- Wow! There's so much space.
We gotta zoom in; that's better.
So today I'm gonna be unboxing something that's pretty
exciting because I've always been an iPhone girl, clearly.
Yes, I know, we're counting down the days.
The time is almost here when the iPhone 8, 7S,
whatever it is that they're going
to be announcing will be announced.
Today, whoa, oh god.
Essential (foreign language).
So this is the Essential phone
and I'm going to be unboxing it today for you;
I know it's been out for a couple weeks now.
But they sent me one and I was out of town
so I'm just seeing it now.
So I thought hey, why not?
I'll unbox it and check it out.
Kind of excited about this 'cause I've seen
a bunch of people unbox them, reviews.
And most of the reviews were pretty good,
so I was like yeah!
I'll check it out.
I'll take a little gander at what's in this box.
Let's compare some phones here,
I've got my Samsung S8 and my iPhone 7
so let's open up the box.
Solar sit, emit.
I'm already really into this.
This is like the braided cords,
it's like a cloth type material
instead of the different type of cord that we're used to.
Oh, baby! Charging brick; very nice.
And our USB-C 2, 3.5 millimeter jack.
Also the reviews were like hey,
there's no headphone jack and guess what?
That's not new news to me.
I've been living with it for over a year now.
Is it been over a year?
Got a nice little sim card...
It says Sprint Card.
Use some Sprint; I don't have Sprint.
Let's take a peak at our
little essential baby boy; or girl.
(plastic snapping)
Engineering sample, not for sale; okay.
I'm assuming this was just a review unit
because the back didn't have text.
Although, I'll tell you what.
If that is the case, that's pretty cool.
(plastic snapping)
It has a nice weight to it.
If you want to talk about smudgy,
I'm gonna destroy this with my smudgy hands.
Is anything else in here, like a cloth?
What's this? Oh!
Hello sim card remover; very nice.
There's a dog outside barking very, very loud.
(dog barks)
I guess let's turn this on.
Powered by Android.
One of the things that I've read
that I'm really, really loving about this phone.
A lot of phones come bundled with
a bunch of their own crap on it,
like not just basic stock Android.
It's got all kinds of random Samsung apps,
and all kinds of things that tend to bog down your phone;
whereas this is just super basic.
Like, it's just got what you need.
Here's our little startup screen; let's go.
The sim card tray is located on
the bottom right edge of your phone;
use the sim card injection tool; alrighty!
Is that the wrong hole?
No, that's the right hole.
What the heck is this?
Uh-oh, what have I done?
(snap)
I thought I broke it.
The typing feels really nice on it;
it's a nice feel, real fast.
Alright, we're signing in.
I'll add my fingerprint.
My fingerprint is added.
Setting up a google assistant.
Okay, google.
What I like--
that was fast.
I mean, that'll lock my phone
super quick with my thumbprint;
fingerprint, not a thumb.
You're so smudgy, I'm so sorry little phone;
I did this to you.
What's kind of cool is it has this
little magnetic dock here so you can add things
onto it kind of modularly.
So let's take a picture.
Definitely my best selfie work.
Now let's try doing a little video test.
This is my office.
Hello; there's you, there's you,
there's that camera and we're testing it out.
Hello; it's me.
Now let's do slo-mo.
Let's see what that looks like.
(relaxing music)
There is a slight bit of hesitation but to be fair,
in the background this is updating all of my apps.
And this is like the first time that I've used it
so I'm assuming that that's probably why.
So this is now being shot with my iPhone.
I'm in the middle of editing this video
but I wanted to give you a comparison between
what the back facing iPhone and the essential phone.
Now let's hop to the slo-mo!
(upbeat music)
Okay google.
- Hi. I'm your google assistant.
- Hey girl--
- I can help you find what you need and get things done.
If you need help, just ask: What can you do?
- Find me a youtube video of iJustine dancing.
Hi guys! Hanging out here in New York.
(banjo plays)
Yep; that's your girl iJ!
Maybe let's watch a fresher video?
The candy's in here.
- 'Cause it says, "works with hard candy,
"sugar free hard candy, flossing sugar.
"What the heck is flossing sugar?"
- So as you guys know,
if you've been following my channel
or every other channel covering apple things,
the iPhone 8 will sort of have
a similar look to this top bar.
This little notch right here, the camera will be cut out
so I think a lot of people were speculating like oh!
