WEBVTT - Amazon's Black Friday Deals; iPhone vs Pixel Camera; Uber Rewards 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:09.680 A camera shootout iPhone versus Pixel. Uber launches a rewards program. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:14.080 Apple recalls some of its gadgets. Amazon kicks off Black 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:18.360 Friday early, and Spotify comes to the Apple Watch well 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.439 kind of sort of what's going on. I'm Rich Demiro. 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.960 This is Rich on Tech and this is a longer 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.320 version of the show where I'm gonna go over some 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.760 of the hottest topics in the tech world happening this week. 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.400 Not everything, but this is the stuff that I think 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.600 you should know about. And let's start with Amazon, because 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.680 they are kicking off Black Friday a little bit early. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.280 Seven days of deals. They've got lots of them. They're 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:48.280 calling it seven Days of Black Friday Deals, and now 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:52.000 through November twenty third, which is Black Friday. Amazon is 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.320 just really trying to do a lot of stuff to 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.640 get you to shop on their website. And Amazon is 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:00.800 kind of a powerhouse when it comes to to Black Friday. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.880 They do all these exclusive deals. Prime members, I feel 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:06.680 like have been a little bit edged out this year 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.200 because now Amazon is offering free shipping with no minimum 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:14.360 purchase to everyone, not just Prime members this holiday season, 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.560 and for Prime members they're giving free same day shipping, 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.240 so I did order something the other day. It was 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.520 actually thirty five dollars for free same day shipping, and 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.480 I saw the credit on my order where it said 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.320 it will give me that for free. So if you're 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.520 a Prime member, you're not totally out. They are giving 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.880 you some perks as well for that one hundred and 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:36.360 twenty dollars you pay for the year. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:37.640 So what are some of these. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.840 Deals that Amazon has going on. Well, the majority of 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:44.400 them are on Amazon devices. Obviously, this is when Amazon 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:48.440 pulls out all the stops, so they are discounting these heavily. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.320 Let me go over some of those Amazon devices. So 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:55.000 starting November sixteenth, if you have your eye on one 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.280 of the Fire tablets, those are anywhere from thirty to 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.639 fifty dollars off. So, for instance, the all new Fire 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.080 HD ten tablet is one hundred bucks versus one fifty 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:10.000 starting November eighteenth, the new fireTV Stick four K, which 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.760 is kind of their highest powered stick, is fifteen dollars off, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.080 so that's only thirty five dollars. On November twenty second, 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.040 you can get the all new Echo Dot for twenty 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.399 four dollars. You can get the all new Echo Plus 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.280 for one hundred and nine dollars, which is forty dollars off. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.040 You can get an Amazon Smart plug for just five 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.480 dollars with any Echo purchase, or you can get the 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:36.120 Kindle paper White for forty dollars off. That's eighty dollars. 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:36.720 Now. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.919 One of the things that I actually purchased is this 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:43.080 new fireTV recast, which is their new DVR for over 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:46.240 the air. I paid two hundred and twenty nine dollars 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.320 for that, and it's on sale now for one hundred 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.960 and eighty dollars. So I'm actually gonna go ahead and 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.480 call up Amazon and see if they will honor the 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.840 new price, because that's fifty dollars. That's a significant amount 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.280 of money. They also have some deals on TVs. Fifty 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:04.400 dollars off a Toshiba thirty two inch TV, the fireTV Edition, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.800 which I really like. By the way, this has Amazon 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.840 software built into it. That's only one hundred and thirty dollars. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:11.720 Or if you want a bigger TV, you can get 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.640 a Toshiba fifty inch four KTV, again a fireTV Edition, 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.880 for only three hundred dollars. And if you have Amazon's 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.640 assistant lurking in your house, and if you have Amazon's 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.760 assistant in your house, I will not say the name 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:31.200 starting November seventeenth at nine pm Pacific until November twenty. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:35.200 First you can ask her what are my deals, and 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:39.320 Prime members will get exclusive early access to some Amazon 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.880 device deals. Moving on to Apple now, they've launched a 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.560 couple of repair programs to know about. The first is 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.280 for the thirteen inch non touchbar MacBook Pro. That's the 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.680 computer that I have. Apparently these have an issue with 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.920 their solid state drives, which basically might crash. And when 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.440 a solid state drive crashes, it is not pretty. 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:00.640 You do lo everything. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:02.640 It's not like a regular hard drive where you might 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.160 be able to recover some of the data on it. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:06.240 So this is serious. 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.680 If you have a MacBook Pro one of the newer 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:12.760 models between June twenty seventeen and June twenty eighteen, you'd 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.880 definitely want to go to this Apple website, pop in 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.760 your serial number and see if it's one of those affected. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.320 It's only the one twenty eight gigabyte and two fifty 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.880 six gigabyte size hard drives on those devices, So if 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.039 you have one of those that sounds like your MacBook 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.640 Pro even remotely, you might as well just pop your 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:31.400 serial number in. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:32.320 I put mine in. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.839 I actually have a five hundred and twelve gigabyte drive, 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.560 so mine was not affected according to the Apple website, 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.520 but if it is, they will do a free repair. 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.440 And on the iPhone ten, Apple says some devices might 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:48.200 have touch issues because of a component inside that is failing. 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.480 The display might not respond to your touch, it might 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:55.600 respond only sometimes, or it might react like you're touching 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.600 it even though you're not. So again, this is something 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.200 that Apple will repair for, and you can put your 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.520 serial number into their website. It will tell you if 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.760 it's affected. But if you have an issue with your phone, 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.040 like a crack screen, they're not just gonna go ahead 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:10.880 and give you a new device. In fact, I found 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.760 this out the hard way when I brought my wife's 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.760 device in for a repair. I thought they would just 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:21.120 give me a fully refurbished model, just swap it out. 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.320 They said, oh no, we noticed there's a scratch on 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:27.960 her screen. We will actually repair the device inside after 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.520 you accept our terms. And I got back the same 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.320 exact phone that I dropped off there. So don't think 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.800 you're gonna get an upgrade just because Apple is repairing 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.560 your device. This I thought was pretty interesting. Uber is 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.160 launching a rewards program, and I am a rewards program guy. 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.720 I think a lot of people are out there. I 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.920 think American Airlines actually invented the first major airline rewards program, 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:55.320 and now we know that just about every product, service, website, 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.640 retailer they love these rewards programs. 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.480 Why because they get in there. 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:02.280 And if you think about it, the way that all 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.719 these rewards programs work is they kind of muddle the math, 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.400 so you don't really know. Like let's say, for instance, Walgreens. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.400 You know they've got like a thousand points if you 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.680 buy this product, and five thousand points you have to 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.160 save up to get a dollar off whatever it is. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.760 The reality is we can't do this math in our head. 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.360 It doesn't automatically translate for the money we're spending to 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.320 what the rewards we get. So it's kind of this 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.799 mystical thing where we just keep spending. Like the Starbucks 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.159 rewards program. I know it's one hundred and twenty five stars. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.520 I don't know how I get those stars, but I do. 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:33.920 And once I get those stars, I know I get 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.359 that free drink, which, by the way, always buy the 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.839 most expensive drink. When you get those when you redeem 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.480 those stars, because it could be, you know, the most 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:42.480 expensive drink and you. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:43.320 Still get it for free. 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.919 Uber Rewards is their first program. There's four membership levels. 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.600 You've got Blue, You've got Gold, You've got Platinum and Diamond, 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.800 and basically anyone can sign up for free. And once 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.159 you're in the program, you get one point per dollar 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.680 spent on Uber Pool and Uber Eats, two points for 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:04.520 Uber Uber XL, select three points for Black and Black 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.039 SUV and then once you get five hundred points, you 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.200 go from Blue to Gold. Then at twenty five hundred 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.840 points you go to Platinum. Then at seventy five hundred 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.680 points you get to Diamond, which is a status I 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.280 want to achieve. Earning speriods are six months long, so 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.200 basically you have six months to earn the points that 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.480 you need for the next kind of jump in your status, 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.240 and then once you get to that status, you get 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.080 to keep it for the rest of those six months 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.360 plus the next six months. So it's basically a rolling 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.040 six month program. So let's say it's February, you reach 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.560 the Platinum tier. Six months after you know, let's say 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.840 there's four months left for those six months, you would 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.520 have four months plus another six months after that. So 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.880 what are the perks of this new program. Well, the 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:50.960 number one thing you get when you reach Gold is 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.240 flexible cancelations. So that's kind of nice because right now 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:58.040 Uber has really kind of made canceling a little bit 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.880 tougher because if you cancel, you meet get hit with 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.840 this little fee that you can get reversed if you 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.320 go into the app, into the help section and say 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.760 hey Uber and you explain the situation, which I've done 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.800 many times, they will credit that fee almost instantly. But still, 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:14.560 this is kind of nice because it's it's pretty much 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.640 automatic that you get those fees or you get that 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:22.440 flexible cancelation. You also get priority support. Now once you 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.880 get to Gold, you get price protection on a route, 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.040 which is kind of cool, so you can lock in 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.600 lower prices between your two favorite places on uber x. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.559 So let's say that you commute using uber x from 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.400 your house to work. You can use that as you're 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.800 two locked in locations, and whether it is surge pricing 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.320 or not, you're going to get a pretty good price 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.400 on your route between those two places. So that's kind 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.640 of a nice thing as well. Then once you're platinum, 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:52.160 you get priority pickups to reduce weight times at airports, 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:53.760 which is really nice. I know a lot of people 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:57.120 complain about how long it takes to get picked up 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.480 at Lax with Uber. I did this one. It did 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.439 take a long time. I ended up using the taxi 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.520 line after that, and I have gone back to Uber 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.000 on several occasions. I haven't found it to be that long, 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.160 but they do. They haven't been some sort of waiting 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.760 area that takes them a while to get through in Lax. 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.800 Traffic in general has gotten pretty bad around that horseshoe 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.240 if you're familiar with it, so I think that's part 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.719 of the problem as well. And if you want to 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:24.080 get to the highest level, this is diamond. Diamond gets 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:28.360 dedicated phone support twenty four to seven, and my favorite part, 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:32.520 complementary surprise upgrades from Uber X to premium products like 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.800 Uber Black at no extra charge. And I love this. 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.880 You get access to the best drivers, which I always 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:42.439 thought was kind of a good idea. I know when 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.959 Uber first started they said that the best passengers were 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:47.800 linked up with the best driver. So if you were 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.920 a five star passenger, their algorithm would try to pair 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.000 you with five star drivers. I don't think that happens anymore, 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.319 just based on personal experience where I have a pretty 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.079 decent score, but I can tell you I'm getting drivers 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:00.960 that are not very good. Sometimes it feels like it's 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.360 their first stage driving. So Uber Reward starts in nine 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:10.120 cities immediately. Those nine cities are Miami, New Jersey, Denver, Tampa, 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:14.520 New York, Washington, d C, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and San Diego. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.240 The good news is if you're not on one of 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.240 those lists, they will be rolling it out everywhere very 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.280 soon in the next few months. But every dollar you 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:26.680 spend today will actually count towards your first status when 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.600 the program launches in your city, So that's kind of fun. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.200 You're listening to the Rich on Tech podcast. This is 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.959 where I talk technology and help you get the most 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.360 out of your gadgets. We're talking about some of the 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.480 top tech stories this week and the things that I 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.400 think you should know. Moving on now, Spotify finally came 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.800 out with an app for Apple Watch. So if you 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.800 update your Spotify app on your iPhone, you'll notice there 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.000 is a new companion app for your Apple Watch. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:54.120 It's not the. 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.800 App that everyone wanted. What everyone wants right now on 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.479 the Apple Watch is Spotify to allow you to download 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.240 your songs to your watch. So good case could use. 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.360 Case scenario would be me, I went for a run 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.319 yesterday just with the Apple Watch and the AirPods. It'd 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.160 be great if I could just use my Spotify playlist 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.319 on the Apple Watch, even though I don't have a 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.520 cellular connection as I kind of run along without my phone. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.520 That's kind of the dream we're looking forward to here 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:22.760 that is not happening. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.559 What you do get is the. 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.480 Ability to control your playlist, so you can actually go 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:31.040 on your Apple Watch, choose one of your Spotify playlists, 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.600 have it start playing. Then you can direct where you 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.040 want that to play, whether it plays on sort of 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.000 a speaker, an airplay speaker, or your phone. 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:40.040 You can do that. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.640 You can also listen to your podcast again basically just 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.439 controlling them. And you can also heart songs, so if 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.920 you see a song that you like, or you're listening 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.360 to your phone and you hear a song that you 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.560 like on Spotify, you can just lift up your watch 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.080 and from your wrist give that song a little heart 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.079 and it will be in your library so you can 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.559 find it again easy later. The reality is we can't 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:06.600 wait for the offline listening feature to come to the 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.760 Apple Watch. And they do say that this is kind 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.360 of the first version of this whole thing, and there 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.160 will be more updates coming soon. 