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Not editing the 4:3 section of this video into a 4:3 video is a criminally missed opportunity
I was actually anticipating for it to happen.
Lack of preparation and/or caring
nah i liked the visuals he showed
@@kylekoronaI wouldn’t say lack of caring. I just don’t think he thought of it.
@@kylekoronawhy was this so funny to me 😂😂
As someone who worked at a phone store when the iPhone mini's were a thing, I wanted to add this thought. While we definitely sold more of the bigger iPhones then the minis, the biggest advantage that the mini has was it's ability for people to make the choice to upgrade their phone. For example we had a lot of older folks that would come in with an old iPhone that was about the same size as the mini. But they did not want a bigger phone, they simply refused. But once I showed them the mini, they choose it almost 100% of the time. Because even though the battery was not great, it was still better than an old iPhone 6 or 7.
Also it's nice to have a smaller phone when you don't have gigantic hands and are a smaller person
You are right but capitalism only allow profit products
The issue is the battery sacrifice is not worth a 100$ savings for 99% of people
@@A_GodAppleI would actually pay MORE for a high-end SMALL phone the size of a mini. The sacrifice in battery is well worth the fact of having a phone that fits every pocket and that I can use fully with one hand only. I currently refuse to update from my iphone mini as the current ones are just oversized bricks.
@@AlexanderBlumenau that’s true but thing is that people who think that is small minority. I personally just take whichever one is best value, which the iPhone mini is not unless it’s on sale for some reason
Huge hamburgers should be wider, not taller.
How would that even work, when u add more toppings it gets taller, so you would need to take off toppings to actually make it wider and just make them spotty
@@bradystrouse6422 They just need some of those hydraulic press things you see in youtube vids here they crush stuff, when hamburgers get super tall its like impossible to eat them without smushing them anyways lol
@@bradystrouse6422 just make them longer, like a long chicken burger 👀
@@bradystrouse6422we talking patty, Brady.
I get the 1-day battery life thing... especially cause you charge everything overnight anyway but it's annoying when they advertise these sleep data functions when it's not realistic to track because you have to charge them overnight...
You need 30min only to charge them though. I think Marques himself told in one video it fits perfectly in his “wakeup” routine.
This is only acceptable because of people that use or used to iPhone products 😂 then you tend to ccept what you are given
@@denisi1283 What kind of monster enjoys mornings so much that they want to add another thing to do then? I'm with OP on this one. Charging a phone while I'm sleeping makes sense because that exactly when I'm not using it. Charging a watch while I'm sleeping doesn't make sense, because that is exactly when I would use it. And I do _not_ want one more thing to fiddle with and remember in the morning.
@@1da1a172 this. absolutely this.
@@1da1a172 agree
Vertical videos sure have their place, but horizontal will always be preferred because as humans we have two eyes that are horizontally alligned, and much more horizontal periferical vision than vertical. It feels natural and comfortable to see things horizontally.
Yeah to me 16:9 is the happy medium and 21:9 resolution is the best for movies.
Main argument for 3+ day smart watches is that unlike a phone a lot of us will wear a watch overnight to track sleep. If my watch lasts just 1-1.5 days it means after waking up and going about my day then sleeping, my watch needs to be charged before i start my day again or might even die while asleep. My phone isnt doing anything at night so makes sense to be 1 day battery, but watches can be worn for long periods to track health and stuff which a phone doesnt
That's why the less smart smart watch that can last a week are pretty great. Health and sport tracking but no frivolous app and it looks like a normal smart watch.
Exactly. It's a good take, and the Apple Watch Ultra is proof Apple can still pack a ton of features and have it last 36 hours.
true but it also doesnt take that longt to charge the apple watch. personally a battery charge time of 1.5 to 2 days is idea, Enough for one day, sleep and then work day until you get home incase you forget to charge it
I load my Apple watch when I shower and whenever I want to relax. It's more than enough time to get it fully loaded.
Charge it while you're in the shower...... I have never not done this.
A lot of cinema grade cameras have a function called "Open Gate" which allows for a full sensor read off. On the ARRI thus is about a 3:2. The final video is cropped down to the final delivery aspect ratio but this gives a bit more flexibility in editing.
Yeah but they also has a much bigger sensor and the optics to support it. So less of a penalty to image quality when cropping larger portion of the image away.
Many people do not even understand where those formats come from. A camera lens would best work with a round image, or equally cropped, a square one. Those old 3:2 or 4:3 ratios come from old traditional film or TV formats. As we all know TV's moved to 16:9 in between, while cinemas usually use even wider formats. The idea for a cinema being to present the movie as immersive as possible. Meaning to as much as possible fill out our eyes natural field of view. Vertical videos are just a trend for taking and viewing on mobile devices, as that is the most natural or convenient format to hold a smart phone. But would you want to watch those on a TV or even a traditional personal computer? Funny thing, GoPro has integrated a square format to their cameras, meant for exactly that purpose, to be cropped afterwards.
@alexanderkupke920 I agree. I think a square sensor would be the best option for smartphones. It would be cool to have a "reframe" feature to change the aspect ratio after the video is recorded.
@@RJ-Isaac-TSOML Yeah it would get you the best of both worlds. Or make even another format common ;). Thinking about still fotografy, I think there was a number of middle format cameras that took square images around 6x6 cm on film. But in the digital world, there is yet another one I would have to see besides the GoPro doing this.
@alexanderkupke920 this really only makes sense for smartphones. I don't expect to see a square sensor on a mirrorless or professional video camera. The sensor is a very expensive part of the camera and bigger sensors cost more money per square mm since they have more waste. But on a tiny smartphone sensor, this will be less of an issue.
