**The Perfect Phone: A Combination of Hardware and Software**

I think I'd take a Galaxy S20 Ultra and put it on stock Android, Google Play edition. That's what I'd combine, because I think it's pretty easy. I did a little more detailed tweet, but I ran out of characters, so I'll elaborate here. If I could only pick two things to combine, it would be hardware that's pretty sweet and like a Nexus device.

**A Frankenstein Phone: Combining Pieces for Perfection**

I'd make a phone from a bunch of pieces, because if I had to choose just one thing to create the perfect phone, it wouldn't be easy. But if I could only pick two things to combine, they would be hardware that's pretty sweet and like a Nexus device. There's nothing wrong with having a good phone, but sometimes we settle for less than perfect because it's available or because we can get it on sale.

**The Objectively Terrible Tech We Can't Get Rid Of**

There is one piece of tech that reminds us that we're not living in the future: printers. Printers have been bad since the beginning and are a reminder that some technologies just don't work out as planned. I wonder what would happen if someone like Google or Apple decided to make a good printer? It's possible, but it's also unlikely.

**Retro Tech: Nostalgia for the Past**

I'd love to see a retro tech episode coming soon, where we look back at old technologies and discuss their significance. We've finished shooting season two of this episode, and it's going to be different from season one in some ways. There are good things about this episode that I'm excited to share with you.

**Tesla and the Model S Plaid: A Special Invitation**

I was wondering if anyone had put a reservation for the Tesla Model S Plaid yet, but then I realized that might have been my tweet. It's possible that someone saw my tweet and is joking about it, or they really did see it. Either way, I'll explain more later.

**Shout Out to NASA: The Perseverance Rover on Mars**

I'd like to give a shout out to NASA for landing the Perseverance rover on Mars last week. The fact that this rover has sent back tens of thousands of photos and 4K videos from Mars is amazing. It's not just the landing itself, but also the fact that it's been sending back information from so far away.

**NBA Predictions: Who Will Be in the NBA Finals?**

It's almost time for the NBA playoffs to begin, and I have some predictions to share with you. If everyone on every team is healthy, I think it's going to be a battle between the Nets and the Lakers. The Jazz are also looking good this year, but they may struggle as a team.

**Work at [Company Name]: Update**

The form for applying to work at [Company Name] is still open, but we've been making some changes behind the scenes. I'll adjust the form to reflect these updates and try to share more information on Twitter if you're not already following us there. Follow us, and you might just get a shout out in our intro or outro.

