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say what you will about apple and google and everybody else who makes disposable

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phones when you buy a higher-end phone usually what you're buying is longevity

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i ran my iphone 6s plus into the ground

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honestly i'm not sure if i'm gonna be able to do that with my 11 pro max

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because there's so many more points of failure despite the fact that the thing is not

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repairable which is where this comes in this is the terror cube it's

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well it's something completely different this is something we've been trying to

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kind of find a spot for for a while now let's just say it's been buried by more

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glamorous products it's just it's not that interesting from a technical

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standpoint but i'll tell you what it is it is at least purportedly sustainable

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let's take a look at their website real quick i have to look at something there's nothing on this box that tells

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me what it is aside from a phone uh in fact i don't even think it says that

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it's a phone thank you for making a difference

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nope nope nope that's it

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it's a tear cube you gotta know what that is here we go it's the next evolution of sustainable smartphones

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most smartphones last an average of two years or less i beg to differ but i at

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the same time i know people keep them for less than two years they offer a

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four year warranty with this thing as well as four years of support tierracube

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phones are engineered in service to last up to four years and beyond

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serviced so let's see game changing four year warranty

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which is well yeah a lot because most phones come with like a one year

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warranty in north america here's a list of the things that the warranty doesn't

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cover defects or damage resulting from accidents neglect misuse or abnormal use

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so this is the the the apple kit this is where that apple care thing would would

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come in the flat fee repairs scratches dents and cosmetic damage unless caused

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by terror cubes so if you sent it back for repair and it came back scratched

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they would obviously cover that defects for damage resulting from excessive

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force

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ordinary wear and tear devices that have the serial number uh removed defaced or

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damaged okay yeah okay so it's pretty it's pretty

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standard stuff so it's made with 25 recycled polycarbonate not quite on the

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level of the fair phone but it is still a good thing to have oh it's got a

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headphone jack great that's actually great like i i sound like i'm not super

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enthused but like i've got wired headphones that i can't use with my new

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phone without a dongle and that dongle is eventually going to go into the landfill as well right so i didn't even

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get a dongle with my iphone 13 yeah they stopped doing it with stock Android with

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three years of updates okay cameras i mean megapixels don't really matter so i

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can't really tell much from this it's got pin fingerprint okay face unlock

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wi-fi they don't say what wi-fi it is 4g not 5g and it's got a usb-c port and a

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separate micro sd card slot okay

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what is the best thing anyway so why haven't we looked at this

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earlier jono yeah there's there's a reason why we're

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looking at it now we missed the review cycle on this thing by about six months

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i think maybe nine months might be a baby let's get into the box shall we

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no it's very unassuming like the box is

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entirely it's like it's entirely cardboard again that's less stuff that's

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going into the landfill looks like it comes with

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a case is that dust or is it

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like it looks like it's the same color as this so it looks like it's just dust on it but it's not it's kind of

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interesting it looks like it's like pre-scuffed it's like fatigued or um

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stressed jeans interesting there's a little pack

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of snack which you shouldn't eat but you know

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it's it's what every kid dreams of eating

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and that's about it you've got your documentation here i guess

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and uh whatever this is better for your pocket better for the planet where is

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the charger what you have in your hand is the world's most minimalistic and

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eco-friendly smartphone packaging made with 50 less materials recycled paper

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soy inks while eliminating redundant accessories like the charger you know

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the less weight you have to transport the less volume you have to transport

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the less fuel is actually burned per unit that you're transporting if you

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need one you can get one at their website or literally anywhere

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and then we have this dear customer thank you for your support in bringing

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tara cube2e to life tierracube 2e is crafted from 25 recycled plastics i

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dropped the card and the included case is fully biodegradable if you enjoyed

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terracube give us a on your favorite social media and share with your friends

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and family they're actually telling you how to open the back

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oh and it's got a screen protector on it too

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oh it wait what the back came off with with the case

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like the back is literally in here okay yeah it doesn't come off super

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easily but easily enough and there's that battery it's big and

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green and there's the sd card slot right there fingerprint sensors there i don't

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really see a whole lot else where's the sim card slot

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am i just blind oh no they're there there's two sim card slots right there

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that i was looking at but refused to recognize in any

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way shape or form so let's just take that peel off

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there i am all right let's get this thing back together

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and get it booted up but first let's talk to you about the reason

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why we decided to take a look at this this far after its release and that is

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for team c's team seas is a new initiative kind of like the team trees

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one from mr beast and mark rober and us and everybody else who got involved and

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um it was successful to put it mildly

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and in this case team seas is looking to do the same thing but for pounds of

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garbage floating around in the ocean um i don't know if you know this about me

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but i've basically lived near the water for my entire life like i've lived

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basically on a coast like i live here which is right next to the pacific ocean

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and i lived in newfoundland pretty much near the harbors and yeah it would be

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nice to be able to have that for future generations and also to still

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have that for me to go back to it'll be there it'll just be like piled

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up with trash yeah and this is designed to really deal with that kind of problem

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i don't know if this is an official team seize thing or not this is kind of where

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the sponsor spot normally goes but we're gonna go ahead and say go and donate

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some money to team seas it's a very worthy cause like there is a massive

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amount of garbage in the ocean and it is a massive problem like have you noticed

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that there's a giant garbage patch floating around in the pacific ocean and it's

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just kind of like swirling out there like a giant toilet and there's nowhere

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for it to go it's just generally a good thing to clean that up because it's

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going to affect marine life it's going to affect our food chain

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like there are many people who depend on the ocean for their food and

