 It looks exactly like the S8. But there are different colorways. Different colorways. It's a different screen ratio. Yep, 5.8 inch screen, S10 Plus has 6.2. 6.2, so almost as big as the Note 8. Almost as big as the Note 8. It's got a headphone jack. Still. Hey, Samsung can figure that out, no one else can. It's some crazy camera technology. I really thought it was gonna have a fingerprint sensor under the screen this year. No, we're not ready for that. But they moved the fingerprint sensor from the weird spot next to the camera to under the camera. And then like you're saying, the bigger phone has a crazy dual camera system. I mean, lots of phones have dual cameras. Obviously, I have an iPhone 10 here with a dual camera. But this one, the second camera has a mechanical aperture. So it's a wide angle on a telephoto, and then it can go down from f1.5 to f2.4. So you get more light in. You get more light in. Shallower depth of field, which is what everybody wants. I think it's mostly for low light. I think their move to get more light into the camera is to open that aperture and go to f1.5. Mostly, Vi tried it, Dan tried it. Mostly what it runs in f2.4, it automatically switches. There's a pro mode in the app that you can set it manually, but it mostly automatically switches. And mostly in low light, it'll just open up to f1.5 to get more light into the sensor. But day to day, it's gonna run at f2.4. Here's the thing that's interesting, and I want your questions about this phone. We have a video from Dan that we're gonna run later. We'll answer your questions as best we can later on the show. The big open issue for me, we've done a lot of camera tests this year. The Pixel 2 by far the best camera in the market. iPhone X, something in there. I have been consistently saying Samsung's cameras are not as good because their software processing is so aggressive. Well, Google's almost doing the least with the camera, the most with the software, and they're getting the best results right now. Yeah. So will that continue to be true? So if you're gonna do all this fancy actual camera stuff, moving your apertures around, is your software just gonna crush that difference away? I mean, there's gotta be a point where hardware, I mean, that's why I have a digital SLR, or a mirrorless, but interchangeable lens camera, because I want a big sensor so I can get low aperture and fancy low depth of field. It's great, I love it. But if phone hardware is not even anywhere close to that, then maybe software still is the answer. So we'll see. The phone just came out. It came out, our video was published yesterday basically. The teams in Barcelona, they're using it. We're gonna run a- Just leaving fingerprints all over it. It's just going up to every phone at the show, just touching them all. So we don't have it. Again, it just came out. We're gonna run some hands-on video of the S9 a little bit later in the show. Ask us questions both in the chat and on Twitter, use hashtag CircaBricketLive. We'll try to answer them throughout the show as we get them about S9, everything else happening at MWC. But we have a lot of stuff here to actually show you. We've got a pack show today. So we've got the Kavo here. Ashley's gonna join us. We've got this smart light situation, it's very precarious. We just left it set up. She's gonna show us the future of what's happening with LED smart lights. Hyman's gonna show us the Switch, Nintendo Switch. One year anniversary is on Saturday. There's a whole ecosystem of accessories. We're gonna play with a bunch of those. Want to take your questions. We're gonna do floor reports when we see- Such a good show. It's a lot going on. And I will say all of our demos are very precarious, starting with this one. So what's this, Neelay? So I wanted to have this on the show last week. Okay. But it was too hard to set up. This is- I mean, I'm just gonna get back here. This is the Kavo. Actually, Hermes already says, you personally recommend moving from the S8 to the S9. I don't know. That's like, we gotta get it, we gotta review it. I don't think it's enough yet. Anyway, this is the Kavo. Sorry, got distracted by the chat. We will answer more questions later. So keep them coming. I want to talk about the S9 too, but we'll keep them coming. So this is the Kavo. It's a universal remote system. They want to say a lot of other things about it. I will say, just all things aside, having an HDMI switcher is a very nice thing. Yeah, so basically the way I think about it is, to solve the problem of controlling multiple devices, you can't just have a remote that's smart anymore or a hub. You actually have to control them all. So this is an HDMI switcher. It connects to the network. It connects over Wi-Fi. It logs into your services for you. It keeps track of what you're watching on what device. It's just, it's basically like a little butler. It's like asking your friend to do complicated remote procedures. Right, so this is the remote. Okay. We gotta plug into this TV back here. God only knows what it's doing. So right now it's running, this is Amazon Fire TV. This TV has motion smoothing on. Oh no. So this demo's over. Fail. I can't look at this. Failure. But no, this is a Kaba. There's, this is a Kaba. You can see it's got this interface over the top. I can just like press. Can Kaba turn off motion smoothing? Kaba cannot turn off motion smoothing. Okay, wait, wait, so explain what you do. I'm sorry, I'll pay attention. So this remote, it's just like a universal remote. It's controlling this Fire TV, right? Which is? Plugged into the Kaba. Oh, right here. Right here. Plugged into the Kaba. Okay. Now here's the, so it's just basic universal remote stuff. Here's the crazy thing, we've got a Roku. Right. I'm gonna plug a Roku into this Kaba. You can see these like crazy posts. Yeah, are those just aesthetic or is that just, is that really? And I got a Chromecast here too. Let's plug that. Why not? Plug this dude into it. And I can go through this one, this setup. So the Kaba is smart. Two new devices were detected. So I set those up. Okay. It's gonna think about what they are. It's gonna recognize them. Okay. Automatically figure out what they are. It's gonna automatically map this. Okay. And then. Oh, next. This thing is, by the way, it's insane. It's $500. It is so complicated. Is this artificial intelligence or did they just like painstakingly just program? So the reason that you wanna plug things into here is it watches the screen. Right. So it knows, it looks at what's on the screen. So I'll show you. So you can see here, it figured out we plugged a Roku into a Chromecast and I plugged them into just random ports. So. Okay. Next you'll test control of all connected devices. Now it's gonna switch over to the Roku. It's gonna keep thinking. This process takes a minute. So now it's gotta find the Roku on the network cause it's gonna try to, this is probably where this is gonna fall down. I'm gonna be honest with you. Oh, good. Good. This is where it fell down. Well, I'll be here. So the way it doesn't just control it with like IR the way Harmony does. It doesn't just control it with CEC the way that a bunch of other devices do. Which is remote messages passed over HDMI. Right. It controls it over everything. So it has an IR blaster. It checks the commands over CEC. It watches the screen to make the commands get taken. How does it work with the Chromecast? The Chromecast is actually, it's never gonna find this Roku. Crate and I are pretty sure it's freaking out right now. Cause we knew this is where it would fall down. Sorry, we're not in like a home environment, right? We're like in our office. But it. But you set this up in your home. Oh wait. Oh, I found it. It just took a while. You didn't trust it. Yeah. So now this is actually great. You can see. That's the screen right now of the Roku. Yeah, it says test it. It just took a while cause we're on the office wifi here. So like, yep, it works. Crate and you're gonna have to do this back there, man. You got a Kavo Kavo cow. 217 a. Everybody type in 217 a. Don't do that. Crate and it's like ready to go on the back. So this is logged into all of your services. So now when you watch a show on Netflix and you pick it up on another device, it'll remember. Done. Okay. So whatever. So you, it's got voice, it's got voice. And then it's gonna, so now we're in the, okay. And you have like a hybrid interface. There's Roku, there's Roku back, but Kavo pops up. I was here. So now I can be like, watch altered carbon. This is the Kavo search. It's going to show me the Kavo thing. Okay. And I can do that or I can push this button and I can decide which device to search on. This is bonkers. So I can say search on a Roku. What it's doing in the background, because it can see the screen, it's opening the Roku interface and it typed altered carbon into the Roku search for me, which is insanity. Solved. I can also, I don't know why you would do this on this device, but I can go into settings. The Roku and the Fire TV are like very similar. Okay. But I can set, if I only want to watch Netflix on the Apple TV, I can set it to fire. If I only want to watch Netflix on the Apple TV, I can set it to run on the Apple TV if I only want to run on Amazon. So now if I go and set this to Roku, I can do that. And set that one to Roku. So now what's the show on the Amazon? It's like the Grand Tour. Watch the Grand Tour. Is that the car show? It's the car show. I just know it's on Amazon. So you saw that it was on the Roku interface. But that, now it's just operating everything in the background. So if I go to the Fire TV, click through the Fire TV interface for me, and it's gonna watch the Grand Tour. It's boggers to me. It's crazy, right? I've tried to find just regular websites, like help me find what I can watch on my different services. It's not even like a solve problem, just like websites. I'm so impressed that this thing is actually working. And then the other thing you can do, so now here we are in the Amazon. We've got this Alexa here. Okay. And this Echo here. It's listening. It's definitely listening. Alexa, stop. I'm not sure. Because it's bridging and controlling, you can use Alexa to control devices that don't normally support it. So you can use Alexa to control Apple TV. You can use Alexa to control Roku. So you can be like, Alexa, tell Kavo to play Stranger Things. And because we set. Playing Stranger Things. Because we set that to happen on the Roku, it'll do it. I guess it's not. There it is. Do you have to push the button? I think I'm gonna just have to push the button. Oh, you have to do a profile. It knows about your Netflix profile, so it'll ask you. So now let's switch back to the Roku. And play it. So these. It stresses me out how much it's doing. It's doing. Couldn't it just fall over any second? It's very brittle. Okay. So it fell over for me a bunch. The setup is crazy. My wife hates this thing. Aw. Because when it falls down, it just falls down catastrophically. Wait, and if I just press pause, it's gonna pause it for me. Yeah. The other thing is if you have a cable box, you want to get the supported cable box, you have a Comcast X1 box, a Dish Network box. It will support a cable box? It does all that. It will also at night just scroll through your DVR and read the screen of what's on your DVR so it has an index of what's on your DVR. So it's just like meta-interface universal remote. It's like because it can watch the screen, it can do all of this crazy stuff that no other universal remote can do. It is $500. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's huge. Just like look at it. It's monstrous. But the best part. Yeah. You can choose your favorite wood finish. It's real silly. What is this one called? Is this like a maple? I don't really know. I don't know all the kinds of wood. So K.S. Sante in the chat says, any chance we'll get HDR support in the future? So this is the big problem with it. Does not support HDR. What about 4K? Supports 4K but not HDR. Doesn't support Dolby Atmos. So for $500, you're locked into this like pretty limited, it can't grow with you into where people are thinking things will grow. The way I understand that this is almost like their trial run. Like this is just like a look at what we can do, but they're gonna make something that's a little more accessible. Yeah, so I interviewed their CEO and their CTO a bunch of times, really cool dudes. They're very excited about this product. They have backgrounds in like audio components. They work for speaker companies. I've asked them, their goal is to get this product out, get the technology out in the market. They're only selling 5,000 of them. They don't think this is a work in progress. I think they're trying to get acquired. I don't think they're trying, I think they're trying to get their stuff smaller. I think they wanna make a newer one that's cheaper, that's smaller. Most people do not need eight ports or whatever. What about like a brushed metal cover? Everybody, that's everyone's next move, obviously. I think they're gonna make a sound bar. I think they're interested in a receiver. I think that's true. If you have a smart TV. Solve the complicated parts of your home theater. If you have a smart TV, it can't control your smart TV apps because it can't see the screen. So like, they've got some like limitations, but if you're the sort of person, if you're like me. Why does this have to be so hard? So hard. How did we get here? If you're like me and you have a Chromecast, you have an Apple TV and you have a Roku, which is true at my house. You're a monster. A monster. This thing will just like, and you have a cable box, I have a cable box too. This thing will just like, it is easily the best universal remote I've ever used, except when it breaks and then it's a computer. And then it's an Android computer and it's like, And then your, And then your wife is mad at you. She does not like it. I'm sold. The other thing that's cool, I'm not on this network. Creighton, I think you might be on this network. If you just launch a cast stream, it'll just like click over automatically and this remote can plain pause a cast stream, which is not true of all current like, That's the Chromecast pain. Yeah. My big thing is volume. Every different app that can cast to my Chromecast has a different way of doing volume. Yeah. And it's real pain. Yeah, so this will just like do it. It is again, this thing is very finicky. It wants to be in control of everything. It reads your power state on your TV. I mean, it requires you to have relatively new things and support HDMI CEC, but it will go talk to everything over the network. It'll talk to your Apple TV or Bluetooth. If you just airplane Apple TV, it'll figure it out and light it up because it's watching the screen all the time. What are these buttons for? There's play. You hit all three of them. The remote beeps. Oh, to find the, Something left. Find the remote. It didn't happen. But yeah, I think if you hold down all three of them, the remote beeps. Not today, Paul. But those are, yeah, just some put handy. People are saying, does it bypass HTCP? No, it doesn't. It lives in the HDMI chain. Yeah, how does it look at the signal? It has to decode it all? Yeah, it's all kosher. It does everything. So I wouldn't want to put a game console on this chain. I'd get a lot of latency. You would probably get some additional latency out of this. Yeah, but they know about it. But I plug my Xbox into it. I'm bad at video games, so it didn't make a difference to me. You couldn't even tell. I was like, yep, I still suck at video games. I was like, yep, I still suck at this. For me, every millisecond counts. To me, this device is like why we have Circuit Breaker. I don't think most people should buy this, but it's fundamentally so cool. It's such an insane gadget. Here's the craziest thing. So I was saying it logs into your services for you. So here it's got Netflix on the screen. It's every night, it's displaying this screen, right? Virtually over here, it has a web browser open. And at night, it logs into Netflix for you. And it looks at what you've been watching on Netflix, so it can update its watch list. Crazy. It logs into who you're watching. What happened to APIs? Yeah, some of these services don't have APIs. So every time they hit a wall, they built this intense solution to get over the wall, which is wild. This is what hackers do. Yeah, this thing is a huge hack. This is how people scrape the web. This is where we are with Universal Remote. This is why I lost every eBay auction ever, is people like this. No, it's like everything is out of control. It's wild. But every time they hit one of these walls that prevented them from controlling something they weren't supposed to control, they built a solution. What would the Roku's, Amazon's, Google's cable boxes have to do to make this just irrelevant, like not even necessary? I don't know. Are you just casting? So yeah, so Creighton just casted from, because he's on the right network. It just switched. It just switched, it just did its thing. And now I can just hit pause, and you see in the corner here it says Chromecast. That's so nice. It's just doing its thing, man. Now it's not. Well, circuit breaker. Can't push play? Oh, you got it. You got it. So to me this is just one of the most complicated products that I've seen, but if, like I said, I might buy one for my parents. My parents are not gonna get, like I wanna get a 4K HDR TV in the place where I'd put this, I have Atmos. Like it runs into walls for me. I use smart TV apps on my LG. My parents just have this like super complicated setup. Right, and they're having trouble wrangling everything. You just be like, doot, doot, doot. Just ask Kavo. Yeah, when you have a cable box plugged into it, when we had, I had this plugged into my house during the Olympics, and I just like, watch NBC, and it would switch over and change the channel, and because it can see the screen, it got the channel right every time, which not every university. I have YouTube TV, and I can't even just say, watch the Olympics. Yeah, somebody says, what about Plex? So yeah, if you are running Plex on one