Pixel 10: is it the Best or the Worst?

Wait, didn't Adam have a hot take?

>> That's around the category.

>> It was pixel related. My hot take was

that Pixel 10 was phone of the year.

>> Can you press that button for me?

[laughter]

>> There you go.

>> I'm surprised you actually did it.

>> I have the Pro.

>> Yeah.

>> And I feel like I spent too much. Like I

should have just gotten the 10 because

the 10 does everything the Pro does.

It's super on sale almost immediately if

you don't get it at launch. like if you

just wait a couple weeks, it's on sale.

And besides that,

>> the AI, I hate to say it, but the AI

stuff that the Pixel has been doing

compared to something like the iPhone,

which is just another iPhone, it's

actually been very useful. And like

[clears throat]

>> thinking about switching phones, even

Android to Android, I'm like, uh, I'm

going to miss some of those AI features,

though. Like, I really enjoy them. I

mean, I could go to Samsung because

Samsung just has all the Gemini features

anyway. I was that's exactly how I would

pick it apart is like if I were giving

an AI of the year award, it would go

straight to Google and then by proxy

also Samsung because they use all the

same stuff.

>> And then I would also say to your point

of the Pixel 10 Pro feeling like a

ripoff. I think it's because it was a

worse deal than ever this year.

>> And it doesn't mean that 10 is phone of

the year good. It just means it's a way

better deal and feature set because it

has all the same software features and

it has the same tensor chip

>> and triple cameras.

>> I just feel like

if if you take I mean I know this is a

hard ask but if you take someone out of

the like Apple versus Android world like

a fresh person coming into the world

who's just looking for their first

smartphone and they have no no horse in

any race

>> and they're like give me a phone. I'd

probably give them a Pixel because it's

doing more interesting.

>> Where in the world do they live?

>> It doesn't matter.

>> You're giving them the phone or they

have to They don't have to pay for the

phone.

>> Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm giving them the

phone.

>> You're giving them a Pixel 10.

>> Like the best phone. I'm giving you a

phone. Here's a Pixel 10.

>> That's interesting. I

>> That's an interesting question. I would

probably give that person a

>> S20. No, I [laughter] would give them an

S25 Ultra. Probably

>> just like the most beefiest.

>> Just the most stable. It's the most

boring, the most stable. that doesn't

improve that much year to year, but it

always has good battery, good cameras,

good software updates, good screen every

time.

>> You want to give someone fresh to the

universe a boring phone?

>> Yeah. Well, I don't want to give them a

phone that like if I give them a a

Xiaomi 17 Pro, next year there's going

to be like a totally different design

and no screen on the back, but this

other crazy feature, and they're going

to have gotten used to one thing and

have to switch around. People just want

stability.

>> That's exactly what we went through in

the early 2010s. Okay.

>> Every single year was fresh as hell.

>> Yeah. Yeah,

>> consistency was not a thing. I don't

know her.

>> As the only Pixel 10 owner here, Andrew,

what do you think of my take?

>> I think you're wrong.

>> Um, well, it's funny because you you

keep thinking

>> I feel like I should go down. I keep

feeling I feel like I should have spent

another $100 and went up because then I

would have gotten 256 base storage and

better cameras and

>> a better I I mostly wanted the yellow,

which is my ultimate downfall.

>> The only reason I got the thought would

be so bad. [laughter] Yeah. Uh

uh I think one thing you did mention

though which is kind of a comment I

wanted to address is

>> there's so many people we judge

everything on MSRP at launch. Um, which

is like a lot of people keep saying,

"Well, this was actually a great phone

once it went on sale, blah blah blah."

And it's like that can be true, but it's

so hard for us to ever base that off of.

I know we've said this a thousand times,

but like I can't we can't base things

off of carrier deals and two for one

deals and like on sale the Pixel will

go. It's great to know it great. It's

great to say like, "Hey, this kind of

sucks at $800, but if you're willing to

wait three months or Black Friday, the

Pixel will be way cheaper." I mean, MSRP

stands for manufacturers suggested

retail price, and that means that that's

what they think that that device is

worth.

>> So, if that's their judgment of it, then

that's probably what we should be basing

it on.

>> Yeah. And I could also, you could

probably make the argument that things

that constantly go on sale means that a

suggested price probably wasn't the best

uh idea in the first place, and it's

correcting pretty quickly.

>> Well, Google should figure that out cuz

they do the same thing every single

year. [laughter] Yeah,

>> just make it cheaper to begin with and

you'll sell way more.

>> They had that. They had it for a while.

>> I know. They did. They almost did it.

>> Remember when like

>> they could have had it all.