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yeah it's just a really good cause and i think that you should probably look into

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it jono tells me there's going to be a link below that you can click and find out all about it so i guess maybe it is

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technically a thing that we're doing not sponsored all right let's let's uh let's

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shove this battery in put the back on see if it powers up it feels so weird

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yeah and i mean fair foam was like that too but it was like kind of chunky and

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the back like you had to really rip at the back to get it off

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this is like kind of like the old school phones where it's like yeah

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back just comes off tara cube it's pretty bright it is an ips display

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and also i mean yeah i can see pixels so if i were

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holding it up like this and kind of like looking at it yeah it doesn't look that

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bad come to think of it i had like this kind of pixel density with my galaxy

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nexus what a fitting wallpaper for this

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it's not snappy then again it just did just boot up so let's give it a sec yeah

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it's downloading stuff from google play let's just give it a minute help make

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chrome better no google i don't care about you anymore i use duckduckgo now

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i i will say the vibration motor it feels like a cheap phone a vibration

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motor it's not like punchy it just like

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it's it's not super smooth i'll tell i'll tell you that much well it's 1.8

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gigahertz right or 1.9 um also that screen protector feels kind of tacky

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like doing this like i can feel it like sticking i don't know i don't know if

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this is gorilla glass or any kind of fun glass underneath oh there is an

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update available this update was released in may which should tell you

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something about how long we've been holding on to this uh you know what i'm going to log into

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the play store so i can download like minecraft or something and now i need verification

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oh wait somebody clearly logged me in okay

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if someone just said yes to you yeah

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do we not own minecraft on this account what the hell why is it

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wait what why does it want me to buy it it's in my library i'm not gonna buy

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minecraft again i'll just install gentian impact

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it's got environments

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i've never played that game surprisingly this was only 200 megs so i'm guessing

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it's gonna need to download more data you actually downloading impact

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what that frame rate does not look good

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that's all you wanted to see right

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that's all i'm going to get unless i log in let's watch the latest ShortCircuit

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or we could watch you know crab rave we can also test all these

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speakers that was the idea

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oh look crab wave right there first history hit yeah

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youtube app crashed that was cool starting to regret not getting that

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update

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i don't care

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yes it was

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it sounds pretty crunchy

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what it crashed again

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i'm gonna install the update fine

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there it goes it's one and a half gigs it's going to take a couple of minutes

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it'll probably take a little longer to install too oh i want to like this thing

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but it's giving me very little reasons to

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okay cool okay i was gonna say did the updater just crash

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rule 34 oh cool it just finished all right let's

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try that again crab champions gameplay

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the contrast ratio looks pretty good even knowing that it's 720p

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thankfully at 720p that's like RGB ips

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so that means that uh we're not limited to like pentile resolutions like my

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galaxy nexus was okay it's pretty good at the um

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the old treble

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this is my iphone oh god it's running it's playing

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i i forgot i hit it once playback speed

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uh yeah it's not even close i mean to be clear um this isn't the best i've ever

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heard a smartphone sound but um this is less than that then again i mean

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how much is this thing i don't i don't actually know it's

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two two hundred dollars all right that makes it a lot more understandable

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oh yeah angry birds i was downloading angry birds let's see if that works

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um it was smooth until the explosion

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okay now it's smooth so i just needed to load that asset i guess

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let's just quickly see how the waifu simulator works

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i mean it's it's not so much a waifu simulator as it is a waifu collection

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and like a collect-a-thon it's like i gotta catch them all kind of thing gotta

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wipe them on like i'm not sure if this is no this is definitely not

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pre-rendered if it is then that having an inconsistent frame rate

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is even worse let's try the camera

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actually that doesn't look too terrible

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lol what's the selfie camera playing

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i guess let's let's try a video and we can get a bit of the uh the microphone

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as well so uh i don't think it's got any

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stabilization whatsoever but i'm going to kind of try and stabilize it with the

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swivel of the chair here

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like if i try if i try to pan it myself it's just going to be like

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maybe it's got like digital stabilization

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but i don't think it has optical stabilization

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okay that microphone super quiet for one

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two it doesn't sound so great it sounds kind of scratchy then again some of the

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speakers at 200 it's hard to fault it that much

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all the little issues that i have with this phone they're like

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oh well this is this is what i would expect from like a five or six hundred

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dollar phone i would expect these things to work and i'd expect them to work well

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with that being said the idea

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that this phone will last for four years

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becomes a little um dubious like it's not necessarily that

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the phone itself won't last that long it's that you won't last that long with

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the phone because you're not going to stick with it so

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yeah i mean i don't want to call it e-waste because like obviously it does

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have a reason to exist and i'm not the

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person that this phone is marketed towards however i'm not sure

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who like this is the kind of experience that i kind of got out of the the Linux

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phones like you can do stuff but it's not there yet you know i think maybe if

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they gave it another couple of generations they could get there at this price point as it is right now though

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why

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i think the process there's a lot of the problem like everything is is ticking

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the boxes for something that like for a budget phone

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and a environmentally conscious phone that you're going to keep for a while

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this chipset this soc is just not strong enough to last that four years i would

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argue that it was obsolete like

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at the time it was released that's the terror cube unfortunately i really wish

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them the best this is a good idea like four year warranty four-year software

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support like that's great i want to see more of that and i don't want to put

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that down it's just it's let down by the hardware

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yes donate to team c's so we can get these out of the ocean

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anyway this was a disappointment unfortunately but not all short circuits

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are so make sure you get subscribed and follow so you don't miss any

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