The Perfect Smartphone! (2013)

The video presents Marques Brownlee's imaginative exercise titled The Perfect Smartphone! (2013), where he constructs a hypothetical flagship by blending design cues from multiple popular phones of the era. He centers the Lumia 1020’s renowned camera as the core inspiration and explains that the camera quality is what initially drew him into the concept, even if Windows Phone 8 wasn’t his preferred platform. From there, he outlines a Frankenstein-style blueprint: a unibody HTC One-inspired chassis in matte black with front-facing boom speakers, plus an external storage option via an SD card slot. He swaps the camera for Nok ia Lumia 1020’s 41‑megapixel sensor, adds the Oppo Find 5 display for a superb 5-inch 1080p panel, and speculates on top-tier internals around the Snapdragon 800 era with 2 to 3 GB of RAM. In the deeper design section, he assigns Motorola to optimize the battery life, citing the Droid Razr Max and Moto X as benchmarks for longevity and efficiency. He also imagines a Google Play edition style distribution, with pure stock Android and no carrier bloat, pricing the device similarly to a Nexus device and offering fast direct-to-consumer availability. The video concludes by inviting viewers to contribute their own dream configurations in the comments, highlighting a communal, iterative approach to imagined hardware that fans could compare and rate. He signals forthcoming coverage of real devices in the near future, indicating that the smartphone landscape in 2013 would be packed with compelling releases and continued discussion. The overall tone blends enthusiasm for high-end photography with playful speculation about what a perfect phone could look like if constraints of brand, OS, and price were set aside.

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