Showing everyone why you're the best in tech videos. Great video, Marques 👍🏽
I think the difference between smartphone and smartwatch is often, that let's say for a weekend trip you need to take a second charger with you, you also want to wear it overnight for the sleep tracking, etc. All of those things you on't do with a phone. So I think 2 full days should be the minimum.
"you also want to wear it overnight for the sleep tracking", useless feature just go to sleep bro 💀💀
I’ve rarely had a problem with smartwatch batteries, you just need to adapt your routine to make sure it’s getting charged at the right time. Once I got used to taking it off for 30 minutes at a time when I’m at my desk to top up the battery, no issues wearing it through the rest of the day and night. Obviously any batter improvements will be welcomed but I don’t think charging it once a day instead of once a week is a particularly big deal.
Just charge it while you shower or right before bed, and carrying an extra charger's not hard lol
@@Tom_Stevens617my Galaxy watch 6 classic can last 36 hours with the always on screen and constant heart rate and stress detection on and never turning on battery saver mode. I worked out charging my watch in the car works really well. I only drive 15min to work and 15min home so that keeps it topped up during the week. I have a couple longer drives so that will get it mostly to full.
If you leave for a weekend trip, you'll most likely grab it from a charger on Friday morning. And now the 48 hours only lasts until Sunday morning. Now you want 50 hours so it'll last all the way home on Sunday. And then we're at a point where it lasts just enough to not remember to charge often and you'll curse your watch when it runs out of power in the middle of the day . "Full workday" + a fast charger that's easy to carry along with your phone charger is the key if you're doing overnight trips and want to charge anyway. Anything beyond that and nothing under a full workweek is really practical, because you lose the routine for charging.
The problem with the Apple Watch is how can I realistically use sleep tracking and have enough battery for my watch to get me through the day
charge it before you go to sleep every other day. works for me
I have a series 6. I just leave it on charge for an hour or so before bed, and then again for a little while the next morning while I'm getting ready for work or whatever.
That would annoy the f out of me. My HUAWEI watch gt3 pro I use on iPhone cost me 200$, made of titanium and real saphire crystal (Apple Watch Never had that after Series 2 always glass mix) If I wear 24/7 with sleep/sport tracking it runs at least 7 days.
20watt charging while you shower gets me more than 24hrs on my Apple Watch SE (gen 2). From full to 10% I'm able to go 40-48hrs
just buy 2😁
The whole iPhone mini thing reminds me of movies and the differences between _critics'_ ratings and _audience_ ratings. The iPhone mini scored very highly in the "critics'" opinions (i.e the tech KZheadrs and review sites) but relatively poorly with "audiences" (i.e. hardly anyone actually bought it).
It's more of a cult classic really, it's just that the "cult" isn't big enough. Personally I'm using an SE 3 after owning a SE 2, 8, 7, and 6. Clearly I don't like a big phone. But I also want a simple cheap one.
Oh brother
Yes, cult following. But I tell you, that cult is more than halved by the battery issues amidst plenty other minuses. You take very special things and put in the pros and max-es… no one’s definitely going for the mini instead of those. I think it’s really a great take if there was a complete pro in a small form factor. Apple users brag a lot. You can’t brag with the mini against the rest so there’s a tendency to feel less in size (and in all others). I have used only the minis since the debut so I can tell for sure.
i can't speak for other regions of the world, but here in Asia people just buy the big phones for the sake of the "Pro", "Max", "Plus", "Ultra" titles. people really don't give a damn about bigger screen sizes or longer battery life, and i don't know if i should call them stupid or just have too much money to spend.
@@vuxluongwfrom Malaysia and this is kinda true, peers around me automatically associate "good/premium" phones when they hear the word Ultra, Pro, Max etc. The word Mini doesn't evoke the same image in their heads, almost everyone I know doesn't own a mini iPhone
The hot ones sauce easter egg in the hot takes video is genius. This is why you get paid the big bucks MKBHD 😂
The problem with the one-day battery life standard is these watch companies all promote sleep and health apps. What good are those if you are NOT wearing your watch at night because you are charging it? Also, what good are features like fall detection and heart alerts, if you are NOT wearing your watch at night when a great bulk of those event occur?
Yeah but even with longer battery life, you’re still going to have to charge it and not be wearing it, and if you’re already in a daily routine with your phone, doing it with your watch is not that hard.
@@timloader Health and sleep apps would still have functionality if you could use it every other or maybe every 2/3 nights. But the fact that you can basically never use them is the issue.
@@frosthammer917 it’s not an issue though - there are plenty of times in a day when a person doesn’t need their watch on and can charge. For me, I charge it when I’ve arrived home for the night and before I go to bed, works perfectly.
What are y'all about?! I sleep with my watch (and it's an old one, a Galaxy 4), and charge it in the morning while I'm showering and getting ready. It charges in about an hour. For most of them, it's one day as in 24 hours, not a work day.
Bro you charge the god damn thing in 30 minutes, don't tell me you don't got time for that while you brush your teeth and shower for the night.. Come on
Throwing in a hot take about smartwatches: Health tracking is the only USP they actually have, and that aspect suffers when they have to be charged daily, especially sleep tracking.
This is my question... I do not have a smart watch yet but I do want one for two big reasons sleep and fitness/health tracking as the primary reasons with texts and other features as the secondary reasons. So I must have the watch on when I am sleeping to track everything but I also need it on me throughout the day to track my daily activities so when do I charge it??? 1 day battery is just a no go for me.
@@Stecbine Thing is smartwatches charge fairly fast. I have a iwatch I bought second hand and use it to monitor my sleep and fitness/health tracking. I just put it to charge during my dinner and it always last me the following night and day.