of these devices, it's not a Plex server, right? It doesn't have a Plex app built into it. It has no apps built into it. The apps have to run on your Roku or your Apple TV or what have you. Yeah, it'll control Plex just fine. But if you just have an Nvidia Shield. I don't think it'll, it won't do all the smart stuff with the Shield, I don't think. Doesn't work with Android TV? I don't think, it won't do the API control the way that it can with these other devices. But if you have an Nvidia Shield, you don't need anything else, is what I always say. They told me the Fire TV was the hardest one to, yeah. It's just, Amazon doesn't think you're gonna, I think Amazon's worldview is like, you're gonna plug this into your TV, and that's it. And that's the end of that. I think it's true of all the other devices too. All right, so that's the Cabo. Thank you for your questions on it. It's the most complicated product. I really appreciate you bringing this and setting it up. I really wanted to do this. Because I know this was like a lot of work to even get it working at all. It took, I would say two days. In particularly in our setup, where we have like our switchers and our HDMI, this is designed to be in your house. And it's designed to be plugged into ethernet. Oh good. So here on our network with our switcher and all that stuff, it was pretty difficult. But I'm glad it's here, it's very gadgety. I'm eager to see what the next version of it looks like. I think this version, there's a reason they're only selling 5,000 of them. Because they can't make enough of those wood panels. They also told me that the HDMI hardware in here is so hardcore that there's only one chip supplier that could do it. Ooh. So they have to ramp up the chip design to do HDR, to do all the other stuff. We'll see. All right, here's what's gonna happen. Ashley's gonna do a quick Ask Circuit Breaker. We're gonna get a field report from MWC from Jake. And then we're gonna come back here, and Ashley's gonna show us about some smart lights. As Neelai mentioned, it's me, Ashley. Hello, how are you guys? Jake is not here today, so I'm doing Ask Circuit Breaker all by myself. All right, we're gonna do one question today. The question is, do you think Huawei can ever make a splash in the American market? So it's been an interesting year for Huawei. This was supposed to be their year. For you guys who aren't aware, they're a massive Chinese smartphone maker. They're huge. They're up there with Samsung and Apple. It's just in the US. Most of us maybe don't even know who they are. We probably can't name a single device. So this year was supposed to be their year with the Mate 10 Pro. They've been selling phones online for years, but this year they were going to get a carrier deal. People were going to find out who Huawei is in the US. It was going to be big. They even, at CES, when we were there, we saw tons of banners with the Mate 10 Pro. Huawei was seriously on some serious hype game. And then, while we were at CES, it was really sad, AT&T, who was supposed to be their carrier partner, dropped the partnership, and Huawei was kind of just left out to go to Amazon now. I believe the phones sold through Best Buy. So after that happened, we have to kind of establish some context here for your question, that NSA, the CIA, and the FBI were all like, hey, also, I know AT&T dropped this carrier thing, but you shouldn't buy a Huawei phone or a ZT phone or any other Chinese smartphone because we don't trust it. So Huawei's had a really tough year, even though the Mate 10 Pro is technically available in the US. Do I think the phone will make, or the company as a whole will make a splash in the US? I think it's possible. I think they could become a household name if they get those carrier plans, because carrier plans are essential. If you want marketing, if you want salespeople to push your phone, you need to be in AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, wherever. Those carrier plans are essential, and without that, I don't think Huawei can make a splash. And even if they did get those carrier plans, I am not sure their devices will be enough to capture the US market. So there you go. That's Ask Circuit Breaker. Make sure you leave some comments with questions, because next week, Jake will be back. He and I will be together once again to answer questions. Also, you can tweet at us and ask us questions there. Okay, I'm gonna send it over to Jake now, who is in Barcelona. Hey, it's Jake. I'm here at Mobile World Congress. I've been walking the floor all day, checking out the new stuff. I'm actually here in Samsung's booth right now. You can see it's super crazy in here. This place is huge. The first thing I wanna do is show you the Galaxy S9. I don't really wanna show you too much of the phone. I just wanna point out this new lilac color, because it is fantastic. More companies need to make phones in really bright, fun colors like this, because it really stands out and it looks really good. I wanna tell you about a few of the other really cool things I've seen so far. Yesterday, I met with Lenovo. They have a new Chromebook that you're able to use anything as a stylus. And so I was able to take a pencil, just a normal pencil that you'd write with, and start doodling on the screen, and it works. It's fantastic. It's super natural to use it that way. The other favorite thing of mine at this show is that Nokia has re-released the 8110, which is the slider phone from the Matrix. As somebody who was a huge Matrix fan years ago, the nostalgia is just overwhelming. It was so fun getting to play with this. I will say, I wish the sliding action had been a little more snappy. It was not, you know, maybe to the full extent of my dreams, but it was still super fun, and I'm glad it exists. So now we're here at Huawei's booth, and I wanna show you one of the most ridiculous things that has been announced here. It's really fantastic. So this is the Mate 10 Pro. It's a laptop with super thin bezels, too thin to put a webcam in. And so the webcam is instead built into the keyboard. As you can see it pop in and out like that. It's extremely satisfying. It's extremely weird. The angle is awful for your face, but hey, it's the future of laptop webcams. It's wonderful. We're gonna be at the show all week, so stay tuned to theverge.com for more coverage. That's it for me, back to you. Jake, just vlogging his face off. Put a camera in the keyboard. I love that. I'm calling it knuckle cam. I love it so much. We saw that one and then there's the Vivo phone, the motorized. That's just a concept. I love it. It's happening. Is it? What is happening? Oh, it's happening. I feel like this problem was solved and we're just unsolving it. Huawei's gonna get us one way or another. That Mate 10 must look good. Okay, Ashley. Hello. Here is my thought. Yes. We actually did a story earlier this year at I think it was a Detroit auto show, about all the craziest headlights at the auto show, because car makers are using LEDs and now they're just going crazy. Smart lights have traditionally just looked like regular bulbs, because they're trying to like Trojan horse into your house. Wi-Fi everywhere, listening to you. But now it appears that you have crazy LED smart lights for us, like design. Ashley, I really want to talk to you, an expert about these lights, but I want to be clear. Neil, I know it's your theory that cars did weird lights and someone was like, we can do that in the house. I feel like if you're a car designer, your job is to be crazy. You show up to work every day and you're like, hey, Mr. Ford, and he's like, you doing any crazy stuff today, Steve? Right. And you're like, I better get on it. Right. I think home lighting designers are like, light bulbs, we're good. But now. But now LEDs are everywhere. Okay. That's my. LEDs are everywhere. But you're right, Ashley is. LEDs are everywhere. Ashley is indeed the expert here. Ashley, what do we have here? That's my argument. Okay. Bill Ford's yelling at Steve all day long. I'm gonna actually start with the most boring one. Okay. Because we're gonna save the party stuff for last. Okay. This is the C by GE Sol. C by GE Sol. Yes, Sol, like the sun in Spanish. C-S-E-E? Just the letter C. Just the letter C. Just the letter C. Starting out on a high note. By GE, two letters, Sol. C by GE Sol. Yes, there you go. C-G-S-O-L. We got this. All right. We're doing great. Okay, so this is just an LED light. It doesn't do funky colors or anything. It is a smart light. It has Alexa built in and the base. Wait, really? Oh, turning off that Alexa. You got some controls here? Yeah, so you can use voice controls. It doesn't play Spotify or anything like that. It doesn't? No. The speaker's atrocious. So I've had this in my room for a few months now. Alexa, play some music. Here's a station you might like. Just Glitten from Amazon Music. Just Glitten? Yeah. Just Glitten. Here's our copyright strike for the end of it. Alexa, stop. That did sound bad. It's really bad. It's horrible. So you can use one. Sorry, I don't know that. Sure don't. Please stop. Here's our station coming back. Alexa. Oh yeah, stop. Stop. Sugar breaker. That's the other thing is I turned on the music just one time. I was like, I'll try the music. I had to scream at the top of my lungs next to it for it to hear me. Oh, it doesn't do that noise canceling thing. Yeah, it just couldn't. So anyways, it only does white light. I've been keeping it in my room. I don't actually use Alexa at all because the commands are totally unintuitive. I don't think in percentages when I think about lights. I'm not like, I want my light at 52% today. So I can't use voice commands for lights. But this changes temperature? Yeah, so I'll show you guys. Also, I had a really fun notification on here that was telling me to sync my Sonicare brush with my phone from last week. Anyway, so here's the app. Paul, do you wanna? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can Paul cam this. Yeah, just turn it my way. So you can have different scenes, which seems kind of. For one light? Exactly, I don't know why. You can also use their other, they have other bulbs. But the thing is, the only colors they can do are, you could do warm. Okay, so you can do like hospital. I'll turn it up really bright so you can see. Like a yellow, a yellow. Yeah, exactly. Wait, wait, go through those lights again so people can see. Okay, so here's like the warmer. It's really bright, sorry. And then here is the cool AM light. Super basic, these colors here on the inside are actually a clock. Which I could never figure out how to read. Wait, what does that mean? What time is it? Paul, I'm looking at this from. I only learned how to read the microwave clock. I mean, it appears to be 645. Yeah, I'm telling you, I couldn't figure out how to use this clock. Okay, how much is this thing? This is now on sale for like $115. Just buy a dot. It's a lot. The thing is, I love the look of it, which is why I'm into it. I don't need Alexa. I use the app anyway. Just give me this, no Alexa, and I'm good for maybe 50 bucks. I'm willing to pay 50. Okay. All right, I'm gonna turn this off because it's very rich. Goodbye, see, soul, G-E. So now. Wait, if you don't have the G-E, it's called the see-sole? They have their own bulbs that are C by G-E. The sole is a subunit. All right, what does it use? See, this is, you gotta, when the lighting designers get crazy with the LEDs, you gotta live through some of this. Yeah. This is why all Toyotas look angry now. All right. Still, what's going on here? All right, so now we're getting a little funkier. This is meant to go on a wall. This is from Life-X. It's their beam lights, so. Oh, Adam M. says, if someone who's bought a C light, it's far and away the worst product I've ever bought. Yeah. All right, thanks. So I don't wanna take this apart because it broke last time, but I'll show you guys. This is the beam. You can see the connectors. They stick together through magnets. Okay. And then these little pins here talk to each other, so it knows. Wait, wait, show them that. It's one unit. So the computer is like down here. Right. And it's just sending power and data. Wait, where's the computer? It's this little white. It's plugged in, but we don't wanna screw with it. There we go. A little behind the scenes action. That's the power brick. This is all the smarts. So that connects over Wi-Fi or whatever? Yeah. None of these have a hub. And I will say, just, you saw the Wi-Fi issues we were having with the Cabo earlier. That wasn't great. Okay. Yeah. But it's on right now. It's on. It's on. Again, this works with Alexa, Google Assistant, HomeKit, IFTTT, but for demo purposes, I'm going to focus on the app because I think the apps are where you really get the full experience. So here's our little light here. This app is horrible. All right, we're gonna just dive right in. You can change any color you want. Yeah, can we dim it down? Yes, we can do that also. There we go. Oh, it's working. Slowly, yeah, I know, I'm like, is? Our rehearsal of this thing was very precarious. I want to just have a color. Jell says, Pogo pins? Yes. So what we're gonna be showing you for the next segment of the show is a bunch of hardware Pogo pins. So you can see I'm changing the light here on the actual light. But then it gets fun when you can view. You're in wave mode. All right, well, so here is, you can pick from different scenes. Okay, that's mellow. This is mellow, which isn't really mellow in my eyes. Yeah, this is not mellow. This is like a popsicle. This is great. Here's intense. So you can make any shape you want, right? Right. It can have up to eight beams, but a kit comes with six and they don't sell them individually. So I don't know where you would find your other two. It's like a math ball. I know. It's so many numbers. It was the greatest common multiple of six and eight. You know, it's too early to do that kind of math. I like this. This is nice. Someone asked what tablet that is. What scene is that? That is an iPad mini. What scene is that? You might know it. It's an ancient archeological artifact. The name is energizing that I clicked. Was this energizing? Yes. Nope, that wasn't. That was energizing. Okay. It really just affects the palette and it randomizes where it shows up. Yeah. So then you can make it like rave. Right. So in addition to just having these light effects, you can do different things with it. So I can do move, which right now it's really fast. You can change the speed and the direction. Like I can change the direction. This is a thing I've always wanted to know. So I'm changing the direction and you can see it's just moving. I can also just make it go really fast. Oh, no, that was really slow. Okay. It goes the way you wouldn't think it would. Oh my God. I hope I did not give anyone a seizure just now. I'm sorry if I did. Wow. Sincere apologies. Okay. Spooky, what's spooky? Let's try spooky. Let's see, spooky says it will flicker or black out. I don't know about that. Scary. I mean, I'm super into these and I cannot think of where I would put them in. I don't know, I'm pretty scared right now. Like forthcoming baby room rave. Yeah, highlight the crib. Yeah, you should use this to highlight things. How much does this thing cost? This one is 200. 200 and you get six of them. Six of them and two corner pieces. How much is another set of six? $200. Oh. They don't sell anything separate. It's just one set. They don't sell anything by itself. Seems like it defeats the point of modularity, right? Yeah. I mean, I think they just, this is a new product for them and I feel like maybe as they become more established, they'll start selling them. Can you make this rock to the beat? Yeah, so the next product we'll do and then this one as well, both do music visualizers. So I'm gonna try that on here. I'm turning it on. Here's the thing. Everyone wants us to plug it into the cop-o. I don't know what that means. Our iPad is recording right now because. It's using your iPad. Yes, it doesn't have a microphone built in. So for the music visualizer part, it uses your device's microphone. All right, so I'm thinking what I can play here. Just Hotel Califate, that me goes on. I put on Celine Dion. She'll never see this. I guess there's not enough room for me. You want straight Titanic on that? This is good, this is good, this is good. Wait, all right, let's see where we are. This is the worst party ever. Let's see where we are. You show up to someone's house, like check out my LED lights and then turn on the Titanic song. I have no idea why Celine Dion just came to my head. Okay, you know what, I'll put Migos on. There you go. All right, I'm gonna go back to the app. It should be on, but it's not good. Not getting it. Nothing. Nope. All right, another Sugar Breakah demo in the bag. I'm trying, it's not, and you can see it's recording up here, but nope. All right. We gave it a chance. What are these other ones? Good, and you can obviously Alexa these up, right? Yeah, Alexa, HomeKit, everything. I feel like most of these apps are really bad because everyone realizes you set them up once and then you just wanna use Alexa. So they've stopped trying to like. See, I'm not gonna lie, I'm not gonna use the apps trying to like. See, I don't use Alexa though. That's my whole thing, is I'm like, I like the apps. I feel like I have better control. Yeah, but that's like if someone says like, we don't have to do a good job on this bridge cause everybody's gonna take the tunnel. You've lived in New York for how long? A while, a good. They're saying that about everything. These subways, no one needs those. All right, PL train. All right. Should we try Alexa to turn these on? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just for fun. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah, turn the lights on in the lounge. I think it's the lounge. Whoa. It worked. These are way cool. Yeah. How do these attach? Are they also bongo pins? See here, they're these little pieces. What? And then if I grab a panel. So this can have up to 30 panels. Okay. And you can buy. No way. This is how this works? Yeah, it slots in. And you just like clip them together. And then you clip them together. And unlike. You can immediately lose those. Yeah, keep them in a safe spot. And unlike these, the Lifex ones, you have a separate music visualizer component that has a microphone built in. You can also plug through a headphone jack. Yeah. An actual device. Bring back the headphone jack. Yeah. So let's take a look through the app here. Yeah, let's look through this app. Okay. What's neat about this is that. Is this app worse? I can't tell if the app is slow or iPad mini is just ancient. It's really hard to tell, honestly. Here you can paint your panel. So it automatically detects the. How much is this? This one's 230. Okay. And that includes, I believe it's like, I don't remember how many panels that includes, but it includes the music visualizer. Okay. These all for college students? I can't imagine being an actual functional adult. You can make them look classy. Okay, awesome. So you can paint with them. Okay. Where now it's all white. I'm picking colors. I can put them there. That's beautiful. You can change your palette. Can you do any color? So you have to pick a palette. And I'm trying to remember how to get. So like web safe colors? Yeah, they have them all. Web safe colors. Can you enter any arbitrary? So here they have a palette. So you can choose from a bunch of these. Where if you want like more of a hunter green approach. And I already have some colors in here now. That looks horrible. I always wanted, wait, go ahead. That's the worst color I've ever seen. I never said I was an artist. Like a bunch of these and just make a brown light on my wall. So now I think it'll look better if I do like a scene cause they have it. Okay. So if I go to. Rhythm. I wanna show you guys the dynamic part, which is kind of what we saw over there. Where it can move. There's like this flow aspect where it changes. You can alternate the directions and how it goes. So this is more for if you wanna be a passive view. So you just have it on this continuous flow. You can affect how fast it moves, things like that. See now it's really cycling through a bunch of colors. Now the rhythm part, this is actually. What? I wanna turn off this. Yeah. Okay. Guys I'm yanking this guy. There it is, it's gone. It's gone. See you later. Okay, we're gonna do paint splatter. Okay, paint splatter. So it's reacting to our voices actually. Hello. Yeah. What up? It's working because we have a. You're singing a song to it. You sing a song to it. I'll take Paul Kim. When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's amore. Wow, gorgeous. Now I'm going on red, like it knows. It knows. There's different effects you can do to it. That's wild. This is like totally ray of hope. Would you buy any of these? Well, that's a lot of money. This is cool. I think this is cool. I like just having it react to me when I talk. I'm gonna set this up in my desk at work. Oh. Yeah. You're like a master computer and Tron. Yeah, when I start speaking, everyone knows. Right. Here's what I like about these though, is I never wanted a smart bulb, but I like functional lights that do cool things and add something to your space. Like if I'm spending that more, if I'm spending more money, I want it to look cool. And I want it to do something different than just a regular light. Prada Bass, is this just a video or are the panels lag when they change colors? I don't know what's going on on your side of this experience. It doesn't feel that light. No, I don't think it is. I think when you actually play music, it gets weird. Wait, go over there and do like the snap or something. I don't know if it's in visual. I think I might've just turned it off the visualizer mode. No, we were playing with it earlier. It seems pretty awesome. But these look good. They do look good. My favorite thing is that both companies suggest that you stick these on your wall using 3M, command strips. Of course. Which feels precarious. Paul, everyone thinks you did a good job singing. Oh, thank you. They want your sound club. Paul does an amazing karaoke. I was hoping you would do your Taylor Swift. Yeah, same. I've heard you sing Romeo and Juliet several times. The song's called Love Story. Whatever it's called. Whatever, I don't know. That's his signature track. I don't know anyone with Taylor Swift. Sure, sure you do. I don't listen to that song every day. Sure you do. Which one of these is the one to get? Is there any other? Definitely. Nanoleaf. I think if you want to go for the party route, I actually have really enjoyed my time with The Soul. Again, if they just got rid of Alexa, made it a little bit cheaper, I would legit buy it. Because I liked it. I think it's a cool piece for your house. Put it right next to your Dyson fan. Yeah, I put it by my circular mirror and it looks great. Well, I for one cannot wait for my daughter to be a teenager so I can buy these. The coolest dad. We have 13 years to go. That's gonna be great. We are gonna watch a quick video of Dan Seifert with the phone. With the S9, which I know what you're all here for. Ask your questions about the phone and then Haim's gonna join us. We're gonna talk about the one year anniversary of the Switch. We're gonna answer your S9 questions and we're gonna look at a bunch of Switch accessories. So check this out. Thank you very much, Ashley. Hey, this is Dan from The Verge and this is the new Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9 Plus from Samsung. Now, if you're looking at these, you probably think they look pretty familiar and that's because they do. They basically look exactly like the Galaxy S8 from last year, except for one major difference. We've been complaining about the placement of the fingerprint scanner on the Galaxy S8 since it came out. So for the Galaxy S9, Samsung fixed it and moved it from next to the camera to below the camera, which is way easier to reach, even on the larger model. Now, otherwise, they are very similar in design. You've got a 5.8 inch display on the S9, 6.2 inch display on the S9 Plus. They're still Super AMOLED screens. They still have the same high res displays. They still have the curved sides that Samsung calls this infinity display that spills over the edge. And Samsung has actually made the bezels the same. The bezels are the same size, but they're a little bit better masked than last year's model. So they don't quite stand out as much. You still have the power button on the side. You got the volume rocker over here. And then of course, there's the Bixby button that hasn't gone anywhere. And on the bottom, there's still the headphone jack, which you get on both models. A lot of the new things you can't actually see, but they are appreciated. It's got stereo speakers now. So the earpiece speaker works in conjunction with the bottom speaker to produce stereo sound. The camera has been new and improved. I'll get into that in a minute. It's got a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor inside of it. There's four gigabytes of RAM in the small model. There's six gigabytes of RAM in the bigger model. 3000 milliamp hour battery here, 3500 milliamp hour battery here. Both of them have fast charging. Both of them have fast wireless charging. Both of them have IP68 water and dust resistance. Both of them have 64 gigabytes of storage. Both of them have micro SD card slots and both of them have gigabit LTE. So a lot of those things are familiar to S8 owners. We're back. So I have a question for you. I have an answer for you. Max on Twitter asks, will the Galaxy S9 have a better camera than Pixel 2? I'm just putting you on the spot. So I don't know. I haven't seen the Galaxy S9 yet. Judging based on what Samsung has done with previous phones, my guess is probably not. Even with the aperture stuff, I feel like it's not going to improve things beyond the Pixel 2. Unless Samsung walks back, it's processing. Yeah. I think they're at the point now where they make some of the best hardware. Yeah. A lot of people use their hardware. Right. A lot of people use the same sensors. It's all on the software side. Yeah. Google, I mean, has been dominating the software side for a while. They just need a little toggle button. It says process the hell out of it. Yes or no? All right. Mikano in our chat says, I have an iPhone 6 Plus. I'm dying for a smaller phone. Pixel 2, S9, or iPhone X? Smaller phones. Pixel 2 if you want the camera. Still the best camera out there. Yeah. I don't know where you are. If you are in the States, you're an iMessage person, just get that iPhone X, just slide into that life. Pixel 2 is nice because it's one of the few, typically the big phone gets all the best camera stuff. Google's like, we can do cameras on small phones. But the Pixel 2 also, I mean, the 2XL has kind of the OLED, like the nice edgeless display. The Pixel 2 is like, Yeah. It's really, But we want a small phone. We can't pretend like small phone isn't a valid desire. Okay, so Anthony says, and I think this conversation is interesting because every question we're like Pixel 2. Anthony says, there's just me, there's very little talk about the S9. And I think the answer is yes. Well, they, first off though, they reinvented the phone. That is their tagline. The camera, they reinvented the camera. No. What was the phone? It's the phone. Oh, it's the phone. The video that leaked, it was reinvented the phone. That's a lot of phone. It's a lot. But other than that, they didn't really do a lot. You know, they've got the new Dex thing. Someone asked, where is it? Adam says, coming from stock Nexus, you've got an old phone, dog. Is the Samsung Android experience any better than TouchWiz? Here's what you want to do. You want to load it. Ubuntu Touch on that, right? Right? Get out of the, we have a duopoly here. They're controlling our lives and they're taking all of our data and it's terrible. Dieter's in the chat. He's asking, what color shoes does Bixby wear? Here's the thing I'd like, if you're watching this, whenever you're watching it, in my mind, Bixby, Samsung's assistant, that they have literally made a hardware button on the phone for, is not a voice assistant. It's a dog wearing shoes. So if you could draw a picture of Bixby, like a cartoon mascot for Samsung, send it to me, tweet it to me, tweet it, at Reckless. Next week, we'll show it on the show. The picture has to be family friendly. And the best picture. We'll show them all on the show next week. We got a bunch. What kind of dog are we talking about? And we'll send you something from our new closet if you win. It's up to me. I'm the dictator of this small country. Do we wanna go to the specs? Oh, there's specs, whatever. Whatever, it's an essay with a better camera. We know what's happening. And processor. There's one important thing over here, all right? All right, Snapdragon 835, Snapdragon 835. New year, new Snapdragon. That's it. That's what we're dealing with right now. New year, new Snapdragon. And more RAM. You wait for a refresh. Second camera lens. Don't worry about all this. New year, new Snapdragon. They're slightly heavier. They're slightly heavier. Dimensions are up by like a millimeter or two. People want us to talk about these Nokia phones. There's the new 8810. The Matrix phone? The Matrix phone. Nokia is just cashing in on the nostalgia to hype up the fact that HMD Global licensed the name. And they're trying to build some hype because they're relaunching all these new phones. There's only one true Matrix phone, by the way, which is the one from the second Matrix movie, which is a Samsung phone that looks like a cyborg exploded. I think this is a good time to tell you that we do not discuss any Matrix movies past the first one, which was a pivotal moment in all of our young lives. The other ones happened as well. The first Matrix opened our minds to philosophy of reality and the second and third are what made us grow up and learn that we can't always have nice things. I was like, oh, capitalism. We're just gonna milk this until it's right. Anyway, speaking of that. Speaking of capitalism. So look, we are obviously gonna cover the hell out of the Switch. We're gonna cover the hell out of the S9. That team is still in Barcelona. We're gonna have way more coverage on the site. You can watch Dan's whole video on YouTube. It's already up. Vlad has a piece up. He already has some judgments about the camera. Vlad already has thoughts about the camera. He is already calling it maybe that it's not. So we'll see. So keep tuned for that coverage. We have a bunch of other coverage from MWC, Schenzer Mobile World Congress, people were asking in the chat. Check that all on the site. What I wanna talk about is stuff, actual stuff. Less chat, more. Capitalism. More capitalism. It's the one year anniversary of Switch on Saturday. Huge hit for Nintendo. Games are just coming out as surprises now for the Switch. Like just ports of games. All kinds of games that you would not normally see. And there's like an accessory ecosystem because it's a mobile device. So what do we got, Hyme? All right, we got lots of stuff. First up, this is kind of your basic, most vanilla Switch accessory. This is the pro controller. Everybody's seen this, right? You've seen this, yeah. It's not, it's like weirdly disassociating with the identity of the Switch because when you think of a Switch, you think of the Switch with the bright colors and the slide-off controllers. But Nintendo does make like a regular controller for it. This is like the home console expansion pack. Yeah, this is the alternate universe where this is not the Switch. And this is the controller on the Nintendo. So you're really high on this thing. I am not. I travel with the Switch. Yeah, I almost never use this. I've used my Switch on my TV like three times in the entire year that I've owned it. And two of them were to play Mario Kart with friends. And one of them was to play the Final Bosses. This is definitely great for Mario Kart. But when you're- This is great for Mario Kart if you wanna beat your friends at Mario Kart. Destroy your poor friends. If you want the controller advantage, that's great for that. Here's what I think the Switch is designed for. You turn on one of those new Netflix series that take about six episodes to ramp up into having a plot. And then you play Zelda. And every now and again you check in. You're like, oh, there's still- It's like buffering, it's plot buffering. Yeah, Iron Fist is still walking around doing nothing. All right. I played the first half of Breath of the Wild while trying to watch Iron Fist. It's a true story. It's like, great, he's still, Danny, get to work. I've never heard of the Switch. The Switch has replaced the phone as the Netflix device. You can play Switch while any Netflix series goes. Okay. Yeah, so that's that. So that's for a controller. But what if my Switch runs out of battery? We're actually not out of battery yet. We're gonna try and- We're gonna try- I'm sorry, Paul. We will, we will, I promise. I have battery packs. But our next step is to try and solve one of the Switch's main and biggest flaws, which is the kickstand, which is possibly the worst kickstand ever put on a technology device. First off, what's happening here? So what's happening here, this is a third-party- I'd like to point out the chat is now trolling Dieter and asking if the Switch will run WebOS. You can run Linux. So that's what's happening over here. Paul wrote a piece. Someone has hacked Linux onto a Switch. That's true. You would like it to be vastly less functional. All right, keep going. So this is actually a third-party case. We had this in our GIF guide. If you wanna spruce up your Switch, they have them in all sorts of clear plastic. They also make them for the controllers, but they are much harder to put on. You also have avoided your warranty. But what we're actually looking at here, though, is a metal kickstand. The regular kickstand on the Switch is awful. It is flimsy plastic. It feels good to use. So Nyko, this is literally just a $5 piece of aluminum. It's metal. I just yanked it out of there. And it feels slightly sturdier. I feel like this should be everyone's first like 3D printing project. Yeah. You're like, what? I wanna get into 3D printing. I don't know what to do. It's Switch kickstands. But so here's my thing. So this is the other, this is the stock Switch kickstand. My problem is actually not that it's flimsy. It's that it's like, it pops out of here. You can just, at any time, you can make that go away. Did they solve that problem over here? So no, you can actually just yank it right off. And you can see when you pop this one off. Come on, man. When you pop this one off, you can kind of see, oh, it clicks into this metal thing. And it's just a kickstand. I want everybody to know that every time we demonstrate this, we are just breaking off little pieces of plastic. That's on this one too. It's this little hole. It's metal. Yeah. Because the metal's harder than the plastic. So this one's. You can see that. Yeah. So if you look on our skeleton Switch over here, you can see you're literally just sliding into this giant black chunk of plastic, which is why this falls off every time. And there's nothing really you can do about that. Nintendo just needs to build a better one. Lachlan says, honestly, until the Switch gets Sailfish OS, I'm sleeping on it. That's weird, man. It's hardcore, man. That's weird, man. That is amazing. It's really weeding together all of our needs. I just wish they'd used open BSD instead of free BSD. Oh my god. All right. So what else? So that's the kickstand. Next up is batteries. So Switch is great. You can use it on the go. It gets two, three hours of battery life. But that's not enough to get you through a flight. You know, it runs out. So we have this, which is the Nyko Power Pack, which. So it's a battery case. It's a battery case. Are you kidding? What is this nonsense? It's a chunk of plastic. And we're going to slot this into our chunk of plastic. Why don't you just leave that off? Why do you need that? Because I don't know. I guess it'll fall out. All right. So we're going to. I need the battery to be secure. So it turns on. It actually charges