Hi guys so I just wanted to have a little one-on-one chat here just an update of
the channel first off Happy New Year's I'm a day late here but that was because
of personal circumstances at home my wife just recently gave birth to our
second child so things have been pretty hectic having a newborn and home again
means I need a lot of time hands-on I also have a three-year-old child too so
it's really hard to balance everything but there's one thing that has been
overdue that I should have covered on the channel some time ago because we hit
the 100,000 subscriber milestone that was about six months or something ago
but this took about three months to arrive it's the the silver play button
from YouTube so a big thank you to all of my subscribers especially you guys
that have been there since the beginning one of my videos were very bad I was
basically just recording on a mobile phone a Galaxy Note 3 or 4 I think it
was then I moved to a Sony Handycam and then the kind of setup that I have now
but anyway thank you a lot so much for following the channel being part of this
community that we check out more budget orientated devices so the tablets the
the Adams the Apollo rakes and things that I do cover so I will unbox this but
very quick because we all know what's inside ok some nice foam padding here
there is a litter just congratulating the channel for reaching 100,000
subscribers that is course from susan the CEO of YouTube and there is the
little silver play button there so that'll go on the wall probably in my
new little office so at the moment because my family has expanded we're
putting in a a new room that's gone in downstairs and upstairs is going to also
be a new office for me that I will hopefully start recording in in about 2
or 3 months because being in this apartment here and as an additional cost
and it is really getting to me all the costs I have the import taxes coming in
on every single packet that I reviewed DHL stops everything I get a lot of
things stopped now even with the free post methods so that is a little bit
difficult and having to pay the fiber here the power here
the rent and then the community which does the staircase the lift and all that
it's really adding up so I'm hoping to move back to recording at home that
means I can do more outside shots as well out of my garden in my free time
more photos of vera for people who like to see my black and white cat Vera she
will feature a lot more than if I was that to recall back at home so there
will be the move in 2018 to go back there but that means I've got one major
problem which is why I'm sitting here is because Internet at my house is very
poor indeed I have an upload rate of about one megabit per second so uploaded
uploading a 8 gigabytes review just takes like 2 days it takes forever and
it's it's really almost impossible so I'm gonna have to find a solution there
hopefully get back maybe on 4G data plan and unlimited one I'm trying to find one
they tend to limit to you to about 200 gigabytes but I'll find a solution to
that problem so the changes in the channel for 2018 nothing I want to keep
things exactly the same in fact I'm really here and doing this video to just
come out with a couple of promises to for the channel that I see a trend that
I'm not liking at all in a lot of their big channels and YouTube that a lot of
them to me are seem to be just pushing brands so the reviews they do moment
some of them are really good I'm not trying to criticize and not mention any
names but what happens is a lot of them seem like advertisements don't they I
mean come on let's be honest here I review that's four or five minutes it
hardly gives you any real details they don't really cover any cons it's a super
positive glowing pre-release review of a product and a lot of tick tick channels
as well our pushing brand so for example they've got a certain skin brand on a
mobile phone if that's featured in a video for 30 seconds and they put the
link in the description they get a huge paycheck so my promises
no sponsored videos no selling out I don't want to be part of that I'm not
selling my soul it's not worth it for me to sell out for a 200 US dollar fine I
mean what are we really gain in the end because I need the trust of everyone so
that's why I want to make that promise and know
sponsored videos even though financially that would really help out a lot I know
I've had some offers some of them have been very generous just to put a short
ten minute clip at the start of the video and but I don't like that because
I don't want to start with that Trina I don't want to laid out end up like some
big youtubers that end up having four cut sequences before edits in the video
of their own personal advertisements from sponsors to me that's terrible so
that's something I never want to get into any want to do even if it means
struggling and the worst case scenario if I'm not having fun and I'm not making
any money this channel is not about making money by the way then I guess I
would just have to call it quits then when it comes to that point but
hopefully that won't happen so the other thing is what I don't do either is I
don't push links I see a lot of people saying oh make sure you click and use my
affiliate link now that is all up to you guys as you see in most of my videos I
will have affiliate links they're going to be from banggood they're going to be
from gearbest a few other Chinese retailers and that doesn't necessarily
mean I get free review units from them a lot of the tech that I review for
example the xiaomi redmi v plus or they got really quick is because i order that
from china myself and using those links if you did want to buy something then
that gives me a little bit of commission back to help cover that cost because
i've got the cost of the unit i've got the cost of input taxes on everything
here in spain is 21% and at times it's been quite unbearable because it would
