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ShortCircuit

REGION: CanadaPLATFORM: YOUTUBE
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[~]Recent Reviews

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Pixel 10a

Google

Positive

[+] Praised

"it opened pretty easily actually. I didn't expect to go through that so quickly"

"We've also got a nice USB C to C cable. It's nicely packaged. I like how coiled up it is."

"I actually really like it. It seems to, you know, protect everything nicely."

[-] Criticised

"length of our cable, it is pretty short. It's about 40 in. So, not very long."

"This sounds too bassy and it sounds a little muddy because of that."

Positive

[+] Praised

"this phone I think is going to be perfect for both senior citizens who just want a phone that just is basic and entry level for the iPhone."

"26 hours of battery is amazing."

"means content on the screen is going to look very, very good"

[-] Criticised

"The iPhone 17E only has a USB 2 port. It doesn't have a USB 3 like the Pro or the Pro Max."

"this one has one less GPU core, which for some people that might be frustrating if you want to game on it"

"What doesn't show respect is 60 Hz. Damn it."

Mixed

[+] Praised

"They now have five sizes of ear tips, including a new double extra small, which is going to be perfect for kids."

"according to the lab's team, the foam does work and they do seal way better."

"it still fits really easily. I'm probably just being a little whiner. They're not that much bigger. And at least they are contoured so they slide in and out nicely."

[-] Criticised

"Where the hell's the charging cable? Seriously, they don't ship it with a charging cable anymore."

"The problem is that my experience with foam based ear tips has been that they are extremely low durability. ... one of ours already broke during our testing."

"oh my god, is it ever bigger? ... I'm so disappointed with the size."

[+] Praised

"80watth battery that's in here, which is going to be a little larger than the 60Wh battery in this guy."

"what it cost you in weight, it makes up for in performance."

"is pretty repairable with just a few screws. I think one of them's captive."

[-] Criticised

"720 g. So, yeah, there's a not insignificant difference in weight"

"Obviously it's not an OLED. I know everyone wanted this thing to be OLED even at the price point."

"And yeah, it's $1,000."

Switch 2

Nintendo

Positive

[+] Praised

"Is it better than the original Switch in every conceivable way? That looks like a big fat yes as well."

"we go from 6.2 in to Oh my goodness. An above average 7.9 in."

"thanks to the 1080p up to 120 Hz variable refresh rate. Not to mention support for HDR."

[-] Criticised

"Is it more expensive than the original Switch? Absolutely."

"it's heavy, too. ... I didn't think 400 g was going to feel that heavy. ... it just feels like it's dense."

"what they dropped was the OLED panel technology that we saw in the Switch OLED."

[+] Praised

"it is the first foldable phone with IP68 dust and water resistance"

"Google's did manage to pack a SIM tray into this extremely thin chassis"

"at least out of the box appears to unfold completely flat"

[-] Criticised

"aside from some issues with the initial transfer wizard"

"compared to Google's competition in the market, the Tensor series is kind of a dog"

"When it comes to the GPU, we didn't really see much uplift at all"

[+] Praised

"They built a profile of what an iPhone user wants. Performance, battery life, a great camera, and Magafe. And they've delivered all of that with the Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL."

"They even nailed the pricing. The small one starts at $1,000."

"Google claims it can reach up to about a 70% charge in just about 30 minutes, which is pretty freaking cool."

[-] Criticised

"that's all you get for accessories. You'll have to buy your own charging brick that's capable of that."

"when it comes to the Pixel 10 Pro CPU and GPU performance, things don't seem to be all that impressive with around a 17% increase in single core performance and around a 36% increase in multi-core performance compared to the Pixel 9 Pro XL."

"When you look at the competition, the Pixel significantly falls behind in benchmarks compared to the Galaxy S25 Edge"

Pixel 10

Google

Mixed

[+] Praised

"the new Tensor G5 processor in the Google Pixel 10 along with some of their onboard, that's right, locally processed AI features actually looks pretty compelling."

