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iPhone 18 Pro & Pro Max Review: THIS is What We’ve Been Waiting For! (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Features, Product Reviews, Videos,
Better battery life. When I polled my YouTube community on the one upgrade they wanted most from a new phone, that answer beat everything else by a mile, and the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are the first iPhones where I think Apple has delivered it. After a week with the 18 Pro Max, on days when I didn't top it up, I was ending the night in the high 20s to low 30s. That's while hammering it nonstop to prepare this review.
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Is the New iPhone Duo Worth It? Our Hands-on Impressions! (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Videos,
Four of us ran out of the Apple keynote and straight to the iPhone Duo demo tables (Tayllor Lloyd cleared a row of theater seats to get there), then sat down on Geared Up to argue about what we'd just held. Kevin the Tech Ninja, Miles Franklin, Tayllor, and I all walked away liking the folding iPhone. We didn't all walk away sure it's worth $2,000.
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I Tested the iPhone 18 Pro Max: Here’s What You Need to Know (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Videos,
A few days before Apple's event I polled my channel on what would get you to upgrade your phone, and 45 percent of you said a big jump in battery life. Then Apple got on stage at Apple Park and said the iPhone 18 Pro Max has the best battery life of any iPhone it has ever shipped. So this one deserves your attention, even in a week when the folding iPhone Duo is soaking up most of it. After a day with the 18 Pro and Pro Max, the feature I most wanted to understand is a set of six tiny blades inside the main camera.
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The Roku Pro Series OLED TV Is a Problem for LG and Samsung (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: HDTV, Product Reviews, Videos,
The same Roku that makes the $30 stick probably plugged into your TV right now has built an actual OLED TV, and the 55-inch Roku Pro Series OLED starts at $999. That's $300 less than LG's cheapest OLED and $500 less than Samsung's. I spent a week with the 65-inch model in my living room to find out whether this is a legit OLED panel or a budget screen wearing OLED marketing like a costume.
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iPhone Duo Hands-On: Apple’s Foldable is Finally Here! (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Videos,
Apple finally made an iPhone that folds, and after spending a good chunk of the day with the iPhone Duo at Apple Park, the part I keep coming back to is what happens when you open it. You can run two apps side by side, take a selfie with the rear camera while watching the shot on the outer screen, or set the phone down half-folded and let it take the group photo for you. It's the most interesting iPhone I've used in years. It also costs $1,999, so it raises some expensive questions.
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Hits Switch 2 on November 5, and You Can Hum the Songs
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Video Games, Videos,
The highest-rated game on Metacritic is getting rebuilt from the textures up, and Nintendo finally put a date on it. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time arrives on Switch 2 on November 5, worldwide, as a Switch 2 exclusive. Today's Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct brought the cinematic trailer you see above plus roughly 15 minutes of gameplay, which is a lot more than the teaser we got back in June.
I've played this game more times than I'd admit to a doctor, and the detail I keep thinking about from today is the microphone. You can hum a song into the Switch 2 and Link's ocarina plays it back. A 28-year-old game found a new party trick.
9 Smart Home Upgrades That INSTANTLY Improve Your Life (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smart Home, Videos,
You don't notice how much friction lives in your house until someone points it out. You dig for keys every time you get home. You cross the room for a light switch that's always on the wrong wall. Your blinds offer blinding sun or total darkness and nothing in between. None of it feels broken, because that's how houses have always worked. I've been deleting that friction one piece at a time, and these are the nine upgrades that did it, from a $40 smart plug to one that costs a lot more than I'd like to admit.
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The Xbox Disaster Microsoft Never Recovered From (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Microsoft, Video Games, Videos,
Microsoft spent a decade building Xbox into the console everyone's friends owned, then burned it down in about an hour. On May 21, 2013, Don Mattrick walked onto a stage in a white tent on Microsoft's Redmond campus and spent the first 30 minutes of the Xbox One reveal talking about TV. When a reporter asked what people without reliable internet were supposed to do with a console that phoned home every 24 hours, he told them to buy an Xbox 360. Xbox still hasn't recovered, and I think the reason has less to do with that stage than with what players were doing at home.
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You Don’t Own What You Bought. Here’s the Proof. (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Editorial, Home Entertainment, Smart Home, Misc. Tech, Videos,
You bought the thing. It's sitting in your house. The box listed the features, you paid the money, the return window closed. So you own it, right? Here's the uncomfortable answer I landed on after digging through more than a decade of firmware updates, lawsuits, and shutdown notices: a company can sell you a product, wait out your return window, and then reach back into it to slow it down, strip its features, or kill it entirely, without anyone ever touching the hardware sitting in your living room.
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I Built the Most Unreasonable Mac Desk Setup! (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Peripherals, Videos,
There's a version of this desk that makes sense, and this isn't it.
Four Apple silicon Macs. A terabyte and a half of unified memory. Six docking stations. A chair with actual motors inside it.
I record and edit every video here, test hardware here, and spend a completely unreasonable percentage of my life here when I'm not traveling. At some point the question stopped being what do I need and quietly became what happens if I stop saying no.
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