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all
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right I'm back I'm back from Australia
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all the way from Down Under And I did
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bring exactly one souvenir with me but I
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flew in this morning cuz Apple said they
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were going to announce some stuff and
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they did there was an event today so
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here's my first impressions so we got
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the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro today along
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with new airpods and Apple watch and
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I've got some handson and some first
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impressions for you of all that stuff
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right here so so let's just start with
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the new phones we knew this was coming
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right a very very minor incremental
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overall update but somehow Apple's still
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got to try to get people to buy it so
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what will they do so iPhone 16 looks
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very much like iPhone 15 but there's
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some new colors as you can pretty much
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always count on this year it's
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ultramarine which is kind of this Indigo
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pretty sick teal pink black and white
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and the cameras instead of being
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diagonally oriented are now lined up
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again next to each other like it was
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back in the iPhone 10 days but it's not
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just a retro touch that's also so it can
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shoot spatial videos and pictures now so
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the sensors are aligned with each other
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again but then everything else the
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rounded Corners the size of the regular
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phone and the plus phone the speakers
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the antenna lines everything just
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basically the same not much new going on
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here inside they bumped it up from the
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a16 bionic to a new a18 so there's some
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solid performance improvements in the 20
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to 30% range better Ray tracing and a
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two times faster neural engine and 8
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gigs of RAM for all that Apple
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intelligence stuff really the most
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underrated new hardware to me though
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that they talked about is Apple briefly
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mentioned that these new phones will all
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have larger batteries and so that seems
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to imply that it will actually have
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better battery life but also at no point
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did Apple ever say any numbers not a
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single number was uttered during the
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battery section no graphs or anything
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like that so we don't know exactly how
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much bigger this new battery actually is
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and the only numbers we've been able to
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find is if you look on Apple's compare
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page for the phones it said the iPhone
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15 would get a battery life of 20 hours
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of video playback and this new 16 gets
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22 so I'm going to be putting these
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through the paces you already know if
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you want to get subscribed to be among
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the first to see the full review that's
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when we'll be able to figure out if it's
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actually a significant Improvement in
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battery in other ways but as of right
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now better battery sure and then I never
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thought I'd say this sentence again but
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this new iPhone has two new buttons so
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first of all it gets the action button
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from last year's Pro so now you can do
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the exact same customized shortcuts from
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a flashlight or Shazam to a series
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shortcut or whatever you want and then
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there's also another new button called
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camera control and this second button
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it's kind of it's a touch sensitive
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cutout covered in Sapphire with a taptic
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engine behind it now it does actually
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move it is an actual button just to be
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clear but just like the trackpad on a
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lot of modern laptops the vibration
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motor clicks to also make a half press
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feel like you're clicking a two-stage
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button like a camera shutter button and
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it is also very convincing so the magic
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of this camera control area is what
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they're calling it is that it is
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pressure sensitive and it's basically a
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tiny trackpad on the corner of the phone
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it's it's capacitive sensitive so you
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can swipe and do gestures along the
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corner of the phone and so Apple's
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decided everything that this button will
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do will be camera related so if you
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press it from the lock screen it opens
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the camera app and then when you're in
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you can click it again to take a photo
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or long press to start taking a short
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video but then you can do a little half
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strength double tap to open up a menu
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for different camera options and then
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slide your finger along this camera
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control to change them so you know it
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takes some getting used to you got to
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get used to the placement of your hand
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and how fast you swipe but once you kind
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of know what you're doing it feels
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pretty smooth and it's pretty sensitive
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and intuitive so this is all a bunch of
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functionality that's being added
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basically into Apple's camera app but
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Apple's also said that thirdparty apps
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that use the camera will also be able to
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take advantage of the camera control so
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Snapchat Instagram highight Etc they'll
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be able to also use the slider so I
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think it's pretty cool I think it's
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technically very impressive I'm just
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trying to figure out kind of similar to
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the action button how useful it will
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actually be like it is kind of in this
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awkward spot on the bottom right of the
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phone it makes sense as a horizontal
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shutter button but they're kind of
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splitting the difference trying to also
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make it usable in a vertical Ori
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orientation I just I'm curious how many
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people actually use this regularly cuz
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again it is on all the phones but yeah
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that's about it for the 16 I mean the
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display also does now drop down to one
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nit minimum brightness so that's that's
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great at night it is also still a 60 HZ
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display on an $800 Flagship in 2024 so