>> We were saying that like Pixel 7 was too

good of a deal to not even look at the

Pro and people on the Google team were

like, I guess we should just make it

more expensive.

You should have. You really screwed the

pooch on that one, man.

>> Well, they shouldn't have made it $300

more for the Pro before. Like that was

insane.

>> Overall though, um I'm pretty happy with

the awards. I think that people picked

up on some trends of like this. I don't

know when's the last time Samsung or

when's the last time Google won zero

awards

>> and Samsung S series won zero awards.

>> Yeah, probably first time in a while.

>> Um, iPhone winning bust and winner in

the same year is hilarious. I think

that's also happened before. Didn't HTC

pull that off?

>> No, they did most improved and bust.

>> O. And we they asked for the most

improved trophy, so we sent [laughter]

them the toilet bowl trophy. Also,

>> it's hilarious. Yeah. Anyway, so let us

know in the comments if you agree,

disagree. We enjoy reading all the

>> Let me speedrun a couple comments.

>> The comments. All right.

>> The most comment was, "Wearing a blazer

and a hoodie is diabolical, apparently."

>> Last year, I got the comment.

>> I thought it looked sweet, but I have no

fashion sense at all, so maybe that

tracks.

>> I loved it.

>> All right, next comment.

>> Good lord. This one recently has been

nagging at me a little bit, but I

there's so many people who love to say

you're in a bubble. You don't get to

experience all the other phones, but

like we're all in our own bubbles. So,

as long as this is my awards,

>> I thought you were super clear about it

this year, too. Sorry.

>> Phones I test.

>> Yeah.

>> Phones you test and ones like

>> it's within the US bubble because we

live in the US

>> unfortunately. We try like we probably

get more phones than the average US

reviewer gets and you definitely try

them. But I thought you were very clear

this year like these are my awards the

things that I like.

>> It's I also said that specifically

because other YouTubers also do their

own awards. If you have your people were

uh quote tweeting my list and giving

their own set of awards which is maybe

they have used some of those phones,

maybe they haven't. But like anyone can

make their own set of what they think is

the blank of the year.

>> Um I give mine because I think I have a

unique perspective of I've been able to

test all these devices. So, here's my

perspective from what I've tested and

then other people will give theirs. So,

yeah, I'm I'm sticking with mine.

>> Yeah, obviously. [laughter]

>> Um, okay. I went through a couple of

these just in our normal thing. Okay,

here's one that made me mad. [laughter]

>> No. And it has nothing to do with our

audience. It has to do with YouTube.

>> Where's the timestamps?

>> Okay. I added them at at launch.

>> Did you?

>> They were there. Yeah. So, they were

there for a couple hours and then I saw

that comment. Then I went back up and I

was like, "They're gone." So, I went

back to the description. They're all

still sitting there. So, I simply

deleted a letter and added a letter and

hit save again and all the time stamps

came back.

>> So, we do this with the pod. We've We've

had this struggle before. Obviously,

this is a video that we should be

timestamping. So, I

>> I'm sorry, but also like not cuz it's

not my fault, but yeah, the time stamps

should be back. And if they disappear

again, just ping me on Twitter again and

I'll put them back. There was a comment

that did the time stamps and everyone's

like, "You're a savior." It's like they

were in the description the whole time,

[laughter] but just like, "Yeah."

>> Yeah. YouTube,

>> what the man,

>> please let I want a public apology. Fix

this.

>> Also, this isn't like UI. Like, this

isn't like a YouTube feature where you

click the timestamp button and add them.

This is if you decide in your

description to type out timestamps with

titles, it auto detects it in the

description of the video and adds

timestamps. Everyone has sort of figured

out that that's how you do that at this

point, but there's never been official

UI from YouTube to add timestamps to a

video. Yeah. Why?

>> It's unofficial.

>> It's a super useful feature.

>> It should be the easiest.

>> There's only like a trillion dollars in

data center investment way [laughter]

from pulling this up. They're going to

get it soon. Don't worry.

>> Seems very doable. They basically have

it already, right? You can pick where

ads go in the middle of your video

through a UI system, right?

>> But Andrew Andrew [laughter] Andrew

Andrew

>> make them money. Okay. It can d it can

insert dynamic ads into timestamps, but

I can't just pick that timestamp and

write with this text.

>> Do timestamps make them money?

>> They got rid of [laughter] annotations.

They got rid of all this the clutter. I

think it would be super easy to add a

timestamp feature, please. YouTube,

>> I want to scream. It makes me so

>> seems so obvious. By the way, the video

we did the summer awards is a 2.4x1

aspect ratio, which meant it's not

supported uh for end cards. So, I

couldn't add end cards to really.

>> It's an unsupported aspect ratio, which

I thought was a bummer.

