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you know there's something a little funny about someone who hasn't upgraded their phone in two years unboxing this

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this is the ROG phone and it is just

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about the most excessive mobile device

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that I have ever encountered

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it's equipped with a snapdragon 865 plus

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processor anywhere from 12 to 16

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gigabytes of memory 512 gigs of storage

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a 144 hertz OLED display that actually

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touched samples at 270 Hertz making for

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supposedly a nearly instantaneous feel

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to your touch inputs it comes with

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what's the phone power brick apparently

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charge is really fast it's got a six thousand milliamp hour battery comes

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with a type seat a headphone jack adapter yeah they took out the headphone

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jack it's got some well that's really nice it's got some extra rubber stoppers

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included for the put there it is ladies

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and gentlemen now one of the design goals for ASUS with the ROG phone 3 was

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apparently to keep the form factor the same as the ROG phone 2 in order to

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improve compatibility with their previous generation accessories so you

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can expect to use the same like game pad

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adapter and like their grip and even

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their twin view dock which we did a video about last year on the Linus tech

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tips channel although it should be noted that if you use your last generation

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dock you're gonna be limited to 120 Hertz instead of 144 Hertz which is what

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the new ROG phone 3 runs at in terms of

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the design I'd actually say they did a pretty good job of maintaining the the

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gamer look but without overdoing it actually previous ROG phones I felt like

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they had kind of over played the game rhiness of it and the thing is it's a

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phone so most of the time I would think you're probably using it

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as a phone as opposed to as a mobile gaming console and even mobile gaming

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consoles like they generally don't look like way over the top you can be sitting

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on the bus using them so I think this is I think they could dial it back a touch

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more but this is definitely a step in the right direction let's go ahead and

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actually let's go ahead and have a look at all the ports and everything so on

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the right you got your stacked up lock button and volume rocker right here

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these are the pressure sensitive air triggers so these are for gamers so you

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got your your shoulder buttons right there up on the top you got a whole lot

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of not much apparently the phone has a for mic array for noise cancelling

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though so that's a pretty nice you got a sim tray here actually Oh does

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it have microSD expansion the answer is

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no dual SIM yes microSD expansion no

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with that said 512 gigs is a friggin lot

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of storage as for why they didn't do a one terabyte option apparently it was

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because the only one terabyte drive available was ufs 3.0 not ufs 3.1 and

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they were after just nothing but raw speed down here we've got two USB type

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C's but it should be noted that one of them which is actually there we go

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Handley marked on here is a USB type-c

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and the other is do not insert a USB

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type-c cable to this port do not do that

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so that's the the red one on the bottom

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we've got another USB type-c it's offset again just like the previous one and as

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I alluded to before there is no headphone jack right here dual

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front-facing stereo speakers a la the HTC One and I'm expecting big things

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from them apparently they have tuned the crap out of these speakers for like

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great bass response or something like that or in the middle of the setup

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process here I'm gonna go with classic

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thank you a soos as of I believe last

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generation or might have been the first ROG phone offers the ability to set it

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up with a not horrendous game arelooking skin which I personally really

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appreciate now we're gonna get dropped onto the

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cringy startup video I cheated on this

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video a little bit I have already been through this startup process and it is

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hi larious scan the ROG totem ditch

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don't question it oh yeah oh yeah yeah

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sounds pretty good

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this is I do I love you guys

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very dearly but what the hell did I just

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watch welcome to the Republic of gamers now I'm good thanks oh that's actually

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kind of a clever design for the stock case so it'll protect it from you know

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getting dropped on a corner or whatever but it still it leaves the air triggers

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exposed and it allows this to be mounted

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let's take a look at this puppy now this is the arrow active cooler 3 there you

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go it's labeled under there and it's got a little kickstand it's got a little

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cooling fan and it's got a pass-through for your USB type-c as well as your

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headphone jack so the idea is you can go ahead and pop this puppy open like that

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pop your phone in there like that pop those dual USB type-c Xin to the bottom

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there and there we go you've got your

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phone propped up and you're ready for some hardcore gaming a bind X mode level

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3 performance high yes so not only are they using a snapdragon 865 plus but

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apparently they allow you to manually specify if you want it to go into a

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higher performance tier and stay there

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because it's got well active cooling on the back of the phone how loud is it

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though oh it's audible here I'll hold it

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up to my microphone here you hear that

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it's really heavy Wow

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I actually hadn't really even thought about it up until now but I guess that's

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kind of what happens when you have quite literally every feature built into the

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thing so it has an in screen fingerprint sensor you can go ahead and set up a

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fingerprint here so it's an optical rather than ultrasonic one you can tell

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from the lights how's the speed of the fingerprint unlock though oh not bad

