A little while ago, I made a video

on why you should not buy the iPhone 11 Pro.

And yet, here a couple months later,

I may or may not have switched

to daily drivering an iPhone 11

Pro.

Look, there's a great reason for this; let me explain.

Because there's a lot of things

that have happened in smart phones

over the last 12 months.

- You lied?

- That did happen actually. I was wrong.

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Now, you might look at the table and think,

"Isn't this just a poor imitation

"of Marques' Best Smart Phone of the Year Awards?"

- Well, you are wrong.

- You were actually kind of right,

but this is not an awards show.

We are not choosing any kind of awards here.

What we're doing is giving a better look

at the different phones that we've taken a look at this year

because obviously it's easy

to review something when it comes out,

but there's always more stuff coming out.

So this is a good recap.

And honestly, a lot of things have changed,

especially since we've done videos on some of these phones.

Case in point, the iPhone 11.

- [Ken] I mean, this thing is proper cool.

- [Austin] I still stand by what I said in the video

that the iPhone 11 is the iPhone to buy right now;

however, I think I was a little bit harsh on the 11 Pro

because while this phone, at $300 more,

doesn't really make sense for most people,

it is actually a better phone.

Last year, this was a much harder comparison to make.

We're in a very privileged scenario,

where we have a wide variety of phones

that we can choose from at any time.

- Absolutely. - And yet,

what I really kept coming back to with the XR

was that battery life; it was so much better.

I actually do like the Pro more.

The screen is better,

although the iPhone 11's screen is just fine.

And having that third camera is nice.

But I legitimately still absolutely recommend,

anyone who's considering an iPhone,

to buy the iPhone 11.

- Coming from a XS Max last year,

the battery life is insanely good.

- The battery is the killer thing on this.

Especially on the Max,

I'm sure you've seen the benefits on the 11 as well.

11 Pro. - All of the iPhones

of this generation have great battery life,

which is a really nice thing to say.

However, that's not something we can say

about some of the other phones that we'd

like to talk about, including

the Pixel 4.

What did they do wrong? (sighs)

Why is this...

Look,

Like no.

This is my biggest disappointment of the year.

Now, you may have noticed,

we actually have not done a video

on the Pixel 4, here on the channel.

And that's for one very simple reason.

I start working on the video,

I got about three-quarters of the way through writing it up,

putting all of my notes together,

then I was like, "You know what?

"I just don't like this thing very much,

"and everyone's going to have the same opinion."

- I mean, it certainly didn't help that

the wind was taken out of the press event.

We already knew everything about this phone

before it was announced-- - Six months before.

- Yeah, six months before.

- There are major problems with the Pixel 4,

even that aside.

- That aside.

- Yeah yeah yeah. - That aside.

- [Austin] So the battery life,

specifically on the smaller Pixel 4,

is a complete and total deal breaker in 2019.

When you're charging $800 for a phone,

you do not need to deal with compromise.

You shouldn't have to deal with compromise.

Because of that kind of money,

you can get a great all around phone,

such as the iPhone 11 Pro,

such as the iPhone 11,

such as the Galaxy S10;

there are a lot of phones that don't drop the ball,

and the battery life is unacceptable on the Pixel 4.

It's worse than the 3 and has a 90 hertz display.

And that's not even to get into the other issues

with the phone.

The 90 hertz display is great

when it works.

Which is like half the time it feels like?

- I know they're working on it but like--

- It works when it likes.

- It's stupid.

And then no ultra wide?

I mean the Pixel has always had the best phone,

or at least for the last couple years

it's had the best camera on a phone period.

Now I would argue that I do think that the standard

wide angle is a bit better than the iPhone 11 and

11 Pro,

but beyond that?

The ultra wide and especially the video capabilities

of the iPhone?

Pushed it over the edge.

This is the best camera on a smartphone as far as the

full package for me right now.

- I mean, for me personally,

I actually do like the telephoto a lot on the Pixel.

I mean again,

same reason why I like the telephoto on this,

I feel like I use it a lot.

I think they do telephoto a lot better

than most of the other phones out there.

- But the thing is,

they so heavily pushed this radar function.

It's like "look how cool it's going to be."

And yet realistically,

it's not really that useful.

And in fact I remember we were in Japan recently,

and I got a notification saying the radar was

turned off like those functions were turned off.

It's just like okay,

Cool.

Like obviously it's a little bit of an edge case,

but there's so many issues with the Pixel 4 this year,

that I can't recommend it

Like I straight up

I cannot

easily recommend a Pixel 4,

when there are other phones that I think do

a better job.

- I mean especially...

Yeah, especially this phone right here,

which I mean,

Austin will also talk about way more.

But the OnePlus 7T

is probably one of our favorite phones.

If not our favorite phone of the year.

- [Austin] So first of all,

the 7 Pro was the first time they stepped out

of their sort of comfort zone,

and made it a little bit more of an

expensive flagship.

Has a killer display,

90 hertz which aw...

It's so good.

So unlike the Pixel,

which runs at 90 hertz sometimes,

the OnePlus 7 Pro as well as the 7T,

ran at 90 hertz all the time.

And it makes such a difference.

That paired with the fact that this is a killer

looking OLED screen?

This is like my favorite overall screen of the year.

With that faster display

I find myself picking up the OnePlus a lot more

than I had ever picked up something like

the Pixel 3,

which is my previous Android daily driver.

Purely because something as simple as scrolling

through Twitter is so much snappier,

so much more responsive.

And for me,

that makes all the difference.

I love how fast this phone is.

- I mean on the topic of this getting timely updates,

I mean you're really reaping all of the benefits

of the Pixel 4 at this point.

Arguably with a better build of Android,

but on a phone that's just way better.

- I mean it's got-- - It's cheaper.

- It's cheaper.

It's cheaper by what?

$200?

- $200.

Now the OnePlus I'll actually usually pick up

for most tasks,

except anytime I need to take any kind of

photo or video.

iPhone's gotta beat hands down.

Now at $600?

I'm willing to make that sacrifice,

especially considering how good the

rest of the phone is.

But it is a better camera system away from being

the greatest phone

of 2019.

- I don't think this camera,

as you said goes head to head with the Pixel or

the iPhone.

But I like that this is a step in the right direction.

What they did with this camera was essentially

make the ultra wide and the telephoto

the two cameras that people are probably not going

to use, you know, primarily.

They made those two cameras better.

The telephoto is incredibly sharp.

Sharper than something you get on this.

It's

probably head-to-head with the Pixel I still have to,

you know, actually compare these two to be

- Safe for sure. - It's good though.

- [Ken] But it's

It's really good.

They just need to get that main camera set,

that's all.

And

then this would probably be the perfect

smartphone otherwise.

- However,

let's say you want to spend a little bit less money.

Don't we all?

- I don't have that problem.

- I'm talking to the wrong person.

You shouldn't spend our money.

Anyway so the Pixel 3A was a little bit of a

surprise this year.

At $400 this is by far the cheapest Pixel around.

And the most important selling point of this guy,

is the fact that it has the same camera from the

excellent Pixel 3.

Except that they made a few

questionable decisions shall we say?

- I mean, the plastic build's probably the first one.

Feels a little cheap.

- It's a little cheap,

but the performance for me.

- Oh yeah.