via USB-C, which is wonderful. We're finally getting USB-C accessories. Nyko, in a bold move. Did not use its metal kickstand. Not only did it not use its metal kickstand, the metal kickstand is incompatible with this other Nyko product. It is actually worse than the one on the Switch. They've somehow done it. Scientists have been wondering. How much does this cost? This costs like $34. Scientists have been wondering, could you build a worse kickstand than the Switch? You know what's great about this? Nyko took the challenge. Nintendo, with a lot of help from Nvidia, let's be clear. Nintendo has put basically an Xbox 360 inside of a portable tablet. You can. But they can't make a kickstand. I feel like the people who made this kickstand, like this team was like, I wish those kickstand engineers would come by. We have no idea what we're doing. But surprisingly, this actually delivers enough power to charge the Switch while you're playing games. So this is USB power delivery. Yeah. How much more battery life are you going to get? So you're going to get an hour to two hours extra battery life. But it's kind of small. It slips onto the back of your device. You're not getting through the roof battery. But if you need a couple extra, you get about another extra charge out of it. OK. Now if you need a lot more charge, you want this. This is a full-size Anker USB-C power delivery battery pack. It supports. You can pull it down. You can see it's got the PD logo. It's actually got the PD logo. This is the logo you want in your life, my friends. OK. What is USB PD? Sounds like a police department for USB. I wish there was, because. If you are a TV executive, and you're watching this show, and you've got some money. We have a police procedural for you. USB-C PD. It's just us. Enforce USB-C specs. It's just time. Arresting cable manufacturers again and again and again. Yeah. OK. What is it? What is it actually? USB-C PD is USB-C power delivery, which is one of the subsets of the USB-C spec for power. It supports much higher rates of power than other specs. It can support up to 100 watts. So can I run my MacBook off of that? You can run your MacBook off this. MacBooks use USB-C PD. You can run your Switch off it. And it's something that you're going to want to see for Switch, or basically any USB-C device going forward. Because when the Switch came out, people were kind of surprised. Oh, I was charging my phone just fine, but now I can't charge my Switch with it. Veronica says, I never realized the effort the Surface team put in the kickstand until I saw the Switch. You're right, but also I could tell you the iMac G4 is the best Surface accessory that has ever existed. So you think about it, kickstands, just as an idea. Like, check out a cool guy on a cool bike sometime. Look at the bike, see if he has a kickstand. Never has a kickstand. We're just all in the weeds now. How much is this battery? This battery is $120. Here's my concern. It's a lot. Can you take that on a plane? Because there's a lot. I had an argument with the Away Smart Luggage people yesterday. On Twitter, because Delta is like, take the batteries out of your luggage. Because there's a limit on the size of batteries. The Away suitcase is probably fine. What is the limit? So this is, if you look closely at the fine print over here, this is a 96.48 watt hour battery pack. The limit is 100 watt hours. So this is just under. Right under the wire. So you get this, you can power your Switch, you can power your laptop. Power your Switch, power your laptop. And your phone. Charge your phone. Yep, you got three ports over here. Yeah. When you're also on the go, though, you're going to A, want to recharge this, and B, power your Switch from a wall. You also want one of these, which is a 27 watt anchor. 27? 27. So it's just under the 29. Yeah, the MacBook charger is 29. Yeah. MacBook charger costs $50, though this costs like $30. Come on. If you don't tell anybody that you're doing it, can you still charge your MacBook with it? Yeah. Oh, you can charge the bigger MacBooks that need. Just slowly. It'll charge a little slower. But yeah, I was using my Switch charger to charge my MacBook Pro over the weekend, because I left my charger on my desk. Just like the one time USB-C has come through for me. So it seems like the interesting accessories are all about charging this thing. Yeah. Right? We have a headphone cable over there, which is very entertaining. So this is a life hack for the Switch, because the Switch has USB-C PT, but does not have Bluetooth audio support. So the only way to listen to Switch music, if you want to use your Switch on your TV from a distance, can't use Bluetooth headphones. Well, I'm a long cable. You can unspool this 20-foot cable. Oh my god. And you're golden. Not truly a Switch accessory, just a very circuit breaker move. Yeah. I've got a bunch of cases, ranging from the sock to the case cover. I don't want to talk about this. That thing is nasty. Sock. This is our producers, like Switch Go Bag. I think everyone understands Switch. What is this thing? This is one of my biggest disappointments. This is a Switch third-party Switch dock. This is the regular Switch dock. It's big. It's bulky. I like it. I think it's fun. It does the job. It does the job, but it's a statement to put in front of your TV. There's no like, you can't put this under your TV. You can't put it behind your TV. It's big. This is a third-party one that is much smaller. It offers more ports. Because what is this? It's like a giant chunk of plastic. It's a dongle. Let's look at these ports. Look, this is all that it does. This is the giant dongle. For this huge chunk of plastic, all you're getting is pass-through power, one USB port, and an HDMI port. There's two USB ports on the side. Oh, sorry. Three USB ports. I stand corrected. Only one of them is USB. It's a giant dongle. This is the purest expression of the dongle I've seen. So what do we got here? So this is miniaturized, same port selection, but it's like 1 6th of the size. So is this a real product? Because there's tons of hacks out there. So this is a real product that ships. The problem is that it's not licensed by Nintendo. And there were multiple ports of this irrevocably. Everyone is telling you that you can use USB-C headphones with the Switch. Yes, you can use USB headphones on the Switch. But you can't power. But you cannot use Bluetooth headphones. The only way to use Bluetooth is if you have headphones that have a Bluetooth USB-C dongle and you plug it into the bottom, then you can use Bluetooth audio through the dongle. There is Bluetooth. The controllers connect by Bluetooth. There is Bluetooth on here. It's just Nintendo has blocked it for the headphones. OK, back to this thing. Back to this thing. So the problem is that this has a slight issue where it has damaged some Switches irrevocably and broken them. So that's a bad thing to happen. OK, people are saying, Tebow in the comments says the official doc easily scratches the screen. I've read this everywhere. It's not been the case with my Switch yet. So I know people really care about this. And then Dieter is saying that there is an HDMI dongle called the Fast Snail that works really well. Dieter deeply cares about this. Kenneth says, is Super Mario Odyssey worth buying? Yes. Yes, it's really good. Don't even front. OK, so that goes on there. This, by the way, this terrifies me. This is the company Switch that we've hacked. We're not going to break someone's personal Switch. It's mine. Wait, get the little kickstand. This is horrible. But if you want to take a Switch doc on a go and hook it up to a TV. I just want a dongle. It's not. I hate this. Did you just say that you want a dongle? I don't like this. We've broken the line. This makes me very uncomfortable. Yuck. Right? It's not the worst. It's the worst. Also, because you can, if you want, I'm going to break something doing this. You can use that as a stand and actually see the screen and play Switch while you're charging it like. You got all these kickstands, man. Yeah. It's an option. It's an option. If it didn't break things. Here's what I would say. Looking at all this stuff, it seems like really where you want the action to be is this and in some of these dongles. And it hasn't really developed yet after a year. I mean, it's still only been a year, though. And it's still a very emerging console. USB-C as a spec is still young. And I'm honestly happy that Nintendo went with that instead of just doing their own thing, which they did for years. So they picked a very future standard and it's taking people some time to catch up. Yeah, but it's which is which is such an uncharacteristic Nintendo move to embrace the future ahead of schedule is a company that I still think is honestly not entirely sure how the internet works. I feel like their Game Boy Advance multiplayer cables were somehow associated with the Firewire spec, if I recall. Yes. They're like a weird riff. Yeah. Yeah. But could you use them as a Firewire cable? Absolutely not. Yeah. And therein was the issue. Yeah, so this is good. Yeah, it's progress. We just got to wait for a few more kickstarters to come on through. Giles says the back of my switch is horribly scratched because of the official dock. Yeah, but if the official dock scratches your screen, that's one thing. If this breaks your USB port so you can't charge it, that's a different issue. It's just the life you lead. Yeah. It's just the danger of buying weird unlicensed products. What about this, though? So this is the last one, actually. This is the 8BitO GamePad. This actually connects via Bluetooth, unlike headphones. It connects to the Switch. It's honestly a pretty good portable thing if you want a full gamepad. So the Droidcon, if you want something on the go. It also works with Android, Windows, and Mac. Charges via USB-C. So you got that. See, this is what Apple didn't do with the MacBooks. The Switch only has USB-C, and it's driving USB-C accessories. The MacBooks only have USB-C, and it did nothing. Yeah. So Nintendo is driving the USB-C revolution. It's happening. Apple's driving the USB-C to DisplayPort adapter, dongle industry. Dieter's just up. Dieter's just up in the chat. He would like us to compare, Dieter Bohn would like us to compare this accessory market to the one that existed for the Wii U, which is unfair, because no one bought a Wii U. So there was no market. You couldn't really, the screen had, what, like a 30-foot range on the Wii U? Yeah. So it's not like you're putting that on a carrier case. Yeah, you weren't carrying it around. You weren't taking it outside. What were the spaces? Also, no one bought a Wii U. I bought a Wii U, OK? The best I can think of is the weird Wii Remote accessory market, where you could just get plastic things to slot your remote into. The great thing about the Wii U is it gave me a years-long head start practicing for Mario Kart 8. So when Mario Kart 8 Deluxe came out for the Switch, I'm a ringer. I just want to see more battery cases, more battery stuff, because that's really what I need out of this. I want to see kickstands. Kickstands? Kickstands. And then I did buy a screen protector. I know Dieter has a screen protector on his. I think that's the first thing you should buy. If you're going to travel with it. I traveled with mine every day. I don't keep the screen protector. Live life dangerously. Here's my question. Nintendo loves to come out with new slight variations on the DS and the 3DS. They really benefited from the fact that they were using something kind of like mobile hardware. That kept on getting smaller and cheaper, so they were able to come out with better versions. The Switch is basically mobile hardware. Is there going to be a new Nintendo Switch? You can have a mode for better graphics or for longer battery life. I can see it happening. It would be a very Nintendo thing to do. Yeah. All right. Well, we have gone way over because I love talking about this stuff. And there's so much MWC news that we had to bring it all up. But thank you so much for watching. Keep asking your questions. We're doing Ask Zuckerberg every week. So ask those questions. We're saving them. We'll answer the best ones. If you want to draw me a picture of Bigsby. Dog with shoes. Dog with shoes. Samsung's assistant. It's an open question whether it's on two legs with shoes or four legs with shoes. I think the answer is two. But send us photos of Bigsby, your drawings, your conceptualizations of Bigsby. We'll show them on the show next week. Oh, which happens on Tuesday, 4 o'clock at Zuckerberg Live. Thank you so much for watching. We'll be back next week. Thanks, man.<|nl|><|translate|> you you
 It looks exactly like the S8.
 But there are different colorways.
 Different colorways.
 It's a different screen ratio.
 Yep, 5.8 inch screen, S10 Plus has 6.2.
 6.2, so almost as big as the Note 8.
 Almost as big as the Note 8.
 It's got a headphone jack.
 Still.
 Hey, Samsung can figure that out, no one else can.
 It's some crazy camera technology.
 I really thought it was gonna have a fingerprint sensor
 under the screen this year.
 No, we're not ready for that.
 But they moved the fingerprint sensor
 from the weird spot next to the camera to under the camera.
 And then like you're saying,
 the bigger phone has a crazy dual camera system.
 I mean, lots of phones have dual cameras.
 Obviously, I have an iPhone 10 here with a dual camera.
 But this one, the second camera has a mechanical aperture.
 So it's a wide angle on a telephoto,
 and then it can go down from f1.5 to f2.4.
 So you get more light in.
 You get more light in.
 Shallower depth of field, which is what everybody wants.
 I think it's mostly for low light.
 I think their move to get more light into the camera
 is to open that aperture and go to f1.5.
 Mostly, Vi tried it, Dan tried it.
 Mostly what it runs in f2.4, it automatically switches.
 There's a pro mode in the app that you can set it manually,
 but it mostly automatically switches.
 And mostly in low light, it'll just open up to f1.5
 to get more light into the sensor.
 But day to day, it's gonna run at f2.4.
 Here's the thing that's interesting,
 and I want your questions about this phone.
 We have a video from Dan that we're gonna run later.
 We'll answer your questions as best we can later on the show.
 The big open issue for me,
 we've done a lot of camera tests this year.
 The Pixel 2 by far the best camera in the market.
 iPhone X, something in there.
 I have been consistently saying Samsung's cameras
 are not as good because their software processing
 is so aggressive.
 Well, Google's almost doing the least with the camera,
 the most with the software,
 and they're getting the best results right now.
 Yeah.
 So will that continue to be true?
 So if you're gonna do all this fancy actual camera stuff,
 moving your apertures around,
 is your software just gonna crush that difference away?
 I mean, there's gotta be a point where hardware,
 I mean, that's why I have a digital SLR,
 or a mirrorless, but interchangeable lens camera,
 because I want a big sensor so I can get low aperture
 and fancy low depth of field.
 It's great, I love it.
 But if phone hardware is not even anywhere close to that,
 then maybe software still is the answer.
 So we'll see.
 The phone just came out.
 It came out, our video was published yesterday basically.
 The teams in Barcelona, they're using it.
 We're gonna run a-
 Just leaving fingerprints all over it.
 It's just going up to every phone at the show,
 just touching them all.
 So we don't have it.
 Again, it just came out.
 We're gonna run some hands-on video of the S9
 a little bit later in the show.
 Ask us questions both in the chat and on Twitter,
 use hashtag CircaBricketLive.
 We'll try to answer them throughout the show
 as we get them about S9, everything else happening at MWC.
 But we have a lot of stuff here to actually show you.
 We've got a pack show today.
 So we've got the Kavo here.
 Ashley's gonna join us.
 We've got this smart light situation, it's very precarious.
 We just left it set up.
 She's gonna show us the future of what's happening
 with LED smart lights.
 Hyman's gonna show us the Switch, Nintendo Switch.
 One year anniversary is on Saturday.
 There's a whole ecosystem of accessories.
 We're gonna play with a bunch of those.
 Want to take your questions.
 We're gonna do floor reports when we see-
 Such a good show.
 It's a lot going on.
 And I will say all of our demos are very precarious,
 starting with this one.
 So what's this, Neelay?
 So I wanted to have this on the show last week.
 Okay.
 But it was too hard to set up.
 This is-
 I mean, I'm just gonna get back here.
 This is the Kavo.
 Actually, Hermes already says,
 you personally recommend moving from the S8 to the S9.
 I don't know.
 That's like, we gotta get it, we gotta review it.
 I don't think it's enough yet.
 Anyway, this is the Kavo.
 Sorry, got distracted by the chat.
 We will answer more questions later.
 So keep them coming.
 I want to talk about the S9 too, but we'll keep them coming.
 So this is the Kavo.
 It's a universal remote system.
 They want to say a lot of other things about it.
 I will say, just all things aside,
 having an HDMI switcher is a very nice thing.
 Yeah, so basically the way I think about it is,
 to solve the problem of controlling multiple devices,
 you can't just have a remote that's smart anymore or a hub.
 You actually have to control them all.
 So this is an HDMI switcher.
 It connects to the network.
 It connects over Wi-Fi.
 It logs into your services for you.
 It keeps track of what you're watching on what device.
 It's just, it's basically like a little butler.
 It's like asking your friend
 to do complicated remote procedures.
 Right, so this is the remote.
 Okay.
 We gotta plug into this TV back here.
 God only knows what it's doing.
 So right now it's running, this is Amazon Fire TV.
 This TV has motion smoothing on.
 Oh no. So this demo's over.
 Fail. I can't look at this.
 Failure. But no, this is a Kaba.
 There's, this is a Kaba.
 You can see it's got this interface over the top.
 I can just like press.
 Can Kaba turn off motion smoothing?
