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Sony Xperia still keeps not just a regular headphone jack, but one that has a 32-bit Quad DAC capable enough to power In-Ear Monitors and some Audiophile-grade over-ear headphones, and even if you still want Wireless headphones they offer features that no other manufacturer does, like their LDAC, and they still keep another bunch of quality of life features like Expandable Storage and a dedicated Notification blinker light. Previously it was HTC & LG that offered all-rounded phones, currently it's Sony. The flagships, the 1 Series, can get a bit pricey, and they're also not available everywhere, but even their "Midrange" 5 Series offers pretty much a flagship experience but with a smaller, non-4K display, usually.
samsung m21 user here, happily my phone came with this lol🙏 For me, it's great to be able to listen to music just by plugging your earphones, rather than wasting a lot of battery with Bluetooth active for airpods, or having to carry adapters around.
Specs don't matter. ❎ Specs don't matter as much as they used to. ✅ The only reasons I have my eyes on the iPhone 16 Pro Max compared to my iPhone 8 Plus is USB-C 3.2, 120Hz OLED and 4K video at 120fps in HDR and ProRes for the rear camera along with 4K video at 60fps in HDR for the selfie camera. That's it, lol.
@@JohnDir-xw3hf L comment, Huawei's top range phones were unbeatable, and they released the first three fold phone like a month ago. But hey! You can pretend your samscum or whatever is the best yeah
*midranges phones* nowadays r gold, they come with the excentials (fancy is kinda useless) and other goodies for less than ¼ than you would pay for a flagship. In my pov this is much more worthwhile i have a galaxy M21 and i'm very happy this phone is perfect
@akilbarboni4198no they are not unless you are gamer who has nothing but to play games all days.. Samsung A series is still better than most Chinese midrange considering software, camera, display which they offer
@@akshayshirodkar4601depends on the games. They cannot handle intense games, but I've played Dead Cells on my Galaxy A71 5G and my Galaxy A54 5G with the only issues coming from the game hating the TouchPad on the DualShock 4 I was using. Minecraft and Terraria are also decent, provided you use a medium world /low render distance.
@@akilbarboni4198 In Türkiye, alması every Samsung phone worth to buy it. I mean, S23 is only 28.000₺ and iPhone 14 is 45.000₺. S23 Ultra is 45.000₺ too. Also, you can get A55 for only 15.000₺
Yeah at least not performance gains. The more expensive phones have benefits when it comes to like camera sensor telephoto lens is and so on. Even then you're probably better off just buying one that's a year or two old. You can get a Pixel 7 pro now for like 300 bucks. The Pixel 9 pro XL is a better phone I'm sure but is it 900 bucks better?
I disagree. I think it’s better to get an older used expensive phone for cheap, than to get a cheaper newly released one. I would still recommend a used iphone 14 pro over any mid-range phone. If you prefer android, maybe a used flagship samsung or a company of your choice. Also, software comes with the phone. You can’t just install all the software and os that comes in one phone, on another. It can come close, but it doesn’t equal it.
@@ZeerakImran we are talking about 1000 dollar phones that's too much for like 90 percent of population above 600 dollar there are more then enough for normal person even heavy users
i remember when i upgraded my 32gb ram on my pc to 64gb, for no reason. And then i added my old 16gb ram to it, boom 80gb ram. I just loved looking at the bigger numbers, it had no purpose but to be looked at.
That's how i think too. Some Apps won't work but maybe there are alternatives. And i also don't like this trend with the bigger displays with 6-7 inch. That makes it too big and not handy anymore.
I mean honestly you can go back even further than that. You could use Pixel 4a and for web browsing and such it's more than snappy enough. Like an LG G8 or G8X which is under a hundred bucks and uses the 855. Those can still run all the GTA ports from Netflix for instance.
@@Oddwetpenguin I've had the pixel 7a for 8 months and then decided to switch to samsung z fold 3, worst decision I've ever made.... the 7a was just perfect but I'm an idiot
Just got a S24 Ultra 2nd hand because of those reasons. Buying brand new isn't worth it anymore. Not to mention yes, I wanted something that would last me a VERY long time
Yeah use Android is like a cheat code. I mean the difference between like a pixel 9 pro XL and a Pixel 7 pro are not very big. There's some design difference and I know that matters to people cuz they seem to really like this iPhone like design. Frankly I prefer the ergonomics of the older phones although it's nice to ditch the curve display. But I just don't think the Pixel 9 pro XL at 1200 bucks is worth it when you can get a Pixel 8 pro for $500 or a pixel 7 pro for $300. There's a brand new Pixel 7 pro with 5 12 GB right now for $399 brand new at woot. You can spend $800 more and get a third of the storage....lol Although one thing about the pixels is going up to the 8th gen does give you a huge increase in OS updates. Whatever even a Pixel 7 pro is going to get 36 more months of security patches so.. And honestly I don't even care of that much about updates. I could use a freaking LG G8 or a Note 20 ultra probably even earlier phones than that. In the US 5G doesn't really even mean much to me
One thing to note is that proper midrange phones (e.g. Redmi Note 13 Pro, Nothing Phone 2a, Samsung A35) provide 1/3rd the CPU performance of Flagship phones. Therefore, right now, there is a growing difference between performances of the two segments.
Ofc there's a big difference, but it's not about which phone can scroll the internet faster, it's more about which phone gets more FPS, and if you don't play games then there's very little difference
That's just processing speed. It doesn't affect youtube, netflix, facebook, instagram or anything that you use on a daily basis. Not even gaming, you get the same fps, just with barely worse graphics.
The Samsung S24 might last another 10 years but that is only if the battery lasts that long. Samsung batteries have had a history of swelling so much that they break through the screen (spits the screen from the edge). That is what needs to change and hopefully in the next few years all phones will have user replaceable batteries because the EU regulations are calling for it.
I saw a recent mrwhosetheboss video and alot of his Samsung phone batteries are all expanding. Weird. And yeah I think the new regulations are a good idea
@@tungstencarbide7255 phones in storage, watch his recent video where hes moving out his old home, his phones in shelves are just swelling up, and most of them are samsungs.
