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[Music] all right what's going on people of the internet welcome back to another episode of the waveform podcast we're your hosts
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i'm marquez and i'm andrew and this week we're coming at you from a different place you can probably tell if you're if
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you're listening to audio only it might sound a little different but if you're looking at the video it clearly looks a little different just a time yeah we are
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in apple park because this week apple has an event and we typically record on wednesdays and we figured it would be
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ideal if we just stayed here and record the podcast here lucky for us they have a podcast studio
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yeah and what we just found out today so um justine and renee did a podcast episode for wwdc and i thought that was just
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gonna be some permanent studio they had here but this looks different if anyone noticed that looks like we're in space a
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little bit a little bit uh but they recreate this for different events and i'm just like sitting here kind of
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awestruck in what we're sitting in so um i hope if you're watching on video you appreciate all of this
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it's kind of intense for me i'm just used to being like holed up in our little podcast studio it's nice to change i think we we do want to shoot in
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different spaces sometimes so we're in the apple spaceship officially yeah i think last apple event we did a live podcast it was in a hotel room so this
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is far far better but like we did that one episode in the what car were we in we did it in your uh
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in my class yeah yeah so i think that's that's a fun thing i hope this sounds better than that i think it'll sound
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like it will okay well we got a bunch of stuff to talk about they did their classic uh september
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keynote which was it was a screening of an event so they recorded it it had all the cool transitions and animations that
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we're so used to we all got to watch it in the theater and then we got to play with the stuff so there is a new iphone
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lineup a new watch lineup and some new airpods yeah what do you think we should talk about first can i first talk about how this is my first time in steve jobs oh yeah yeah yeah how is it what is your
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impressions because i maybe i'm a little jaded at this point yeah i've been in the top part i've never been in the actual theater right really cool i
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honestly think my favorite part is that all the handrails are like carved into the marble of the staircases which is
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just like one of those little things that you notice that is just like architecture on another level architecture nerds would have a lot of
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fun on this campus but yeah um it was really cool i got to witness my first live good morning good morning we're so
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glad you could join us which is like bucket list check right now so i'm pretty amped about that but it was super fun really glad to be here and we were rewarded with some pretty cool
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things let's just start with airpods uh right off the bat okay let's start with the with the smaller updates so airpods
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pro new airpods pro yes 249 wireless noise canceling earbuds we've seen this before there are some updates
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to the buds themselves i think the bigger update is to the case actually i really like the new case but for the
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buds i have my notes here because i was writing furiously while i was tweeting the entire event you probably saw my tweets but let's see airpods because
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this is the uh the update we got here new h2 chip which will enable new adaptive transparency mode now i've talked about transparency mode on airpods before being really good this
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new adaptive transparency mode samples 48 000 times per second and can identify spikes in outside volume
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and actually cancel those out so it has still letting in sound from like your normal environment but if you walk past
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the construction zone it might cancel the jackhammer out while you walk by i thought that was really interesting kind of like a hybrid between both of them
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because transparency mode's awesome because you want to be aware of people around you and maybe more important noises but you don't always want to hear
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the like high decibel spikes like potentially ear damage like eardrum damaging noises so being able to
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eliminate that while in still having transparency mode for that is really really neat um they also said
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they have an improved noise cancellation two times the amount of cancellation versus original airpods pro i think that
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two times number you're going to notice as kind of a theme over the event i feel like there's a lot of things that are
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twice as good as previous okay um you'll see that through a little faster but or a little more um but we also have touch
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control on the stem 33 increased battery life you mentioned the case i really like the lanyard the case is sick yeah
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the case is really so the case they added a little anger thing on the side very uh small touch a lot of them have like little things like that already the
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sony's uh have that already but it was nice because this is the thing i think is they realize people lose not just
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individual ear pods but they lose the case all the time and all the changes to the case are so that you are less likely
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to lose the case so you can put a lanyard on it finally there's also now a speaker on the bottom of the case so
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that it can play a sound and you can find it more easily so if you're in find my mode you're doing the sort of
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location thing where it shows you exactly where to find it uh that's helpful but obviously having a sound playing from it super good so you're
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less likely to lose case now there's also a little magsafe compatibility it'll snap onto the magsafe charger yes it's great better
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case so that's the airpods update it's pretty small this is the type of thing where like i kind of just have to try it
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to use it and figure out how good it is they should have a six hour claimed battery life from one charge which is 33
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more than the original airpods pro and then 30 hours total of listening as you continue to charge it up through the
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case um but there's really no other huge changes not like they added usbc or it did anything crazy like this is still
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very much normal-looking airpods for sure i do agree i think it's gonna be something we need to test which we didn't get to do a whole lot of today um
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they made a lot of claims saying that it does sound much better there's lower distortion on drivers yeah stuff like
