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"So its customers can pretend to care about the environment... in style!" - Love it, so true!

I love how Moondrop is honest in it's promotional materials. They literally wrote "it's not good but it works" for their camera setup lol

God damn it. After years of watching I just noticed this channel has only 170k subscribers. I thought it was one of major tech channels worldwide, given the quality and other stuff, strange feeling.

the launch of the AI Pin helped make Rabbit look like a good product

In a gold rush the guy selling shovels is the real winner

FYI, the Rabbit R1 source code was leaked. It does appear to be mostly just standard web automation/scraping tools, which has some folks on HN pissed off

"The clock is ticking... and tocking" come on.. 😂

That miad01 phones is honestly very attractive for me. If you didn't know, DAPs are regularly priced way higher than the listed price for miad01. They can go fo 500usd-2000usd easily. The miad01 seems to be be aroung 350-400usd. I have no doubt most people are going to be buying this and using it as a dedicated digital audio player with a sim.

Moondrop is the Nr.1 for in ear monitors (price to performance imo), and yes those audio terms mean something. It's insane they put that in a phone.

I am excited for the Qualcomm X Elite/Plus chips, because I hope Linux can run on them, too. We already have support for ARM, we just need hardware that's worth the time to package the apps for the architecture.

4.4 is also an Audio Jack and balanced compared to the 3.5 Audio Jack which is single enede

I love this series... something to look forward to every Friday

these snapdragon graphs look awefully familiar ...

that independent audio cirquit is proably a dedicated DAC that is independent from whatever that midrange SOC has. its probably powering both of the headphone jacks. for 3.5mm you could use the SOC DAC maybe but with that 4.4 mm output you would definetly hear the distortion that SOC DAC causes. Even I'm hearing some hiss on my laptops dac via my Kiwi Ears Quintet.

We will have to see with Qualcomm, they have over promised in the past... and per P core, comparing 12 cores to an M3 that only has 4 P cores isn't a great sign for multi-threaded performance. The biggest barrier is Windows and apps working well on it.

Cautiously optimistic is the right way to say it. I have no doubt that Qualcomm will knock it out of the park when it comes to these ARM based CPUs. The two things I'm concerned about though are price and compatibility. For me for instance, I strongly need Ableton Live to have a Windows For Arm version before I could make the switch because I use my laptop to run backing tracks.

that moondrop phone sounds so cool, literally what i was looking for when i bought my current motorola.

BOI! has the sequence of the stories starting to flow like a piece of art!

Always great watching and listening to your weekly summaries of the rapidly moving Tech industry. Even though I've read about many of them, I still get another tech enthusiast's good and sometimes funny perspectives on them 😄 Think I'll subscribe to a year of Nebula just for you, even though I'd still be coming only on UKposts...

First time I’ve seen this channel, but I really enjoy your style. Easy sub.

Framework Phone + GrapheneOS operating system would be AWSOME A man can dream 😍💭

Fun trivia: Horizon OS is based on android

i am not using anything made by suzkerberg with a 10 mile pole - let alone something I put on my face

Finally electric Benz truck, I’m so excited. 😍😍😍

Bit funny the Horizon is based on Android so it is 2 Android VR OS’s competing, lol.

Great video as always

Microsoft might have another Surface Pro X if the Qualcomm rumours are true, which I suspect they are as the reporter is reputable. They'll have to work hard to rectify the issues but they do seem to be software related. They only have a year or so before AMD and Intel take their opportunity before they even got going.

It wouldn't surprise me if Google drops the project in a couple of years 😂.

I think this is the first incogni ad segment that tells which country it is currently available in 😳kudos to that

Also applying same logic - how do we know that incogni doesn't keep that data and just resell it??? Dilemma...

It's so bizarre that having headphone jack is a feature now, and I'm already considering buying it because most of other companies have removed it.

Seems like the glory days of Apple M chip is over😁

2:13 omg 👀😍🔥

I want windows/linux laptops with arm mediatek/exynos/kirin/rockchip SOC. This would mean more competition.

if they are comparing their top of the line chips with fanless base level m3 then I expect the pricing to the comparable too. Hopfully they don't shock us with m3 max level of pricing

The Friday checkout is Highly interesting and informative! I hope more people subscribe

HMD making the most unexciting products imaginable.

