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I thought about doing a prank of being like there's nothing here. But that I

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feel like that's probably been so overdone and maybe that's the intro is

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me just talking about what intro to do. In my hands is the Nothing 4A. Nothing's

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newest entry-level budget phone. Whatever term you want to use, but this

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bad boy starts at a pretty affordable price and as you'll find out is a bit

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better than last year's. Well, which color should we do? Let's do I think the

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blue. We're going to do something fancy.

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Welcome to nothing. What are you talking about? There's something, right? Okay.

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Okay. We got open it up on the top part here. Hey, it comes with a little

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plastic case. That's kind of nice. As well as a USBC cable, which appears to

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be How long is this? Yeah, about 3 ft.

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Not the longest cables we've seen with phones, but at least they're still giving you a cable. The bare minimum

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nowadays. A bunch of propaganda, especially for the EU. And then finally,

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the phone itself. Like nice little paper wrapping.

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Oh, okay. Picking the blue was the right choice. Oh, this is like a flexi case. I

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thought it was more of like a plastic more brittle case. Kind of just fun to

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play with. I just Let's take an exterior tour of the phone first. So, on our

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right side here, you've got your power button and your volume rocker. On the

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very bottom, you've got a USBC 2.0 port, and you've got your SIM card tray there

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as well. And on the left side, they have one more button here, which they call the essential button. I think by

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default, you can just tap it and it takes a screenshot, but we'll play with

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that a little bit later once we get the phone on. On the top, looks like you've

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just got your microphone/ speaker. And

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other than that, the real shining part about the phone is the back. Man, woo,

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look how pretty that is. One thing that was very controversial amongst people

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here, they changed how the light bars work on the back. If you remember from

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some previous Nothing phones, they kind of had more options that were like

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around the camera bump. Now it looks like it's these How many squares is

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that? 1 2 3 4 5 6 Seven. Sorry, it's the

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seven squares along the side here, and that does the similar functions as the

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light bar before. It's kind of nice that they include just a clear rubber case,

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so at least you can still see which color you picked. Based on this type of

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material, it'll probably offer a tiny bit of drop protection. I wouldn't uh

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you know yeet it though. And gh it kind of looks gross when you get it covered

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in fingerprints. Oh my gosh. And it looks like they've also pre-applied a

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screen protector. I see a little lip that I could peel from there. That's

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very nice to be included, especially on like an entry-level budget phone. As for

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the rest of the specs of the phone, it remains in line with some other budget

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phones. It starts at 128 GB of storage with 8 GB of RAM. Or you could buy the

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256 gigs of storage and 12 gigs of RAM. And the CPU in this thing is a

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Snapdragon 7S Gen 4, which is a slightly

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different one than last year's 3A phone. And one of the bigger things that

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they've upgraded from last year is the type of glass on the front. Last year it

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was called Panda Glass, and this year they've gone to a Corning Gorilla Glass,

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which is a bit more standard in the phone space. But we're going to power

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this up and we're going to see exactly what nothing has to offer. Maybe they

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have something. Sorry. Okay. Sorry. Apparently, this phone wasn't fully set

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up by Labs. I have to switch to the the white nothing phone. That's fine. All

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righty. And we are in brightness test.

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That is very bright. My god. I mean,

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that is one of their claims that they are very proudly boasting on this

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display. I'm going to turn it back down so you guys can actually see anything.

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But they claimed a peak brightness of 4500

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nits. We'll get into that a little bit later. They also said that their outdoor

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brightness is about 1,600 nits and their typical brightness is 800 nits. Again,

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we'll have those results a little bit later because nothing has always boasted

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that their absolute peak brightness is crazy. Last year's 3A was 3,000 nits. To

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go from 30,000 to 4500 is crazy if they

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hit it. As for the rest of the screen specs, it is a 6.78 inch screen with a

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resolution of 1224 by 2720, which is

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actually a pretty high PPI/resolution

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display we've seen. It's not quite the highest we have. I know the S26 Ultra

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was like a 1440p screen. That was also like three times the price of this. So,

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this is pretty good for this price. As for our refresh rate, it can go down to

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30 Hz and up to 120. Typically, that'll be dynamic for maybe a type of game

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you're playing or if it's in like a low power setting, you can clock all the way

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down to 30 Hz, which again, for a budget entry phone, if you're wanting 120 Hz, I

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think that's fantastic. I had kind of a hot take with my 17e unboxing where I

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said 120 on budget seems weird, but

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there are options out there for people who want it. But with how bright it was,

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we need to watch a YouTube video first. That's the first thing we're going to

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do. And I need to connect to the internet. At full brightness, it looks

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really good for the price of the phone. But you can tell this is a budget

