almost at the hour mark and I don't feel so bad uh, but I can definitely feel like yeah uh. It's the mouth is uh, not necessarily as hydrated as it was like last week when we did the last stroke before the Ramadan started, so we'll have to see how that kind of goes in there um definitely JD JJ saying what is the best thing. You remember about Ramadan any special light traditions. So, honestly, what I have to go back to Ramadan my favorite ever ever ever memory would be back when I lived in Lebanon, when I was a kid, so there's a very big different experience about being in a house celebrating Ramadan, or actually you know being in Ramadan in an um, a country that actually celebrates the whole country that celebrates, so I'm not trying to say like it's, not the same kind of experience.

It's different here um, but I remember the big family dinners, the big family, iftar dinners. Those are the memories. Those are the best memories that I miss um. Also in Lebanon. This is the biggest thing.

The dessert places are crazy, like the innovation in dessert in the month of Ramadan are like crazy, and there are desserts that are only made in the month of Ramadan that you have to only buy them there. One of them is called college, and it's like a pocket of. I think it's cheese, if I'm not mistaken, it's basically deep-fried and then soaked in rose water syrup, and it is just absolutely heaven uh what we used to do, which was always the thing, so you'll have iftar, you know, do all the stuff. You do the prayer and then, after that the family would go down and walk over to the shops where they have all these big pans filled with those things, and you would buy them and everybody gets the peas, and you get a bit of the syrup. You dip it.

Oh, my god, I'm having flashbacks when I was like very, very young, so yeah. Those are things that I fortunately there's none here, um village is available here as a dessert. I don't even know what the English word for it is uh, but it's only sold as uh to take home, and then you have to buy a whole box and there's a bunch of different things. It stops being that experience where you want to be able to go down to a store and pick it up. So I would love to if I was ever able to do that experience, especially for for for Ramadan, especially for people that are able to celebrate and want to enjoy it.

Those are memories that I always miss, and I don't know if I hope one day I'm able to do some of those things as well with my son so that he can enjoy those but yeah um yeah. I think I'll jump over your experience. Oh, wow uh. I am okay. Let me see here.

Um I've seen I've seen videos of the community uh, even if they're not breaking the uh past. The uh okay, fast and being invested in Indonesia uh it looks very nice and think okay, so I think it is answering somebody else um. So to me, the Xperia one mark, the Xperia 10 mark iii seems like a perfect pixel 4 alternative because of how similar they are. So there is the other part right yeah. The announcement actually covered three different experience: there's the one mark iii, the five mach 3 and the 10 mark iii, and the 10 mark iii is really more of the budget line devices.

They still it, as, I guess, retain some primary new benefits, but they don't. They have a lot of things in there. That obviously are geared toward the mid-ranger, and I feel like this is something hopefully they can bring to the U. S. , because it's not really intended it's a European market uh, but yeah.

No, absolutely it's a very much a direct uh. You know, I would say kind of close in that experience, although it again it does come down to basically how you, like your images processed. Do you like the control of what Sony does on their sensors? Or do you like what pixel does with their processing system the algorithm? So those are things that we're going to definitely have to see how they do, especially since the Xperia 510 mach 3 will be closely coming closer to the Xperia 6. Sorry, the pixel 6, which again will be running a brand new soc. So we'll have to see, so we know we're not even sure as far as how the the cost is going to be on that one as well um.

So with that being said, I did want to talk to you guys also about something that is interesting, so smart, glasses from raze rum. So we, you probably already saw the announcement, so racer pushed out some glasses on the market. They're called the racer ANZUS, so the racer Andrew are glasses or smart glasses that are intended for gamers. So they have a blue light rejection. They have some technology.

Actually we'll even do that, one as well here so uh. The main thing that they have here is obviously the uh blue light rejection. The ability of having obviously built-in speakers touch control, low, latency mode for gaming and, of course, Bluetooth connectivity to your smartphone to give you access to those uh to obviously the speakers and so on, um. For me, I decided to go with the larger frames and I decided to go with the more square frames as opposed to the circular one. So a little of a quick change in design.

Let's go ahead and put this on so uh a couple of things going on actually forgot to mention: uh, there's a couple of LEDs in there that are sitting right there in the actual glasses. Let me see if I can get these to here, we, oh, we actually, you guys, can actually see it's focusing so closely on the racer that everything else is out of focus it's crazy um, so they work pretty much, obviously like regular glasses. These are not uh. My prescription lenses, which, although I actually do need to clean uh, that's the problem with glasses. You always have to clean them, but there are lenses that you're able to replace.

They include a separate pair of polarized lenses that are intended to make them so that they can be used outdoors for sun, but again, smart, smart glasses that are intended to be worn, so uh. Let me know what do you guys think uh? Let me know what you guys think. Actually, the design uh it definitely changes the look I'll have to re-brand the channel. If we decide to stick with them, I like them. I like the way they work.

The audio on them is actually very nice. It's a directional micro speaker in the earpieces that sit right at the edge of the actual piece. So on the back right in there, and essentially it just points the audio straight into your ears, so you put them on and there is an application that you're able to run on them. So hopefully I can actually find it uh, the ANZUS smart glasses. Here we are, so you can kind of see them right.

There it'll give it a second to find them, and if my Sony, if my camera and ah couldn't find them, I thought we were connected. What happened? I was kidding uh. Let me see here so yeah uh, the overall performance as far as what you're getting with the smart uh. Let me see, I think what happened is I shut them down, we'll have to close, oh by the way they do shut off when you close them open them again and then, and you get that as well, you get the Bluetooth connected uh, it takes 10, you take steering years off, you look like a 20-year-old, 28-year-old who just died there. So it does.

Actually it has a different look. So I don't have my lenses in there, so my vision obviously isn't corrected, because I do wear glasses all the time. That's really nice because uh it looks. It looks like a normal pair of glasses uh does it have any of the colors? Unfortunately, no they have two sizes and two designs. So there's the small and the large where the one I have is a larger uh, the large form.

So you can actually kind of see it right here on the side where it says lower large. So that's the actual size that I got mostly because when I looked at the measurements I looked at the frame and how it would sit on my face, so I felt like I would have loved for them to have a frameless on the bottom that would have just carried it over uh, but yeah uh. Definitely it Gary! It's not only hip. It's hip to the hop to the hip pity, hop all that good stuff uh, because you can listen to it and um you're, actually at a low levels. Furthermore, it works really nice like um, I can say I can continue a conversation right now like seriously um.