What's it gonna look like when
programs are running around it?
And I think this is pretty much what it's gonna look like.
Here's our camera, and the screen wraps around the camera
but it's kind of cool because everything
just sort of integrates very nicely into it.
Now it's time for a little slo-mo montage
of the essential phone!
(uplifting music)
So I decided to take all four of my phones outside.
I've got a Pixel phone, a Samsung S8+,
an iPhone 7+ and our Essential phone.
So I'll take some photos and do a little video test
and we can do a side by side comparison.
And I wanna know what you guys think.
Which one is better?
What picture do you like the best?
What video quality do you like the best?
I'll also be testing out the front facing
and the back facing camera,
and let's see what we can see!
Okay, here we go!
We've got all four phones recording now;
this is the back camera,
so let me know what you guys think.
You are the Pixel,
you are the S8,
and you are Essential,
and you are the iPhone.
Now it's time for the front facing video test!
We've got all four cameras recording now.
This looks so weird!
It's so strange!
(uplifting music)
Hello 7+.
Hi Samsung S8, that's you.
This is our Google Pixel phone.
And over here we've got our Essential phone!
So what do you guys think?
So judging by all four of these,
which one do you think looks the best?
(clap)
I dunno; I can't tell.
So now it's time for our photo comparison
and first up is the iPhone.
And it's so hard to tell the differences
when you're just kind of flipping through these.
Now we've got our pixel phone,
and it looks like it seemed to focus more
on that middle succulent as opposed to
the entire picture being in focus.
And here is the Samsung,
and at this point I don't even know.
What am I looking at?
They're plants.
Last but not least we've got our Essential phone!
Let me know if you guys see the differences.
And here they all are side by side.
What do you think?
Which one do you like better?
Here's our front facing selfie camera.
These are untouched,
I didn't adjust any colors or anything
so if you were to post this on Instagram
directly from your camera roll
with actual hashtag no filter.
What I like the most about the
Samsung, Pixel and Essential phone
is that it has a much wider angle lens.
The iPhone, as you can see is a little more zoomed in.
Fingers crossed that there will be
a wider angle lens on the new iPhone 8.
Well that escalated quickly.
This really was supposed to just be
a very simple unboxing of the Essential phone.
And then I got curious.
How does it stack up against the
other phones that I currently have?
And to be completely honest with you,
I'm not really sure.
Judging by the photos and the videos
that I shot in this video specifically,
I would say I'm kinda shook.
The Samsung probably would win over the iPhone
as far as the video and the photo quality.
But that's not to say that that happens every time,
because sometimes I will be using my iPhone
and it takes way better photos and videos than the Samsung.
So I feel like a lot of times it's circumstantial.
So depending upon what situation you're in,
a camera will perform differently.
So what's the best phone for you?
I dunno.
If you're not a crazy, hardcore obsessed person
that worries about these stupid little mundane things
that all of us tech people do,
you would be perfectly fine with any of these phones.
Obviously this goes without saying,
if you're an Apple or an iOS fan,
then clearly you're gonna pick the iPhone.
I'm probably always going to choose
the iPhone over Android because I love the iOS.
What if you're an Android fan?
Any one of these phones will probably be
perfectly fine for you.
What I do love about the S8 is that
I really do actually like this size a lot.
It's a little bit thinner and taller.
The screen is incredible,
especially having the edge to edge display
and curling over the side and the edges.
It's beautiful.
One of the things that I love the most
about the Pixel is it had the favorite sensor
in the middle and the back.
The Essential phone also does.
The Essential phone is a really good looking phone.
The screen is very clear, very crisp.
And I like that they were trying something
a little bit different here with the magnetic back display.
The iPhone; it's my baby.
Man, I'm so stressed out.
This actually really stressed me out
a lot more than I thought it was going to.
So if I had to rank these phones
in order from one to four,
obviously I would go with iPhone because I love iOS.
I'm iJustine so what do you expect?
Then I feel like it is gonna be kind of a tossup
between the Samsung and the Pixel phone.
I would probably put the Samsung
just a hair above the Pixel,
and then the Essential slightly below the Pixel.
I'm just gonna end this video 'cause I'm stressed out now.
I can't deal with this.
Let me know in the comments below what you guys think
because I don't know.
I don't like confrontation.
(upbeat music)