Hmm I feel like your news used to have all stuff that I didn't hear about yet but this time I heard every story already..

MOONDROP PHONE, THAT MAKES ME SUPER INTERESTED

7:33 USA Hypocrisy so called FreeDome, and free market

The truth of the matter is that a computer's _snappiness_ is dictated by the fastest single core speed of the processor since most normal tasks can't be multithreaded - unless you deal with heavily multithreaded tasks like video editing, transcoding, or graphics rendering more than four cores or so simply means you have a lot of idle cores soaking up energy. IOW, for most consumer workloads having 12 cores means you're probably going to be spending the vast majority of your time with at least 8 idle cores. If you want to test the snappiness of a computer, use a benchmark like Speedometer to see how the average consumer's experience will fare.

whoa what, chipmakers do this whole same chip different clockspeed thing bc of varying quality? that's so interesting and cool to know!

So ipad doesn't use oled..all this time?

I think these chips will make their way into smartphones for sure what do you think @The Friday Checkout

Windows betrayed me 😭

Idk why but it just worries me Qualcomm overtime has tried to hype up SD X, when news around them settles, they reveal bits of pieces of information to stay relevant with deliberately cherry picked benchmarks, flying over influencers etc. And while they have announced OEM partners, are still using reference designs. I'd love to be proven wrong and everything I've written will just end up with me with egg on my face. We just have to wait for IIRC a Microsoft event around mid May and "mid-2024" for actual product release when people can get their hands on it.

5:56 I think that from now on, you should fix any mistakes like this by using YTP-style sentence mixing to put words in the right order

HMD better do it right this time. I still remember when the 1st ever Redmi Note series came out, it was a huge hit, so popular Xiaomi released the 2nd gen Redmi Note with Helio X10 chip with a very affordable price tag. If HMD cannot replicate the Redmi Note success, I don't know what else can HMD do to succeed.

Happy Friday everyone! 🍺😸

Geez that's a big cliff that Meta fell off. Wow.

The USA congress is crazy - how can they ban TikTok.

Qualcomm’s claims and graph at 3:46 are for more performance AT THE SAME POWER. So they are more likely to use less power rather than have greater peak performance.

3:07 had me laughing 😂😂

VR is an incredible technology that already showed its strengths in many games over the years. But Playstation Home in VR or the ultimate productivity workstation just isn't in it.

The time is tiking and toking... 😅😂

It is kinda of insane seeing how a company that only powered phone processors is now making chips to for computer processors

Snapdragon X (formerly Twitter)

oh god i need that moondrop phone hope the west can get it with no issues

Is horizon os really "open"? I mean they are more like windows on PCs rather than android for phones. You can create third party device with it but it is not open source (or am I wrong?)

So this is Nuvia's Oryon chip?

Snapdragon X Elite 🚀 🚀 🚀

VR will become profitable as soon as the killer app (text to geometry/characters holodeck kinda experience) becomes viable. Which should take another.. 6 months?

Interesting news regarding Framework. I wonder if they aren't spreading themselves too thin with new products as there are still rough corners in the laptops here and there.

i have a feeling the EQG is going to be a barnstormer…even if the environmental side is well, small

4.4 mm balanced interface is just another headphone jack. but its power output is 2 times more than an unalanced (3.5mm) headphone jack. it can easily drive a low sensitivity Planar Magnetic headphone.

I want the snapdragons to be put into a gaming hand held

I find it odd that moondrop made it a phone. To me it would have made much more sense for it to be an android powered audio player without the cameras. Plus no access to the playstore means a lot lf the benefits granted by being a full android device are gone.

Why are not you covering the Facebook ban in China?

We Just need to see the devs switching to this. Would be really cool to see games being optimized and seeing Geforce cards with these cpus. In gaming laptops.

Snapdragon X Plus ❤❤❤

@3:39 - qualcomms fastest chip is 28% faster than the entry model M3 … seriously? Thats all they got? That makes me kind of sad, i had hoped for serious competition. But factoring in that the graphs most likely picture a best case scenario and that windows will take some of that performance away compared to apples excellent translation to arm it seems to still take some years for them to catch up :(

Bytedance could easily force bullshit onto the government if they called them for banning TikTok, but not Riot Games's games, or the Epic Games Store and/or Unreal Engine, as both have communications features and have Tencent as owner or really significant shareholder (40% of Epic is owned by Tencent).