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display. It's an LTPS flexible AMOLED compared to their last year's just

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flexible AMOLED, but it looks really dark. It looks good quality, but again,

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I feel like if you wanted an actual good brightness, you have to crank that

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brightness up. And then you're like, "Yeah, this is a good-looking screen." But again, like I said, I would worry

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about battery life. I guess while I was bringing up the brightness about that

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video, I should go over our Labs results for brightness. So, while we didn't hit

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their peak brightness claim of the 4500 nits, we did get specific instructions

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from Nothing about how to hit it, and we still couldn't hit it. We have been able

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to hit peak brightness on like past nothing phones, but it's always been an

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insanely specific test. Realistically, it's definitely a marketing push thing

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to just say that they can hit this brightness versus a realworld scenario

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this in the mic? >> Button clicking. >> Yeah, I'm not clicking it.

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>> Wait, what? >> I'm rubbing my finger over the button. It's like the tolerance is loose on the

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button. I like brushed my finger over it and I thought I clicked it because I

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heard it and you guys can hear it, too. I'm not clicking the button. I don't

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know if it's the same on the other ones. Yeah, it's such a minor detail, but like

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caught me off guard, that's for sure. Let's listen to Crab Rave. Enough about

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the buttons. Volume. We got to start with the max. That's what I usually

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start with.

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Those are pretty poor. Uh my my initial

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impression was like not good when I heard that first little ramp up in the

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music. They're a lot quieter than other

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phones, too. It's not as loud as I've heard on some other phones, but the

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quality was much worse as well.

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It's this part, that snare there. That snare is really bad. Sounds like sand.

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Let me let me turn the volume down. Sometimes by going like 50% volume or

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something, you can kind of get rid of those weird crisps or sand sounds, but

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the snare sounds a lot better now at 50% volume.

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It sounds a lot better at 50% volume. I will say it's still quieter than some

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other phones we've tested at 50% volume. So, I don't know. Maybe it's not much of

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like a showing friends videos phone, right? You're not going to be like,

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"Hey, everyone listen to this." One thing you might be doing with your

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friends, though, taking lots of photos. So, let's take some quick photos here.

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As for the camera specs themselves, we've got a couple cameras on the back

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here. The main one is a 50 megapixel Samsung sensor. The periscope camera is

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also a 50 megapixel Samsung sensor, and then the last ultrawide camera is an 8

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megapixel Samsung sensor. And as for the front-facing selfie cam, it is a 32

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megapixel, also Samsung sensor. Starting to notice a pattern here. That selfie

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camera might be controversial to you depending on if you like the whole punch

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style look or a whole notch bar or whatever, but basically every camera has

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some sort of hole punch. Now, can't really complain too much. Let's take a

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photo of Lucky. I always like taking a photo of Lucky. Okay, so the first photo

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we took was on a 1x. And if I try to zoom in here, you know

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what? The post-processing on this is a lot better than I thought. When I was

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taking the initial photo, I was looking at it like, ooh, it doesn't look very

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good through like the preview, but now that I'm actually in the photo itself,

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it looks a lot better than I thought. So, whatever post-processing magic

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they're doing on this photo is actually doing some work here. 2x, same thing.

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Yeah, zooming quite in. Again, once you start getting this close, you can

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definitely see some of the issues, especially even some of the lines and

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like the ShortCircuit style tiles we have. And as for as for our ultra wide,

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holy cow, bro turned his FOV to like 80 in Minecraft. We got to take a selfie.

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>> Jeez. >> That's a pretty good selfie camera. I'm

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not saying the subject is that good, but like, man, my hair is crazy today. And

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it's done a pretty good job at being able to highlight individual hairs and

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whatever processing it's doing to these dead eyes. Feel like one thing I haven't

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done in a while is take a video on one of these phones. It defaults to 1080p

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30. We can do 1080p 60 or 4K 30. We'll

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take a quick video of Lucky. Oh, wow. Hi, Lucky. Look how cute you are. Is it

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stuttering? I can't tell if it's stuttering just because of the zoom or

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if it's actually stuttering. I'm going to try doing one more video where I

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don't zoom in and we'll see if that stuttering is still there.

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>> Oh, the light comes on on the back. A RED RECORDING LIGHT.

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>> OH, YEAH. LOOK AT THAT. >> COOL. >> YEAH, you got a little red recording

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light that it's recording. Anyways, I've been recording a long time now. We

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should uh we should see if it looks stuttery. It's got pretty good

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stabilization. That's not bad. I've seen worse

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stabilization on phones. The stuttering that I was experiencing when I was zooming in on that first video appeared

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to only be on the zoom in. It's fine.

