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Hey guys Mike here the Detroit Board with a look at the new Sony Xperia z3 which is arriving just six months after the z2 now the z2 was one of my favorite phones of 2014 so the z3 certainly stands a chance to replace it now this e3 is a pretty significant upgrade but it’s still pretty similar to the z2 we still have a 5.2 inch 1080p LCD display same size same resolution with 424 pixels per inch but this time it’s quite a bit brighter with a triluminos technology which makes it display very colorful and vivid kind of similar to an AMOLED display well so have a much thinner and lighter design than the z2

It’s also simpler and more rounded so it feels a little nicer in the hand we also have thinner bezels and generally speaking the phone just feels more comfortable to handle than before now we still have the same 20.7 megapixel camera sensor on the back but with new optics and a new image processing engine now just like the z2 we have front facing stereo speakers which is still a rarity in the market today and these are also waterproof in fact the water resistance rating of this phone has been bumped up to ip68 which means this can be submerged in 1.5 meters of water for

Up to 30 minutes now in terms of internal specs most of it is carried over we do have a Snapdragon 801 clocked at 2.5 gigahertz instead of 2.3 but we still have three gigs of RAM now the Bary has decreased in size from 32 hundred million powers to 3100 that’s still a fairly large battery alright so let’s go ahead and crack into this box I just have to cut these seals along the bottom here alright so let’s go ahead and lift the lid here and there we go there is our white Sony Xperia z3 this is also available in black copper and a green color let me go and lift that out

Here so there you can see it’s wrapped in this little plastic sleeve wants to slide on right away so we have some plastic on the back so let me go ahead and peel that off right here so you can see that all glass back panels still retain from previous zphones on the front another piece of glass here protected by plastic really nice looking phone I really like the feel of it already much smoother and simpler design on the side so it generally feels a lot more comfortable in the hand and before it’s also thinner and lighter you can definitely tell the difference

Alright so beneath the tray will find our UK wall adapter here which obviously I can’t use of course it’s Sony branded with a USB port along the side very different from what you would get from the US version we also have our my kro USB charging cable pretty standard stuff I also have our standard Sony earphones these are not noise cancelling style they’re just pretty basic they do have a remote control and microphone built-in so in terms of paperwork we have the sony xperia lounge flyer as well as our regulatory information and a startup guide in several languages here

Of course we have the English one and of course we’re going to go through this phone in great detail in this review now let’s take a closer look at the design of the hardware so again we have a 5.2 inch screen with smaller bezels this time but of course you can see we have pretty large bezels at the top and bottom but very thin bezels along the side which makes for a fairly narrow phone feels a lot more compact than before it’s also much thinner than before and generally the shape is a little more rounded and more comfortable to hold so

At the top you’ll find the earpiece which acts as one of the front-facing stereo speakers you also have your two point two megapixel front-facing camera good for 1080p HD video and then you have all your standard sensors your proximity sensor and ambient light sensor we also have a little LED notification light in the upper left corner so at the bottom we’ll just find our front-facing loudspeaker which again is one of the stereo speakers this also integrates the mouthpiece so the microphone is also built in here so if you look at the bottom this time there’s

Nothing here like there was on the z2 now on the right side you’ll find a lot more going on so you have your power button and your volume rocker the power button it’s kind of nice it’s nicely raised very tactile very easy to reach you also have your flap covering the nano SIM tray and the micro SD card slot which again supports 128 gig cards now to get that nano SIM tray out I just use a little sim ejector tool to kind of pull it out and then you just push it in when you’ve loaded your sim up also very common with Sony phones is a dedicated dual stage camera button so you just

Press and hold it to activate the camera it also acts as your shutter release so you have press it to lock focus and full press it to release the shutter now on the left side we have our covered micro USB charging port now all these flaps on the left side and right side are made of metal so they are consistent with the design and quality of the metal frame on the phone which is very nice we also have a charging dock this charging dock works with certain Sony accessories so if you want to bypass the covered micro USB charging port for charging your phone you can buy an accessory and once

Again we have a Sony phone with a lanyard port it’s a bit of a different design from the sony z2 that was integrated into the corner the phone this is a little higher up now I all four corners you’ll find these nylon bumpers so the metal frame of the phone no longer completely wraps around the phone the corners are protected by more shock absorbing materials the idea here is that when you drop your phone with a metal frame you’re going to damage it possibly cause damage to the screen but with nylon it’s going to bounce or recover a bit more easily now at the top

You’ll find a waterproof headphone jack and one of the microphones now once again on the back we have an all-glass back panel which integrates NFC as you can see the NFC target toward the center right there and then we have that very impressive 20 point seven megapixel sensor which now has new optics for a wider angle view we also have a new image processor so image processing should be even better and right below the camera lens we still have a single LED flash all right so let’s take a look at the software experience which is pretty familiar to

Any sony z2 user so on the lock screen you can swipe up to launch into the camera app alternatively from anywhere on the device even if the screen is locked you just tap and hold the dedicated camera key launches the camera app so again the full device is locked it will launch the camera no matter what so it’s very nice and handy to have that feature now I’ve also enabled a feature that just allows me to double tap the screen to wake it up and I’ll show you where that is under settings you can swipe down to get to your notification panel

Along with your quick settings as you can see you can swipe between them now quick settings is customizable so you can select which setting you want here so for example you can see mobile data airplane mode roaming auto sync and NFC which you can also just drag and drop here and you can rearrange them like so but you can see all the ones that are available here you have Wi-Fi Bluetooth location Wi-Fi hotspot throw which basically allows us to broadcast media to compatible wireless devices so this is kind of similar to Apple’s AirPlay we’re gonna have to click done to use it

So this kind of similar to Apple’s AirPlay or Samsung’s Quick Connect basically sees all the available wireless devices for streaming media such as photographs video audio that sort of thing we also have our brightness controls which unfortunately forces us out of the quick settings panel and then of course you also have your and as you can see when it disappears you have to go back to it you can also see you have a damped display like so I also have a quick flashlight here so again a little LED flashlight on the back which is very handy to have we

Also have screen mirroring so if you have a compatible screen mirroring device like a Samsung Smart TV in my case you can wirelessly broadcast the play an audio of this to that television which is very handy now I can jump to any one of these Settings panel just by tapping and holding on it and you can see get this little button here which appears so it takes you to the Wi-Fi settings now we also have lots of power saving measures understanding the mode so if you tap and hold on it takes us to power management so here you can see lots of options here but right now I

Have the standard stamina mode activated when they click that off you can see changes the estimated battery time for them so you can see if I activate it tells us exactly what it’s doing here so 9 days and 10 hours on standard stamina mode and you can click on this to see exactly how it’s behaving and you can modify some of its behavior as well we also have low battery power mode so if we activate this when it hits 20% it activates additional power saving measures and again you can tap on it to see exactly what it does or you can modify its behavior and you can also

Adjust the threshold here from 20% to less or greater now I also have ultra stamina mode so if we activate ultra stamina mode you can see brings us all the way up to 10 days or 18 hours and 12 days or 22 hours of standby time this is actually somewhat similar to the ultra power saving mode on samsung phones so a significantly dials back performance closes app simplifies the interface and turns it to a grayscale screen well now have full grade-school screen but you’ll see in just a moment here so you get a grayscale background wallpaper you get a simplified selection of apps you get

Simplified drop-down shade with simplified quick settings here if you want to leave this just click ultra power saving or ultra stamina mode and it’ll take you back to the standard view all right so let’s take a look at our home screen as you can see here we have that nice carousel transition effect with that’s kind of 3d animated wallpaper in the back which is really neat can tap and hold on the home screen to get to your editor so you can see things like your available home screens you can swipe through them on the top you can select which one you want to be

The home screen by tapping the little home icon in the upper left corner or you can delete the home screen by tapping up here or you can add a new one like so you can see we have our widgets down here so we can drag and drop widgets as we want you can also add your apps from here as well then we have our wallpaper so you can select your wallpapers and then you have your themes now under themes you can see these are basically background themes so for example I have the rainbow theme here and you can see the available solid color so if you don’t want the

Transition to change the different colors you can select another solid color you can also download additional themes here so you can see if there’s lotsa themes a lot of them are tied to so many properties like Sony movies the lego movie that sort of thing so if you want a specific theme just click on it takes you to the Play Store so as you can see it’s changed some of the layout designs the buttons and that sort of thing now we have our on-screen Android controls you tap and hold the home button you can swipe up to Google now or you can swipe

Up to the Xperia Lounge which is really just showing these kind of media store for purchasing renting content you can see what’s available here music movies games and apps and the PlayStation game store so on the recent apps a pretty standard interface you also have clothes all but you see Sony has added these small apps to it these are basically windowed apps that float around when you’re doing other things in the background so for example we have a little calculator that pops up you can move this app around you can’t resize this specific app but there are other