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that so it's hard to tell that in a i really appreciated though in the event the um
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the transitions of the person who is showing it off going through like the subway to the construction site they
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walk out of like the subway to the construction site it's like the kind those transitions are what every other
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event like live event we've seen thrive like would like to be and isn't instead you have like carl bay walking out of a
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room into another room of nothing that just looks dumb i had a thought when i was watching the keynote i had this thought and i tweeted it the thought was
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jesus the audio is so good where are the microphones and i'm watching this and i'm like
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maybe they're recording the voiceovers after maybe this is such a big production because every single person
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has to then record their lines over again to dub over what they were talking about
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and i tweeted it and then i had someone and apple tell me nope it's all real it's all real lines
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they are recording in those crazy environments i mean there's obviously incredible situational control where they can make
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sure everything sounds perfect but it does it does sound kind of perfect out there it feels like magic it's like ai
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is what i'm assuming it's good i don't i don't really know but um yeah i think that's all we really have
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for air pods pro maybe let's uh take a quick jump into like one of the apple watches and then we'll take a break and
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check out the rest of the apple watches maybe sc since that's the the smaller option sure okay so apple watch lineup
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has there's there's three new watches yes apple watch se apple watch series 8 and then apple
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watch ultra so the way the lineup was before it was apple watch series 7 and then they kept around the previous
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generations like the apple watch series 3 had to stay around to be the cheap one and they also had the sc so now the sc
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is the entry level one and that's coming in at let me double check before i say it i believe it's 249 for gps okay 299 for cellular okay
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so it's at the bottom of the lineup but it's going to be better than the series 3 in pretty much every way bigger screen
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better updated design it has the new s8 sip new sensors so there's a new temperature
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sensor in there there's a new gyroscope is that in the sc yeah the temperature one yeah they mentioned okay yeah so the
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new baseline to the apple watch lineup is is better this is this is they mentioned it i think kind of like the ideal watch to get you an ecosystem for like maybe a kid that's or a family watch i
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think as a family like and you don't want to spend as much as a kid being able to have that was still emergency sos and like crack crash
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crash detection and stuff like that being able to track your kids and everything if you're sending them off i
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know the my first cell phone was because i was on the baseball team and my mom wanted me to have some way to be able to
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contact emergency services or her so with this you have a cheaper version of being able to you could put limited
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contacts in it and you could also do like emergency contact so it feels like a great thing to send a kid off to
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to school or something like that my first my first phone is a much nerdier reason i was going off to take summer
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school classes out of college nice just math stuff that's awesome but i got a flip phone out of it so that was nice um you want to talk about crash detection that was the one
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here's the thing there's no way i'm going to be able to test crash detection i thought it was our next briefing
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detection okay so there's a new pair of sensors in the apple watches all of them
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that are number one high g-force sensing accelerometer and number two an updated
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more precise gyroscope and one of the things they've enabled in the software in watchos 9 is crash detection
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literally they've already had fall detection like if you fall off a ladder or you fall down the stairs obviously elderly people will be able to notice
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that it's saying hey do you want to call sos call 911 things like that now uh if you're in a car crash and you're
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the only one in the crash and you have your watch on you you can call sos from there or actually it'll automatically
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call if you don't crash because it sends the crash cool i'm not going to test that
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no i trust it i just trust it i did find it interesting that they said a majority of crashes happen with single driver in
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rural areas so where that would be super important um yeah i mean even if it's not just a single driver if the crash is
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bad enough there's a good chance neither of them are able to contact emergency services so it basically pops up says uh
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emergency sos if you were in a like it's we sense that you were in a crash uh swipe to ignore or if they
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don't see anything in there or you can just call it straight from that yeah um i think that's super important we've
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seen a lot of things with apple watch and just apple in general is like safety is a huge priority and they do a lot of
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really really fun and good and important safety measurements that was the opening
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uh i was gonna say monologue but it was the opening scene for the watch was a bunch of different situations where the
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apple watch in an edge case basically saved a life just because it has these monitoring features and was
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able to do that which is pretty cool yeah bear in your kitchen you've got an apple watch exactly
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one thought that came through my head which is probably an unreasonable thought but i thought it anyway
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is is there ever going to be an accidental trigger for crash mode because you know how you like run up the stairs or
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something and then your watch is like hey are you working out would you like to start a workout and you're like no
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but i am kind of doing a lot right now sometimes uh sometimes you jump and land and your watch thinks you fell that happens to me does it sometimes well i don't know if it's gonna happen
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but will this ever happen where someone does something so insane that it thinks they crashed i hope not so a good question that i didn't see in there is
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when that notification comes up is it going to vibrate or buzz your hand or something so you know
