Hello and welcome to another tier inducing episode of tech, spurt, weekly and big apologies again for my absence last week, but the good news is that, because of that break, I've now had a full fortnight with which to come up with a proper intro for the show, and I know what you're thinking he probably spent most of that fortnight indulging in his favorite hobby of sinking pints until he passes out fears first on the floor in a pull of his own dribble and other bodily fluids potentially, and that would be 100 accurate. But in one of my pass out drunk sessions I did actually apparently script an intro, which I then found stuffed to my jeans the following morning. So as you can see, there says text per weekly intro do not open until the shoot. So oh big, surprise wonder what the lights lurk within and here we go. Fingers crossed it's a good uh, oh uh, all it says is knob juice and um. It looks like there's a cute little picture of.
Is that, like a badger, mountain of ghost or something yeah, not really sure on that one? Um but yeah there you go knob juice to expert weekly, so anyway, moving swiftly onwards. There's lots of tech news for me to bang on about because, of course, two full weeks of action during which there were several launches and other bits. So let's crack that whip, oh god, I was perhaps a bit too enthusiastic with your whip. Cracking now, one of the first big launchers last week happened on Tuesday when HMD staffed out a couple of new Nokia branded smartphones and even a feature phone to boot, but the main event was definitely the xr20 a phone that is so tough. It could beat up your DAR blindfolded.
It's enjoyed some rigorous military standard rough handling, just like your mum, and it could be anyone's for just 400 quid about 40 times more than your mum, with the added bonus that HMD global will plant 50 trees for every phone sold, which should just about cover the huge water manuals and leaflets that come boxed with it. My full unboxing of the xor 20 is live right now, complete with this sexy bit of drop test action. Just look at that stance. That is a power stance right there. As for the feature phone.
Well, that's a rebooted version of the 6310 that launched way back in 2002 when the world was significantly less piggy and my liver was only semi-fucked. One of the standout features of the original was its Bluetooth support, and it also came with a tasty bit of snake 2 action, thus giving my teenage hands something to do. Besides the usual frantic self-abuse next up, Poco staffed out the great value x3 gt, an alternative to the Poco x3 pro this time, powered by a MediaTek dimension, d, 1100 chipsets, rather than a snapdragon platform. It feels like a more mature phone, especially as the obligatory brand, and doesn't stretch right across the entire ass, and if you want to know more, my Poco x3, gt, unboxing and x3 pro comparisons are live right now, hippo celebratory sour shots at the ready, and in fact, by the time this video goes live. My full polo, x3, gt review should also touch would be live as well, so yay, more shenanigans, fun times.
That's the weekend swords and, of course, before you even ask, did you even have to ask yes: Motorola did launch some new smartphones last week as well this time a Missy trio of flagship devices. If the fresh new Motorola edge family was cheeky, 1980s pop sensation, the police? Well, the sting of the bunch would definitely be the motor edge 20 pro this 649 pound smartphone is hitting blight in the coming weeks via o2, Dora, car phone and others, and that premium price gets you a 108 megapixel camera with nine in one ultra pixel shenanigans for bright results in pretty crap light. Plus you get 8k. Video recording, smarts too, and you've also got Motorola's first periscope style, telephoto lens with 50 times, combo zoom fancy and the rest of the specs sound pretty tidy as well. So you've also got a bright and punchy 6.7 inch, 144, hertz OLED display, although sadly the motor edge 20 pro is only powered by the snapdragon 870 chipsets, and not that billy big bollocks' snapdragon 888. And if you don't know much about the snapdragon 800 series chipset as well.
Think of the snapdragon 870 as say, for instance, a Greg's sausage roll, whereas the snapdragon 808 is a hot bit of steak, bake action fresh out of the oven. You know sausage roll perfectly good, very satisfying. Indeed, you know. You've got one in the Poco f3, for instance, not sausage, roll, the snapdragon 870, and that can do gaming and all that kind of shenanigans. Absolutely fine.
But at this sort of price point I was definitely hoping for a bit of beef. You know. Maybe, let's just stop the whole meat analogy thing, because it's probably just more confusing than anything, and also I'm really stunned to salivate for less cash. You can grab the regular and skinnier motor edge 20, which once again rocks a 108 megapixel primary camera. But this time the telephoto shooter maxes out 30 times, combo zoom you've got another 6.7 inch, 144 hertz, AMOLED screen and the performance. This time comes courtesy of a snapdragon, 778g chipset and the model h20 will set you back 429 quid and if that's still just a little out of your sort of budget range.