Apps you can open here that you can resize such as this little web browser here so you can continue resizing this to a form that fits you and you can also move this around and continue doing other things in the background now you can open up quite a few of these apps and you can add more apps to the stray so for example if you want Chrome just drag and drop it here Gmail as well as touch block which when activated prevent you from accidentally triggering the screen when you don’t want it to so anyway you can just continue opening these apps like so and there you go you

Have my email you have a web browser and you have all the apps you could possibly need on top of everything else you’re doing in the background now if these are getting in the way you can just kind of flick them to the bottom of the screen here you have to grab the moving icon here and as you can see here when you flick them to the bottom of screen let me go to home screen so you can see it they kind of turned into these little tabs here which is kind of nice and you can arrange them now I can position these little tabs anywhere you want just hold it next to the screens edge and

They automatically turn into those little tabs for you you can also add additional small apps from the Google Play Store or turn your widgets into a small app of course this is a Sony phone with Sony software so we have the Walkman app which integrates all of our music which ties in with Music Unlimited for purchasing music so you can see here you have your home your library your playlists you can see new releases on their unlimited store charts and that sort of thing you can also see devices nearby which you can connect to but alternatively if you’re playing some

Music you have this little throw icon up here which again detects the presence of available devices such as my Samsung Smart TV and my digital receiver here so I can throw music to those devices kind of similar to Apple’s AirPlay now under album you’ll see all the photos and villages you’ve taken with your camera and you can see the things that are recorded in 4k are indicated you can also swipe from the left to get to your camera roll you can also swipe to see your folders on your device you can see face detection here as well as locations and places you can

Also see compatible devices from which you can throw your media so again you can see my Samsung Smart TV and my Pioneer receiver and you can plug into Facebook Picasa or Flickr for feeding your images to your gallery number movies you’ll find a lot more things than just movies here so you’ll find things like your podcasts your videos these are bids you purchase or download it to your device you can see your folder to items and then you can see videos taken with your camera you can also swipe here to see the available devices nearby and then of course you

Also have throw options up here so if you’re playing the video you can go ahead and throw it to one of the compatible devices nearby and of course you can also connect to the PlayStation Network to manage your accounts reply the messages and that sort of thing now Sony is a pretty large ecosystem of apps so in addition to the Walkman album movies and PlayStation app we also have what’s new which is part of the experience again it kind of aggregates all the media into one spot you also have Sony select which are games that you can download for your device now we

Also have lifelog which is a really interesting app that pretty much keeps track of everything you’re doing with your phone from how much you’re reading how many calories you burned how many steps you’ve taken how many hours you’ve walked or run slept or biked commuted or talked to people how many photos you’ve taken how much music and movies and gaming you’ve done as well as I guess reading time and internet browsing and you can add additional ones or unselect ones that are in here so for example if I cap on steps here you can see my pedometer readings here so again about

900 steps for October 7th I can see my weekly totals my monthly totals and my year todos and then you can also see if we go to my calories here you can see how many calories they burn per day and how that is determined you can see calories burned during exercise not very much and passive calories burned here and again you can select a week and that sort of thing so that’s a really interesting app and you can actually see your timeline here as well and cycle through it and you can tap on it to see what’s going on with each one now I also have this social life app which is kind

Of similar to Flipboard basically it aggregates news and information and you can select which feed you want to add to this so for example you can add a URL or just add certain categories such as technology here and you can also add what websites feed into that so for example 9 to 5 Mac I would want and that sort of thing and then you get all your news stories fed into one timeline so it’s kind of handy and of course you have an FM radio built in all you have to do is connect a pair of headphones to act as your antenna now the actor has one other little trick here so if you

Swipe all the way to the right you get to this little pop-out menu here so you can search for apps so for example if you want to launch the Instagram app to start typing Instagram finds it right away with low pause there and then you can swipe again to see your apps that are available for uninstallation here so you see very few of them it can actually be uninstalled I have to do is hit the X to uninstall them and if you want to return back to your normal if you just unclick it you can also see your orders here so you can see amps by your custom order alphabetical order most used and

Recently installed apps now if you swipe here you can see we have quick access to the Play Store or Sony select store as well now under the settings panel you can see this is searchable so for example you can jump to anything you want just by searching for us so for example if you want screen takes you to settings that include the word screen such as sound display security and that sort of thing another experiment connectivity will find lots of options such as our throw settings and screen mirroring we also have our cast screen for chromecast

Devices we have our media server settings so we can activate share media sharing so DLNA certified devices can actually see the media on this phone we also have Windows tethering and then we have Dualshock 3 and Dualshock 4 setup so if you want to set up on your controllers to use for gaming on this device you can now with the ps4 paired to our Sony z3 you can actually see that when we press the PlayStation button it actually connects directly to the phone instead of your gaming console in fact when you bring up your phone here if you swipe down you’ll actually see your

Dualshock 4 connected in the drop-down notification shade now this actually acts as not only on a gaming controller but also a navigation controller here for the entire system so that’s kind of unique here and of course you can use this for game play now under more we have our standard array of options for NFC our default SMS app airplane mode and that sort of thing but one of my favorite things here is internet settings so basically you can download the APN profile automatically thanks to the settings so for example I have an 18 t sim here it downloaded the

MMS settings automatically and I was ready to go without having to actually plug in manually all the APN settings for use with my sim now under personalization we’ll find things like motion so this is there’s only one option here but basically if you toggle is on you have several options here so if you want to answer a phone call just bring the device to your ear reject a call just shake the device ringer off just place the device face down so a lot this is familiar from other devices like Samsung phones we also have themes and again I showed you this earlier you can

Select the theme you want or download ones you may want you have your lock screen settings here so you can change your wallpaper we have clear view notifications so when you swipe down to look at your notifications they’ll actually clear automatically for you once you’ve seen them you also have managed notifications here and so you can manage what apps push notifications and you can see after what went down by downloaded all apps that sort of thing we also have our status bar icons so you can adjust what items appear in your status bar so for example if you don’t

Want the Wi-Fi icon to appear you can select that or your GPS location and that sort of thing under home you’ll find that we have two launchers here we have simple home which will modify the launcher to a much simpler layout so you can see a very simplified launcher here with big icons just one page here with speed dial contacts down here now call settings also reveal some interesting features here such as answering machine so you have a built-in answering machine on this device which operates independent of voicemail so if you want to record message directly on this

Device instead of voicemail you can do that you can set up your own greetings your own messages and that sort of thing we can also enable or disable microphone noise suppression that’s on by default we also have our equalizer settings here so you can adjust that speaker voice enhancement you can enable you can also enable slow talk to slow down the speech of the other calling party which is something you probably want to do with me but y’all say if your account setting here for Wi-Fi calling as well now we also have a lot going on under sound so under sound settings way of audio

Settings and these are basically all your equalizer options so we have clear Audio plus if you uncheck that you have a few more other options here so you have sound effects here so you do surround sound you can enable the equalizer here and man you’ll adjust if you want you also do s force fronts around which is kind of a equalizer that virtually reproduces realistic surround sound so again lots of audio dynamic normalizer will equalize the difference between high and low volumes you can also select the type of headphone you’re using specifically

Sony headphones so presumably it will adjust the audio profile for those headphones you also have high res audio via USB which is an option that works with USB connected devices such as Dax and s or thing can also adjust the mic sensitivity here now under display again reveal more features such as glove mode so if you enable glove mode you can use your phone with gloved hands which is very useful we also have image enhancement you can see you can toggle this off but x-reality for mobile is on by default so it makes images clearer and more vibrant but you can also select

Super vivid mode which makes colors stand out to get super vivid images I’m going to go with x-reality you can also adjust the white balance of the screen here as well manually we also have smart backlight control so if you’re handling the device and looking at a photo it knows not to dim the display so you can able this it’s off by default we all set that tap to wake up command which is off by default again that allows you to wake up the screen just by double tapping it and it’s definitely really quick and sensitive we also have our notification LED light which you can toggle on and

Off now if you press and hold the power button along the side you get to some options here which includes a screen shot and screen recording so this brings up this little floating widget which you can move around and you have several options here so for example you can record both the front-facing and the screen at the same time so I can can expand it I can move it around the NASS sort of thing or I can pause it and I can click record so I can narrate what I’m doing you can see what I’m doing on the screen as well as seeing me at the same time so it’s kind of interesting

