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Our iPhone 16 Pro unboxing, hands-on and first impressions LIVE! (CultCast #665)
Mar 11, 2025
This week: CultCast is LIVE unboxing our iPhone 16 Pros, talking first impressions, and reviews of the new AirPods 4 with noise cancelation - how well does it actually work? Chapters: 0:00 Preshow 3:32 Intro 7:39 Squarespace 8:59 CultCloth 11:00 iPhone 16 Pro Unboxing 27:12 OtterBox Case Unboxing 42:24 iPhone 16 Pro First Impressions 50:12 AirPods 4 Reviews 55:50 Apple Watch Ultra 2 Reviews 1:04:50 Apple Watch SE 3 1:08:01 OLED MacBook Pro
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without fail leis without fail something about
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that something about that button being pressed that really just agitates
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just all right I think we are bam
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live oh God got an echo going here let me go ahead and turn that off all right everyone I know you're
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looking around you're confused you're wondering why we're here you're you're not even sure what day it is you're in a
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panic yes we're doing this on a Friday we decided to wait until well we
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decided to wait until you guys got your phones I got bit didly squat as I knew I would I this guy whenever the UPS guy
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comes to my house first of all he's always in a bad mood he always gives me the stink eye like I did something you
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know like I did something to this guy besides just being nice to him and he always he always comes late you
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know what I'm saying he shows up at 5 6 7 800 p.m. he's probably got iPhones to
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deliver all over the neighborhood he's probably pissed about that so I got nothing but we can at least go ahead and unbox yours shout out to Glenn we got
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caveman here we got LS Wallace in the chat who says that he's having technical problems hey we're having technical
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problems too what a coincidence we got mersan we got Betty here we got Carlos I think we have a quorum it's good enough
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to get this thing rolling we have a whole lot of stuff to talk about and you're going to be shocked to hear hear this not a lot of time to do
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it I don't know how long we have but I uh my kids are inside unsupervised at
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the moment so we'll see how long that lasts um I'm gonna go
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ahead get Mrs dced up here and
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uh we will get this thing what what's the problem leis you know the thing oh
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you want the Tweet action yeah the thing how did I know what you were talking talking about I already knew where you
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were going with it we're sympatico there it is Louis the Tweet action has been
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tweeted the action has been actualized actualized how did you like that leis
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it's great okay look at Lewis on a Friday look how calm and relaxed he
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is it's the last day of the week all right Carlos says he's got the
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iPhone 10r here can't afford the Apple stuff anymore yeah well you're not the only one all right let's
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go ahead and uh get Mrs d c up here Mrs
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d m d oh my dear I'm so happy for iPhone 16 really Mrs D oh yes we have a
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tradition around here I like to do it once with L KY for each of the iPhone versions wow gross lo I mean 16 times oh
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and one more for good measure yuck didn't even count the
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SE don't give her any ideas leou don't give her any ideas all right Mrs D no one wants to hear about that and the
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escapades that you have going with elcy I'm glad to hear that he's alive that makes me happy because I thought he was a goner many weeks ago but apparently
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he's still Among Us let's go ahead and get this thing rolling because we got a lot of stuff to do I got the music
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queued up and let's just pray to God that we have no more Tech problems because we've been dealing with those for 30 minutes
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we'll see how we'll see how things go uh we'll get it rolling in three
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two hello and welcome to the coy best 30 plus been Apple conversation you're
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going here all week long I'm your host Aon live joining me today it's a big day
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today the iPhone 16 Max will be replacing his Apple Newton message pack 2100 and his as his main mobile form of
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communication it's a huge upgrade but he's going to miss the stylus rer for culac Griffin Jones Is Here
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thought I'd switched it up also with us he was so excited to unbox his iPhone 16 that he took a break from the dealer
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ryer flogging it's one of his favorite activities just to get it set up
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managing Ed Ed C mat as well as is here more fake news haven't even cracked the
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seal yet oh man haven't cracked the seal look at that that did you guys both get desert
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titanium just the Box oh just Bo got it got it look at all these people here yes
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we are doing this on a Friday some of you are probably wondering like where the heck we've been we decided to mix it
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up this week keep you on your toes we we decided to talk about the day of the week where there would actually be
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something to talk about yeah we did it yesterday there' be literally nothing to do yeah that that that is true it it did
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make a lot of sense and and for those of you watching it looks like I just escaped from a a dumpster or a or or
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stuck on like in a cage match with a bunch of bums I mean look at me you're at Disney World I was at well I was at
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Disneyland for 4 days and it was just hell on Earth you know I loved it but I
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went with my friend I was telling Lou this I went with my friend who just is is he he's set on getting every minute
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of activity out of the park so we would we would wake up at 6:45 go to the park and then we would
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stay there all day and then close the park midnight come home get like five
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half 6 hours of sleep do it again it was it was a lot of fun but when you hit it
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that hard part of you is like it's like I don't know I'm not even really having
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fun anymore I I I I feel like I'm I'm I'm like on some kind of like death march and we're doing every ride like
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three or four times so I haven't had time to like get my Affairs in order
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since I've been backed but that doesn't matter cuz we got a show to do so here we are doing the cultcast this this week
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we're going to be well you guys are going to be unboxing your iPhone 16 Pros live here on the show mine of course is
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not here cuz it's never here it will probably show up at 8:30 p.m. oh no because my UPS guy will floor it up to
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my house open that sliding door Chuck the box out the out the truck he'll probably hit my window land in the in
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the wet grass and then he'll peel out and he'll be out of here that's how know it's arrived but so I won't be opening mine
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until tonight uh Carlos from the chat Disney vacation are never vacations to actually
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relax dude that is so true there is like this weird ju position like you're on
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vacation but you also feel like this intense pressure to do everything that you possibly can and to not and so you
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end up not relaxing at all you're just like marching through the park the whole time trying to get as much value as you
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can because everything costs so much money and and it's so much effort just to even get there so yeah four days I
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would there for well technically three and a half days I got there on Sunday and we did Sunday Monday Tuesday uh what
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day is today Thursday we did Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday today's Friday all day long today's Friday is it yeah
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today's Friday so yesterday I got back uh but it was a lot of fun I have
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to say I I I do I enjoy going to the park and we did like a bunch of stuff and we should probably save it for like an off topic which which by the way I'll
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I'll front load I have like two off topics I need to release I'm so far behind oh my goodness good building up
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the backlog only works if we actually release release it yeah they're all still going to be relevant um but I do