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that that's up because then i don't see it happening because you're in that scenario it thinks you crashed you get the buzz and look and
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then you can ignore it right you can hit i'm okay but if not or you just happen to miss it because you're super
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distracted or something then maybe but i see that as being a pretty uh it's probably pretty good probably a lot of g-forces and a lot of
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sensors going into going ah this is a car crash it was a lot that happened yeah do you think anybody is going to do
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a youtube video if i tested the apple watch crash test yes 100 i think there will be a youtube there will not be a
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studio video it won't be anything yes all right let's take a quick break let's come back talk the rest of the watches
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and the phones also quick mention we normally do trivia right here we are going to save all of it for the end we have some recorded things but we have
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limited time here and we just want to make sure we get all of the regular podcast in before we do trivia yeah but
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wait till the end it'll still all be there be right back [Music] all right we're back let's talk about the rest of the apple watch lineup before we get on to the phones which is
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i have a lot to say about all this stuff but let's do the the watch series eight and the watch ultra i'm so excited for
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the whole trip i'm sorry okay well i'll hurry this part up yeah because you know i wanna i wanna hear your thoughts on this too so the apple watch series eight
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is very similar to the apple watch series 7. it's in the same case it's a very similar design same size
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and same price 3.99 for gps 4.99 for cellular but there are some small new things that
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are changed which is nice uh it has the new temperature sensors yeah uh it does use those temperature sensors along with
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a bunch of other information for advanced cycle tracking so women who need to track that sort of stuff
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obviously retroactive ovulation estimates things like that that's new to the apple watch and most importantly
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there's apple and privacy and those things being encrypted and super private for people that are
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tracking those things which i think is fantastic there is the two new motion sensors i mentioned earlier for crash
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detection and then there is a new low power mode so the watch currently has the same
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quoted 18 hour battery life but there's a new low power mode that disables some things like always on display and auto
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workout detection and that can get you a longer battery life i kind of do that anyway when i know i want to save
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battery yeah like i put it in theater mode right now my watch is off because it's in theater mode and it doesn't have the always on display going but it'll
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have a mode where it just does a bunch of things smartly to save you battery yeah i do it says up to 36 hours of
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battery life on a full charge with that um low power mode but it still is giving you a lot of like you still can activity
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track you still can do a lot of normal things but it's just finding those more things that always need to be constantly
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like in tune like auto activity tracking which it feels like you're not losing that
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much out of it but getting extended battery life we all know how much i love the battery life on the apple watch so
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i'm hoping this does increase it um and what's cool about that is it's available on the series for anything over series
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four as long as it says watchos 9. so that is coming to other watch models so it's they're saying 36 hours right now
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the way i use the apple watch i get a day and a half of use out of the apple watch which is my 36 hours so if they're
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saying the normal battery life is 18 hours and then the low power mode battery life is 36 hours then it's
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roughly doubling the battery life if you just leave it in low power mode all the time hopefully i want you to test it i
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want you to bring it to a tournament with no charger and i want you to put it on low power mode and see if you
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can get home sunday night or monday morning that's a legit test i would really like two full days two and a half
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days okay i will do that that's a real test i'll run okay all right well that's the apple watch series eight it's gonna
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look very similar but we then got a new watch added to the top let's just do colors and price real quick and then
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we'll i know you're excited to get to uh but let's do it um midnight starlight silver red in aluminum and
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silver gold and graphite i have for stainless steel i think that's all the same as last year it might be i'm not 100 sure sounds
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familiar but 3.99 for gps 4.99 for cellular also hopefully we have all the information
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here we have literally gone from the event to shooting to like a 10 minute lunch to shooting some more to right
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into here so we have been cleaning this all up as we go haven't stopped moving since no we have not i'm very excited to
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sleep tonight um ultra ultra ultra time first off the name not what we expected okay so they said
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the name ultra on stage and i had i was sort of like taking my notes and i already started writing apple watch pro i was just like
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for the apple watch pro info and then uh they said ultra and i was like oh okay yeah that's that's kind of the name
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we use for a lot of companies highest and most extreme things i mean galaxy s 22 ultra how many other
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ultra products do we know about so this is fine it's fine it's ultra it's different we did mention how like lg
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potentially had a trademark on watch pro but i didn't think that would affect it because see watch series 8 pro we
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thought it would be but it could have also been watch max so watch ultra was just i heard a couple gasps in the audience
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like oh i mean they already have an ultra the m1 ultra true so it's like it's it's
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above pro ultra is above pro in that lineup so maybe this is even better than pro that is what it is anyway okay
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here's what it is the the way they introduce it which i think is probably the most important is it's a watch for exploration adventure and endurance
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so when you picture an apple watch for exploration and adventure and endurance you picture a thicker
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titanium durable flat apple watch with a much larger battery and more features and that's what it is yeah that's what it is i i keep going back and forth