Here so we’re going to click that and I think we’re done with that so tap it again click stop there you go now if you want to adjust some of the settings here you can see that we can change the video quality from Full HD all be down to VGA and you can also change the landscape orientation here so if you swipe down here you’ll see that we have our screen recording right there and the notification panel you can see what I’m doing on the screen as well I see me at the same time so it’s kind of interesting here so you can see you got the audio of both the device and you

As well now there are some UI tweaks from the z2 like the size of the icons now much larger on the z3 even though they share the same screen resolution the folder icon is a bit different in fact when you drag and drop an item here on the z2 it’s a bit of a different interface you get a little trashcan icon on the z2 versus little X icon on the z3 so very minor detail differences now with both the z2 and z3 set to maximum brightness is pretty clear that the z3 is considerably better than the z2 it also see it has a cooler color temperature now it’s a very vivid

Display as well with that triluminos technology which makes it a particularly vivid display especially for IPS now this is more of a combination of IPs and AMOLED properties so we have the bright IPS display with the vivid colors of an AMOLED display so really nice display and definitely one of the standout features of the phone alright so let’s go ahead and activate the camera I’m just going to tap and hold the camera release button to activate the camera now I can take a photo just by pressing halfway to focus pressing all the way to snap the photo it’s very nice to have

This button on the side all right so of course you can also use the on-screen keys to take a photograph you can also record video which is really nicely stabilized here sony has excellent software stabilization here even if it doesn’t have optical image stabilization you can pause it you can also take a full of rubber recording video as well now I also have our mode selector in the lower right corner basically they call these camera ass but there are modes that you select including 4k right there but you have things like Timeship video for slow motion you have timeshift burst

For a timelapse video you also have manual mode for manually adjusting all the values on the camera you have sound and photo for adding a soundtrack to your photo face in for including the rear-facing camera in your main facing camera video as well so we have this little thumbnail here we can move around this is very similar to Samsung’s dual shot view we also have background defocus to create like depth of field effect and we have other things in here and you can download additional apps from the store as well now the camera app I want to take a look at is 4k video

Now with 4k video you do have digital stabilization here so you just go to settings and you can turn it on now when you turn stabilization on it’s off by default you can see it actually crops the image quite a bit that’s pretty and stuff or electronic stabilization now if you’re in superior although this takes eight megapixel images not 20.7 megapixel images so if you want to manually select the resolution you’ll have to select manual mode and then you’ll have resolution options here so you can see 20 point seven megapixels so as you can see here of course twenty

Point seven megapixels is four by three but if you want sixteen by nine you’ll have to drop it down to fifteen point five megapixels now because Superion only takes eight megapixel images when you pinch in and out to zoom you’re actually cropping the sensor not cropping the image so you retain the quality of the image which is quite nice so the combination of great optics great software and a great sensor makes this one of the best smartphone cameras I’ve used today definitely one of the best in the Android universe so definitely impressed overall with this camera just

Like I was with the z2 and this remains one of my favorite cameras to use so you have great stabilizations thanks to steady shot even though it doesn’t use optical image stabilization it’s really impressive stabilization definitely one of the best digital systems out there it will be nice once they finally get optical image stabilization in this camera images are also sharp and clear with great color accuracy and just the right amount of exposure from low lights and highlights so definitely one of the most foolproof cameras you can use especially in Superior Auto 4k video is

Also excellent although I didn’t have stabilization turned on when I was using the 4k for video recording but it’s still a fantastic camera for both audio and video recording I’m definitely impressed overall now focus can be hit or miss with this camera and Stefan Lee not the fastest AF system out there but it does a pretty good job alright guys Mike here the Detroit Board tells you not that front-facing camera on the sony xperia z3 which also incorporates sony skinny shot feature so you do have stabilization in this camera again this is 2 megapixels good for

1080p video at 30 frames per second so again I’m pretty decent front-facing camera and good audio now in terms of our Geekbench 3 scores there’s not a huge difference here so you can see slightly better single core score on the z3 but slightly better multi-core score on the z tube not sure why that is could just be variations in the software in terms of performance this is definitely one of the quickest and smoothest performing skin versions of Android I’ve used this is very close to stock in terms of performance and when you throw up a bunch of windows all at

Once it does a really nice job handling it I think that’s thanks partly to the fact that the design of the system is pretty close to stock and they’ve added three gigs of storage which means it can handle quite a bit in the background a battery life is pretty impressive here so after one day and five hours of use I’m down to 15% now the screen was on for only over three hours at that time but that’s at full brightness so you can see that’s pretty impressive battery life for a phone that doesn’t have a particularly large battery now for me one of the biggest

Download features here of the z3 is the display this is definitely unlike any display I’ve seen before it’s an LCD IPS display but it has really bright vivid colors that’s part of that triluminos technology that sony has built in here it’s much more vivid and much brighter than last year z2 it’s also much cooler in terms of its color temperature they also have this x-reality processing engine behind the display which makes text look really sharp video and images look really sharp so it almost looks like you’re looking at a display that’s even higher

Resolution than the 1080p so text in images and everything looks particularly sharp on this display and it’s definitely one of the best-looking displays I’ve seen to date now unfortunately there is one big issue for me with this display and that is off excess viewing this doesn’t have the best self-executing so it tends to lose color and brightness and distorts off access and as thanks probably to the fact that this display is particularly bright so blacks tend to wash out in particular especially if you’re looking at the movie but when

You’re looking at the display in full brightness is definitely one of the most vivid LCD displays you’re going to see right now now the other big story here is audio so we have those front-facing stereo speakers and a great headphone jack with a great processing that’s going on behind the scenes to make audio sound really good now these don’t sound as loud as the z2 speakers and they definitely don’t sound as good as the m8 speakers but they’re definitely better than average now there’s one strange thing about the volume controls on this phone I have to

Constantly set it to maximum because any step below that and it’s much quieter so it seems like they need to adjust the Yvonne controls a bit here what’s up guys Mike here the Detroit Board with a look at what might be the design of the second generation iPad air expected to be announced next month in October what’s up guys Mike here the Detroit Board with a look at what might be the design of the second generation iPad air expected to be announced next month in October what’s up guys Mike here the Detroit Board with a look at what might be the design of

And generation I pay they’re expected to be announced next month in October so in the end we’re left with the phone with standout characteristics with a great display great camera system great audio great design and build along with a nice compact form factor as well as great battery life and there just happens to be water resistant so a lot of the great features packed into this compact and great looking foam so that’s going to do for me in this video thanks for watching and I’ll see you again in the next one

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Check out this article titled Sharp Aquos Crystal: Unboxing & Review. posted on April 21, 2021 6:20 am by manictube.com

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Hey guys Mike here the Detroit Borg with a look at the very unusual Sharp Aquos crystal which is being sold in the US as a sprint exclusive is also available on their MVNOs like Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile for 150 dollars off contract so it's being sold as a prepaid phone so obviously the big standout feature here is that edgeless display so you can see there's virtually no bezel surrounding part of the phone but of course there is a fairly large chin bezel housing some of the sensors the front-facing camera now in order to achieve this unique design they've eliminated the earpiece and replace it with a direct wave

Receiver now that means it vibrates the glass panel to act as your speaker so when you place it next to your ear it sounds like a regular speaker so it's very interesting technology now in terms of specs this is a fairly low-end phone this is got a Snapdragon 400 clocked at 1.2 gigahertz we have one and a half gigs of RAM eight gigs of internal storage standard with a 120 gig SD card slot for expansion we also have an 8 megapixel camera on the back good for 1080p HD video at 30 frames per second and a 1.2 megapixel camera on the front and of course we're going to demonstrate

Those in this video all right so let's get into this unboxing of course this is a prepaid phone with a traditional prepaid packaging so I have a little tab up here to pull so now we can just slide it right out alright so we get this little blister pack here and we have our paper works we have a Quick Start Guide obviously produced by Sprint so we're going to go through a lot of the features in this video some important regulatory information all right so you can see some of the accessories in the back here which includes a USB cable you're recycling bag for your old phone

And it looks like some more paperwork let's go and crack into this right here alright so there is the phone and you can see I have the black version here which is I believe unique to the Sprint carrier so there we go very nice looking film or any press rail a very compact four five inch phone so let's set that aside for just a moment get these contents all the way so as you can see here with the universal wall adapter with a USB port on one side along with our micro USB charging cable pretty basic stuff and then we have some paperwork explain how to remove the back

Panel and that sort of thing and then we have our recycling bag for recycling our old phone if we want alright so there is our phone with a piece of plastic covering it we're gonna take this off there we go that really nice edge to edge glasses plate very unique definitely unlike any phone I've handled before all right so let's get this started going to tap and hold the power button at the top here so we can start taking a look around so there we go let's take a close look at the hardware design as you can see the big story here is at edgeless display