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need to eventually get those out right okay so before we dive in let me say a couple of quick things first of all
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goodness oh man into it Tom in the chat UPS just dropped his stuff off hopefully he didn't drop kick it and have it just
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hit your your front door at 22 miles an hour like my UPS guy does I don't know
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why my UPS guy doesn't like me so much but he really doesn't every time I see him I get mean mugged and he's like uh a
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Terry Crew looking man real buff he's got a like a real short crew cut crew
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cut it looks like he could be an army drill sergeant like no joke Cavs for Miles absolutely yoked out of mind all
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right let's go ahead and get this thing rolling what are we doing first here Griffin are you going to are you going to unbox your phone now this could go
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this you got to be careful here this could be horrendously boring you got to you got got to unbox it and get it out
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of that box fast and start showing off the color that's what everyone wants to see so let me leave with this what which
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model did you actually get CU I don't actually know that the answer to that question I ordered the iPhone 16 Pro
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desert titanium you got the 256 gabes oh man so you got the desert titanium I'm
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I'm looking forward to seeing this in real time here cuz so I'm going to I I I tried to get a a dual camera setup going
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on but that led to some of our technical problems before we went live so you're just we're just going to Jerry rig it
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here let's go I don't here to this right side of my office okay and we'll just
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unceremoniously pick it up and move it over and I actually
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didn't think about this I hope this cable is long enough to reach it well if not just bring it over to where the the
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camera is and just and just show it off there and just remember we have a
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listening audience here so you're G have to be uh oh oh geez cable's not long enough okay let's see I did the cable
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just completely went comput let's see the viewers the cable didn't uh I'll explain what happened in a moment there
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oh it's back you're back okay we're back what the heck happened to that box did you drag it through the dirt in your
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driveway oh you took the lab I people to see my freaking mailing dress I I I peeled off the the minger okay fair
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enough move the my microphone over here the thing that I can't tell about desert titanium is what actual color it is that
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thing yes is a and depending on the light it looks white it looks like
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tan um it looks like Mom's makeup case it looks
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gold oh he's turning on a little lamp look at that okay nope the the lamp is
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not working okay we're going to do this so uh for those of you listening I'll try to narrate this oh he already he's
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already half open the box he he was prepared he's trying to open the box now he's doing it very slowly
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oh now he's removing the phone from the box yep it has a a color match box of
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course that has the brown wallpaper what's that mirror with all that white powder on top of it what's that for is that supposed to be don't worry about
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that sorry push that out the way now he's he's pulling off the strips
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he's doing a strip teas there you
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go man that that is one SL box okay it's been revealed it's been revealed I feel
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like I made a horrendous Mistake by not getting the desert titanium can you hold
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up to the camera and kind of like move it back and forth like just um like a pan like okay it's a very very very
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light color gold I mean it looks it is very light it looks some pictures suggested it would be like sort of a
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beige but I'm not getting that at all now you do it is a very sort of um goldish side rails there I'm gonna
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zoom in yeah the the side rails are very gold very gold and it's kind of a classy
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gold too you know my wife got one of these I was looking at it in different different things of light you know and
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and the gold looks holy moly look at that Griffin just did like the mega Zoom now we can see it way better by the way
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if you're curious if you're listening and you're like all this this is terrible go to um watch.the cast.com
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watch.the cast.com we we archive all of our episodes there if you want to check it out yes and I'll probably cut down
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the edited version as well for the audio okay yeah thanks dude I like it do the little I need to go see it in person
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though time to do the peel oh boy here comes the peel there we go some people like that you know I did too back in
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2017 there we go so that that is the gold color how do you like the gold color I don't like
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it it is it is way too light it's B it's basically almost white on the back you
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know it it's almost the exact same shade as the color of the walls in my room where it's like slightly off white like
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it's it's basically white they should have called this hardly gold in fact it has a little bit of a it has a little
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bit of a pink to it honestly yes it does it does have like a pink Hue which is the part that I liked the most I was
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like oh it's like slightly pink it's like a it's it really is like a very light rose gold yeah now I do have
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something I would like to reveal to our audience okay oh boy this is where we get booted from YouTube I also got a black one oh my
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goodness good because that's the one that I got and I am not going to have
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mine until my UPS guy comes peeling out up my Street opens the door without
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stopping the UPS vehicle and hooks it at my house like a boomerang and then keeps moving but that's not going to be until
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about 12:00 p.m. tonight when the pre-orders started I I looked
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at all the pictures of the people who had taken pictures of it in the Steve Jobs theater okay and I determined this
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phone is not brown enough it's it's pale it's not brown enough and I got scared
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and I'm glad I got scared because I I ordered he's got a backup as a backup and that is the camera that I'm actually
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using right now I set this up earlier today I wish I could show oh the plot
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I'm Ready the plot fet this is the big room reveal he's he's actually recording
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from the iPhone 16 Pro right now tou sir a little bit of a camera test actually
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this is our first camera test that's hilarious okay but Lewis has the black and I presume he is going to show us
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that what what what what Showmanship we have here today leis can you believe this guy yeah I'm a little surpris
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surprise this is unbelievable yeah okay at at some angles I will say like when the gold when the light reflects off the
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gold just the right way it looks very gold the band and the lenses look gold like
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very gold but the actual back itself looks tan I I I don't know I need to go
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see this thing in person it it does look like it does look like Mom's makeup case yeah it's got a very Kardashian vibe to
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it I think yes it definitely does like I feel like you should be be wearing Lululemon stretch pants when you unbox
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this thing I mean maybe he is popular maybe is we actually don't know we don't know what he's wearing I don't think I've ever seen below his below his waist
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so we don't know oh my God the box I I take took the little uh weird part off
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the box so Betty Reyes from the chat it looks like 1980s brass lamps oh man we
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we need to do okay we definitely need to do an off topic because I so many of you
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know the brass Lambs thing just just just reminded me that I didn't even mention this when we started the show I
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got to go go to Disneyland this last weekend which I mentioned but what I didn't mention is I got access to the