 Kaba cannot turn off motion smoothing.
 Okay, wait, wait, so explain what you do.
 I'm sorry, I'll pay attention.
 So this remote, it's just like a universal remote.
 It's controlling this Fire TV, right?
 Which is?
 Plugged into the Kaba. Oh, right here.
 Right here. Plugged into the Kaba.
 Okay. Now here's the,
 so it's just basic universal remote stuff.
 Here's the crazy thing, we've got a Roku.
 Right.
 I'm gonna plug a Roku into this Kaba.
 You can see these like crazy posts.
 Yeah, are those just aesthetic or is that just,
 is that really? And I got a Chromecast here too.
 Let's plug that. Why not?
 Plug this dude into it.
 And I can go through this one, this setup.
 So the Kaba is smart. Two new devices were detected.
 So I set those up.
 Okay.
 It's gonna think about what they are.
 It's gonna recognize them. Okay.
 Automatically figure out what they are.
 It's gonna automatically map this.
 Okay. And then.
 Oh, next.
 This thing is, by the way, it's insane.
 It's $500. It is so complicated.
 Is this artificial intelligence
 or did they just like painstakingly just program?
 So the reason that you wanna plug things into here
 is it watches the screen.
 Right.
 So it knows, it looks at what's on the screen.
 So I'll show you.
 So you can see here, it figured out we plugged a Roku
 into a Chromecast and I plugged them into just random ports.
 So. Okay.
 Next you'll test control of all connected devices.
 Now it's gonna switch over to the Roku.
 It's gonna keep thinking.
 This process takes a minute.
 So now it's gotta find the Roku on the network
 cause it's gonna try to, this is probably where
 this is gonna fall down.
 I'm gonna be honest with you.
 Oh, good. Good.
 This is where it fell down.
 Well, I'll be here.
 So the way it doesn't just control it with like IR
 the way Harmony does.
 It doesn't just control it with CEC
 the way that a bunch of other devices do.
 Which is remote messages passed over HDMI.
 Right. It controls it over everything.
 So it has an IR blaster.
 It checks the commands over CEC.
 It watches the screen to make the commands get taken.
 How does it work with the Chromecast?
 The Chromecast is actually,
 it's never gonna find this Roku.
 Crate and I are pretty sure it's freaking out right now.
 Cause we knew this is where it would fall down.
 Sorry, we're not in like a home environment, right?
 We're like in our office.
 But it.
 But you set this up in your home.
 Oh wait.
 Oh, I found it.
 It just took a while.
 You didn't trust it.
 Yeah. So now this is actually great.
 You can see.
 That's the screen right now of the Roku.
 Yeah, it says test it.
 It just took a while cause we're on the office wifi here.
 So like, yep, it works.
 Crate and you're gonna have to do this back there, man.
 You got a Kavo Kavo cow.
 217 a.
 Everybody type in 217 a.
 Don't do that.
 Crate and it's like ready to go on the back.
 So this is logged into all of your services.
 So now when you watch a show on Netflix
 and you pick it up on another device, it'll remember.
 Done.
 Okay.
 So whatever.
 So you, it's got voice, it's got voice.
 And then it's gonna,
 so now we're in the, okay.
 And you have like a hybrid interface.
 There's Roku, there's Roku back, but Kavo pops up.
 I was here.
 So now I can be like, watch altered carbon.
 This is the Kavo search.
 It's going to show me the Kavo thing.
 Okay.
 And I can do that or I can push this button
 and I can decide which device to search on.
 This is bonkers.
 So I can say search on a Roku.
 What it's doing in the background, because it can see
 the screen, it's opening the Roku interface
 and it typed altered carbon into the Roku search for me,
 which is insanity.
 Solved.
 I can also, I don't know why you would do this
 on this device, but I can go into settings.
 The Roku and the Fire TV are like very similar.
 Okay.
 But I can set, if I only want to watch Netflix
 on the Apple TV, I can set it to fire.
 If I only want to watch Netflix on the Apple TV,
 I can set it to run on the Apple TV
 if I only want to run on Amazon.
 So now if I go and set this to Roku, I can do that.
 And set that one to Roku.
 So now what's the show on the Amazon?
 It's like the Grand Tour.
 Watch the Grand Tour.
 Is that the car show?
 It's the car show.
 I just know it's on Amazon.
 So you saw that it was on the Roku interface.
 But that, now it's just operating everything
 in the background.
 So if I go to the Fire TV, click through
 the Fire TV interface for me,
 and it's gonna watch the Grand Tour.
 It's boggers to me.
 It's crazy, right?
 I've tried to find just regular websites,
 like help me find what I can watch
 on my different services.
 It's not even like a solve problem, just like websites.
 I'm so impressed that this thing is actually working.
 And then the other thing you can do,
 so now here we are in the Amazon.
 We've got this Alexa here.
 Okay.
 And this Echo here.
 It's listening.
 It's definitely listening.
 Alexa, stop.
 I'm not sure.
 Because it's bridging and controlling,
 you can use Alexa to control devices
 that don't normally support it.
 So you can use Alexa to control Apple TV.
 You can use Alexa to control Roku.
 So you can be like, Alexa, tell Kavo
 to play Stranger Things.
 And because we set.
 Playing Stranger Things.
 Because we set that to happen on the Roku,
 it'll do it.
 I guess it's not.
 There it is.
 Do you have to push the button?
 I think I'm gonna just have to push the button.
 Oh, you have to do a profile.
 It knows about your Netflix profile,
 so it'll ask you.
 So now let's switch back to the Roku.
 And play it.
 So these.
 It stresses me out how much it's doing.
 It's doing.
 Couldn't it just fall over any second?
 It's very brittle.
 Okay.
 So it fell over for me a bunch.
 The setup is crazy.
 My wife hates this thing.
 Aw.
 Because when it falls down,
 it just falls down catastrophically.
 Wait, and if I just press pause,
 it's gonna pause it for me.
 Yeah.
 The other thing is if you have a cable box,
 you want to get the supported cable box,
 you have a Comcast X1 box,
 a Dish Network box.
 It will support a cable box?
 It does all that.
 It will also at night just scroll through your DVR
 and read the screen of what's on your DVR
 so it has an index of what's on your DVR.
 So it's just like meta-interface universal remote.
 It's like because it can watch the screen,
 it can do all of this crazy stuff
 that no other universal remote can do.
 It is $500.
 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
 It's huge.
 Just like look at it.
 It's monstrous.
 But the best part.
 Yeah.
 You can choose your favorite wood finish.
 It's real silly.
 What is this one called?
 Is this like a maple?
 I don't really know.
 I don't know all the kinds of wood.
 So K.S. Sante in the chat says,
 any chance we'll get HDR support in the future?
 So this is the big problem with it.
 Does not support HDR.
 What about 4K?
 Supports 4K but not HDR.
 Doesn't support Dolby Atmos.
 So for $500, you're locked into this like pretty limited,
 it can't grow with you into where people are thinking
 things will grow.
 The way I understand that this is almost like
 their trial run.
 Like this is just like a look at what we can do,
 but they're gonna make something
 that's a little more accessible.
 Yeah, so I interviewed their CEO and their CTO
 a bunch of times, really cool dudes.
 They're very excited about this product.
 They have backgrounds in like audio components.
 They work for speaker companies.
 I've asked them, their goal is to get this product out,
 get the technology out in the market.
 They're only selling 5,000 of them.
 They don't think this is a work in progress.
 I think they're trying to get acquired.
 I don't think they're trying,
 I think they're trying to get their stuff smaller.
 I think they wanna make a newer one that's cheaper,
 that's smaller.
 Most people do not need eight ports or whatever.
 What about like a brushed metal cover?
 Everybody, that's everyone's next move, obviously.
 I think they're gonna make a sound bar.
 I think they're interested in a receiver.
 I think that's true.
 If you have a smart TV.
 Solve the complicated parts of your home theater.
 If you have a smart TV,
 it can't control your smart TV apps
 because it can't see the screen.
 So like, they've got some like limitations,
 but if you're the sort of person,
 if you're like me.
 Why does this have to be so hard?
 So hard.
 How did we get here?
 If you're like me and you have a Chromecast,
 you have an Apple TV and you have a Roku,
 which is true at my house.
 You're a monster.
 A monster.
 This thing will just like,
 and you have a cable box,
 I have a cable box too.
 This thing will just like,
 it is easily the best universal remote I've ever used,
 except when it breaks and then it's a computer.
 And then it's an Android computer and it's like,
 And then your,
 And then your wife is mad at you.
 She does not like it.
 I'm sold.
 The other thing that's cool,
 I'm not on this network.
 Creighton, I think you might be on this network.
 If you just launch a cast stream,
 it'll just like click over automatically
 and this remote can plain pause a cast stream,
 which is not true of all current like,
 That's the Chromecast pain.
 Yeah.
 My big thing is volume.
 Every different app that can cast to my Chromecast
 has a different way of doing volume.
 Yeah.
 And it's real pain.
 Yeah, so this will just like do it.
 It is again,
 this thing is very finicky.
 It wants to be in control of everything.
 It reads your power state on your TV.
 I mean, it requires you to have relatively new things
 and support HDMI CEC,
 but it will go talk to everything over the network.
 It'll talk to your Apple TV or Bluetooth.
 If you just airplane Apple TV,
 it'll figure it out and light it up
 because it's watching the screen all the time.
 What are these buttons for?
 There's play.
 You hit all three of them.
 The remote beeps.
 Oh, to find the,
 Something left.
 Find the remote.
 It didn't happen.
 But yeah, I think if you hold down all three of them,
 the remote beeps.
 Not today, Paul.
 But those are, yeah,
 just some put handy.
 People are saying, does it bypass HTCP?
 No, it doesn't.
 It lives in the HDMI chain.
 Yeah, how does it look at the signal?
 It has to decode it all?
 Yeah, it's all kosher.
 It does everything.
 So I wouldn't want to put a game console on this chain.
 I'd get a lot of latency.
 You would probably get some additional latency out of this.
 Yeah, but they know about it.
 But I plug my Xbox into it.
 I'm bad at video games,
 so it didn't make a difference to me.
 You couldn't even tell.
 I was like, yep, I still suck at video games.
 I was like, yep, I still suck at this.
 For me, every millisecond counts.
 To me, this device is like why we have Circuit Breaker.
 I don't think most people should buy this,
 but it's fundamentally so cool.
 It's such an insane gadget.
 Here's the craziest thing.
 So I was saying it logs into your services for you.
 So here it's got Netflix on the screen.
 It's every night, it's displaying this screen, right?
 Virtually over here, it has a web browser open.
 And at night, it logs into Netflix for you.
 And it looks at what you've been watching on Netflix,
 so it can update its watch list.
 Crazy.
 It logs into who you're watching.
 What happened to APIs?
 Yeah, some of these services don't have APIs.
 So every time they hit a wall,
 they built this intense solution to get over the wall,
 which is wild.
 This is what hackers do.
 Yeah, this thing is a huge hack.
 This is how people scrape the web.
 This is where we are with Universal Remote.
 This is why I lost every eBay auction ever,
 is people like this.
 No, it's like everything is out of control.
 It's wild.
 But every time they hit one of these walls
 that prevented them from controlling something
 they weren't supposed to control, they built a solution.
 What would the Roku's, Amazon's, Google's cable boxes
 have to do to make this just irrelevant,
 like not even necessary?
 I don't know.
 Are you just casting?
 So yeah, so Creighton just casted from,
 because he's on the right network.
 It just switched.
 It just switched, it just did its thing.
 And now I can just hit pause,
 and you see in the corner here it says Chromecast.
 That's so nice.
 It's just doing its thing, man.
 Now it's not.
 Well, circuit breaker.
 Can't push play?
 Oh, you got it.
 You got it.
 So to me this is just one of the most complicated products
 that I've seen, but if, like I said,
 I might buy one for my parents.
 My parents are not gonna get,
 like I wanna get a 4K HDR TV in the place
 where I'd put this, I have Atmos.
 Like it runs into walls for me.
 I use smart TV apps on my LG.
 My parents just have this like super complicated setup.
 Right, and they're having trouble wrangling everything.
 You just be like, doot, doot, doot.
 Just ask Kavo.
 Yeah, when you have a cable box plugged into it,
 when we had, I had this plugged into my house
 during the Olympics, and I just like, watch NBC,
 and it would switch over and change the channel,
 and because it can see the screen,
 it got the channel right every time,
 which not every university.
 I have YouTube TV, and I can't even just say,
 watch the Olympics.
 Yeah, somebody says, what about Plex?
 So yeah, if you are running Plex on one of these devices,
 it's not a Plex server, right?
 It doesn't have a Plex app built into it.
 It has no apps built into it.
 The apps have to run on your Roku or your Apple TV
 or what have you.
 Yeah, it'll control Plex just fine.
 But if you just have an Nvidia Shield.
 I don't think it'll, it won't do all the smart stuff
 with the Shield, I don't think.
 Doesn't work with Android TV?
 I don't think, it won't do the API control
 the way that it can with these other devices.
 But if you have an Nvidia Shield,
 you don't need anything else, is what I always say.
 They told me the Fire TV was the hardest one to, yeah.
 It's just, Amazon doesn't think you're gonna,
 I think Amazon's worldview is like,
 you're gonna plug this into your TV, and that's it.
 And that's the end of that.
 I think it's true of all the other devices too.
 All right, so that's the Cabo.
 Thank you for your questions on it.
 It's the most complicated product.
 I really appreciate you bringing this and setting it up.
 I really wanted to do this.
 Because I know this was like a lot of work
 to even get it working at all.
 It took, I would say two days.
 In particularly in our setup,
 where we have like our switchers and our HDMI,
 this is designed to be in your house.
 And it's designed to be plugged into ethernet.
 Oh good.
 So here on our network with our switcher
 and all that stuff, it was pretty difficult.
 But I'm glad it's here, it's very gadgety.
 I'm eager to see what the next version of it looks like.
 I think this version, there's a reason
 they're only selling 5,000 of them.
 Because they can't make enough of those wood panels.
 They also told me that the HDMI hardware in here
 is so hardcore that there's only one chip supplier
 that could do it.
 Ooh.
 So they have to ramp up the chip design
 to do HDR, to do all the other stuff.
 We'll see.
 All right, here's what's gonna happen.
 Ashley's gonna do a quick Ask Circuit Breaker.
 We're gonna get a field report from MWC from Jake.
 And then we're gonna come back here,
 and Ashley's gonna show us about some smart lights.
 As Neelai mentioned, it's me, Ashley.
 Hello, how are you guys?
 Jake is not here today, so I'm doing Ask Circuit Breaker
 all by myself.
 All right, we're gonna do one question today.
 The question is, do you think Huawei
 can ever make a splash in the American market?
 So it's been an interesting year for Huawei.
 This was supposed to be their year.
 For you guys who aren't aware,
 they're a massive Chinese smartphone maker.
 They're huge.
 They're up there with Samsung and Apple.
 It's just in the US.
 Most of us maybe don't even know who they are.
 We probably can't name a single device.
 So this year was supposed to be their year
 with the Mate 10 Pro.
 They've been selling phones online for years,
 but this year they were going to get a carrier deal.
 People were going to find out who Huawei is in the US.
 It was going to be big.
