We're going to be doing a breakdown of my top six favorite tech products for 2022. These are the
products that I've been using for the past year. We've been reviewing a lot of them and these are
the products that have really stuck out to me. So, coming in at number six, the Sonos Move..
It's a product that, that's stuck with me as I've used it for the past several months now,
for a couple of reasons: one, it's portable. This is a very premium speaker,
typically costs anywhere from like $400 - $500 US dollars. It's a hefty speaker
but the portability is something that I didn't actually think I'd really want or need but it's
actually pretty nice and that's because you can just take it plop it in another room and easily
pair it without other Sonos speakers or AirPlayspeakers which are really nice as well.
This does have AirPlay compatibility and of course you can use the Google Assistant
as well as the Amazon assistant and then the Sonos Voice Control,
which is sonos's own voice assistant that was released earlier in the year.
That's the Sonos Move. There's a review coming out on it in the next couple weeks.
Make sure you of course subscribe to the channel to see that. The Meta Quest 2. This is the product
that I've put at the number five spot on my list. This is a product that I have just been very
intrigued with over the past couple of months. That's because it's one of those tech products
that you get, and it's a bit of a transformational experience when you first use it. It's kind of
Similar to the first time I ever used multi-touch, on an iPod touch or an iPhone.
One of those kinds of transformational products, but also, it's at a pretty affordable price,
or at least you could probably argue it was when it was $299 US dollars. Now they raised it to
$399, it may go on sale for the holidays, that's something to watch out for as well.
The only reason that this is not higher up on my list is because
it can cause motion sickness. Depending on what kind of experience you do in VR,
otherwise, I'd put it higher. The sony WF-1000XM4, terrible name,
I don't know why Sony keeps naming all over their products like this naming convention.
It’s an Excellent product. Why is it such a good product? Well,
they're noise canceling wireless earbuds with excellent noise cancelation. The noise
cancellation on these is on par with a lot of over-the-ear headphones I have used previously,
which is pretty insane. The other thing that's really nice about these
decent battery life, you can listen to podcasts and things for hours on these.
The mic quality isn't that great, but so these are really buds. I'd recommend it if
you just want noise cancelation and excellent sound. The drivers that Sony put in these
is quite good and they're overall a great choice for just using every day on a walk,
cooking, cleaning. I use these things like every day and they're amazing.
The number three spot: The Apple TV 4K. Now this is a product that we've reviewed on the channel,
this is actually the box for the new Apple TV 4k, which is pretty similar to the other one, except
it doesn't have a fan. It has USB-C on the remote, which is a nice change, and it supports HDR 10.
And it actually is cheaper than the previous Apple TV 4k. I’ve had several versions of this
product now over the years and its performance is excellent. The UI is very snappy, I did have an
issue with sound cutouts with Dolby Atmos content earlier this year, I mentioned that in a previous
video we did and over the past several months for whatever reason, it probably just a software bug,
that issues gone away, so i'm fine recommending this product again and there is one feature of the
Apple TV 4k that i think is not often overlooked but i don't think people think about it a whole
lot when considering going with a streaming device or whatever, and that spatial audio with AirPods,
when you put on your air pods, that makes it sound like you are in a surround sound system, and you
got a bunch of high-end speakers everywhere surrounding you, it's a very cool feature.
And the other cool thing with the Apple TV 4k, if you want to stay up late to watch content,
but not wake up the kids or other people in your house or whatever. You can actually share
audio from the Apple TV to up to two sets of airpods, which is another pretty cool feature.
Speaking of AirPods, this brings me to the number two product on the list, which if you've been
watching this channel for a while, you can likely guess with this product is, it's the AirPods Max.
It's got a really great design. If you can get over the weight these are pretty hefty headphones.
They weigh way more than the Sony XM5. They've got excellent sound quality. That's
something I've really appreciated about the AirPods Max and why I consistently
use them as they just sound better than any other headphones I own right now.
The transparency mode is really good on the AirPods Max, like surprisingly good.
It basically sounds like you are not wearing headphones, like, i don't know why they're so
good and why nothing else really compares to them. That is something that's very nice. And
the thing that I think is really overlooked with the AirPods Max is comfort with their
design. Again, you have to get over the weight thing, they are heavy headphones.
To me, maybe I just have a big head. I don't know. Like I got used to the weight after a
couple of months, but the thing that Apple did with these that I think is really interesting
and smart is they did mesh cushions and this mesh canopy, allowing the heat from your head to vent.
So if you can get over the weight, they're very comfortable all-day headphones,
at least to me. That's something I've really liked about them and they're headphones I
wear every single day for hours on end when I'm here video editing. So that's the AirPods Max.
The number one product I think for 2022…is…the Kindle Paperwhite. And you're probably thinking,
okay? Kindle Paperwhite? Why? Wait, this didn't even come out this year? Well, okay,
fair point. For our review of it, you know, that of course came out 6 months
later this year and the reason why i picked the Kindle Paperwhite as the best product.
At least for me at the top of my list this year is, it's a product that's designed to be
a reading device and it excels with that design. It does that experience very well but it does
it at a very affordable and attainable price. The text, its a 300 ppi display.
It looks just like black text on a white page in a book and I find this
display very easy to read on. You can send articles from your phone to read on it as
well as you can purchase books through the Kindle store or put pdfs and things on it.
The battery life is excellent, it lasts over well over a month and the Paperwhite has an adjustable
warm and cool light. That's one of the things that really differentiates it from the new Kindle
that came out this year that you may have seen, besides the bezels, I think on this they are a
little bit slimmer and flush. The adjustable warm and cool light is actually why I would
still go with a Paperwhite over the new Kindle. And the other thing I like about all Kindles is
there are no notifications, right? You're not going to get an email notification on a Kindle,
it is there to be a distraction free experience where you can just get lost in a book and read and
that's a trend I really hope to see in more tech products as we go into 2023, is this realization
that maybe we don't always want notifications all the time and want these scrolling and endless
feeds where you just kind of get lost and feel like it's a time suck, right? Kindle doesn't have
any of that which i really appreciate and you can always typically find the Kindle Paperwhite and
the regular Kindle and all Kindles on sale right now, i believe this version is going for $99 US
dollars and you'll likely see another sale even deeper cut on it for black friday or cyber Monday.
So that's my top six products for 2022. Now,
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