It's not that specs don't matter. Battery size matters, screen resolution, camera sensor... Storage especially. A quality dac would be nice or even a headphone jack. Being able to support video output via USBC. it's just that silicon doesn't really matter that much on contemporary smartphones. Or not the power in the silicon. And probably won't matter much until the gaming options on Android and iOS become more intensive. Perhaps with active cooling. Or that we start to rely them as our only major computer and use them as desktop and laptop replacements with the appropriate accessories. I mean I guess efficiency matters but peak power especially under optimal conditions is not a very important metric. We've had smooth browsing and basic functionality on mid-range ships for 4 years at least now on Android. I mean I was fine with the 720G in my Pixel 4a. 765 in the Pixel 5 or LG Wing was absolutely snappy for browsing basically indistinguishable from a contemporary cutting-edge chip. Until phones can do a lot more than just browsing basically we're really at a point of diminishing returns.
I'm on a 3 year old flagship that I just changed the battery in myself about 2 months ago, it's definitely diminishing returns to upgrade; the only compelling spec to me right now is the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. But even that combined with an SOC bump, better refresh rate, more ram etc is not enough to get me to upgrade. I will use this phone until it stops getting software support.
Ay! He’s not wrong! Also I did NOT expect that “any phone thay you pick, you will NOT be disappointed unlike your parents! They will always be disappointed in you :)”
Subbed! I love my iPhone using cashless payment smoothly and easier than it's android counterpart and my nothing phone with the amazing lights behind the phone, it's a hit at clubs 😂
with how little tangible innovation there is now, manufacturers oughta move to a 2-year release cycle and produce even less sooner or later, we'd be flooded with brand new and rotting-on-the-shelf phones nobody bought because they didn't feel the need to
3:33 sensor size is not a big deal in photography unless you need good low light performance also they have upgraded their sensors just now the size of the sensor just slightly higher quality
yeah ofc they upgraded their sensors, they are much better. But the size is still important for background blur. good lowlight performance is also really important because you can use faster shutter speeds.
@@Techsnowball yes but if you look at full-frame cameras the sensor size did not increase but they have slightly better processing and quality that makes people get new cameras but as always it's now about the camera it's about the lens and the features it has
@@baths4carsraspberrypicomputer if they made 1 inch sensors more mainstream and allowed full control over all the sensors in third party camera apps, it would be the ultimate phone, easily replace any dedicated camera under $1k.
They keep getting faster but nothing can use that speed, They advertise gaming but the games that could use that speed suck on mobile because of control limitations, They keep getting bigger and bigger to the point it doesn't even fit in your hand anymore, Then there is AI which is just a slightly less crappy Assistant which still does everything slower than just doing it yourself, Battery Life is the only thing that can show improvement exclusively for addicts who can't live without 10+ hours of battery life, If they brought back user replaceable battery I think a lot more people would just not upgrade for 10 or more years. Currently using iPhone 13, only thinking about upgrading because my charging port has roasted itself and the fix costs too much to continue using it Even if the only thing I use a phone for personally is Music/Podcast Streaming, Calling, and Messaging, Could've survived with an iPod and Flip Phone
ANIMATIONS bro! I need to see someone opening and dismissing apps rapidly and repeatedly, in normal speed and slow mo, before I even CONSIDER buying the device...
MKBHD often says, "Cheap phones are getting better, and good phones are getting cheaper." There's so much truth in that remark especially on cheap phones getting better.
HTC tried it once - with first HTC One (M7) they introduced awesome 4 Mpix camera with huge pixels ( equal to that of much later iPhone 12 Pro?). Change numbers to experience. That was terrific phone and terrific camera.
All technologies mature. In the early years of the iPhone, technology improved by leaps and bounds. But in the last 5 years, all we've seen are incremental improvements, nothing groundbreaking. Last year, I bought an iPhone 15. I expect to keep this phone for at least 5 years. If the phone doesn't break, I may keep it for 10 years *by replacing the battery.* The iPhone 15's camera is more than good enough. The display is good enough. The battery is good enough. We've reached "peak iPhone." As a casual user, all I care about are calls, text messages, emails, web surfing, running a few apps, taking some pictures or videos, watching some RUclips, and maybe playing a light video game. I've been doing this for over a decade. AI? I don't care about AI. What's AI going to do for a casual user??? On my phone, I'm not gonna write long messages, so who cares about proofreading or rewrites? Writing long messages on a tiny display and virtual keyboard is a PITA. The same for photo-editing. I don't receive tons of messages, so AI prioritization is worthless. In nearly every instance of AI, my user experience is not going to benefit. I expect most casual users will agree with me.
the cameras are the main reason why I don't like new phones now. the tweaks of AI makes them look oversaturated, fake, bright and different from what the reality looked like the moment I shot the foto. I actually love the iPhone 5's camera for the reason that it captures the moment, the feeling and the scene, which newer phones just don't.. btw I'm one of the those who use old phones, I've got an iPhone 8 and it's perfectly fine honestly 😃👍
When I "upgraded" from a Note9 to a Note20 Ultra, I felt like the camera got worse, especially in detail if you zoom in, the pixels feel synthetic and closeups of text have really bad lens distortion from the sensor being too big. I also used to use AND still have an iPhone 5c, and pictures from those look timeless as long as it's in a well lit environment 😂
RIGHT???? i remember a couple years back i bought this cheap poco m3, it was like €200 and was shocked to see how i prefered the photos from it rather than my s21.
@@Techsnowball You're completely right! I had that same shock with my old Galaxy A10. Like these phones weren't that bad at all. In the end it all boils down to excessive software tweaks on expensive phones which makes the photo look worse than a bad sensor on a cheap phone, very unnatural... these companies just don't know what the consumer wants.
I had a Motorola One Action and for 2 months I switched to Galaxy note 10, it was such a enormous difference. After that, any other phone I had didn't have any super benefit compared to Galaxy
Im still using my Samsung Note 7, still hasn't exploded yet. Just had to install lineageos 14 just to install discord because the phone is stuck at android 6.0
@@Techsnowball thanks, this phone is really special to me since its the first flagship I've got on its release year, and adding the context that its became a social pariah because of the exploding fiasco made me like this phone more. 8 years still using the original battery and me and it is still alive to this day.