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:15.720 I cannot wait. 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.200 And yes, one of those updates will be the ability 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.760 to listen to your music and podcasts offline. There are 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.480 so many great rivalries in this world. If you're in 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.880 the LA area this weekend, it's a big football weekend, 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:31.080 it's USC versus UCLA. Of course, you've got coke versus Pepsi. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.800 But I like to think of the biggest one of all, 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:38.120 Google versus Apple, and that's when it comes to these smartphones. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.760 I think a bigger rivalry is really Apple versus Samsung 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.880 in years past. But here's the thing. The iPhone has 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.920 the most popular camera in the world. Right This is 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.280 the camera that is in everyone's pocket. You pull it out, 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.200 you take a picture, you're on your merry way. 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:53.520 Right. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.520 Well, along comes the pixel from Google. And this really 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.880 shakes things up because the camera uh on the Google 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:04.600 pixel is so good. It's almost scary how good the 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.880 camera is on the pixel. And I'm not saying the 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.920 pictures always look better in every situation. I think that 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.960 the iPhone takes some fantastic, realistic looking pictures, but the 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.720 pixel really shows you what you can do with a 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:20.000 smartphone camera with one lens with a little bit of 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:24.120 artificial intelligence backing it up. Now, the new iPhone ten 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:28.280 S has this feature called smart HDR, which combines multiple 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.600 frames for one great looking shot on the pixel. They've 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.360 been doing this for a long time. They call it 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.640 HDR plus, and they kind of back this all, like 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.680 I said, with a little artificial intelligence. And so they're 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:43.320 taking several pictures at once, mixing the best attributes of 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.480 those pictures, and in Google's case, kind of bumping it 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.319 up just a little bit with what they've learned from 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:54.400 their computational awareness of these things. So Google does a 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.200 really nice job of kind of really making pictures pop, 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.200 and they are very clear. So I took both phones 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.560 to Times Square couple weeks ago to see, you know, 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.880 how they performed side by side. I bought this little 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.480 thing on Amazon, kind of a little holder where both 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.240 phones are able to snap in side by side and 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.320 you can hold it up and take both pictures at 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.560 the same exact time. And so the first thing I 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.319 did was take some video of me walking, and look, 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.280 the video looked perfect on both phones. Now, I used 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.600 to think that the Pixel had better stabilization than the iPhone, 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.320 but I'll be honest, when I was walking, I couldn't 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:27.880 really tell the difference between these two. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:28.960 The only thing I. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.800 Could really tell is that the audio definitely sounded better 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.800 on the iPhone for sure. So I also think the 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.400 video on the iPhone has a much more cinematic look 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.800 than it does on the Pixel. I think the Pixel 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.080 does a great job with the video, but I think 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.320 the iPhone just has much more of a Hollywood look 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.120 to it. Then we took some portrait shots. I had 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.160 my brother Justin on hand with me, so we took 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.800 some portrait shots of him, and again, both of these 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.200 things look great. The Pixel kind of looked brighter and 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.000 the shot from the p pixel is slightly wider, But again, 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.560 the portrait shot on both the Pixel and the iPhone 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.560 was great. On the iPhone, you can adjust the background 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.720 after you take it, which is kind of a nice 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.520 feature that they recently rolled out. Then we took a 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.400 picture of Times Square, just kind of a standard picture 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.760 that you know a million people take every single day. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.840 Pixel really nailed that picture because when you think about 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.320 times square, there's kind of a sky in the background. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.240 You've got a bunch of bright video screens all around you, 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:32.720 and then you have a bunch of things in the middle, people, places, stuff, 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.200 and it's really tough for a camera to get all 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.120 those things in focus and to also get them to 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:41.080 have the right levels all at the same time. So 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:42.720 on the iPhone, I noticed that a lot of the 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.920 bright video screens were blown out, But on the pixel, 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:47.960 it really nailed this shot. And this is where the 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:53.120 pixel excels when it is a complicated lighting situation. When 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.080 it's a complicated shot, maybe not too much light, the 0:15:56.160 --> 0:16:00.720 pixel really performs very well in those circumstances. Definitely won 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.760 that one. Now, we took some selfies. Took a selfie 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.200 with my brother, and I will say that both of 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:10.480 them look great. Selfies on the pixel are very very clear, 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.920 even in lower light. So I think selfies on the 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:18.560 iPhone look great mainly in bright light. Right, So if 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:20.960 you look at the pixel, I think the skin looks 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.080 smoother on there. That could be what they're doing on 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.440 the pixel in post processing, but they both look fantastic. 