Why the Samsung S10 plus is the best smartphone for vlogging

Hi and welcome to today's video. So today

I want to talk about the Samsung Galaxy

S10 Plus. Oops, that's my analytics.

Okay, so today I want to talk about the

Samsung S10 Plus, mainly the camera,

and I want to talk about why it's the, in

my opinion, the best vlogging camera if

you're a YouTuber and you make videos.

Then, and you want to make your videos

with a smartphone, then the best

smartphone that I could possibly recommend

after trying out quite a lot of

smartphones— I've tried out the iPhone X,

the iPhone 4, I've tried out the Samsung

S6, LG G5, and this is my latest phone,

the Samsung S10 Plus. And the main reason

why I think the S10 Plus is the best

camera that best smartphone camera when it

comes to making videos for YouTube is

mainly because it has this wide-angle

lens. So there's 3 settings for different

angles. First, you have the zoom up,

zoom close-up angle, which is quite

close to things. I think you can do macro

shots as well. And then there's standard

focal length, and And then there's wide

angle, which is, which is the best thing

about the phone. And the reason why you

want a wide angle lens when you're making

YouTube videos is because if you're

vlogging and you're showing people your

surroundings, you're showing them places

maybe inside of your house, inside of a

car, you really want a wide angle lens so

you can show people more things. Look at

the difference between standard phone

much, you can just see my hand. But then

if I switch to wide angle, you can see so

much more. You can see my hand, you can

see the clock, you can see more of the

table. And for this feature alone,

you really need something like this. Now

there's other phones coming into the

market, Android phones, which also have

wide-angle lenses. I think LG were the

first to do it. I got the LG G5 2016,

and the only reason I got that was because

it had a wide-angle lens, and at the time

it was the only phone, the only smartphone

which had a wide-angle lens. Back then,

other phones weren't really doing

wide-angle lenses. It's only been recently

that the major smartphone companies like

Samsung and— what are the

other ones— Huawei, the big flagship

companies, it's only been recently that

they've started putting wide-angle lenses

onto their flagship phones. And I've

always wondered, why didn't they just

start putting wide-angle lenses on their

phones earlier? Didn't they think that

people would like to have a wide-angle

lens? Smartphones started to have dual

lenses and they didn't put wide-angle

lenses on it. They put the standard lens

and they put this zoom lens on it. It's

just so weird that they decided to go for

a zoom lens instead of a wide-angle lens.

But nowadays, smartphones Smartphones are

putting lots of lenses onto the back of

phones. The S10 Plus has 1, 2, 3— this

is not a lens. I don't think this is a

lens. I'm not sure what this is. I think

it's to scan your heartbeat. Anyway,

modern-day smartphones are putting more

than one lenses onto the back of the

phones, and at the beginning they were

only putting a standard lens and a

portrait lens. No wide-angle lens. But

nowadays there's triple lenses on most

cameras, and they're finally putting

wide-angle lenses onto smartphones, which

is great. Took them long enough. I was

saying, why didn't they do this? Why

didn't they start putting wide-angle

lenses on their phones back in 2016 like

LG were doing? But now Samsung and all the

other companies are finally catching on to

the gravy train finally putting wide-angle

lenses onto their flagship phones, and I'm

thinking to myself, bloody hell, took them

long enough. Finally, now I can make

wide-angle lens vlogs on my phone without

having to use my LG G5, which, don't get

me wrong, it's a good phone. It's a good

phone, but it's a bit old. My LG G5 lasted

me for over 2 years.

And it was getting really slow and it was

starting to break. The fingerprint

scanning button didn't work anymore. The

only way I could charge— recharge, I mean

reset the phone was by taking the battery

out and plugging it back in. It was just a

bit of a bit of a hassle having to do all

that, and I wanted to get a new phone. I

didn't really want to get the LG G6 or G7,

and I was so happy to find out that

Samsung finally started putting wide-angle

lenses onto their flagships because I.

Actually prefer Samsung phones over other

phones. So the other great thing

about using a smartphone with a wide-angle

lens for vlogging is, and this is

something that you can't really do on a

DSLR or a camera, you can only do this on

Android phones for some reason. Even on

Apple phones, Apple smartphones, when

you're trying to record a video all you

get are 2 buttons. Look, let me show you

quickly. So when you're making a video

on your iPhone like this,

you get the record button and stop

recording. That's it. Well, you also get

this other button here which takes a

photo. So let's say you're filming for

your video and you want to stop— you

want to stop recording, but there's no

pause button. So you have to stop

recording and then wait until you want to

record again. And then yeah, that works,

but the problem is you're going to end up

with 100,000 different files for

all of the little clips of videos that

you've taken. The great thing about the

Samsung S10+ is you don't have that

problem. Watch. You press the record

button, and what's this here? What's that

little button? It's a pause button.