All i want for my phone: 5,6-5,9 inches No notch Relatively slim NO UGLY CAMERA STANDING OUT FROM THE BACK LIKE WTF HOW DO YOU GUYS LIVE WITH THIS Power button on the back Headphone jack Some space on bottom and top of the phone so it doesnt click when its on my belly. Relatively good hardware Open bootloader At least 128gb of storage. Thats all i ever want from my phone. Some extras could be a high refresh screen but i dont mind it as much on the phone.
I had my note 20 ultra it was perfect but the screen broke and i bought a23 ultra i wouldve stayed with my note 20ultra another 3 years atleast bcs it was perfect
Powerful Processing never mattered on iPhone because there was never anything that made good use of it... like what the heck is someone gonna do on a phone as powerful as an XBOX, but doesn't allow you to do anything useful with its power? Browse Safari? I can literally play my entire Switch game library on my S24 Ultra, which is impossible on iPhone even though the 16 Pro has better specs.
Personally anyone uttering word AI is instant turn off for me. I dont find any of these inbuilt ai tools important. And if i would really want to use ai i can easily do with websites. What i want to see in phones is bigger battery, better display tech, better ui, more freedom to tweak the phone (yeah not an apple fan), better and longer software support, reduced prices.
I just started using a Huawei Pura 70 Pro, and honestly this is one of the best phones I have ever used, and this is coming from a former Samsung fanboy, I used an iPhone as my 2nd phone too. Using the Huawei Pura 70 Pro, I came to realize how much specs don't really matter, this is the smoothest phone I have ever used, in no part of my day do I think, "this is using a 7nm chip" It just shows how much optimization can do.
Well i have personally lived under a rock i have never used AI exept for some AI generated pictures but im kind of old school people i dont use tiktok as well so my opinion the AI stuff is kind of pointless because i have seen some videos of like AI kitchen gadgets and the AI of those didn't do anything basicaly so im not personally interested of AI
Is still relatively matters, if someone is buying outside of Samsung and Iphones. I have been browsing through Xiaomi's offering and i keep finding a few phones of nearly the same specs but sometimes one is cheaper by a bit for whatever reason (though i don't care for cameras, so that could be it.)
its not the EXACT one, theres obviously major improvements after 4 years, but the point is, SIZE wise its basically the same. I'm curious why they're not using 1inch sensors
@Techsnowball because of the cost, Sammy is cheapskate. The Exynos chip of some Samsung phones on regional is just low-ball on consumers instead having Snapdragon of the same prize is evil.
The OnePlus 12r is the perfect Goku of the new released phones. Hopefully it lasts like the OG P30 Pro. The rest are way overpriced for no reason. I still can't get over how the P30 came out SIX years ago and still looks fresher than phones coming out this year
@@Techsnowball yeah but I'm talking about honor 200 which has incredible 2.5x telephoto len for 400$. Also Realme 13 pro plus which has 3x telephoto. There are not a lot I know but in the future we might even get telephoto lens on the 400ish phones. That's a good thing for all of us.
I usually use a phone for 3 or 4 years and by that time, there is something new for me. I got my current phone last year and pretty much everything was an upgrade. Better camera, larger battery with 67W charging compared to just 10W on previous phone, curved 120Hz OLED compared to a 60Hz flat IPS, faster processor, android 13 with two updates of which I already got one, compared to android 9 with no updates on previous phone. There is probably even more but I can't remember at this point. It's definitely not worth it to upgrade every year or every two years. This is the best phone I ever had and there is a chance that I end up using it longer than the previous one, we will see mainly because of the battery degradation, for now it didn't really happpen but it definitely will at some point. And all of this for the price of a Galaxy A54 which was the newest from that series at the time.
They're so much better yet they're so limited in what you can do. The average mid range smartphone is probably more performant than a laptop at the same price, yet lacks all the flexibility of a PC. They just keep getting more limited on the software side of things especially on android, google has kept on making more advanced features worse since like they made changes to how apps access android filesystem in android 11, all the way to today where they're making sideloading worse, the only good thing to come out of recent updates for power users is like wireless debugging. I just despise smartphones at this point, but use my android phone and tablet the most outta any device in my house by a long shot, so they've succeeded in their primary use case and will continue to do so for years to come.
Right and battery replacements are an option that people seem to ignore. That's the fault of Apple and Samsung in the like for making battery removal so hard but nonetheless you can still get one put in for 60 or 80 bucks even if you don't have AppleCare. Frankly the iPhone 13 had better battery life than the iPhone 14 or 50 anyway. For whatever reason the long-term battery by ability the iPhone 14 just wasn't as good
5:33.ya that's true. So messed up they remove items from boxs to be more green but now u have to buy those items that come in packaging so defeats the purpose. Or a other company soldering parts in side there products so u can upgrade so now u have to buy a other product. Or the in cease of ai and how they need to power it as some have stated building more power plants as in Nuclear power. They seem green till u stop and wonder bout the spent fuel rods, or what's needed to make a ev car.. Seems we could do better for the planet if these companies would do better.
I agree with you. Phone specs dont matter that much nowadays,even chips have gotten powerfull enought that when you play intensive games you dont have to worry about fps dropping or graphics being trash, but what matters to most is battery life and how hot phones get, Chinese phones got the memo, and now they have 6000+ mah batteries, enough for heavy users to only charge them once per day, meanwhile others try to keep this tech for next year so that they have a reason to sell their phones, cameras are good enough but a 1 inch sensor should be standard on top flagships, i wonder what they are gona sell after all this gets put in a phone tho🤔
i love the new 6000mah batteries, but since they added that, and we have 100w charging, and cpus that on par with laptops, and 1 inch sensors, what else could we possibly need
@Techsnowball now that i think about it, probably the phones getting smaller since they could fit more in a smaller package,being more durable, not being slippery, and thats about it, i give it 8 years when at least two of those things will happen, acually there are phones now with ip69 resistance that dont look like a brick so maybe even sooner
Mine has quite a decent chip, display and battery life (when not gaming) at the cost of trash camera and build quality. I'm fine with that. Soon, those flagship features will one day become commonplace lol. Heck, I'd take a lower mp cam just for more battery capacity.
