Devindra has been writing about the way technology intersects with our lives for nearly 20 years. He started the Amherst Student's first technology column, worked in IT support for many (many) years, and eventually moved to Brooklyn to cover New York's tech scene in 2009.
Our reviews of the iPhone 16 Pro and Apple Watch Series 10 are up, thanks to one very tired Cherlynn Low. In this episode, Devindra and Cherlynn discuss her final thoughts on Apple 's new hardware, including why the iPhone 16 Pro’s photo processing is particularly interesting. In other news, we also chat about Snap's fifth-generation AR Spectacles, as well as HTC Vive's new Focus Vision headset.
So check that out. Cherlynn, I was really excited to see what you thought of the iPhone 16 pro because based on our previous conversations.No, I'm not. I'm not actually, I am very firmly. I'm like, I actually don't need to do this at all. It's great. It's a good year for anybody who has a 15 pro because just not much of a reason beyond the button.
Now. The, the reason I was actually, I'm going to start with the iPhone 16 because we, we haven't really put out our formal thoughts out there yet, but I, I, I have spent some time thinking about them. This is the first time you've basically for a while now that you've got the iPhone 16s that are basically close to parody with the pros.
And then of course the cameras aren't as powerful, but you will get spatial audio recording, which means you will get access to features like audio mix in the video recording tool set. So, or the video editing tool set. So Ijust want to point out here, Sherilyn, as you were holding up those iPhones, it seems like the big difference is.
And then put your index finger on the sensor to be able to move it without Completely dropping the phone. It is in my opinion, a little clunky. However, I do love that Apple's finally brought Hardaware based shortcut access to the camera app. Let me fix my. Sure, let's pour a microphone.It's okay. I mean, I think the more I hear about the camera button and everything, it does seem compelling.
But anyway I, I do think that for now there's a lot but the base iPhone 16s are still, they still seem like really solid upgrades for anyone on the base iPhone 15. Now the pros are a different matter altogether. Okay, so I almost immediately switched over to the base iPhone. iPhone 16 pro as my main.smaller one by base. I mean the smaller one, not the max.
The Pixel 9 Pro, because of its camera bar, doesn't wobble as much, but iPhone 16 Pro certainly does. It's modules. We're going tomake an excuse to bring the wobble dance into an iPhone video. Now, is that, that's what's happening here, I guess. Yeah. SoI will also point out that I've had some issues with some, what seems like buggy software.
the side by side iPhone 16 and Pixel 9 Pro pictures in Cherlynn's review. It's the image of the tree and the LED strip. It looks like it's in some kind of transit hub. And I know everyone says the Pixel 9 photos are so much better all the time, but to me, the picture from the 16 Pro looks so much more vibrant.It could be.
Whereas like on the pixel pro, sometimes I would use the volume key trigger. Sometimes I would use the onscreen button. That's the way I normally use it in daily life anyway. So I think that some of that,Definitely introduce shake. Deepak Murthy in the chat also asked a really good question. Is the 48 megapixel Ultra wide. A big upgrade from last year.
If I know if something I want to capture is going to happen in the split second after I press the button, that's when I trigger it. That's how I time myself to press the button. And that's why our pictures were coming out a little too early.
Keep that a natural looking, as natural looking as possible, and then apply color changes and contrast changes and whatnot to the background. And it is wildly effective this year. And then the fact that you can. Set it, leave it, every single one of your photos will turn out that way. Or you can go in and post process and post and change it up.
You shoot something in real life with real color depth and everything and shadow depth, and it looks dramatically different. I guess that's sort of what people are noticing. So any, anything else you want to shout out about the, the iPhone pros or, or the base ones, Rowan?I mean, I agree with you that especially on photographic styles, they introduced it on the thirteens, right?
So I can imagine I see so many of those like little rigs that people are putting together. Like you put your iPhone in there. It's also stabilizing rig. You could attach a microphone up top. But you could put a small SSD there too.