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that's really disappointing for me
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personally but overall this phone is I'd
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say it's still pretty tempting to say
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that this base model is probably a
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better buy for most most people over the
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pro phones but let's just get into the
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pro phones shall we new colors this year
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desert titanium which goes alongside the
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classic natural titanium and then a
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slightly darker black and a slightly
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whiter white but otherwise same design
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again plus the new camera control and
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the main updates with the pro are the
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new screens and the new chip so the
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phones actually get slightly bigger this
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year so the screen sizes are up to 6.3
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in on the pro and 6.9 in on the pro Max
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thanks to the thinner bezels which I
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didn't think I would notice but I'm
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actually looking at them and they are a
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little noticeably thinner so you can
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kind of tell and inside there is also a
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new chip as well it's the a18 pro so
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this is the new highest end chip in any
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iPhone and this again should have
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performance boost and efficiency boost
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over last year's Pro phone again in the
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20 to 30% range so CPU and GPU improving
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better rate tracing should still have
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the faster USB 3 speeds that the pros
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get uh but again the efficiency
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improvements have them saying that the
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pro Max will now be the longest battery
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life ever in an iPhone by how much I
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don't really know but that's that's good
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to see but the camera is of course
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always the highlight of the pro phones
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and there are three new cameras on these
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Pros versus last year so a new 48
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megapixel main camera then a higher
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resolution 48 megapixel ultrawide camera
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from the 12 from last year and then the
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smaller Pro also gets a 5x telephoto now
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so the smaller Pro used to have a 3X but
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now both Pros have matching all three
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cameras it's also wireless charging a
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little bit faster 25 watts so that'll
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get you 50% in 30 minutes of charging
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with the new mag safe charger nothing
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too crazy and also 4K 120 FPS slow
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motion straight out of the cameras now
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and that's that's pretty sick I'm sure
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the file sizes will be nuts from the
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prores version of this but it gives you
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really functional files that you can do
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a lot with it also totally proves to me
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that they could handle processing enough
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to shoot 8K 3030 but they're just
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choosing not to now there was a whole
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lot of talk a whole long section of the
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keynote where they constantly talked
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about Apple
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intelligence and I mean they have to
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because it's a really big deal for them
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but the thing is these phones will
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launch with iOS 18 18.0 and that means
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they will launch with no apple
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intelligence features at all no gen
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mooji no image playground no writing
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tools nothing that shiny brand new
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iPhone 16 that you take out the box in
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September 2024 and start using in a
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couple weeks will have the old Siri on
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it now they'll start to come out bit by
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bit with software updates so
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18.1 has the new Siri and a bunch of
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writing tools and some other stuff but
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it's it's becoming harder and harder to
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pair that stuff directly to this new
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phone as a part of this upgrade I mean
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if you've watched my videos before you
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know about one of the golden rules which
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is to never buy something based on the
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promise of future software updates so
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this feels like a big separation moment
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for the iPhone at least to me where each
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year of the new physical phone that you
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buy is just a small Improvement it's
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just a little bit faster chip a little
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bit better screen slightly better
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cameras but on the other side is this
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rapidly improving ball of all this AI
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stuff that is not launching on the phone
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but that is the totally separate really
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big reason to get the phone so yeah it
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feels like I'm going to need to review
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all of that stuff separately in its
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entirety when it does finally come out
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because it it comes out so separately
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from the phone itself um anyway there
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were also some other Apple announcements
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today aside from just the iPhones and we
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got new airpods and new watches so there
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were lots of rumors about this huge
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redesign with the Apple watch for the
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10th year but now that we actually see
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it Apple Watch series 10 is mostly
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slightly new again now okay it is 10%
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thinner and 10% lighter and that's nice
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and it has a slightly larger display
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again with thinner bezels and better
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viewing angles plus a new S10 sip inside
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that's it oh and of course you got to
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throw some new colors as well so the
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aluminum has silver or rose gold or this
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new jet black finish which is a bit of a
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shiny throwback and then they've dropped
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stainless steel for titanium which now
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comes in natural tit tanium gold colored
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or slate colored so that's the redesign
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again it is pretty minor uh I don't want
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to downplay the amount of technical
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engineering that goes into achieving
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these things like clearly you still have
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to combine the metal back plate and the
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charger into one piece with the antennas
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integrated to improve the thinness and
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they're using what they're calling the
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first wide angle OLED display to help
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you see the screen from more angles
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which actually does matter on a watch
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but yeah I think if you were expecting
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some crazy radical you know Square watch
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or something nuts then yeah this is very