Recently Upgraded from a Poco F1 to their F6 Pro I'd say 500 Bucks for 1 terabyte and a Processor that will last for 7-8 years is nice. Though I'd miss the Headphone Jack
So basically, moore's law on the smartphone market. Like I bought a midrange phone this year that has the same capability of last year flagship and still and in some cases better than flagship ones 😅
I follow the Fibonacci upgrade program. Every time my watch /phone model number matches a Fibonacci program I upgrade. from the 8 to the 13 then the 21 then the 34! (and I die before the next Fibonacci number)
Overall I want phones to get way more powerful for way better fps and way better graphics for gaming but now it seems like they slow down the pace and are taking their sweet little time to make the phones better for gaming all I want and have been waiting for is for phones to get 240hz scrren therefore for 240 fps in game so i can play fortnite mobile at 240 fps and potentially become an actual professional player tuats my dream so ya.
I still have note 20 ultra. Thing I hate about it is exynos that drained battery in minutes. The rest are smooth even I don't even noticed I used a 4 years phone.
thats fair enough, i respect that. You can't even say the same for other companies cuz sometimes they straight up downgrade their phones. Iphone is a safe option i guess
@@Techsnowball I had Samsungs for a long time until my S22 started overheating after couple months of use and I had to charge it 2-3 times a day. Then I said no more of this shit.
@@somerandomfellow8321 yup, I live in Europe so I didn’t have any choice. I really don’t care that snapdragon ones are better, it’s fucked that Samsung makes us pay same price for much worse product
I still have Pocophone F1, it is just so good, there is no need to upgrade. The only upgrade that will make me switch will be Snapdragon 8 Elite with Linux supported so I can play PC games on a foldable and I also can do editing and programming.
if you could easily play pc games on a phone, i would easily sell my gaming pc for an 8 elite. Problem is, those emulators like WINLATOR are just a pain to use since you can't just use steam.
I'm on S20 FE. Would like to change it to something more advanced, but besides S Ultra models others are just meh. The same as mine S20 FE just more expensive.
i want just the battery,after 3 years with poco x3 pro i can say i need a new phone,still searching but i think a55 is the answer...what do you think?this or another phone?
poco x6 should be amazing, why not stick with the same brand? if you want the best battery then the nothing 2a will bring insane battery life. But a55 should be just fine, honestly theres no wrong answer, just wrong prices
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I want a headphone jack.
rip
Same here I just don't get why they had to remove it
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Sony Xperia still keeps not just a regular headphone jack, but one that has a 32-bit Quad DAC capable enough to power In-Ear Monitors and some Audiophile-grade over-ear headphones, and even if you still want Wireless headphones they offer features that no other manufacturer does, like their LDAC, and they still keep another bunch of quality of life features like Expandable Storage and a dedicated Notification blinker light.
Previously it was HTC & LG that offered all-rounded phones, currently it's Sony.
The flagships, the 1 Series, can get a bit pricey, and they're also not available everywhere, but even their "Midrange" 5 Series offers pretty much a flagship experience but with a smaller, non-4K display, usually.
samsung m21 user here, happily my phone came with this lol🙏
For me, it's great to be able to listen to music just by plugging your earphones, rather than wasting a lot of battery with Bluetooth active for airpods, or having to carry adapters around.
Specs don't matter. ❎ Specs don't matter as much as they used to. ✅
The only reasons I have my eyes on the iPhone 16 Pro Max compared to my iPhone 8 Plus is USB-C 3.2, 120Hz OLED and 4K video at 120fps in HDR and ProRes for the rear camera along with 4K video at 60fps in HDR for the selfie camera. That's it, lol.
In your case , the upgrade is really worth it . But I've seen people upgrading from 13,14,15 to 16 each year .. and iPhone 12 still , does well
120fps in 4k Prores is actually pretty incredible when you think about it, if i was tempted for an iphone that would definitely push me over the edge
If Huawei wasn't banned, then the battle would be still on.
Samsung and Apple stopped, because their biggest rival got banned.
apple ia poor brand no money cant made own product still made by china sells like apple product pathetic loser company people belive in apple lies
you still have Google, Motorola, OnePlus, Sony
Actually china consumers are complaining about huawei's poor quality and many defects in their phones
Get a bowl of rice and +1 social credit comrade.
@@JohnDir-xw3hf L comment, Huawei's top range phones were unbeatable, and they released the first three fold phone like a month ago. But hey! You can pretend your samscum or whatever is the best yeah
Remember Nokia, LG and Huawei?
No wonder smartphone innovation is dead.
Nokia: Sold themselves to Microsoft
LG: Samsung Fanboys worshipping the Chaebol instead of the underdog
Huawei: Trump ban and Biden doing nothing.
Curretnly mainning Huawei Y6 PRIME 2018 but only for 6 days since im getting a new phone
*midranges phones* nowadays r gold, they come with the excentials (fancy is kinda useless) and other goodies for less than ¼ than you would pay for a flagship. In my pov this is much more worthwhile
i have a galaxy M21 and i'm very happy this phone is perfect
if you want good midrangers you dont go with samsung, they are horrible value compared to other brands.
@akilbarboni4198no they are not unless you are gamer who has nothing but to play games all days.. Samsung A series is still better than most Chinese midrange considering software, camera, display which they offer
Nah I love the processors and features on flagships
@@akshayshirodkar4601depends on the games. They cannot handle intense games, but I've played Dead Cells on my Galaxy A71 5G and my Galaxy A54 5G with the only issues coming from the game hating the TouchPad on the DualShock 4 I was using. Minecraft and Terraria are also decent, provided you use a medium world /low render distance.
@@akilbarboni4198 In Türkiye, alması every Samsung phone worth to buy it. I mean, S23 is only 28.000₺ and iPhone 14 is 45.000₺. S23 Ultra is 45.000₺ too. Also, you can get A55 for only 15.000₺
Agree with you, cheap phones are so good now that it doesn't make a sense to buy a more expensive one.
expensive phones are getting more expensive, but its making everything else cheaper ;)
Yeah at least not performance gains. The more expensive phones have benefits when it comes to like camera sensor telephoto lens is and so on. Even then you're probably better off just buying one that's a year or two old. You can get a Pixel 7 pro now for like 300 bucks. The Pixel 9 pro XL is a better phone I'm sure but is it 900 bucks better?