>> What?

>> Uh, but yeah, that's another weird quirk

about this video.

>> I saw a lot of comments about that, too.

>> Why didn't this auto play? [laughter]

>> I think the last thing I have here is

there's a lot of love for the Red Magic

11 Pro.

>> Yeah, phone. Yeah. Uh, I have flirted

with the idea of adding a gaming

category every year, but I never really

test that many gaming phones and I'm

also not even that into gaming. A lot of

the gaming phones I end up testing, I

end up looking at them through the lens

of are they a good phone the rest of the

time that you're not gaming, right?

>> So, like the two or three gaming phones

we got this year were good phones. But

>> this phone had like a a liquid like

cooling loop that was like visible

through the glass back. It was super

interesting. I'm pretty sure Zack tore

it down. It was a really interesting

interior. Uh like a phone on the side of

the phone blowing hot air out of it.

Like it was a cool phone.

>> Um but I it didn't really it wouldn't

have won like my design award. It

wouldn't have won my best big phone. So

it just kind of didn't get mentioned. So

that's valid. I just haven't like there

is no gaming category. So

>> yeah. Did you see what it looked like in

your story about the uh

>> I saw someone screenshot it looked kind

of

>> it took like a story that we were

shooting smartphone awards and because

it's like a it's like a clear back but

it has this like faded black border and

for some reason the way the light was

hitting the phone and you took it it

just looked like this almost see-through

phone with black bezels and no one could

figure out what it was.

>> Oh wow.

>> Um

>> that's funny.

>> It was Yeah, it was kind of

>> Does have 80 watt wired and wireless

charging. Yeah, they got wireless

charging in there, which is cool.

>> 80 watt wireless.

>> Is that just like a space heater?

[laughter]

>> Yeah. I mean, it's probably% It's kind

of crazy how many phones charge at 80.

Don't use that in your apartment.

>> Especially when they don't have uh G2

and so they can't perfectly align.

They're probably losing so much heat.

>> Wait, 80 watt wireless.

>> It has both 80 watt wired and 80 watt

wireless.

>> Oh my god, it's losing a lot of heat.

>> You need like the perfect charger.

>> Yeah.

>> Okay, [clears throat] I have one more

thing I noticed quite a few people

mentioned. Ellis, did you use the PS3

startup sound?

>> Dude,

>> let me let me I This was a This was This

was a healthy learning experience for

me. You know what I mean? Cuz I went

into this I was like, I want to use

music to explain what makes this

Smartphone Awards different from all the

other smartphone awards we've done in

the past because that's something that

we can't exactly express visually. I do

think this was the most beautiful set

and the most beautiful lighting we've

ever had for a smartphone awards. But

also, we're we're we're at the top of

our game right now. We are we are we are

chugging out these excellent videos. And

I wanted the theme of this smartphone

awards orally to be prestige. And I

thought very hard about that and I said,

how can we in about 8 seconds

communicate prestige and and tradition

and the fact that we've been doing this

longer than anyone else has been doing

this? And I thought, you know what would

be great?

>> PlayStation.

>> No,

>> PlayStation. [laughter]

>> For 300 years, for 300

years,

>> before America,

>> orchestras have been tuning the exact

same way with an obo starting, then the

concert master, then the rest of the

orchestra.

>> I thought I thought it

>> for three because that had been

happening for 300 years, everyone would

know

>> that's the case. But apparently this

little company that makes a little box

called the Xperia [laughter]

REWROTE WHAT THAT SOUND WAS FOR EVERYONE

in the world. And I probably should have

known that. [laughter]

>> But yes, apparently you cannot use the

sound of an orchestra tuning without

people being like, "Oh, that's the

Uncharted machine."

>> LSL. You think too highly of us.

>> It's an expensive.

>> Yeah. So, yes. No.

>> Almost $2,000.

>> My goal was not to use the PlayStation.

Actually, fun fact, that is the second

original piece of music that has ever

been written in a video here. Rufus and

I wrote that from scratch and and and

produced it ourselves. So, no, I didn't

use the PlayStation 3 [laughter] startup

sound in our great minds thinking alike

situation,

>> I guess. So, and uh also, how dare

everyone pay so much attention to that?

And I didn't see one comment about the

toilet flush I used in the in the bust

of the year's car. I was shocked that

nobody mentioned that. I will say we we

put so many Easter eggs in videos that

it sort of trained people to look for

Easter eggs, even [music] some of which

don't exist. So, I am both shocked that

they didn't notice the toilet flush, but

also not shocked that they assigned PS3

sound to the others. So, we'll have to

take some win, some lose some [laughter]

>> to the Anyway, but thank you for

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