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do you long for the days when your phone would last for a week on a single charge

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well do we ever have the solution for you introducing the Linus tech tips

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battery expander just slap it on strap it on

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plug it in and

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enjoy yeah

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that's pretty ridiculous isn't it and yet here we are 11 years after the

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introduction of the original iphone and

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pretty much this legitimately is

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basically the solution being pitched both by apple and by third parties to

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address their shoddy a whole day asterisk as long as you

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don't use it too much battery life has anyone considered that there might

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be a better way you know maybe we could i i don't know just put a bigger battery

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in the phone in the first place well that is exactly what eulephone did

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the power 5 is an Android smartphone

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with 5 times the battery capacity of the

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latest iphone 10s and they claim this

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thing can last for a week between charges

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look at it i might just believe them

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and you know what else i'd believe that i'm about to tell you about the

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trident z royal series ddr4 from g-skill

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it features a polished aluminum heat spreader that's available in both gold

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or silver and a crystalline light bar that radiates beautiful RGB check it out

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at the link below

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13 000 milliamp hours

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that's the advertised capacity of the power 5 and in a phone that is utterly

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massive like to put that in perspective the latest iphone 10s battery is 2600

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milliamp hours the pixel 3 xl weighs in

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slightly thicker at 3 400 milliamp hours

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and even the note 9 which samsung advertises as all day has a mere 4 000

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milliamp hour battery in it that puts the power 5 at five times 3.8 and

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3.25 times larger capacity than these

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phones respectively that's a lot of juice it really is basically like

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carrying around a regular phone and a pretty beefy battery pack which

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translates to some interesting results but let's talk a bit about the rest of

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the phone first it's pretty much your standard affair budget offshore Android

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device with a six inch 1080p screen that manages to be

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unremarkable both in terms of image quality and feel a relatively slow eight

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core CPU somewhere around the level of a one plus three and north american

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cellular band support that's a little bit limited as for aesthetics some

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people are probably actually gonna quite

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like this but i think it suffers from kind of a dated

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appearance Jake got lg g4 vibes from the back and as for me i'm reminded of those

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leather cases that people used to get for their really old brick phones you

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know like the really old ones the ones with the little like flip out mouthpiece

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and the antenna that comes up brandon do you see that at all yeah right yuck

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other than that it doesn't really seem like anything special that is until you

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pick the thing up the sheer girth and

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more notably the weight of it is like nothing that i've experienced in a

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modern phone again we need context for

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this the power 5 is exactly twice as

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thick as the pixel 3 xl and the phone weighs almost

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three-quarters of a pound that is 330

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grams for the metric folks out there like it's kind of funny because on the

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one hand it will be actually impossible

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for many people to operate one-handed and it's not even top-heavy it just kind

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of feels like it because there is so much weight

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hanging off the top of your hand on the other hand though it actually

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gives it sort of a like premium feel that you wouldn't expect

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from a 250 smartphone that and if you got in a fight like

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you hit someone put this in your head no i'm serious

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the speakers or i should say speaker there's just one are what i would

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describe as usable unless you listen to something decent

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first and realize how much you're missing the dual front and rear cameras

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are actually not the worst thing ever but they use a sony sensor from 2015 so

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that should give you some idea of the era of smartphone camera quality to

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expect it's a far cry from a pixel 3 but honestly would probably be fine for most

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people that is unlike the fingerprint sensor

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which only seems to work a fraction of the time no matter how many times we

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tried to set it up and even with all five fingerprint slots and software used

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by the same finger with that said at least when it does

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work you are in for a treat just kidding it's really slow but to be

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honest i think a lot of people could probably make those compromises for the

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added stamina that this phone affords if that's important to them like let's say

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you're the kind of person who regularly flies between washington dc and moscow

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for work even if you were to watch videos during that entire 12 or 13 hour travel time

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the eulophone wouldn't break a sweat during our testing it lasted for a

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staggering 31 and a half hours of

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continuous watching youtube videos

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remember that's with wi-fi active

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by comparison the pixel 3 xl slummed it

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with just under 14 hours and hey the power 5 even supports

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glonass russia's version of gps so you won't get lost while you're over there

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okay but how about something a little more indicative of regular phone use

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let's say a combined workload of web browsing photo and video editing writing

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and data manipulation well pc mark's work 2.0 benchmark hits the phone with

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this sort of mishmash of common workloads without any standby time in

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between and again the eulophone impresses with 3.6 times the effective

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battery life of google's latest and greatest so with some quick napkin math

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here let's say you know four hours of that kind of load per day you would end

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up with more than nine days of battery life like obviously

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you'd still have some standby usage but to say that a week of battery life on

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this thing is possible would actually be pretty safe

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alright now let's talk about gaming

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imagine for a moment playing a mobile game on your phone

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literally all day going to sleep

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then doing the same thing all the next day without having to plug

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in that's possible and then at the opposite end of the scale what about

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going on a week-long backcountry camping trip using just your phone for

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navigation like the possibilities that this thing

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unlocks are freaking bananas

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so much so that i actually kind of wondered if the thing would even finish

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charging overnight but it actually doesn't take that long so the included

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wall board here is spec for their own style of quick charging with a slightly

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odd although oneplus has a similar scheme five volt five amp output that

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juices the phone from zero to a hundred percent in a rated two and a half hours

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although your mileage may vary slightly

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so bottom line yeah we know battery life isn't a problem for everyone you might

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have a place to plug in at your desk or in the car or on the plane and honestly

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speaking for how much heavier this phone is it might actually be more convenient

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for folks who don't want to get their phone ARM all like jacked to just carry

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a battery bank in their purse or backpack or whatever but we'll let you

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guys be the judge of that in fact we'll let you guys be the judge of what the

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best way forward is in general leave a comment is the convenience here

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worth the compromise should we stick to the status quo or should we maybe try

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and find a middle ground like i personally have wanted for a long time

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to see a 6 000 or 7 000 milliamp hour

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phone with like an endurance edition from

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a tier one manufacturer like samsung or apple or google

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am i ever gonna get that probably not

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