Yeah I too am think of buying pixel 9 or 16 next year for around 600
I disagree. I think it’s better to get an older used expensive phone for cheap, than to get a cheaper newly released one. I would still recommend a used iphone 14 pro over any mid-range phone. If you prefer android, maybe a used flagship samsung or a company of your choice. Also, software comes with the phone. You can’t just install all the software and os that comes in one phone, on another. It can come close, but it doesn’t equal it.
@@ZeerakImran we are talking about 1000 dollar phones that's too much for like 90 percent of population above 600 dollar there are more then enough for normal person even heavy users
6:37 that last line is so real😢
No, but I like to massage my ego with synthetic benchmarks.
i remember when i upgraded my 32gb ram on my pc to 64gb, for no reason. And then i added my old 16gb ram to it, boom 80gb ram. I just loved looking at the bigger numbers, it had no purpose but to be looked at.
I will only buy phones every 5yrs as long as it is not lagging
That's how i think too. Some Apps won't work but maybe there are alternatives. And i also don't like this trend with the bigger displays with 6-7 inch. That makes it too big and not handy anymore.
I'm the same.
@@cihanlost yeah the only thing i hate about the a23 ultra is its massive and the phone is boxy and it hurt my hands and its heavy
Same
I'm still using my Pixel 6a... Works great...
That's good phone 👍
Same it's still kicking
I mean honestly you can go back even further than that. You could use Pixel 4a and for web browsing and such it's more than snappy enough. Like an LG G8 or G8X which is under a hundred bucks and uses the 855. Those can still run all the GTA ports from Netflix for instance.
Same with the 7a
@@Oddwetpenguin I've had the pixel 7a for 8 months and then decided to switch to samsung z fold 3, worst decision I've ever made.... the 7a was just perfect but I'm an idiot
New feature : Headphone jack 😅
4:21 , as a developer, I just love the joke of editing the website through the console.
back in school it was so easy to trick people
Just got a S24 Ultra 2nd hand because of those reasons. Buying brand new isn't worth it anymore. Not to mention yes, I wanted something that would last me a VERY long time
Yeah use Android is like a cheat code. I mean the difference between like a pixel 9 pro XL and a Pixel 7 pro are not very big. There's some design difference and I know that matters to people cuz they seem to really like this iPhone like design. Frankly I prefer the ergonomics of the older phones although it's nice to ditch the curve display.
But I just don't think the Pixel 9 pro XL at 1200 bucks is worth it when you can get a Pixel 8 pro for $500 or a pixel 7 pro for $300. There's a brand new Pixel 7 pro with 5 12 GB right now for $399 brand new at woot. You can spend $800 more and get a third of the storage....lol
Although one thing about the pixels is going up to the 8th gen does give you a huge increase in OS updates. Whatever even a Pixel 7 pro is going to get 36 more months of security patches so..
And honestly I don't even care of that much about updates. I could use a freaking LG G8 or a Note 20 ultra probably even earlier phones than that.
In the US 5G doesn't really even mean much to me
One thing to note is that proper midrange phones (e.g. Redmi Note 13 Pro, Nothing Phone 2a, Samsung A35) provide 1/3rd the CPU performance of Flagship phones. Therefore, right now, there is a growing difference between performances of the two segments.
Ofc there's a big difference, but it's not about which phone can scroll the internet faster, it's more about which phone gets more FPS, and if you don't play games then there's very little difference
That's just processing speed. It doesn't affect youtube, netflix, facebook, instagram or anything that you use on a daily basis.
Not even gaming, you get the same fps, just with barely worse graphics.
The Samsung S24 might last another 10 years but that is only if the battery lasts that long. Samsung batteries have had a history of swelling so much that they break through the screen (spits the screen from the edge). That is what needs to change and hopefully in the next few years all phones will have user replaceable batteries because the EU regulations are calling for it.
I saw a recent mrwhosetheboss video and alot of his Samsung phone batteries are all expanding. Weird. And yeah I think the new regulations are a good idea
I wouldnt worry about the battery. I would worry about green screen
@@Techsnowballgive us more context. Are the expanding batteries from his daily drivers or from phones in storage?
@@tungstencarbide7255 phones in storage, watch his recent video where hes moving out his old home, his phones in shelves are just swelling up, and most of them are samsungs.
@@Techsnowball Battery replacement exists
It's not that specs don't matter. Battery size matters, screen resolution, camera sensor... Storage especially. A quality dac would be nice or even a headphone jack. Being able to support video output via USBC.
it's just that silicon doesn't really matter that much on contemporary smartphones. Or not the power in the silicon. And probably won't matter much until the gaming options on Android and iOS become more intensive. Perhaps with active cooling. Or that we start to rely them as our only major computer and use them as desktop and laptop replacements with the appropriate accessories.
I mean I guess efficiency matters but peak power especially under optimal conditions is not a very important metric.
We've had smooth browsing and basic functionality on mid-range ships for 4 years at least now on Android. I mean I was fine with the 720G in my Pixel 4a. 765 in the Pixel 5 or LG Wing was absolutely snappy for browsing basically indistinguishable from a contemporary cutting-edge chip.
Until phones can do a lot more than just browsing basically we're really at a point of diminishing returns.
I'm on a 3 year old flagship that I just changed the battery in myself about 2 months ago, it's definitely diminishing returns to upgrade; the only compelling spec to me right now is the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. But even that combined with an SOC bump, better refresh rate, more ram etc is not enough to get me to upgrade. I will use this phone until it stops getting software support.
STORAGE!!
The biggest difference between a middy ranger and a flagship, the way faster storage
Now, blame capitalism for this, and you will become the most unique tech channel out here.
Ay! He’s not wrong! Also I did NOT expect that “any phone thay you pick, you will NOT be disappointed unlike your parents! They will always be disappointed in you :)”
The new phone features are removing features like headphone jack,SD slot,charger with the box ...etc
PWM should be listed in the phone's specs
Finally someone else that has a revelation. ❤
Imagine if all phone manufacturers had open-source operating systems...
