- Hey guys, how's it going, it's Justine,
and today we're doing an ask iJ episode,
that's where you guys ask me questions,
I usually ask you on Twitter using the hashtag askIJ,
and I was actually shocked,
being obviously a huge iPhone Apple fan,
you guys are super obsessed with me using Android phones.
I saw so many questions asking me if I'm getting an S9,
what current Android phone am I using,
and first I'm going to answer the question
of what Android phone am I currently using right now.
Right now I am currently using the Pixel Two,
when I was traveling I wanted to bring
my Google phone along, mostly because I really love
the front facing portrait mode.
But before that I was using the OnePlus 5T in sandstone,
this phone is beautiful.
When I think about what a perfect phone
looks like, this is it.
I love the look of this, I love the placement
of the fingerprint sensor, it's so slick and beautiful,
I mean it just fits right in at home
with my little shooting set up here.
And before that I was using the Note8,
and then before that I was using the S8.
Leading in the question of Justine,
are you going to get an S9,
which is what all of you guys wanted to know,
there are so many S9 questions,
I was like well we need to talk about it,
that's gonna be the first question that we address.
And yes, I am going to get an S9, and I'm kind of excited
about it, because I love the dual aperture.
One of the things that's really difficult with smartphones
is taking photos in low light.
So with the dual aperture, depending upon what lighting
situation you'll be in, it will adjust accordingly.
So I cannot wait to go and try and take some night photos
and see how this thing stands up.
I'm also kind of excited about the AR emojis that they have,
much like the animojis on the iPhone,
you can take a selfie with the Samsung S9 and it will create
an augmented reality version of yourself,
so you will look something similar to this.
So I'm really excited to see what my AR emoji looks like.
Will it look like me, will it not, I'm not sure.
I've seen so many of my friends posting their AR emojis,
so I can't wait to see what mine looks like.
It has new intelligent scans, so it's using facial
recognition and iris scannings, so it's supposedly will help
you be able to unlock your phone quicker in the dark.
Also I'm excited about the live translation,
when I was in Austria recently I just,
it's crazy because everybody else outside of the U.S.
speaks English, thankfully, because us Americans,
we barely know one language,
so it's really unfortunate traveling abroad,
because I usually don't know what signs say,
so I was using Google Translate on my iPhone.
But with live translations, it will happen super super fast.
So in the S8 one of the biggest complaints
I think a lot of people had was the fingerprint sensor
was off-centered, so they now have moved it
a little bit lower, right below the camera,
so it's nice and centered depending upon
which fingerprint you have, it'll be easier to access.
As for which color, I definitely want to get the lilac one,
mostly because it's different than any other phone
that I have, so when I saw that
that was one of the color choices, I just had to do it.
I'll be posting that review very shortly, so stay tuned.
If you guys aren't subscribed,
make sure you subscribe so you don't miss it.
Moving along, from the S9 questions, we have got,
well you're probably gonna ask Justine,
what is on your phone right now?
I went to the Grand Canyon recently
and I think that when I posted that vlog, Youtube was broken
because nobody saw it, you didn't get it
in your subscriptions, so if you want to see that
I will put an annotation here, and a link in the description
if you want to watch it.
We rode mules around the Grand Canyon,
and one of the things that we had to do,
we had to have our phones attached to ourselves,
so I took this GoPro strap that was from
one of the GoPro floating devices, and I attached it
to my Tech21 case, so it's kind of not really that sturdy,
but I've had it on here for several weeks,
and now I'm addicted, like I don't want to use
my phone without a strap on it.
That's a question that has been asked before
but not in the askIJ hashtag.
Carmen is asking would you drive this?
Well I don't know if my body could fit in that,
but I do have many Lego versions of myself that could,
so yes, Lego Justine definitely would.
Migs is asking what camera rig do you use for vlogging?
The short answer is for the point and shoot camera I use
is an RX100 Mark Five, but for on the go,
better audio, lenses, I use the A6500.
What do I do with all the Apple stickers that come
with everything that I've bought over the years?
That's actually a really good question,
I wish that I would have saved them,
but sometimes they get thrown away,
sometimes they just stay in the box,
other times I stick them to things, but most of the time
I feel like they do get misplaced, but that would have been
the coolest thing ever if I had saved all of those
from the very beginning of buying Apple products.