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between man this watch is really big and man this watch is really small for what it is because there are some garmin
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watches right i'm looking at i'm thinking no no you're right the really big the garmin watches the the rubberized military shock resistant all
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these gigantic watches that look hilarious on my wrist like i don't have a very big wrist and those watches look
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ridiculous and so this apple watch looks small compared to those it still looks huge you could tell the people in the
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event that had it on before they even like really announced it and it was just a chunk on your wrist it's huge compared
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to the watch i'm wearing now so okay all the details i'll just go down the specs and we have some reactions to these but
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it is a flat sapphire crystal display instead of like curving over the edges that's a plus for durability it is their
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biggest brightest display it's a 49 millimeter case and it'll do up to 2 000 nits of brightness which is pretty sick that
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actually matches the phone that we're going to talk about in a second uh but you can use literally an all-white screen as a flashlight it's that bright
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that's pretty cool and then if you were just thinking all right i want to make a more ruggedized apple watch what would i
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do all those little things that you'd picture like bulking up uh the digital crown adding a sort of like a crown guard making the buttons protrude more so you can hit them with gloves on
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having a second set of speakers that are larger that can go up to 86 decibels for a siren in an sos situation all these
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things they did all of it uh and so now you end up with a watch that is thicker on your wrist but also has more room
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inside for a battery and so the last spec which is the battery life is 36 hours of battery life
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60 hours with the new battery optimization setting coming later this fall i'm very interested to see what
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that is so 36 hours battery life yeah if you think about it how you say 18 hours
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is a day and a half so 36 hours feels like it should be maybe a little longer than that maybe underestimating i'm
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going to say if this is double 36 hours then it should last me three days that would be awesome because it's one and a half now so three days it's still i would like to see how it
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compares to the galaxy watch five pro yeah because both of those were watches that i felt had very mediocre battery
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life beforehand compared to like a garmin which can have like eight days of battery life that i've experienced and
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it's phenomenal yeah um so both of those we haven't fully tested the watch five pro yet and now we're going to be
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testing the ultra and hopefully both of those are going over two days i'm hoping that over two days including sleep
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tracking the entire weekend is it must last a weekend i think it has to last a weekend yeah um
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but then these the 60 hours of with the battery optimization they didn't say much about it it's coming later this
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fall they said i'm interested to see what it is if it's similar to this low power mode um the thing the whole thing
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about it is is a lot of these new features gives you all these crazy like the compass on it is wild it has
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waypoints you can add with the new track with the button on the side yeah i'm gonna get into there's a yeah they did a
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bunch of stuff with the hardware but they also did a bunch of stuff on top which is number one the the the faces
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that you mentioned it has specific new wave point watch faces with compass built in and all this cool stuff very
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cool it also has specific new watch bands that are launching with it there are three new bands they're so
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good this is i swear this is what's gonna sell you on the the watch it's just the bands that are sick you don't even have to by the way the bands you
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can buy them separately they fit on other apple watches we tested the because it's 49 millimeters
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it's much bigger than say like the 44 millimeter uh se which yeah i took the band off of
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all of the ultras that we saw in the shooting area and put it on the 44 it fits there's a very very little i mean
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like if you put a macro lens up to it you could see there's a little bit of overlap you will never notice it on your
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wrist you can 100 use these bands on any watch that you have and let's see it's the alpine it's the trail and then the other like underwater one ocean band ocean band okay yeah
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the trail is the greatest smart smartwatch band i've seen on any watch smart watch ever it is so seeing a lot of bands it's everything that i love i've talked multiple times about liking
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the solo loop because when i'm typing i hate anything that's like a hard piece of plastic or metal which most watches
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have that my wrist is sitting on and when i'm climbing that happens a lot also this is elastic velcro has a really
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nice soft like nylon pull tab it is perfect it's thin i love it it's thinning durable ultra comfortable i was
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just wearing it in the shooting scenario for like a while for absolutely no reason just keeping it on it was great
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um the alpine one is also really cool that does have like a metal hook but it has a bunch of really cool loops around
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the whole the whole watch band and then you can just hook it in and uh adjust it whenever you want for high speed water
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sports no that's the ocean bands yeah oh that's what i thought you said no that's the like bubbly one with the yes that
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one was fine i'm not that into that one but yeah um maybe for scuba diving which they mentioned a lot of stuff about this
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watching scuba diving i have literally zero experience when it comes to that so hopefully somebody out there
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can be like a scuba dive that seemed cool this is how i think they designed this watch they went to a bunch of athletes in a bunch of extreme sports
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and said do you use the apple watch and the ones that said i wanted to but i can't it can't actually keep up with me
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they talked to those people and added all the features they cared about so somewhere there were some divers who were like yeah the apple watch it is
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water resistant but i dive down to 70 80 90 feet and the watch isn't rated for that so then they made the watch rated
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for wr100 water resistance now it'll go down to 100 feet now there's a dive app that'll measure how fast you're going
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down and it'll measure the water temperature and how fast you need to come up to still be okay all this stuff they talk to those divers then they talk