My fitbit lasts 5-7 days on a charge and it takes like 30 minutes to get to full. I love it. (It's the Sense 2 btw)
@@Stecbinewhat I do is that I charge my watch when I wake up. I take a shower, brush my teeth, have breakfast and check some social media on my phone. By the time I'm ready to leave for work the watch is close to 100% battery. Currently using the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic.
@@romainsmiley7138 It's still annoying that you have to think about it at all. Like, if you use it like a phone strapped to your wrist, one day is probably fine, but if your main objective is fitness tracking (or even using it as a tool, some models have more advanced navigation functions for trekking and stuff) the models which last one or two weeks on one charge are VASTLY superior. Less chance to miss something cause it's empty at the wrong time.
Not really a hot take, but regarding the smartwatch battery life - that's exactly the reason why i went with a fossil hybrid watch. they advertised like 2 weeks battery life, but mine regularly goes well past a month.
While 4:3 videos might not be the best thing, I think 4:3 monitors for working, are. Vertical space just allows you to be more productive! However most of the time a 16:9 flipped to portrait just isn't wide enough. My ancient 20" 2007FPb oriented vertically as part of a set up is my absolute favourite monitor to work on. And I wish manufacturers would still make such things today.
only one concern: I had Apple Watch and a Garming Watch at the same time. Yeah, Apple had that 1.5 days battery life but Garmin had almost 2 weeks and never felt that Apple is so much "smarter". That's why I feel that one was a good take.
It’s because Apple is a smart watch and garmin is sport watch with smart watch features I would call it
both watches really aren't comparable though.
EXACTLY
Huawei makes some watches too that can easily last for more than a week, but i dont feel like an apple watch does that much more than a Huawei watch for it to justify having such a shit lasting battery
@@sir_whocampsalot2876 its honestly fine dude. charge it in the shower and while reading before bed. never had issues with anything and you dont spend time without the watch except when you dont need it. its an amazing watch and has insane app support compared to huawei
Marques leaving the Bomb hot sauce as part of the setup for this video is just plain hilarious😂😂
and the best smartphones of the year awards right behind it!
@@Doshinkyo I was wondering why there was a sauce in the first place
And strategic via being paid to do so. NOTHING and I mean NOTHING is in that background without a check made out to him!
bc hes talking ab hot takes
Great video, keep doing it more I honestly don't care if its tech related or not it was very interesting.
I just wanted to say that i really appreciate how freaking crisp your footage is.
0:08 "Girls who choose to buy Pixel phones instead of an iPhone are hot" 100% agree!!!
As opposed to the girls who are forced to buy pixel phones?
No red flags at all with a girl rocking a Pixel phone for sure; if I know no one got me, I know Sahil Jain and Michael Chen do.
I think the smartwatch thing is a good take since there are also people who want to wear theirs for sleep tracking. So knowing that your watch will last during the night is much better than feeling the anxiety of having to charge it enough to get through.
My watch tells me to charge for 10 minutes to make it through the night, if you set your time you’re wanting to sleep it will do all the working out and reminders for you. I find it super useful. But as long as my Apple Watch has 20% before I go to bed, I know it will last and have battery when I wake up and then I charge it while getting ready in the morning :)
I wear mine every night as an alarm for the morning. Much nicer waking up to a vibrating wrist than any audio alarm, and it doesn’t disturb others. I just end up charging mine a bit before I go to bed
@@Kaizagade My watch reminds me of charging it before going to bed as well. It's a pretty neat little feature tbh.
@CGingerbreadman I do the same except up to the point of having my phone silent. So, every morning my phone just blast me with its loud alarm and I dismiss it on my watch.
@@CGingerbreadman This is a great idea, I'm going to keep this in mind when I get my watch back.
The great advantage of the 4:3 for video and photography is that light sensors in cameras can grab more pixels with a smaller lens, and that's why it's still used in cellphones for maximum resolution pictures. But for playing video games 25:9 is the best ratio, no doubt.
It was a technical limitation. It was the shape of CRTs. There is no advantage.
@@krane15I think you are misunderstanding what he’s saying. Every lens gives off a spherical image, a circle. To make best use of that lens’s resolution you try to fill it up with an image sensor as square as possible. A perfect square is best, 4:3 is next in line. Has nothing to do with CRTs, in fact 4:3 dates back to the earliest films, way before television existed. It’s just physics.
10:37 My man playing Lies of P with the trackpad what the hell 😂
In hindsight, I really meant 4:3 is my favourite and a more versatile aspect ratio. Aesthetically I like the focus it puts on a subject and how it makes you more considerate about composition. Cropping in on square video, treating it like 70mm IMAX film, is probably closer to an average best.
essentially you like zack snyder's justice league
@@saketbakshi4235 I think it looked relatively pretty but that can't hold my attention for 4 hours... The Whale is a better example utilising aspect ratio artistically
70mm is actually just under 70mm right? Because of the audio capture used on original 70mm film - but they kept the term for IMAX film that is the same aspect ratio but isn’t actually 70mm- I think?
@@benwilliams1267 the internet tells me it's 69.6mm across, which just doesn't roll off the tongue as easily
I honestly think that Academy Ratio is superior in both movies and video. Now don’t get me wrong, sometimes Widescreen or Cinemascope is better, but only if there’s a reason behind it. Most screens are 16:9 and that makes it make more sense that the most used aspect ratio is 16:9 as well, but a lot of people (KZheadrs and Filmmakers) make it look like it took the top off Academy Ratio instead of adding to the side of it. People like Wes Anderson can definitely understand what ratio to use and when, but most KZheadrs don’t really put a lot of focus on that *aspect* of their video and therefore I believe that Academy Ratio should be the standard. You can obviously do what you want, but unless you’re Chung-hoon Chung or Wes Anderson, mby just stick to Academy Ratio and let it put focus on the subject as is usually preferred in KZhead videos!
