Mrwhosetheboss

Mrwhosetheboss

REGION: UKPLATFORM: YOUTUBE
Reviews_Processed18
StatusACTIVE

[~]Recent Reviews

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Mixed

[+] Praised

"What brand that you can actually feasibly buy in most countries is more well-rounded than this?"

"The battery is already more than enough to last a day. We just confirmed that in our test."

"In isolation. A pretty balanced photo. You wouldn't feel like you had anything to complain about."

[-] Criticised

"They've not changed the cameras again. They've not changed the battery again."

"the fact that it's made of aluminium again after just a 2-year detour as titanium."

"Samsung is just making tiny little tweaks while other companies are making leaps."

Mixed

[+] Praised

"This thing is still made of aluminium like the other MacBooks"

"it still feels fancy to use"

"The hinge is sturdy"

[-] Criticised

"It could do with being a little brighter. Topping out at 500 nits"

"Touch ID. You don't get it on the base 256 gig version of the Neo"

"The battery, they claim 16 hours on this compared to 18 on a MacBook Air"

Switch 2

Nintendo

Mixed

[+] Praised

"It now looks a lot more sophisticated, much less like a toy designed for a playroom."

"It's more powerful with new features and a new game library that are very clearly geared to more serious gamers."

"The 7.9 in on this bad boy does actually feel enormous... I think it's great."

[-] Criticised

"the retail price of $449 compared to the $299 for the original Switch."

"Not a massive fan of the face buttons. They've still got that clickiness to them, which feels a little bit less like the soft, spacious home console buttons"

"I do find it really weird that nothing has been said about Joy-Con Drift... Nintendo hasn't even indirectly hinted that they realized there was an issue"

Switch 2

Nintendo

Mixed

[+] Praised

"as a handheld this is a masterpiece"

"set up the new dock and a new magnetic way to charge my Switch 2 controllers"

"the Joy-Con 2Os that come with the Switch 2 they are absolutely an improvement over the Switch 1's controllers"

[-] Criticised

"i think the Switch 2 is very hard to recommend right now [when docked]"

"Nintendo will run the game with only about 80% of the effects at about 60% of the resolution running at 50% of the frame rate"

"they don't have the adaptive triggers that PlayStation does"

[+] Praised

"there are a sprinkle of new software features here that actually do feel just a little bit magical"

"It really makes you feel like Google's attention is focused on fixing real life user issues and making the phone experience feel proactive"

"it's executed well. The results look polished, pretty crispy for a 100 time zoom photo"

[-] Criticised

"voice translate, worked pretty terribly in my experience"

"for one reason or another, four of those five phone calls it completely butchered in some pretty major way."

"the camera app when you're zooming in. It's been laggy on all previous Pixel phones. Doesn't look like it's any better here."

Pixel 10

Google

Mixed

[+] Praised

"there are a sprinkle of new software features here that actually do feel just a little bit magical"

"helping my parents to take better photos and then also start to teach them what makes those better photos? Actually, yeah."

"Magic Q is another pretty instant hit. It means the AI on these phones can pop up relevant information when it thinks you need it."

[-] Criticised

"In practice, the feature is pretty limited right now. There's a lot of asterisks about what kinds of situations it does and doesn't work in"

"Pixel Journal, which is basically Google's equivalent to the Apple Journal app... but it's for Europe and in English only apparently."

"voice translate, worked pretty terribly in my experience... Just persistent misunderstandings."

Mixed

[+] Praised

"it's one of the first truly innovative phone features that I've seen in a long time."

"when you are looking straight on, the viewing experience is a step up. This is the first time on a Samsung phone that we're getting a proper 10- bit panel"

"which means the S26 Ultra can display a wider range of color."

[-] Criticised

"the moment you activate privacy display. You can see your screen's resolution taking a nose dive."

"it also loses some readability and brightness cuz there's fewer pixels shining for you, too."

"even with the privacy mode turned off, the S26 Ultra's viewing angles look quite a bit worse than the S25 Ultra."

Positive

[+] Praised

"now that the Z Flip 7 is out and it has massive improvements to the cover screen"

"not very often these days where you get such a transformative jump between the screens on two generations of phones, but this is it"

"cover screen on the Flip 6 suddenly becoming this almost edge-to-edge 4.1 in which is now also significantly brighter and has a 120 Hz refresh rate"

[-] Criticised

"The Flip 7 is not completely surrounded with stronger materials like the Fold is"

Mixed

[+] Praised

"the ZFold 7 is 26% thinner than last gen."

"this one phone takes Samsung from having basically the chunkiest foldable on the market to having basically the slimmest."