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to people who run marathons i think adam did this adam if you're editing this maybe you
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can add a little little text above my head or something but i think that the watch dies before the end of a marathon
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i actually had a really fun conversation with um his channel is called hella good he's the runner who ran across the
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united states and at the end with casey he's here at the event i think he's super excited for this
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ultra he's wild he does some really cool marathons or like 100 mile races stuff like that
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he said his apple watch usually dies yeah i'm sure he's excited for this because he loves what we have always said he loves the
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motivation and the streaks that you get from it but he generally wears he said four watches when he's testing stuff
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yeah um highly suggest going to his channel i think whatever we do on the apple watch ultra his channel is going
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to have the really intense stuff that we'll probably never figure out but um he's a super nice guy and i cannot wait
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to see what he thinks about this watch because he's tested a lot in scenarios that i could never dream of
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accomplishing so they definitely talk to people like him yeah and those people said i can't use this watch because the
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battery doesn't last long enough for gps tracking for five straight hours then they went on to add enough battery life
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to do an iron man which is like a what is it a two mile swim a hundred mile 100 mile bike ride and then a marathon gps tracking and heart rate tracking the entire time and they
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said that on stage and i was like oh so you listen to those people perfect that's what they did with this watch it seems like i think we need to make adam
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do an iron man adam's going to be doing an iron man to be testing the battery life of the apple watch ultra he'll have
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fun hearing this when he's here gets all the files to edit later tonight he's going to do it uh dual frequency gps for
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higher accuracy and better accuracy and more challenging environments again it was a specific call out to like if you
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run the chicago marathon which is in a city with a bunch of skyscrapers blocking your view of the sky
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you had trouble with gps tracking for your run this will solve that i assume they're correct about that i
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haven't run that marathon myself but adam's going to run that too to test that we love atoms
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so this watch will be 7.99 when we were watching the keynote we were trying to guess what the price would be i said 8.99 all the rumors were around a thousand and i just said i just my
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prediction for this is hopefully not a thousand dollars so 800 i think is reasonable there are a lot of garments
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out there some of the big running watches that are right around there 699 799 so i think it's in a fair spot i
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think people who are i've kind of been calling it like the gopro of smart watches because it has all these
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incredible really cool super intense things that all of us think we do but don't actually do kind of like when you
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buy a gopro and then never actually use it so okay i think it'll still uh like work for
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everyday life and just increase battery life but i think there are gonna be some people out there like yeah i've got
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night vision mode and like all this crazy stuff and i'm just like walking around my local park it is interesting
00:25:17
okay so a bunch of people at the event ask me oh marquez you're getting the the watch ultra right
00:25:24
and i'm not sure like i'm really not sure so here's why i like this watch and it is small
00:25:30
and when i play actually i wear the watch on my left wrist because i don't like having a whole bunch of stuff on my
00:25:35
throwing wrist right i play ultimate i'm throwing with my right hand um the titanium watch is lighter than you'd
00:25:41
think it was surprisingly light so i was worried like oh man this is going to be heavy i like i do want all the extra
00:25:47
features but i don't want a huge heavy watch on my wrist all the time but it's lighter than you think so i think i'd be
00:25:53
okay with the weight but it is still bigger and thicker and i'm already like on the edge of like how much computer on
00:25:59
my wrist can i tolerate and i don't know if in everyday life that isn't extreme sports i would want to have this huge
00:26:06
computer on my wrist thing like i can still dress up i wore it to the met gal remember like i can still dress up an
00:26:13
apple watch not to flex but like it's fine you can wear it in like normal places and people don't look at it twice
00:26:18
uh would you wear a garmin to a nice dinner i don't really think people want to do that so
00:26:25
i don't know to each their own i guess i really don't want two watches it is chunky it's it's a big watch um
00:26:31
i don't know i can imagine i don't know if i would play ultimate with it that's a lot of watch like hanging around like
00:26:37
swinging at people yeah i would golf in it easy yeah because i'd wear it on the left wrist and i'd have the gps tracking
00:26:42
going the whole time and it would be great i would i mean i would kill to take it hiking there's a bunch of things would be great for but how it's like a
00:26:48
gopro how often are you going to do that you're going to have us sitting around thinking like oh i'm gonna go hiking every day and then all winter you're
00:26:53
like i have this huge watch maybe it's the extra set of motivation you need to get out and do that and stop playing
00:26:59
valerian every day instead so yes that might be still no group what do you still know group fitness competition
00:27:06
um what do you think of overall design real quick before we get off of this of the of the ultra yeah cause basically what it is is it's a big it's 49
00:27:13
millimeter apple watch but yeah it has like you said bigger digital crown it has a like big chunk coming out of the
00:27:19
side of it like a protrusion and then it has an extra button on the side which is orange which i actually didn't even mention that
00:27:24
okay yes i i do like the design i'll just say like on the left there is an extra button
00:27:30
it's called the action button it is orange all of the watches of the ultras are the same they all have cellular they
00:27:35
all are silver titanium looking and they all have an orange action button and i kind of like that about it like it it seems to signal just the way it looks is sort of ruggedized look but you can
00:27:47
customize what the action button does so if you just hit the action button from your watch home screen you can
00:27:54
start a workout with it with no countdown just instantly start a workout or you can have it fire up your flashlight or we can have it fire up a
00:28:00
different app there's a bunch of different things that i showed in the settings of the hands-on video um i like that about it so i think
00:28:06
design-wise i think they they took an apple watch further towards durability instead of
00:28:13
taking a garmin and pulling it towards apple watch i think that makes sense i think it's the right move also yeah um
00:28:20
they and they did have stuff like you can do waypoint tracking with that action button you can do markers if you're doing um running and i also do
00:28:27
believe it had similar of the like satellite gps stuff so if you do get lost you can use it to contact emergency
00:28:33
services which is awesome another thing we will not be testing i don't think so only adam needs to test
00:28:39
