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all right well i don't always

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uh chill on the weekends but when i do

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i'm always bound to end up working on a video

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kids are being kind of loud okay let's take this outside so this thing

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just arrived at the office i'm actually supposed to be going camping today but

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i'm gonna have to see i've got all my camping supplies

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that uh maybe i can actually maybe i can use

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here to somehow facilitate this video ah

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yes here we go so

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i was packing to head over to the campsite when

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uh yeah that seems

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oh no yeah that'll go there

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when someone messaged me from the office to let me know that the vivo next just

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arrived complete with its product review guide which basically has

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all the information that i have about this phone because i haven't really been

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following it other than

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that i know that this is the fully

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bezel-less phone that vivo has been working on slash teased over the last

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little while and another thing that i know is from having talked to at least one other

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phone manufacturer the original idea behind this was that it was only going

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to be a concept at least that was their understanding of

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it but then vivo turned around and

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actually produced the thing

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so i mean yeah initial impressions here this is nice this is something that i've

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seen more with the chinese brands than with the uh western ones it actually

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comes with a like a thin plastic body protector so you can take that off if

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you want but it doesn't appear to be designed such that you're you have to

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take it off so you can leave that on there until you know dbrand decides

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whether or not they're going to support it with a skin or whatever the case may be

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uh at the top we've got a headphone jack

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that's nice to see i'm surprised they managed to do a full body and a

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headphone jack and then this right here is the little

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trap door that hides the selfie camera because when the entire front of the

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phone

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is an uninterrupted display there's no room to put like a camera or

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uh face id sensor or anything like that

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and this is really impressive okay so this button let's hold on let's

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just go ahead and unlock it oh wow they sent the uh they sent the review samples

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like kind of pre-set up i guess uh i wonder if they're taking these back

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i'm not sure so we've got an ai button over here but that doesn't seem to do

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anything at the moment spec wise right that's notable so this is using qualcomm

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snapdragon 845 processor it's got eight gigs of RAM this particular one has 256

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gigs of rom so this is basically completely maxed out in every way but

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the the notable thing here is it's using the ai engine version of the snapdragon

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845 so i haven't actually seen a phone that's using this variant

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of that particular processor yet so one of the things that phone manufacturers

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are really pushing um when they've got this ai tech built

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into their chip so this is true of honor with their

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chiron processors and uh who was it

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ah oh right i think it was honor too

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with the honor 10 where they were using an ai version of a

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600 series snapdragon don't quote me on that one but what they're mostly using

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it for is battery life optimization so maybe we can find some settings in here

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i'm not actually that familiar with vivo's power consumption ranking

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interesting okay that's kind of neat i'm not that familiar with vivo's Android

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skin and then the other thing is in the camera

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so this is cool something we're seeing more and more of so uh oneplus supports

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this on the oneplus 6 i've seen it on another phone that i can't talk about

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yet and then i'm also seeing it here but i actually kind of like vivo's approach

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so gesture-based navigation it's on the iphone 10 as well obviously

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for your back button you just swipe up the one side um i'm

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sorry i have no idea for home you swipe up the middle and then again just like

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the iphone 10 you swipe up and hold if you want to get to the multitask

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interface but what i like here is that they've gone and they've put these three

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subtle lines here so that there's no confusion about it but you still get

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pretty much the full screen experience all right now i brought a bunch of

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phones out can you see okay like can you even see what's on the screen okay cool

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so ed actually drove to my house to help me shoot this so i brought a bunch of

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phones out we've got the samsung galaxy s9 which i'd say is sort of the

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the last of the very thin bezel but not

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entirely bezel-less phones at this point now that we've seen the industry trend

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going the way that it is i've got a pixel 2 xl which i apparently didn't

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boot up before we started yeah yeah the bootloader's unlocked i

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know whatever and then just for lulls i've got this

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budget phone that i'm actually working on a review of so this is the alcatel 3v

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and what's interesting to me about this one is that it actually has

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not that far off of a screen to body ratio compared to something like a pixel

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2 xl so even the budget phones are

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really making up a lot of ground compared to what would have been a

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flagship premium device like what six months ago

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it's actually amazing i was having lunch with luke yesterday and he pulled out

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his pixel xl his pixel 1 xl

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and he put it up to me to show me something

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and i thought that he was showing me a screenshot

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because it looked like sort of the screen of a phone within a

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frame and it took me about three heartbeats to realize that no phones

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just had bezels like that so it's one of those funny things like

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upgrading to an SSD where you don't necessarily put in an SSD and go

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wow my computer sure faster but then you take it away and you go wow

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how did i ever live with this and i mean okay it's a little less extreme than an

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SSD but it is one of those things that you definitely notice after the fact

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so all right pixel 2 xl not exceptional

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galaxy s9 uh at a different angle yeah sure here why

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don't we come over here can you see it a little better all right let's go ahead and bring up a

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browser so that we've got something that's a little bit higher contrast so