We can have a conversation. I can have somebody talking to me in my ears with a very level, obviously lowered. So you don't hear it outdoors uh. But lets I wanted to show you guys again kind of like the levels of how it plays so here um, I'm going to play a song that so right now the music is playing, and it's pointing directly into my ear and if I'm not mistaken, I think you guys are probably not even uh listening to it. As much uh, but it's something to that effect like I'm playing some arm and van burden right now, uh the state of trans 10 12.

And conversely, this could also be somebody sitting in the background. That's listening, because I feel like uh the approach that the way these are done are very nice. Microphones are very good. Battery life is about five hours, um, I'm still working on the full review for it, but I think the overall performance I've been using them during the week for all my conference calls for during the day stuff, so uh talking to people doing things uh. This is just a different approach than what we typically see from bone conduction right, so bone conduction sits on the side, and it conducts the sound into our ear.

Technically still has somewhat of a resonance you're still able to hear it if you're close enough to the person these do similarly, but what I like about them is the fact that they're replaceable lenses, so I can replace these lenses and I can actually get them, get my prescription done for them, which believe it or not. Actually, I'm very much considering because when I did get my new pair of glasses um, I did pick up uh the prescription so that I can order them directly, they're light they're, not too heavy, and they fit very nicely into the design they're a little thicker on the side, so for sure, uh you're going to see the're going to see a thickness a little, but that's where the speakers, the batteries and the charging connector is actually sitting here. Let me see if I can get it to focus right there, so you can see the charging connector right there sitting on both ear bands, so you charge them independently. It's almost like two pairs of uh speakers connected together, so very much uh ANZUS versus both glasses. So I would imagine that the Bose glasses will perform a little better.

I had a chance to play with the first generation Bose last uh was like a year ago or a year and a half ago, and they sounded good, but they still feel like they needed some improvements. I feel like the audio performance may be a little better for me, um, so for playing cod we're trying to play games that are our fast-paced games. There is a game mode that reduces latency, but there's here's the thing um it gets better, but it doesn't get down to the level, obviously of wired connection, so you're always going to want to be able to play wire or even a proprietary wireless connection from let's say something like Logitech with their gaming headsets, but I think with for calls from you for general music play when you're outdoors. You want to do things and you, if you get a call or something like that again, you don't have to fumble trying to find your headphones. You can just turn them on and start listening, and I feel like that's the smart function.

I would love them to have maybe even more like some RGB options or something like that. You know when you think of racer. You want to you're thinking of cortex right automatic RGB configuration alignment with everything, so uh. Definitely very nice uh. I think overall, if you're more focusing on gaming aesthetics, this is going to be where it fits uh they're.

Definitely a nice option for smart glasses. In that sense, you do have touch control the ability of customizing, both sides of the touch controls. As far as you know, single tap, double tap, triple tap. It launches the assistant, doesn't matter what assistant you're using very easily by pressing holding and then there's the double press and hold option as well. So very customizable the app runs very easily, and I think it's one of those nicely um how's the volume on them so volume level.

Actually I forgot about yeah. Let's do this, so, although I don't recommend playing them at this level, let me see if I can actually even get you guys to hear them. So here um. Let me see here so okay, so I'm talking to you, obviously, on the same normal level and on the s21 right now um. This is 70.

Now keep in mind. The s21 goes above 100, so it's not very high, so this is 150. This is maximum. I'm assuming you guys can hear that. But I don't want to play too much of it without getting demonetized for audio uh for tracking uh using armor van burden's music.

Although I'm a big fan of his um, I'm sure he would not like me to have that much of it in there uh the audio does get pretty, pretty decent pretty loud. The bass on it is actually very nice, and you can tune you req, that's built into your smartphone. So definitely one of those really nice options, um and uh, and I'm loving the T. rex pro as well. I think that's going to be one of the other things I'm going to cover next week.

Yeah Gary's, like we get a copyright strike, no uh the volume on them, actually pretty good Ganesh and um uh. They should be okay. They should have uh something like google glasses, with a yeah, basically a hub, a HUD showing up on some kind of gaming stats. That would be the amazing part exactly like they're, at least on the larger frame. You have a lot more area to play with and having something, maybe on the inside, projecting on that little uh in the top right corner of the actual lens I feel like would also make sense um.

How is the front-facing camera uh, I'm not sure, I'm sick, I'm not sure which one you're referring to, if you don't mind, maybe referencing, which one it is uh but yeah, no, I'm really liking them. Actually, I've been using them for playing games mostly because I tend to sit in front of a PC all the time and blue light rejection, obviously on standard glasses. They don't usually have them so having something like this, so I'm looking forward to getting the prescription lenses and getting those set up as hopefully I can get something that also had that. I'm not worried too much about outdoors because, as I mentioned, if I'm not mistaken here, so the box comes in with a couple of boxes inside. So you get two.

The main box is the carrier with the cable charger which has a small pocket inside it, and then the second box is the additional lenses. So let me see if I can open it up here so here this is going to look like somebody's looking at you, so you get these the two, the two extra polarized lenses, and they're easily. You can pop them in and from both. So it's easily replaced very easy and, of course, uh. You can keep them on when you go out, and I think that's what I really like a lot about them.

One thing: I would probably say that I wish, though, if there was a way to keep the extra lenses a way to keep them inside the carrier. So this is nice. This is very functional, but the only pocket that you have a space for right now is the cable charger that you're able to use so the cable charger actually nice to show you guys. So the cable charger is a decent thickness, so you can either carry this or the actual lenses. If you want to keep them- and it has those two connectors uh that you're able to connect the was the headphones to or the smart glasses once you connect them, it does disconnect the power to the actual uh.

It turns them off so uh. Let me see, if I can put this correctly, and here it is so they kind of like sit uh ever so slightly on them. You can put them on. Obviously you can close the lenses and uh charge them in that and that aspect, so it's very nice and then, when you're done just replace, move them up, and you're ready to go. No issues, never worry that you grabbed the lenses and forgot to disconnect magnetic or max stripe or whatever you want to call it similar to the way.

Magnetic connection is always the best, especially when it comes to these things. That always give us. I feel like the best experiences. Let me go ahead and just tie them off we're doing it live and then again in the case, there's a small pocket and it kind of sits very nicely and there's a cover for it that separates from the back and then at that point you just put your glasses in OOP. Sorry it'll be nice.