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the most exclusive room in all of Disney for an experience that was a once- in
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a-lifetime experience and it was decorated with like brass lamps and all
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these beautiful relics from like Disney's past and I should definitely do
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an episode on that on the inside of the Box there's a giant cutout to fit that
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giant camera like on the lid on the inside of the lid on the inside of the Box how big the camera bump is yeah so I
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will say I've I've been holding my phone for a little bit now it's actually getting Dusty because it's on my table
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but as someone who holds their phone in their left hand this camera bump gets in
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the way constantly it's kind of like when my dog is sleeping in my bed right
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by my feet and like I can shrink my legs up a little bit I can sleep at an angle but she's right where like you know at
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the corner of the bed where my feet go and that's how I feel holding this phone in my left hand my finger wants to sit
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like right over the liar sensor because this camera thing has just gotten huge it is abnormally gargantula now they did
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they did shift the volume buttons down since I've upgraded and and that's kind of comfortable and I will say that the
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camera button kind of sits you know between my ring finger and pinky finger
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is about where that is I'm surprised you got the pro and not the the max I thought for sure you were going Max oh
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no I I hate the max I I hate it what what did you upgrade from I upgraded
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from the iPhone 12 Pro which right here same size yeah a
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smider this is like the most impossible phone to display on camera you just
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cannot tell what color it is look at that blue it is a little taller it's like a hair taller well not more than a
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hair taller it's like the top edge of the um the display of the iPhone if if
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you so I'm I'm sticking an iPhone 12 Pro and an iPhone 16 Pro face to face and
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you can see that the 16 Pro is just a smidge taller could use the word smidge
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accurate exactly the same WID yeah and the same width the fact that the corners
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are rounder make it easily like five times more comfortable to hold in my hand yeah it's probably like a quarter
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of an inch taller maybe yeah it's almost like the where the where the display stops and the bezel begins cameras
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that's the part that sticks out the cameras are ridiculous look how big those things are makes the whole thing top heavy
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uh yeah you can hardly tell what color that is it looks like you're holding a white phone um uh good shout out to
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Betty Reyes in the chat I'm not gonna I'm not going to say what you just said but yes that's where I was that's where I
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was we we got we were able to go inside and and I I just yeah I was I was blown
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away it was even better than what I could have hoped for to be honest with you okay now he's holding up an iPhone
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3GS just to show you that 2G an original I it's a 2G that's the first one wow
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look at that camera it's a little pinhole camera yeah that's
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hilarious so there we go that is the desert titanium color um but you're not
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keep it I'm glad I got the black because this is almost certainly the one I'm going to return well I wish I could Lis
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did you get the black too yeah we we we all got the black one that's
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hilarious I like the way it looks man I I need you Haven seen I haven't seen it in person I haven't seen it in person I
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hope I like it I I was a huge fan of the desert titanium huge fan it was like the
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most beautiful I think it is probably the most beautiful iPhone color but like many of you I'm just so frakin sick of
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Apple not doing anything with the Pro Models it's like you you want to especially if you upgrade every year
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even if you don't upgrade every year you are like yeah I want to get a new phone but then all the phones look exactly the
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same as the one that you just got it's like dude can we get a little variety some people in the comments are are are
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saying that the new desert titanium color also reminds them of the minivans
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of the past so we went from Mom's minivan mom's blue minivan to Mom's uh
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Honda Odyssey gold minivan which you're right there is a gold minivan that does look just like that there's something
22:20
about minivans that Apple likes to copy the colors of there's like a huge minivan buff in there that is selecting
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their favorite minivan colors from years from their childhood and reproducing them in today's
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iPhones the the back of that thing definitely has that sort of like if you went to the paint store it
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would be called like Compatible Cream or something like that you know it's like innocuous
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offwhite innocuous off white it it's it's very especially
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direct sunlight it's very near White or you know yeah if if you look at it
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straight on it looks white you only see the gold it's it's iridescent it's like color shifting based on what direction
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you you shift it but it's so light that cameras have a hard time reproducing it I want to go into the Apple Store and
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check it out you know what else I want to go in the in the store and check out leis is that that new black Ultra with
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the with the um uh did we just lose Griffin Griffin you there yeah I I my my
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my video has dropped again right we we no longer need your video your your job here is done um with the with the uh the
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new millanes Loop that black one oh man I I honestly do not know if I can resist
23:35
it I do not know if I can resist the new we're getting off topic here Shocker the
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new straps for the new Apple watches I think are the most
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beautiful aesthetically pleasing color balanced Apple watch straps that we've
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ever had they are like the the absolute best most beautiful straps that we've ever received like the straps from
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previous years had like these strange color contradictions that I hated I thought
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they were hideously looking especially like the Trail Loop like the stretchy ones and this year the Alpine Loop the
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trail Loops Apple just absolutely nailed the colors they they look all the colors
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are complimentary of each other none of them like really mismatched the actual body of the of the um of the Apple watch
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itself the um the new millanes Loop um is just absolutely strikingly
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beautiful and classy looking like it it feels like it has a look from another
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era from like the 50s or something I I just there's just something I really love about it hope so I saw some reports
24:43
on uh X where people were saying like yeah it doesn't look as good as I thought I was gonna this this is why I wanted to go in person and see and see
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it in person um I'm product shots look amazing yeah they look so Sinister they
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look like bat Batman's watch and I I I don't know if it's worth buying a new Ultra 2 I have the regular Ultra but I
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am severely tempted to go and and and buy it okay I know you were said you were going
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to unbox some cases Griffin um but uh
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gonna be hard to do that without video so yeah my my video is not working and I'm I'm trying to get it to work maybe I
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could Skype but I don't really keep trying keep trying we'll have the Skype Skype logo for now in the meantime um we
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are we will we will definitely do a debrief of My Disney Experience and my
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very exclusive access that I got at the park like I said I got access to the most exclusive room that you can get
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access to um as a visitor uh in in Disney and I I think it does warrant its own episode and all of like Walt
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Disney's like personal artifacts are in there I mean it's just incredible an incredible experience and I went in