Subbed! I love my iPhone using cashless payment smoothly and easier than it's android counterpart and my nothing phone with the amazing lights behind the phone, it's a hit at clubs 😂
cheers!
with how little tangible innovation there is now, manufacturers oughta move to a 2-year release cycle and produce even less
sooner or later, we'd be flooded with brand new and rotting-on-the-shelf phones nobody bought because they didn't feel the need to
I literally just hugged Benji ❤
*benji liked that*
3:33 sensor size is not a big deal in photography unless you need good low light performance also they have upgraded their sensors just now the size of the sensor just slightly higher quality
yeah ofc they upgraded their sensors, they are much better. But the size is still important for background blur. good lowlight performance is also really important because you can use faster shutter speeds.
@@Techsnowball yes but if you look at full-frame cameras the sensor size did not increase but they have slightly better processing and quality that makes people get new cameras but as always it's now about the camera it's about the lens and the features it has
@@baths4carsraspberrypicomputer if they made 1 inch sensors more mainstream and allowed full control over all the sensors in third party camera apps, it would be the ultimate phone, easily replace any dedicated camera under $1k.
@@Techsnowballsome dude modded a 1 inch sensor sharp phone and did exactly what you're saying, it's dope as hell
@@LeoMkII I need to see that RIGHT NOW
They keep getting faster but nothing can use that speed,
They advertise gaming but the games that could use that speed suck on mobile because of control limitations,
They keep getting bigger and bigger to the point it doesn't even fit in your hand anymore,
Then there is AI which is just a slightly less crappy Assistant which still does everything slower than just doing it yourself,
Battery Life is the only thing that can show improvement exclusively for addicts who can't live without 10+ hours of battery life,
If they brought back user replaceable battery I think a lot more people would just not upgrade for 10 or more years.
Currently using iPhone 13, only thinking about upgrading because my charging port has roasted itself and the fix costs too much to continue using it
Even if the only thing I use a phone for personally is Music/Podcast Streaming, Calling, and Messaging,
Could've survived with an iPod and Flip Phone
4:10 Nowadays phones prices charts in a nutshell.
ANIMATIONS bro! I need to see someone opening and dismissing apps rapidly and repeatedly, in normal speed and slow mo, before I even CONSIDER buying the device...
Hardware still important.
More importantly is software and stability
MKBHD often says, "Cheap phones are getting better, and good phones are getting cheaper." There's so much truth in that remark especially on cheap phones getting better.
Company's need to start releasing phones every after two years or something, or like, halfway through their software support.
HTC tried it once - with first HTC One (M7) they introduced awesome 4 Mpix camera with huge pixels ( equal to that of much later iPhone 12 Pro?). Change numbers to experience. That was terrific phone and terrific camera.
good old times
5:23 who's watching on a s10 in late 2024?!
No one😂
Phones became good enough, you can just buy any +$200 phone and it will work just fine.
Phone Specs don't matter if you're using a flagship device. Using budget phones or midrange is a different story.
the truth is ....I don't give a shit about the "AI" in these phones ... it's just marketing
You watch the video twice because you didn't get a part.
I watch the video 3 time because of his accent, we're not the same.
All technologies mature. In the early years of the iPhone, technology improved by leaps and bounds.
But in the last 5 years, all we've seen are incremental improvements, nothing groundbreaking.
Last year, I bought an iPhone 15. I expect to keep this phone for at least 5 years. If the phone doesn't break, I may keep it for 10 years *by replacing the battery.*
The iPhone 15's camera is more than good enough. The display is good enough. The battery is good enough.
We've reached "peak iPhone."
As a casual user, all I care about are calls, text messages, emails, web surfing, running a few apps, taking some pictures or videos, watching some RUclips, and maybe playing a light video game. I've been doing this for over a decade.
AI? I don't care about AI. What's AI going to do for a casual user???
On my phone, I'm not gonna write long messages, so who cares about proofreading or rewrites? Writing long messages on a tiny display and virtual keyboard is a PITA.
The same for photo-editing.
I don't receive tons of messages, so AI prioritization is worthless.
In nearly every instance of AI, my user experience is not going to benefit.
I expect most casual users will agree with me.
i agree, for now i dont benefit from AI, i only use chatgpt which helps ALOT, but thats got nothing to do with the phone
the cameras are the main reason why I don't like new phones now. the tweaks of AI makes them look oversaturated, fake, bright and different from what the reality looked like the moment I shot the foto. I actually love the iPhone 5's camera for the reason that it captures the moment, the feeling and the scene, which newer phones just don't.. btw I'm one of the those who use old phones, I've got an iPhone 8 and it's perfectly fine honestly 😃👍
When I "upgraded" from a Note9 to a Note20 Ultra, I felt like the camera got worse, especially in detail if you zoom in, the pixels feel synthetic and closeups of text have really bad lens distortion from the sensor being too big.
I also used to use AND still have an iPhone 5c, and pictures from those look timeless as long as it's in a well lit environment 😂
RIGHT???? i remember a couple years back i bought this cheap poco m3, it was like €200 and was shocked to see how i prefered the photos from it rather than my s21.
@@Techsnowball You're completely right! I had that same shock with my old Galaxy A10. Like these phones weren't that bad at all. In the end it all boils down to excessive software tweaks on expensive phones which makes the photo look worse than a bad sensor on a cheap phone, very unnatural... these companies just don't know what the consumer wants.
Great video continue this path
thank you !
What's next a one second Charge Battery phone
our phones charge fast enough, i dont think anything faster will impress me.
Hear me out, my phone folds
That's 2000£ worth
technically every phone folds, but once once
I had a Motorola One Action and for 2 months I switched to Galaxy note 10, it was such a enormous difference. After that, any other phone I had didn't have any super benefit compared to Galaxy
Out og all the ways youtubers ask for likes this is the only one that's got me. I'd like this twice if I could to double hug Benji
awww, ofc it's all for benji
Im still using my Samsung Note 7, still hasn't exploded yet.
Just had to install lineageos 14 just to install discord because the phone is stuck at android 6.0
i love when people extend their phone's lifespan like this
@@Techsnowball thanks, this phone is really special to me since its the first flagship I've got on its release year, and adding the context that its became a social pariah because of the exploding fiasco made me like this phone more. 8 years still using the original battery and me and it is still alive to this day.