throw at them in the woods i guess because they talk to people hiking mountains and they were like uh you ever
00:28:45
needed uh to like track your weight points in case you're in complete whiteout conditions and need to find base camping there is benefit of waypoint tracking i have used it on other watches before not
00:28:57
because i've gotten lost but sometimes when there's a lot of trail heads and if trailheads are really sharp with a lot
00:29:02
of brush and stuff like that you can very easily just like walk straight past it wonder why you're not hitting the trailhead that you mean to hit and then
00:29:08
i've looked back seeing that i've gone past the waypoint and then realize i should double back instead of keep walking okay miles away from where i
00:29:14
need to be yeah so you hit the action button to mark your waypoint exactly and you'll be able to come back to it whenever um but yeah i guess what we've learned
00:29:20
from this is adam's going to do an ironman he's going to hike a mountain he's going to do a desert run in extreme
00:29:27
heat just because it can go up to 130 degrees fahrenheit we got to of course make sure that's true about it uh and all the other features will of course be
00:29:33
uh pushing to the limits with our incredible podcast i think adam needs a raise maybe i think it's i think it's a good watch i
00:29:40
think it's a good watch it's not for everyone it's the ultra and that's why it's called the ultra but it is a good watch i like it i don't want to try it
00:29:45
really bad i also want to see if i if it will get messed up climbing because i have like a perfect score of
00:29:51
destroying watches it's titanium which shows the glass and the sapphire oh are you already
00:29:57
scratching the glass i think it's the same glass it's just flat instead of it has like a little bit of a lip though that it might be able to protect it from
00:30:03
we'll see okay i'll try it we'll see all right well let's take a quick break and come back
00:30:09
and talk iphone 14. [Music] all right welcome back this is uh i guess we sort of went in ramping up order as to the most
00:30:26
important most common things you will see on the street after this which is the big thing that we all knew was
00:30:32
coming at the september apple event the iphone 14 series so it's a new lineup this time it is iphone 14 and iphone 14
00:30:40
plus iphone 14 pro and iphone 14 pro max which means no more new mini iphone although it's still being sold on apple's site for 550
00:30:53
just a thought still there noted is it 550 it's five something anyway i'm not sure it's it's a very different lineup
00:30:59
this is not a lineup we're used to here and i think like while there maybe aren't as many changes on the 14 and 14 plus besides it being a
00:31:07
completely new product um it's really interesting to see where apple might be going which is how they
00:31:12
do these launches in the future and and how they're doing stuff because we're jumping right into this the first thing we saw is the a15 bionic and the 14
00:31:19
which is the same chip yeah okay so the iphone 14 and 14 plus have the same a15 bionic from last year um they have the same screen sizes 6.1 inch and 6.7 inch
00:31:30
as the larger ones from last year and they have uh basically the same displays a slightly higher peak brightness they're in the same design they're gonna look basically the same they have one
00:31:42
new like chalky blue color if you can see my shirt right now if you're watching the video version it's kind of
00:31:48
like that or you can watch the hands-on video but it's going to look mostly the same
00:31:54
but the improvements are there's three main changes i want to go over one connectivity
00:32:00
there is no more physical sim card tray on us iphone 14s only esim which to me was interesting esim's fine esim works really well especially when
00:32:13
like upgrading between phones with esim or even swapping between carriers but i wonder if that acts kind of like a
00:32:20
little wall in the ecosystem if i wanted to move from an iphone to a different most new phones support esim but to a
00:32:27
different phone that i'm going to be thinking about that that's interesting but esim is there then there is uh
00:32:33
sos connectivity through satellite which was cool to see so this is another edge case that you'll hopefully never need but theoretically you're in an area with
00:32:44
no it's actually really cool you're in an area with no cellular connectivity you're usually a few miles or so from a cell tower you don't see anyone near you
00:32:51
there's no cell towers but you still need to send a message it will be able to talk to the frequencies of satellites
00:32:58
overhead typically to do that you need a larger radio or something bigger you've seen a
00:33:04
starlink dish with like an extended antenna with a big antenna you need a clear unobstructed view of the sky and
00:33:10
ideally you're actually pointing it at a satellite all this is a lot with the iphone there's actually ui on the iphone
00:33:17
14 to help you point at a satellite so if you have an unobstructed view of the sky it'll assist you to point at a
00:33:23
satellite and actually get a message sent ideally within 30 to 30 60 seconds maybe more ideal
00:33:30
it's also shrinking the size of your message with a proprietary format it's doing a lot but you can still send that message with
00:33:36
no cell connectivity and i think there were two really cool things that i liked about that and and just like problems they had to solve to make sure that
00:33:42
works one is that um just in case you're if basically if you're sending something that is uh text
00:33:49
you're usually sending text things through there if it is at an emergency services that can accept text messages
00:33:55
it'll do that if not they have relay centers set up that will incorporate the text message you send relay it to a
00:34:01
place through a phone call which is really important and pretty awesome and then also they basically have like an
00:34:06
faq that will come up because they know that those text messages take a little to send and rather than having to ask a
00:34:12
bunch of questions you can input what kind of distress you are in answer a bunch of questions and it can
00:34:17
send it in one so whoever you're sending it to only needs that one message so one of those features you hope you never
00:34:22
need exactly it is pretty cool and it is added for iphone 14. um so that's connectivity
00:34:28
one thing about that though they also said free for two years oh yeah which i was a
00:34:33
little confused about i don't know if it will be a paid app later one i'm assuming it's only on 14 and and
00:34:39
future phones um yeah i don't know in terms of if it's a subscription service or anything after that
00:34:45
haven't they kind of skipped over that pretty quick yeah i have a feeling they're still figuring that out so yeah it'll be fearful two years it's also
00:34:51
launching in november in the us and canada only to start okay um from there we'll just stay tuned because uh not
00:34:58
sure yet yeah in terms of being acceptable in other places other us and other than the us and canada it's
00:35:03
obviously like way more than just a phone it's like with all these relays and different ways they have to contact
00:35:08
emergency services there's so much logistics that they have to do so it makes sense it's gonna take a while to
00:35:13
roll out for everyone else yeah but uh really the biggest upgrade i think with this is gonna be the cameras there is a
00:35:19
new camera system and it is a larger 12 megapixel uh rear-facing camera larger sensor larger wider uh max aperture and there also is a new 12 megapixel
00:35:31
selfie camera with autofocus to me and there's also sensor shift image stabilization in the main camera
00:35:37
to me this is basically an iphone 13 pro minus the second the third camera and then dressed up in aluminum and minus promotion so they just take the same chip you know
00:35:52
the better cameras all that stuff which is a really good phone and one year later they can ship it in this lower price point in this aluminum body and
00:35:58
it's a perfectly reasonable phone for most people so it's going to be very familiar same notch same design like we
00:36:04
all said that's all fine so that's 14 and 14 plus the benefit as much as i wish it had 120 hertz the benefit of having a bigger iphone with
00:36:15
the a15 bionic and a 1080p 60hz screen is they're saying it'll have the longest battery life ever in an iphone it will def i have no doubts it will be the like
00:36:25
battery champ going forward i mean you already have like the iphone as one of the like idle battery champs and then
00:36:31
you just make it bigger and have more in it yeah i also really i thought it was kind of funny and kind
00:36:36
of appreciated it but mostly thought it was funny how long they took to show us what a bigger screen means and how you