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there with lower expectations I was thinking this is going to be like this could be cool but it might be kind of touristy maybe not as good as it's been
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hyped up to be but then we did it you guys still there yeah okay good it went silent on me for a second I I panicked I
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thought maybe my my mixer died or something or maybe we just lost Griffin again hello hey we did we did and yeah
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we're gonna do it we can't do the we can't do the case unboxing okay well while while you're setting that up I'll just finish my thought here and just say
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we're going back to Griffin oh dude you cannot do that whole stack of cases you got one or two we are
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not I'm just gonna do the the most interesting bunch out of the three yeah so we're going to start with the
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actually let's start with the Otterbox cases OtterBox sent me a bunch of cases they're sort of a variety yeah these are
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just the basic ones this is the cactus leather one oh Cactus leather oh this is
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one made of aloe right or something something like that um now this one has
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as you'll notice if you're watching live a large cutout gigantic yeah that's how they
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that's how they did that that's what a majority of these kind of look like wow dude that's a good looking case I have
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to say actually it's very comfortable um I will say it it definitely it has a very exposed like
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metal Ridge around the so it keeps your fingers out of it yep metal buttons on
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the side that's nice nice uh overall feels feels really nice it has um a fully enclosed bottom you know it
28:18
doesn't have like an exposed bottom for you know we don't want an exposed bottom this isn't a Prince concert am I right
28:24
leis oh my God I actually I prefer phone uh cases with without that I I I like
28:31
the uh I prefer it if they don't have that down there I don't want to say it out
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loud okay yeah but um you'll notice like the the exposed area for the camera
28:41
control it extends like half an inch around it that is shocking how big that is yeah like it really goes to show how
28:49
much like case manufacturers were kind of like screwed over by this yeah I was going to say it's really hard to have a
28:54
capacitive button inside of a case and have it still work I'm really curious to see how handle that from a case
28:59
perspective but generally this this case doesn't feel like it adds too much bulk it is it is generally comfortable called
29:06
the Symmetry one this is the uh symmetry drop plus Cactus leather
29:13
man I got to reach out to some case companies and get some cases try and jam this out
29:21
here fun ASMR if you're on the uh if you're watching the video yeah let's do one more and then let's move on I guess
29:27
we could edit this part out cuz I mean I just feel bad for the listeners like they're listen more interesting one this is a
29:33
lumen case this is the only case line that they have that actually has a
29:40
camera control capacitive pass through switch okay so that is something that they can do thatting they manage to make
29:47
that happen that fast uh we reached out to them and they said we will not answer any questions about our Engineering
29:54
Process so who knows maybe they I I was curious if they're like just following the rumor mill with the rest of us or if
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they got Priority Access this case is actually sold through apple.com so I
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assume Apple might have been in contact with them for it but uh you know then you would assume if that was the case
30:12
then they would have hey pun they would have done that for more of them and not just this one line of cases but yeah you
30:18
have Lumen is the brand this is it's another Otterbox case oh it's
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also Otter Box got it the Lumen series got it okay this is sort of rubbery
30:30
material they sent me a green color I did tell them I was getting desert titanium and it still kind of clashes
30:37
but I another nothing clashes with desert titanium uh unless a gold case dark
30:45
green I don't know if it's a great combination it has it's so it's a colored green around the edges it has a
30:51
clear back so people can see that lovely almost a color on the back
30:56
PE and you can the little um mag safe ring and
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line the itself should be that color that the whole phone should be that color of green yeah it's like sort of
31:08
iridescent it is I like the way that looks um I don't know if anybody else is
31:13
like old enough to think this but like I always think that the mag safe like Circle and ring reminds me of like a five and a quarter inch floppy disc it
31:20
definitely does but yeah it has a capacitive switch on the on the side Griffin I was just
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sor does the capactive switch actually work like is it working when you I mean it must work it's OT our box I mean I'm
31:33
sure they this yeah this phone isn't set up yet so I can't I can't test that yet it's on the transfer your phone number
31:39
screen and I don't want to I'm positive it's G to work I mean I'll probably be writing up a
31:45
review of their you know General line of cases yeah if we have time for one more
31:51
I guess I'll do we do I was just thinking um just edit this whole segment out of the audio version the people
31:56
listening don't like do not need hear this part um and that way we can continue with the people who are hanging
32:02
out for video like cuz I actually find this interesting but like it definitely is not going to be good if you're just sitting here listening to people talk
32:07
about a case that's on do you want to do the Apple clear case or the giant OtterBox Defender Pro
32:15
XT what are you two thinking what's the other option this OtterBox Defender Pro
32:20
XT it's a very big bulky sort of looks tie-dyed yeah it does or the apple and we have the Apple official clear case
32:26
let's do the Apple official that's one I'm curious to see cuz I think that's the one a lot of people are going to be interested in it's got the
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captive thing too right it also does does they actually knew what the Pham was going to look like yeah they did
32:38
yeah I'm sure OtterBox probably did too mhm they had like a schematic or
32:43
something okay like a glove okay I actually just noticed this has an
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exposed bottom yeah there you go the that's what I like the open bottom if you want to if you want to swipe up from
32:54
Bo there joking there somewhere all right yep the uh the capacitor button is a little white so it's easy to
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see definitely a button feel you know what you're going to have to do Griffin is like as you test these try that
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button and let us know how it works because I'm curious if it maintains the same level of functionality yeah yeah I
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will say on the Apple clear case the pass through capacitive Sapphire button is flush with the case on the OtterBox
33:20
one it is still a little recessed okay so that's that's another point to consider okay but of course Apple feels
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nice I always buy one of their clear cases um it's it's kind of rubbery but
33:34
still really firm feels nice if you clear case it it's pretty much the same as that except uh you know bigger camera
33:40
Ridge and that camera control button um actually didn't get the price but I think this might be a little more
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expensive than the uh OtterBox loom in case but they're both good options yeah
33:51
definitely warrants its own video I'm sure people are people are always curious about cases especially because
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you know the cases come out or when the phones come out it takes like a month and a half or two months even for the
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cases to catch up cuz people don't know what the phone's going to look like clearly aot
34:08
box look at that thing yeah that's a Monster yeah sorry I jumped the gun I'm gonna I'm gonna do one
34:13
more I want to try this gigantic thick bulky Otter boox case this has like their maximum drop protection it's like
34:21
you know what what you think of when you think of an Otter Box you know this this big guy I wonder if it even squeezes in
34:27
or if I have to to take it apart oh my
34:33
God does it tell me I don't know how to put this thing on
34:40
I don't want to break it but no I'm not keeping it so yeah if it's in I'm not
34:46
keeping if it's in pieces scrap we'll take it back okay yeah you can just squeeze it in no assembly
34:53
required giant gorilla strength giant space for the well it's not quite as
34:59
giant as the other one is it yeah looks a little smaller but um good God that
35:04
thing is so thick it looks it's weird having such a gigantic thick case and
35:09
then just a giant hole in the side yeah like probably makes it easier to grip actually doesn't it it does it does oh
35:16
it gives you like a couple slots for your finger there yeah so when I hold this giant thick case it has um it's
35:24
like my my R my middle finger and my ring finger just want to like sit right there like it's a little pocket right in
35:29
the opening and if I hold it like upside down or something like that like yeah it's definitely much bulkier that way
35:34
when I don't have that so so yeah Griffin have you got a
35:40
chance to mess around with the uh camera control at all I have yeah I just
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briefly actually I'm GNA move my camera back as I'm telling this but because
35:51
we're probably done unboxing things now I did I tried it out it's a little I was
35:57
concerned that the control was going to be like kind of hard to press but or like actually too easy to press
36:06
mhm but it it does have like a a click to activate so you don't have to worry about like accidentally activating it
36:13
all the time anytime your finger just like brushes over that button yeah I I took a few pictures with
36:19