Great, great, great function to have. Let

me explain why. Because when you're making

a vlog, you're not always going to have

interesting things to say or to show. So

instead of just filming all the rubbish,

you want to pause. So let's say, oh,

there's something interesting, my hand,

and you're filming it, filming it,

filming it, it goes away. What are you

gonna do? Well, you press the pause

button, pauses recording, and then the

interesting thing comes back. Oh, you just

resume recording like that, and it goes

away, you stop recording. And that way you

don't end up with 100 billion little short

clips of videos that you have to stitch

together. You've got it all in one video,

so that's great. You can't do that on the

iPhone. 10, because for some reason Apple

doesn't like recording, and they don't

like the pause button when you're

recording video for some reason. I don't

know why, because on most Android phones

there's a pause record button and it's

really useful. And that is one of the main

reasons why I love making videos on

the S10 Plus, and it's one of the main

reasons why I dislike recording on my

iPhone X. The other reason is the

microphone placement. Let me show you

where the microphone placement is on my

iPhone X. Um,

so there's quite a few microphones on the

iPhone X. There's one at the bottom which

is used for phone calls, and there's one

built in here. You can't see it, but it's

inside of the speaker grill. And there's

one here, you can see it. There's a very

visible hole right there,

and the iPhone switches which microphone

you're using depending on which camera

you're using. So if you're taking a phone

call, obviously it's going to use the one

at the bottom. If you're taking a video

using the front-facing camera, then it's

going to use the microphone that's facing

towards you, which makes sense because if

you're making a video showing your face

you want it to pick up your voice. Now the

problem comes when you want to make a

video using the rear camera like this.

So let's say I want to make a video

filming the clock and I want to do some

narration. Well, the microphone is on the

other side of the phone,

so your voice is coming from this side but

the microphone is on the other side, so

the actual screen The body of the phone is

blocking the microphone. So what you're

going to get is, you're going to get

really muffly sounded sounding audio. So

let me show you. Okay, so let's do some

testing. This is a clock. Blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah. So let me show you

that file. It's going to sound really bad.

This is a clock. Blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah. So let me, let

me play it one more time.

So let's do some testing. This is a clock,

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. So let

me— you see, that didn't sound very good,

and that's because when it comes to the

microphone placement, Apple decided to put

it here so they pick up the sound that's

coming from in front of you, what you're

filming, but they didn't consider that

maybe you want to do some talking and you

want your voice to be heard. They didn't

think about that, did they? Well, luckily

Samsung did, and they very wisely, they

placed the microphone hole here at the

side. There's no microphone here, there's

no microphone on the front, and the

microphone placement on the side here

picks up audio coming from both sides

equally perfectly well. Let me give you an

example. We'll do the same test.

Okay, so here is a video test of the

clock, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah. Okay, so let me play that

back to you, and I'll guarantee that the

audio will sound crisp and clear, unlike

the iPhone X audio that I just played. So

let's play it. Okay, so here is a video

test of the clock. Blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah. You see how much

clearer that sounded compared to the

iPhone X? Let me play it to you side by

side. So this is the iPhone X video audio

check. So let's do some testing.

This is a clock. Blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah. And this is the Samsung S10

Plus. It's a video test of the clock.

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah. So I think it's pretty clear

which sounds better. The Samsung S10 Plus

sounds 100 billion times better, and

that's just because of a simple placement

change in the placement of the microphone,

which Apple should have also placed the

microphone at the top. I don't know why

they didn't. Look, Apple, just put the

microphone here instead of on the back so

that I can film stuff and narrate and have

good audio. It's not really much, it's not

a huge thing to be asking for. So when

it comes to making YouTube videos, which

is my job basically, I have several other

channels, I will easily choose the Samsung

S10+ for vlogging for 3, I guess,

3 main reasons: the pause button during

recording, not available on the iPhone,

wide-angle lens not available on the

iPhone, and the simple placement of the

microphone which is just here. Now when

the iPhone 11 comes out,

there will be a wide-angle lens. I've seen

the, the iPhone 11 leaked images of

what it's going to look like, and there's

going to be a tri-triple lens, and I'm

guessing that one of them is going to be

the wide-angle lens I'm not sure if Apple

are going to make the same mistake with

the microphone placement. Maybe they're

going to put the microphone here again,

which would be very stupid of them. I

really hope they change their mind and put

the microphone here. And I'm guessing that

they won't put a pause button because they

never do. And for that reason, I probably

won't be using the iPhone 11 for making

videos. Anyway, I hope this video

convinced you that the Samsung S10+ is

superior when it comes to making videos

for YouTube. And I hope you enjoyed this

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