Well, there's always the motor edge.20 light, which comes in at 299 quid this one's powered by a MediaTek dimensionally 720, instead with the same size doled, display this time, topping off at 90 hertz, it's good to see that 108 megapixel camera back in action, although this time there's no telephoto shooter, but you do get the motor family's biggest battery at 5, 000 William and a headphone jack, which is missing from the posher expensive efforts, and it looks like the tagline for these new Motorola smartphones is find your edge, which uh I mean it's a bit boring and generic to be fair. You know probably going with uh like toss yourself over the edge um, or maybe I don't know edge, buy one, or you're a massive cut. Actually, those are pretty as well. Aren't they yeah lots of other stuff happened last week as well? Sometimes the Huawei p50 series also launched out in China uh, but that was a china only launch, there's no sign of it appearing in western markets anytime soon, hopefully at some point but yeah I've still got this week to cover so uh. Let's get a shift on and the big news this week was googled finally announced on the existence of the new pixel, 6 and pixel 6 pro, which should be properly launching this autumn.
We've already seen that snazzy new design, with both google flagships, rocking an aluminum frame and a wide boy camera bar thanks to the enlarged sensors, the 6.4 inch pixel 6, is sadly no longer as compact as past models, while the pro is a proper 6.7 inch monster bossed in the first zoom lens of the series, and yes, apparently, both of these new phones will be powered by the all new and fresh five nanometer google tensor chipsets, which are custom designed by google, to enhance the camera experience, while also adding in new features plus you've also got a dedicated security core to keep your privates well private. And yes, while the tensor chip is apparently designed by google, it is also being manufactured by Samsung. So, let's just pray to Jesus butter Beelzebub, whichever deity you n't have a hard on for that, the tensor doesn't turn out to be a bit of a damp squib, just like the Enos chipsets. So yeah lots of new phones uh on the horizon or coming later in 2021 to look forward to so. If you like phones, then good times ahead.
Definitely maybe don't go stringing up that news just yet uh, but anyway, that's the big headlines covered, and I am proper running out of time now. So regrettably, it is time for the part of the show that would club baby seals to death if only it had the hands with which to wield a metal pull it's fewer comments, fewer comments, as the first, lots of you lovely fork, wish me a hearty congratulation on reaching 600 000 subscribers here on textbook, absolutely bat, bonkers mental frankly, not really sure, what's going on there, but I definitely celebrate it hard by drinking all the whiskey uh. In my time off. Let's get things kicked off properly with Jason, who says no textbook weekly last week. What's the matter? Don't you like us anymore, come on Jason buddy? You know my heart is overflown with nothing but love and respect for all of you, crazy morphs who've got the time and patience to watch this nonsensical ass, flapping, wrapped up as some sort of legit tech new show every single freaking week, uh next UPD says.
After a fortnight we get one your mum joke. What's that all about um I mean, frankly, you know we're 73 episodes in on textbook weekly. Now I was already running out of material by episode three, but all the same I promise I'll try my best to satisfy. Just like your mum. In fact, uh Jason McCormick says something tells me Chris was having a bad day when he filmed this um like charming Jesus.
I honestly can't even remember it two weeks ago. I couldn't remember what happened two hours ago mike says just skip the tech and keep doing the comedy uh. Furthermore, I mean many words here that I skip both of those in favor of just talking a camera for 20 minutes, uh Dan says hey. Furthermore, I genuinely meant what I said. Furthermore, I've been enjoying your tech review since the become days.
Oh, cheers bud. Uh I mean yeah, it's been a good few years now it was about three years ago. I left for combo, so yeah. So that's time flies man. Although I'll tell you what just the other day, I stumbled across a video that I'd uploaded during my mobile choice days onto the YouTube, and that was proper cringe.
It was all like this is the HTC Mozart. It's got two megabytes of ram and a three megapixel camera. Clearly, the days before I used to loosen up for a video by down and half a bottle of scotch uh next up, no idea how to pronounce this so apologies, uh, FIA, p, uh says the launch film, with the shot to the head was the reason I immediately pre-ordered the word 2, and I'm a middle-aged gray head single mum beat that you youngans good on ya. There you go, who says that extreme violence doesn't sell smartphones. On the very same subject of that word's ii, bonkers launch video uh hell on earth.
Very apt username, says wow. Unless that phone is bullet and chuck proof, that is a crazy launch. Video yeah, I mean I guess that would have kind of at least made sense if he'd managed to like to deflect the bullet uh using his OnePlus word handset or something, although I'm not quite sure, gorilla glass. Victors are up to that sort of trauma. Uh here we go.
Uh ?tienne is back again with a follow-up on that nine eye injections story, uh that we never knew we needed. He says I have a rightists' British um, so they need to deposit a reservoir of steroids into my eyeball. Now and again, they actually inject steroids direct into your eyes. Now all I've got is just this image of two really beefcake eyeballs, like bursting out of your skull next up SST, says: hey Dr spurt sounds slightly less pervy than uncle spurt, Dr spur, I'm not sure if that does sound less dodgy. Actually, it just sounds like I'm a pervert with credentials.