The 4:3 ratio is basically what is called Open Gate on some cameras (like Panasonic) that indeed grabs an image with the whole chip and is then friendly to edit for both landscape and portrait videos (avoids dirty result or the need to shot a 2nd take). 👌🏻
This (or something like it) is really what needs to happen to compensate for people who don’t know how to film
MTF sensors are 4:3 aspect ratio. But full frame sensors are 3:2
I wonder why sensors weren’t manufactured in circle or octagon shape for utilising all lights entered through the lens. 1:1 is the best proportion.
@@CC39 manufacturing efficiency.
@@CC39 also, consider the history. Photographic film and later movie film was rectangular. How else could you subdivide a strip without wasting film? Since everyone got used to rectangular imagery, digital sensors followed suit
That bottle of Da Bomb Beyond Insanity just hanging out in the background of a hot takes video… Chef’s kiss.
The capital one ad came up at the end of it. The guy was like “what’s in your wallet?“ Then it cut straight back to Marques and he was like “lots of things, cameras, cars, printers” lmao
6:38 I think you meant the *14 Plus*
Yea
Love that Da'Bomb is sitting in the back whilst talking about hot takes
I came to the comments to see if anyone else noticed. What was going on with the ladder as well??
Ooh lol good catch
haha I thought that was a silent announcement for an upcoming episode of hot ones with mkbhd as guest
and you can see smartphone awards trophies on the same table, hinting at the upcoming 2023 edition
14:30 lol that was basically me before getting my 1st smartphone. I only used my old phone for calls, texts, checking the time, setting an alarm and occasionally google something. I wasn't trying to use my phone as little as possible. the battery just lasted a month, because there wasn't much to do on it. at least after I finished high school and stopped playing games on it, when I was bored in class or during breaks.
I watched this twice ,thats how good it is , keep them coming
I'm guessing the issue with the take on smartwatch is a lot of companies are touting health and sleep tracking but when you don't have a battery that can last you the entire day and night cycle..
Honestly 1:1 sensors would actually make the most sense. They can make the most out of every circular lens while also allowing for endless cropping capabilities. Shoot everything, then later decide what portion you need.
Really wish videos shot naturally at 1:1; as a video editor it was always a pain cropping usual horizontal videos to vertical for TikTok lol
The problem with that is that people want to use all of their sensor. It would require mindfulness that you are going to crop the video later. Otherwise, it will look wonky with way too much headroom or the subject way off to one side.
I know I don't get all the pixels I could but I always shoot in 1:1 on my phone so I never have to worry about what orientation I'm holding my phone. Kind of annoys me I can't shoot landscape or portrait regardless of the orientation of my phone (I dunno anything about cameras so I don't know the technical limitation here) but shooting 1:1 makes this really easy to not worry about.
@@t0astfacethe limitation is that the camera sensors put in phones are a 4:3 rectangle. That means that shooting in 16:9 or 1:1 does not use a section of the original rectangle, effectively losing vision that possibly could've been used in the frame. If you were to take a picture in 4:3 and 16:9 in the same phone, the 4:3 will have more pixels and have a wider field of vision simply because you did utilize all the pixels available to the camera sensor, if that makes sense. Now, square sensors would mathematically the best ratio since you can most optimally crop them into any other aspect ratio, but manufacturers stick to 4:3 because phone screens are all rectangles, be it vertical or horizontal.
@@t0astfaceyou only lose filming in 1:1. The only thing the camera is doing is cropping out the image on the origin. You only loose information. Don’t really gain anything there.
I agree 100% with the compliance of people with battery lives, it shows how people dont go after better things bc it wont work, this can be put in all other aspects of life, everything falls into this. People forget that old phones didnt do much so they didnt waste lots of battery, thats one reason why it lasted long, now days we have big programs running all the time, most of it in the background, consuming a lot of space, that's why its hard to last. My bf has a motorola neo 30 and its the only phone ive seen that has a battery that lasts more than one day and its a very good phone
4:3 is a criminally underrated aspect ratio though. You just need a 4:3 (or 5:4 if you're feeling excited) monitor to view things in their full glory
you can view anything in 4:3, just glue 2 pieces of paper to the sides of your screen, congrats, now you can see half as much as before
@@pepepicapinto543 it's not about subtracting space from the sides, it's about shifting it from the sides to the top. My 5:4 monitor is just as wide as any 16:9 I could put on my desk, but there's more space on top to view stuff. I couldn't put a 16:9 monitor on the side either, as it would be too tall to fit. Letterboxing *is* a thing, but it's not especially pretty. 🤷♂️
I absolutely love the 12 mini. I got mine on release and it served me well until it randomly lost all wireless function for some reason the day before the 15 released. I went to the apple store that day to get service. Since it was the last in-store support day of the 12 mini, they were missing the part that needed to be replaced. They only had one 12 mini in stock which happened to be the same color as the one I had so they gave me the new 12 mini for $200 which was the price of the missing part. I will always love this phone even if the battery is a little lackluster.
proving his point
12 mini user here , from my experience people have never noticed my phone as an iphone , it’s a plus for me because of its size & when someone do notices it , they use it and they love the compact form factor that my mini has and they compare it with their big screens, as a con this phone needs regular charging between days , since an older phone might need those frequent charging between days , i had no problems with it & i developed a routine to charge it frequently and this con kinda disappeared for me
It's a real shame that they discontinued the Mini. I have a 13 Pro and the standard iPhone size is already at the edge of usability for me so there's no way I could use a bigger phone. I would have loved to have a Mini option. I guess all that's left now for small phone enjoyers is that one Zenfone?
Watching this on my iphone 12 mini. My backup phone is the first gen SE. these phones are so convenient to carry.