 They even, at CES, when we were there,
 we saw tons of banners with the Mate 10 Pro.
 Huawei was seriously on some serious hype game.
 And then, while we were at CES, it was really sad,
 AT&T, who was supposed to be their carrier partner,
 dropped the partnership,
 and Huawei was kind of just left out to go to Amazon now.
 I believe the phones sold through Best Buy.
 So after that happened,
 we have to kind of establish some context here
 for your question,
 that NSA, the CIA, and the FBI were all like,
 hey, also, I know AT&T dropped this carrier thing,
 but you shouldn't buy a Huawei phone or a ZT phone
 or any other Chinese smartphone because we don't trust it.
 So Huawei's had a really tough year,
 even though the Mate 10 Pro
 is technically available in the US.
 Do I think the phone will make,
 or the company as a whole will make a splash in the US?
 I think it's possible.
 I think they could become a household name
 if they get those carrier plans,
 because carrier plans are essential.
 If you want marketing,
 if you want salespeople to push your phone,
 you need to be in AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, wherever.
 Those carrier plans are essential,
 and without that, I don't think Huawei can make a splash.
 And even if they did get those carrier plans,
 I am not sure their devices will be enough
 to capture the US market.
 So there you go.
 That's Ask Circuit Breaker.
 Make sure you leave some comments with questions,
 because next week, Jake will be back.
 He and I will be together once again to answer questions.
 Also, you can tweet at us and ask us questions there.
 Okay, I'm gonna send it over to Jake now,
 who is in Barcelona.
 Hey, it's Jake.
 I'm here at Mobile World Congress.
 I've been walking the floor all day,
 checking out the new stuff.
 I'm actually here in Samsung's booth right now.
 You can see it's super crazy in here.
 This place is huge.
 The first thing I wanna do is show you the Galaxy S9.
 I don't really wanna show you too much of the phone.
 I just wanna point out this new lilac color,
 because it is fantastic.
 More companies need to make phones
 in really bright, fun colors like this,
 because it really stands out and it looks really good.
 I wanna tell you about a few of the other
 really cool things I've seen so far.
 Yesterday, I met with Lenovo.
 They have a new Chromebook
 that you're able to use anything as a stylus.
 And so I was able to take a pencil,
 just a normal pencil that you'd write with,
 and start doodling on the screen, and it works.
 It's fantastic.
 It's super natural to use it that way.
 The other favorite thing of mine at this show
 is that Nokia has re-released the 8110,
 which is the slider phone from the Matrix.
 As somebody who was a huge Matrix fan years ago,
 the nostalgia is just overwhelming.
 It was so fun getting to play with this.
 I will say, I wish the sliding action
 had been a little more snappy.
 It was not, you know, maybe to the full extent of my dreams,
 but it was still super fun, and I'm glad it exists.
 So now we're here at Huawei's booth,
 and I wanna show you one of the most ridiculous things
 that has been announced here.
 It's really fantastic.
 So this is the Mate 10 Pro.
 It's a laptop with super thin bezels,
 too thin to put a webcam in.
 And so the webcam is instead built into the keyboard.
 As you can see it pop in and out like that.
 It's extremely satisfying.
 It's extremely weird.
 The angle is awful for your face,
 but hey, it's the future of laptop webcams.
 It's wonderful.
 We're gonna be at the show all week,
 so stay tuned to theverge.com for more coverage.
 That's it for me, back to you.
 Jake, just vlogging his face off.
 Put a camera in the keyboard.
 I love that.
 I'm calling it knuckle cam.
 I love it so much.
 We saw that one and then there's the Vivo phone,
 the motorized.
 That's just a concept.
 I love it.
 It's happening.
 Is it?
 What is happening?
 Oh, it's happening.
 I feel like this problem was solved
 and we're just unsolving it.
 Huawei's gonna get us one way or another.
 That Mate 10 must look good.
 Okay, Ashley.
 Hello.
 Here is my thought.
 Yes.
 We actually did a story earlier this year
 at I think it was a Detroit auto show,
 about all the craziest headlights at the auto show,
 because car makers are using LEDs
 and now they're just going crazy.
 Smart lights have traditionally just looked like regular
 bulbs, because they're trying to like
 Trojan horse into your house.
 Wi-Fi everywhere, listening to you.
 But now it appears that you have crazy LED smart lights
 for us, like design.
 Ashley, I really want to talk to you,
 an expert about these lights,
 but I want to be clear.
 Neil, I know it's your theory that cars did weird lights
 and someone was like, we can do that in the house.
 I feel like if you're a car designer,
 your job is to be crazy.
 You show up to work every day and you're like,
 hey, Mr. Ford, and he's like,
 you doing any crazy stuff today, Steve?
 Right.
 And you're like, I better get on it.
 Right.
 I think home lighting designers are like,
 light bulbs, we're good.
 But now.
 But now LEDs are everywhere.
 Okay.
 That's my.
 LEDs are everywhere.
 But you're right, Ashley is.
 LEDs are everywhere.
 Ashley is indeed the expert here.
 Ashley, what do we have here?
 That's my argument.
 Okay.
 Bill Ford's yelling at Steve all day long.
 I'm gonna actually start with the most boring one.
 Okay.
 Because we're gonna save the party stuff for last.
 Okay.
 This is the C by GE Sol.
 C by GE Sol.
 Yes, Sol, like the sun in Spanish.
 C-S-E-E?
 Just the letter C.
 Just the letter C.
 Just the letter C.
 Starting out on a high note.
 By GE, two letters, Sol.
 C by GE Sol.
 Yes, there you go.
 C-G-S-O-L.
 We got this.
 All right.
 We're doing great.
 Okay, so this is just an LED light.
 It doesn't do funky colors or anything.
 It is a smart light.
 It has Alexa built in and the base.
 Wait, really?
 Oh, turning off that Alexa.
 You got some controls here?
 Yeah, so you can use voice controls.
 It doesn't play Spotify or anything like that.
 It doesn't?
 No.
 The speaker's atrocious.
 So I've had this in my room for a few months now.
 Alexa, play some music.
 Here's a station you might like.
 Just Glitten from Amazon Music.
 Just Glitten?
 Yeah.
 Just Glitten.
 Here's our copyright strike for the end of it.
 Alexa, stop.
 That did sound bad.
 It's really bad.
 It's horrible.
 So you can use one.
 Sorry, I don't know that.
 Sure don't.
 Please stop.
 Here's our station coming back.
 Alexa.
 Oh yeah, stop.
 Stop.
 Sugar breaker.
 That's the other thing is I turned on the music
 just one time.
 I was like, I'll try the music.
 I had to scream at the top of my lungs next to it
 for it to hear me.
 Oh, it doesn't do that noise canceling thing.
 Yeah, it just couldn't.
 So anyways, it only does white light.
 I've been keeping it in my room.
 I don't actually use Alexa at all
 because the commands are totally unintuitive.
 I don't think in percentages when I think about lights.
 I'm not like, I want my light at 52% today.
 So I can't use voice commands for lights.
 But this changes temperature?
 Yeah, so I'll show you guys.
 Also, I had a really fun notification on here
 that was telling me to sync my Sonicare brush
 with my phone from last week.
 Anyway, so here's the app.
 Paul, do you wanna?
 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
 We can Paul cam this.
 Yeah, just turn it my way.
 So you can have different scenes,
 which seems kind of.
 For one light?
 Exactly, I don't know why.
 You can also use their other, they have other bulbs.
 But the thing is, the only colors they can do are,
 you could do warm.
 Okay, so you can do like hospital.
 I'll turn it up really bright so you can see.
 Like a yellow, a yellow.
 Yeah, exactly.
 Wait, wait, go through those lights again
 so people can see.
 Okay, so here's like the warmer.
 It's really bright, sorry.
 And then here is the cool AM light.
 Super basic, these colors here on the inside
 are actually a clock.
 Which I could never figure out how to read.
 Wait, what does that mean?
 What time is it?
 Paul, I'm looking at this from.
 I only learned how to read the microwave clock.
 I mean, it appears to be 645.
 Yeah, I'm telling you, I couldn't figure out
 how to use this clock.
 Okay, how much is this thing?
 This is now on sale for like $115.
 Just buy a dot.
 It's a lot.
 The thing is, I love the look of it,
 which is why I'm into it.
 I don't need Alexa.
 I use the app anyway.
 Just give me this, no Alexa,
 and I'm good for maybe 50 bucks.
 I'm willing to pay 50.
 Okay.
 All right, I'm gonna turn this off
 because it's very rich.
 Goodbye, see, soul, G-E.
 So now.
 Wait, if you don't have the G-E,
 it's called the see-sole?
 They have their own bulbs that are C by G-E.
 The sole is a subunit.
 All right, what does it use?
 See, this is, you gotta,
 when the lighting designers get crazy with the LEDs,
 you gotta live through some of this.
 Yeah.
 This is why all Toyotas look angry now.
 All right.
 Still, what's going on here?
 All right, so now we're getting a little funkier.
 This is meant to go on a wall.
 This is from Life-X.
 It's their beam lights, so.
 Oh, Adam M. says,
 if someone who's bought a C light,
 it's far and away the worst product I've ever bought.
 Yeah.
 All right, thanks.
 So I don't wanna take this apart
 because it broke last time,
 but I'll show you guys.
 This is the beam.
 You can see the connectors.
 They stick together through magnets.
 Okay.
 And then these little pins here talk to each other,
 so it knows.
 Wait, wait, show them that.
 It's one unit.
 So the computer is like down here.
 Right.
 And it's just sending power and data.
 Wait, where's the computer?
 It's this little white.
 It's plugged in, but we don't wanna screw with it.
 There we go.
 A little behind the scenes action.
 That's the power brick.
 This is all the smarts.
 So that connects over Wi-Fi or whatever?
 Yeah.
 None of these have a hub.
 And I will say, just,
 you saw the Wi-Fi issues we were having
 with the Cabo earlier.
 That wasn't great.
 Okay.
 Yeah.
 But it's on right now.
 It's on.
 It's on.
 Again, this works with Alexa, Google Assistant,
 HomeKit, IFTTT,
 but for demo purposes,
 I'm going to focus on the app
 because I think the apps are where
 you really get the full experience.
 So here's our little light here.
 This app is horrible.
 All right, we're gonna just dive right in.
 You can change any color you want.
 Yeah, can we dim it down?
 Yes, we can do that also.
 There we go.
 Oh, it's working.
 Slowly, yeah, I know, I'm like, is?
 Our rehearsal of this thing was very precarious.
 I want to just have a color.
 Jell says, Pogo pins?
 Yes.
 So what we're gonna be showing you
 for the next segment of the show
 is a bunch of hardware Pogo pins.
 So you can see I'm changing the light here
 on the actual light.
 But then it gets fun when you can view.
 You're in wave mode.
 All right, well, so here is,
 you can pick from different scenes.
 Okay, that's mellow.
 This is mellow, which isn't really mellow in my eyes.
 Yeah, this is not mellow.
 This is like a popsicle.
 This is great.
 Here's intense.
 So you can make any shape you want, right?
 Right.
 It can have up to eight beams,
 but a kit comes with six
 and they don't sell them individually.
 So I don't know where you would find your other two.
 It's like a math ball.
 I know.
 It's so many numbers.
 It was the greatest common multiple of six and eight.
 You know, it's too early to do that kind of math.
 I like this.
 This is nice.
 Someone asked what tablet that is.
 What scene is that?
 That is an iPad mini.
 What scene is that?
 You might know it.
 It's an ancient archeological artifact.
 The name is energizing that I clicked.
 Was this energizing?
 Yes.
 Nope, that wasn't.
 That was energizing.
 Okay.
 It really just affects the palette
 and it randomizes where it shows up.
 Yeah.
 So then you can make it like rave.
 Right.
 So in addition to just having these light effects,
 you can do different things with it.
 So I can do move, which right now it's really fast.
 You can change the speed and the direction.
 Like I can change the direction.
 This is a thing I've always wanted to know.
 So I'm changing the direction
 and you can see it's just moving.
 I can also just make it go really fast.
 Oh, no, that was really slow.
 Okay.
 It goes the way you wouldn't think it would.
 Oh my God.
 I hope I did not give anyone a seizure just now.
 I'm sorry if I did.
 Wow.
 Sincere apologies.
 Okay.
 Spooky, what's spooky?
 Let's try spooky.
 Let's see, spooky says it will flicker or black out.
 I don't know about that.
 Scary.
 I mean, I'm super into these
 and I cannot think of where I would put them in.
 I don't know, I'm pretty scared right now.
 Like forthcoming baby room rave.
 Yeah, highlight the crib.
 Yeah, you should use this to highlight things.
 How much does this thing cost?
 This one is 200.
 200 and you get six of them.
 Six of them and two corner pieces.
 How much is another set of six?
 $200.
 Oh.
 They don't sell anything separate.
 It's just one set.
 They don't sell anything by itself.
 Seems like it defeats the point of modularity, right?
 Yeah.
 I mean, I think they just, this is a new product for them
 and I feel like maybe as they become more established,
 they'll start selling them.
 Can you make this rock to the beat?
 Yeah, so the next product we'll do
 and then this one as well, both do music visualizers.
 So I'm gonna try that on here.
 I'm turning it on.
 Here's the thing.
 Everyone wants us to plug it into the cop-o.
 I don't know what that means.
 Our iPad is recording right now because.
 It's using your iPad.
 Yes, it doesn't have a microphone built in.
 So for the music visualizer part,
 it uses your device's microphone.
 All right, so I'm thinking what I can play here.
 Just Hotel Califate, that me goes on.
 I put on Celine Dion.
 She'll never see this.
 I guess there's not enough room for me.
 You want straight Titanic on that?
 This is good, this is good, this is good.
 Wait, all right, let's see where we are.
 This is the worst party ever.
 Let's see where we are.
 You show up to someone's house,
 like check out my LED lights
 and then turn on the Titanic song.
 I have no idea why Celine Dion just came to my head.
 Okay, you know what, I'll put Migos on.
 There you go.
 All right, I'm gonna go back to the app.
 It should be on, but it's not good.
 Not getting it.
 Nothing.
 Nope.
 All right, another Sugar Breakah demo in the bag.
 I'm trying, it's not,
 and you can see it's recording up here, but nope.
 All right.
 We gave it a chance.
 What are these other ones?
 Good, and you can obviously Alexa these up, right?
 Yeah, Alexa, HomeKit, everything.
 I feel like most of these apps are really bad
 because everyone realizes you set them up once
 and then you just wanna use Alexa.
 So they've stopped trying to like.
 See, I'm not gonna lie,
 I'm not gonna use the apps trying to like.
 See, I don't use Alexa though.
 That's my whole thing, is I'm like, I like the apps.
 I feel like I have better control.
 Yeah, but that's like if someone says like,
 we don't have to do a good job on this bridge
 cause everybody's gonna take the tunnel.
 You've lived in New York for how long?
 A while, a good.
 They're saying that about everything.
 These subways, no one needs those.
 All right, PL train.
 All right.
 Should we try Alexa to turn these on?
 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
 Just for fun.
 Yeah, yeah, definitely.
 Yeah, turn the lights on in the lounge.
 I think it's the lounge.
 Whoa.
 It worked.
 These are way cool.
 Yeah.
 How do these attach?
 Are they also bongo pins?
 See here, they're these little pieces.