If I put them in the right order right here we go so what you're getting there is this? So you get the lenses, and here we are okay. We can get this to focus. Oh okay, Sony's not doing it, and here we are, so you can see them very nicely and then just close it, and it works nicely so uh that would have been my only thing. I think if there's anything to be kind of said there uh, uh Majid is asking how I'm doing I'm doing great man appreciate it um so DOM yeah. So you can definitely push the limit um on the audio on them, although I would never play them at that level so that that music playing uh volume level at that at 140 or the maximum volume level of uh.

What the Samsung can push- it's, not you know, obviously not, but if you ever needed it for phone calls, you could definitely push the audio up there for phone calls to get them that level, especially if the other party is not speaking very clearly or very pronounced. You know audio on there as well um. Imagine that yeah no definitely um so yeah. Those are gonna, be things that are gonna, be coming up very soon. Also on the channel, I'm going to be testing them out a little longer.

I haven't had them for that long. I've had them literally for maybe a couple of days, but looking very much forward to those uh last week or last couple of days ago. Actually this week I posted a few videos, so we did the uh OnePlus watch as everybody kind of uh started. Talking about them and a few people were able to pick it up, so we're starting to see more OnePlus watch uh. You know watch the videos coming out um, but I also did a video separate for that, and hopefully you guys, I'm hoping you guys got a chance to check that out and enjoy it.

It was um. It was actually from last week when we were able to. We had a spring break for my son, and we went down to the San Diego zoo, so I took it with me. I took the OnePlus another OnePlus side, the find x3 pro and we just documented the day we hung out with the family, but it was truly one of my funnest videos putting together, because every time I inserted a clip into the video, it was like a memory from a good time when we were all having fun during spring break, something that we haven't obviously been able to do for a long time.2020 was very much a pause type of year, and this year at least we're getting some type of normalcy, uh back into the fold in here as well. I appreciate it Devon, uh, yeah, always uh.

Thank you very, very much um. So that was a fun video that I put out, but I realized obviously it's its not going to get the um the numbers on it and stuff, but at the end of the day, I don't think that was the purpose for that. That video was really intended to be a fun way for me to document this now, if I ever want to be able to watch it, I just literally have to sit through that five minutes uh and watch the video um. It was also my first time traveling or going a long distance with a with an electric car. We took the tesla down to San Diego um and lo and behold there's a special charging area to keep the car charged.

So as we were walking around for five six hours in San Diego zoo, my car was getting charged. It was like a very big because we were always going to be like we don't have enough of a charge to go and come back. We also have to kind of figure out where to go to supercharge. It then comes back. There was going to be an extra 30 minutes that actually saved us some time, but also made it very, very cool uh.

So it was really, really nice, and I like that as well, but the find x3 man it seriously is a very capable smartphone uh video zooming during uh using it in there is very nice there's no 8k, and I feel that I think that's actually okay for us, I think if it does decent 4k60, and it uses the lenses, and it has that microscope camera, which I still think, even though I'll admit saying. Obviously it's not going to be a lens, a camera that you use all the time, but like seriously, we were standing in line to get on the tram, and I took a picture of the wall, and it's in the video. By the way so and then of course, I took a picture with the micro lens of the actual grains in the wall, so that is the experience levels that we're getting there um. The other thing um. Imagine I'll get to that comment measure one second um.

What I, what I also did, I think it was on Friday, is um. We went to the um Carlsbad flower fields, and I think this is, if you guys uh check out josh's video. He did a video on the 11 ultra there with his family. Surprisingly, I was actually there the day before with my family as well uh, but I was doing it slightly different. So I took a lot of pictures and hopefully that video comes out this week um.

I did a comparison between me, 11 ultra and the s21 ultra. So I said it's basically an ultra versus ultra when it came down to smart to camera experience. So that's going to be the video that I'm going to be pushing out next week as well. So there's a few coming out uh, so the T. rex pro review will be coming out: the ROG phone 6.

, sorry, not our g46, the red magic 6 gaming review as well that one's going to go across the channels as well. And, of course, I want to talk to you guys also about the camera's experiences and that one I'm I'm hoping I'll be able to do in both English and in Arabic. Um. Yes, thank you. Thank you.

Imagine I appreciate it. Uh he's he's wishing me safe travel as well, so here I imagined it. I like. I love the ability, basically doing that comparison, um el Jose. Yes, so it is very interesting to see what a larger sensor can perform.

Um, like literally the the number one thing, I would probably say that the um here the mi 11 ultra, has is that natural both, like seriously um, even if I haven't, had to use the portrait uh lens on the back since I've had the phone there's no need for it. Uh the natural both exists with the large sensor that the moment that it catches focus on the person that everything behind them just naturally falls off. It becomes that blurred natural blur very similar to what we get with, let's say a DSLR type of experience. It's almost a one-inch sensor. Let's just say that much.

It's getting very, very close um, and then they pushed out an update yesterday, while we were we were hanging out a little at magic mountain which believe it or not, I've been to magic mountain four times in the last week and a half, and that is crazy enough to say uh, but yeah, definitely very enjoyable. There uh, Michael pepper tech, is jumping in as well um. I hope that the mi 11 ultra becomes available uh here in the US, without having to pay four to five hundred dollars over the costs for imports, and I think Xiaomi is truly like I feel like if there's a thing, that's missing in Xiaomi's plan, where they're releasing. Obviously a lot of devices, I feel like the US market would benefit from having their ultra smartphone, because it's a very different 11. There is a series of mi 11s that are coming out there.

I think, if I'm not mistaken, there's one more coming, call like social life or b11. It's not light, but it's more of a like another iteration. So we have the light, the pro the standard yeah, and then we have the ultra and then, of course, we also have that new me11 that's coming in, but I feel like the ultra is definitely a step above it almost could be its own brand from Xiaomi as opposed to having it basically be an EME 11, because it doesn't really share any of the aesthetics uh approach to other the other elevens. It runs the 888 for sure uh stereo speakers, of course, uh wireless charging, all of that stuff, but 67 uh, 67, watt, wired and wireless. Those are two new ones thing.

Obviously it's just a lot of things and I hope I really hope that they make it available, even if they don't necessarily have it like. You know, in physical stores and so on, but just sell it on Amazon like they have some of their other devices there. It just takes time to show up not without having to necessarily import it um. I will say this much though uh for you, uh here is Michael um- is that it does not support.5G in the US does support 4g, LTE, quite well, uh, Wi-Fi connectivity and all that stuff works really nice, so that that's definitely very nice uh. Let me see here: Dominic, hey, dad David burns made it man welcome man, say hi everybody um here um did you put.