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much still the classic Apple watch shape
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there are some new watch faces since the
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second hand now is always visible even
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when always on display is gone dark so
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that's cool there's also a new depth app
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and a new tie Z which I think looks
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really cool I don't even surf or have
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any use for this app but it's just kind
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of cool flipping through and seeing
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exactly when sunrise and Sundown are and
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high tide and low tide are every day if
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you're near a coastline they also
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introduced sleep apnea detection using
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only the gyroscope this is another
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coming soon feature it's like pending
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FDA approval and Regulatory bodies
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around the world to actually launch but
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the fact that it only needs a gyroscope
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to detect it I thought that was pretty
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cool so those series 10 watches are
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going to start at the same prices as
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last year's series 10 watches and then
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we also got a new Apple watch Ultra 2
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and by new Apple watch Ultra 2 I mean a
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satin black finish of the existing Apple
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watch Ultra 2 and I am so into it I have
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absolutely no real reason to upgrade but
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this is just one of those things that
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companies sometimes do they just make a
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matte black version of something that I
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totally don't need but suddenly they
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have my shipping address and credit card
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info and I just end up buying one I'm
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told this is a pretty robust coding
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process so hopefully it shouldn't chip
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or scratch too easily and then maybe
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show like light raw titanium underneath
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but also it's an ultra watch so I think
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someone's going to do it but then there
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are also the new airpods the airpods
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upgrades or upgrades one of them one of
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them's a fake upgrade so the new base
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airpods airpods 4 have been redesigned
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and there's actually two versions so for
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129 there's the new airpods 4 with the
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new shape and then for
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179 there's the same new airpods version
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but you also get active noise
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cancellation and a wireless charging
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case with a tiny speaker built in for
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find my so yeah this new shape it's a
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little different so it may fit a little
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better in some people's ears like mine
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like the old ones or terrible for me but
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these are a little better but that also
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means they may be a little bit worse in
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some people's ears but yeah to get I
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think for under 200 bucks active noise
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cancellation in airpods with a 4-Hour
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battery life I think there'll be a nice
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little Target demographic waiting for
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that and then airpods Pro 2 didn't
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really get a whole lot technically new
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here but they also did get certified as
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a clinical grade hearing aid which is
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pretty awesome plus some other hearing
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protection and testing features are
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added as well but the biggest upgrade of
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the day and by that I mean non upgrade
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fake upgrade of the day goes to airpods
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Max now keep in mind these headphones
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came out originally in 2020 like we
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reviewed these a long time ago these
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were $550 when they launched and they're
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still $550 in 2024 and they still have a
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lightning port and they still don't have
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an onoff button and they still have that
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dumb case that they came with so they
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finally get this update airpods Pro 2
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and the update is five new colors and
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they have a USBC Port now which okay
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yeah they literally had a lightning port
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in 2024 so we're happy to see that but
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then that's it like there's not a single
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other change to these new airpods they
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still don't have an onoff button in 2024
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they still have that stupid case they
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came with like they got the feedback we
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know this case isn't good they didn't
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improve that at all they still have the
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H1 chip even though all the other
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airpods are on on the H2 chip now what
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did the entire airpods Max team go into
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a coma for 4 years and then wake up a
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week before this announcement and
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scramble to put this together this is
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weird the sad part is I'm probably still
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going to upgrade to them anyway because
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I just I can't carry a lightning cable
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around anymore and I keep forgetting it
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and then they keep dying and I keep
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needing a lightning cable and it's just
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let me just stop having that headache
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but yeah weird non- upgrade very
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disappointing airpods Max but that's
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basically it those are my announcement
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thoughts and reactions and first
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impressions and generally yeah not a ton
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of major new stuff I think really the
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two big highlights are one this
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separation between the hardware upgrade
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and all the software that's coming to
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the hardware but not launching with it
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and honestly two is is this camera
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control thing this weird button that
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they've added it's fascinating the fact
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that they've added it to both the pro
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and non-pro phones when I didn't think
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they would that's interesting the fact
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that case manufacturers are going to
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have to deal with this now like some of
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them are going to have a little cutout
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for it but some of them may try to do
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the same thing Apple did with like a
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little capacitive glass thing over the
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top of it to keep it flush that's
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interesting the fact that it won't come
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out with the two-stage shutter press in
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the actual camera app until later this
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year via a software update that's just
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weird too there's just a lot of fun
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weird stuff going on with the shutter
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button but now that you've made it this
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