"it's thin enough that this folding phone at 8.9 mm when folded is almost exactly the same thickness as most bar phones."

[-] Criticised

"this new ZFold 7 is now $2,000."

"a further $100 more than even last year."

"It's still not quite as clean as some of the other foldables out there."

[+] Praised

"these phones have 12 GB of RAM, 50% more than the previous Pro iPhones, which is a big deal"

"get as much heat conductive metal into the design as possible and to create and fit this whole new vapor chamber on the inside"

"It's the buildup of many smaller image processing changes that make this phone feel unbelievably reliable."

[-] Criticised

"the actual headline camera feature, you know, this new 48 map 4x telephoto lens, it makes very little difference."

"It can't focus on objects that are up close. So, it keeps switching you over to the main onetimes camera even when you're zoomed in."

"such an obvious gap that the phones can't shoot 8K video"

Positive

[+] Praised

"that's the way better than expected iPhone 17"

"this is not a basic iPhone anymore. In fact, this is a full-on pro iPhone now."

"it's now a 6.3 in screen compared to 6.1"

[-] Criticised

"apart from the missing telephoto camera, there is such little missing here"

Mixed

[+] Praised

"This shockingly thin new iPhone Air"

"at 5.6 mm, this is thinner than any previous iPhone... the thing's thinner than a pencil"

"it also feels a lot more luxury than I was expecting it to"

[-] Criticised

"you're making two pretty fundamental compromises for this thinness"

"this is a smaller battery than you get on every other iPhone released this year"

"when they quoted the battery life of the Air, they quoted the figure that assumed you had this battery pack attached"

[+] Praised

"Apple has been freed up to just prioritize function over form on these models."

"These are the most clearly actually made for pros pro iPhones I have ever seen"

"what makes a phone truly beautiful? It is just having a big fat battery on the inside."

[-] Criticised

"charging the new higher prices of $1,099 for the Pro"

"they're almost 8% thicker than their previous counterparts, which is by its nature less stylish"

"they've sacrificed on the minimalism of the design"

[+] Praised

"I actually love the orange."

"how much more comfy they are to hold compared to the 16 Pros. I guess because the metal bends around the sides as opposed to there being a sharp divide between metal and glass."

"signal strength and it seems a lot better than previous phones... speeds were over 10x."

[-] Criticised

"it kind of feels like they overcorrected a little bit from fine woven. It just doesn't feel nice. It's giving me um grandma's itchy sweater vibes."

"don't understand why they've made this whole back section white. It doesn't fit the phone's colors and it's also not clear."

"the physical SIM version has according to Apple 2 hours less battery life than what they referenced in their event."

Negative

[+] Praised

"the one on the Air is custom 3D printed in titanium, which is cool."

"really genuinely preserving the feel of the air."

[-] Criticised

"the iPhone 17, the cheaper phone, which has the nonpro chip, was 26% faster than it."

"plummeted right back down to where it was in the first test, which is why the performance stability score is so low this time."

"it really struggles to hit the low notes. Then this is iPhone 17. So it's fuller, but it is also like 40% louder, too."

Positive

[+] Praised

"the charging is faster enough that you'll probably notice the difference versus before."

"the 17 is cutting out about a third of the incoming reflections."

"The new selfie camera on this phone is so much more useful than I was expecting it to be."

[-] Criticised

"You can still sort of see what's there even with the light shining on it."

"Sammy is getting rid of, I would say, an additional third of the reflections."

Positive

[+] Praised

"starting with the design which is a pretty substantial upgrade"

"the s25 ultra is 15 G lighter than the s 24 Ultra it's enough to notice for sure"

"It's 0.4 mm thinner which makes this the thinnest Ultra phone that Samsung has ever made"

[-] Criticised

"I think the colors are a complete Miss they were all boring"

"they've colored the back panels but not the sides which to me just makes these all look like you know those badly matched refurbished car doors"

"process of chopping off the corners they've also chopped off the slightly rounded sides... so those are now flat and sharp... does come at the cost of it still not being close to as comfy to hold"

Positive

[+] Praised

"the technical materials perspective the glass being used on the front and back the now stronger Titanium on the body this is one tough phone"

"I've been specifically using it without a case to test it and so far at least... zero in the way of damage"

"the battery life is even better than last year it's just under 9 hours of Total screen on time per charge"

[-] Criticised

"there is a little more dust collection than I would like"

"Only thing that has unfortunately marked it is a pretty nasty meter and a half drop straight onto concrete"

"this is a $1,300 phone it's like 60% more expensive"