 What?
 And then if I grab a panel.
 So this can have up to 30 panels.
 Okay.
 And you can buy.
 No way.
 This is how this works?
 Yeah, it slots in.
 And you just like clip them together.
 And then you clip them together.
 And unlike.
 You can immediately lose those.
 Yeah, keep them in a safe spot.
 And unlike these, the Lifex ones,
 you have a separate music visualizer component
 that has a microphone built in.
 You can also plug through a headphone jack.
 Yeah.
 An actual device.
 Bring back the headphone jack.
 Yeah.
 So let's take a look through the app here.
 Yeah, let's look through this app.
 Okay.
 What's neat about this is that.
 Is this app worse?
 I can't tell if the app is slow
 or iPad mini is just ancient.
 It's really hard to tell, honestly.
 Here you can paint your panel.
 So it automatically detects the.
 How much is this?
 This one's 230.
 Okay.
 And that includes, I believe it's like,
 I don't remember how many panels that includes,
 but it includes the music visualizer.
 Okay.
 These all for college students?
 I can't imagine being an actual functional adult.
 You can make them look classy.
 Okay, awesome.
 So you can paint with them.
 Okay.
 Where now it's all white.
 I'm picking colors.
 I can put them there.
 That's beautiful.
 You can change your palette.
 Can you do any color?
 So you have to pick a palette.
 And I'm trying to remember how to get.
 So like web safe colors?
 Yeah, they have them all.
 Web safe colors.
 Can you enter any arbitrary?
 So here they have a palette.
 So you can choose from a bunch of these.
 Where if you want like more of a hunter green approach.
 And I already have some colors in here now.
 That looks horrible.
 I always wanted, wait, go ahead.
 That's the worst color I've ever seen.
 I never said I was an artist.
 Like a bunch of these and just make a brown light on my wall.
 So now I think it'll look better if I do like a scene
 cause they have it.
 Okay.
 So if I go to.
 Rhythm.
 I wanna show you guys the dynamic part,
 which is kind of what we saw over there.
 Where it can move.
 There's like this flow aspect where it changes.
 You can alternate the directions and how it goes.
 So this is more for if you wanna be a passive view.
 So you just have it on this continuous flow.
 You can affect how fast it moves, things like that.
 See now it's really cycling through a bunch of colors.
 Now the rhythm part, this is actually.
 What?
 I wanna turn off this.
 Yeah.
 Okay.
 Guys I'm yanking this guy.
 There it is, it's gone.
 It's gone.
 See you later.
 Okay, we're gonna do paint splatter.
 Okay, paint splatter.
 So it's reacting to our voices actually.
 Hello.
 Yeah.
 What up?
 It's working because we have a.
 You're singing a song to it.
 You sing a song to it.
 I'll take Paul Kim.
 When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie
 that's amore.
 Wow, gorgeous.
 Now I'm going on red, like it knows.
 It knows.
 There's different effects you can do to it.
 That's wild.
 This is like totally ray of hope.
 Would you buy any of these?
 Well, that's a lot of money.
 This is cool.
 I think this is cool.
 I like just having it react to me when I talk.
 I'm gonna set this up in my desk at work.
 Oh.
 Yeah.
 You're like a master computer and Tron.
 Yeah, when I start speaking, everyone knows.
 Right.
 Here's what I like about these though,
 is I never wanted a smart bulb,
 but I like functional lights that do cool things
 and add something to your space.
 Like if I'm spending that more,
 if I'm spending more money, I want it to look cool.
 And I want it to do something different
 than just a regular light.
 Prada Bass, is this just a video
 or are the panels lag when they change colors?
 I don't know what's going on on your side
 of this experience.
 It doesn't feel that light.
 No, I don't think it is.
 I think when you actually play music, it gets weird.
 Wait, go over there and do like the snap or something.
 I don't know if it's in visual.
 I think I might've just turned it off the visualizer mode.
 No, we were playing with it earlier.
 It seems pretty awesome.
 But these look good.
 They do look good.
 My favorite thing is that both companies suggest
 that you stick these on your wall using 3M, command strips.
 Of course.
 Which feels precarious.
 Paul, everyone thinks you did a good job singing.
 Oh, thank you.
 They want your sound club.
 Paul does an amazing karaoke.
 I was hoping you would do your Taylor Swift.
 Yeah, same.
 I've heard you sing Romeo and Juliet several times.
 The song's called Love Story.
 Whatever it's called.
 Whatever, I don't know.
 That's his signature track.
 I don't know anyone with Taylor Swift.
 Sure, sure you do.
 I don't listen to that song every day.
 Sure you do.
 Which one of these is the one to get?
 Is there any other?
 Definitely.
 Nanoleaf.
 I think if you want to go for the party route,
 I actually have really enjoyed my time with The Soul.
 Again, if they just got rid of Alexa,
 made it a little bit cheaper, I would legit buy it.
 Because I liked it.
 I think it's a cool piece for your house.
 Put it right next to your Dyson fan.
 Yeah, I put it by my circular mirror and it looks great.
 Well, I for one cannot wait for my daughter to be a teenager
 so I can buy these.
 The coolest dad.
 We have 13 years to go.
 That's gonna be great.
 We are gonna watch a quick video of Dan Seifert
 with the phone.
 With the S9, which I know what you're all here for.
 Ask your questions about the phone
 and then Haim's gonna join us.
 We're gonna talk about the one year anniversary
 of the Switch.
 We're gonna answer your S9 questions
 and we're gonna look at a bunch of Switch accessories.
 So check this out.
 Thank you very much, Ashley.
 Hey, this is Dan from The Verge
 and this is the new Galaxy S9
 and the Galaxy S9 Plus from Samsung.
 Now, if you're looking at these,
 you probably think they look pretty familiar
 and that's because they do.
 They basically look exactly like the Galaxy S8
 from last year, except for one major difference.
 We've been complaining about the placement
 of the fingerprint scanner on the Galaxy S8
 since it came out.
 So for the Galaxy S9, Samsung fixed it
 and moved it from next to the camera to below the camera,
 which is way easier to reach, even on the larger model.
 Now, otherwise, they are very similar in design.
 You've got a 5.8 inch display on the S9,
 6.2 inch display on the S9 Plus.
 They're still Super AMOLED screens.
 They still have the same high res displays.
 They still have the curved sides
 that Samsung calls this infinity display
 that spills over the edge.
 And Samsung has actually made the bezels the same.
 The bezels are the same size,
 but they're a little bit better masked
 than last year's model.
 So they don't quite stand out as much.
 You still have the power button on the side.
 You got the volume rocker over here.
 And then of course, there's the Bixby button
 that hasn't gone anywhere.
 And on the bottom, there's still the headphone jack,
 which you get on both models.
 A lot of the new things you can't actually see,
 but they are appreciated.
 It's got stereo speakers now.
 So the earpiece speaker works in conjunction
 with the bottom speaker to produce stereo sound.
 The camera has been new and improved.
 I'll get into that in a minute.
 It's got a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor inside of it.
 There's four gigabytes of RAM in the small model.
 There's six gigabytes of RAM in the bigger model.
 3000 milliamp hour battery here,
 3500 milliamp hour battery here.
 Both of them have fast charging.
 Both of them have fast wireless charging.
 Both of them have IP68 water and dust resistance.
 Both of them have 64 gigabytes of storage.
 Both of them have micro SD card slots
 and both of them have gigabit LTE.
 So a lot of those things are familiar to S8 owners.
 We're back.
 So I have a question for you.
 I have an answer for you.
 Max on Twitter asks,
 will the Galaxy S9 have a better camera than Pixel 2?
 I'm just putting you on the spot.
 So I don't know.
 I haven't seen the Galaxy S9 yet.
 Judging based on what Samsung has done with previous phones,
 my guess is probably not.
 Even with the aperture stuff,
 I feel like it's not going to improve things beyond
 the Pixel 2. Unless Samsung walks back,
 it's processing.
 Yeah.
 I think they're at the point now
 where they make some of the best hardware.
 Yeah. A lot of people use their hardware.
 Right. A lot of people use the same sensors.
 It's all on the software side.
 Yeah.
 Google, I mean, has been dominating the software side
 for a while.
 They just need a little toggle button.
 It says process the hell out of it.
 Yes or no?
 All right.
 Mikano in our chat says,
 I have an iPhone 6 Plus.
 I'm dying for a smaller phone.
 Pixel 2, S9, or iPhone X?
 Smaller phones.
 Pixel 2 if you want the camera.
 Still the best camera out there.
 Yeah. I don't know where you are.
 If you are in the States, you're an iMessage person,
 just get that iPhone X, just slide into that life.
 Pixel 2 is nice because it's one of the few,
 typically the big phone gets all the best camera stuff.
 Google's like, we can do cameras on small phones.
 But the Pixel 2 also,
 I mean, the 2XL has kind of the OLED,
 like the nice edgeless display.
 The Pixel 2 is like,
 Yeah. It's really,
 But we want a small phone.
 We can't pretend like small phone isn't a valid desire.
 Okay, so Anthony says,
 and I think this conversation is interesting
 because every question we're like Pixel 2.
 Anthony says, there's just me,
 there's very little talk about the S9.
 And I think the answer is yes.
 Well, they, first off though, they reinvented the phone.
 That is their tagline.
 The camera, they reinvented the camera.
 No. What was the phone?
 It's the phone.
 Oh, it's the phone.
 The video that leaked, it was reinvented the phone.
 That's a lot of phone.
 It's a lot.
 But other than that, they didn't really do a lot.
 You know, they've got the new Dex thing.
 Someone asked, where is it?
 Adam says, coming from stock Nexus,
 you've got an old phone, dog.
 Is the Samsung Android experience any better than TouchWiz?
 Here's what you want to do.
 You want to load it.
 Ubuntu Touch on that, right?
 Right?
 Get out of the, we have a duopoly here.
 They're controlling our lives
 and they're taking all of our data and it's terrible.
 Dieter's in the chat.
 He's asking, what color shoes does Bixby wear?
 Here's the thing I'd like,
 if you're watching this, whenever you're watching it,
 in my mind, Bixby, Samsung's assistant,
 that they have literally made a hardware button
 on the phone for, is not a voice assistant.
 It's a dog wearing shoes.
 So if you could draw a picture of Bixby,
 like a cartoon mascot for Samsung,
 send it to me, tweet it to me, tweet it, at Reckless.
 Next week, we'll show it on the show.
 The picture has to be family friendly.
 And the best picture.
 We'll show them all on the show next week.
 We got a bunch.
 What kind of dog are we talking about?
 And we'll send you something from our new closet
 if you win.
 It's up to me.
 I'm the dictator of this small country.
 Do we wanna go to the specs?
 Oh, there's specs, whatever.
 Whatever, it's an essay with a better camera.
 We know what's happening.
 And processor.
 There's one important thing over here, all right?
 All right, Snapdragon 835, Snapdragon 835.
 New year, new Snapdragon.
 That's it.
 That's what we're dealing with right now.
 New year, new Snapdragon.
 And more RAM.
 You wait for a refresh.
 Second camera lens.
 Don't worry about all this.
 New year, new Snapdragon.
 They're slightly heavier.
 They're slightly heavier.
 Dimensions are up by like a millimeter or two.
 People want us to talk about these Nokia phones.
 There's the new 8810.
 The Matrix phone?
 The Matrix phone.
 Nokia is just cashing in on the nostalgia
 to hype up the fact that HMD Global licensed the name.
 And they're trying to build some hype
 because they're relaunching all these new phones.
 There's only one true Matrix phone, by the way,
 which is the one from the second Matrix movie,
 which is a Samsung phone that looks like
 a cyborg exploded.
 I think this is a good time to tell you
 that we do not discuss any Matrix movies
 past the first one, which was a pivotal moment
 in all of our young lives.
 The other ones happened as well.
 The first Matrix opened our minds to philosophy of reality
 and the second and third are what made us grow up
 and learn that we can't always have nice things.
 I was like, oh, capitalism.
 We're just gonna milk this until it's right.
 Anyway, speaking of that.
 Speaking of capitalism.
 So look, we are obviously gonna cover the hell
 out of the Switch.
 We're gonna cover the hell out of the S9.
 That team is still in Barcelona.
 We're gonna have way more coverage on the site.
 You can watch Dan's whole video on YouTube.
 It's already up.
 Vlad has a piece up.
 He already has some judgments about the camera.
 Vlad already has thoughts about the camera.
 He is already calling it maybe that it's not.
 So we'll see.
 So keep tuned for that coverage.
 We have a bunch of other coverage from MWC,
 Schenzer Mobile World Congress,
 people were asking in the chat.
 Check that all on the site.
 What I wanna talk about is stuff, actual stuff.
 Less chat, more.
 Capitalism.
 More capitalism.
 It's the one year anniversary of Switch on Saturday.
 Huge hit for Nintendo.
 Games are just coming out as surprises now for the Switch.
 Like just ports of games.
 All kinds of games that you would not normally see.
 And there's like an accessory ecosystem
 because it's a mobile device.
 So what do we got, Hyme?
 All right, we got lots of stuff.
 First up, this is kind of your basic,
 most vanilla Switch accessory.
 This is the pro controller.
 Everybody's seen this, right?
 You've seen this, yeah.
 It's not, it's like weirdly disassociating
 with the identity of the Switch
 because when you think of a Switch,
 you think of the Switch with the bright colors
 and the slide-off controllers.
 But Nintendo does make like a regular controller for it.
 This is like the home console expansion pack.
 Yeah, this is the alternate universe
 where this is not the Switch.
 And this is the controller on the Nintendo.
 So you're really high on this thing.
 I am not.
 I travel with the Switch.
 Yeah, I almost never use this.
 I've used my Switch on my TV like three times
 in the entire year that I've owned it.
 And two of them were to play Mario Kart with friends.
 And one of them was to play the Final Bosses.
 This is definitely great for Mario Kart.
 But when you're-
 This is great for Mario Kart
 if you wanna beat your friends at Mario Kart.
 Destroy your poor friends.
 If you want the controller advantage,
 that's great for that.
 Here's what I think the Switch is designed for.
 You turn on one of those new Netflix series
 that take about six episodes to ramp up into having a plot.
 And then you play Zelda.
 And every now and again you check in.
 You're like, oh, there's still-
 It's like buffering, it's plot buffering.
 Yeah, Iron Fist is still walking around doing nothing.
 All right.
 I played the first half of Breath of the Wild
 while trying to watch Iron Fist.
 It's a true story.
 It's like, great, he's still, Danny, get to work.
 I've never heard of the Switch.
 The Switch has replaced the phone as the Netflix device.
 You can play Switch while any Netflix series goes.
 Okay.
 Yeah, so that's that.
 So that's for a controller.
 But what if my Switch runs out of battery?
 We're actually not out of battery yet.
 We're gonna try and-
 We're gonna try-
 I'm sorry, Paul.
 We will, we will, I promise.
 I have battery packs.
 But our next step is to try and solve
 one of the Switch's main and biggest flaws,
 which is the kickstand,
 which is possibly the worst kickstand
 ever put on a technology device.
 First off, what's happening here?
 So what's happening here,
 this is a third-party-
 I'd like to point out the chat is now trolling Dieter
 and asking if the Switch will run WebOS.
 You can run Linux.
 So that's what's happening over here.
