Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “iPhone Xr Specs Letdown? Ask MKBHD V32!”.
What’S up guys, i’m kbhd here and welcome to september welcome to the ask mcbhd q a series. So this is the middle of what i would call hardware season or smartphone season, where pretty much everyone is in the midst of getting their stuff announced or released or ready before the holiday season. This is always that busy time of year it’s keeping us very busy around here, but of course we can’t leave out the q and a’s. So i asked you guys what you wanted to know on twitter and these are some of your best questions. So, what’s the coolest shot you’ve taken with the robot okay, so that would easily by far be the shot that we actually took. While we were at motorized precision and we did that sort of an orbit intro shot talking to the robot as it was moving around. Not only did it look really cool, but with all the timing and all the words being said, and the sinking of the movement of the robot, with the words that was actually probably the most ambitious thing that we’ve done with the robot.
That being said, this is mia, say, hi and if you’ve noticed some shots in the past couple, videos they’ve been a little bit more trippy a little more interesting she’s. Why moving on? Do you think the pixel 3 can get the best score in dxomark without having a zoom lens, because the zoom category is important to dxomark yeah? I fully do not expect pixel 3 to have a second lens again, as we’ve seen from leaks, and i also don’t expect it to get the highest dxo score. You’Re 100 right, one of the biggest new categories of the dxomark score is the quality of your zoom.
So if you have an additional lens to do optical zoom, you will do better just because of physics. In fact, i think i saw recently there was a leaked or basically it could easily have been faked, but like atop, new phones of 2019 dxomark scores and whether it’s real or not, even though it’s probably not those scores, are very predictable and line up with pretty Much exactly what you’d expect we’re expecting a couple more triple: camera phones to be coming out soon and uh. Those will score high on synthetic benchmarks that take advantage of those doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a better camera, though, keep that in mind as a youtuber.
Would you rather have one video with a billion views or 1 000 videos with a million each? So i guess that adds up to a billion. That’S actually really interesting as a youtuber. Obviously, the the longevity of a channel having a thousand videos, all with a million views would be. That would be insane.
That would be like a career. Basically, then again, there are not that many videos with a billion views and pretty much all of them are music videos. So there’s definitely no tech videos with a billion views, there’s probably no tech videos with a hundred million views. To be honest, i think, probably, since ben gate nothing’s gotten anywhere near 100 million views on a tech video.
So i guess, as someone in my position, i’d probably be more interested in what kind of tech video could possibly get anywhere near a billion views and i’d love to see that. But that’s of course, a stretch. It’S 2018. Why is apple still sticking with four gigabytes of ram? You know this is one of those things that we seem to forget about every year.
Uh specs don’t mean that much relative to the way the phone works like pretty much. Every new flagship coming out has somewhat near identical, specs, very close. If it’s a new iphone, it has the a12 bionic.
It has some ram. It’S got a screen, it’s got a camera. It’S got all these things.
If it’s a new android phone, it’s gon na have snapdragon 845. It’S gon na have four six or eight gigs of ram. It’S gon na have a screen. It’S gon na have a battery camera, etc, but every year we kind of get sucked up into comparing the specs of iphones with the specs of android phones.
This is a really easy mistake to make, because it’s just a number to a number. I see four gigs of ram on one phone and eight gigs of ram on another phone. Why does apple still have four well with their vertical integration and their optimization and the fact that they control everything in there with their walled garden apple happens to not need eight gigs of ram? We saw this with cpu cores before there was all these four cores. Six core eight core cpus and then there would be new iphone. I would have a four core, cpu and you’d wonder why is apple lagging behind? But when you actually use the phone just because it has four cores and four gigs of ram, it’s not slow! That even reminds me of this iphone 10r, everyone’s talking about the iphone 10r and the numbers on paper and the the fact that the specs are kind of weak, and it has this sub 1080p display, and it only has three gigs of ram, and all these things Are true, but the fact is the typical iphone buyer. First of all, probably couldn’t tell you the resolution of their iphone and also probably doesn’t care, but i just keep seeing this every time a new iphone comes out.
We latch onto the numbers and it’s easy clickbait to just talk about how the numbers don’t seem to add up, but until you actually use the phone which nobody has even i i’ve gotten an hour or two with it. I made a whole video about it, but we haven’t really used the phone yet so until we use the phone, we should probably reserve judgment about just the numbers and see if it actually seems to work well. So, in the case of the 720p ish display on the iphone 10r, it’s really really easy to just say: hey it’s 2018 720p bad. Maybe it is, but let’s get it in hand.
Let’S actually see how it looks. I can tell you from the couple minutes i spent with it. It looked pretty good to me, but again, we’ll have to literally see first it was the ipod, then the iphone, then the ipad, then, let’s say the apple watch. What’S next, i’m gon na go with air power 100.