be like 400 euros i've needed to pay in taxes alone than the cost of this
apartment and everything it builds up a little bit but i still don't want to be
one of those guys that go hey use my link no no none of that there so at the
direction of the channel i'm not going to change i'm going to keep with the
same style and just a couple of questions a lot of people ask me how did
i why did i start the channel well what really happened in the beginning is my
own frustration on the reviews out there that i saw so I bought a I think it was
called a wind panned or would wind pen pad sorry or avoid a1 and I read this
review that painted it out to be quite good a perfect tablet really for the
price and when I got at the touchscreen was
really bad I mean and one it's one of those touch screens even though it's
capacitive you had to push really hard to make it to register touch I read the
review and I looked into it and I saw the photos that were reviewed were
really liked press images so this website reviewing that tech did not
actually own that tablet or have ever used it
they're using photos that the manufacturer probably sent them to the
manufacturer what happens was some Chinese companies other guy hey here we
go here's ten really nice-looking photos of the product I will pay you 200 us to
these websites write us a review praising it and you can use as well your
affiliate link and I saw a lot of other reviews as well that were out there
they're from Aliexpress sellers they're from sellers you can never ever trust a
review from someone that has their own store or they are a seller because of
course it's going to be positive they want to sell that item they want to make
money and I saw a lot of this happening and that's why I started the channel
that's why I started the website I wanted to get honest reviews so I've had
a few lemons I try to choose them more what I think it's going to be decent
tech but sometimes of course you're going to get a lemon and if you follow
the channel you see there have been quite a few lemons that have come
through some tech that has just been very poor and I've looked at it and go
hey look this vo that the V bought version three the screens dull the
keyboards horrible and that's what reviews to me need to be a review must
point out the cons it can't be these pretty reviews that you see now on
YouTube with a twenty five thousand dollar camera setup and editor lighting
the production values and things are really really good but at the end of the
day it seems to me personally more like an advertisement because you get it a
so-called review that's only about four to five minutes it doesn't cover a lot
of areas but the main thing is they don't tell you the full cons that don't
even list them and that to me is not on but they're really just selling it
aren't they it's more like an advertisement especially when you get
reviews that come through that are pre-release reviews so for example like
the one plus five at is a fantastic phone but a lot of those
reviews came out like a week or two before the actual phone came out and
they were also pushing a certain skin brand in there that paid them 1 + 5 t
probably paid them for the review you kind of get the idea that that's a trend
that I don't like at all that's happening at the moment but it's just
the way it is the big guys get bigger the smaller channels like myself and
even the guys starting out it is really hard to to compete with that but I'm not
too worried about that because to me I just want to get a decent quality with a
camera I don't have to have super fancy outdoor shots all the time now and then
I do that but of course if I'm shooting more at home later on then I will be
able to get some natural like shots of the tech which I do like so you can get
a really good look at it and that's the main thing really there with the channel
so I'm looking forward to 2018 we're going to have the Germany Lake which is
the successor to the Apollo Lake there were some fantastic laptops that came
out really good value for money and that is what this channel is to me is to try
and find those deals so you can get for 219 us a very decent package you get the
1080p panel you get good battery life good keyboard good build and you compare
that to the brands that are selling locally especially here in Europe you'll
find HP or Acer has something with an even worse screen in it it'll be just be
1368 by a 768 resolution and it's a TN panel it's not even IPS it has a spindle
hard drive in there and even poorer spec and they're charging more for it so
that's what I like to find those real good deals there and the channel so that
will continue I'll be reviewing the newer mobile phones then you show me
tech as well then your strap and Snapdragon 805 one that comes out I'm
hoping that this year we are going to see the return of the dual boot boot
tablets I would absolutely love that because now we've got Windows arm I'm
hoping to see the windows arm side by side with Android 8 on a tablet running
say Snapdragon 83 5 or the 8 4 5 I think it's possible but where the
manufacturers will do that or not as another thing it could be issues with
licensing as because what happened we had the jewel
boots with the atoms but then we moved over to the Apollo Lake Intel stop
support of Android so that's why we didn't get any more jewel boots which
was a real shame because you had so much value for money didn't you in that tech
especially with the likes of the tech last they had the x98 series the air
three gene was a fantastic tablet iPad screen on it it had enough RAM and power
Android and Windows and also the SIM card slot and it was selling for I think
for about a hundred and eighty u.s. it was just great so I'm hoping to find
those deals again in 2018 thank you so much for watching this little clip here
rambled on enough but thanks a lot and stick around in the channel bye for now