my wife's phone and uh I don't know it seemed a little a little hard to uh you
36:26
know like just the I've heard that same commentary over and over again it's like
36:32
I I think I'll probably get used to it but I mean right off the bat I was like wow this is not quite as uh as as easy
36:38
to use as I suspected it would be at first I I knew because I had like read the RS and watched the keynote and
36:44
everything I knew that there was a way to like you know half click it to adjust the functions like the Zoom and the
36:50
other features and like I just took eight pictures in a row because I couldn't figure out how and then
36:56
positive you know like like a Jedi and you have to like just like barely apply a little bit of pressure and then
37:03
activate it because it is force it's it's weird because it's both a button and it's Force sensitive but it's also a
37:10
real button I don't think Apple's like ever done the hybrid button like that before so you click it like a real
37:16
button when you want to take a picture but then you just you know apply a little bit of pressure to it to switch
37:22
those features and there's definitely a learning curve there and and they're going to they there's like some software
37:29
upgrade that's coming later that's going to add a different bit of functionality I I can't remember exactly what that was
37:34
but it doesn't it's going to add the feature where you can half press and hold to lock the focus like a you know
37:43
oh that's what isn't there yet that's that's not in there yet so you click it all the way to take a picture you click
37:49
and hold to take a video you have click to bring up the menu and then you have
37:55
double click to switch different features it's it's it's
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okay excited to check it out hey an observation here you're using the iPhone
38:07
16 Pro for your camera now right that we're that that we're seeing you through
38:12
what was the phone that you were using before remind me the iPhone 12 the iPhone 12 Pro yeah which I can now show you on the stream because it's no longer
38:19
the phone that I use dude I Lou hu huge difference in in um picture quality
38:26
wouldn't you say looks way better now than it used to I don't know man my eyes are so bad I can't tell oh yeah like the
38:33
color looks better the image looks better the field of view is slightly wider so I had this perfectly framed
38:39
with this Mount so that it would it would just be you know perfectly framed but now you can see a little bit of my ceiling because yeah and your camera's
38:46
also like it's not quite are you trying to be in the center of your camera or like slightly off to like the right or
38:52
something like you're kind of like in the in a weird spot it doesn't matter I'm always like slightly off center a little bit okay yeah you're an off
38:57
center guy we say that a lot yeah yeah but the picture quality looks
39:03
it's it's definitely a huge Improvement in in like the picture quality it looks good yeah well the lighting isn't isn't
39:09
compfortable because we're shooting later in the day but well that's also true but I mean it definitely looks a
39:15
lot different although I guess it's like what like evening for you there so maybe that's it yeah we'll see how it is on on
39:22
a number or on another uh Thursday um I'm curious to see how I like that ative
39:27
button for the camera I don't know I'm I'm I'm I'm wondering if it's a gimmick cuz a lot of people have have commented
39:34
that doesn't work it doesn't work very well it's kind of it's kind of confusing to use it's not as responsive as they would like some people have mentioned
39:39
that it's in a weird spot on the phones it's kind of hard to reach a lot of people have have said like it's like
39:45
well it's fine but I just don't really have a need for a button like this I don't really use my phone in this way it
39:50
doesn't need to work like it's a normal camera so I just don't know I'm gonna be I will say yeah I'm not I'm Noto sold on
39:57
it I don't think Apple needs to keep adding buttons to the phone I I'm
40:03
surprised that they I mean surprised that they did at all like you'll remember on the iPad they removed the ring mute switch and they didn't replace
40:09
it with anything years ago you know I expected them to go in the direction of less buttons instead of more yeah I
40:18
think a lot of people have oh sorry go ahead it is it it is well thought out
40:23
though you know in classic apple fashion but I guess I don't and if you hold your phone in your left hand like as I said
40:28
it's right under your middle finger ring finger or maybe pinky depending on how
40:34
you grip it like the location seems ideal I think this is the location where Leander would prefer an action button to
40:40
be yeah well we'll see once I actually get my
40:47
phone I'll know because once I hear the Roar of an engine and then I see some guy drop kick a box out a moving door
40:53
while he's still driving a UPS truck I'll know that my phone has arrived it has all those funs into it and you
40:59
can switch between them but it's like why would you it's a little fiddly and it's like well I'd rather just like tap
41:05
through the menus on the screen I don't know about that I think that having to mess around with the screen is a drag
41:12
when you're outside trying to shoot something and uh if you can if it actually is as responsive as it could be
41:19
you know it's the thing is it's like it's so flushed with the thing it almost feels recessed you know and I wonder if
41:26
some of these cases make it like slightly easier to use not the one I'm I'm worried that the ones that have just
41:32
a big cutout are going to be like impossible to use it but I don't know
41:38
all right look we got to move on we're gonna have to cut the I think we need to cut the uh the uh iOS 18 revamp photos
41:45
app um story here no got to cut it sorry I'm making an exe executive decision we still have to talk about airpods we
41:51
still have to talk about Apple Watch 2 Apple watch Ultra 2 um and then we have have a couple
41:58
other stories and I need to be wrapping it up here probably next 20 that's way more exciting than yet
42:03
another you know twoyear out come on you think that people hating the iOS 18
42:09
photos app which we've already talked about like got some great tips five other to fix well I I think that those
42:15
tips will be better in an article and and not being spoken about live on a podcast so let's go ahead and cut that
42:21
story um anything else to add to the iPhone 16 Pro have you ever got your out
42:27
of the box Louis like are we supposed to wait for you to do this now oh no it's right here oh look at him he's already
42:33
ready to go it's weird it in the room it looks extremely black on the I guess in
42:39
the video it looks kind of grayish black I kind of like it I haven't I realized I can you hold it up to the screen and
42:45
kind of like oh yeah I I don't know if it's too black for me it's it's very
42:51
black yeah I'm looking at mine right now and it's not reflecting my display which I think is why ls's looks a lot lighter
42:56
but it is I mean it it's like it's black you know yeah I know yeah it's it's
43:03
blacker than like the old space gray ones that I used to always get and I I I like it I mean I think it looks good I
43:09
haven't seen it out in the daylight so I just took it out of the box but uh okay but I don't know man I think it looks
43:15
pretty cool do you think it matches the space black of the of the black MacBook Pro Betty Rez is asking from the chat I
43:22
was wondering that same thing actually is it the same shade because I thought the space black MacBook Pro was too
43:27
black like I I wouldn't actually want to buy one I thought the space yeah yeah it's it's like this weird dark gray
43:34
color and which is just not to my taste like I liked the other space gray which which is the one that I currently have
43:41
um and then I I just like gray and the natural titanium I just thought was so beautiful but I was like I don't want another natural titanium I just had that
43:48
I know you know I think it actually looks a little blacker than the space black MacBook Pro I don't experienced
43:54
one in an Apple store but it looks about black as that D and the the camera the
43:59
camera array looks super black yeah it does it's like Inky black which I love I think this would look great with the uh
44:06
Apple watch 10 jet black or whatever it is if only I had the money to get one of
44:11
those yeah dude that new Apple Ultra apple apple Ultra watch the Apple watch
44:17
10 is really beautiful like all the videos I've seen of it I'm like H I know
44:24
I don't want to switch Yeah because I I still think it's a little bit too jewelry like for me but so so L you just
44:31
got out of the box you have no use of it at all so I guess there's not really much to say about it besides you you
44:37
like the color so far yeah I mean what else you GNA say uh I just took it out of the box so uh I I really like the
44:43
size love it you know from the going from the pro Max oh my God finally a phone that feels comfortable in my hand
44:49
again you know a year of you know hand stretches and whatever I I think that
44:55
you know like I said I I must around with the wife's uh camera control button a little bit I'm I'm hopeful that that's
45:02
useful and I think it I think it might be uh I'm a little you know it's a
45:08
little weird at first but we'll see I think I might use it more just as a shortcut to open the camera more than
45:14
actually use it for taking pictures or controlling the camera because and and for visual intelligence when that comes
45:20
out but the thing about like pressing a physical button to take a picture is
45:25
that it shakes your phone a little bit that's why I think it's weird that it's actually a physically clicking button
45:30
and not a hap button that was rumored because when you actually click it down it you know vibrates the object that's
45:38
trying to take the picture and that used to be a problem but then again these new phones have a much better sensorship
45:44
stabilization so maybe it can just you know intelligently cancel that out but
45:49
their software controls for their photos or or for all the photo and video features are so dang good like there're
45:57
so good already that I kind of wonder if the hardware button will be able to
46:06
outperform what they already have we're I also say um from my
46:12
perspective I'm going from a 12 Pro to like you know what is allegedly supposed to be the same siiz phone this phone
46:18
definitely feels bigger it slightly bigger display um I actually don't
46:24
remember the exact size of my iPhone 12 PR's display because I think I I know that like year over-year 15 to 16 it
46:31
went from 6.1 to 6.3 but I don't know if my older phone even had a 6.1 inch
46:37
display it it it is like objectively the same dimensions but it it it feels bigger and you know comparing it to my
46:45
iPhone 7 plus which I hated for being so like this is almost as big and this is
46:51
supposed to be the mediumsized phone phones are too big they just keep