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galaxy s9 with the edge edge to edge display does a pretty darn good job now

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let's go ahead and pull up the new vivo phone

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for comparison here it is it's really heavy wow

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that is pretty incredible

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so one of the little tricks that they've used is you can see how small the chin

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bar is that was something that again my understanding was that we weren't going

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to see on a non-apple device for a while

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so what apple did in order to get the chin

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bar of the iphone 10 so small was they actually folded some of the electronics

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that are tied into the screen under it

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using a flexible OLED display so

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you can see here that oh man i am totally going to drop one of these if i

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keep this up are they all unlocked there we go so you

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can see here that apple still has the

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skinniest bottom bezel compared to the s9 and even to this full screen one so

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actually it no yeah okay thank you so actually it looks like no apple's patent

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still hasn't patent or it might not be a patent it might just be an exclusivity

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deal on the completely like folding

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underneath electronics hasn't run out yet but

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other manufacturers are getting pretty darn close i guess that's why we've got

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a slightly bigger chin on it than the

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other bezels the other ones are all pretty much equal though

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now i'm probably going to follow this up with a full review actually you guys can

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let me know if you want to see that or if you're just like actually you know what i don't care who cares about vivo

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then i guess you can feel free to leave a comment with that too but uh

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one thing i do want to do before i end this sort of one take

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classic unboxing is i do want to take a couple pictures just to see

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where we're at here iphone 10 is probably a good point of comparison

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these are such good conditions it's an overcast day that it's not really uh

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it's not really going to be that challenging for either of them you can see there's a fair bit of like fisheye

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effect in the lens there's more distortion than i would necessarily

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expect even on a cell phone camera

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so here there's some but apple's either correcting for it or they've got a

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slightly less wide angle lens looks like it is a yeah it is actually a

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touch less wide that's why we're getting a little bit of that fisheye effect also

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colors look pretty warm

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uh yeah sure whatever

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try making your photos beautiful what are you saying

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ouch

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oh uh wow that is actually

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okay now obviously i'm not looking at it side by

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side next to anything else but uh nope yeah i am not impressed with

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the amount of detail on that front shooter so far

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hmm all right whoever's calling me not right now

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but look at that i mean it is like it is like just holding a

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window into something like to a so much greater degree

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than the s9 that i'm pretty blown away

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right now like do you remember those digital picture frames that they would sell at

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the best buy and you know they were like 45 bucks or whatever and you were just

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like yeah this is kind of a cool concept

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except that they're like 60 bezel and then they've got like this

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little tiny screen in the middle of them this is like the opposite experience of

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that that is unreal here i'll get i'll get

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you in the shade so you can like so you can actually see can you see better now

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screen turned up that's crazy hey

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pretty good man like particularly for something like playing games watching

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movies actually that's a good idea why don't we just fire up uh

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oh it's a chinese phone i'm willing to bet it doesn't even come with youtube

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of course not no play store no youtube that's what i get for just you know

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starting but fortunately i've got baidu and tencent and taobao

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so okay that might have to wait for the full review i guess i'm probably going

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to have to do that but then the next thing i want to do is

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i want to see that selfie camera pop up

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look at it go oh wow

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hey ed that is that's actually

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far from the worst selfie cam i've actually seen

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i mean yeah it doesn't look great but that's a very is there a sound effect

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okay now hold on there is

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are you can you hear that here here here here

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sounds like like a space age like freaking

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i don't think that's entirely actually the uh the motor noise

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but uh it's pretty good that's pretty cool uh oh so you make it go down just

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by like going somewhere else so if we look back at this picture

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give it a second

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there it goes that is pretty cool now i mean i have my

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doubts about the durability of a mechanism like this but i will say to

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vivo's credit it's pretty nice that they've managed to

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integrate the uh rear camera into the regular rear of the phone and that they

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don't have a little thing that pops up for that because i mean personally i use

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that a lot more than i use the front one and so my concern about it immediately

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breaking is uh significantly reduced the other big cool piece of tech in this

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phone is it's got a built-in um

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in-screen fingerprint reader so i'm actually going to turn the display off

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so we can try and get a look at where it is on the x21 if you looked at it

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just right you were kind of able to find it

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but it actually looks like they've improved it yet again they're iterating

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really fast on these and i can't see it at all now

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that's incredible yeah yeah it's on screen so here we'll

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just set one up uh hold on a second oh

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i don't know if it has a oh man

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blah blah blah input methods needs to connect to the internet okay that's okay

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if you guys have seen the x21 video you've seen how it works

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but uh

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yeah no i cannot see it at all

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so i think that's pretty much it it's heavy

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really heavy the screen looks absolutely incredible

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initial impressions of the camera are not great

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but there's plenty of time for me to you know try it under different conditions

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and have it really impress me and i don't know anything about pricing

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yet so stay tuned for the full review of the

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vivo nex

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subscribe do i do an outro with these classic unboxings

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i don't know i just cut it