00:36:42
can see more things on a bigger screen yeah and it's just like you can see more text messages you can see more in your
00:36:48
album it's like yeah we know you can see more stuff yeah you can see more stuff it's bigger yeah
00:36:53
well if there's anything i know about people and screens it's they like the bigger one if they can it seems to be
00:36:58
yeah so i think that's going to be a hit low-key um so 7.99 in september for the
00:37:03
iphone 14 8.99 in october for the 14 plus then we got the pros okay the pros have a little bit more going on that are visually distinct from last year's pros and not just visually
00:37:16
it's got a new chip inside of the a16 this year on a four nanometer process which is pretty cool there is also a new
00:37:23
purple color did you like the purple i really thought it was green i'm just mad it wasn't green we got all these green badges and
00:37:29
we saw a lot of green hints and then we got a purple phone yeah a little sad especially because we call it green but i actually think the the space gray
00:37:37
looks different from last year it's darker the rings around the cameras are darker that looks really good and the whole
00:37:42
thing is like this dark sleek it's almost like shale gray i like i like it way better i like it i'm gonna i'm gonna
00:37:48
probably go for that one um but really no one's surprised that you are yeah well here i am
00:37:53
uh same two sizes 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches but obviously the new higher end pro displays which are a little bit
00:37:59
brighter as well this year peak 2000 knits outdoor brightness that's i think if i'm understanding this correctly since knits are logarithmic and they said it's twice as bright as last year
00:38:11
there should be a noticeable difference in brightness outside we'll see yeah i guess it should be better but i think the main difference here is the new camera system and the new
00:38:25
pill cutout that has a name what should we talk about first dynamic island dynamic island all right
00:38:32
welcome to dynamic island we're calling it the dynamic island the iphone 14 pros instead of having a
00:38:39
normal static peninsula at the top have a new pill cut out for the cameras and the
00:38:46
face id system and they actually moved the proximity sensor underneath the display
00:38:52
so now it'll look like a little a little oval at the top of the screen now when i first saw this
00:38:58
because there were rumors about it we were kind of expecting something like this yeah um i was like ah that's
00:39:04
it's all it's a whole bunch we've seen it before like i've seen this it looks a little different neat
00:39:10
but the name dynamic island is actually associated with a bunch of features that they added which is interesting because
00:39:16
when they first announced it there was like a pretty solid giggle across the audio 100 like
00:39:22
100 they put dynamic island in huge text on the screen and everyone around me went what that's the name but okay so here's what they're doing there's a bunch this actually became my favorite feature i
00:39:34
know is there's uh there's all these little animations that extend around this pill so the pill sort of morphs and shapes so just the cutout by itself is dead pixels
00:39:47
right that's not pixels on the screen it's cutting out around the cameras but because it's an oled you can just
00:39:52
shut down pixels around it and so they built all these animations around it where if you have an ongoing activity a
00:39:58
live activity uh notifications ongoing tasks some things that are happening at the top they can show you those things
00:40:06
in like animations around the pill yeah i think a perfect example is pretty much any audio so music or podcast it
00:40:13
basically will show one side of the pill the pill will extend in this really really smooth animation yep one side
00:40:19
will have like podcast cover like we had the waveform podcast up on it so the left showed our cover the right just
00:40:25
showed a little waveform that's showing that something's playing it's such a small thing it's just a nice little
00:40:30
playful ui touch that like if any other phone company did this we would have been all over it like oh that's smart it's annoying how good it looks it's like why didn't anyone think
00:40:40
of this before yeah it's the epitome of apple it's like hole punch cutouts have been around forever at this point apple does it
00:40:47
later and they just absolutely knock it out of the closest thing we got is wallpapers i think like remember how viral all of these you know hole punch wallpapers went for like the past four
00:40:59
years of hole punch phones we've had we've had these cool wallpaper apps which would put like like an eye around
00:41:05
like the pill cut out or the hole punch or whatever like oh those are it's kind of cool that you can like set up your
00:41:10
home screen around it well now yeah the active ui will move around this this dynamic island i'm gonna stop calling it
00:41:17
that because it's just this podcast will be the last time i call it dynamic island i think it is a really cool cutout it's really good ui
00:41:23
um i think regular people are gonna love that i think it's gonna be one of those things where you like
00:41:29
the people out there who don't like apple are gonna be like it's so stupid stop like stop saying this is cool and
00:41:35
then you see it and it helps you like quick switch between apps i mean we sat there just messing with it for probably
00:41:40
like 20 minutes it is actually kind of low-key a task switcher for certain things so i mentioned live activities before like you can have things going on that just stay persistent up there if i
00:41:51
have a timer for example and music playing all i have to do to bring up the music
00:41:57
because it's playing in the background is just tap on that little extended part of the
00:42:02
island i just tap it and it brings it up and while it comes up it still shows the other half which is the timer and i ever
00:42:08
if i ever want to go on the timer i just tap that so instead of having to swipe down and go into the timer which is fine it's just two clicks instead of one it's
00:42:15
just a one-click quick switch thing now it's a it's a multitasking it's a uh you
00:42:21
also can hold it and get like quick commands through that like if you're doing audio you can hold it it'll bring
00:42:26
up a small box towards the top of the screen in a beautiful animation again and you can like skip through songs you
00:42:32
can use like the 15 second skip play pause all those pretty easy i think it literally just pops up the lock screen
00:42:37
widget pretty much yeah on the top yeah so anyway i'm gonna be playing with that a lot but that's pretty cool that's the
00:42:45
that's the dynamic island there it is i said it okay but the other thing is the new cameras and
00:42:51
uh i i am very interested in testing these because these are theoretically now the best cameras ever in an iphone
00:42:57
i've been shooting autofocus videos on the iphone i want to check out the new sensor and the new stuff here but we got
00:43:03
three new cameras here and they're all bigger than the iphone 13 pro i hold them up next to each other oh like
00:43:09
physically bigger like on the phone yeah yeah they extend further out the back and they like you can look at it until
00:43:14
they're all three bigger sensors which is cool um the 48 megapixel main sensor first megapixel bump in an iphone in
00:43:21
like a decade i think i tweeted actually the last time they bumped up it went from 8 to 12 megapixels a long time ago
00:43:27
and we've had 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 every year 48 megapixel main sensor it will bin and spit out normal 12 megapixel photos but obviously with a lot of detail but yes you can shoot 48
00:43:39
megapixel photos in pro raw so if that's the question is there a high-res mode yes you switch to pro raw you'll get 48
00:43:46
megapixel shots which is sweet um and then there's a new larger ultra wide and an improved telephoto as well all the stuff i definitely want to test they say that the new larger sensor ultra
00:43:59
white is three times better in low light takes better macros yeah and i think the other two are two times better in low light with the two theme of the theme of
00:44:05
the event i don't know what that means i don't either two times better in low light
00:44:11
what is two two what i don't know don't question it it's better we'll find out um overall wait one thing i'm really excited about though in in which you mentioned
00:44:22
shooting autofocus now is the action mode i believe is called which is like the crazy stabilization in
00:44:28
video that's gonna be good to try i can't wait to try that and the amount of people i saw on the event floor like