46:56
getting bigger it's what the people demand I know it feels much better than the pro I I I I I actually do think the
47:04
pro is like the perfect size um I mean the pr Max oh okay oh yeah that's
47:10
definitely bger not that much it's not that much small yeah how how much of a difference it makes the width is not
47:16
that much smaller either but it just feels unbelievably comfortable oh but if
47:22
you're coming from an iPhone 12 or 13 or 14 like the more rounded edges really do make it more comfortable it's like just
47:29
just smoothing out that corner and it's it's much more com comfortable but I just wish it was smaller as well because
47:35
then it would be even more comfortable dude now I'm kind of like did I choose the wrong color I I don't
47:42
want a black phone we'll see how it goes I guess when it shows up I'm only going to have it for a year I guess I'll wrap
47:47
up with this a lot of people I've heard a lot of people say they're not going to upgrade this year I do think this is one of the smallest most incremental
47:54
upgrades we've gotten for a pro phone in a long time it's like you don't really it doesn't really feel like we're
47:59
getting very much it's like oh they're prepared for Apple intelligence which isn't shipping for 6 months so it's like
48:05
oh so basically you just got a different slightly different shade of black and you got a camera button that you may or
48:10
may not like so and there's a bunch of internal features that you may use like
48:15
a faster video exporting which I'm going to guess a lot of people just aren't going to use better microphones better
48:21
microphones again incremental and so a lot of people have decided to stick with their current or their iPhone 15 Pros or
48:28
Pro Maxes for that reason if mine wasn't damaged I might actually do the same
48:34
thing um of course I get to talk about here on the show so for for that reason I want to have it but it does feel like
48:40
a very small upgrade for the pro stuff this year it's like the regular Apple watch and the regular iPhones got the
48:47
biggest upgrades this year and next year it will probably be the exact opposite I have one last note one thing that I
48:54
checked before we went live I complained last week that on my iPhone 12 Pro if you're recording 4K 60 video which is
49:01
what I always do uh the camera system didn't have the bandwidth to allow you
49:07
to switch between lenses I tested that on my iPhone 16 Pro and it does let you
49:13
switch not just between two but all three lenses you can go back out to the ultra
49:18
wide and you can zoom in all the way to the 5x lens optically and I even tested that it was Optical because I put my
49:24
finger in front of the telephoto lens and it it blocked out so it is it is actually capable of switching between
49:29
all lenses freely yeah I didn't even realize that was a problem why would some cameras not be able to support I
49:34
guess the faster uh frames per second that's kind of weird all right more to more to be
49:42
continued once my phone comes in and I'll know when it's here because I'll hear the Roar of a truck and then my UPS
49:47
guy like he is a Super Bowl quarterback will throw it out the truck your window
49:53
will break and we'll see itly behind right through my window and when I look up he'll be giving me the bird as he as
49:58
he drives by and and you said that this probably will happen around 7 right so it's 4 now we could just Vamp for three
50:04
hours it will probably be at about 1:30 a.m. this morning when he comes by loud music all right let's go ahead and move
50:11
on we got to wrap it up U we got a lot of stories left to do too I wish I would have had the airpods
50:16
4 when I was on my flight coming home um yesterday because it was super
50:23
loud oh dude don't even get me started on the turbulence don't even get me started on the turbulence oh dear God
50:30
help us I praying the whole time bouncing all around moving left and right and up and down and I was like I
50:36
thought we're coming back from California how bad could the weather be I mean California is like beautiful and
50:41
sunny all the time we're going to Washington like what is causing all this turbulence and I was using my air my
50:47
regular airpods to just to just to produce some uh Brown noise just to kind of relax me a little bit and I think the
50:54
big question around the airpod for if you get the ones with the active noise cancellation is well how well do they
51:01
actually work right because they don't seal off your ear canals which is generally what you need to get a really good noise cancellation effect but dog
51:09
onone it it seems like they actually work pretty well I would say but over the iPhones I ordered the airpods 4 and
51:16
the iPhone I would say that the airpods 4 are actually thing that I'm probably the most excited about um I have always
51:23
wanted I said this last show so I won't drone on and on and about uh more but I I I can't even believe
51:29
this product exists it kind of doesn't really make any sense I never would have imagined that Apple would add noise
51:34
cancellation to the regular airpods but um here we are and uh people have them
51:40
and the reviews are starting to come in and it seems like they actually work pretty well uh let's see here I'm going
51:47
to start reading some of these uh some of these quotes it's not nearly as good as the airpods 2 said end Gadget but for
51:53
earbuds with an with an open wear design the difference when enca is act is enabled is actually noticeable tech
51:59
radar said airpods for blockout most sound but on an airplane or Trend you'll still hear the engine Roar and some
52:05
cabin noise see I'm okay with that I don't I don't need to have it 100% blocked out if I hear some of it that's
52:10
fine but if it takes it from like you know 100% of what you would normally hear down to like 20% that would be a
52:17
massive Improvement for me now I don't know if that's what it actually is uh and the other scenario is when I'm in my
52:22
car my kids are constantly listening to things on their iPads and I have to listen to them too and I'm like if I
52:27
could dial down the Audi books you know down to 20% like that would be a massive win for me so I'm extremely excited to
52:34
try these out and we'll we'll of course talk about these I may even reboot my YouTube channel
52:41
Le oh here we go he keeps talking about it keeps threatening I know uh let's see
52:46
here the last part of that quote uh okay I already read that airpods 4 fit really well when I po them in my ears I didn't
52:53
feel a need to Lodge them in tight so that they don't take a tumble like my airpods Pro wore them on two planes they
53:01
remain sug I even ran on a treadmill with them for an hour they never fell out well that was for Mashable that's so
53:06
subjective it's I mean the current airpods are perfect for me I'm hoping that doesn't change airpods 4 provide a thicker layer of Base than the
53:13
predecessor said The Verge there's more finesse and Clarity to the upper range treble the airpods pro maintain a leg up
53:19
when it comes to over overall Fidelity yeah I'm fine with that but you got have those tips Jam jammed in your ear have
53:24
fun with that but have no issues living with airpods uh for end Gadget last one
53:31
there's more lowend tone than the previous model right out of the gate and the punchier treble opens the Sound Stage so it's wider and more immersive
53:37
okay that's all great but it's all about the ANC man the active noise cancel can
53:44
cancelation did I say that right I feel like I just said that wrong the active noise cancellation think I said
53:51
cancelation I'm going with it I'm sticking with it we're going with cancelation from now on so I'll let you
53:56
all know how I like them once I get them I should have them today and I'm switching from my current airpod airpods
54:01
Pro I can't believe I've had them for like three years to the new ones and uh like I said I'm I'm almost more excited
54:07
for the airpods 4 than I am for the iPhone because they I just use them every single day day and day out and
54:12
there's so many situations where I feel like the noise cancellation is going to be helpful for me especially on a plane
54:18
I'm going on long um uh road trip next week so I'll be using them then and
54:24
that's going to be the perfect situation cuz my my kids always have like the like their music loaded up I have to listen
54:30
to like kids music or like U podcast or whatever and I'm like oh my gosh I can
54:35
never listen to anything I have to listen to what they like all the time in a minivan with four kids piled in the
54:41
back that's right I said four I got four kids I hope you all knew that if not now you know um and they're all young too
54:49
which is makes it even more fun any other commentary before we move on from either of
54:55
you I'm going to wait for the airpods pro the Next Generation and I think the software updates that they rolled out
55:01
for the existing airpods 2 at the last event makes me a little less confident that they're going to roll out a gen 3
55:09
at the same three-year Pace like if they're still coming out with new features for the current model but um yeah I'm going to wait for for all that
55:15
for the time being this is the first time this has ever happened I realized just earlier today I have three current
55:22
gen Apple devices for maybe the next month until
55:27
I have a current Mac Mini current iPhone and current Vision Pro wow they that I
55:33
will lose that title for like maybe the next 10 years yeah I was gonna say I you
55:38
have way more new stuff than I do I guess um I only have the airpods and the iPhone you said current Vision Pro like
55:44
they're gonna release another one eventually they will yes because they will eventually they will all right leis
55:50
here's another future purchase I may be making I got to go see it in person but
55:55
when I saw that uh that that new black color and I saw that uh that new
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titanium um millanes loop I thought oh baby oh baby I don't know it's it's the
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most it's one of the most beautiful watches that I've seen and the new straps like the new that new dark green
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Alpine Loop with that with that with that blacked out Apple watch
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Ultra so I'm doing the whole story I should give it to you it's funny the uh the headline on the the story we had
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about the you know the review Roundup People's First Take on it was Apple watch Ultra 2 in black is what Batman
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would buy that was uh that was a line that I uttered I think on the show last week so they'll be hearing from my high
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powered you said that last week or this week I thought I last you say this week but thought I said last guys you can