It’S definitely air power, i’m loving the new autofocus series. Thank you. I’M glad you enjoyed those videos and the videos were great now what comes next, which car is next? That is a great question. So we started those auto focus videos with the tesla model 3. Then we went straight to lamborghini aventador and then we went to acura nsx. The common theme with these is that they’re all tech centered in some way, but as far as what car is next, we there’s no plan honestly there’s no slate of cars lined up, there’s things that we want to review and that i want to get my hands On and talk about, um, but it’s just kind of playing it by ear. Maybe porsche will come out with that missionee pretty soon and we’ll be able to get our hands on it. Maybe jaguar will come through with that eye pace, maybe something else.
Electric or tech heavy will just show up out of the blue like a faraday future, or something like that. I don’t really know, but that’s kind of the way the autofocus series works is when it happens, we’ll kind of pounce on it. Maybe you have a suggestion. Maybe there’s a car that’s out right now that you want to see on autofocus.
Maybe you want to leave that in the comment below. Let me know: oh whatever happened to that bixby speaker. Are you planning to make a full review? Yes, in fact, for those of you who missed it, i did on april fool’s day as sort of a parody, because we had all these smart speakers coming out.
We have the alexa, the google home the homepod. What if bixby, had a smart speaker – and i made this entire joke of a video, destroying the concept of a bixby speaker and how lame and horrible that would be hey bixby? What do you think of siri and then what do you know at samsung unpacked? A couple months later boom bixby speaker, it’s not called the bixby speaker, but it’s a smart speaker that only has bixby this. I cannot wait to use, but it doesn’t come out for a couple more months.
So you know: whenever that happens, i’ll get my hands on it. Somehow i’ll buy it i’ll find one samsung probably doesn’t want me to have one but i’ll get one, and i will review it count on it, so dunkin donuts recently rebranded to dunkin. I did see that what smartphone company do you think, needs a rebrand.
I actually thought about this. Like i studied business and marketing in college. Like i didn’t think, i would be that into brands and brand image and what that does to people.
I was one of those people who thought like ads, don’t affect me, but brands really do affect you a lot and so changing a brand image or rebranding or even adding a brand can have a massive effect on the way people perceive something like car companies. Do it all the time like in the us there’s a pretty mid-tier, pretty budget-friendly car company called hyundai. You never buy a hyundai for the luxury, it’s because it’s a good price and it’s practical. But then the same company wanted to get into making luxury cars, and you know if you put a hyundai logo on it. They just won’t see it the same way as a mercedes or a cadillac. They got the name behind it, so they started an entirely new brand called genesis. They don’t have the hyundai logo or name anywhere on any genesis car, but they make these nice classy luxury cars now and they have a totally different new brand name. They will never associate the two together, but that’s how you do it so as far as smartphone companies, i could take advantage of this.
The one that came to mind was huawei, and maybe even some others, because you know huawei in the us, especially with the authorities and the headlines and the things that people talk about with huawei. It’S not going to go well. If you try to sell a huawei phone in the us at this point, there’s just a name – that’s just not quite lining up with the apples and the samsungs of the world. So maybe just maybe you got to start a new sort of new sort of brand name to sort of start over and get a fresh start in the u.s.
We just saw the pocophone too. That’S a xiaomi phone. It’S not called the xiaomi pocophone f1 as much as it’s just called the pocophone f1. That’S for a reason! If you could revive and refresh any piece of tech, what would it be and why you could revive and refresh any piece of tech? What would it be small phones, small phones, bring back the small phones, the smallest flagship phone you can buy right now is like bigger than all of the biggest flagship phones. You could buy eight years ago bring back the small flagships, tell the story of your hand and the stitches okay. So this is probably new to some people like i did that iphone unboxing video and i guess i haven’t shown my hands on camera in a while people are like what what happened to your hand, that looks like it hurt.
What’S with the stitches so a couple years ago in college, i broke my hand playing ultimate. I got a plate and screws in there they’re still in there got the stitches. Eight stitches got them all out. That’S good! Then.
This other scar on my knuckle is also from ultimate from just like running and jumping and when i jumped up my hand, hit someone’s tooth and then that was pretty deep. But that was no stitches. And then this other one over here that i had my band-aid on for that supercar video – that was just a self-inflicted knife, wound way less cool of a story also eight stitches, and now that’s done too. Can you reveal the k in mkbhd what it stands for at 7 million subscribers how about 10.? How about 10.? If we add a digit i’ll, tell you how about that all right i’ll end it there thanks for watching catch you guys in the next one peace. You .