Very unique certainly unusual to handle if you're used to smartphones you never handle anything quite like this before now the crystal gets its name for the way the cover glass is cut and beveled at the edges and that merges perfectly with the metal frame of the phone very nice looking design very high quality that feels really nice in the hand because you have that seamless design it just looks very unusual and I like the weight kind of reflects the display it's actually kind of similar to the Moto 360 which also has a beveled edge around the glass panel now instead of at the top at

The bottom you'll find the front-facing 1.2 megapixel camera so it's kind of an unusual position so we're going to explore how this works then we have our ambient light sensor our proximity sensor and an LED notification light now at the bottom of the phone you'll find a micro USB charging port as well as a microphone which is your mouthpiece now on the right side not much going on here but on the left side you'll find your volume rocker which is a little too flush a little more recess and I'd like to see doesn't feel quite as tactile that's also true at the top of the phone

We will find the power sleep/wake button which again is a little too recessed not as tactile as I'd like to see and then we have our 3.5 millimeter headphone jack so on the back we have a dimpled matte plastic removable back panel which is black on Sprint white on Boost Mobile and I believe virgin as well alright so let's go ahead and peel off this back panel here which is pretty basic just a simple piece of thin plastic that's rigid once attached there's no NFC or anything that's built into that back cover now you can see we have our sealed in 2040 milliamp hour battery so you

Can't replace that now this phone uses a nano SIM and then we have a micro SD card slot which again supports 128 gig cards now down here below you'll see our loudspeaker which is sealed up behind that back panel all right so let's go ahead and seal up this back panel you really have to make sure it's sealed up there's a lot of snaps here alright so let's take a close look at the interface again this is Android 4.4.2 you can swipe to the right here on the launch screen to activate the camera of course we're going to take a close look at the camera app in detail you can swipe down

To get to your notification panel with your expandable notifications tap up here to see all your quick settings and jump to your Settings panel here which has a few modifications we're going to take a look at in just a moment you can also use a two-finger gesture to get to your quick settings again they're pretty basic here toggle on your brightness we do have auto mode in here as well in terms of the app selection you can see it's pretty much stock android with google apps as well as a few third-party apps so you'll see a sprint app for voicemail the voice

Dialer you also see this voice assistant which is an alternative to Google now now to get to Google now you just swipe up from the home button or any of these buns takes you right there and of course you can say okay google what's the weather like tomorrow in Rochester Hills tomorrow's forecast for Rochester Hills is 66 degrees with a chance of showers of course you can folder items just by dragging and dropping over each other again pretty stock stuff you can also tap and hold anywhere on the home screen to edit your wallpapers we also have our recent apps and as you can see here

Pretty familiar stuff very little is different from stock Android now there are a few unique features here to the sharp so we can go under settings to find some of them which includes Harman Kardon audio so basically this is a way of improving audio thanks to the processing of clarify audio clarify will improve the performance of compressed audio over Bluetooth audio or headphones not over the speaker we also have the clarifying visualizer which pops up anytime you're playing audio so we're going to take a look at that in just a moment we also have live stage this

Again is another way of improving audio depending on the way you're listening to it so either headphones or Bluetooth audio so when you're watching or listening to anything with audio when you hit the volume button you get to this little control panel which pops up here so this allows you to enable this little visualizer here which is always present when you're listening to audio but if you tap on it you can close this or you can disable clarify like so so if you're not listening to anything currently you can see that control panel disappears but when you activate

Anything with audio it comes back now this film does have a few interesting tricks here one of them is the ability to just swipe across a lock screen to wake it up and then you can unlock it you can also just shake the phone like so to relock it so again swipe across the screen unlock it shake to lock it again so it's a very nice effect you can also see that when I wake up the screen you get this little flash which is a feature that is available under settings as well so the settings here go to display under frameless effect you have several

Options here under display light on so you can see we have flow ambient and diffusion or you can turn off entirely you can also enable a flashing alarm effect so it flashes the edges of the screen when an alarm is going off and when you start charging you get this low effect here that swipes across the screen and also under display is our screen on/off by motion gestures here so we have the sweep on effect for waking up the device the shake off effect for putting to sleep and then you have something else called the stay on effect which will prevent the display from

Going to sleep if you're handling the phone and then if you place it flat on a table it will automatically turn off and when you pick it up again it'll turn back on we also have a little screen grab utility also available under settings which you can toggle on and off it's under device it's called clip now so you can turn this on basically what it does if you swipe across the top of the screen like so does a little screen grab and you have some control over it so you can tap and hold on it and if you want to confirm it to swipe like so alternately just have them hold the

Power and volume down button to do the same thing now personally I prefer to disable this feature because I'm accidentally triggering it all the time when they just mean to bring down the drop down shade now the camera is pretty full features that we can snap a photograph we can tap anywhere on the scene to adjust exposure and focus and you can see it's definitely not the quickest AF out there it's also not the quickest to take photographs you can pinch in and out to zoom and of course that's just digital cropping you can toggle between video and photo mild care

You can start recording your video and you can snap a photograph long recording video and stop it when you're done now you do not have pause here and you can see it goes right into our gallery and you can see that effect is a little slow understanding you'll see things like our white balance you can set to auto or select one of the other conditions we have our mic setting so you can turn it on or off if you want we also have our focus settings for AF and macro and that sort of thing so again lots of controls we also have our anti flicker so we can change that from auto

To 50 Hertz to 60 years so it depends on if you're looking at a display or something like that that might be flickering we also have our time lapse setting so we do have time lapse with several options now in still mode we have our ISO white balance our shutter mode shutter mode include smile detect and turnaround detect we also have our self timer touch screen shutter so if you want to take a raph when you touch the screen you can enable that as well we also have our timer and then we have our auto focusing

Selections here so you can select af Center AF macro AF that sort of thing we also have anti-shake which is digital stabilization and then we have anti flicker again for 50 Hertz or 60 hurt refresh rates we have some other interesting tricks up here so you can see our resolution options so if you want a 16 by 9 aspect ratio you have to downgrade to 16 or 6 megapixels instead of 8 megapixels 8 megapixels is 4 by 3 we also have our gridlines and there are a variety of gridlines you can select these are basically guidelines for framing your shots you'll see things

Like the golden ratio the triangle the golden section triangle – and quite a few others now in terms of quality as camera is actually pretty decent in bright sunlight or ideal conditions so delivers pretty sharp results better than I expected color accuracy is pretty decent a little under saturated but it's definitely not as bad as I expected now it's definitely much worse in low-light conditions this camera is almost unusable has a hard time focusing and when it processes the image everything comes out very soft now in terms of video quality again this

Camera maxes out at 1080 P resolution which is to be expected with a budget phone now the quality is actually pretty decent under ideal conditions it does tend to underexpose just like it does with the photographs and white balance tends to get a little out of hand tends to go all over the place trying to adjust for the scene it also has a hard time finding the right exposure tends to underexpose or overexpose depending on the light conditions and tends to bounce around quite a bit so again this is a budget phone with budget specs and budget processing power so that's to be

Expected here but it's a little better than average now because our front-facing camera is at the bottom of the phone when using it in this orientation it's basically pointing up at your chin which isn't very flattering so when you activate the camera and actually coaches you to flip it upside down so when you flip it upside down again acts more like a traditional front-facing camera alright guys Mike here dd4 testing out the front-facing camera of the sharp aquos crystal we're just doing a pretty poor job exposing the scene here as you can see I look

Pretty dark so again underexposed just like the rear-facing camera again fairly mediocre results this is 720p you can see there's a lot of color noise a lot of distortion again I'm recording at 720p of course you can record to VGA or less this is to be expected with a low budget phone again not great optics not a great sensor now what not a lot of light going into that sensor from those optics and as you can see I'm kind of straining to hold it far enough away from me to fit into the to fit into the image just because the lens is it well optimized

For this front-facing mode here so definitely not the best front facing camera are going to get so don't buy it if that's important to you now sharp has done a very nice job with this LCD IPS display excellent effects is viewing angles fairly bright with bright vivid colors and generally looks really good especially outdoors Texas sharp even though it's not the highest resolution display still pretty sharp my only complaint here is that it's not quite as bright whites are not quite as crisp as I'd like to see but generally speaking is simply a really attractive display

Now there are two issues with this display one of them is stuck pixels I've noticed a few of them right out of the box which is not entirely uncommon on lower-end devices I've noticed it for example on the Moto G I reviewed recently but the other issue here is perhaps more of a nuisance and that is light leaking along the side you can actually see the backlight of the display when you pitch the phone at certain angles now the chamfered edge of the glass seems to reflect it more at certain angles and then when you look at an extreme angle you can see it again