**Your Name: A Special Invitation**

You can actually be in the intro or outro of this video, so thank you for watching!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI'll turn into a rant hey what's up MKBHD here okay you know it's gotten uh a little Annoying lately overusing the word confirmed so I was on Twitter yesterday maybe I spent too much time on Twitter I think we all kind of do to some extent but I saw iPhone 13 trending for almost no reason but you kind of see this every once in a while like the iPhone will just Trend because people see the name of the new one and they think it just came out because it's trending on Twitter but it's trending for no reason so then this Forbes article pops up right in the middle of it Apple's massive iPhone 13 upgrades suddenly confirmed do you remember when the official dictionary definition of literally was adjusted to include figurative use because people misused it so many times it just became part of how it's used I feel like that's what's happening with the word confirmed here nothing about the iPhone 13 is confirmed nothing is confirmed until Apple goes on stage in September like they always do and announces and shows what the new iPhone 13 is until then nothing is actually confirmed so this article if you made the mistake of going through and actually clicking on it like I did it's just it's just cherry picking a two-week-old everything Apple pro video and everything Apple Pro great guy Philip I've met him love the videos respect what he does he does regular reporting and renders slash mock-ups to like help visualize leaks and rumors about upcoming iPhones just fun video stuff he even calls it leaks in the video's title and he collaborates on this particular video with Max Weinbach who also presents some new Rumors in the form of leaks some of which may be true Others May turn out not to be true but then Forbes or at least this one writer turning around and calling it confirmed is pretty much useless that's not actually What's Happening Here If you happen to trust Forbes for your your regular source of tech reporting or information I wouldn't think that this builds any confidence in that so you know what I'll link Phillips video down below if you actually want to catch up on the latest leaks and rumors about the new iPhone which include like a maybe smaller Notch and a refined matte black texture all that fun stuff shout out to him anyway speaking of Twitter I figured I'd do a q a because I haven't done one in a little bit and I do enjoy these a lot in the quiet time of year where not a lot of tech is coming out asked you on Twitter what you wanted to know and these are your best questions favorite Daft Punk album and song oh man this is a tough one I I hope I'm not the one breaking the news to you by now but in case you didn't know after 28 years of uh kind of Epic career Daft Punk is no more they put out a video it's over there will be no no more Daft Punk which is actually pretty sad but they had incredible impact on music and in electronics and Tech in the music world I I honestly feel like Ram is it's the best produced albums I have different answers for different stuff they've made I think recency bias I have to say random access memories is like it's one of my favorite albums ever and super well produced but I think Discovery is their best album and my personal favorite Daft Punk song changes all the time I think right now I would say it's actually too long might not be a common answer but I love that song do you have any Tech that you weren't excited about at first but now has become something that you use pretty frequently oh interesting question Braden the thing that comes to mind for me is a mechanical keyboard I didn't use a mechanical keyboard for years I had always edited and was really fast on Chiclet style keys with literally the one that came with my MacBook uh and this this whole mechanical keyboard thing really grew on me I've been using one called the ketron ketron K2 and then the K3 came out but I stuck with the K2 and my custom keys and there's actually a really great video recently I'll link below a YouTuber who rebuilt the K2 with like a sweet red and black theme and some new quieter switches and he's going to send it to me so if it gets here maybe it'll show up in a video but that I thought was pretty sweet okay Renee Ritchie's got a question if you could Jurassic Park up any extinct phone Droid or Palm Pre or Lumia or anything and go fully on fully modern updated version what would it be and why and actually I feel like I immediately know I'm gonna go HTC One M8 Google Play edition that phone kicked if I could get a fully updated version of that phone going it didn't have the best camera which was like it's its biggest downside but the build quality all metal unibody front-facing speakers get that on the newest version of Android I would that I would use that phone today that would be pretty sweet I think even a matte black version existed this is probably trolling well Apple's car support Android auto I think if there's anything if Apple even ever makes a car we know nothing about it but I think there's one thing I can probably say which is probably won't support Android auto you know it's funny I saw a Hyundai the other day it's one of the new I think it's a Sonata or something like that and I've talked about this before on the waveform podcast but when I think of Apple car it's so hard for me to imagine anything other than like a perfect white sphere that like rolls down the street like I don't know what an Apple car looks like but I saw that Hyundai and there's all these rumors about Hyundai working with apple and it's got these lines for the headlights that go all the way up and like merge with the Chrome so you don't know where the drl's end and the Chrome begins from afar and I looked at that and I said I could see an Apple logo on that I could see that doesn't seem that crazy to me but this is a very far off into the future type stuff can you speak Spanish you know hablo mucho espanol pero yo comprehendo hablo all right there's a comment here a question about do you think electric car manufacturers could get rid of the charging port like apple did with their phones in the near future and he says in the near future not anytime in the near future and this has always been such a weird thing about Apple using the environmental excuse as to why they're getting rid of chargers well the fact of the matter is wireless charging since you're replacing ports with wireless charging