Austin Evans

"one of the pleasant surprises is the touchpad."

"it is a physically moving touchpad and it actually feels... maybe better than a force pad because there's an actual physical click."

"The speakers are fairly decent... the speakers sound pretty good"

"what it is is that it is not backlit."

"It does have two USB-C ports, no MagSafe"

"they're not created equal. So the front port is USB 3... The other is USB 2."

"The only real winner here, outside the Steam Deck, is the ROG Xbox Ally X. That has a larger 80 watt-hour battery. It has a more efficient Z2 Extreme processor and that actually will get you almost three hours on its 17 watt mode."

"compared to the standard Ally, the Z2 Extreme here gives you in the neighborhood of, like, 30 to 40% better performance, a little bit higher depending on the settings."

"that does mean that 1080p 60 is a thing that you can hit often. It also means you have a lot more headroom"

"$1,000 is a tough sell for a handheld."

"it does start to get into the territory of "Why not just buy a gaming laptop?""

"it is on the $1,000 Ally X where let's be real, we should have like an OLED or something."

"You're straight into what is a very console looking UI."

"Microsoft are addressing this in some ways, because they are really only loading the bits of Windows that are important."

"software I think is a huge improvement, right?"

"but I don't think that this is a "true" Xbox handheld."

"the Xbox full screen experience. That is such a terrible name."

"The fact that the Xbox button isn't even on like a round button, like it feels like they just slapped it on the existing little like rhombus that Asus already ship."

"It is so good"

"the way the button kinda like kicks it out... it sort of detaches the Joy-Con a little bit"

"it feels a little bit more sturdy"

"it's not a really comfortable grip... with this you're pushing backwards and forwards"

"it is an LCD and it looks like an LCD... It is not as nice as something like a Steam Deck OLED"

"It is not a great display... contrast... viewing angles are just not as good as an OLED"

"it's a more powerful Switch and they'd have a lot of quality-of-life upgrades? Absolutely."

"the Switch 2 speakers sound pretty good. Certainly better than the original Switch speakers."

"I think the Joy-Cons are clearly just an absolutely huge quality-of-life upgrade."

"Nintendo had to fit a very, very small battery. We're talking about a 20-watt-hour battery inside the Switch 2."

"battery is probably my number one complaint."

"I legitimately could not in good faith... explain the absolute tangled mess of Switch online accounts."

"it's got a nicer Joy-Con mechanism"

"almost all Switch One games should work on Switch 2"

"some Switch 2 games will just run straight off the cart which is nice because that means you don't have to you know download 60 gigs of stuff"

"at first glance this looks I'll be honest just like a Switch One... it doesn't seem like the most exciting update at first"

"compared to the Switch Light the Switch 2 looks huge... i think it's slightly too big if I'm honest with you"

"it doesn't actually go all the way in... there's something not allowing it to click"

"That $450 price tag, starting to look a little bit better right now"

"I feel like that speaks pretty well to the Switch 2 because that was actually very tough in my opinion."

"I think it should really go to show just how competent the Switch 2 is."

"This top right one has a really awful frame rate, especially compared to the first one I just played, this one is really, really awful, really slow."

"Based on how bad that loading screen is on the top right? I'm guessing that the top right is the Switch 2."

"That's what it feels like with the Switch 2."

"it does have the Z2 Extreme, so it's a little bit more powerful than the last generation."

"It has a great 8.8 in OLED display"

"the controllers have been sort of rep-profiled"

"the price is out of control."

"you're talking $1350, which is absolutely outrageous"

"this is just running standard Windows."

"it's a decent upgrade in a vacuum."

"it's thinner."

"It also has a much more usable cover display."

"they have dropped the Snapdragon processor in favor of an Exynos"

"doesn't seem like a particularly strong upgrade."

"it feels like it's a sidegrade more than anything else."

"there's something to the thinness, the feel in the hand, the aesthetic of this iPhone Air."

"it is perfectly acceptable. So for 80% of the photos and videos I take, it looks great."

"it is really impressive, like there's no doubt that Apple squeezed every square millimeter out of this phone."

"this is a compromised device, it is an aggressively first-generation device"

"Because you don't have the ultrawide camera, you also don't have a macro mode."

"not having an ultrawide, I can't think of another phone above like $100 that doesn't have an ultrawide"

"Let's actually go to the phone that I think is legitimately the best phone here... which is the regular iPhone 17."

"The 17 is the best deal this year."

"this finally has the same screen so everyone can shut the (duck quacks) up about 120Hz."

"It's not the sexy choice 'cause it really just looks like a 16 just with like a better screen, a little bit more battery life, little bit more performance"

"how the S25 Ultra is their most durable phone yet."

"that new Gorilla Glass Armor 2 is impressive."

"Battery life, absolutely terrific. Easily a full day. Honestly, close to a day and a half for me."

"I will say that the iPhone definitely has an edge here... ProRes codec, which is going to be significantly higher quality. I still think this has a little ways to go"

"feels premium, but maybe a little less distinctive than the last generation."

"The only genuine downgrade is the S Pen. They've removed Bluetooth functionality... It does feel like an odd step backward"