Now it seems to be more prominent on the left-hand side the my device but you can see it again as well on the right side of the device but again more prominent on the left-hand side but generally speaking it's not a huge nuisance here but simply going to be noticeable for a lot of people now with a Geekbench three squares you can see obviously much lower performance than something like the iPhone 6 but of course huge difference of pricing as well now because we're running Android 4.4 in The Fairly stock configuration the performance on this device is really smooth and quick

Despite its low-end specs that tends to be the case for a lot of low-end phones running stock Android of course we have that 720p display so there's not all pixels to push here so it's able to keep up pretty smoothly now certain EPS will choke the camera app could be a little quicker and sometimes when you're scrolling through a website has a harder time keeping up with only 1.5 gigs of ram now in terms of that direct wave your piece technology that turns the glass display into a speaker it sounds better than you expect although it's definitely not as good as a traditional

Speaker it's not quite as loud not quite as clear and tends to be much higher and prone to high-end frequency distortion the benefit of this technology however is that no matter where you place the device on your ear any part of the screen it works the same so that means audio quality is consistent no matter where you place the phone on your ear now very life is actually pretty decent here after one day in 12 hours of use with about three hours of on-screen time a little more than three hours of on-screen time at maximum brightness our battery was down

To about six or seven percent so pretty decent results overall now I really like the form factor of this phone thanks to its very compact bezel list design of course you have this fairly large bezel at the bottom which seems a little off balance but the rest of the phone perhaps a little bigger than it should be but it does provide a nice surface area to grip the phone when you need to handle it in landscape orientation but because this phone isn't razor thin it's got a nice angled edge along the side you do have a lot of area to grip onto the phone without touching the display

If this phone was even thinner you probably run into issues where you have to grip the phone by touching the edge of the display which will cause problems so here it seems to be just perfectly design it's got a nice curve on the back it's the right weight the right thickness so generally speaking I'm pretty impressed by the overall form factor now in terms of the rear facing speaker definitely not a highlight here this tends to sound very tinny pretty low-pitched and definitely not as full as most rear facing speakers on premium phones so again this is prone to

Positional distortion but the speaker is loud and generally decent enough for most uses so in the end this phone is very interesting for a number of reasons mostly for its design and its pricing there's a pretty decent phone for its price and it's definitely a standout design in a crowd of pretty forgettable prepaid options so without a doubt the Aquos although not a high-end phone by any means definitely provides an option for those looking for a budget smartphone so that's going to do for me in this video thanks for watching and I'll see you again in the next one

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Hey guys Mike here the Detroit Borg with a look at the new iMac with a stunning retina 5k display so this is joining the existing lineup of the 21.5 inch and 27-inch iMac switch are carried over unchanged now for the most part the retina iMac is identical to the existing non-retina 27-inch iMac but they adds a 5k display and upgraded internal specs and before we get to the specs and what makes this display so stunning let's get it out of the box so we can take a close look around now if you order your iMac from Apple it ships in a cushion trapezoidal phonics identical in shape to the I'm Xbox he even opens the same

Way folding forward for easy accessibility so you not to strain to pull it out of the box now once again we have that distinctive trapezoidal box which makes the packaging much more stable for transport the packaging has been updated with the artwork for OS 10 Yosemite which just went public last week Apple also makes this really easy to open once again so I have to do is slice the tape and let the front of the box open up which reveals a styrofoam cocooned iMac now tucked in the top is our accessory box containing our wireless Bluetooth keyboard and mouse

First up is the multi-touch Magic Mouse which is carried over unchanged now of course if you do a custom order you could get a Magic Trackpad instead now this comes pre-installed with non-rechargeable batteries and the first thing that we'll need to do here is to switch it on so the mouse is ready to pair to the iMac when it boots up for the first time next up is the Bluetooth keyboard which is very familiar terra-tory here with that aluminum unibody design and the chiclet style keyboard now on either side we'll find a power button as well as the battery

Compartment which can be opened with a coin when it's time to replace the batteries but once again these come pre-installed with two doublea's we still have all of our familiar Apple keyboard functions at the top such as controlling screen brightness Mission Control launcher and media controls now below that we'll find our literature packet which includes a Quick Start Guide warranty information Apple stickers and an Apple branded microfiber cleaning cloth for that glass display the Quick Start Guide covers the basic setup and installation information as

Well as highlighting some of its major software features on OS 10 Yosemite now it's probably best to do this on the floor instead of on a table like I'm doing here but you can see our iMac is completely cushioned in styrofoam segments which makes them easy to take apart now behind the packaging will find our detach power cord just kind of hanging a we're going to connect this later now the next thing I need to do is remove the styrofoam envelope protecting the iMac now to free of just peel these tabs at the back of the iMac free them from

Behind the stand and just pull up next up we have lots of clear plastic covering the glass of the iMac and the user-accessible Ram slots which thankfully still here next we can start peeling plastic off from the size of the iMac so we can pull this off in one piece next up is a plastic covering the pedestal and as you might have noticed the hinge is still using a spring to help hold up the heavier 27-inch iMac now the chassis of the iMac is again identical to the 27-inch design they debuted back in 2012 so same dimensions and all with that aluminum unibody

Design we still have that razor thin 5 millimeter edge that curves toward the center to create the illusion of a super thin display while giving space for the components inside the effect is still really attractive here now at the bottom once again we'll find the chin with the Apple logo now like before the chin houses the air vents and down facing stereo speaker grilles which in this case are milled into the edge of the bezel and again that bezel is also razor thin I've always really liked these speakers in the 27-inch iMac and I use them regularly thanks to the deep bass

Response and clear dynamic range I'll have a sample later in this video so you can judge for yourself now on the top of the display we'll find a FaceTime HD camera along with an ambient light sensor and LED indicator also find a pair of dual microphones edged into the metal unibody at the top edge of the display and just below that on the backside of the iMac now behind the iMac on the top will find that glossy black plastic Apple logo that acts as an RF transparent window for Wi-Fi to pass through the metal chassis unaffected and of course we're running a low 2011 ICI

In this computer now behind the pedestals hinge you'll find the chassis exhaust vent the RAM door the power port and a Kensington lock at the very bottom now on the back of the iMac we'll find all of the i/o ports in one location including an SDXC card slot as well as a headphone jack which also acts as an input for a microphone and also acts as an optical audio output as well with the right adapter we also have four USB 3.0 ports two Thunderbolt 2 ports and a Gigabit Ethernet port now on the opposite side will find that concaved power button so it's easy to feel for

Without having to see it now once again this 27-inch iMac has user upgradeable RAM so we can pop off the back panel to install our own RAM sticks now concealed in the power port is a button to release that panel you'll probably need something to push on the button to release it since it's so recessed now the panel pops off and is only held on with anti-vibration friction fittings along the side now inside that panel you actually see some instructions on how to remove and install your own ramp first step is to release the RAM carriage which pops up when you spread the clips

Apart now I'm removing the existing four gig Ram sticks and replacing them with a gig sticks so they'll bring me up to 32 gigs and again this is a lot cheaper than what Apple will charge this is two hundred and seventy dollars for 32 gigs versus $600 for Apple's upgrade for 32 gigs now the installation is very easy the slots are clearly defined and all you need to do is push them in firmly to seat them correctly once you're done with installation we just need to push the carriage back down and reinstall the back panel now if you want to buy your own RAM upgrade kit I'll post a link in

The description below now our next step is to connect the power cable so we can power this on for the first time now like my 2013 iMac this iMac is the maxed out configuration which gets me a core i7 has well collect at 4 gigahertz and an AMD radeon r9 m-29 5x with 4 gigs of gddr5 Ram this GPU also has the more modern Tonga architecture compared to the older standard GPU also opted for the 3 terabyte fusion drive although a one terabyte fusion drive is standard and there are several SSD options up to one terabyte so if you want the ultimate speed pick an SSD but I preferred

Storage the fusion drive once again combines the speed of an SSD with a storage capacity of a hard disk drive which intelligently loads frequently use content on the SSD for quicker access andrey x so OS 10 and the amp load times are very quick now the big news here however is the display which has a resolution of 50-120 by 2880 which doubles the resolution of the old 27-inch iMac which quadruples the number of pixels on the screen to fourteen point seven million so we jumped from 109 pixels per inch to 218 pixels per now like the old iMac this is an IPS LCD

Display which is optically bonded to the glass the glass itself has an anti-reflective coating although it's still a glossy panel the screen seems to be equally as bright and colorful as the non retina iMac but the clarity is simply stunning on the retina 5k display so if you're familiar with other Apple Retina displays the experience here is very similar but on a much larger scale which makes it even more stunning now if you visit the resolution options of the display we can't select the native resolution instead it skills the content for better clarity instead of more