I really messed up.
Terren is asking if I still edit my own videos.
Yes, I do, I'm crazy.
I really wanted to try to double the amount of content
that I do this year, but it's really hard
because I do need to find an editor,
and I know so many of you guys have offered to edit for me,
but I'm so picky, and I'm so silly, and I just feel like
at some point I just want to do it myself,
maybe I'm a control freak, I'm not sure.
I usually don't think of myself as one,
but when it comes to editing and creating my content,
I'm like I know exactly what I want, let me just do it.
Deb is asking can I play the drums?
I did play drums actually in high school a little bit,
but I wasn't very good, I didn't know what I was doing,
I would just be like oh this sounds cool,
I'm gonna play this.
I also don't know how to read music,
I feel like it's probably something that I could
easily learn, but do I want to learn, I don't think so.
Maybe one day I'm gonna be the next drummer
in some random band, and you're gonna be like I remember
when she made video on Youtube,
and now she's the drummer in insert band name here.
Deb is also asking what Audible book recommendation
I've been listening to, surprise, time for the Audible plug
but this is actually very exciting, because I didn't
even know that you could do this until I recently found out.
You can listen to Audible books on your Echo devices.
Now I'm not gonna say her name, A-L-E-X-A,
a lot of you guys have been very upset
because I've been triggering your smart home devices,
so I'm going to bleep every time I say her name.
If you guys have never used Audible before,
I definitely recommend it, I use it all the time
when I'm traveling or in traffic to pass the time,
you guys can get one month free trial plus a free audiobook,
check out audible.com/ijustine, or text iJustine to 500500.
But this is where it gets good, because if you've got
one these little guys, I unboxed this not too long ago,
this is the Echo Spot, I also have an Echo Show downstairs
in my kitchen, you can listen to your Audible books
on your Amazon Echo devices, and not only that,
you won't lose your place if you decide to go from
the Echo device to your phone, back to the device again,
you can pause, you can rewind, you can set a timer.
Let's try it out.
Play my audiobook.
- Getting your book from Audible, resuming iJustine.
- [Audiobook] Of every text message, data transfer,
and file download I've made
since switching service providers.
Why in the world would they send me this.
- Pause.
Okay so I paused it on there.
And now I'm gonna open up my Audible app,
and here it is, it picked up
right where I left off on the Echo device.
- [Audiobook] I mean really, since when
does a phone bill come...
- I know I've done a ton of these Audible plugs before
but this is probably the most exciting, because this is
the first time that I have listened to my own audiobook.
It's one of those things where you do something,
and you record it, and you're just afraid
that it's not gonna be what you expect it to be,
because I have no control over what it was,
so I was like I'm just never gonna listen to it.
So this is several years later,
and this is the first time that I'm listening to it,
and it's actually really, really cool.
I'm kind of getting a little bit emotional now
because this book meant so much to me,
and it really kind of told my story of how I got started,
and why I'm standing here today, I'm standing by the way,
I'm not sitting down, so, spoiler alert.
So if you haven't got this book,
I would love for you to listen to it or read it,
again, check out audible.com/ijustine.
And if you guys have already read my book thank you so much,
if you've listened to it, that's even more amazing,
because you get to hear me read my book to you.
Man, this is so crazy.
It's kinda crazy because I released this book in 2015
and so it's already been several years since,
so I feel like you know, telling the story of my life,
it stops at a certain point, so now I feel like,
how much time will pass before I write the second one.
I really did enjoy the whole writing process,
I feel like because it was my first book,
I didn't really know what I was doing,
Youtubers weren't really releasing books like they are now.
I learned so much in that process so I definitely
look forward to hopefully doing another one in the future,
I have a bunch of fun ideas, not just an autobiography,
but a few other things that I think you guys would enjoy.
Well thank you guys for watching,
I enjoyed reading all of your questions,
which mostly were revolving around am I getting an S9,
if you guys have any other questions I will be answering
those in the comments below for the next few hours
of this video, and usually the next couple of days
I come back and forth and read and reply.
If you have any other questions, leave 'em in the comments,
and I will see you in my next video.
Bye!