 Paul wrote a piece.
 Someone has hacked Linux onto a Switch.
 That's true.
 You would like it to be vastly less functional.
 All right, keep going.
 So this is actually a third-party case.
 We had this in our GIF guide.
 If you wanna spruce up your Switch,
 they have them in all sorts of clear plastic.
 They also make them for the controllers,
 but they are much harder to put on.
 You also have avoided your warranty.
 But what we're actually looking at here,
 though, is a metal kickstand.
 The regular kickstand on the Switch is awful.
 It is flimsy plastic.
 It feels good to use.
 So Nyko, this is literally just a $5 piece of aluminum.
 It's metal.
 I just yanked it out of there.
 And it feels slightly sturdier.
 I feel like this should be everyone's first
 like 3D printing project.
 Yeah.
 You're like, what?
 I wanna get into 3D printing.
 I don't know what to do.
 It's Switch kickstands.
 But so here's my thing.
 So this is the other,
 this is the stock Switch kickstand.
 My problem is actually not that it's flimsy.
 It's that it's like, it pops out of here.
 You can just, at any time, you can make that go away.
 Did they solve that problem over here?
 So no, you can actually just yank it right off.
 And you can see when you pop this one off.
 Come on, man.
 When you pop this one off, you can kind of see,
 oh, it clicks into this metal thing.
 And it's just a kickstand.
 I want everybody to know that every time
 we demonstrate this, we are just breaking off
 little pieces of plastic.
 That's on this one too.
 It's this little hole.
 It's metal.
 Yeah.
 Because the metal's harder than the plastic.
 So this one's.
 You can see that.
 Yeah.
 So if you look on our skeleton Switch over here,
 you can see you're literally just sliding
 into this giant black chunk of plastic,
 which is why this falls off every time.
 And there's nothing really you can do about that.
 Nintendo just needs to build a better one.
 Lachlan says, honestly, until the Switch gets Sailfish OS,
 I'm sleeping on it.
 That's weird, man.
 It's hardcore, man.
 That's weird, man.
 That is amazing.
 It's really weeding together all of our needs.
 I just wish they'd used open BSD instead of free BSD.
 Oh my god.
 All right.
 So what else?
 So that's the kickstand.
 Next up is batteries.
 So Switch is great.
 You can use it on the go.
 It gets two, three hours of battery life.
 But that's not enough to get you through a flight.
 You know, it runs out.
 So we have this, which is the Nyko Power Pack, which.
 So it's a battery case.
 It's a battery case.
 Are you kidding?
 What is this nonsense?
 It's a chunk of plastic.
 And we're going to slot this into our chunk of plastic.
 Why don't you just leave that off?
 Why do you need that?
 Because I don't know.
 I guess it'll fall out.
 All right.
 So we're going to.
 I need the battery to be secure.
 So it turns on.
 It actually charges via USB-C, which is wonderful.
 We're finally getting USB-C accessories.
 Nyko, in a bold move.
 Did not use its metal kickstand.
 Not only did it not use its metal kickstand,
 the metal kickstand is incompatible with this other Nyko
 product.
 It is actually worse than the one on the Switch.
 They've somehow done it.
 Scientists have been wondering.
 How much does this cost?
 This costs like $34.
 Scientists have been wondering, could you build a worse kickstand
 than the Switch?
 You know what's great about this?
 Nyko took the challenge.
 Nintendo, with a lot of help from Nvidia, let's be clear.
 Nintendo has put basically an Xbox 360 inside
 of a portable tablet.
 You can.
 But they can't make a kickstand.
 I feel like the people who made this kickstand,
 like this team was like, I wish those kickstand engineers would
 come by.
 We have no idea what we're doing.
 But surprisingly, this actually delivers enough power
 to charge the Switch while you're playing games.
 So this is USB power delivery.
 Yeah.
 How much more battery life are you going to get?
 So you're going to get an hour to two hours extra battery life.
 But it's kind of small.
 It slips onto the back of your device.
 You're not getting through the roof battery.
 But if you need a couple extra, you
 get about another extra charge out of it.
 OK.
 Now if you need a lot more charge, you want this.
 This is a full-size Anker USB-C power delivery battery pack.
 It supports.
 You can pull it down.
 You can see it's got the PD logo.
 It's actually got the PD logo.
 This is the logo you want in your life, my friends.
 OK.
 What is USB PD?
 Sounds like a police department for USB.
 I wish there was, because.
 If you are a TV executive, and you're watching this show,
 and you've got some money.
 We have a police procedural for you.
 USB-C PD.
 It's just us.
 Enforce USB-C specs.
 It's just time.
 Arresting cable manufacturers again and again and again.
 Yeah.
 OK.
 What is it?
 What is it actually?
 USB-C PD is USB-C power delivery, which
 is one of the subsets of the USB-C spec for power.
 It supports much higher rates of power than other specs.
 It can support up to 100 watts.
 So can I run my MacBook off of that?
 You can run your MacBook off this.
 MacBooks use USB-C PD.
 You can run your Switch off it.
 And it's something that you're going
 to want to see for Switch, or basically any USB-C device
 going forward.
 Because when the Switch came out,
 people were kind of surprised.
 Oh, I was charging my phone just fine,
 but now I can't charge my Switch with it.
 Veronica says, I never realized the effort the Surface team
 put in the kickstand until I saw the Switch.
 You're right, but also I could tell you
 the iMac G4 is the best Surface accessory that has ever
 existed.
 So you think about it, kickstands, just as an idea.
 Like, check out a cool guy on a cool bike sometime.
 Look at the bike, see if he has a kickstand.
 Never has a kickstand.
 We're just all in the weeds now.
 How much is this battery?
 This battery is $120.
 Here's my concern.
 It's a lot.
 Can you take that on a plane?
 Because there's a lot.
 I had an argument with the Away Smart Luggage people yesterday.
 On Twitter, because Delta is like,
 take the batteries out of your luggage.
 Because there's a limit on the size of batteries.
 The Away suitcase is probably fine.
 What is the limit?
 So this is, if you look closely at the fine print over here,
 this is a 96.48 watt hour battery pack.
 The limit is 100 watt hours.
 So this is just under.
 Right under the wire.
 So you get this, you can power your Switch,
 you can power your laptop.
 Power your Switch, power your laptop.
 And your phone.
 Charge your phone.
 Yep, you got three ports over here.
 Yeah.
 When you're also on the go, though,
 you're going to A, want to recharge this,
 and B, power your Switch from a wall.
 You also want one of these, which is a 27 watt anchor.
 27?
 27.
 So it's just under the 29.
 Yeah, the MacBook charger is 29.
 Yeah.
 MacBook charger costs $50, though this costs like $30.
 Come on.
 If you don't tell anybody that you're doing it,
 can you still charge your MacBook with it?
 Yeah.
 Oh, you can charge the bigger MacBooks that need.
 Just slowly.
 It'll charge a little slower.
 But yeah, I was using my Switch charger
 to charge my MacBook Pro over the weekend,
 because I left my charger on my desk.
 Just like the one time USB-C has come through for me.
 So it seems like the interesting accessories are all
 about charging this thing.
 Yeah.
 Right?
 We have a headphone cable over there,
 which is very entertaining.
 So this is a life hack for the Switch,
 because the Switch has USB-C PT, but does not
 have Bluetooth audio support.
 So the only way to listen to Switch music,
 if you want to use your Switch on your TV from a distance,
 can't use Bluetooth headphones.
 Well, I'm a long cable.
 You can unspool this 20-foot cable.
 Oh my god.
 And you're golden.
 Not truly a Switch accessory, just a very circuit breaker
 move.
 Yeah.
 I've got a bunch of cases, ranging from the sock to the case
 cover.
 I don't want to talk about this.
 That thing is nasty.
 Sock.
 This is our producers, like Switch Go Bag.
 I think everyone understands Switch.
 What is this thing?
 This is one of my biggest disappointments.
 This is a Switch third-party Switch dock.
 This is the regular Switch dock.
 It's big.
 It's bulky.
 I like it.
 I think it's fun.
 It does the job.
 It does the job, but it's a statement
 to put in front of your TV.
 There's no like, you can't put this under your TV.
 You can't put it behind your TV.
 It's big.
 This is a third-party one that is much smaller.
 It offers more ports.
 Because what is this?
 It's like a giant chunk of plastic.
 It's a dongle.
 Let's look at these ports.
 Look, this is all that it does.
 This is the giant dongle.
 For this huge chunk of plastic, all you're getting
 is pass-through power, one USB port, and an HDMI port.
 There's two USB ports on the side.
 Oh, sorry.
 Three USB ports.
 I stand corrected.
 Only one of them is USB.
 It's a giant dongle.
 This is the purest expression of the dongle I've seen.
 So what do we got here?
 So this is miniaturized, same port selection,
 but it's like 1 6th of the size.
 So is this a real product?
 Because there's tons of hacks out there.
 So this is a real product that ships.
 The problem is that it's not licensed by Nintendo.
 And there were multiple ports of this irrevocably.
 Everyone is telling you that you can use USB-C headphones
 with the Switch.
 Yes, you can use USB headphones on the Switch.
 But you can't power.
 But you cannot use Bluetooth headphones.
 The only way to use Bluetooth is if you
 have headphones that have a Bluetooth USB-C dongle
 and you plug it into the bottom, then you
 can use Bluetooth audio through the dongle.
 There is Bluetooth.
 The controllers connect by Bluetooth.
 There is Bluetooth on here.
 It's just Nintendo has blocked it for the headphones.
 OK, back to this thing.
 Back to this thing.
 So the problem is that this has a slight issue where
 it has damaged some Switches irrevocably and broken them.
 So that's a bad thing to happen.
 OK, people are saying, Tebow in the comments
 says the official doc easily scratches the screen.
 I've read this everywhere.
 It's not been the case with my Switch yet.
 So I know people really care about this.
 And then Dieter is saying that there is an HDMI dongle called
 the Fast Snail that works really well.
 Dieter deeply cares about this.
 Kenneth says, is Super Mario Odyssey worth buying?
 Yes.
 Yes, it's really good.
 Don't even front.
 OK, so that goes on there.
 This, by the way, this terrifies me.
 This is the company Switch that we've hacked.
 We're not going to break someone's personal Switch.
 It's mine.
 Wait, get the little kickstand.
 This is horrible.
 But if you want to take a Switch doc on a go
 and hook it up to a TV.
 I just want a dongle.
 It's not.
 I hate this.
 Did you just say that you want a dongle?
 I don't like this.
 We've broken the line.
 This makes me very uncomfortable.
 Yuck.
 Right?
 It's not the worst.
 It's the worst.
 Also, because you can, if you want,
 I'm going to break something doing this.
 You can use that as a stand and actually see the screen
 and play Switch while you're charging it like.
 You got all these kickstands, man.
 Yeah.
 It's an option.
 It's an option.
 If it didn't break things.
 Here's what I would say.
 Looking at all this stuff, it seems
 like really where you want the action to be
 is this and in some of these dongles.
 And it hasn't really developed yet after a year.
 I mean, it's still only been a year, though.
 And it's still a very emerging console.
 USB-C as a spec is still young.
 And I'm honestly happy that Nintendo
 went with that instead of just doing their own thing, which
 they did for years.
 So they picked a very future standard
 and it's taking people some time to catch up.
 Yeah, but it's which is which is such
 an uncharacteristic Nintendo move to embrace
 the future ahead of schedule is a company that I still
 think is honestly not entirely sure how the internet works.
 I feel like their Game Boy Advance multiplayer cables
 were somehow associated with the Firewire spec, if I recall.
 Yes.
 They're like a weird riff.
 Yeah.
 Yeah.
 But could you use them as a Firewire cable?
 Absolutely not.
 Yeah.
 And therein was the issue.
 Yeah, so this is good.
 Yeah, it's progress.
 We just got to wait for a few more kickstarters
 to come on through.
 Giles says the back of my switch is horribly scratched
 because of the official dock.
 Yeah, but if the official dock scratches your screen,
 that's one thing.
 If this breaks your USB port so you can't charge it,
 that's a different issue.
 It's just the life you lead.
 Yeah.
 It's just the danger of buying weird unlicensed products.
 What about this, though?
 So this is the last one, actually.
 This is the 8BitO GamePad.
 This actually connects via Bluetooth, unlike headphones.
 It connects to the Switch.
 It's honestly a pretty good portable thing
 if you want a full gamepad.
 So the Droidcon, if you want something on the go.
 It also works with Android, Windows, and Mac.
 Charges via USB-C. So you got that.
 See, this is what Apple didn't do with the MacBooks.
 The Switch only has USB-C, and it's driving USB-C accessories.
 The MacBooks only have USB-C, and it did nothing.
 Yeah.
 So Nintendo is driving the USB-C revolution.
 It's happening.
 Apple's driving the USB-C to DisplayPort adapter,
 dongle industry.
 Dieter's just up.
 Dieter's just up in the chat.
 He would like us to compare, Dieter Bohn
 would like us to compare this accessory market to the one
 that existed for the Wii U, which is unfair,
 because no one bought a Wii U.
 So there was no market.
 You couldn't really, the screen had, what,
 like a 30-foot range on the Wii U?
 Yeah.
 So it's not like you're putting that on a carrier case.
 Yeah, you weren't carrying it around.
 You weren't taking it outside.
 What were the spaces?
 Also, no one bought a Wii U.
 I bought a Wii U, OK?
 The best I can think of is the weird Wii Remote accessory
 market, where you could just get plastic things
 to slot your remote into.
 The great thing about the Wii U is
 it gave me a years-long head start
 practicing for Mario Kart 8.
 So when Mario Kart 8 Deluxe came out for the Switch,
 I'm a ringer.
 I just want to see more battery cases, more battery stuff,
 because that's really what I need out of this.
 I want to see kickstands.
 Kickstands?
 Kickstands.
 And then I did buy a screen protector.
 I know Dieter has a screen protector on his.
 I think that's the first thing you should buy.
 If you're going to travel with it.
 I traveled with mine every day.
 I don't keep the screen protector.
 Live life dangerously.
 Here's my question.
 Nintendo loves to come out with new slight variations
 on the DS and the 3DS.
 They really benefited from the fact
 that they were using something kind of like mobile hardware.
 That kept on getting smaller and cheaper,
 so they were able to come out with better versions.
 The Switch is basically mobile hardware.
 Is there going to be a new Nintendo Switch?
 You can have a mode for better graphics
 or for longer battery life.
 I can see it happening.
 It would be a very Nintendo thing to do.
 Yeah.
 All right.
 Well, we have gone way over because I
 love talking about this stuff.
 And there's so much MWC news that we had to bring it all up.
 But thank you so much for watching.
 Keep asking your questions.
 We're doing Ask Zuckerberg every week.
 So ask those questions.
 We're saving them.
 We'll answer the best ones.
 If you want to draw me a picture of Bigsby.
 Dog with shoes.
 Dog with shoes.
 Samsung's assistant.
 It's an open question whether it's
 on two legs with shoes or four legs with shoes.
 I think the answer is two.
 But send us photos of Bigsby, your drawings,
 your conceptualizations of Bigsby.
 We'll show them on the show next week.
 Oh, which happens on Tuesday, 4 o'clock at Zuckerberg Live.
 Thank you so much for watching.
 We'll be back next week.
 Thanks, man.
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