00:44:34
jumping joanna stern and juddner were just like jumping up and down trying it we did not get a shot of that but i
00:44:39
can't wait to test it i have a feeling it works best in certain situations because again there's new sensors in the
00:44:45
eye there's there's a new improved gyroscope and accelerometer i believe it takes advantage of those but the shot that they used to demo was like a follow shot so you're like running forward and
00:44:56
there's a bunch of axes of stabilization needed to run forward and stabilize your motion i think it's going to be shots
00:45:02
like that that see the best improvement um maybe if you imagine sort of the rig that we have on the back of the truck to like shoot car stuff all of that micro compressed into an iphone camera
00:45:15
hopefully you can kind of see that sort of before and after yeah we'll check it out um no astrophotography feature i was very
00:45:22
surprised by that we were we all kind of thought that was going to be the event thing i guess that's just what the stars look like two times increased low light if you did a
00:45:33
prop bet on like will there be an astrophotography mode i would have lost a lot of money yeah i would have guaranteed a special mode for
00:45:41
that um so far out so far out what does that mean now far out was the was the name of the event i guess far out no idea far out if you're far out enough from
00:45:51
cell service you can use there you go you can get picked up as long as you're within the two free years of satellites
00:45:56
satellite connectivity that's far out that makes sense okay fair um the redesigned flash was low-key
00:46:04
kind of amazing unless it's not actually gonna be able to notice it it's okay they showed an animation and i watched the animation and it looked really cool and then i
00:46:15
thought again about how small the flash is and how unlikely i am to ever notice a difference but there's different flash
00:46:21
patterns with the nine leds built into the flash of the phone so if it recognizes that
00:46:26
you're taking a macro with the ultra y it'll use less of them yeah and be less harsh
00:46:32
cool maybe i don't know i think it'll be nice for all of our parents and older generation who don't turn the flash off
00:46:38
rather than try and teach them to not use the flash maybe it'll just be less annoying but like how many times have we seen like a ring light on the back of a
00:46:44
phone and we're like holy smokes that's way different and it just looks like a normal flash yeah some i'm skeptical but
00:46:50
you know that's something else they mentioned on stage um but yeah that's that's the new phone
00:46:55
so the lineup is remember when we predicted the prices i think you were spot-on i nailed all of
00:47:01
them so 7.99 to start for iphone 14 then 8.99 for iphone 14 plus 9.99 for the pro
00:47:08
10.99 to start for the 14 pro max up to a terabyte again um if i were to pick now i would pick space gray 14 pro
00:47:21
and i think that would be fine and i would get a terabyte because we're shooting a lot of prores video now and my god does that eat your storage fast
00:47:29
fast so yeah we're sending studio video stuff back from the event from pro res and it's probably still uploaded 30 40
00:47:35
it's just easy drop of a hat so that is the new iphone lineup i think that's a pretty good pretty solid lineup again it doesn't it's there's not a lot of like huge design innovation happening it's a
00:47:47
it looks the same as last year most of the phone is very recognizable especially the base 14. nothing's
00:47:52
folding in half nothing is like changing materials in any drastic way like these are
00:47:58
these are iphones you know what you're getting with them yeah but these little refinement details especially and it
00:48:04
sounds so dumb when i'm not using it but like try the dynamic island look at it use it for a little bit and you're like
00:48:10
wow this is really thought out well thought out and i wish every phone had something like this and maybe someday they will who's gonna copy that first
00:48:17
samsung yeah yeah okay that was easy um sneaky iphone 13 still in the lineup i felt it's worth mentioning you can still buy a 13 or 13 mini
00:48:31
for i think it's like the 500 550 range okay so that's worth noting obviously it's
00:48:37
still gonna be a 60 hertz phone but like when you spend seven eight nine hundred
00:48:42
bucks you want the latest and greatest you probably just jump to the pro um but that's the lineup i think that
00:48:48
there it is that's about it i just have to say i've constantly found myself looking at these monitors at how cool we look on
00:48:55
this thing it looks pretty i guess we want to again say we appreciate being able to use this set this is a fun way
00:49:00
to just dump my thoughts out and uh right off of it yeah yeah um do we want to do trivia do we want to attempt it do you have the files i think so what i understand is they sent us
00:49:13
video files yeah i'm nervous of what this is if you have them it's 10 seconds it's i already opened it and it's l is playing ping pong so um okay this is do you want to attempt maybe uh
00:49:25
take one earphone off a little bit so i can hear this yeah i got transparency let's just go we only have a few minutes
00:49:31
left here let's um let's just answer first one to answer it or we both just give up pretty quick okay so we gotta
00:49:36
wrap this up pretty soon let's try it let's attempt this let's hear it released in september of 1981 the apple profile was a hard drive
00:49:51
oh that was the answer i played the answer instead of the question i knew that was gonna i knew i
00:49:56
was gonna do that that could go wrong here is if we just played the answer first instead of the question okay cool
00:50:01
we're just going to do the second trivia question then because i completely messed that up i think i'll get a negative point on our
00:50:08
running score that was really embarrassing and there's way too many people watching this happening right now where the files are i literally click
00:50:14
trivia answers but there's a lot going on right now okay cool new questions um this is
00:50:19
starting with david as computer looking at craig um looking at the macbook air perfect the
00:50:25
apple a16 bionic and the new iphone 14 pro includes almost 16 billion transistors but what was the component that the transistor replaced
00:50:39
the transistor okay so i'm still so embarrassed i played the answer so i don't know what
00:50:44
to answer this is uh this is one of those things where like if you know a lot of computer history you probably already have answered this out loud and
00:50:50
you're probably driving your car right now yelling it to yourself wondering why we haven't know the answer
00:50:56
um do you have any idea no i'm thinking it's just a tube can we ask the audience audience does anyone know that we've got for those of you who don't know there
00:51:07
are people in the dark like in the on the outsides of this who are actually helping us with this camera work does
00:51:13
anybody know the answer to this question i guarantee somebody knows it vacuum tube is a two tube it's a tube that's right let's see the uh let me click that it answers this let's hear
00:51:24
the answer i said it's some kind of tube because remember cameras used to be tubes by the way yes okay what's the
00:51:29
answer the component that the transistor replaced was the vacuum tube good job we're gonna need to adjust our scoreboard to have um we have to yeah we'll have to make sure we know who got
00:51:43
that from the shadows a vacuum tube was the correct answer that is uh that is incredible yes so the
00:51:49
new four nanometer chip has is it now 16 billion transistors just something i can't even visualize that but here we
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are in 2022 with uh billions and billions of transistors instead of vacuum tubes very nice
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i like that well i think that's about it for this episode that's been a fun one i'm gonna close my laptop thank you uh for
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that's been it i think uh when you see us next week we'll be in a different place again we will we'll be at another
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apple they're actually gonna build a new set for us for sure with a different background they're actually going to
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make this screen look like our old background and then rip it and then craig burst through it yes okay it's too
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easy all right well anyway catch you guys next week see you later peace waveform is produced by adam molina ellis rovin and the wonderful apple crew that let us use this space today um
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