"daily tasks when using your phone will feel mighty zippy if you're coming from an older Pixel."

"Bluetooth at the same time is getting a big upgrade... to Bluetooth 6.0, which offers better security as well as much better location tracking"

[-] Criticised

"Inside the eco-friendly packaging, you find a whole lot of not much."

"in GPU performance, the Pixel 10 actually performs a little bit worse with it only achieving 93% of the score the Pixel 9 was able to get."

"when compared with another recently released phone like the S25 Edge, things fall apart"

Mixed

[+] Praised

"It's a little thinner, a little bigger"

"the real claim to fame is the Infinity window on the front."

"They got rid of the thick bezels of the Flip 6."

[-] Criticised

"honestly, I'm not that impressed."

"unfortunately they didn't give you the ability to use whatever app you want on the front screen. You're still limited to the widgets"

"coming from the new Fold 7, it's pretty thick."

Mixed

[+] Praised

"their biggest marketing point on it was just how thin the device is. And they are not kidding."

"when it's unfolded, it is almost impossible to describe how it feels and looks when you're using it."

"they've made some upgrades at least to the hinge. It's called their Armor Flex hinge"

[-] Criticised

"Look at the size of that camera bump. It's another half of a phone on top of it. It will never lay flat on your table"

"I feel like I need to crank it down to almost half before the speakers don't start to sound distorted or crackling to me"

"they're in the bottom half here. So, if I was holding it, yeah, I'm muffling the speakers."

Mixed

[+] Praised

"Wow, it is skinny... if you look at the actual thickness of the body, that is darn impressive."

"finally got a phone that is thin enough that they can actually justify not having a headphone jack on it."

"in the hand, I kind of like it."

[-] Criticised

"basically means it doesn't have an optical zoom."

"The first thing it cost us was battery life... with only a 3900 mAh battery."

"as well as slower charging speeds compared to the S25 Ultra."

[+] Praised

"these things look flipping sick."

"new redesigned vapor chamber gives them better cooling than any iPhone before"

"more battery life than any iPhone before"

[-] Criticised

"They even did one in my color. It's hideous."

"Apple includes almost no accessories with their phones anymore."

"camera button. Personally, I don't really like it for the shutter."

Mixed

[+] Praised

"Wow, it's really thin."

"they managed to make it this thin without you feeling like it's going to slice your fingers off at the first knuckle."

"I do like it as a quick button for opening up the camera."

[-] Criticised

"I don't actually like it for using as a shutter. I actually just prefer the on-screen button"

"lack of a speaker. The amplified earpiece speaker right here is the only speaker you will find on the iPhone Air."

"it's $200 extra for a phone that is missing a lot of features from the regular iPhone 17"

Positive

[+] Praised

"I think the iPhone 17 is the most exciting phone in the lineup."

"what a great green. ...man, this sage, it looks awesome."

"the matching rails, oh, it looks so good."

[-] Criticised

"from the front, you can kind of see the green, which to me is a little distracting"

"It looks exactly like the 16, which is kind of disappointing"

"when I'm taking it out of my pocket, I'm kind of grabbing it by the button, which is a little annoying"

Mixed

[+] Praised

"I do still find that Stylus is incredibly useful day to-day when marking up documents or screenshots"

"get a whopping rated 2600 nits of peak brightness which our lab testers found it was able to exceed in a 10% window"

"we get a second generation of corning's incredible glare reducing coating look at this this is a studio light okay let's grab my iPhone by comparison that is flipping incredible"

[-] Criticised

"compared to the last generation s24 Ultra we actually measured about an hour less battery life in video playback"

"wireless charging is a bit more of a downer it supports what Samsung calls their fast wireless charging 2.0 which is limited to 15 watts"

"ready for Qi charging 2.1 which allows magnetic alignment just like Apple's mag safe it doesn't have the magnets for the standard so you have to get a case"