Did you put out the mi 11 on the mini 11 ultra review TK? So sorry for so no, I haven't put out the review on that yet um I just we have so many things kind of going on. I did the initial kind of the TK essentials uh video on that one I think was it last week and then now I'm kind of working on some kind of camera experiences so um the camera, video review. We will uh comparison, comparing it actually to the to the s21. Ultra will be that the camera experience and that will cut will basically culminate the whole thing with the m11 ultra as a review. Finally, uh, which is definitely um.

It's a lot of there's a lot to cover there, but there's a lot to be appreciative here, especially when it comes down to the camera system. It's a big focus of the smartphone realistically um thanks man, MPT David, definitely um. So has anyone done a 11? I am even me 11 light me.11 and m11 ultra comparison, I'd love to see someone talking about. What's the same, and what's different so being that I've had the opportunity to play with all three, I would probably say they're I mean the common thing. Is me why me y12 is pretty much the exact same on all of them.

The experiences are very different when it comes down to the light to the standard to the pro and then to the ultra. I haven't done a video for that because I haven't, I didn't really at the time. I was thinking that like people like, if you're looking for the mi 11 light you're, not necessarily considering the standard 11 or the 11 ultra, because that's probably the price point that you're looking for, but when it comes down to performance, I think overall, the ultra is the best when it comes down to camera performance screen, display, HD, 120 you're, getting 1080p, 120, um and then, of course, you're getting 1080p just depending on the classes, but I can definitely put something together kind of going through, since I have all three devices uh in-house and the 11 pro. If I'm not mistaken, is not coming out internationally. I think it's mostly an Indian market, only um any thoughts on the mix fold.

I'm excited on this on uh a little it's one of those things like you have to kind of appreciate, Xiaomi jumping into it. So we had another announcement this week with folds. Obviously TCL we talked about them as well, so the TCL 10 20 pro the TCL 20l. Those are the new series from TCL that are going to be coming out, but they also teased us with an um. It's a concept phone right, so it's not a phone.

That's coming out to the market at the time when I saw that, because at CES they told us they were going to have a foldable. So we saw the roll, and we saw the folding. So essentially it's an it's kind of like half of what the fold and roll is, but more so in just a foldable and uh. At the announcement on Wednesday, TCL now showed us a glimpse of something called the TCL fold and roll. Hopefully not the phone, not the name of the phone that comes out a while at the end, but it essentially is a phone that unfolds to become a tablet like a mini tablet.

Like the z fold, it's actually closer to what the mate x did it made x2 as well, and not the x2 DX, where the display is on the outside. So when you close the phone, the display is sitting on the outer on the outer display. There's no closing. On the other side, where the folding roll takes it to the next step, is they took what uh Oppo did with the Oppo x 2021, and it allowed basically to roll out that became part of the phone as well, so where I think lg teased us with a rolling the phone where it expanded as kind of like a scroll but more of a sideways expand like the x21 uh. Those were also another kind of announcement that was done now.

Mix fold is very much a Xiaomi approach to what we get from foldable devices. The price point is going to be less. It's going to be a mean if it does become available internationally. It definitely will become a very big competitor, because it'll give the opportunity to more people to try foldable smartphones without having to shell out the price point um. I can say this much that the z full three has not held up its market uh its resale value since uh announcement- and it has been, has not been that long.

You can find them now close to about a thousand dollars. Maybe eleven hundred dollars uh used on swap in the US at least, so you have to appreciate having more options and more selections. And of course, then you know, uh Samsung has another announcement coming up on the 28th, so we're having more unpacked again this year. This is going to be what we saw last year and I think OEMs are loving, doing multiple events across the year, so we'll have to see how that goes: um, okay, okay, so imagines asking me which what is my main daily driver right now, and what do I think about Huawei uh, basically, especially in the market right now, so uh primary, the smartphone that I'm using is the 11 ultra. So that's the main one that I'm using.

I also have my sim card in the red magic 5g that I'm playing, so it depends on where I'm using there. The nine pro is also my device as soon as I'm done with the uh, the red magic five six, I'm going to be switching back to this one, so I usually run two smartphones um, but as far as the Huawei situation I mean there hasn't really been that many improvements, uh any really changed. In the conversation um, we are seeing more uh, like the new p series is going to be coming out very soon. Obviously, that's going to be their new camera system, so there's definitely going to be conversations going on, but as far as actually overall performance uh the studios, I think I still need to kind of get around to doing that. Video as well.

I have the Huawei studio headphones um, and I need to kind of finish that video as well so hopefully soon, and I hope that kind of answers the question you're going for there uh. Let me see here um, oh definitely, here's so how's the p40 plus. Do you still uh? Do you still use yours? So, unfortunately I don't uh. They took that one back uh, so the uh. I think the pro plus there's the pro plus the approach to what we got there they're it's an it's, a very solid performing smartphone battery life was great.

The display is very nice. The camera system is very nice uh, but I think overall, what ended up happening for me is that at the end, after installing, so we had the ability of installing google for Google phi. Hopefully I'm saying that correctly, I did a video for DA, where we were able to side load Google Play Services onto the p40 pro plus another p40 pro, not the pro plus the pro plus. I couldn't do it because of a software limitation at the time it may be fine now, but at the time that was a concern. So I posted that video over um and, of course, the overall performance got way more.

It became more functional once you have Google Play Services as a smartphone, though with cameras, there is no question. Uh Huawei has done their homework. The improvements, the 4k capabilities, you know finally, getting 4k 60 across on the different lenses. It's its a big move, especially when you get into the smartphone there, especially with Huawei, so definitely a very nice one. Unfortunately, I do not have that anywhere.

I don't have that uh that device um. Let me see here uh I haven't, bought a phone on swap yet jimmy okay, so chairman, I haven't bought a phone on swap yet uh busy and uh contemplating uh for a week for me. Lately you know what swap pa's overall performance as far as smartphones. It's its definitely a lot better thane bay, and you can definitely trust the support from their staff. If there are any issues with your sale, um, and you're able to find some really decent deals there as well uh, you are also able to negotiate, which is very nice.

That's something that's different from what we get with eBay, typically, not as many negotiations going on um uh good morning, TK uh it's evening here in Scotland, uh hope, you're doing well and everybody uh here as well. Definitely uh! Oh sorry, um! Sorry! I said I made a mistake: there, yes, uh. Definitely um DT is jumping back uh JFK. If uh. If Google go with a custom, the white chapel soc uh, do you think it will affect android updates on Qualcomm? So it's going to be something that is a little actually we'll take that back.