wireless charging is very inefficient and therefore directly impacting against that environmental gain when you use way more power to charge the same phone inefficiently so when you you scale that up to an electric car that's very inefficient for a very large battery there's no way wireless charging and anytime in the near future is going to be a great idea but that being said I love where your head's at maybe someday wireless charging can get so direct and so good that all you have to do is drive over like a wireless charging pad in your garage and as long as you're somewhere near the right place it'll charge overnight that would be pretty sweet but that's nowhere near the near future all right so of all the tech you get to see Slash use what was the last thing that you saw which made you think wow this is the future huh I like that question I'm gonna ask it to everyone here in the studio my answer I think I'm just gonna say electric cars in general like not a lot of stuff really blows my mind because I get to see the steps of things as they happen but I think the first time I got to drive an electric car and really experience it I was like oh yeah this will be how all cars are in the future it might not be the last one but the biggest piece or like the biggest this is the future moments probably VR there's just that aspect of taking off the goggles and realizing you're in a room and not on a mountain or not waving a lightsaber and I feel like that was just the moment where I felt like I left my body because of Technology I'm gonna go with Boston Dynamics spot I think is the dog's name um just because it looks like something out of a sci-fi movie and it has better balance than I do like if you try pushing me over I will fall and that thing did not I'm gonna have to go with all of computational Imaging and video but particularly Adobe announced content to wear fill in video for After Effects where you can just remove whole people or things from the video and the fact that they democratize that for everyone kind of freaked me out a little bit because now we don't really know what's real Arun says if you could take the hardware from one phone and the software from another which combo would you have so I think it's pretty easy I'd take a Galaxy s20 one Ultra and I'd put like stock Android I'd do a Google Play edition Google Play edition that's that's the two things I'd combine I did a little more of a detailed tweet which I ran out of characters but about like the Frankenstein phone I would make from a bunch of pieces but I run if I could only pick two it's this Hardware which is pretty sweet and like a Nexus what objectively terrible product do you regularly use either because of necessity or because you love them despite their flaws there's not a lot of like objectively terrible Tech that you end up having to keep around but you know what is objectively terrible printers like that's the one piece of tech we all have that reminds us that we're not living in the future we know we don't have flying cars but you know there's a lot of futuristic stuff around printers that have just been bad since the beginning I wonder what would happen if like Google or Apple or someone just decided to make a good printer like can that could that really be done there's a lot of product categories out there that I wish they'd get into but what if Apple just made a good printer it's got a screen that you can actually type on it doesn't get jams all the time it's probably 700 bucks but what would that look like that's it's another weird one is there any retro Tech episode coming anytime soon yes I'm not gonna spoil exactly what's going down but it's going to be a fun one we've finished shooting season two and it's a little different from season one and there's a lot of good stuff that I can't wait to share it's in the production editing phase and it is coming soon keep an eye out for that oh look did you put a reservation for the Tesla Model S plaid yet I don't know if this person's joking or if they saw my tweet I can all explain I'll explain later there's more to it than you think just wait and see I'll explain uh what's one of those little things that very few people talk about that's still very cool I just can I just give a shout out to NASA this is an unofficial NASA shirt but can we give a shout out to NASA there's a Rover that just last week landed on Mars and since landing on Mars which is already amazing it has sent back tens of thousands of photos 4K videos of the landing and of the Martian surface that is unreal for some reason to me that the video of it Landing with a parachute pops out and it's going like 900 meters per second or something crazy but it pops out and then you see the rocket dangle the robot down landed on Mars and then fly away all of that has already been sent back to Earth tens of millions of miles in 4k I don't know this this is that that is future type stuff I'm excited for what the perseverance Mission can end up uncovering they've landed it right where they wanted it to we're looking for signs of Life on another planet this is a great this is an exciting time to be alive shout out to NASA and then we got the classic single NBA question who will be in the NBA finals this year so I think it's got to be the Nets is if they're this is all my NBA predictions will be if healthy right so if the entire NBA every team is fully healthy I gotta see the Nets coming out of the East which is exciting because they're in their backyard out of the West it's a little more interesting if healthy which ad is very important I see the Lakers being the team to beat but the Jazz look so good I had Mike Conley on my fantasy team I feel like the Jazz are like they kind of look like the Hawks that one year where they had like a bunch of All-Stars and won a ton of games and then sort of flamed out in playoffs we'll see how they how they do but they're really exciting team to watch I also have Rudy gobert on my fantasy team shout out to the Jazz but yeah I feel like it's the Nets and the Lakers oh that's a good update so is the form to apply to work here still open and if so for how much longer it is still open but as you can tell we have been making moves and the team has start to build so I will adjust that form I'll adjust the form for what things are still being added and I'll try to share updates on Twitter if you're not already following on Twitter if you haven't guessed by now I use it a lot for all kinds of stuff so follow over there okay can I be in the intro or outro of