Why dont u go for 13 mini if battery is such an issue for u
David's idea of an ankle bracelet instead of a Smartwatch resonated with me a lot. Wear a normal classy watch and while having something discreet to track your health and sleep, you can even have a haptic motor of some kind so you get notifications, but you have to check your phone to read it.
Fitbit Flex 2 was it… unfortunately, they didn’t make newer versions
So basically a WHOOP
Yeah, the issue is that wearing a smart device anywhere not visible is a hit for the company.
I collect luxury watches which can be a pretty snobby scene, and even most of those guys all agree there's nothing wrong with wearing one on each wrist.
smart ring...?
I went over to a Garmin Watch from an Apple Watch, not for battery but because I wanted to try out a watch made for Running first and a smartwatch second. I've noticed that I'm only missing one feature, and that is taking calls. All the other functions that I actually used, which frankly wasn't much, but sleep and health tracking, apps for running, apps for running analytics, notifications, payment etc I get from Garmin too. What I didn't think I really cared that much about was the battery life, but oh boy, I now realize how much I constantly stressed over that, especially making sure I had enough charge for my next run. Now I charge my Garmin like once a week and I still have a many expected days of charge left, it's just so much more comfortable like that.
This is a fun segment , keep doing it
I think the main difference between phone and watch is that in theory you're wearing your watch 23 hours a day, lets say you take it off whilst getting ready for work and getting ready for bed for 30 mins each. So you need 30 minutes recharge a day to be enough to last forever. With your phone you go 8 hours a day not using it at all, and even then there are periods of the day where you can charge it easily. That being said, 1 week battery life for each would be perfect!
it is so great to just be able to wear the watch all around for no reason to take it off except showering maybe, i charge my garmin maybe once a week and i could just slap it on the charger when i shower, it could also last longer, but i have a lot of features on
Your balanced perspective on these hot takes is refreshing, and all your points make us question what we've readily accepted without much thought. Your series is a gem, giving us some food for thought and a greater understanding of tech.
The thing about the mini is there is always going to be a part of the population that wants a small phone. I guess it wasn't a significant enough part of the population for apple to justify making newer ones, but i think if they released more minis the way they do the SE every few generations I personally would continue buying iphones. I have a 13 mini and i plan on using it until it's dead, at which point im going to buy whatever phone is the best at the same size.
OK, Mr. Squirrel Hands
To me myself the IPhone SE is the IPhone Mini. Or isn't it? Case closed.
THANK YOU for calling out the absurdity of people complaining about battery life while not taking into consideration all of the other benefits. So tired of people not getting such an obvious compromise.
I think the smart watch only lasting for a day is a really good take. One of the biggest use cases I would have for a smart watch is monitoring my sleep. Now it would add some sort of anxiety to have to know if you have enough battery left before going to sleep every single night...
Better get the anxiety app on your watch
Only 1 day? Mine usually lasts for 2 days.
The Ultra will easily last you a day and a night, been doing it since release
Thats the reason I moved to Huawei watch gt4. 2 whole weeks with notifications and all the sensors. Never going back to any watch with less then week of work.
I think the issue is that the usages of phones grew faster than battery tech. If the batteries were able to have higher mAh (say, 13,000) in the same size and form factor of current phone batteries or smart watch batteries, it would be a non issue, but that's not the case. Users need to push for improvements in battery tech if we want to see multiday devices make a return
Amazing video as always! I usually can’t figure out the hidden messages in the background props… but hot (sauce) takes (smartphone awards) competition (ladder indicating the finals steps) must point to the upcoming yearly video
I love your opinions. It changes my stance on many Keep going
Hot take: Apple Vision's main objective will be to replace the purchase of expensive and old Apple Pro (and Studio) displays. Initially, extending macOS will be the main feature and "vision apps" will be nice side widgets that will slowly improve over time.
My most regretted purchase is got to be the series 8. It barely lasts 1.5 days with all sensors on. In my busy schedule I always forget to charge it rather find it overwhelming. So I went back on my regular watch. Hassel free wear anytime.
Same!!!!!
I stopped using the Watch for the same reason. It doesn’t need to last more than 24 hours, but it needs to be able to charge quickly when I take a shower.
Smart watches have other features that people don’t know about outside the health tracking. Apple Pay, Google Pay or Samsung Pay. Mass transit cards (Japan, Europe, and some other countries not USA), Digital lock access via NFC, smart home controls, GPS directions (Apple Watch taps you on your wrist when the next turn is and displays the direction of the turn). Ifs easy to remember to charge smart watches. Just put a watch charger by bed and place watch on charger before bed. It will be fully charged next morning. There are really expensive old school Rolex watches that required the user to wind up the watch every morning.
@@JasonB808all this stuff doesn’t need extra power when nor used. And again, huawei watches have all that with 2 week battery life, I don’t understand what is the apple’s excuse
@@JasonB808 it’s been 6 months I haven’t used my watch and I didn’t need to use any of these features which you are pointing out. :)
4:3 6K is 16:9 4K and vertical 9:16K as well. I think that’s super cool that you can shoot in 4:3 and it scales to both types of formats
I definitely record vertical especially during a concert because it’s so much easier to maneuver and Pan left or right with it
I hate that i'm the only one that agrees with the low battery like take. Ever since I used a phone with a a 5000mah battery, battery life has become my most important feature. Maybe it's because of my inconsistent sleep habits but I often fall asleep at random places in my home and will forget to do my bedtime routine, inlcuding putting my phone on charge. Being able to get up the next day and go about my plans not having to worry about battery life is AMAZING. I can get through 2 days with my s23 and it's my favorite feature. I don't even use 5g on it because I'd rather it save the battery.