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look like Darth Vader going scuba [Laughter] diving uh the the review that caught our
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uh CAU our eye was from uh Victoria song writing for the The Verge
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and it really was a pretty great review I mean it basically talked about one thing exactly one thing it's Apple watch
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Ultra 2 and it's black and and so it was just like an Ode to how black this thing
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was I guess I'll read this little part from it this is the Apple watch Batman would buy never mind that it's a a mini
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brick on my wrists sliding it in for a photo shoot I feel something wash over me no longer am I a sleep-deprived tech
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reviewer hunched over and overpriced coffeee I'm a leather clad vampire assassin calmly sipping espresso on a
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cobblestone street with a New Reflections watch face in Black I immediately level up 1,000 mystery
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points it it really was a fine bit of writing you know and it was short and sweet 500 Words something like that ring
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raving about it because you said it was The Verge right so that's a surprise yeah surprising I was even looking at it but uh let's see other people liked it
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too Tom's guide said quote this finish of the watch is better suited for dressing up especially when paired with
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the new Titan Millan Loop Mill
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M yeah and uh the last one I'll mention here is a YouTuber the channel I guess
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it's desz fits desz fit excuse me desz fit uh this this guy he went on and on
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15 minutes of showing it with you know comparing it to different ones and showing it with different watch bands
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and things you know so so if you want to get a like a good excuse me a good feel
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for what it looks like and and what it looks like in different scenarios I I recommend that video uh but uh he said
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this is a color he always wanted the ultra to be and finally we have it quite frankly I think it's pretty
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stunning I I got to say after watching all these uh videos of it and reading
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the reviews and I mean it's very hard not to go I mean the only thing stopping me is the fact that I already have an
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ultra and that it cost yeah you already got it so it's
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like yeah I I I cannot justify spending $800 more no for a different color so
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just to get a different color dude and again I'll just say the best looking
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Apple watch straps that we've ever got I mean before the only thing I don't like about the Apple watch Ultra is that
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tacky yellow ring around the um digital crown and the um you mean orange yeah
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what did I say yellow yeah the orange ring and the orange button so tacky I
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wish they would get rid of it make it silver or something else hate that they do it but before on the straps they they
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would they would have these weird colors with with colors that were that that that contradicted each other in the same
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strap like just really ugly straps hideously ugly yeah I gota say I have
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the same the kind of response to it yeah and these ones the complete opposite
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it's like everything first of all beautiful colors the hardware all matches really well no really tacky call
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out on the tags or on the on the straps with some color that doesn't match or like a leather pull tab or anything I
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mean nothing weird um I I really don't know what they were doing it was completely zany before really and there
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was maybe only one or two straps I would have even considered wearing uh now they
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all look beautiful understated minimalist the colors are complimentary of like the the watch strap itself
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there's no conflicting colors they they match with the body the watch it's like dude just
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absolutely beautiful understated straps I even like the Tan One usually not a tan
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guy and The Ocean band looks good I mean just everything about these straps there's not a single thing about the
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strap that I don't like look at these yeah they all look good they all look great I'm actually thinking about um
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we'll see it's a lot of money to be thrown down GNA get one I'm thinking about I have to go in there and look at it in person I'm thinking about getting
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a um the uh the Millan Loop and getting the uh
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what do they call it are they calling it black they are calling it Black which I think is a misnomer I actually don't think it's it is black I think it's like
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a I I I think it's like a very dark gray which if it were actually black I probably wouldn't want it but it's a
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very dark gray and I I really love like the color that um I really love the
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color this year sounds like those are kind of hard to come by what what's that
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the black melany Loop Lander tried to buy one today and he was really was turned around he had to
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buyed no way well I've seen a lot of people on on Twitter asking about sorry
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X asking about it and some people got them but a lot of people like yeah it was not available really well let me see
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here if I try to I I should have the only reason I held out is because I didn't know what um size I am so let's
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just say I'm a large when does this thing ship no trade in buy it out right let's
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see I'm not entirely sure how that millon days Loop works because the current one is just like a continuous
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that has a magnetic you know snap that like Loops over itself just like any other like velcro R like watch band
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really like this one has a clasp in it yeah I guess get a close look of how that actually works dang they don't ship
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until end of August end of October you mean dude I'm all over the place end of
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October you it really was a rough week for oh man I was going on like five six hours sleep a night getting up marching
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my friend had like a bamboo stick he would whip Us in the back we didn't walk fast enough it was like being in the culac riding room your brain's getting
1:02:29
rattled around inside your oh man we were like not even eating some days just like marching from right to right to
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right did you lose man I don't know maybe like a couple you do look slightly
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gaunt why you so yellow and your eyes are sunken in your head oh man I just I just it's such a
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beautiful watch it's such I think I got to do it I'm going to have to go I'm going to go down there and see it in person plus I could sell my ultra one
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for like 400 bucks to off at some of the cost oh God so you know it's like $900
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if you get that Bann right well because the band itself cost two grand or two
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grand 200 I had a very dear friend offered me a a little bit of a discount yeah although it wasn't it wasn't it
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wasn't the full discount it wasn't 25% but it was 15% and it makes a difference it makes a difference so every little
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bit counts hey when you're spending 900 bucks you know it it's you like 150
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off streamline that's titanium millones Loops are gorgeous I know and and the millones loop I bought one um I actually
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bought a fake one for an Apple Watch ages ago it was one of the most comfortable straps I had ever owned
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extremely comfortable waterproof obviously I think I'm going to do it Guys Wesley from the chat says do it
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that's it Wesley's right I'm doing it he convinced me that's all it took pushing me over yeah look at that watch strap
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man I I need to make some I need to make some YouTube content I really do
1:03:56
I really do that's one way to justify it start buying stuff I know it's like we always complain that we don't have enough to review here on the show and
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it's like now Apple releases some stuff that I actually love and uh I think I might have to do
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it all right let's see here will these fit the OG Ultra they sure they
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certainly will two captains one ship I'm not sure how that works that's going to be a mutiny that's a mutiny wait waiting to happen but yeah they do um they