Okay, so there are android updates are pushed in two different forms: there's the source, and then there is what google releases on their smartphone. So the android version, the version of android that runs on pixel, is not the version of android that google sends over to other OEMs. There's the base, there's the AOSP that everybody feeds off of so android is, you know, google starts there, and then they build on top of that to release their version or their custom version for pixel. Now most people refer to that as stock android, because it seems to be the closest one to what it is: the vision of what the primary version. This is what google envisions their version of android to run so those little customizations, the camera app the dialer.

All of those little things the Google Play Services AOSP doesn't have those are the things that typically come out. There now will have basically white chap will be as soc for the pixel 6 effect that I feel like it doesn't really affect it as much, at least within the last generations of android. It's like 10 and 11. I want to say um OEMs have been working with Google a lot earlier in the fold in the conversation. So an example would be this there's a very good chance that next month, in about a couple of weeks or so in May, that OnePlus will be releasing their alpha, their first alpha of android 12 for oxygen OS and that's typically how it goes uh color OS last year, if I'm not mistaken, they announced color OS 12.

On the same day, sorry color OS 11 on the same day as android 11 became official when it came out of beta because they were testing it before. So I don't think that's going to be an issue uh the release of software updates from like one like OnePlus or OPO, Xiaomi, Vito, all the other carriers or OEMs. It's just going to be consistent. I don't I so I don't. There will not be any big issue there as long as their involvement doesn't change.

I think that'll be still a pretty good conversation, so yeah my real name uh. Thank you Majid. I appreciate that he said he's wishing everybody. Hopefully, if he does uh yeah, I got it. I got it.

Um, yeah, no definitely uh always appreciate TK. Let me see here. I think I may have missed a couple comments hear hear. Uh. Let me see here: yeah, oh man, oh yeah, so many people hi yeah, thank you TK.

That makes a lot of sense, um and does put my anxiety a little yeah. No definitely there 's. There is a very different converse and then there's just kind of for reference um, although Huawei cannot necessarily upgrade to uh android 11, as simply mostly because of the uh, some parts of AOSP, but again they're, not part they're, not part they're, not working with Google anymore on android development. That's why their latest emu built is still built on android 10. So there's that level, but I think harmony is going to be replacing their system at this.

At a very certain near future, so that's not going to be a big issue. I think they're focusing heavily on at least on the Huawei camp on harmony, OS uh. There's a lot of things kind of like to appreciate going on. I think TCL is definitely. This is the year for TCL to take a big good stronghold in the US, at least as a market.

They already have a very good stronghold on TVs, so TCL TVs with Roku in the US. We also have a lot of big reference, also with their existing lineup from last year. They are no longer trying to they're not trying to use the Alcatel sub brand now they're going straight with TCL, that's the biggest push, also that we're starting to see, and they have a very good existing relationship with carriers. Now I do notice, though, that it seems like TCL's approach or at least global market approach. It seems, like the US, is the last market to release that uh, the 10 the 20 pro.

I saw that tweet there, and I don't know why the tweet got removed, but the short answer- um the 20 pro- is definitely going to be a very big upgrade. Let me see if I can do this one right there uh it's definitely showing us to have the biggest improvements over what we saw last year. Uh so definitely a large display. Sorry, I have the spec sheet on the state on the side because with the devices not being in hand, it's hard for me to remember all the specifics: um we have 4 500 watt, milliampere battery 18 watt charging 48 primary shooters, 16 ultra-wide 5, megapixel macro and 2 megapixel depth uh, and we have 4k30 on that one. It's going to be a 32 front facing with 4k30, so they're, jumping it up 4k 30 on the front-facing sensor as well, which is a big change, that's something that we don't even get with the most like.

Even with this, the most expensive or most advanced version of Xiaomi smartphones. It's capped at 1080p in the front-facing camera. That's something that we should not be doing in 2020. Now audio is still going to stick to mono. I hope it was a little hoping for stereo speakers, but it does look like it's going to be supporting global 5g bands as well a band um security front.

You know in display fingerprint sensor, android uh 11 out of the box uh with, if I'm not mistaken, yet the 7, the snapdragon 750 g, so definitely the gaming processor supporting 5g, but not the 765, and we'll, we'll see basically with the l series that supports ultra-wideband uh. But definitely very I mean it's a decent contender in the mid-range processor, but it's the one that definitely doesn't look it. If you have to kind of pick a phone that gave you the best look for the price. The 10 pro was an amazingly designed smartphone, and we definitely carry that in with the 20 pro, so you're getting a lot more of those functions there. The there is going to be a foldable released later this year and there are, so they're also going to be releasing their studio, glasses or at least their cinema classes.

Uh. Those are the displays that they showed at the beginning, at CES, 2021, uh, the virtual side, and essentially it's basically those uh kind of, like other displays where you see like, like a large camera lenses in front of you, they're not used to watch anything to see through, and you can basically connect them to your smartphone and then enjoy content from your phone. So like watching movies on, like a large format, screen displays in front of you. It's going to be very, very easy, very nice. I tried them out last year in the 2020 CES.

While I was right before the show started, and they looked amazing. The sound was definitely very nice, although at the time they were prototypes- and it seems like they're actually finishing it up this year, so we'll see how that goes, but I'm very much a big uh, very big supporter of them, and I can't wait to see um oh camel. Yes, yes, yeah, we. So we talked a lot about the Xperia one mach3 uh at the beginning of the show, so the overall I would say if I had to kind of recap that part of the show, I would say, um Xperia one mock three- is a very substantial upgrade in the overall experience uh from the Xperia one, not from the Xperia one mark ii. I think there are some upgrades that are done there, because they kind of like doubled down on what you're getting there uh, but it seems like it's gonna, be around roughly about 1300, at least according to the leaks and about 1100 for the Xperia 5 mach 3.

Uh. The design is going to be similar very much very similar to what we get on this um. You know side mounted fingerprint sensor. We have an additional customizable button. That's going to be that's something that came over from the Xperia pro uh headphone jack stays there.

