Wow It's been a while friend. I've missed your beautiful face and a lot
has happened in the past few weeks. Things still aren't looking too hot
for Apple and the rumors of what they have planned for this year.
Don't look so great. Which we'll talk about in a moment but this may be the year
of the Android. See there are a ton of really crazy designs coming from
Team Android and the Samsung Galaxy S10 is right around the corner.
So the question is can the Samsung Galaxy S10 overthrow the Apple iPhone XS.
I'm not so sure. We'll talk about all that and more because This is Tech Today.
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or cell phone companies will keep adding tens of cameras their phones and
trigger your is an aversion to the sight of her irregular patterns or
clusters of small holes or bumps. Ew. At the end of last year was a bad
time for Apple and so far it looks like some of the aftershocks of a bad
holiday season remain. You see sales dropped 22 percent in China and it
looks like that will continue throughout 2019 and then price cuts continue
to happen on iPhone XR in markets outside the United States and there's
an option to pay monthly in the U.S. on the plus side the iPhone XR is
the most popular device beating the iPhone XS and XS Max. The downside
is that investors see that as less profit being made and still see the
declining phone sales overall. So the question ends up being can Apple
recover in 2019. Will the next round of iPhones provide a compelling reason
for people to upgrade. Let's look at the rumors and see if it is interesting
enough for you. Leave your thoughts in the comments below on whether you
think this will be enough for Apple to not only retain its spot as a high
selling smartphone model but also turn things around. First there's the
Design Leaks that suggests that we have this square layout on the back
with three cameras. There's a lot of conflicting details and thoughts on
what the third camera is. Some say it's a depth sensor it's for augmented
reality greater zoom or for better low light. First let's just say that
the design is not good. It looks really bad. Second would you actually
want in a third lens. What is practical for you. I honestly would rather
have a wide angle lens over something for augmented reality. But good news.
Well maybe the square design isn't the only potential layout for the camera.
I don't know which one I like more. It's not good. The horizontal layout
makes me think of some LG phone designs on the back and I hate to say it
but I think I like the Square layout more. I just want something better
at least the front notch looks smaller and will likely host an improved face I.D.
sensor and a rumored high quality front facing camera. And that's that's it.
It's not really much of a change is it. Which design do you like more and
what do you think the third lens is. And what do you want to have in a
new iPhone. Come discuss it with us on that. This is Tech Today community
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be honest I really don't think that this is enough to convince people to
upgrade but at least it looks like air power is coming soon. Plus they
hired a former Samsung executive that oversaw the battery division there.
I mean what could possibly go wrong.
So well Apple is putting out phones that essentially look the same as before
but uglier it looks like Android manufacturers are trying to be as unique
as possible. It's super odd to say the Android manufacturers are pushing
the design trends again. Now keep in mind that specs or tech is a different
story but the designs that something else first leaks seem to suggest that
the upcoming OnePlus 7 it will have a slight up front facing camera to
eliminate any notches or hole punches. This is similar to the oppo find x.
So this will definitely please those fidgeters out there. Remember fidget cubes.
There's a weird video they made about that. that.
There's There's definitely not a link hidden in the description. Nope. I'm just going to put
this away.
Then we have the upcoming Oppo Phone is that will have a 10x optical zoom.
At first glance this doesn't seem like a big deal. And he realized that
it's a physical zoom rather than a digital zoom. This is like having a
big lens like this where requires a lot space to zoom when you guys have
asked me what I have wanted in a feature phone. This has been one of the
things and I thought it was going to happen for some time because of the
amount of engineering it would take to make something like a DSLR zoom
lens fit into a smartphone. It's nuts. That's cool. Now Meizu you which
I've never really heard of before in America is one of two companies trying
to go for a minimal look. They said that the Meizo Zero will have no buttons
no speaker holds no SIM card slot and no charging port. It'll be constructed
out of ceramic like the essential phone. So that will allow wireless charging.
And I'd imagine the sound would come out of the screen which is pretty
neat and it's waterproof. I mean it better be if there's no holes right.
The other phone going for the ultimate minimalism is the Vevo apex.
