Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Best Smartphone For YouTube”.
This episode has been sponsored by lastpass, so here’s one that uh, i didn’t expect you know bouncing around the web. Looking around looking for stories trying to figure out uh what what am i doing today, i’m gon na help you out, you watch a lot of youtube. You watch on box therapy, you watch it on your smartphone, but is your smartphone the best way to watch youtube or is your smartphone, the best smartphone to watch youtube? What are you talking about lou? It’S working really. Well, i hear you, i see you, what more do you want from me here? Well, here’s the thing: not all smartphones are created equal when it comes to interacting with the youtube app.
I didn’t know this at least not to the degree that youtube is now sharing. They recently published a list of devices that they’re calling signature devices, in other words, youtube themselves, went out of their way to hand select certain devices that are the best at taking advantage of all youtube’s features, including, but not limited to hdr video immersive 360 video fast Video load times and less bandwidth usage, so better video higher bit rates higher frame rates where available higher resolution. Where available but then also with less of a hit to your data usage, you can utilize less of it while still getting the same quality through using youtube’s.
More advanced video, codecs vp9 profile 2 decoding. This will give you the same resolution with 30 percent. Less data usage – okay, not all phones, can do this now. Part of me feels like when youtube put this list out.
They were also looking at other attributes of devices. The device they have at the very top of their page is this brand new device on the far right. That’S the reason i have it out the new note: 9. nice amoled display 1440p lots of resolution, big battery snapdragon 845, according to youtube themselves. The best phone to watch youtube on is the new galaxy note 9, but there are other signature devices and i’ve got a couple of them on the table here. This is a oneplus 6.
It’S also considered a signature device by youtube, but in this case a 3 300 milliamp hour battery. Now the thing that these also have in common is android oreo. 8.1. I’Ve also got an s9 plus over here, it’s another signature device for 2019 and then on the far left. Here i have some bad news. The iphone is not on this list, not capable of taking full advantage of all of these features.
It may be able to do some of them without checking every single box. It can’t be selected as a signature device for youtube, so youtube actually physically tested. All of these.
They had to verify that the devices met or exceeded their performance expectations. Now one thing that kind of bugs me about these signature devices is audio. They didn’t really talk about audio performance and i know, of course, there’s a huge variance in in speaker. Quality across smartphones every year, youtube publishes a set of criteria required to achieve the best in-class video experience youtube has to offer they invite all qualified device manufacturers to collaborate directly with their team to pass rigorous testing criteria. Let’S go ahead and see if we can spot a difference here, so i have a video here suggested by youtube on the signature device webpage 4k hdr content at 60fps.
The iphone is capable of playing it back in hdr at 60 frames, but at 1080p confusingly the oneplus, which is on the list. It also taps out at the same resolution, because it is a 1080p display not having the iphone on the list, but having the oneplus 6 is a little bit strange. Neither can possibly be the champ because they tap out lower resolution than the other two smartphones here.
The s9 plus and the note 9. – these ones, on the other hand, go up to 1440p, which, surprisingly, you have to enable entertainment mode, so 1080p 60 hdr on the iphone. We can switch the s9 plus to 1440p.
Just like the note on the oneplus device will do 1080p 60.. One thing i can say is that all these devices look great, though i would probably agree with youtube themselves. If i had to pick one, i would probably select the note series just looking at it.
Just straight glance, but they are more similar than they are different. Okay, should we do audio now now i know on the youtube device report page. They don’t mention anything about audio, but if i’m gon na say or suggest that one of these smartphones is the best way to watch youtube or media in general, then the sound coming out of it is going to be big for me.
[ Applause ] for my ears. In this particular scenario, i’m going to take the the samsung stuff. I just find that there’s just a little bit more detail there.
I, like the little punch, that’s coming out of the iphone, but there’s certainly more clarity on these two devices. Uh, you could even argue jack – was trying to argue that the s9 plus may have sounded a little better than the note 9. It’S possible. I mean, i know, youtube themselves. They didn’t state anything regarding audio, but it would be hard to imagine they wouldn’t take that into consideration at all.
I’M definitely taking it into consideration. So i think i’m gon na agree with them. The youtube watching champion the media consumption champion smartphone is in the middle here. That’S this guy! This is the note the new note, the note 9.
It also has the advantage of being the newest device. It’S very expensive too, when you stack it up against something like the oneplus 6, so not exactly a fair fight in that sense, you’re spending more dollars here. But if you want the biggest baddest for watching video, you get a 6.4 inch screen. You can play back 1440p content with the low data consumption codec, the latest stuff.
You can go check out their entire device report and all of these signature devices you can see if your device is listed on there or not there, you have it. You want to watch video on a smartphone. You want to watch unbox therapy in all of its glory. 1440P. A couple inches from your eyes. This episode has been sponsored by lastpass lastpass, relieves the trouble associated with remembering passwords. You have so many passwords for all those different websites and services, and so on, so you get lastpass, it’s like autopilot for your passwords.
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