Ip68 sim support, SD card support.4K 120 is going to be the new refresh rate on that display, as well as the ability of shooting, 4k 120 video, with cinema pro on the back sensors. As well the other improvement there is the larger, not the larger, the new focal length for the telephoto lens because of the moving elements in the telephoto sensors. That now is mounted sideways to the phone, as opposed to being straight out. It's going to be a sound, a sideways mount sensor, and we're going to have basically 16 24 70 millimeter, which is simpler than what we had similar to what we had last year. But now we also have a dedicated 105 modes, now, you're still able to do the scroll all the way up to 200, but that's different.

You know when you're doing that. That's usually some digital zooming having a standard focal length that means at 105. Now the images are going to be very clear as if you have 105 millimeters lens uh sitting on the back of your phone, so yeah faster charging uh- and I mentioned also the updated internal application for the camera, app a bunch of different things, there's a lot and then 5g, of course, all across their lineup. I know that the one mach 2 European model supported 5g, but this one will support reg, at least in the US, for us as well so yeah. Hopefully that kind of gives you the big kind of rundown back of that one as well.

Let me see here um, so the Xperia 5 mach 3 TK. I'm in love with it. Uh really exciting, excited about the to compare the comparison of those so yeah. The five mark iii is definitely uh, it's the smaller of the two, so I'm a form factor. Definitely it's the one that probably most appealed to many people still has a very beautiful display, 1080p 120, which is similar to what we saw last year, but you're getting the benefit of the lens system that we have in there uh the charging, the HS power control, all the optimizations minus the 4k 120 display that we had on the one mach 5 uh, one mach3 um.

I think Jermaine is really very big supporter. If I'm not mistaken, josh also uh- or I think you know- is a big fan of that as well for the Xperia 5 mach 2. Uh, it's going to be a perfect selection of options, they're releasing both smartphones and I feel like both are well-rounded now, where last year I would have probably said the Xperia one was the mark ii side. At least the one was a great for content creation and content consumption because of the display with the 4k panel, and it felt like the xp85 was great for content creation and gaming. That's the the focus level now they're, both very well-rounded, and they're, going to be coming up both in summer, but I have a feeling, or at least one also kind of you know, supported that on Thursday.

Uh is that he essentially thinks that the first one will come out kind of like the way we got it last year, sometime in July. Where was the Xperia one mark ii and then the Xperia 5 will probably come more on the tail end of summer, like closer to the end of our august September timeline right before we transition, obviously to fall, so we'll have to see um, it's all about the ROG 5 5 ultimate baby. Oh man, Matt Tyler's, in the chat, okay, might as well switch conversations now, man, uh habit. Thank you coming ahead, um uh! Let me see here, uh, uh, gate, 95 here, uh just here say salaam Alan. I hope everything's doing well catching up with you guys later.

Thank you for stopping by man always appreciate it. Um. Let me see here if I kind of say thank you Matt Tyler's, jumping in with the ultimate man dude honestly, I wanted to try the ultimate. I wanted to see what it was all about, but I am not going to lie. I'm very happy with the ROG phone 5.

From the 2 to the 5. Since you got a chance to play with the three I never got a chance to, so I don't really have an idea of how the approach was done. I feel like it's an upgrade from the five to from the two to five. That's truly the upgrade that I wanted to see last year, a greater a better headphone jack, larger battery faster charging, a bunch of things going on with the ROG phone five. So the ultimate just to kind of like make takes, takes that amazing phone and just wraps it and does more things and um.

The pro, although which I didn't understand why ASUS did this, but they gave the pro the color of the color rear display, and they gave the monochrome to the ultimate which I'm I know, kind of roughly. Why? But I felt like they could have both benefited from having the color display, and then you just displayed monochrome colors on the color display. You know I may not give them the flexibility to do more, maybe with the ultimate. But you know I, you know with dog's uh infinite wisdom, or at least as soon as infinite wisdom. They stuck with that theirs right, um he's like he's laughing, it's like he's, just jumping and dropping back in there after uh having to have it was on there for some time.

I appreciate it. Man always uh chemise dumping and jumping back in with a question here: ATK besides the updates uh to the CUL. Sorry um. Besides, the update of the oculus 220 hertz is there is something you're waiting to see this year as far as VR AR actually more of the wearable glasses, the AR glasses that we saw announced at CES. Those are the ones I'm really more looking forward to, although I appreciate having faster refresh rate on a VR headset, obviously for gaming, and that experience with the quest, uh and, of course, with oculus's updates as well um.

I actually still like the first version of the Oculus Quest. I didn't really find a big issue or big reason for me to jump over to the next generation wearable AR and VR glasses. Those are going to be. I feel like the next level uh. Why am I interested in glasses, like this from racer? Is because this is the area like we have a smartwatch, so we have a really well-defined ecosystem for smartwatches, and we have so many selections to be able to look at glasses.

We had a spike at one point where we kind of saw. You know I think Sony was going into them. We saw I'm not mistaken. I think um, word, we obviously you know uh. You know the glasses by word, but those north.

I think they kind of went out uh since google bought them, but we've seen that different generations, but we haven't really been seeing them very much mainstream push um at Qualcomm summit that I was able to attend in Maui a couple of years ago. I think 2019. We saw a lot of different options so AR glasses, definitely more so than VR, because quest kind of demonstrated to us that VR doesn't need to be tethered. We can have very powerful VR experiences with helmet or headsets that are outdoors away from PCs, not tethered, and I think that's what I liked about them. But AR is the next level the ability of getting augmenting experience through your glasses that we normally have to wear.

For me. I wear them all the time. So if you don't wear glasses, obviously the conversation changes a little, but if you are, if you do, this is definitely something that we would benefit your. I would say basically, overall experience and user experience there, so I'm looking for a lot of those things as well. Um TK started on time today, so we can do uh, the know, Dave Dave's.

I like that. I did kind of start on time this time. Yes, actually I uh, I want to say I'm going to pat myself on the back. I was uh. I was surprised I was actually able to because typically, what will end up happening is that I in doing something and so on, and I'm not going to lie literally the last thing I end up doing that usually ends up pushing me.

How all over the start to buy a certain amount of time, is I end up having to go make either from making my coffee if I'm making my drink, that takes me into another place where just getting ready for the stream. It was so easy. This morning I set up everything and turned on tweeted about it and then boom. We were able to start so very, very, very nice um George brown is putting in there um. Okay.

So actually that's a great question, George. So, let's, let's bring that up so George brown's asking or say commenting, says I'm concerned with the selfie camera on the Xperia one mach3. I just hope it's better than the uh than the eleven uh. So I'm assuming you meant the uh mark the one mark ii. So from what I've been told, at least on paper, it's the exact same sensor.