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.960 The background was also more in focus on the pixel 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.120 as well. But here's where I think the iPhone is better. 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.880 I think faces look more realistic. So the shape of 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:39.160 our head actually seems to look more realistic the shape 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.920 of our face on the iPhone. And maybe that's due 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.320 to the lens. Maybe that's due that it's a slightly 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.320 it's not as wide of a shot as it is 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.920 on the pixel. But I thought that the shape of 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.680 our faces definitely look more realistic on iPhone. But the 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.360 one thing you can't do on iPhone, and this has 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.280 always been a problem, and I've talked about this for 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.840 so long, but on the iPhone, the selfie lens is 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.960 so close up and everyone's taking these group self picture 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.960 selfie pictures. It's really tough to get your friends in 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.720 the shot, right. So Google now has this thing called 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.959 super Wide, so you can actually take a super wide 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.320 picture with the selfie camera because there's two lenses on 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.000 the front. One's a super wide angle, and so you 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.479 just pop out basically to that other lens while you're 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.080 taking a selfie, and man, you can fit a lot 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.720 of people into those pictures. It's pretty amazing. So the 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.200 pixel wins on that one, for sure. But I've seen 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.000 people struggle with trying to fit a lot of people 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.320 into their iPhone shots many many times, and unless you 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.359 have a really long arm, it's impossible. That's why the 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.320 selfie stick was invented. See the selfie stick was made 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.280 for the iPhone. When you talk about the Samsungs of 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.000 the world, a lot of the Android devices always had 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.320 a wider front facing camera lens, and that's why you 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.720 could always kind of get a better shot on the 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.920 selfie camera when you had a group of people. When 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.240 it's just one person, I actually think the iPhone looks better, 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.480 but when you have a group of people definitely helps 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.920 have one of these Android cameras with the wider lens. 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.040 As for other pictures, just kind of standard shots, I 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.719 really thought the Pixel was going to blow away the iPhone, 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.840 but it didn't. I think they both look really really 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.879 good these days, and I think you'll be happy with 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:18.640 either one of them. I think slightly in more scenarios, 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.159 the Pixel is going to take clearer pictures, kind of 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:26.120 more vibrant pictures, but the iPhone is a very good 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:26.919 everyday shooter. 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:27.320 Now. 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.359 One thing they just added to the Pixel, the Pixel 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.879 three and some other pixels as well. Is this feature 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.159 called night Sight, and I just got it on my 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.040 device today, and so I took a picture on the 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.800 rooftop of our garage and I wanted to see kind 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.080 of what it looked like, right, what it looked like 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.160 in almost near darkness. It was the city scape skyline 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.080 of Los Angeles. So I will tell you the iPhone 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:53.639 did a nice job right in basically near darkness, everything 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.040 is very clear, it's just not as bright. So when 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:57.800 you look at the one that was taken on the pixel, 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:00.600 it is very bright. And what the pixels do? They 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:04.080 have a whole blog post about this, but they're basically 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.439 making you hold the camera still for a little bit longer. 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.760 And this will take a bunch of different pictures, it'll 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.720 take a bunch of different data in and it is 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.920 then mixing all that data and capturing all that light 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:20.440 to sort of minimize noise. Let's see, before you press 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.800 the shutter button, nightsite measures your natural handshake. Oh, that's interesting, 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.040 as well as how much motion is in the scene. 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.919 If pixel is stable and the scene is still, night 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.800 Site will spend more time capturing light to minimize noise. 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:36.080 If there's more movement. Night Sight will use shorter exposure, 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.439 capturing less light to minimize blur. Anyway, your pictures are 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.200 gonna look fantastic if you're using that night site. But again, 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:44.640 it's not real life. Like what I saw in real 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.840 life looked different than what the pixel captured. It was 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.439 much brighter, much more vibrant. So and when it compared 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.840 to the iPhone, the iPhone was kind of darker than 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.399