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Which is the best smartphone for YouTube in 2018/2019?
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This episode has been sponsored by LastPass
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So here's one that I didn't expect. You know, bouncing around the web, looking around, looking for stories, trying to figure out..
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Uh, what? What am I doing? Today I'm gonna help you out
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You watch a lot of YouTube, you watch Unbox Therapy, you watch it on your smartphone
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But is your smartphone the best way to watch YouTube? Or is your smartphone the best smartphone to watch YouTube
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What are you talking about, Lou? It's working really well. I hear you. I see you. What more do you want from me here
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Well, here's the thing. Not all smartphones are created equal when it comes to interacting with the YouTube app
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I didn't know this, at least not to the degree that YouTube is now sharing
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They recently published a list of devices that they're calling signature devices
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In other words, YouTube themselves went out of their way to hand-select certain devices
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that are the best at taking advantage of all YouTube's features, including, but not limited to, HDR video, immersive 360 video
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fast video load times, and less bandwidth usage. So, better video, higher bit rates, higher frame rates where available
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higher resolution where available, but then also with less of a hit to your data usage
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You can utilize less of it while still getting the same quality through using YouTube's more advanced video codecs
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VP9 Profile 2 Decoding. This will give you the same resolution with 30% less data usage
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Okay, not all phones can do this. Now, part of me feels like when YouTube put this list out
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they were also looking at other attributes of devices. The device they have at the very top of their page
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is this brand new device on the far right. That the reason I have it out The new Note 9 Nice AMOLED display 1440p lots of resolution big battery Snapdragon 845 According to YouTube themselves
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the best phone to watch YouTube on is the new Galaxy Note 9
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But there are other signature devices, and I've got a couple of them on the table here
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This is a OnePlus 6. It's also considered a signature device by YouTube
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but in this case, a 3300 mAh battery. Now, the thing that these also have in common
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is Android Oreo 8.1. I've also got an S9 Plus over here. It's another signature device for 2019
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And then on the far left here, I have some bad news. The iPhone is not on this list
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Not capable of taking full advantage of all of these features. It may be able to do some of them without checking every single box
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It can't be selected as a signature device for YouTube. So YouTube actually physically tested all of these
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They had to verify that the devices met or exceeded their performance expectations
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Now one thing that kind of bugs me about these signature devices is audio
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They didn't really talk about audio performance. And I know of course there's a huge variance in speaker quality across smartphones
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Every year YouTube publishes a set of criteria required to achieve the best in class video experience YouTube has to offer
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They invite all qualified device manufacturers to collaborate directly with their team to pass rigorous testing criteria
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Let's go ahead and see if we can spot a difference here. So I have a video here suggested by YouTube on the signature device webpage
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4K HDR content at 60 FPS. The iPhone is capable of playing it back in HDR at 60 frames, but at 1080p
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Confusingly, the OnePlus, which is on the list, it also taps out at the same resolution because it is a 1080p display
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Not having the iPhone on the list but having the OnePlus 6 is a little bit strange neither can possibly be the champ because they tap out lower resolution then the other two smartphones here the S9 Plus and the Note 9 These ones on the other hand go up to 1440p which surprisingly you have to enable entertainment mode
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So 1080p 60 HDR on the iPhone. We can switch the S9 Plus to 1440p just like the Note
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On the OnePlus device, we'll do 1080p 60. One thing I can say is that all these devices look great, though I would probably agree with YouTube themselves, if I had to pick one I would probably select the Note series, just looking at it just straight glance
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But they are more similar than they are different. Okay, should we do audio now
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Now I know on the YouTube device report page they don't mention anything about audio
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But if I'm gonna say or suggest that one of these smartphones is the best way to watch YouTube or media in general
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Then the sound coming out of it is gonna be big for me. For my ears, in this particular scenario, I'm going to take the Samsung stuff
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I just find that there's just a little bit more detail there. I like the little punch that's coming out of the iPhone, but there's certainly more clarity on these two devices
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You could even argue Jack was trying to argue that the S9 Plus may have sounded a little better than the Note 9
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it's possible. I mean I know YouTube themselves they didn't state anything
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regarding audio but it would be hard to imagine they wouldn't take that into consideration at all I definitely taking it into consideration so I think I gonna agree with them The YouTube watching champion the media consumption champion smartphone is in the middle here That this guy This is the Note
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The new Note, the Note 9. It also has the advantage of being the newest device
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It's very expensive too when you stack it up against something like the OnePlus 6
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So not exactly a fair fight in that sense. You're spending more dollars here
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But if you want the biggest baddest for watching video, you get a 6.4 inch screen
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You can play back 1440p content with the low data consumption codec, the latest stuff
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You can go check out their entire device report and all of these signature devices
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You can see if your device is listed on there or not. There you have it. You want to watch video on a smartphone
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You want to watch Unbox Therapy in all of its glory? 1440p a couple inches from your eyes
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