Humane Ai Pin Review: Vanguard Of A New Era

Hey folks! As promised in the video, including a few responses here from Humane co-founder Bethany Bongiorno: MESSAGING: "The messaging experience is definitely not full featured yet - and doesn't match your smartphone just yet given its maturity. We do have a good number of fixes coming very soon." OVERHEATING / DROPPING CALLS AFTER 30 MIN: "This should be hours. It can be impacted by thermal headroom at the start, other experiences running, laser usage during call and poor cellular connectivity. There are improvements here in the next release that will make where we are now much better." GENERAL AI RESPONSE ACCURACY: "Accuracy improvements will continue to be a priority and changes will be pushed to CosmOS every day and we will also be adding things like Agents in the next release which will expand capabilities of general web search in a way to help with some of these type of questions." CELLULAR RECEPTION: "The device’s antennas are built into the housing for optimal performance. That being said, the larger a device, the easier it is for the antenna to radiate, specifically at lower frequencies. The Ai Pin performs quite well, comparable to some smartphones in the mid and high band frequencies, and slightly worse than smartphones in low bands. We perform better than all smartwatches that are comparable in size that we measured." GENERAL: "We definitely know there are certain things that are not where we want them to be in 1.0, as with all first gen products, but we do have a lot of improvements that are getting pushed to Cosmos on the server every few days to improve them and have a lot of device side fixes and new features in our next release that we think will make things better. "

All these AI gadgets are the "this could have been an email" of the hardware world.

I don’t understand why these companies have gotten so comfortable putting out beta software/hardware out for sale. Very frustrating to buy a device with limited functionality only to receive the good ole “we’ll fix it eventually with an OTA”

"I refuse to talk to you through this shit device." Thanks for the great laugh this morning!

David Cogen said, “I refuse to talk to you through this sh*t device” 😂

This device feels like a late April's fool joke

What incredible build quality for manufactured e-waste. You know what else is neat? Smartwatches. Seriously, what's wrong with smartwatches? You're still gonna have to lug a phone around with this damned pin anyway.

No calendar support at launch is truly insane. Reading you your calendar is probably the top thing this pin would be useful for.

Who at Humane thought this product was ready for review?

I'm not even REMOTELY surprised that this entire review was one long Star Trek reference. 😉

A very grounded review with optimism for the device, but realism to acknowledge that 80-90% of us won’t buy this for various reasons. For me, the price + subscription combo is the dealbreaker. But hearing how much this thing gets wrong or the frustration of trying to do basic things. Definitely sounds like one would be better off waiting for a potential sequel device.

Cogen’s response is all I needed 😂

I'd still use my smartphone for everything. This is just novelty which I don't need. It's not solving any problem 🤷🏻‍♂️

Wow, this is why I watch your channel. By far the most raw and down to earth review on this new gadget I've seen.

"Review Devices need to be ready to be Reviewed" By Micheal Great man, A trustworth Big tech, Youtuber. All the time

Thank you for this magnificent review. I am canceling my order right now!

Best review I’ve seen on this! I felt my blood pressure rise from seeing your struggles!

That point of not wanting to be rescued from a phone but being interested in these gadgets because they are doing something new is a good way to put it. I've never felt addicted or shackled to my phone in a way these gadgets aim to fix so I've never been drawn to them in that way but I still like seeing them do new things and reinvent certain systems in novel ways.

Your review is very level headed, And I like how you don't entirely throw the idea under the bus while you still clearly bring across your criticisms of it. I feel the same sorta cautious optimism for this as type of thing

This would've been cool... 20 years ago