Oh, also I meant flashing lineageos 21, which is android 14
😂😂😂😂
Assuming your US based what do you do if you need to fly somewhere? Buy a new phone? Bring it on anyway? Or not an issue for you. Genuinely curious
6:41 Jokes on you they are at each other not at me🤣🤣🤣
sad
@@Techsnowball
Is it sad probably am I sad no
All i want for my phone:
5,6-5,9 inches
No notch
Relatively slim
NO UGLY CAMERA STANDING OUT FROM THE BACK LIKE WTF HOW DO YOU GUYS LIVE WITH THIS
Power button on the back
Headphone jack
Some space on bottom and top of the phone so it doesnt click when its on my belly.
Relatively good hardware
Open bootloader
At least 128gb of storage.
Thats all i ever want from my phone. Some extras could be a high refresh screen but i dont mind it as much on the phone.
I had my note 20 ultra it was perfect but the screen broke and i bought a23 ultra i wouldve stayed with my note 20ultra another 3 years atleast bcs it was perfect
That last line was personal 😭
haha
I mean yeah I totally agree with you, but I would buy a pixel 9 pro immediately if I have the money, that phone it so beautiful can't hold myself
@@threeonethree2718 same
The end was awsome!😂
Powerful Processing never mattered on iPhone because there was never anything that made good use of it... like what the heck is someone gonna do on a phone as powerful as an XBOX, but doesn't allow you to do anything useful with its power? Browse Safari? I can literally play my entire Switch game library on my S24 Ultra, which is impossible on iPhone even though the 16 Pro has better specs.
Yeah, we are waiting holographic phones
Personally anyone uttering word AI is instant turn off for me. I dont find any of these inbuilt ai tools important. And if i would really want to use ai i can easily do with websites. What i want to see in phones is bigger battery, better display tech, better ui, more freedom to tweak the phone (yeah not an apple fan), better and longer software support, reduced prices.
I want one inch sensors , micro sd slot , dual sim slot and big ass easily replaceable battery
I just started using a Huawei Pura 70 Pro, and honestly this is one of the best phones I have ever used, and this is coming from a former Samsung fanboy, I used an iPhone as my 2nd phone too. Using the Huawei Pura 70 Pro, I came to realize how much specs don't really matter, this is the smoothest phone I have ever used, in no part of my day do I think, "this is using a 7nm chip" It just shows how much optimization can do.
Well i have personally lived under a rock i have never used AI exept for some AI generated pictures but im kind of old school people i dont use tiktok as well so my opinion the AI stuff is kind of pointless because i have seen some videos of like AI kitchen gadgets and the AI of those didn't do anything basicaly so im not personally interested of AI
I only like using chat gpt because it helps with writing TREMENDOUSLY, but all the other AI features for photography i never use
Is still relatively matters, if someone is buying outside of Samsung and Iphones. I have been browsing through Xiaomi's offering and i keep finding a few phones of nearly the same specs but sometimes one is cheaper by a bit for whatever reason (though i don't care for cameras, so that could be it.)
Get yourself a Huawei Mate 20 Pro - a 2018 flagship that's still relevant today.
s20 cam sensor still using on s24 ultra !? real bomb here, most tech reviewer can't really state facts as you did
its not the EXACT one, theres obviously major improvements after 4 years, but the point is, SIZE wise its basically the same. I'm curious why they're not using 1inch sensors
@Techsnowball because of the cost, Sammy is cheapskate. The Exynos chip of some Samsung phones on regional is just low-ball on consumers instead having Snapdragon of the same prize is evil.
The OnePlus 12r is the perfect Goku of the new released phones. Hopefully it lasts like the OG P30 Pro. The rest are way overpriced for no reason.
I still can't get over how the P30 came out SIX years ago and still looks fresher than phones coming out this year
I only just upgraded my iPhone X last month. I now have a 16 that I’ll use until 2030.
From 2000- 2024 I've had 7 phones.
which ones?
@Techsnowball Sony j5, Nokia 3530, Nokia 6600,Nokia 6300, Blackberry Bold 9780,Oppo andq present Samsung Galaxy A35 😊@Techsnowball
@Techsnowball Sony J5, Nokia 3530 ,Nokia 6600 ,Nokia 6300, Blackberry Bold 9780 , Oppo A57, Samsung galaxy A35
4:04 zoom camera is also available on about 400 dollars now.
thats pretty sick ngl. Tho for now now they're not amazin, cheap 2x zoom cameras aren't that good.
@@Techsnowball yeah but I'm talking about honor 200 which has incredible 2.5x telephoto len for 400$. Also Realme 13 pro plus which has 3x telephoto. There are not a lot I know but in the future we might even get telephoto lens on the 400ish phones. That's a good thing for all of us.
@@nyantunaung30 wow okay fair enough, thats really impressive
I usually use a phone for 3 or 4 years and by that time, there is something new for me. I got my current phone last year and pretty much everything was an upgrade. Better camera, larger battery with 67W charging compared to just 10W on previous phone, curved 120Hz OLED compared to a 60Hz flat IPS, faster processor, android 13 with two updates of which I already got one, compared to android 9 with no updates on previous phone. There is probably even more but I can't remember at this point. It's definitely not worth it to upgrade every year or every two years. This is the best phone I ever had and there is a chance that I end up using it longer than the previous one, we will see mainly because of the battery degradation, for now it didn't really happpen but it definitely will at some point. And all of this for the price of a Galaxy A54 which was the newest from that series at the time.
Bring small phones back
They're so much better yet they're so limited in what you can do. The average mid range smartphone is probably more performant than a laptop at the same price, yet lacks all the flexibility of a PC. They just keep getting more limited on the software side of things especially on android, google has kept on making more advanced features worse since like they made changes to how apps access android filesystem in android 11, all the way to today where they're making sideloading worse, the only good thing to come out of recent updates for power users is like wireless debugging. I just despise smartphones at this point, but use my android phone and tablet the most outta any device in my house by a long shot, so they've succeeded in their primary use case and will continue to do so for years to come.
i hate how my oneplus 12 is almost as powerful as my m1 pro mac yet i feel like i can't do anything on it
I agree. I have a iPhone 13 and see no real reason aside from battery life to upgrade
Right and battery replacements are an option that people seem to ignore. That's the fault of Apple and Samsung in the like for making battery removal so hard but nonetheless you can still get one put in for 60 or 80 bucks even if you don't have AppleCare.