Screen real estate although you can select from a few scaling options to get a little more space on your display now unfortunately the 5k iMac does not support target display mode like the non retina iMac so unfortunately you can't use the iMac as a 5k external display for your Mac Pro or your macbook this is brought on by the limitations of thunderbolt 2 which can't handle the resolution of 5k this also explains why we did not get a 5k Thunderbolt display now unfortunately this will require updates to the Thunderbolt Hardware so no current Mac can support 5k externally

Now you can connect an external display to the 5k IMX such as a thunder will display or in my case I'm using another iMac in target display mode and it works seamlessly it'll all make these skills the content as you drag-and-drop windows between the displays now the great thing about a 5k instead of a 4k display is that you can actually preview a full 4k video project in the video editor like Final Cut Pro while still having room for the UI if you look at a non retina iMac side-by-side with a project set to actual fit you can see the full project on the retina iMac unlike the non retina

Which will have to scale it down significantly now the 4k video you're watching right now has been edited on the 5k iMac and it worked flawlessly with no signs of frame dropping so I can scrub the timeline like like you would with a non Retina display and it works perfectly over I'm really excited to finally have a display that allows me to fully preview and edit 4k while doing it flawlessly so let's take a look at our benchmarking to get an idea of the relative performance of our machine first stop is Geekbench which reveals a

Single core score of 44 38 and the multi-core score of 16 407 that's up fairly significantly from the non retina iMac which scored 3969 on the single-core and 14 960 on the multi-core score next is Cinebench to test our GPU performance which delivers an OpenGL score of 105 point 4 frames per second versus the eighty-seven point 94 frames per second on the GeForce 780 from last year which also had four gigs of RAM CPU is also up from 694 to 781 now in terms of disk performance again we have a fusion drive which is the same three

Terabyte unit I had in last year's iMac and performance is about the same here now the fusion drive can be kind of hard to gauge is because of the way behaves so when we're testing out disk speed we're actually testing out the SSD portion of that drive not the hard disk drive so the right speed is about 300 to 350 and the read speed can max out over 700 so that's pretty decent now if you want faster write speeds you're going to take a look at the SSD or the full SSD instead of the fusion drive so you'll see write speeds closer to the read speeds on the full SSD my final test is

A 4k export in Final Cut Pro love identical to minute and 20 second 4k video projects using the standard 4k compressor settings now the retina iMac completed the export in two minutes and three seconds while the non-retina did it in two minutes and ten seconds certainly a small gain here but this magnifies depending on the size of your project and as you know I make really long videos now as I promised let's take a listen to those impressive internal speakers you might have to decide for seeing children again in future the human race

We always have so in the end this iMac represents a monumental leap for desktop displays and at a starting price of $24.99 it's a relative bargain on the market when you consider Dell is selling a 5k display for the same price without the computer attached and for me this is the computer I've been waiting for since I began filming and editing in 4k this year so from the display to the processing power I'm extremely excited to use this for everything from browsing the web with pin-sharp texts and images to editing my huge 4k video projects so that's going to do for me in this video

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Hey guys Mike here the Detroit pork with a look at the all-new Apple iPad air 2 which is arriving just one year after the all new iPad air which is still available but $100 cheaper so the iPad air 2 is thinner much more powerful with an 8 8 X processor which has three cores and two gigs of RAM this is the first iOS device to have more than one gig of ram we also have a new iSight camera 8 megapixels instead of five well 7 new FaceTime HD camera which is kind of lifted from the iPhones we also have a new optically bonded display which is now laminated to the glass so there's no air gap so that improves contrast color

Quality refraction as well as an anti-glare coating on the glass to make this the least reflective display of any tablet today this is 18% thinner is available in gold in addition to silver and Space Gray we also have three capacities 16 64 120 gig capacities at the same pricing of last year's 16 32 and 64 gig capacities we also have an the LTE version which now features apple SIM which is a sim that works across carriers so instead of buying a specific iPad for a specific carrier instead you just select your carrier from settings which is very interesting and of course

Touch ID has finally been added to the iPad alright so let's get to the unboxing so we can take a close look around so on the box you can see we have the iPad in profile highlighting the fact that this is razor thin in fact it's 18% thinner and only 6.1 millimeters so that makes it thinner than the iPhone 6 and also makes it the thinnest tablet available right now now the first thing you notice when you pick the iPad air up out of the box is just how thin it is it's also very thin and rigid that nice solid metal construction now from the front that pretty much

Looks identical to the iPad air in fact that mentioning it's the same but of course you have touch ID which stands out right away now that gold color is very vivid more vivid than the more champagne color of the iPhone 5s but identical to the iPhone 6 and 6-plus gold color so if you don't like gold this may not be the best option for you but you do get a white glass bezel which I prefer personally on the tablet because it shows less fingerprints now in terms of accessories of course we have our literature packet which includes a Quick Start Guide some

Regulatory information and Apple stickers behind that will find the lightning to USB cable for charging and syncing your tablet now I also have a 10 watt power adapter for charging the iPad that's smaller than the 12 watt that ships with the iPad err that's because this has a 15% smaller battery than last year but because of the aax chip which is more power efficient they've been able to retain the same battery life as the iPad air all right so let's boot up our iPad air 2 so we can take a close look around

So something new for an iPad is touch ID so this time when setting up your iPad you're prompted to set up touch ID which is pretty basic it's just like an iPhone so this can be used with Apple pay as well as making purchases in the iTunes Store now with Apple pay of course you do not have the ability to take your iPad to an NFC terminal to pay instead you use Apple pay for web browsing or web shopping but interesting enough there is an NFC chip buried in here according to iFixit so maybe that'll be activated in the future but who knows now along the right side you'll find

Your volume controls which pick up the design of the iPhone 6 with that recessed edge now what's missing this time is the physical switch so this is the first iPad to eliminate it this could be configured for either mute or rotation lock but of course all of that can now be controlled under control center now at the top you'll find your sleep wake power button and at the far edge you'll find the headphone jack which is almost as round as the tablet is thin so you have to wonder just how much thinner they can make this tablet before they eliminate the headphone jack

Or find a different design for the headphone jack now if we look at the new iSight camera again we go from 5 megapixels to 8 megapixels with 1080p HD video recording at 30 frames per second you can see that the module itself is a little simpler it's just a piece of glass instead of a piece of glass with a metal surround so a little simpler a little cleaner design you can also see that they position the dual microphones next to the camera so you'll find run right next to the camera and one next to the camera on the edge of the iPad this used to be located toward the top of the

IPad in portrait orientation now at the bottom we'll find the Lightning connector flanked by stereo speakers once again but the design has been updated and kind of resembles the iPhone 6 with a single row of drilled holes instead of the double rows from last year's iPad air now on the front where the top will find our FaceTime HD camera along with an ambient light sensor right next to it down below of course we'll find the new feature touch ID which features a sapphire lens over the sensor along with a capacitive ring that surrounds it now

With touch ID and Apple pay we do have a few new control panels understandings that are not available on the other and so you'll find for example touch ID so you can add new fingers or delete your existing fingers or rename them that sort of thing you can also go to Apple pay to add new cars enter in your information control center has also been updated for the lack of a physical switch on the science so now we have tile goes for both rotation lock and mute instead of one or the other now the camera app has added a few new features here one of

Them is time-lapse at 120 frames per second so not 120 or 240 which is available on the iPhone 6 we also have a new burst mode which is much faster here again very similar to the iPhone 6 we also have a new and the proof FaceTime HD camera which incorporates burst selfies from the iPhone 6 so I have to do is press and hold the shutter release takes a burst of photos and then you can go to the editor and select your preferred photo to save now in terms of camera quality again we have an 8 megapixel iSight camera with new and improved sensors new and improved optics

And the 8x image signal processor which improves performance so again solid results are a huge improvement over the iPad air or the iPad Mini or any other iPads before now this isn't the same hardware as in the iPhone 6 so we can't expect the same performance of course we do not have an LED flash but results are pretty impressive again 1080p HD video and really solid images as well and we also have those dual microphones for excellent audio pickup now this camera also features software stabilization and it does a pretty good job here so I can walk around with my iPad not

Intentionally trying to hold it steady but just walking it does a pretty good job kind of ironing out those bumps but not perfect now unfortunately this camera does not feature continuous autofocus so once you start recording video you'll have to tap the screen to change focus are the guys mic here the detorri board testing out the new FaceTime HD camera which appears to be the same one in the iPhone 6 has the same F 2.2 aperture which lets a lot more light in a better sensor now this still records video at 720p this is still 1.2 megapixels but the quality is