I think if you had put huawei anywhere in the title, your video would have covered a while group of curious people as well.

i am not excited about windows at all, heck i dont use it but let me tell you am excited to have an ARM laptop that has high performance with an integrated gpu + nvidia so that the battery actually lasts!

10:47 The only important thing there IMO is that they offer a balanced audio connection, which is important if you want your audio free of noise and interference, which is very common across headphone wire and drivers. The DAC stuff....Snake Oil.

looks like you can't expect AI to reliably come up with breakthroughs

I thought that the X Elite 12 cores is all performance cores? Turns out its 4x efficiency and 8x performance?

Will Intel adopt ARM in the future ?

It looks like the AI part is going to save Meta, while the VR part is going to be such a huge loss for them. Interesting strategy.

Ugh, Qualcomm is setting the stage for a terrible ARM experience with such a large fragmentation in the stack before they even launch. They should make a few chips at most like Apple does if they're serious about making ARM a thing for PC.

I’m not too worried about the chips, I’m worried about Microsoft…

The review unit etc should be in a bottom strip for a better UI design

SNAPDRAGON X Elite ❤️❤️

"gold sinking" - you have to drop lots of gold to buy this thing :)

Good 👍 One. AU Will Surely A Couple of Year ❤ ❤

No return on investment for two years and the stock market freaks out. 😂

Kudos for the awesome pronunciation of the word “Mercedes”

There is already one test that says Snap X Elite consumes 98 watts in peak, lol. It's either a crazy OC or Qualcomm has achieved 4.3 GHz on 4 nm(so called 5 nm+++) by increasing voltage

Microsoft is trying Windows for ARM again? It was a massive failure when they tried it with Windows 8 RT. It didn't run most of the software people ran on Windows. When they tried it again with Windows 10 they added the ability to run x86 applications through virtualization but the performance wasn't necessary as good as running on native x86 hardware and doesn't offer any real benefit over x86 based Windows computers.

At least in Western countries you can argue your case, not in China - lol -.

The only way Windows for ARM will ever be good is when Microsoft ends their exclusivity deal with Qualcomm.

8:01 Google just didn't want to build data centers in China as gov demanded it the same way EU did, Facebook, Insta, Meta etc did not want to store user's data in China, Telegram(best social media app) does not show any sign of cooperation with chinese gov, unlike europeans ones, so does not work in China too, Twitter declined localization of user data too, so it does not work. LinkedIn just did the thing - rented chinese data centers and stores user data in China and it does work there. Chinese government did not ban there social medias, but demanded them to work according to the law and those who did not want to abide by it, are not accessible in China(but VPN still works and nobody bans VPN protocols, like Russia recently did)

That's for the update bro, tiktok story getting boring asf though

Windows on ARM is sooo promising while Windows 11 is becoming more and more an ad haven.

Snapdragon X Elite beat M3

Investors being afraid of reality is funny

like put just the relevant tag, no need to list everything that is not even a check

Yea those words for the audio smartphone is mostly marking bullshit 😂 fully balanced is the only one with information the rest is nonsense

There seems to be something fishy going on with how Qualcomm is presenting the performance of their new chips. Don't get me wrong, it's good that their bringing more competition by releasing this chip. However, if you pay close attention to the numbers they had presented when they first announced this chip compared to what they have presented recently, it begs the question if they are being candid? Qualcomm had shown the X elite to score over 3,200 points in Geekbench 6 single core test when they announced it, and now their showing around 2,800 points in their latest charts. Why did it decrease? Was the 3,200 used just to show how they beat Apple M2 and Intel in that respect? Also, they keep talking about how their 12 performance cores CPU beats M3-which has 4 perf and 4 efficiency cores-in multi threaded benchmark. Like, really? M3? They don't even show the single core performance when doing the comparisons -which is the most important metric when using thin and light notebooks since most of the tasks involve single threaded workloads. They also omit the power consumption difference as well- again, very essential. Look, like I said, it's good for competition to have their chips in PCs and I applaud them for what they bring to the table. But they have to come clean.