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when I say I love my Galaxy Note 9 it's

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less of a weird her type of emotional attachment and more just an expression

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of my appreciation for the engineering that Samsung put into this thing they

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went out and crammed the differentiating features of nearly every one of their

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competitors into a single device then

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they threw in a wirelessly charging stylus pen that you can use as a remote

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camera shutter that's just showing off at that point nothing on the note 9 was

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necessarily the absolute best on the market I mean someone somewhere had a

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better camera a more responsive Android skin or even a bigger or more immersive

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display but everything on it was pretty

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close so yeah you were ponying up for one of the most expensive phones on the

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market but in exchange you got one of the most featur and versatile phones on

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the market which is exactly why the Note 10 and the 10 plus feel like such lame

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upgrades to

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me now obviously the specs of the new

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phones are better or Samsung wouldn't have bothered to refresh this device so

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at the very least the Note 10 and its

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bigger brother the Note 10 plus have that going for them well mostly so

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depending on your region you'll get Qualcomm or Samsung Zone latest 7 nanm

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processor 8 or 12 gigs of RAM curved

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Gorilla Glass 6 an unders screen fingerprint sensor and a 91% screen to

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body ratio which kind of reminds me I I kind of feel like I should be referring

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to these guys not as the Note 10 and its big brother but rather as the Note 10

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plus and its little brother now when I

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first read that the screen size of the 10 plus would be a shocking 6.8 in I

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couldn't help imagining myself with the equivalent of a Nexus 7 tablet mashed

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against my ear trying to talk on the phone so I assumed that the Note 10 with

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it 6.3 in screen would be more reasonable but my expectations were

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completely subverted when the 10 plus ended up being the more direct upgrade

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having nearly the same size bezel to bezel as the note 9 while also being

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noticeably thinner at the same time the non plus has almost the same screen size

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as last gen while being a way smaller

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device pretty impressive but that isn't

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to say that I didn't have any handling issues with the 10 family now I praised

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Samsung last time around for bucking the industry Trend toward millimeter thin

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side bezel because in cases where you're

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reaching across the screen one-handed or turning the phone in your hand say to

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watch a movie having a small Dead Zone along the sides helps avoid accidental

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touchcreen activation well I'm pleased to say that Samsung

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took my positive feedback about that and

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completely discarded it so sure enough the first time I watched a movie on the

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Note 10 I ended up with my notification shade across it then my player controls

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once I had swiped that away the good news is that at least I never found

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myself accidentally mashing the Bixby button rip and the screen that I was

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watching my movie on was freaking awesome now Samsung has been and

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continues to be a Pioneer when it comes to bright color accurate mobile displays

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and they frankly gone far beyond the point where my mere mortal eyes can find

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any flaw in them whether it's late at night reading in bed without unnecessary

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fatigue or trying to make out the details in an image while my screen is

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under direct sunlight but that isn't to say that I think they couldn't have done

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better here there are already multiple vendors notably OnePlus and Jus shipping

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90 HZ and 120 HZ AMOLED phones

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respectively by the way this is the RG phone 2 and stay tuned be subscribed

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because I'm going to be reviewing it very shortly and that makes Samsung's

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attempts at gaming marketing feel a little out of touch what even is Real

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Time gaming unless you're playing chess by

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mail gaming is real time and while

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high-end specs and a solid Vapor chamber cooler mean that the Note 10 and the 10

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plus put forth excellent performance in gaming benchmarks there is so much more

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to a great gaming experience than just a

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powerful rig and Samsung's ignorant tagline tells me Point Blank that if

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they knew anything about gaming they'd be building in features that are

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meaningful to Gamers rather than working on pointless exclusive launch

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Partnerships furthermore a high refresh rate display contributes to to more than

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just animation smoothness in games it makes for a very real difference in the

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perceived responsiveness of the device I

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mean fun fact the outstanding 90 HZ

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screen on the OnePlus 7 Pro is made by

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Samsung now it's possible that they're just waiting to ensure that they can

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deliver both the High Fidelity color and

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high refresh rates in their rumored upcoming M10 generation panels or it's

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Al possible Samsung just doesn't care about how responsive their devices feel

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as weird a position as that feels to take though for them it's not exactly a

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new one uh Samsung's current software is better than their previous Android skins

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by a long shot but it's still not built for snappiness when it comes to

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navigation animations and style In fairness though I mean I have been daily

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driving one UI for the better part of the last year and my complaints are less

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to do with that and more to do with the random idle battery drain that still

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crops up very occasionally for me and

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the way that new notifications don't always go to the very top of the queue

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that is if they show up at all check out this one on the Note 10 plus we've got

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no fresh notifications but I do in fact have new emails nice with that said when

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one UI isn't being buggy Basics like background app switching and the camera