Much improved and again we have those excellent microphones which do a pretty good job so generally speaking a really decent camera now once again the display is nine point seven inches LCD IPS with a resolution of 2048 by 1536 good for 264 pixels per inch which is identical to last year's iPad air and the retina iPads before it but the difference this time is that the LCD panel is laminated to the glass which means there's no air gap so there's less refraction distortion better contrast sharper colors and generally speaking the display just

Looks a lot better because it's closer to the glass closer to your fingers when you're interacting with it and it just looks a lot more impressive and also allows the iPad to be much thinner it also resolves the issue I had with the iPad air which was the sound it makes when you tap the screen it kind of sounded like tapping plastic just didn't feel as rigid and solid as I like and that's completely gone with this new iPad they've also added an anti-reflective coating which makes a huge difference here now it's still a glossy panel so you're still gonna see

Some glare but the effect is much improved over the iPad air from last year so as you can see here when I tilt it into the light does a pretty nice job adjusting for it now like a lot of anti reflective Coleen's things that reflect in the display kind of looked blue now when you have the white version this is less noticeable if you have a white bezel surrounding it but my buddy Dom Esposito unboxed a black iPad air and you can notice the difference here even when the screen is off you can see a distinct blue outline for the display so I'll post a link in the description

Below so you can check it out for yourself now let's take a look to see just how impressive that a 8 X chip is by going to our Geekbench scores now Apple says that we should see 40% better CPU performance and two-and-a-half times better graphics performance so if you look at our Geekbench course this is a huge leap from the a7 chip in the iPad air from last year so you can see the multi-core score is pretty impressive 4518 versus 2553 that's a massive leap same with a single core score maybe not as big here because we're going from two cores to three cores on the multi-core

Score the single core score were going from 1.4 gigahertz to 1.5 gigahertz so that jumps to 18 17 versus 14 19 now if you compare this to the iPhone six-plus this Bessette which had previously been the best iOS device as well so that single core score is 15 25 and the multi-core score which is dual core is 2700 and 96 so again big gains here now in terms of how this translates to performance there is a notable quickness to the operating system with this faster chip as well as 2 gigs of ram instead of 1 gig of ram so apps preserve their state a little better than they did

Before now once again we have Mysterio speakers on one side of the tablet so the stereo effect is kind of if you're using it in landscape orientation but notably these speakers are louder than the iPad air despite the thinner design so they've been able to make these speakers even louder than before so let's go ahead and take a listen and compare them hey guys Mike here the Detroit Board with a look at the new iMac with a stunning retina 5k display so this is joining the existing lineup of the 21.5 inch and 27-inch IMAX hey guys Mike here the Detroit board

With a look at the new iMac with a stunning retina 5k display so this is joining the existing lineup of the 21.5 inch and 27-inch iMac switch are carried over unchanged now the iPad air 2 has come a long way and evolved very quickly so if you compare it to all the previous generations you can see just how much thinner this iPad has gotten its added cameras it's added stereo speakers it's headed touch ID and this much thinner much more powerful than before in fact the original iPad is more than twice as thick as this and had meager specs with no cameras no touch ID and a huge

Battery which delivered less battery life than the iPad air 2 so definitely impressive performance overall with this iPad or – it's just amazing just how far and how quickly this has evolved so in conclusion I think people are passing up the iPad air 2 because they think it looks the same but there are some major changes here which make a big difference you have really impressive processing power fantastic cameras a nice thin lightweight design with an improved display and touch ID so it's really nice to be able to use touch ID on the iPad because instinctively when you're using

An iPhone with touch ID you want to use the same on the iPad so it's nice to finally have that on the iPad air and of course you have Apple pay so if that's important to you if you're shopping on your iPad that you have this but of course don't take it to the store at least not yet now the other amazing thing here is that they've been able to achieve all of this while preserving berry life so about 10 hours of battery life is what you can expect and that's about what I'm getting while testing out this iPad now ultimately iOS doesn't really take

Advantage of the capabilities of this iPad yet so will be interesting to see what happens in the future because we have a lot of processing power but not a lot of uses for it yet so that's gonna do for me in this video hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you again in the next one

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yo guys what's going on welcome back to another video so buggy is a word that we've been talking about a lot lately with iOS 13 updates happening every couple of days and today we had a fresh report sort of highlighting Apple's internal process previously how we sort of got to iOS 13 and also what they're planning to do in the future which is actually fascinating and I think it's gonna lead to hopefully more quality features in iOS rather than just quantity and then we end up where we need bug fixes every few days so I want to break down this report and talk about

Some iOS 14 rumors because we've got some good information to either recap from the past or highlight from this so if you guys are excited for this video drop like down below hit subscribe for more and let's go ahead and talk about the future of iOS iOS 14 and iOS 15 as soon as I saw this article it immediately reminded me of a video I made years ago on YouTube and I want to play you this very cringy clip of me talking back then just to give you an idea of what Apple was saying then so based on this new rumor Apple is said to have heard the public's feedback because

In iOS 9 Apple is supposed to be focusing on stability improvements over new features for this major iOS release so that clip is almost 5 years old and I'm telling you guys it seems like the same script I feel like we heard this right before iOS 12 that app would focus on stability rather than new features and iOS Thoth was actually pretty well executed there weren't a breadth of features or changes it was mainly just to speed up your iPhone a little bit which I actually appreciated a lot but with iOS 13 Apple definitely took a huge step in a new direction and then there

Were a lot of bugs along the way and to prevent that from happening again in the future here's what Apple's plans are according to Bloomberg historically here's how it's worked they've had a ton of features enabled at the same time it was so conflated that they couldn't actually decipher what was going on so they'd sort of just work feature by feature until they hopefully figured it out going forward whether you're on Mac OS watch OS TV OS or iOS there's now gonna be a space in settings on each of those respective platforms to enable the features individually so it's actually

Kind of funny how things worked historically I wasn't aware of the level of confusion that is was happening at Apple on a daily basis if you were an iOS tester I would pack so many features into one it like called the daily build of iOS 13 say let's say dark mode the swipe keyboard and new emojis were all put on there at the same time and then that person would be running into bugs potentially caused by all three features but not easily be able to track down exactly what feature was causing which bug so you'd sort of just work away at

Each feature and so hopefully all the bugs went away while still experiencing bugs from other features seems like a very inefficient way to do things so that's why Apple has reflected on this apples Craig federighi Anna sort of all hands on meeting and said we're actually gonna do it a new way now and the good news for us is that this isn't years away this is not going to happen in the foreseeable future like you know maybe twenty thirty years from now this is going to happen starting with iOS 14 and iOS 13 point four is in the works and it possibly might be applied to that

As well there's a couple good tidbits that being that iOS thirteen point four planned for sometime next year is on the way no idea what feature set it will have but there is definitely going to be another major iOS 13 update after iOS 13 point 3 which is currently in beta and secondly that Apple is continuing the major yearly iOS updates I saw some speculation a few months back saying that with the state of iOS 13 maybe everything is just rolled out on a regular basis like we start going to thirteen point five or thirteen point eight and then we only do a major iOS

Update every couple of years but Apple seemingly as of right now still plans to do some major updates now Iowa's 15 is a total toss-up I have no idea what's gonna be changing there but Bloomberg historically has actually shared a couple of very small details about what to expect changing in iOS 14 and that's because I was 14 isn't years away now or over a year way it's gonna be coming our way in beta form in June of this year at WWDC 2020 in just about seven or so months first up here is 5g support Apple is obviously working on this for the 2020 iPhone 12 or iPhone 11s and if

They're gonna have it Hardware wise they have to have a way to support that same functionality on the software side of things so iOS 14 will include that second this will also probably be exclusive to the 20/20 iPhone but enhanced our functionality which again like that last clip I feel like it's something I talking about since iOS 11 every single year enhance their functionality enhanced ar stuff and I get that Apple is working on a pair of augmented reality glasses and an AR headset before that some of you can strap on your head

And look around and augment your environment but for the end user I don't know many people that have ever touched AR I mean some applications are cool in a Warby Parker will let you try on like glasses and on might see reality that's pretty cool it is a nice application if you're shopping on an Ikea this website sometimes you'll get like a little AR pop-up but it still doesn't seem to have this wide application that Apple is promising and I know that it does have some promise for the future it's just that we've heard a our functionality

Improvements every year I've not really seen the end result of that but let me know if you guys feel differently down below in the comments section finally something that was rumored for iOS 13 that Apple never actually did the bloomberg reported was a new app switcher or app clothes animation it's largely remain the same I think it changed just a little bit in one of the recent iOS 13 updates but I don't know I'm looking for something something cool something fresh you know and I'm hoping that iOS 14 is that fresh experience because Bloomberg has said that while