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We're pretty spoiled. Like listen, I'm trying to take a new attitude with tech.

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I'm trying not to buy into the hype of the overexpensive. I can't really say

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that about a Pro Max, but you know what I mean? I'm trying to like look at these

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entry level and these budget phones and find the highlights. This is going to be

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good enough for like 95% of people out there. We're going to try the essential

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button here. I think by default, Yep, it just took a screenshot, which is kind of

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cool. You can add a note or whatever. But can we change that if I hold it? Oh,

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now I'm recording. I I think I just took a voice memo. Maybe I have to go into

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the settings to change it. I want to make sure that I can actually like configure it to do a bunch of different

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stuff. I would probably just use it as a dedicated screenshot button. I don't think I'd do anything else with this,

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but it looks like it's got its set limits on what it's going to do. OH, WE

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SHOULD OH MY GOSH, we should talk about the light more on the back. Duh. I don't

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care about the freaking essential button. Glyph interface ringtones. Oh,

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yes. So, you can actually bind it to have like different ringtones make it

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light up in different ways. Combining that with having different contacts that

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you could bind different ringtones to, you could reach new peak laziness level.

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Okay. Phone on the counter. You just see

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what light is kind of going, what pattern. You're like, "Ah, that's the

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old ball and chain. I can ignore it." Right? Versus, "Oh, that's the old ball

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and chain. I can ignore it. Sorry." Oh,

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there you go. So, there's an example. That's like one of the ringtone examples

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that you can have. Let's try a different one. There's ripple. It's a fun gimmicky

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feature, right? It's not something I think is like really practical, but I

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think it's cool. One of the other practical things that they have about the glyph though is it can be used as

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kind of a countdown timer for a photo. So let's say you have it set up on a

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tripod, whatever. You hit the go, you run to get into place, you can see the

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little bar go and then take the photo. So you kind of

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have a more accurate time of it. That's kind of cool. You can have certain

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notifications have it light up. Volume indicate apparently. Oh yeah, look at

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that. I can adjust the volume and you can see the light go up and down. All

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right, let's plug it in. Let's see if it like does charging. No, I CAN'T SEE MY

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CHARGE LEVEL. NOTHING. Thought nothing would go wrong today.

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>> You could have it bound to Uber so you can see how far your Uber is. Okay.

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>> How is there an Uber integration and not a charging? There has to be a charging.

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>> Actually, that's a good point. Yeah. The three glyph progress apps that they show

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are Zomato, Uber, and Calendar. Where

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the hell is charging? Nothing. We should go over the battery specs right now, I

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guess, while it's charging. It is a 5,080 millia battery for the entire

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world except for India. You get a 5,400 mAh battery. Not sure why you guys get a

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bigger battery and we don't. features 50 watt fast charging and it claims that it

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will do a 100% charge from zero in 64

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minutes and 50% in about 22 minutes. Our

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Labs results for that 100% charge were about 2 minutes slower, which I don't

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know that's within variance in my opinion, but it is a little bit slower.

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And the entire battery duration was 17

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hours and 14 minutes, which is actually a pretty big improvement over last

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year's 3A. It's again a lot lower than we've seen in some other phones. I think

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recently we did the S26 Ultra and that one lasted like almost a whole day if

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I'm not mistaken, but those are two different classes of phones. I I

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shouldn't even be comparing them, right? As for that 50 watt charging claim they

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had, it did hit it, but for like.1 of a

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second, it basically went right back down to 40 watts after that and was able

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to kind of maintain that charge until, you know, as it got more and more full,

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it kept dropping down lower and lower. But it seemed like they kind of just hit

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that 50 watt and they're like, "Woo, we got it. We hit it, boys. 50 watt

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charging. Again, I don't know if it was down to our charger or or what it may

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have been, but we didn't quite hit their claim. So, for an entry- level or budget

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phone, it feels like you're getting some pretty cool premium features like that

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120 Hz screen or just in general the size of the screen is pretty nice. It's

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a lot bigger than some of the other budget phones, but the only one that's going to be able to determine if it's

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budget enough is you if you think the price is acceptable. The base

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configuration, which we have here, is $470

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with the top config being 540ish. It's

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536. So, it's a bit cheaper than the entry-le iPhone we looked at earlier,

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but it's a bit more expensive than something like Samsung's A56 or Google's

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10A. I've actually seen the Google Pixel 10a as cheap as like $270

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when it was on sale, which I think a lot of things are going to struggle to

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compete with that price. But, let me know what your guys' thoughts are down below. And hey, maybe which color you

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prefer. If you guys enjoyed this video, go check out the iPhone 17e, which I

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unboxed a couple weeks ago. That was also a entry-level or budget phone, but

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it was probably on the more expensive