this video yeah yeah actually you can you can be in the outro thanks for watching peaceI'll turn into a rant hey what's up MKBHD here okay you know it's gotten uh a little Annoying lately overusing the word confirmed so I was on Twitter yesterday maybe I spent too much time on Twitter I think we all kind of do to some extent but I saw iPhone 13 trending for almost no reason but you kind of see this every once in a while like the iPhone will just Trend because people see the name of the new one and they think it just came out because it's trending on Twitter but it's trending for no reason so then this Forbes article pops up right in the middle of it Apple's massive iPhone 13 upgrades suddenly confirmed do you remember when the official dictionary definition of literally was adjusted to include figurative use because people misused it so many times it just became part of how it's used I feel like that's what's happening with the word confirmed here nothing about the iPhone 13 is confirmed nothing is confirmed until Apple goes on stage in September like they always do and announces and shows what the new iPhone 13 is until then nothing is actually confirmed so this article if you made the mistake of going through and actually clicking on it like I did it's just it's just cherry picking a two-week-old everything Apple pro video and everything Apple Pro great guy Philip I've met him love the videos respect what he does he does regular reporting and renders slash mock-ups to like help visualize leaks and rumors about upcoming iPhones just fun video stuff he even calls it leaks in the video's title and he collaborates on this particular video with Max Weinbach who also presents some new Rumors in the form of leaks some of which may be true Others May turn out not to be true but then Forbes or at least this one writer turning around and calling it confirmed is pretty much useless that's not actually What's Happening Here If you happen to trust Forbes for your your regular source of tech reporting or information I wouldn't think that this builds any confidence in that so you know what I'll link Phillips video down below if you actually want to catch up on the latest leaks and rumors about the new iPhone which include like a maybe smaller Notch and a refined matte black texture all that fun stuff shout out to him anyway speaking of Twitter I figured I'd do a q a because I haven't done one in a little bit and I do enjoy these a lot in the quiet time of year where not a lot of tech is coming out asked you on Twitter what you wanted to know and these are your best questions favorite Daft Punk album and song oh man this is a tough one I I hope I'm not the one breaking the news to you by now but in case you didn't know after 28 years of uh kind of Epic career Daft Punk is no more they put out a video it's over there will be no no more Daft Punk which is actually pretty sad but they had incredible impact on music and in electronics and Tech in the music world I I honestly feel like Ram is it's the best produced albums I have different answers for different stuff they've made I think recency bias I have to say random access memories is like it's one of my favorite albums ever and super well produced but I think Discovery is their best album and my personal favorite Daft Punk song changes all the time I think right now I would say it's actually too long might not be a common answer but I love that song do you have any Tech that you weren't excited about at first but now has become something that you use pretty frequently oh interesting question Braden the thing that comes to mind for me is a mechanical keyboard I didn't use a mechanical keyboard for years I had always edited and was really fast on Chiclet style keys with literally the one that came with my MacBook uh and this this whole mechanical keyboard thing really grew on me I've been using one called the ketron ketron K2 and then the K3 came out but I stuck with the K2 and my custom keys and there's actually a really great video recently I'll link below a YouTuber who rebuilt the K2 with like a sweet red and black theme and some new quieter switches and he's going to send it to me so if it gets here maybe it'll show up in a video but that I thought was pretty sweet okay Renee Ritchie's got a question if you could Jurassic Park up any extinct phone Droid or Palm Pre or Lumia or anything and go fully on fully modern updated version what would it be and why and actually I feel like I immediately know I'm gonna go HTC One M8 Google Play edition that phone kicked if I could get a fully updated version of that phone going it didn't have the best camera which was like it's its biggest downside but the build quality all metal unibody front-facing speakers get that on the newest version of Android I would that I would use that phone today that would be pretty sweet I think even a matte black version existed this is probably trolling well Apple's car support Android auto I think if there's anything if Apple even ever makes a car we know nothing about it but I think there's one thing I can probably say which is probably won't support Android auto you know it's funny I saw a Hyundai the other day it's one of the new I think it's a Sonata or something like that and I've talked about this before on the waveform podcast but when I think of Apple car it's so hard for me to imagine anything other than like a perfect white sphere that like rolls down the street like I don't know what an Apple car looks like but I saw that Hyundai and there's all these rumors about Hyundai working with apple and it's got these lines for the headlights that go all the way up and like merge with the Chrome so you don't know where the drl's end and the Chrome begins from afar and I looked at that and I said I could see an Apple logo on that I could see that doesn't seem that crazy to me but this is a very far off into the future type stuff can you speak Spanish you know hablo mucho espanol pero yo comprehendo hablo all right there's a comment here a question about do you think electric car manufacturers could get rid of the charging port like apple did with their phones in the near future and he says in the near future not anytime in the near future and this has always been such a weird thing about Apple using the environmental excuse as to why they're getting rid of chargers well the fact of the matter is wireless charging since you're replacing ports with wireless charging wireless charging is very inefficient and therefore directly impacting against that