My bigger issue with him is he doesn’t actually review phones. He just holds them and does dramatic shots, which in and of itself is fine, Mr Mobile does the same thing, but that’s all he does.
All his videos are like watching the portfolio of a student videographer. Excellent camera work, with no actual real content.
I remember a few years ago I watched him talk about how he would carry two phones for daily driving; An iPhone for taking photos and an Android for everything else, which just made my eyes roll. I get why for his career plus he has access to phones anyway, but I also feel like his expectations of a smartphone is far removed from an average consumer. Not that people don’t care about cameras - they do, but having the best camera is enough to be contender for flagship of the year for him. Is it really more important than the OS or the price?
I think you’d be surprised at how many people really obsess over having the best camera in their phone. Apple wouldn’t be spending the majority of their damn conferences talking about it now for nothing.
I can also confirm this as I have family that is majority from Cali. All they do is take thousands of fucking photos on their iPhones and if my Mom upgrades, it’s usually because it “gets slow” or she wants the better camera.
As a nerd it’s a shame, because if I could have a smartphone with no front facing camera and a shitty rear one, I would. But I’m in a minority.
Part of the issue, I think, is that we’re at a point in smartphones where improvements from the previous model are only really small incremental tweaks. A few Hz more refresh rate, a few more pixels on one of the cameras, a slightly different curve on the bezel… there isn’t a lot of dramatic innovation to report on most of the time.
But everyone has different wants and needs. For him all he cares about is that it doesn’t stutter and the camera is good. There’s lots of technical reviewers who care more about the camera and some that don’t care about the camera at all. Think of reviewers like Lemmy. There’s an instance for everyone.
In fairness I have two phones. An iPhone and an Android.
But I need an iPhone, well I need it’s depth sensor, the rest of it I don’t care about and I don’t actually have a sim in it.
The Android I use for daily driving.
So I get his point but at the same time I bought my iPhone second hand with a cracked screen because I only needed the depth sensor.
He does review them at least from what I’ve seen recently…but yeah, he has been a lot more hands off over the last two years or so. I’m not sure what’s happened. He used to be the king of tech back in 2017-2018. I started watching him in 2014, as a teen. For a long time people loved him and he was great, but more and more people now seem to dislike him. To an extent I get it. Something has changed in his content over the last two to three years I think.
Because he’s basically a glorified advert. He screws up basic product specs in the majority of his reviews. He’s in the pocket of major tech companies and Tesla. I watched him drool over Elon for years, while his Tesla spent more time on a tow truck than it did the road.
He’s a corporate shill, who’s gone full form over function.
I’m saying he doesn’t review the phone, at all.
Showing a macro lens image of the phone with some water droplets on it does not constitute a review.
But he does, he goes through the specs, he talks about how he’s found the performance to be, including camera and speakers. Is that not a review?
Yes, he’s kind of settled into a track in a way. I do think MrMobile does a slightly better job but for in depth reviews Juan Bagnell is very good.
I’m glad he prefers Android but come Apple season he’s going to be gushing all over the new iPhone’s. I don’t hear much criticism of iPhone’s from him, even though they are way behind Android. Even budget Android phones are better than iPhone.
That’s a straight garbage take. You have an incredibly biased view of what better is. Better for you maybe, not better for everyone. Budget Android phones don’t get updated, and you can buy last years iPhone and outperform new android phones.
I mean it depends on what you call budget
for the price of the cheapest iPhone se, you can get nothing phone or pixel, Samsung a something with 4,5 years of updates
but if you really go budget, you still get 2-3 years of updates, for the price of a second gen iPhone se(2020) which would also get 2-3 years of updates
That’s a garbage take too, buy a Samsung budget A series, they get updated, and they cost half of last year’s iPhones too.