I really miss the iPhone mini tbh, having something that easily and comfortably fits in your pocket that can do everything the other phones can is a godsend
true.. I wish the 13 mini will be released as SE down the line.. then that will be my first ever iphone..
@@jijokoshyksjijo3989the size isn’t the problem it’s the trash battery
Interesting take on MKBHD iPhone Mini. The majority of my friends and family members wish for an iPhone Mini with the same specs as the pro models. Most all tech KZheadrs say the same thing “they would sell mini phones if people wanted them” missing the point that people are just stuck with the bigger iPhones because Apple isn’t putting the same specs in them.
I even “downgraded” to a 12 mini just a month ago. And now I don’t see myself ever wanting a bigger and heavier phone ever again!
@@omens3403 agreed.
Watching this on a 4:3 folding screen. I can't deny, it always makes me extra happy when video's fill the entire screen. More than if my regular screen is filled. Its a blast watching older music videos etc.
*deny it *videos fill (plural non-possessive noun) video's = singular possessive noun (or a contraction of "video is/has") Apostrophes are for contractions or possessive nouns, not for pluralizing. *It's a (contraction of "it is" or "it has") its = possessive pronoun All contractions have apostrophes. Possessive pronouns never do. *videos, etc.
@@alvallac2171 nobody cares
Yeah, I know a few artists who still release 4:3 music videos. Apashe did one for his song Human
@@alvallac2171his use of deny was correct
@@alvallac2171 "I can't deny, ..." is acceptable in speech, it is short for "I can't deny that xyz, ..." not for "I can't deny it, xyz"
It would be nice to see Apple continue with the mini series, even expanding it to PRO. iPhone 13 mini made me switch to iOS just becouse i loved the soft, and now the size of the phone is perfect for myself.
Loving the little bottle of hot sauce in the background for the hot takes
Just realized why your videos are so much better than other KZheadrs. You don't put on the fake excitement and ridiculous expressions others do. Just talking like a normal dude
You hit the nail on the head
I'm a new subscriber here and certainly do appreciate the down to earth approach.
Yes, I love that never makes a strange face on a thumbnail. I hate those, because they make me feel not taken serious as a viewer. Nobody in real life would make a face like those annoying KZheadrs.
I have a 13 mini. I started using iPhone since 6s and I can say that 13mini is the best phone I ever had (comparing to 6s, 7+, 11Pro). A better battery starting with 12 mini would have made this shape a great option. I got a A54 for work and I really hate the big dimensions. At this moment, if my 13 mini would suddenly stop working, I would buy another one without thinking about it. This is the first iPhone I have never dropped. I will let you think why.
doesn't that big camera bezel annoys in gaming and watching videos?
@@naruto6918 You forget it's there after a while; said while is immediately lol. You only even notice it if the phone is being filmed and you see the phone in the video it was filmed, which I suppose never happens. No it doesn't, at least for me.
@@GameOver-nm2us try playing pubg or watching movies 🤣it sucks in battery and thermals. It’s not at all useful for heavy users. Look wise it is perfect except that ugly bezel since my friend uses 12 mini
I actually bought a second one now that I still can.
@@naruto6918I honestly have no idea what point you're trying to make here, it's good enough for me, I don't play mobile games as I got a full fat gaming laptop that can run every game, watching content is good and thermals is also good. What was the point of your comment anyways? To belittle the phone? Well guess what, you just made a fool of yourself trying to argue with someone that honestly couldn't give a single dry huge turd what phone I am using. It can scroll TikTok, it can make calls, it can text, it can play videos, it's good enough.
The other thing you get with the other EV trucks is that you don't have to drive around in a vehicle that looks like the body was designed by a 3 year old who was asked to draw "a car". That's a pretty big factor.
You gotta know there are a ton of people that think the cyber truck looks sick.
Plus i really don't think anyone needs a truck that goes from 0-60 in 2.6 seconds. Like if you had an option to get that or a lower price it's obvious what everyone is going to choose. I never really understood the cybertruck hype.
@@jeremywp123You gotta know that there are 10x as many people who think it’s lame, and that same overwhelming majority also thinks the aforementioned minority are children
@@joshuatatro4503 haha idk man, it's pretty childish to make fun of someone for how their car looks 😂
@@jeremywp123Just an opinion, man. An overwhelmingly accepted opinion. What's childish is thinking these are insults. "Nuh uh, my toy doesn't look dumb!" Just drive your poor investment and ignore the haters, Cybertruckers. (Now *that* was an insult, btw) 😊
8:19 - Why not just use a square sensor and let the software/firmware crop and rotate to whatever orientation you want without having to physically orient your phone, that way, we can always just hold the phone naturally with one hand to record portrait or landscape. You could even give the person option to record the squared size and then crop it after the fact.
This video style and topic analysis is great! Keep going with these, we will watch!
If you account for inflation, the base model Cybertruck should cost 48,000. He said it would be 39,800 in Nov 2019. The base model is 60,000
Shhh! You must not speak ill of King Musk! His followers will condemn you!
Honestly Marques overlooks a lot of important details like this.
The headroom on 4:3 makes footages look great when people are having a conversation
I recently rewatched STDS9 and it was all in the 4:3. This requires the actors to be ridiculously close to each other when having conversations. It was kind of funny to watch.😂
That's CRT aspect ratio. It was the reason wide-screen was created in the first place: to give people something to get them back into the theater.
I think the watch comment is a good take. The major thing you're missing on an apple watch is sleep tracking. If you want it for health data, you're missing maybe the most important aspect by taking it off every night
Most people I know charge it while in the shower, not overnight. Besides, it's far from the most important aspect anyway
they charge fully in like 30-45 minuteds, no need to charge it all night. I charge mine after work while relaxing or in the shower.
I wear my older Apple Watch every night...