Is it better? Is it? Is it different? We won't know much. Sony hasn't really been talking about it too much. I can say this much though, from the one to the one mark: two, it really didn't change much. It's very much. The same experience, video calls everything like that normally uses video out of the source from that camera is gonna, work perfectly not perfectly, but will work well for those type of experiences.

It seems like Sony's, doubling down on an alpha. Experience essentially is trying to bring their DSLR their SLR camera experiences onto their smartphones, and those engineers are always going to focus on the primary sensors on the back, because that's where they've done all their work, I don't think Sony's focusing that much on the front-facing experience. Now they did do something slightly different, though they upgraded the default camera app, or they call it. The simple app now to be more uh in tuned or integrated into some of the functions that we get with the camera pro. So hopefully, better processing can be done on the 8 megapixel front-facing camera, so maybe we'll get better images.

So there is a little to be said there. Although sensor is the same. Experience may be different, so that's what I meant to kind of summarize there um. As far as some other options, I did, I didn't get a chance to get an answer from them as far as if they were going to be pushing some of these updates, like the updated camera pro to push down to the one mark ii or the one, but more than likely. Typically, that's what we end up getting like when we get the phone, the 4k 120 that came on the Xperia 5 last year, uh did come over on the Xperia 1 mark ii, with the android 11 updates, so very much a possibility, and they actually updated the Xperia one mark two um after android 11 uh.

I actually received another update very shortly after, so they're they're working on it. So hopefully we'll definitely see that as well. Tacitus is asking is OnePlus 8t still worth it in uh, still worth it or not in 2021. So there's a different. So here's the thing, the nine and the nine pronoun that they're out, and we're obviously able to see what are the differences, so the OnePlus 8 and the OnePlus.

Sorry, the OnePlus 9 and the 9 pro are in a way better than what you get with the OnePlus 8t, but that doesn't really take away from the OnePlus 8t as much as we want to say, the 80 is still compelling. I think more than likely the price point on it's a little better you're still benefiting with the 65 watt charging, because the technology was introduced with it. You have the 1080p 120 hertz, refresh rate display you're, not going to get the HD, but again for gaming. It's going to be great long, large battery, optimization of oxygen OS. All of those things that you typically expect from OnePlus.

So I think it's a very, very solid device. I mean there's always a case, and I'm always a proponent of that to try to give you an um. A flagship like a one-year-old flagship is still should still be holding its own in the year coming out now I agree. The 18 may not be the a8 pro, but if you really compare the benefits that you get there, the features that you get there with the speed of charging and the optimizations that are done there with android 11 you're, definitely going to get a very good experience. So for sure, if you're able to get a good deal on an at, I would definitely jump on that uh if you want to go on as far as what they have with the 2021 right now, I feel like the 9 is a decent contender.

The 9 pro obviously is going to be the biggest change there, but they kept the same wide angle lens on both uh in the US at least. The 9 has wireless charging there's a lot to be said about what you're getting there so yeah. Definitely I'm with you on that one uh, TK, okay, so uh Dominic Wang is saying TK I figured it out now. It seems to be YouTube is crashing in Firefox at 720p, because it's fine in the uh in chrome definitely uh some something wrong with Firefox and speaking of which thank you for. Well, I'm glad you were able to figure out.

Let's, let's start it there um there is a. There was an announcement, or at least an email that I got from Amazon. Letting me know that the Firefox browser will no longer be supported on Firefox uh on fire TVs or fire uh fire devices, essentially from Amazon, and then they wanted people to switch over to the silk browser. So I'm not sure if there's something going on with Firefox at least uh but yeah I can. I would never imagine why YouTube would work better in chrome than any other browser.

It's I'll, I'll. Let you read between those lines. I think that'll be the best way in there. Um George brown said I'll be happy to see I'll be happy with a selfie camera uh with 12 megapixels 4k 60. Recording uh is uh, uh, it's its enough for me and for my needs I agree.

Um, there's! No! There's no reason for it, I mean so. Obviously we want a bigger sensor here. Eight megapixels does not they're not trying to give you like that. Some other k manufacturers will put you know like 20 and 32 megapixel sensors, but then all you can do is 1080p and not even 1080p 60. Um yeah.

I'm with you uh Sony. My hope is that Sony does push a little more on the processing and improves the experience on the front, although with that sensor, when what we've seen it being capable of doing within the last couple of years, I am imagining not that much has been improved. Maybe some software tuning again the camera app being changed from the default to having a simple mode of the camera pro. It will definitely do some improvement, some uh some optimizations for us there. So I definitely appreciate that there uh go around it says uh.

Oh, he's he's responding to the eta uh you're in good mood, considering uh, whether in check uh right now, uh, uh is screens okay, great okay, so I think it seems like you guys, are having some bad weather. So the screen brightness is supposed to be a little better. Yes, they did say that the brightness level was going to be a little better, but I'm not sure how it's going to be with 4k 120. We have to keep in mind it's a new panel. There's that type of experience, I'm hoping it's better than what we had with the Xperia one mark ii.

We uh Juan- and I talked about that on Tuesday as well Thursday as well. Um George brown back with uh, saying this um. Sorry um. If you said this TK but uh, the Xperia mach3 is going to be actually native 4k with 400 with 120 hertz, or is it going to be a marketing by Sony? No, so many people have asked that even the uh other pr agencies it is going for native 4k. It is not what they did last year with the upscaling to 90 frames per second.

So it's a 4k 120 hertz refresh rate panel. That's where I was kind of commenting on Gordon. Sorry on the yeah Moran's comment: the brightness may not be as much better. So that's the other concern when you get to that level when you're pushing new panels and so on. So my hope is it's better for outdoors use, I'm not talking indoors.

Obviously you could definitely appreciate uh you can see the panel it's bright enough. It's clean! It's easy to see. We were talking more about outdoor brightness, like peak brightness, so hopefully we'll be able to see that as well, uh improved on the opera, 5 1 and 5 mark iii uh, but yeah. No, we did cover that one as well that uh Gordon vaccinated but careful uh, yeah, actually speaking of which uh today um. I think, if I'm not mistaken so today, in California at least here in the U.

S. , they opened up all uh the requirements for everybody to be able to get vaccinated. So that's going to be available as well, so for people that want to that are qualified. It's anybody, I think that's 16 or above 16 or older, not above 16 or older, can actually qualify where in the past they used to have like a medical condition or something like that. I would definitely check with your local um I'd, say local site to be able to check and see what's available, uh three point runs for ROM.