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actually make a um a natural titanium version of the millanes loop that you can put on there
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which I think was sorely missing because it really dresses up the watch a lot it makes it go from something that's sporty
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to something that it really looks nice when you just are you know dressed up when you're on the town Louis a night a night out on the town leis Wallace Style
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dressed to the nines all right we got to wrap this thing up um is there anything else that
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we want to talk about before we do you want to mention Apple watch SE Griffin and then I'll do this uh MacBook Pro
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story and we'll wrap sure so these are these are the two products we didn't see last week Apple watch SE now expected
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next year in 2025 after two years people were expecting the SE at the last week's
1:05:05
event but um no mention came of it but according to Mark Gman I'm told the product is still moving forward
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potentially for next year the new model will reportedly use a plastic casing possibly allowing it to come in an array
1:05:17
of bright colors but that may have delayed the launch quote Apple's manufacturing teams have been running
1:05:23
into some have been running into some cost and quality challenges with the shift to plastic said German uh that
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won't be the only change it'll get a new processor um one possibility is that the device will launch in the spring
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alongside the iPhone se4 the other budget model we're anticipating uh but potential buyers
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might need to wait until Autumn the new budget wearable might actually come alongside the series 11 next September
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you know so we have we have Ed Hardy all right I'm going to call him out Ed Hardy is waiting for the Apple watch se3 Ed
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you just need to buy a series 10 get a life Ed get a life Ed why why are you waiting
1:06:03
more time to buy a worse watch I yeah that's exact you're you're you're exchanging your life force for a worse
1:06:10
Apple watch bad trade I'm gonna call him out another Ed
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still has a series three i' had a series seven for years I upgraded since my Series 3 he has a series 3 I know I know
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right that is like when I replaced years ago it was already like just painful and I hated it it is the one Apple product I
1:06:30
I hoard Apple products I hoard everything it is the one Apple product that I explicitly returned I I only got
1:06:37
like $42 on it for the tradein but you know what I would have paid $42 to get rid of that thing if only they knew
1:06:43
still uses it if only they knew you would have paid them just to get it out of your life that thing was such a turd
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oh my goodness well yeah I I wish I had a real good reason to uh upgrade buy one of those because it's just
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just like the the other Ultra it's like well yeah okay do I how many Apple watches do I need I know that's the
1:07:04
thing if I was already on Ultra 2 I wouldn't do it because I'm like it doesn't make any sense to spend all that money just for the color but if you're
1:07:11
on Ultra one I think it makes more sense but I already know when Ultra 3 comes out it's going to be a huge upgrade probably so I'll probably be upgrading
1:07:17
again but at least I know that the straps will still work you know and you can Pawn off your Ultra 2 on some poror
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chap this is what happens when you put out a color people want people will spend $900 a year just for the color
1:07:32
this is probably contingent plan for them they're like hey we're going to release a new color next year instead of doing anything else just to get people
1:07:38
to be reined so they probably were holding it back just so that they could maybe release it later to drum up more
1:07:44
interest and here we are here I am you know buying a product that's a year old
1:07:50
are there any other products Apple that maybe could come in fun colors to compel people to upgrade hm think about that
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can't imagine I know all right the last thing I'll mention before we wrap up here uh this is an important story at
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least it is for me and for those of you waiting for a new Macbook Pro because I was like if they don't release oh this
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is this the MacBook Pro or is this the MacBook oh I I I completed my uh my MacBooks here so maybe this won't apply
1:08:14
to people waiting forc it's still MacBook Pro is it I I guess we we didn't write MacBook Pro in the headline we
1:08:20
just wrote MacBook but uh yeah this story is about the MacBook Pro okay I was just double checking cuz I was like wait a second okay yeah it
1:08:27
is so cuz I I you know the new Macbook Pros are right around the corner and I was like um probably not going to buy a
1:08:33
one it's not really worth making the upgrade right now with when we know it's going to be um the next year model is
1:08:39
going to be like the OLED one because that's like the big big big change but it looks like that may not be the case
1:08:45
the headline OLED MacBook still at least two years away at least two years away
1:08:51
uh a pair of respected indust industry analysts agree that it won't happen before 2026 this is coming from Ross young who
1:09:01
is actually quite a uh well he's quite accurate he's the CEO of display supply
1:09:07
chain Consultants I don't know what he actually does but um he was commenting
1:09:12
back and forth I think with Ming quo do I have that right yes and they're both
1:09:18
agreeing that it probably won't come before 2026 so if you're on the fence cuz the
1:09:25
new Macbook Pros this is going to be such an expensive year oh my goodness such I'm going to be over here
1:09:31
crying with my wallet you know torn open I if you were waiting for a new Macbook
1:09:38
Pro and you were on the on the fence about maybe waiting for the OLED model knowing that it's two years away I don't
1:09:44
know about you knowing that it's two years away changes my equation I'm like
1:09:50
okay I'm going to go ahead and get it then probably and sell my M1 M1 Max MacBook
1:09:57
Pro which is you know what is it three four years old now and just make the
1:10:02
upgrade and sell the M1 while I while it's still worth something to kind of recoup some of my costs and have like a
1:10:10
really killer machine and then in two more years probably upgrade again I don't know hopefully they're right about
1:10:16
this because if it comes next year I'm probably going to be compelled to buy it
1:10:22
and upgrade again and then that with the Apple Ultra watch
1:10:29
3 it's going to be too much I don't have unlimited funds I know that you know the
1:10:35
the c.co website prints money but it doesn't print it that fast guys we we we gota we got to give it some time to re
1:10:42
to to rebuild the bank account you know what I'm saying you're saying you had an expensive year I bought a Vision Pro and
1:10:48
two iPhones well you're returning one but yeah you're yeah you're right yeah you kept the Vision Pro oh my goodness I
1:10:55
I'm I'm so happy I return that thing like I I just $44,000 yeah I actually
1:11:00
had a a friend over just earlier this week he put it on and literally 10 minutes in he was sold and he wants to
1:11:06
buy one but he's a big like but then he found out it was 10 C 10K well no well
1:11:12
he he he understands the price but he was considering getting like a an expensive like projector system like for
1:11:18
his room and he was like and you know to be clear he also lives alone and he was like man this is like almost as good of
1:11:24
a display like the plays are excellent and beautiful and he was like really impressed by the sound system too like
1:11:29
this friend of mine is a very big like audio video nerd like he stays up with all the latest news and like TV and
1:11:35
sound systems and all that and he was just like move like tilting his head around like listening to the spatial audio and like you know just like making
1:11:42
every video that he brought up like as big as he could I mean it it it
1:11:48
is a surprisingly it it sounds surprisingly
1:11:53
good for what it is and the immersion the the quality of the immersion is is unparalleled in my opinion so I get it I
1:11:59
mean it's not like it's a bad product it's just when you look at it in context of the price and you're like $4,000 like
1:12:07
plus tax is this giving me $4,000 worth of value like in that context it's like
1:12:12
no I can't like there's so much stuff I I could buy a brand new Macbook Pro and an Apple Watch for that price or an
1:12:18
iPhone and an Apple Watch Ultra and airpods and and I mean add like a few more things to the list it's it's just
1:12:25
hard to justify anyway I think that's it I think we need to go ahead and wrap it
1:12:31
up there because I'm dying I could barely talk I look like I just escaped
1:12:38
from a burning building and I haven't slept burning man I haven't yeah why do
1:12:43
I look like I I just got back from burning burning man I just returned from Disneyland not burning man but it's hard
1:12:48
to tell so we're we're going to go ahead and wrap it up there but I'll have my my Apple iPhone uh Pro what did I say that
1:12:56
way I don't know in my hand next week we can talk more about it and I'll have it to show off the color which by then it
1:13:01
will be completely irrelevant you guys would even care but uh we'll we'll have more to say next week especially about
1:13:07
the airpods and the airpods pro which I I'm really excited to uh to to test out uh this has been the coasty best 30 plus
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time oh my poor bank account I don't even want to add up how much all
1:13:51
this I turn not that actually is the solution I have found that might to be actually a a
1:13:59
very uh appropriate solution just don't add it up then you don't have to cry about
1:14:05
it but we'll see what time my UPS guy gets here tonight I'll probably
1:14:11
hear some kind of glass breaking at 1: or 2 a.m. I'll think it's an
1:14:18
intruder it's it's not it's my UPS guy chucking my iPhone box into my window like a baseball that would be classic
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see it right through the window behind your by
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