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Linus tech tips at ces 2019 is brought to you by dbrand the dbrand grip case

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and prism screen protector are available at the link in the video description i'm

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finally on hands with the nubia x and i gotta say i am really impressed by a lot

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of aspects of this device given that this is from a brand that i've personally never actually been hands-on

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with before so everyone's got a different sort of

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concept for how we move towards an all-screen phone whether it's a foldable

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device or a pop-up selfie camera or facial recognition scanner or whatever

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the case may be their solution is the one that i actually personally think

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makes the most sense with the technology we have today they just went and put an

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OLED display on the back of the phone so instead of having to have a dedicated

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selfie camera at all you just use your rear camera in order to take a selfie

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you go ahead and hit that selfie button and boom now you're on the OLED screen

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on the back oh i'm in pretty mode you know what i'm gonna go i'm gonna go full

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not pretty yeah we all knew that wasn't gonna be pretty anyway

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then you go ahead flip it back around and there it is now the cool thing is

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that it would have been a lot of added cost to put a 5.1 inch OLED display on

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the back of the phone just for the sake of taking selfies but they've actually

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built some really interesting other functionality into it as well

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if you were into it for whatever reason you can actually switch to it and use it

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as the primary display of the phone just by flipping it around you can

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configure that to not happen automatically though if you want so you can put a add a gesture where you just

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press these two buttons and it'll switch it around or you can actually set it up

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instead of in mirror mode to be in a mode that they're calling multi-tasking

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mode so obviously this is a bad example but i went to launch a game and i think

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it was looking for a data connection it didn't work it's okay don't oh hey it

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did work so here you can have a game running on your primary screen and then

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you can flip it back over and go yeah i got to reply to a quick message but you

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don't actually have to do that drag down minimize your game whole thing and you

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could use it for really like any number of things that is an absolutely

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incredible idea another thing that you can do is you can configure it as an

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additional input so you can set zones here that you can use as for example

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this is also a gaming application as triggers for firing a weapon or whatever

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the case may be that's pretty neat too

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so as shocking as this feels to me

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it's actually more than just a gimmick as far as i can

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tell now i'm not crazy impressed with the quality of the rear camera so we're

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not necessarily solving the problem of taking the best selfies ever by putting

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the screen on the back of this particular phone but the overall fit and

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finish of this thing is just surprisingly good and the specs are

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great too so snapdragon 845 up to eight gigs of RAM uh 512 gigs of storage uh

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they're quoting six hours of screen time six hours of continuous use with a 3800

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milliamp hour battery yeah that's right a 3800 milliamp hour battery and there's

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even one more cool thing that is kind of up oh why did nobody else ever think of

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this thing you look at the front you go okay there's no room for a fingerprint

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sensor there obviously it's not in screen unfortunately at this time you

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look at the back and you can go oh well there's no fingerprint sensor there

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either so they've done a side fingerprint sensor like we've seen i

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mean sony's done that in the past that's not particularly new but this is new

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they've put it on both sides so i initially thought oh it's ambidextrous i

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can do it this way or this way and use my thumb every time but what they're

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actually using it for is to increase the security of the device so it now checks

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not just one fingerprint but two fingerprints so that you can instead of

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having a what is it whatever it is like one in a million or one in a hundred

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thousand or whatever the chances are of an accidental fingerprint match

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now it's checking two fingerprints increasing the device's security

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pretty freaking sick finally we've got a feature that's

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less futuristic and more of a throwback but definitely one i'm happy to see

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it's got an ir blaster on it hell yeah so there's going to be the

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guys that are like huh what's that who cares and then there's going to be guys

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that are like yeah ir blasters yeah it's

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amazing so if you're into it you're into it and if you're not you're not and i

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compared to the foldable phone earlier it's like fidget

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