Frankly the iPhone 13 had better battery life than the iPhone 14 or 50 anyway. For whatever reason the long-term battery by ability the iPhone 14 just wasn't as good
@ I agree. I miss the era of removable batteries. Now it’s a whole process to get the battery replaced and pray they seal the phone back up correctly.
bro the blue yeti mic is based
its not that much better than the Blue Snowball ice that im using :)
5:33.ya that's true. So messed up they remove items from boxs to be more green but now u have to buy those items that come in packaging so defeats the purpose. Or a other company soldering parts in side there products so u can upgrade so now u have to buy a other product. Or the in cease of ai and how they need to power it as some have stated building more power plants as in Nuclear power. They seem green till u stop and wonder bout the spent fuel rods, or what's needed to make a ev car.. Seems we could do better for the planet if these companies would do better.
i care about the cameras and usability when i buy a phone, i recently got a used A72 because the old one was struggling to work and had a bad camera
I'm using Samsung galaxy A54, if the trend continues then I'll choose my next phone based on display and battery
I agree with you. Phone specs dont matter that much nowadays,even chips have gotten powerfull enought that when you play intensive games you dont have to worry about fps dropping or graphics being trash, but what matters to most is battery life and how hot phones get, Chinese phones got the memo, and now they have 6000+ mah batteries, enough for heavy users to only charge them once per day, meanwhile others try to keep this tech for next year so that they have a reason to sell their phones, cameras are good enough but a 1 inch sensor should be standard on top flagships, i wonder what they are gona sell after all this gets put in a phone tho🤔
i love the new 6000mah batteries, but since they added that, and we have 100w charging, and cpus that on par with laptops, and 1 inch sensors, what else could we possibly need
@Techsnowball now that i think about it, probably the phones getting smaller since they could fit more in a smaller package,being more durable, not being slippery, and thats about it, i give it 8 years when at least two of those things will happen, acually there are phones now with ip69 resistance that dont look like a brick so maybe even sooner
Dont wven think about it
Cool vid. Thanks.
Should I upgrade if I have a cheap phone?
You should upgrade if you have a phone that doesnt meet your needs and requirements
@@zeenxdownz this
Mine has quite a decent chip, display and battery life (when not gaming) at the cost of trash camera and build quality. I'm fine with that.
Soon, those flagship features will one day become commonplace lol. Heck, I'd take a lower mp cam just for more battery capacity.
Recently Upgraded from a Poco F1 to their F6 Pro I'd say 500 Bucks for 1 terabyte and a Processor that will last for 7-8 years is nice. Though I'd miss the Headphone Jack
We really do need sd cards back asap
I'm still on the oneplus 7 pro, and genuinely don't feel like upgrading is worth it yet, maybe when snapdragon 9 releases
Lol at the ending 😅
Just get a brand new phone because it's all a race to the bottom with the battery then you have to dispose it
So basically, moore's law on the smartphone market. Like I bought a midrange phone this year that has the same capability of last year flagship and still and in some cases better than flagship ones 😅
I follow the Fibonacci upgrade program. Every time my watch /phone model number matches a Fibonacci program I upgrade. from the 8 to the 13 then the 21 then the 34! (and I die before the next Fibonacci number)
Without jack and sd slot all phones are same
Overall I want phones to get way more powerful for way better fps and way better graphics for gaming but now it seems like they slow down the pace and are taking their sweet little time to make the phones better for gaming all I want and have been waiting for is for phones to get 240hz scrren therefore for 240 fps in game so i can play fortnite mobile at 240 fps and potentially become an actual professional player tuats my dream so ya.
S10!!!!
I'm writing this comment on my S7...
I still have note 20 ultra. Thing I hate about it is exynos that drained battery in minutes. The rest are smooth even I don't even noticed I used a 4 years phone.
That’s why I switched to iPhone. No more deciding which new phone to pick, just new iPhone every 4 or 5 years. One less thing to litter my mind
thats fair enough, i respect that. You can't even say the same for other companies cuz sometimes they straight up downgrade their phones. Iphone is a safe option i guess
@@Techsnowball I had Samsungs for a long time until my S22 started overheating after couple months of use and I had to charge it 2-3 times a day. Then I said no more of this shit.
Exynos I presume?
@@somerandomfellow8321 yup, I live in Europe so I didn’t have any choice. I really don’t care that snapdragon ones are better, it’s fucked that Samsung makes us pay same price for much worse product
I still have Pocophone F1, it is just so good, there is no need to upgrade.
The only upgrade that will make me switch will be Snapdragon 8 Elite with Linux supported so I can play PC games on a foldable and I also can do editing and programming.
if you could easily play pc games on a phone, i would easily sell my gaming pc for an 8 elite. Problem is, those emulators like WINLATOR are just a pain to use since you can't just use steam.
@@Techsnowball Yeah, but I think in a matter of 2 years it will become the norm
@@aleksdeveloper698 i really hope so
watching this on my 250dollar phone than can do 144 refresh rate and have two proccesors, the 2nd proccesor is a dedicated graphics proccesor.
Well said
I'm on S20 FE. Would like to change it to something more advanced, but besides S Ultra models others are just meh. The same as mine S20 FE just more expensive.
My sister is still on S9 Plus and I'm still using Tab S6. All i did, was swapped the battery.
i want just the battery,after 3 years with poco x3 pro i can say i need a new phone,still searching but i think a55 is the answer...what do you think?this or another phone?
poco x6 should be amazing, why not stick with the same brand? if you want the best battery then the nothing 2a will bring insane battery life. But a55 should be just fine, honestly theres no wrong answer, just wrong prices
Using the legendary LG V60 that I got for under $200. Best value ever!
You speak well, 👍
still use my galaxy note 8 since it came out. replaced the battery once myself for like 20 euros, but thats it. good as new tbh.