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that's acceptable not the fastest I've seen oh we should get some games we've

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got a game let's say what's a game not all the kids play 7.9 gigabytes yeah

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no wonder you need a 512 gig freaking phone

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let's have a look at our game genie stuff that's actually pretty handy so

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you can see your CPU temps what frame rate you're running at clock speeds

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whether X modes enabled you can lock

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down your brightness oh cool check that out so you got a little

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overlay that can show you some of those key specs if you want you can turn off

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calls yes there's just a one touch

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screen recording button one thing to note though is that unlike the previous

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ROG phone they have not integrated twitch streaming so apparently that was

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because they just had issues with it from the briefing call that's really

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cool just being able to like quickly record like that new speed up button

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okay so that probably just like closed background tasks and stuff like that

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still for a su software this is actually

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surprisingly smooth and usable

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it looks like YouTube live streaming is ready to rock though battery more than

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two days remaining that's what happens to 6,000 milliamp hour battery refresh

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rate you can set to auto interesting

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let's go straight to 144 Hertz all that stuff one thing I needed to change right

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away the first time I fired this thing up was to go to I think natural was the

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one that didn't look ridiculous in their splendid settings that puts us in sRGB

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mode for using the operating system things aren't so over the top the first

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couple pictures I took on it I was like wow this camera is horrible but it was

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actually just the display that was horrible I mean the camera's still not

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gonna be competitive with something like the latest iPhone but it's a lot better

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than what we've seen on previous ROG phones that's for sure I'm gonna take a

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beautiful selfie well it's a selfie

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anyway that's something if I actually played a lot of mobile games the sound

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is really good like almost nothing uses

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you know proper dual amplified stereo speakers anymore like this it's always

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just like an amplified earpiece speaker for the other one and there are some

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pretty good ones out there but this is too real speakers facing you six

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thousand milliamp hour battery that's a lot of battery 30 watt charging no

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wireless charging and when pressed a soos basically said well you know

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everything is trade-offs that's something that I would to be a basic flagship feature these

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days but they didn't include it because they just wanted to make as much space

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for battery as possible that was a lot of the justification behind removing the

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headphone jack as well the cold hard truth is you know if you want my take on

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why brands are removing headphone jacks it's because if you can afford to buy

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our product you probably have Bluetooth headphones anyway so like honestly

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though almost everyone here in the office has switched to bluetooth headphones at this point they don't

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sound as good but boy are they convenient I love that I'm screen

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recording downloading games in the background and running this game at 120fps and this thing is just going like

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it's going yep we're running at 117 120

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FPS like I said I really you know I don't feel it as much as I do on a large

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display but it's definitely better smooth turns out I didn't know how to

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steer but do my shoulder buttons do in this game do they do anything I'm in

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ninth oh I suck maybe this is why I'm hating on all the mobile gamers cuz I'm

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just not good enough to be them the chassis is starting to heat up a little

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bit though now that my GPUs at like 70 plus percent usage CPU at 40 this is a

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pretty demanding game especially these frame rates oh and now it needs another

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600 Meg's that was just that was just the intro oh

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lordy that's fine all I wanted to see was high refresh rate and it was

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definitely high I'm not even gonna deploy a parachute that's for wimps

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on epic quality we're actually still

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only seeing about 22 to 25 FPS oh yeah

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what's up now what's up now what's up

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now I don't even know what's up now whoa whoa gotcha how do I pick things up I

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don't I don't know I don't know how to pick things up I don't play this game hey what's up what's up now no way these

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can't be real people he's got to be BOTS this is terrible it's getting a little

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toasty that 80% CPU usage definitely

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running a little hotter now that's fine because all I really wanted to know is

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how the game ran between 25 26 FPS

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at epic quality oh I get it they call it

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epic quality because epic games I get it

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but what a jokester you are mr. Sweeney

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oh that's while recording though how is it without recording oh now my from on

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now my CPU usage be much lower and my

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FPS is like pins no I'm not quiet okay

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we dip to like 28 there for a second oh okay that's pretty cool we were still

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getting very playable frame rates while recording though from my first

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impressions the bottom line here is pretty simple the RG phone 3 is exactly

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as advertised it's got a gigantic high

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refresh rate high brightness OLED display it's got a massive battery it's

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got gamer optimized features like being able to quickly screen record turn your

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seat view up to the maximum speed you know configure your air triggers and all

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that good stuff they've got a bunch of accessories I love that they gave thought to intergenerational accessory

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compatibility and really the bottom line for this one is do you need a gaming

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phone like does anyone need a gaming phone there's people out there I mean do

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you need a gaming phone and if you do this is looking like a pretty swell

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