@@Tom_Stevens617 If you exercise sleep is the most important thing for recovery.
@@Tom_Stevens617 If you exercise sleep is the most important thing for recovery.
Man I loved my 13 Mini. Perfect size for someone who just needs news, messaging, phone features etc. I don't play games, I don't watch KZhead on my phone, I do all that on my PC or Laptop. The only thing was the battery. I had gotten used to the battery and when the phone broke and I switched to a 14 Plus I noticed how much better the battery life here is. I can get 2 days of use out of a single charge. I have gotten used to the big size, but I still miss the agility of using the 13 Mini. I could reach everywhere on the screen using just one hand.
buy an android mini phone
why’d you go from the mini to the plus? why not just the standard size
@@SkiingIsBelieving859 Because I heard about its insane battery life and wanted to try it.
@@AliveGhost13android and google are gross
I'm still on a iPhone mini, and not going to change until there's a new one (I went from 5s to mini, I'm in for the long game) and I guess people didn't get it because of reviews always stating that the battery was week. So if it was slightly better, with one and a half day battery it would have sold like hot cakes.
The low price was the most interesting part of the cybertruck for me. It's so low it's almost "Getting your first car" price range. But it ended up being just another fancy toy.
Ummm... No? First car for some rich kid, maybe. Normal people get hand me downs or used.
@@CrAzYpotpie they originally wanted to sell it starting at 39000. That's less than a Ford F150
@@PTNLemay Only wealthy people or morons buy a brand new car as their first car. Yes, even at 39 grand. My first two vehicles combined were less than 3 grand, and they lasted more than a decade.
@@PTNLemay My reply to you is to re-read my original comment.
Great job on addressing these things 👍
The iPhone 13 mini is THE device that Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive have always strived to create. A small device, internet communicator/pocket computer with a "infinity pool inspired display design". In 2021 Apple really succeeded in creating that vision which Steve Jobs and Jonathan had in 2007, and when they released the product in 2021 people were surprisingly not impressed. Not necessarily because the device is a worse tool than the larger iPhone models, but because it doesn't live up to how the world has developed since 2007. This is a very good example of how hard it is to predict the future. Even Steve Jobs himself did (imo) miscalculation of the form factor of the device/tool that he himself had created for the world.
4:40 Still rocking my 13 mini. I agree they could make it a bit thicker and put in a bigger battery, but I also think they should make a Pro mini.
Hey similar dp!
A 5.8-inchh screen would have been a good, the size of a regular 7 maintaining a compact design with a bigger battery.
Yes, what I don't understand is why they are reluctant in adding some more mah and not just 20-30 mah to battery.
they won't have anything to give in the next update then😂@@nakulkumar4197
Was contemplating getting it this year refurbished but alas as soon as the announcements came the 13 minis were gone from the refurb section. Price of a new one doesn't make sense as it's well over 800 EUR so I'll have to stick it out with my SE2 until something else more appealing gets released.
Overpriced? It's called inflation.
Yo! Jimmy high roller and mkbhd!!! Legit!!! Love the intro!
Definitely need to do a yearly worst tech hot takes of the year review.
Please keep up with this series. You can bring different versions of it. I am personnally waiting dor for "the celebrity version"
Just wanted to say at 4K on KZhead, this was the best lit/captured/graded/encoded shots of a human I have ever experienced. Thanks for continuing to excel technically in everything you do.
8:30 most if not all (I'm not an expert) camera sensors are 4:3, so taking pictures in any other format is already losing quality by cropping to begin with, before you even zoom or crop it yourself. A 4:3 photo on your phone is just as wide as a 16:9 photo, just that you lose some stuff at the top and bottom when taking 16:9. But i agree, honestly i love taking pictures in 4:3, they look much better in most scenarios.
With the GPU thing, I think people underestimate the performance gap between Nvidia and anything any other company is currently doing in that space. Like, all those AI bots and image generators are running on Nvidia GPUs.
Well on raw performance, at least according to their official numbers, AMD is supposed to be catching up. But software and support contracts will probably make them lose out anyways
What people underestimate is 30 years of driver support and revisions and how important that is for PC gaming.
people are also forgetting that if apple ever made gpus, there is only a small chance that they ever gonna make it compatible with non apple products
Nvidia, AMD and Intel hold a ton of patents in the space and a new player would have to navigate around them and tread carefully. It's a very very difficult, if not impossible challenge. This is why we don't see new companies making GPUs. And if a company did create something new, one of the big three would just buy the company.
@AnEagle AMD has always been "there" for raw compute. Its always about the software stack and developers are hooked on Cuda (Nvidia only)...
I like it that you have Da Bomb beyond insanity in the background. That is definitely a hot take.
Was hoping I wasn't the only one who noticed 🤣
I like this hot take series
Back when the 13 was still the latest iPhone I was planning getting a 13 mini. Until I got to my mobile provider and used the floor model. It was too small and cramped. I liked the concept but in practice my hands were too big and I was too used to bigger phones at that point. I ended up upgrading to a regular sized iPhone 13 which felt like the perfect size and I think it was a bit smaller than the OnePlus 8 I was using at the time so it gave me the the same feeling that I thought the mini would give me. Still rocking that 13 by the way and it still feels amazing I probably won't upgrade until the 16 comes out and even then probably not immediately.
I got the Pixel Watch 2 from the 8 pro preorder and I am absolutely happy with it. I charge it everyday but it only takes like half an hour to max an hour to get the battery back to a state where it can be used for another day. I got the charger right next to my desk so I can just drop it there while working and then at some point put it back on and I didn't even lose any important stats as I just sat around anyway
I know this is a tech channel, but I was kinda sad you didnt talk about the artistic merit that there is in 4:3. The snydercut released in square for a reason!! Sitcom people love it to, you can listen to charlie day gripe about wanting to go back to fullscreen in the commentary tracks.
