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A seven-hour Salt Lake delay opens MrMobile's 2026-27 travel bag

Michael Fisher's first tech-bag video in almost two years runs from SLC to the Snapdragon Summit on Maui and a San Francisco layover.

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

The Tech That Takes Me: What's In MrMobile's Bag? (2026-27)The Tech That Takes Me: What's In MrMobile's Bag? (2026-27)

Michael Fisher got stuck. A seven-hour delay at Salt Lake City International Airport, on his way to Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit, is where "The Tech That Takes Me: What's In MrMobile's Bag? (2026-27)" begins, and the description admits the idea came to him somewhere between waves of existential dread. It is the first of these travel-kit videos in almost two years, and his only upload of the week.

The bag is a phone reviewer's bag: a Galaxy Fold8, a Razr Ultra and an iPhone 18 Pro, a drawer's worth of earbuds, folding keyboards he calls a "pocket laptop," and a few odder items. The one viewers talk about most is a factory service remote he carries to switch off motion smoothing on hotel TVs. Some commenters admit they will think about it every time they check in, others remember the infrared blasters phones used to have, and plenty point to the earbuds riding an escalator rail and to the ending.

It passed 200,000 views in three days, well over a hundred thousand of them on day one, and it lifted the whole channel far above its usual daily pace. Behind it, the summer review of Sidephone, a de-Googled candybar phone with swappable keypads, is still finding readers two months on.

Among gadget channels of similar size, the louder weeks belong to Parker Burton and ETA PRIME, while MrMobile's subscriber count held steady at about 1.28 million.

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The videos drawing views on MrMobile [Michael Fisher] right now

The facts
Subscribers
1,280,000
Channel views, last 7 days
422,304
Videos published this week
1
Video published
September 30, 2026
Video views so far
200,534
Views on its first day
136,754

The numbers

Here is how MrMobile's week looks in figures.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels
Parker Burton
10,255,993
ETA PRIME
2,788,155
Max Tech
1,749,256
iFixit
1,637,797
Hardware Unboxed
1,433,367
Snazzy Labs
1,422,825
Matthew Gonzalez
423,933
MrMobile [Michael Fisher]
422,304
subscribers
1,280,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
262,977,733
views per day
230,275
typical day: 35,480
this week's videos (first-day views)
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
ETA PRIME
1,400,000
Tech Spurt
1,400,000
Parker Burton
1,380,000
Matthew Gonzalez
1,360,000
MrMobile [Michael Fisher]
1,280,000
iFixit
1,280,000
Snazzy Labs
1,270,000
Max Tech
1,270,000
Hardware Unboxed
1,170,000
As of October 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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