2019 is gonna be the year of the weird
phone I think these weird smartphones
are really cool they might be ridiculous
or really ugly or completely crazy this
is how we know what people like or at
least this is how smartphone makers know
what people like I think right now a lot
of people are suffering from smartphone
design fatigue but it seems like 2019 is
the year that the phone makers have
decided to get together and just do
something about the regular smartphone
slab there are the big smartphone makers
like Apple and Samsung and then there
are the smaller filmmakers like oneplus
meizu or vivo the big guys they kind of
tend to play it safe and safe is good
safe is comfortable and their little
guys they kind of go crazy stuff the
first thing that comes to mind is LG's
new phone now it looks perfectly normal
on the outside then you go and find out
what it can do to unlock the phone it
uses VR not virtual reality vein
recognition with vein recognition the LG
G 8 wants to recognize the veins in the
palm of your hand to unlock the phone
the G a can do something else that's
pretty weird
it's actually like kind of an old
concept where you use gestures you can
like twist a sort of a virtual knob for
volume for example or you sort of swipe
left or right for your music or
switching between apps another much much
weirder phone is this Nubia wrist phone
there's kind of a debate going on
whether it's a smartphone or SmartWatch
the design is totally out of this world
has a much larger longer screen than a
typical SmartWatch it has a camera it
has a camera that is front-facing and
believe five megapixels probably only
good for taking selfies like this I
can't imagine taking a photo of
landscape like this really odd with them
comfortable and the Nubia also runs on
Android wear which is a SmartWatch
operating system now let's talk about
the energizer Power Max k18 pop it is a
huge thick phone with an 18 thousand
milliamp hour battery just to put that
into perspective most phones will have
about 3000
even four thousand milliamp hour
batteries energizer says that the k18
pup will get about 50 days of battery
life on standby so it's not with daily
usage apart from its massive size the
energizer phone is actually kind of
looks like a normal phone it runs
Android it even has I think a triple
lens camera system on the back and so in
all respects is actually just a normal
smartphone that's about the width of
three iPhones let's talk about the Nokia
PureView nine so this phone has five
camera lenses on the back that count
that five versus the three that we're
just getting used to the Nokia PureView
nine to supposedly meant tubes or ten
times more light than the standard
camera when you take a photo with the
Nokia PureView nine all the five lenses
are activated and sort of combined
together to make a super photo I guess
yeah we have to wait and see to use the
Nokia PureView nine ourselves to see if
maybe you know five camera lenses are
indeed better than one so there's a new
trend with smartphones at least with
Samsung smartphones which has this oval
pill-shaped sort of hole punch for the
selfie cameras and honestly I quite like
it I mean compared to a notch it's
really actually kind of better it's not
as distracting has no interruptions
around it or anything like that
the camera is off-center on the galaxy s
10 and it does make for that slight
angle on your face another big trend in
phones is now foldable phones we have
different designs from Samsung which
sort of opens up like a book the huawei
made X that opens up like a reversible
book where the screen is on the outside
of the phone thing is about the foldable
phone so far is the price tag that is
just crazy it's just nuts we're gonna
get this thing repaired we're gonna get
this battery changed it's all in the air
right now I do think the only thing
that's gonna stick is gonna be the
foldable phone it's kind of a novelty is
right now but give it time and I think
it could be something really really cool
do you really need all this innovation
and folding phones and pop out selfie
cameras no you don't need it but you
want it I know that you guys asked for
new and crazy stuff every year on the
smartphone it's kind of odd I had that
we're sort of instead of
doing more diminutive and thinner and
slimmer and lighter we're actually going
to just bigger and larger and thicker
and flipper that's just where the
innovation is a sort of leading phone
makers and inevitably these things will
be very strange there'd be some weird
new stuff coming out with designs and
features and functionality at the same
time these weird things will actually
appear normal to the youngest generation
that sort of born into it you know my
kids are gonna think smartphones are
totally normal
in fact they might think smartphone is
kind of old because they're going to be
using a weird whisper watch it sometime