 Yeah, I know my videos late because I didn't get an iPhone 10 until dbrand actually bought one skinned it and Shipped it to me, but unlike some people I'm not going to make a big salty song and dance out of it because frankly If I was Apple I probably wouldn't feel like spending the thousand dollars or even $370 to hear what I'm about to say about their latest and greatest either Especially in front of their store, which is under renovation I wanted to do this in front of the cube today's videos brought to you by Mack Weldon I was going to wear the shirt, but it's so cold Mac Weldon believes in smart design premium fabrics and simple shopping use Opticode tech tips at the link below to get 20% off on your next order Now if the iPhone 8 and the 8 plus are fraternal twins Then the 10 is kind of like the love child from that brief but intense affair that everyone knows mom had but that no one talks about Unless Uncle Gordon's had too much to drink Apple reused almost every major internal component making the 10 with its beefy And the 10 is a great choice for a Now if the iPhone 8 and the 8 plus are fraternal twins then the 10 is kind of like the love child from that brief but intense affair that everyone knows mom had but that no one talks about unless Uncle Gordon's had too much to drink Apple reused almost every major internal component making the 10 with its beefy battery 3 gigs of ram and dual rear camera system something familiar kind of like a plus And a regular sized body and yet something totally different because as I fix it revealed in their fantastic teardown to achieve this spectacular density They actually went back to a technique so old we haven't seen it since the original iPhone a dual PCB internal layout that in another Creative move uses dual lithium ion batteries for maximum density but while in some ways physically the 10 is what I've been asking Apple for for years less concerned with reducing thickness and weight and more with increasing battery life and features like wireless charging While in some ways physically the 10 is what I've been asking Apple for for years less concerned with reducing thickness and weight and more with increasing battery life and features like wireless charging this comes at the cost of it feeling well kind of heavy and thick To be clear I still vastly prefer the form factor of the 10 compared to the 8 plus its size makes it much easier to hold on to even if it's slim bezels mean an accidental drop is more likely to be fatal It's just that the slight increase in unwieldliness compared to the 8 is compounded by the 10's unfamiliar new gesture based controls Before I get to those though let's talk about the screen I am sorely disappointed that my 120 hertz prediction didn't come true but otherwise it's everything that you could hope for from a top of the line phone in 2017 Apple took the best mobile OLED screen technology on the market from Samsung and tuned it to damn near perfection it's the brightest OLED I've ever seen making for the best direct sunlight viewing experience that I've seen yet and the best rendering of HDR content that I've seen yet And the ultra tall or ultra wide depending on how you look at it aspect ratio combined with the stereo bottom firing and earpiece speaker combo makes it great for watching cinema aspect ratio content like movie is what I would say if it weren't for the notch Whoa now for the vast majority of the content that you'll find on YouTube or Netflix it and the rounded bottom corners will end up cut off by pillar boxes but in movies it is a literal black mark on what is otherwise the standard by which mobile displays can be measured And while it's far less obnoxious I did also notice it in day to day use a lot of people might not care about something like this but there's no room at the top anymore for your battery percent or your VPN connectivity status requiring a swipe down from the top right to bring up the control center So what do we get in return then in tech enthusiast terms we get a marvelously densely packed not to mention incredibly sophisticated array of sensors emitters and cameras that had me hardcore nerding out but everyone else just calls it face ID Without getting into the theoretically reduced security I mean no one that I know was able to unlock my phone. Here's what it does really well downloading apps buying stuff or logging into websites is in a word amazing. It works nearly flawlessly across all manner of challenging conditions from cold days where you don't feel like taking off your gloves to touch to bright sunlight to pitch blackness and even with a kid in my arms or a toothbrush hanging out of my mouth and the feature that hides the details of your notifications until it recognizes you is a biometric authentication game changer. Okay cool. Now here's what's less awesome because the 10 only auto wakes when it's right side up and has no obvious landmarks when the screen is off like an always on clock for example and because it requires a swipe after it identifies you. I often found that it took me longer to unlock the 10 when I wanted to use my phone face ID to be clear is much better than Samsung's iris scanner across the board but it still requires a special dance move to do something on your phone while it's sitting on the desk or table next to you and back to that notification hiding thing. I really wish that it was a little bit faster like I've been using my old iPhone 6 as an MP3 player lately and then I forgot how much worse first gen touch ID was and how much better fast biometrics are compared to just having them at all. Alright fine then Apple a notch in the display for unlocking with wet hands. Okay, I can wait a little longer for you to put all this stuff behind the panel. And besides, the notch actually bothered me far less than the interface and navigation changes that were necessitated by the 10s lack of a home button. All the new gestures are easy to remember and felt natural within minutes to the point where I actually found myself swiping up on other devices, but multiple aspects of the new control scheme are marginally slower, reinforcing my belief that Apple is either run by or caters to people who just don't have a lot to do. These people I assume have all the time in the world to type names into their address book like a cave person instead of using T9 dialing interact with their touchscreen, however little it might be to quick launch their camera instead of double tapping a hardware button. They have time to pause mid gesture to wait for multitasking to show up instead of pressing one button, though the slide to the right is quite a bit better. They have time to hold, then swipe or reach to the top of the screen to force close a frozen app. And finally, and yes I'm repeating this one, they don't mind swiping their screen every time they unlock their phone. Now, I'm not saying that Apple did nothing right here. Control center from the top right is much more reliable now that it no longer gets confused by the on screen keyboard. And on that subject, the dictation button under the on screen keyboard is super convenient, which, wait a second, under the keyboard? Leave it to Apple to figure out the most obvious stuff that everyone else missed. I've been complaining for years that on devices with small chin bars, it's harder to touch type, and they just went and put a space in there. Brilliant. Anyway, in fairness to Apple, the navigation isn't terrible. It's just also not as advertised. It's not like a quantum leap forward in the way that I interact my phone, and if anything, it makes me miss the Android back button even more than I normally do on iOS. Not less. Now I'm not going to spend a ton of time on the camera or Animojis, other than to say that if you liked the excellent 8 plus camera, and if you're a portrait mode, focus fiend, you'll like the 10's camera. And that until Apple allows Animojis to be recorded and sent as video clips in third party chat apps easily, I will be even less inclined to create awkward moments in public than I already am. So that brings me then to my conclusion. The original iPhone was first gen execution of a brilliant idea, and the device that was created to celebrate its 10 year anniversary is brilliant execution of what feels like a first gen idea. It really seems to me like Apple was trying really hard to make an innovative device, then make you like whatever they ended up with, rather than looking forward to what people wanted to do in their lives and building a solution around that. An approach that probably would have involved some more investment in Siri. 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