environmental gain when you use way more power to charge the same phone inefficiently so when you you scale that up to an electric car that's very inefficient for a very large battery there's no way wireless charging and anytime in the near future is going to be a great idea but that being said I love where your head's at maybe someday wireless charging can get so direct and so good that all you have to do is drive over like a wireless charging pad in your garage and as long as you're somewhere near the right place it'll charge overnight that would be pretty sweet but that's nowhere near the near future all right so of all the tech you get to see Slash use what was the last thing that you saw which made you think wow this is the future huh I like that question I'm gonna ask it to everyone here in the studio my answer I think I'm just gonna say electric cars in general like not a lot of stuff really blows my mind because I get to see the steps of things as they happen but I think the first time I got to drive an electric car and really experience it I was like oh yeah this will be how all cars are in the future it might not be the last one but the biggest piece or like the biggest this is the future moments probably VR there's just that aspect of taking off the goggles and realizing you're in a room and not on a mountain or not waving a lightsaber and I feel like that was just the moment where I felt like I left my body because of Technology I'm gonna go with Boston Dynamics spot I think is the dog's name um just because it looks like something out of a sci-fi movie and it has better balance than I do like if you try pushing me over I will fall and that thing did not I'm gonna have to go with all of computational Imaging and video but particularly Adobe announced content to wear fill in video for After Effects where you can just remove whole people or things from the video and the fact that they democratize that for everyone kind of freaked me out a little bit because now we don't really know what's real Arun says if you could take the hardware from one phone and the software from another which combo would you have so I think it's pretty easy I'd take a Galaxy s20 one Ultra and I'd put like stock Android I'd do a Google Play edition Google Play edition that's that's the two things I'd combine I did a little more of a detailed tweet which I ran out of characters but about like the Frankenstein phone I would make from a bunch of pieces but I run if I could only pick two it's this Hardware which is pretty sweet and like a Nexus what objectively terrible product do you regularly use either because of necessity or because you love them despite their flaws there's not a lot of like objectively terrible Tech that you end up having to keep around but you know what is objectively terrible printers like that's the one piece of tech we all have that reminds us that we're not living in the future we know we don't have flying cars but you know there's a lot of futuristic stuff around printers that have just been bad since the beginning I wonder what would happen if like Google or Apple or someone just decided to make a good printer like can that could that really be done there's a lot of product categories out there that I wish they'd get into but what if Apple just made a good printer it's got a screen that you can actually type on it doesn't get jams all the time it's probably 700 bucks but what would that look like that's it's another weird one is there any retro Tech episode coming anytime soon yes I'm not gonna spoil exactly what's going down but it's going to be a fun one we've finished shooting season two and it's a little different from season one and there's a lot of good stuff that I can't wait to share it's in the production editing phase and it is coming soon keep an eye out for that oh look did you put a reservation for the Tesla Model S plaid yet I don't know if this person's joking or if they saw my tweet I can all explain I'll explain later there's more to it than you think just wait and see I'll explain uh what's one of those little things that very few people talk about that's still very cool I just can I just give a shout out to NASA this is an unofficial NASA shirt but can we give a shout out to NASA there's a Rover that just last week landed on Mars and since landing on Mars which is already amazing it has sent back tens of thousands of photos 4K videos of the landing and of the Martian surface that is unreal for some reason to me that the video of it Landing with a parachute pops out and it's going like 900 meters per second or something crazy but it pops out and then you see the rocket dangle the robot down landed on Mars and then fly away all of that has already been sent back to Earth tens of millions of miles in 4k I don't know this this is that that is future type stuff I'm excited for what the perseverance Mission can end up uncovering they've landed it right where they wanted it to we're looking for signs of Life on another planet this is a great this is an exciting time to be alive shout out to NASA and then we got the classic single NBA question who will be in the NBA finals this year so I think it's got to be the Nets is if they're this is all my NBA predictions will be if healthy right so if the entire NBA every team is fully healthy I gotta see the Nets coming out of the East which is exciting because they're in their backyard out of the West it's a little more interesting if healthy which ad is very important I see the Lakers being the team to beat but the Jazz look so good I had Mike Conley on my fantasy team I feel like the Jazz are like they kind of look like the Hawks that one year where they had like a bunch of All-Stars and won a ton of games and then sort of flamed out in playoffs we'll see how they how they do but they're really exciting team to watch I also have Rudy gobert on my fantasy team shout out to the Jazz but yeah I feel like it's the Nets and the Lakers oh that's a good update so is the form to apply to work here still open and if so for how much longer it is still open but as you can tell we have been making moves and the team has start to build so I will adjust that form I'll adjust the form for what things are still being added and I'll try to share updates on Twitter if you're not already following on Twitter if you haven't guessed by now I use it a lot for all kinds of stuff so follow over there okay can I be in the intro or outro of this video yeah yeah actually you can you can be in the outro thanks for watching peace\n"