Okay, I'm not sure uh Gordon is answering. I think it's asking okay, let me double-check here so 3.1 for RAM and uh. I uh. Furthermore, I don't remember them saying if it was going to be, I think I want to see uh that they didn't mention the specs. Actually they did not talk about any of the specs when it came down to their hardware types um.

If I'm not mistaken, uh, it probably will be 3 and lpddr4 at the very least, but I wouldn't be surprised if Sony decides to push it with 3.1 this year and five as well as you're saying so, we'll have to we'll have to see what they uh, what their show. But I remember in the release or the information that they released. They were not specifying uh the specific type of ram and storage that they're using uh. Yes, so Gordon, of course, yeah that vaccination, that that's partially partial part of the answer, uh but masks, will need to stay. I mean trust me, I'm I deal with it all the time.

My beard is always like this, as you guys saw some of the pictures I did with the 11 video it yeah. I got bent beard the whole time, so I have to trim that on a little more uh, Devin Davis. Yes, I think we're we're hitting that time of the show. It is that time, actually, oh wow, what uh an hour and 48. , okay, so obviously as uh, I hope you uh at DTS uh.

I love that one uh, DTS and hope you and Mrs b can get uh get a convenient date uh if you plan on getting uh getting it as well. Definitely, definitely- and I think I want to be able to um- I want to be able to get back to some type of normal. I don't have a problem with it. I think it's more about just uh go with what works, and I think you know, obviously with the one that goes the most amount of history. There is a little of concerns going on with some some options available, but yeah for sure um.

So it is by the way that time of the stream um as usual. I always like to say if you guys get a chance to go ahead and drop in uh your uh, the hashtag TK section uh in there uh, and we'll go ahead and start getting kind of like rap, it's a little of the wrap up, but it's its that time of the video uh and I feel like uh seriously, if there's ever been a mark, that always works. That allows me to finish around the two-hour mark so that we don't go over and make it into a consistent type of experience. I always feel like you guys, always keep me in check. So I like that- and I like that very, very much.

No. I like Dominic is saying uh TK. You need to shave it uh. It doesn't work with beards; no, it doesn't. The n95 is not a friend to anybody like seriously the amount of like when I go out, and I see- and I see dudes with beards, and they're wearing the mask, I feel for them, and I've seen people that have even longer beards like seriously like this totally changes it and, of course you wear it for an extended amount of time, your beard kind of creases, so yeah for sure uh with that being said, as usual, as always, I always Dominic.

Thank you very much um having the same megapixel account as the previous gen. So as we're getting in the comments in there I'll jump on that real, quick, George um. So I have no problem with the sensors that we had last year and having them go over to the new sensors on the fire on the one mach 3. The reason behind that is, there are large sensors to start with the image quality coming out of those lenses are beautiful and very nice as long as you're composing it correctly, I'm not talking auto mode. I'm talking about like using camera mode and using it to pee, you know priority shutter mode or aperture shutter mode you're able to customize the experience very well.

The third lens that we added with the new two separate focal lengths is a big change in the sense of what you normally expect from a telephoto lens. You no longer have one focal length. You have seventy-nine, so you have 16 24, 70 and 105. That is a very big change for any smartphone, so no issues at all uh. Hopefully the processing gets a little better, also in their auto mode or their simple mode, which essentially is a simpler mode of their camera pro.

So definitely a lot of things to be appreciated there uh, but with that being said, I think it's that time of the day, uh let's go ahead and share the screen uh. Let me see here who's first who's on first now who's on. Second, I'm just kidding, so we'll go ahead and start it up at Del, of course, starting us off with the right on the right foot. Let's go ahead and do share screen, and now yes,, thank you. Thank you very much to everybody, Aditya, always starting us off tar bay, TK, alpha bay, uh, TK, hipster bay, of course as usual, and then, of course, TK caption uh.

Thank you. Everybody for hanging out with us, of course, Devon Davis, as always as well stay safe, all uh, semi Torres, big supporter, long time fan and a big friend uh since the London beginning since our Germany times uh Ganesh. Of course. Thank you very much, Dominic Wang, of course, uh boom. We got it.

Yes, I love. I love. The new cover. Renesh looks really, really sleek mod um and, of course, you know with everybody also kind of um. You know just being part of the show supporting the show, and you know hanging out with us on Saturdays kicking it with us uh.

Just it always ends up, basically being something that I appreciate, and I can never say enough, um to all of you guys for everything that you guys do uh. You know it's its one of those things I always appreciate. Saturdays. Are, or literally like I wake up in the morning, and the only thing I'm thinking of is the show hanging out with you guys talking. What are we going to cover this week and this week kind of you know kind of a little of a mix of different things.

We talked about a lot of things. We talked about the experience. Furthermore, we talked about OnePlus versus Oppo watch. That was a big thing also and of course, we also had the ability of talking a little about TCL, uh, Huawei, pixels, uh, white, stuff, white chapel, of course, and there's a lot of things going on as well. So with that being said, I want to say thank you very much to everybody for hanging out with us spending your Saturday morning with me or evening or afternoon, depending on where you are in the world.

That's the beauty of the show uh and that's partially, a big part of what we are doing. We're able to do um on the internet is we can hang out with each other across times across the parts of the globe and all have fun. At the same time, and we're talking that's the big thing, we're talking to each other uh, and we're able to get things kind of going through uh DEC. Thank you very much and Aditya. Of course, thank you for being with us.

The rock of the show, I would probably say, is Aditya, as always uh, thanks for the child, lovely stream, please stay safe, warm and take care of yourselves as well. Uh and, of course, uh be safe. You know, take care of everybody. I always say this at the show, at the end of it, at least, if you have any friends or any friends' family that you haven't talked to for some time and somebody you haven't connected with for some time, reach out, say hi do something that you know at least shows them that you still uh. You know you're aware, and you know you want to connect at some level, and it will always bring somebody a big smile and, of course, a brick appreciation.

For me, I love connecting with some of my old friends from high school from college and so on. So it just brings me back to you know a simpler time, let's just say that it takes me back to a simpler time uh. So, with that being said, take care. Everybody be safe and, of course, I'll see you guys next week for another show on this best of our week, as well as a Saturday morning with tech. Uh look forward to some of those new content that we're going to put out again, the T.

rex pro the red, magic, six, uh and, of course, some other content coming out on the channel I'll see you guys next time take care. Everybody bye.

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