Anyway, he continues. Uh I've been watching some retro tech videos this week and reminded me of the first two smartphones, the DA IIS and the scp-800 clunky as and manky resistive touch screens, ah Jesus Christ. Those resistive displays back in the day they were an absolute abomination. They were worse than a war crime. I mean I would struggle to think of any form of technology that has given me as much absolute rage as those things stab them to actually get them to bloody.
Do anything um already continues again uh. What was your first smartphone? He asks. Uh HTC magic was my very first smartphone one of the very first androids uh released 2009. I believe it was absolute classic three-inch monster with a good bit of trackball action. Can't beat it uh next up Andrea says: can you really trust a tech reviewer who chills his Chianti um? Oh, but it's even worse than Andre, because I've never actually drunk a Chianti, I'm not even sure, if that's how you pronounce it to be perfectly honest, 100, definitely more of an apple sours or a VK passion, fruit, kind of guy uh.
Next up, gush, says: where can we get a copy of the Boris book of excuses? Um, I mean to be fair. About 99 of that book would just say: blame it on immigrants. That's a perfect. Show, though, I actually should write that book. Definitely that's exactly the kind of stock and filler wanker that would make some a perfect bit of cash, and that might as well be me next up.
Jaded peanut butter says bollocks to the soda stream enema a bit of Mentos and diet. Coke right up the balloon knot is much better or so I've heard yeah pretty sure that would not be medically sanctioned at all. If it sounds like a death straight out of the saw movies or something you have two minutes to out the coke bottle, we inserted into your rectum, otherwise the mentos' tablet is released, and your bowls will explode into frothy chunks. Uh sticking with the subject of horrific ultraviolence Nate says an owl picking out someone's eyeball and in the socket should be a mortal combat fatality, um yeah great, like if Mortal Kombat introduced Harry Potter as a character that could actually work really, really well either that or that elf thing uh Bobby, I think he's called just strides onto screen and basically just mauls them to death with a hammer. I've only seen bits of the Harry Potter movies.
Admittedly, but I'd imagine that's exactly the kind of thing that Bobby would do right and that lad's definitely got hammer psycho written all over his bulb aside face next up. Youth says waiting for the Poco f3 gt and the x3 gt reviews well x2 gt earlier this week, so uh Monza hope you got a chance to watch that f3 gt, I believe, is India only at the moment. So I probably won't be reviewing that anytime soon, unless it happens to get released over here. An extra Paul Evans says the best magazines were the ones that gave us programs in basic, which we typed in laboriously only to have to wait a month for the bloody corrections to make the crap thing work. I mean Jesus Christ yeah.
I remember I must have been about sort of seven. Eight years old I had a ex spectrum, absolutely classic machine, of course, but yeah I got a copy of your Sinclair and yeah just spending literally an entire Sunday afternoon, typing out the reams of text in the back of that uh for a game of, I think it was just like hangman or snakes and ladders, or something and of course, yeah did it work. Did it bollocks, because these days, of course, if my kid has to wait more than about 20 seconds for a load and screen to bugger off in whatever game, she's playing, that's it she's done. She goes off to set fire to some furniture or something instead, uh next smartphone says yo uncle spurt. You need to create a YouTube channel for Mr Wang sock, uh, yeah, wank, sock spurt.
That sounds all kinds of wrong and I better meet this last one for the week because once again, massively over uh schedule as a balance, anime says you need to make friends with Paul Hilbert. He covers tech and you two look alike you're, both mad cat, booze love, an Englishman, and you've. Both got sock. Friends yeah! I would be a little concerned that, if me and Paul did some sort of video collaboration thing, that the viewers wouldn't be able to actually tell who was who and also probably the studio lights reflecting off our baldy scalps would probably just blind everyone, but anyway, massive thanks to everyone who commented uh two weeks ago, not just last week and apologies again for the break and all that shenanigans didn't get to your uh comments. Then uh.
Sorry, there were a lot of lovely comments, uh, so many good ones. Again, thanks to everyone who said, congratulations bring that reaching that bonkers uh subscriber number absolutely men's. I couldn't have done it, obviously, without every single one of you lovely fork and now there's just about enough time before I bugger off for a bowl of cheerios just to see uh what is next week. Let's have a look. It looks like a couple of big launches next week, so, for instance, uh Wednesday, the 11th uh in the afternoon Samsung Galaxy unpacked, so stay tuned for potentially bendy fold phones, uh, new, smartwatches, all kinds of shenanigans there and then hot on the heels of that honor is launching its new magic, three uh flagship smartphones on Thursday, the 12th uh so again, hopefully managed to get you a little of video action on the go for that and yes, I do promise next week I'll be back with a good bit expert weekly action.
So yes come and sit on my lap at noon. On Friday, the 13th, oh great, that's uh has got ominous written all over it and uh yeah. Please do uh smash your comments down below we'll try and get to as many of those as possible next week, depending on how much whiskey I've had and in the meantime, have yourselves a fan Abby Doris weekend. Thank you again for watching all this random bollocks and uh. That's it bye.
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