It is pointless and button less. And it also packs 5G capabilities twelve
gigabytes of RAM which must have been found from the four gigabytes that
the pixel 3 must have lost. I don't know. And a full screen fingerprint reader
It's so minimal that it almost looks a little bit off to me and definitely
looks a bit chunky in this video. It's smooth like a stone and I'd be tempted
to skip it across water. And I know there's a bottom bezel but can I share
an unpopular opinion. I like having a little bit of a bezel at the bottom.
It makes it easier for me to navigate. And on top of that reduces accidental touches.
Let me know if I'm not the only one that thinks that. And finally the most
crazy design that we've seen in the group outside of Samsung Xiaomi.
They showed off this foldable tablet phone teaser video and it's pretty crazy.
And if you look at it it folds from two different sides. The one thing
that I'm noticing in all of these foldable phone tablets are these indentations
on all the screens that isn't the best look. It makes you worried about
the strength of the touch layer. Maybe it will improve over the next few years.
And if you follow me on Twitter you know that I often ask this freshman
girl at my work questions about tech. You know I just want an everyday
person's perspective. And she said that it would give her anxiety to use
this phone. She'd worry that it would break or snap off or something in
her opinion. She said that there is nothing wrong with classic stiff phones
so don't fix it if it isn't broken. To be fair I do think it really is
an interesting design. I just don't know how well people respond to it.
What do you think of all of these unique design trends from the Android side.
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Let's get right back to it. Oh 2019. Is this the year that Samsung can
finally claim the throne from Apple. You see iPhone has been the highest
selling smartphone for quite some time. But as we've talked about earlier
sales just haven't been looking too great for them lately. Then that leads
us to the question what does Samsung have in store for us. Well conveniently
my good friend there have been quite a few leaks so let's check it out
and we can see if we think it's going to be enough to take the throne when
we see unveiled at their unpacked event in February. First there's a headphone jack.
Thank you so much Samsung for listening to the community and keeping that there.
I have to give you points for this one. There's also three cameras on the
back for the standard s 10 and s 10 plus variance one that will be a wide
angle lens which I like a lot a normal lens with dual apertures and a telephoto lens.
If you're gonna have three lenses on your phone I definitely think that
this is the trio of options I'd want the light version will only have two lenses.
Speaking of cameras we have to go to the front where we can see their first
phone to come to America with the hole punch design at least as far as
I know on the lite and S10 versions. There's just a single hole punch for
a single lens on the front. Well that's 10 plus. Looks like it will have
two lenses the s10+ 5G variance supposedly has a time of flight sensor
which would help with face unlock similar to face idea on the iPhone.
And I'm not going to lie it bothers me that the hole is not even with both
the x and y axis and I prefer it even more if it was centered. If it's
not centered at least make it equal and distance from each edge along those
edges we have that curved screen that we've come to know from Galaxy devices
minus the light version which will have a simple flat screen the light
version will have a fingerprint scanner in the power button off to the
side while the normal variance will have an in display ultrasonic fingerprint scanner.
Now this is something to take note of because it's not like the OnePlus
6T which uses an optical scanner in ultrasonic fingerprint reader should
provide it more accuracy improved to be faster. And I really hope that's
true and that's it. It's essentially like a Galaxy S9 plus that I've used.
I mean the 5G variant plans to have a ceramic back. But why does this kind
of seem a bit underwhelming. Sure there's some phenomenal tech inside of
it and it will definitely open up doors for the industry to do some really
cool things. But at the end of the day if your current phone works fine
now would you upgrade to this with the due date your work or your mom upgrade
to the Galaxy S10. I'm not too sure having an extra camera or hole punch
design is going to be enough to make people upgrade. And this is why I
don't think the Galaxy S10 will be able to dethrone the iPhone for the
most sales for a model series. You see the reality is that the entire smartphone
market is slowing down and I've been talking about this for months.
Even if Apple's iPhone sales are decreasing that doesn't mean that Samsung's
isn't either. In fact we know that there's is decreasing as well.
When you combine that with my criticisms of Apple having too many products in
their lineup and how that confuses customers you have Samsung planning
to have four versions of the S10 alone plus a foldable phone tablet in
many ways. I think Samsung is making some of the same mistakes as Apple.
They're just taking some significant design risks along the way which credit
where it's due. But is that enough? Unfortunately I don't see these phones
having a lower price to help encourage sales. But let me know what you think
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