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Very thorough review!

Phone reviews are pretty tough to go by. I'm including users comments on phones. If you're going with a major brand like Google or Apple chances are that your phone will be damn good. For the other tiers do some research to make sure the phone is obviously not bad or you can live with purported issues.

Hopefully you can go with a phone that has a decent return policy in case it's not great.

The reason I'm typing this is because if you go online for phone reviews you will probably only get an iPhone. There are plenty of great phones out there where minor issues get blown out of proportion.

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I don’t know why people like MKBHD. I much prefer reading a thorough objective analysis like they do on Anandtech than some anecdotal opinions. It’s entertaining to watch MKBHD though.

I want data. Not entertainment in my reviews.

> I don’t know why people like MKBHD

> it’s entertaining to watch MKBHD thought.

Touche :-)

He's a likeable fellow, doesn't ham it up too much.

I watch very little video, broadcast TV nearly gives me hives listening to their anxious desperate voices, but do not mind an occasional Marques Brownlee video. Actually kind of soothing ...

That's a totally valid point of view to have.

I used to be the same and care a lot about objective comparisons but I realized when I just listened to those I usually regretted my purchase. For me personally, the subjective things like feel, design, UX are way more important so that's why I now prefer anecdotal opinions because things like UX can't really be measured.

For example the Fiesta ST was car of the year and very highly praised by critics, but when I test drove it, I felt nothing. I instead preferred a car that was much worse but for whatever reason I liked it and in the end isn't that what's important?

If nothing else, MKBHD reviews are 10 minutes of 4k video showing the phone from every angle

I'm confused as to why you suddenly brought up MKBHD.

Or why you think Marques should in any way be compared to Anandtech given they serve completely different purposes. MKBHD is a fun, light hearted Youtuber designed for a quick watch often whilst you're doing something else. Anandtech is a multi-page, detail focused review where you often need to block a half hour to read through. The two simply aren't comparable.

>I want data.

I can't help but frown : the anandtech review really rubs me the wrong way when it starts with a long benchmark.

Unfortunately benchmarks are an extremely poor simulation of real life workload and have indirectly contributed to extremely poor devices by making OEMs very tempted to optimize their devices for benchmarks and not for real life workloads.

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