Apple is certainly focusing on stability it doesn't appear right now at least this is going to be an iOS 12 repeat where your iPhone gets faster but features are sort of placed behind performance Bloomberg says that Apple plans the same breadth of features right now meaning the same number of new stuff as iOS 13 but on top of that they're going to also be making sure that the features aren't super buggy when it they launched being said the internal name for iOS 15 is Azul plus 1 with the codename for iOS 14 bean Azul it looks like Apple could already be

Planning to push back some key features for iOS 14 until iOS 15 to again promise us performance so maybe this is the year maybe it's not so if Apple's gonna be able to pull that off III hope they will because that would make the experience really great for us but I do know that we've been talking about this for almost 5 years now and sometimes it pans out but when it does it seems like we barely get any new features which is sort of the cost that we may have to pay for a good overall experience rather than a ton of new stuff to show our friends and I don't

Know who's right should we get stability and no new features or features and no stability or is 2020 in iOS 14 a year that we actually see both walk hand in hand and everybody hugs and everybody's happy you guys let me know down below and that's all I've got for you in this video the future for iOS is looking bright iOS 13 was a bit of a hiccup but I say that and I haven't had a bad experience with iOS 13 I see reports and I cover these updates all the time the only issue that I still have that I think needs improvement is Bluetooth but aside from

That I've had a pretty good time on iOS 13 and I was willing to take new features like dark mode in you know in return for a bug email app at the very start that's all I've got for you guys in this video drop a like if you enjoyed it hit subscribe for more I got around to class right now and I will catch all of you in my next video

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yo yo yo guys what's going on Sam here welcome back to another iPhone 12 leaks and rumors videos so far you know it's still pretty early on this device isn't coming until September of 2020 it's sounding incredibly appealing and the rumors today bigger sizes smaller sizes more RAM free air pods I'm not messing around that's actually a rumor we've heard I want to share the latest with you all in this video so if you're excited and you know eat some turkey yesterday you're feeling pretty good still drop a like down below and it subscribe so you stay up to date on the

Latest Apple news all right so I've read this first rumor we've already heard crazy things about the iPhone 12 like it's gonna have a stainless steel band reminiscent of the iPhone 4 going around at 5g support enhancing our functionality and due to some 3d laser scanning technology on the back this is going to be the biggest iPhone upgrade potentially ever but certainly over the course of the last three years since 2017 so first up new today a rumor from digit x who has a mixed bag so I'm presenting this to you as is that Apple Samsung and many other phone

Manufacturers have considered in the new year in 2020 bundling they're completely wireless headphones with their flagship phones for Samsung that would be their galaxy buds for Apple that would be air pops this one's pretty wild and that's why I did the disclaimer at the front is that sometimes they're right and sometimes digit times is wrong because for years since I believe the iPhone 4s or the iPhone 4 maybe even before that Apple has included one standard pair of free headphones with every single iPhone purchase the only change has been that they switch from the headphone jack to

The lightning connector whenever the iPhone 7 came out but since then they haven't been seen a ton of usage considering the fact that air pots have become so popular and another recent report from the supply chain set of things said that Apple is actually doubling air pods pro production because they're so popular so air pods one we're insanely popular air pods to of an insanely popular now air pods pro are continuing the trend I think that I could say safely that people really like air pots now is this likely to happen I don't think so Apple makes a ton of

Revenue off of ear pods it doesn't sound logical for Apple to say hey we make all this money people are clearly buying this on earpods let's give it to them for free so we can make less money yeah that doesn't sound very corporate friendly to me however aqua has had ear pods it's a standard for wood has probably been a decade in the box but moving forward into the next decade would it make sense for Apple to keep using that same piece of old technology as it continually gets more dated I don't think so

Is it gonna happen in 2020 I'm not sure I don't have a high degree of confidence there but this does open the conversation as technology becomes easy to produce and cheaper to manufacture will air pods one day be the standard I feel like they'd almost have to be when Apple has air pods twelve out or maybe everybody gets free air pods one but there's still an incentive to upgrade air pods three or four ear pods Pro let me know what you guys think about this down below I feel like none of you would be opposed to free air pods I noise I certainly

Would be a hundred percent down to get those in the box they would save you a hundred something dollars but another argument could be that the iPhone with all the new features coming 5g more Ramazan gets you in just a second these free air pods if that would end up being the case and a redesigned body and a 3d sensor on the camera and everything else that Apple includes maybe the price for the premium iPhone would jump up from $9.99 as the base models 1,000 bucks up to 1199 are $1,200 and if Apple would increase the cost you would need a way to rationalize that for people that are

Still upset at the price jump from like 750 to $1,000 so including a free pair of air pods in the box with every new iPhone it could be a huge way to sell and get like an extra 50 bucks out of consumers if you subsidized like 150 from the air pods you can it make that much more per iPhone while offering all these new features and then as a bonus you know you get free air pods in the box all speculation but an interesting point to bring up and I look forward to hopefully hearing more about this in the future because free air pods would be incredible and I think Apple is like

We've given them enough money right now obviously overall the naming scheme is still a mash up but there's gonna likely be two premium models again like an iPhone 12 pro and an iPhone 12 pro max and then just the standard iPhone to open for those air pods I doubt in the 12 box you get them this would certainly be for the most premium of Premium iPhones you can buy turns out when you spend that actual a little bit of cash next year for the premium iPhones you're also gonna be getting additional RAM now I remember for years

The iPhone sat at about 2 or 3 gigabytes of RAM and I always laughed with like an Android manufacturer would say but our phone has eight or ten gigabytes of RAM just because that seemed absolutely absurd next year though it's gonna be I think the biggest jump in RAM we've ever seen it for the iPhone so the cheapest iPhone the iPhone 12 is gonna be coming in at four gigabytes of RAM but for the more premium models the 12 pro and the 12 pro max you're gonna be getting at 6 gigabytes of RAM and this comes courtesy of Barclays who has been quite reliable in the past and I believe they also

Predicted like Apple pencils support on the new iPhones at one point which still has not happened and I feel like we've heard that rumor 300,000 times now Barclays has been write a lot more than they have been wrong and that RAM increase will be nice because you can open so many more applications at once at the same time I also don't feel like this is so many people have been begging for is the iPhone seems to manage RAM really well much better than many of its Android counterparts so more ram is coming for the premium iphones but unlike the air pods like the ram sounds

Like a realistic change year-over-year where the air pause is still like man I am I'm not sure I'd be cool though and also very likely to happen because we've heard it for the third time now ET News a Korea publication says that these screen sizes are going to be completely revamped and this is backed by reputable analyst min Shi code apparently instead of 5.8 6.1 and 6.5 inches the screen sizes on both ends are going to expand kind of dramatically well the 6.1 inch will stay the same for likely like the 10 R or 11 type model the standard iPhone 12 there's now going to be a 5.4

Inch iPhone situated here in a 6.7 inch iPhone has situated on the opposite end of the spectrum now people have been calling on Apple for an iPhone se to are a smaller screen size for as long as I can remember basically since the year after the original iPhone se was released in 2016 and Apple is actually working on an iPhone se to production reportedly starting in February every source in the game has said that Apple is working on this phone it's gonna have a 4.7 inch LCD screen be lower cost and essentially resemble an phone eight but on top of reoffer in

That 4.7 inch iPhone 8 screen size with new specs inside like an 8 13 processor Apple's also expanding the other screen sizes so for me since the iPhone 10 I have loved the 5.8 inch iPhone screen size Apple is actually taking that down point four inches which I'm really not feeling too great about it I don't think it'll be a big change but if you felt like the iPhone has been a little bit too big even in its smallest size before Apple said to reduce that screen size even further there's still going to be the 6.1 inch iPhone for some consistency there in the middle and then for

Everybody that still thinks they're pro max phone is not large enough Apple's bumping at 0.2 inches to 6 point 7 inches diagonally again all these are gonna be OLED I'm open to seeing that 5.4 inch model but it's very surprising to me that Apple is not only offering one smaller screen size I have fun with new specs the iPhone se 2 but also iPhone 12 maybe the iPhone 12 Pro Mod will be coming in at 5.4 inches now which is a pretty big change so those are the latest rumors I have for you let me know what you think about the screen sizes free air pods and more RAM and the

IPhone 12 still sounding so great overall and I cannot wait to see what this device looks like I'm hoping within like the next couple of months a leaker will share us what the design that's gonna be because it's probably going to be pretty radical that's all for now drive a like if you enjoyed the video hit subscribe for more I've been Sam I'll catch you cool cats in the next video

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