Show Me Your Smartphone | Peter McKinnon

Peter McKinnon

How's it going? You're here! I'm finally here! You're in the house! I'm in the house

Turns out that you're just down the street from us here. Literally just, like I kind of one-wheeled here

You got a following on YouTube. I do. People, they like ya. Yep

Very informative. Cool. They send you the photo, you kind of re-edit it

Yeah, that's something I started recently. I thought it would just be interesting to edit other people's photos

As you probably know, this channel here, it's all about technology. I'm aware

Heavy focus on smartphones. Because I have you here, I thought this would be a good opportunity to launch a brand new segment

Here on Unbox Therapy. Today. Today. I ask the guest, which is you, to show me their smartphone

Okay. Let's go. Right now. Let's go. Now, that can mean a couple different things

I think people are going to be interested in which smartphone you're using and why. Sure. What is on it

What's on the homepage? We're going into it. Let's dive in. It's happening

Let's do it right now. Okay. The actual just iPhone X. He had to check his notifications first

He was like, what am I about to show off here? I have Nest notifications, YouTube, and my friend Matty Hapoya

Which model? Yeah, iPhone X. Okay, X. I haven't upgraded since. Wow. I haven't really found the need for it yet

When I'm updating my phones, there needs to be a significant reason for it

Because I'm a photographer, the camera doesn't draw me as much because I already deal with tons of DSLRs and high production value cameras on a regular basis

So not being like an everyday camera user where this would be my driver, like it's not a big deal

And in a certain way, like I would assume, maybe I'm wrong, you can probably do more in post

Yeah. With the images that you do end up taking, you may go in there and feel like you're going to edit it a little bit

Whereas a more average customer might just share straight out of camera Yeah snap done In which case they may benefit more from some of the software based on what happening Still super thin still has like the depth sensors in it so I can still get like the depth of field out of it if I want

Even being a photographer, I still use this as much as my regular camera. Like it's my go to taking pictures of your kids or whatever's happening in the moment

I pulled this out first. So you're an iOS guy, you're an Apple guy

Have you dabbled in Android? I have. Would you consider a shift

More so recently I would because there's a lot of things that just make me go like

oh, Apple, come on. It's just that like, you know, it's comfort

You know, you got into it so many years ago. Everything, like all your friends and major contacts

A lot of people tell me iMessage is a big pull. iMessage and AirDrop, man. I can't get over that

What's on the homepage? What are the important apps? Okay. I'll tell you one of my most like used apps right here that I love because I'm like

I would say like I'm addicted is the arrive app made by Shopify calls through your email

And it finds all your tracking numbers and puts them all in this app has like little pictures of everything that you've bought

So you can just keep a bird's eye view on everything that you have and like I love I love getting mail

Honestly, this will change your life. Wow real talk. It will change everyone's lives. You didn't fill the page up

I didn't fill it up. There's a it's a bit of an odd distribution. Okay. Yeah

Like you you've left one spot. I did yeah messages and Instagram are the most used

That's where my thumb naturally sits so it's strategic. I don't want I don't I don't want there to be an app below and beside

Because I might hit it by accident and things would start getting weird, right? I've got a system for this you've got nest here. Yes, you own some nest product nest is used a lot the thermostat

I've got the cameras and The doorbell YouTube YouTube studio YouTube studio youtuber I

I, the YouTube studio is a stressful app because it's just usually letting you know like what

you should be doing better. Is this Apple maps not Google maps on the front page It is Can we talk about this I just like to issue a formal apology I know you don believe it so I like to issue a formal apology to everybody watching

So Apple CarPlay in my truck was only using Maps from Apple

but it just recently got an update, and now it uses Google Maps, so... Six phone call notifications and 502 email notifications

Yeah, that's pretty good right now. 502, like, I'm in a good place. I'm feeling good about that

You're saying your inbox is active and you're a happening guy. Things are happening for you

It's not all good stuff in the inbox, but it's definitely a busy place

Okay. Should we go over? Let's swipe, please. Can we go over to the next page? Swiping over to the next page

This is where things get fun. Oh, I know what Ember is. Oh, Ember

Life changing again. It keeps your coffee warm for like up to two hours, up to like 150 degrees around

No, that's cool. I might be doing an edit. I might get in the zone and then 30 minutes later, my coffee's cold

Not anymore, but it is an expensive mug. Oh, it is not cheap at all

Yeah, you gotta be really into coffee to go for it. Oh, you get the Chemex on the log

I told you man. I like coffee. Wow. I took that photo Like as far as the ritual is concerned of actually making coffee with the Chemex. It's a very sensual

Experience I need you to unlock again One of the most fun parts of the Chemex is like just the process of how I like how you have a business folder

Yeah, I mean it's just, I don't know what to name these things

Mr. Business folder. What would you name it? You have Turbo Scan, right

You have Turbo Scan. Turbo Scan belongs in the business folder. Yeah, I mean, I guess so

What is DFB? Oh, that's, we can't talk about that. We can't talk about that one

That's an off camera app. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. What's Unfold? Unfold is an app that's actually really cool that lets you customize

Instagram stories So if you want to make them look a little more artistic with layouts and not spend a lot of time with it You can snap a bunch of photos for like a photo series or something Drop them into templates that have in purchases and stuff like that

And then when you put those stories up on Instagram, it just looks like a designer made them

It just complements your photography and what you're trying to showcase on stories a lot better

I can't help but notice skip the dishes skip the dishes. Yeah, they're like a go-to restaurant for you on skip the dishes

Mucho burrito. Oh, okay booster juice mm-hmm. Yep iRobot might be my new favorite thing

Things get messy at home. And I never thought a vacuum could keep up to it. This guy, incredible

Literally has brought more joy to my life. Wow. Yep. That him there

There he is. Yeah. So he goes over, Robbie goes over, mounts himself, and empties himself into that tower

Wow. I literally just sit there and watch him do it. We're getting some hot recommendations here

I can't have a background that's so busy that it makes all the apps look disgusting

I agree with that. It's one of the reasons I've never been on Snapchat, because I hate the icon

It's really interesting the way people set up their devices. It is. There's a wide variance, and people have strange methods for how they make those decisions

What do we got here, Will? We're just looking at the Instagram account right now

I'm pretty hardcore with the Instagram. I even have separate accounts where I preview the photo I'm going to post beforehand

so I can see if it matches with the tonality of all the colors. It's very snowy

Yes, so I usually transition through the seasons. The seasons! Yeah. So if you keep going, you'll see it'll get a little warmer starting around here

You keep going down. You see you slowly start introducing those winter scenes so that the transition's nice

So we're in the fall now. Wow. So we don't need the weather report. No, you just log on and you'll know

You'll know what season we're in. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Peter McKinnon. You got to check him out on YouTube

He's doing cool things. Good times. Thanks for looking at my stuff. You got it

Thank you