I think especially, I actually had to flip the position of the pro and the pro max this year, just because the battery life to me was that much significantly lower. I, I actually almost dinged it quite a few more points and then was convinced to be like, okay, A bit more, a bit less angry about battery life.fair comparison, but I do, I do want to know, like people like me who used to hate the Pro Max phones, like the titanium change last year was a huge difference.
Apple's more sensitive to being caught with egg on its face, perhaps, whereas Google's probably we can just say, sorry, and Apple's more, let's not. Nobody's buying theseDevindra: That sort of thing. Apple is not going to do that ever. I think it's wild that Google is able to, and I think there is helpful executions there too, but I don't know that every single person would be as happy to embrace that. So it's fine that they have two very different approaches.
But the, and especially compared to the series nine, which I've been using since it was launched last year, the screens a little bit wider angle viewing. wider viewing angle. And, and, and, and, and that's about it, right? I mean, what else is like the, the, the battery life for being thinner is very similar still to the Series 9.
So the font was just, and of course that's going to be harder to read, whereas like on the Series 10, which was running watchOS 11, when the AOD dimmed, the clock digits maintained their solid structure. So the font basically went from a fully filled solid digits situation to stroke only that sort of thing.
And then on watchOS 11, that's when you can get it right. And you can get the sleep apnea tracking on watch series nine as well as watch ultra two. So even if I had tested was like a big deal, it was not going to super affect my score because you can get it on an older watch.
And things not connected to the internet. Right, exactly. You would, right. It's even harder. So it's you would think that internet is the more hackable sort of technology because it's more communication availability. But no, it's these things that are just chilling along on, I guess, radio waves for a lot of them especially walkie talkies and what, pagers.Yeah. And the, the actual we're still like, this is an ongoing story.
You don't know what's safe anymore when these devices, these devices that you think are just dumb and silly can just explode at any moment. So, terrifying.Yeah, and the politics of this situation is really difficult to get into, so we'll mostly try to sidestep that. I'm feeling for the Lebanese population right now.From the perspective of gadget people, we love our devices. We use our devices to relax.
Because I think if people saw the real cost of these things if you had to put a dollar to it, you would probably laugh Snapchat off the face of the planet. Like these would probably cost four to 5, 000 a pair, given the level of technology in them. Thoughts on these Cherlynn?And I was like, wow, I guess Eugene Levy is wearing the same sort of glasses. The same style glasses, right? They were these very thick black frames that are extremely boxy, especially near the temples.
And also they have a cool. An accessory, a display port accessory that you can buy. It's like 150. It gives you a direct connection to your computer for connected wired VR. And that is different compared to what Oculus link did or the metal link does on Meta's headsets. When you plug into a PC, you're basically seeing a video feed of what a VR window is seeing on your computer.
But if I type the word here and I train this thing on my voice, and it's a local model that I fully control it can replicate a word for me. That makes my life a little easier. Maybe they can do that, but it's tough for artists. Tough to manage that.Yeah. I will say that as of six or seven years ago at 1MWC, there was a tool like that online somewhere that allowed you to create like voice models for of people.
Sorry that you misunderstood what I said, or, Oh, sorry. I didn't mean it that way. Oh, PC. Oh, woke. Like people who use that sort of like labels to defend bad behavior. And you have a lot of that. And so I spent a lot of the movie because I didn't guess the ending. I spent a lot of the movie wondering if.
Oh, this, this couple seems nice. I think both these movies sound like the in why you do not make friends on vacation. You meet somebody you meet a couple you meet you meet people on vacation. They're not last let it go. Yeah Yeah, they're temporary friends. Yeah, let it go. Do not visit their houses. Do not do anything I'm looking forward to seeing this movie Cherlynn.is It is fun to see Scoot McNary and Mackenzie Davis. Yes, like normal couple.
It is just so fascinating. So yeah. Loving Pachinko Season 2. Also Season 2 has a new opening dance sequence, which became a big hit. with the first season. Still good. I don't think it hits the same highs for me as the Pachinko season one opening, but still very good. Also quickly want to shout out Lego Star Wars Rebuild the Galaxy, which is a Lego Star Wars thing.
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