I love the bottle of "The Last Dab" in the background
love this approach.
Love how the smartphone awards trophies are casually sitting in tge background....... can't wait😂
I am convinced that the main problem of the mini iPhone was price. They sold it for only $100 less so it was positioned as a very very expensive phone that had subpar battery life. The mini iPhone should have been an SE type phone. Same with the iPad mini, I think. I hope they release another iPhone mini as a budget option at some point
SE is already the mini budget phone you're talking about
No it's literally a niche product, people crave about wanting a smaller phone but VAST majority buy the bigger one
@hassnaindar9586 i would argue its more about marketing rather than people wanting more. If Apple had a mutil billion dollar campaign about the iphone mini, then its would have sold tons. But Apple didn't want to canablize their oun products so, they didn't do it
the thing is that mini iphone isn't much cheaper to make compared to the regular or plus iphone. the difference is much less than $100. the problem is people's expectations.
@@hassnaindar9586 And for the people that really wanted a smaller phone they would pay the price. Heck I would pay a 100$ extra to get a small version.
The main issue with the watch battery life vs a phone is that it needs to work through your whole sleep since it is advertised as a sleep tracker
I'm stating this before watching the full video but having one of the worst hot sauces (Da Bomb Beyond Insanity) in the background is amazing
13:04 This refreshes a sentiment I heard a while ago: that people don't care about new features and whatnot. What they really want is a much longer battery life!!!
I'm this person. I don't use my phone for very much and I try not to be on it. Basically bare minimum stuff. I was perfectly happy using a 10 year old phone but the battery died and it wasn't worth replacing since it's the cost of a whole phone these days. I really don't need any fancy camera or bigger brighter screen, just want a better battery so it lasts longer. Surely there's a market for a phone like this to exist
My Garmin venu 3 gets about 10 days with hr tracking, ecg, taking calls, sending texts, Ect. But the catch is that all the text processing, call management and voice assistant are processed on my phone. It's more of a Bluetooth device then it's own stand alone smart device. So I get your point on the battery situation. Cause I still have to charge my phone, and if I don't it basically becomes a GPS fitness tracker and nothing else. Still love this iteration of the tech though. I'm used to charging my phone. So I don't have to think about it. I've had many smartwatches from Motorola, Garmin, Apple, and Fossil. This is by far the best I've used.
You still get some smartwatch features with the Venu 3 if you are away from your phone. You can still use Garmin Pay for example, you can listen to music, etc. And unless you pay the insane premium for an LTE enabled watch (in my region it's almost a 150€ premium on an Apple Watch Series 9 for example and roughly 300€ for the Ultra and the Venu 3 was cheaper than a non-LTE enabled Series 9) it's also just a bluetooth device that is tethered to your phone.
It seems that on the big phone topic, people just want more screen real estate. For taking photos, quick edits for their reels or stories, watching content (which is most of what people use phones for) and play video games. I think that's what makes foldables appealing to many--to have the portable form factor without sacrificing any screen real estate. People want more screen.
A lot of people are talking about smartwatches and sleep, but my take on it is as long as it lasts with me charging it when I shower or take a dump then I think it is the ideal battery life.
13:20 disagree with this part, simply because you don't wear your phone. Especially when manfuacturers push sleep tracking features and such, it doesnt have the same easy logistics as plugging in your phone every night. Even just taking off your watch to charge it takes a lot more effort than plugging in a phone. Not saying its like a ton of effort but relatively speaking it really just functions completely differently than a phone from a logistical perspective
4:3 for video kida does make sense for the flexibility of modern media comsuption but something that i would truly love to make a comeback especially as a laptop user are 16:10 screen even with a relatively big 16" screen the lack of vertical space really kills split screen usage on the 16:9
>>laptop user
8:5 all the way.
I still don’t like vertical video, but maybe that’s because I fly drones. But, then came the DJI Mini 3 Pro, where the camera actually turns, so you can take vertical video and pictures 🙄 I don’t have one of those little drones (Mini 3 or 4 Pro) So, I still go with 16:9 video and 4:3 photos, and just crop photos to 16:9 if I include them in a video. Anyway, that’s my take, I know it’s not a hot one but I thought I’d share that perspective. Keep up the good work Marques, love your videos! Always very informative, interesting AND entertaining!
If Apple made discrete GPUs, they'd probably only serve the workstation GPU market and charge $10000.
you should do vids like these more often... was great hearing your clarity on tech brovado..
*bravado.
I still rock a mini iPhone and I agree I am in the minority of loving the size of the phone. Still feels amazing in the hand, I never have an issue with battery because I only use it really on the go (I work from home so not often), and it isn't intrusive in my pockets. I like the iPhone mini because unlike other smaller phones, it doesn't sacrifice the software or hardware experience like the SE or smaller Android phones. It genuinely feels like a flagship phone in a compact form factor. My only gripe with removing the option of a mini iPhone or just small phones in general from the market is removing options for consumers, mainly because big phones aren't suited for everyone while small phones aren't suited for everyone. It would be nice if the market had small, medium, and large options, where instead it feels like you get only medium, large, and extra-large options IMO.
i agree. i feel bad for my friends who have the iphone 13 mini because they can’t upgrade in the future to another mini. For some people, the mini is the best option. I find my 12 Pro to be too big for one hand use. i’d love a mini without the notch lol
2:30 isn't this 4 year ago show the same demo show where they actually broke the unbreakable glass ?
Regarding smartwatch battery, the difference with a smartphone, is that you want to use a smartwatch while you sleep (for sleep tracking or vibration only alarm). So then you need a different charging schedule. I'm still holding of on buying a "fancy" smartwatch because of that.