Phones

Speed Test: Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus vs S8 vs S8 Plus vs Note8 (Video)

One more Galaxy S9 Plus experiment. This time I’m wanted to see how the Galaxy S9 Plus would hold up in a speed test versus its brethren. Namely, the Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8 Plus, and the Galaxy Note8. For this speed test, I chose a few popular apps and games to represent real-world use and checked to see how long it took each device to load each program. Here’s what happened. What do you guys […]

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Battery Test: Galaxy S9 Plus vs iPhone X vs Pixel 2 XL vs Mate 10 Pro vs OnePlus 5T vs S8 Plus

Another day, another experiment. Today, I wanted to check how well the new Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus’s battery holds up against the other top flagships out at the moment. So to test this, I filmed a time-lapse of the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus playing the same Nyan cat video on YouTube and on the same wifi network as all the other device I had in my previous flagship battery test video, cropped it into the

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Intelligent Scan (Galaxy S9) vs Face ID (iPhone X) (Video)

Now that the iPhone X started to make face unlock a bit more mainstream other manufacturers are all getting on board with, not adding facial unlocking, which most have had for some time, but with marketing the feature upfront now and coming up with better ways of implementing it. Samsung recently launched their Galaxy S9 and S9+ and with it “Intelligent Scan” which isn’t so much a new tech as it is a combination of

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Camera Comparison: S9 Plus vs Pixel 2XL vs iPhone X vs S8 Plus (Video)

Time for yet another Galaxy S9 experiment of sorts. In this video, let’s see how the Galaxy S9 Plus’ camera stacks up against the reigning champs of the iPhone X, Pixel 2 XL, and Note8. For this, I wandered all over NYC and managed to get the same shots on all four devices so we could line them all up and see how well they each did. Without further ado, here’s the camera comparison. Here

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Speed Test: Galaxy S9 Plus vs iPhone X vs Pixel 2 XL vs Mate 10 Pro vs OnePlus 5T vs Note8

Ok, let’s do an experiment with the new Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus. I wanted to see how it (and the Snapdragon 845 in it) compared to the other flagships currently out. Namely the iPhone X, Pixel 2 XL, Mate 10 Pro, OnePlus 5T, and the Note8. So to test it, I opened the same apps on all the devices running the same accounts on the same gigabit speed WiFi network and lined up the footage

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The Best Features Coming in 2018 Flagship Phones (Video)

The first batch of 2018 flagships are arriving and already there is a definite pattern. A lot of the new devices that are being released are all utilizing the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, which I spoke about when it was announced back in Dec and was honestly really excited about. And even though it’s only been a short bit since the chipset was announced, all the usual players are already releasing flagships with it and the

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Best Camera Phone of 2017 (Video)

Continuing with my comparisons of the best phones of 2017, today let’s see which phone has the best camera. We have the iPhone X, the Samsung Galaxy Note8, the Pixel 2 XL, and the Huawei Mate 10 Pro. I went out and took the same photo in various conditions with each one and here’s what the photos looked like side by side. Here are the photos for closer inspection than in the video and feel

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Best Portrait Mode Camera of 2017 (Video)

It’s been a hell of a year for phones in 2017 and so I’m doing a series of scientific-ish experiments to try and figure out which were the best phones of 2017. I’ve already done the fastest phone and the one with the best battery life, but today we’re going to see which one does the best portrait mode photos. Now, portrait mode is the idea of taking a photo on your phone and through

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8 Cheapest Qi Chargers You Can Buy (Video)

So a while back I did a video on some of the best Qi chargers and while they were awesome chargers they weren’t terribly inexpensive. So afterward it got me wondering something–how cheap could you get a Qi charger for. I went searching the web and ended up finding some on Amazon that I bought and tested that worked great and were inexpensive as well as found a few in a place that I probably

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The Best Battery Life Phone of 2017 (Surprising Results) (Video)

OK, part two of my series on putting the top 2017 phones to the test (if you haven’t seen the first one, check it out at the link below when you’re done here). Basically, though, I’m taking the best phones of 2017 and putting them side by side in some scientific, not really that scientific, tests. Today’s test is battery life. So for this test, I picked the phones that in my own personal use

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6 Best Keyboards for Android (Video)

Keyboards. Something we use, literally, every single day. From our computers, at work or at home, to our phones and tablets, everywhere in between, they’re the go-to mode of input for text. Period. But, considering how vital they are for our communication in today’s day and age, they haven’t really changed much over the last 40 years or so. And frankly, they haven’t really needed to for our computers and laptops, at least –rows for keys

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