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launch speed are fast enough for my liking and while there's no timeline on

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an Android 10 version of one UI the version that is shipping already on the

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Note 10 has some of the Highlight features including built-in screen

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recording and Samsung's Dex desktop mode

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which I played around with recently and found pretty darn impressive if I had to

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get something done in a pinch and my fingers weren't good enough which I

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guess brings us to the big upgrades to the camera both the Note 10 and 10 plus

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have triple rear Shooters so you can

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oh good both the not 10 and 10 plus have

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triple rear Shooters so you can zoom in on farway objects or take wide shots

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with all your friends in them and everything in between and the 10 plus

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also rocks a depth scanning time oflight sensor that should allow it to scan Real

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World objects with greater accuracy and enhance its background blare video

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recording capabilities that wait sorry why am I selling that feature it looks

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terrible honestly it kind of feels like one of those things that Samsung just

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kind of throws into its phone just to say that they have it and then later

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pretends that it never happened like an iris

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scanner zing in more realistic daily use

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the Note 10 plus camera was definitely better than the note 9 more accurately

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compensating for poor lighting conditions and pulling more detail

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particularly thanks to its much better telephoto sensor out of far away objects

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this shot in the park near dusk really stands out that looks great now as a

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filthy casual though when it comes to photography I did find that it usually

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didn't make a huge difference for me but

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the keyword is usually it it is a better

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camera and if you're a mobile shutter bug who hates iPhones and pixels I guess

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it's probably worth a look I mean check out this difference in sharpness while

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recording slow video in a well-lit gymnasium damn the S Pen has some new

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gimmicks including Sixaxis motion sensing thanks to an onboard gyro and

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accelerometer but the current use cases for that new hardware like swiping in

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the air with it like a little bitty magic wand um weren't very meaningful to

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me the good news though is that everything that was already great about

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the S Pen is still here so quick GIF creation the ability to scribble more

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accurately on screenshots etc etc and it feels a little more balanced in

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the hand no complaints there whatsoever

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which Segways us perfectly into my complaints and I do have a few so many

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in fact that by the time you watch this I'll have already transitioned back to

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my note 9 as my daily driver complaint number

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one has got to be the hole punch I mean

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it's actually pretty minor because mercifully it's at least symmetrical

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this time and it's much smaller the one on the S10 plus also if you really hate

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it you can just have your top note 9 bezel back by tweaking the advanced

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settings but I'm still going to mention it because it's a cludy stupid solution

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and Samsung knows it they already have pop-up camera full screen designs in

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their a series and the S11 is rumored to follow suit so if you buy a whole punch

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you are basically buying a weird chunk of phone history that nobody asked for

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and no one will miss when it's gone number two is the speakers when I said

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that you can have your note 9 bezel back a moment ago I lied because the note 9

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bezel has a conventional speaker Grill on it that not only sounds better than

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the Note 10 plus but also doesn't vibrate the whole phone at high volumes

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making it feel like a cheap toy and finally number three

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is well it's not there the headphone jack what frustrates me so much about

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this one is not that the device is like somehow unusable without a headphone

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jack I mean I already carry both a lightning and a type-c to headphone

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adapter in my headphone case but it's

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that its Omission takes away from what a

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note is for me my note is the never get

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caught missing a feature device it it doesn't have to do anything the best

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because it can do anything reasonably

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competently or at least that was true

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last generation there's no combined facial and Iris scan for enhanced

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security meaning that the most secure way to unlock this phone is to go back

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to touching it and Samsung's unders screen fingerprint scanner while

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definitely better than when they launched it is still not as fast as

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oneplus's then making matters worse they did weird stuff like the non plus model

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has a lower pixel density display and ditches the expandable storage and okay

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there's not that much more but you know what I'm still mad about the 32 mm

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because it means that if I'm stuck without a dongle in my friend's older

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car I'm stuck with their crappy music instead of my own crappy music honestly

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it's not the kind of thing that comes up that often but it's at those times when

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I'm already kind of annoyed like oh crap I forgot to charge my wireless

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headphones like those are the moments

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when it's important to be confident that there is an easy backup plan I

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appreciate what Samsung included here in

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return it's not like they pulled the same move as some of their competitors

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and are like we ripped away the headphone jack uh LOL everything else is

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the same you get a noticeably bigger battery or well in the plus model anyway

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uh you get wireless power sharing you get a better camera you get a bigger and

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better screen and all of that somehow in

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a thinner chassis also maybe unpopular

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opinion here but I actually like the left side lock button instead of the

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right side lock button but they already had the S Series to be the premium phone

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for normies who don't care about certain Niche features with the note series for

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the freaks who want everything crammed in and are willing to pay extra for that

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so now then we're left with like the S

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