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and this is we're getting the non-north America model is that what's happening

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did you screw me Jake did you me Jake folding phones are getting more

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popular than ever so popular that people apparently chose the worst form factor

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to be the most popular one of them all which was the Samsung flip which I

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unboxed in my last phone video am I the folding phone guy that's Linus that's

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anyone else but me this is the Huawei

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mate xs2 in China as far as I understand it this is a hot item but over here in

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the west they had to make some compromises so I'm interested to see how

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that all plays out after I open the box

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I can't read that oh but right off the

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bat it's unfolded already and we can see on the back we got this nice 3D

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fiberglass design oh oh there's a case this is a weird design

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to have a case for okay okay that kind

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of snaps in so that's nice oh it goes the other way

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so you do this you fold it in

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oh okay I see the function of this this

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is basically like if you want to use it like a regular phone then you can have

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this case in the back it protects this screen on the other side and put it down

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and stuff without really worrying about scratching it that's pretty nice but

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this is a really awkward if you want to unfold it you have to hit the button to

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release it and then you have this thing like

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flapping off the the back of the phone and then you're using it like I mean

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it's not that annoying once I kind of get used to it and I know that it's

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there it's not that weird but like it still is like a weird implementation

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it's not very refined I mean in one way like I I'm trying to think about what

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else they could have done and there's not much this phone is a little bit

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unique in the way that it implements the folding design most of the folding

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phones as you may know fold kind of the other way so that the screen stays on

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the inside but this one folds the other way so that the screen is always on the

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outside it uses something that Huawei is calling their Falcon hinge

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I don't even know if that's necessary I don't know about the reasoning for why

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they did this but uh the fact of the matter is that when unfolded it is

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thinner and lighter than some of the other folding phones on the market do

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you know anything about this it doesn't have Google on it

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are you yeah in fact it's so light that

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it's only 260 grams that's actually

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impressive that it's like exactly 260 grams it feels light there's a banana

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okay all right on the top we got one of

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the speakers I believe there's on another side there's one on the other side but we'll find out when we get

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around to it over here we got the volume rocker and the power button slash

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fingerprint reader looks like which seems like it's fit nicely into the

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curve of the phone you wouldn't like that's the challenge with a phone like

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this with the other ones you'd fold the other way and you can just put on this edge here but this Edge is concealed and

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this one's exposed so you end up having to put the buttons on like a rounded

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Edge that looks like it's continuing the display although they

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didn't need to make it look like that did they they decided to make it look

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like it's like one full display that's folded around or on the bottom I should

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say we got the USBC Port that's like kind of put into this little uh I'm

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gonna call that the nubbin another speaker there and another mic so I guess

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there's two oh there's a mic on the top as well and oh no that's not the mic

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that's the uh pin for the SIM card slot uh on this side we just have the little

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clicky doohickey which I'm going to put into place so you can see how that works

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it's got a latch that you actually have to release

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with the button there and this button releases the folding phone and then it

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kind of like oh it's like it's like it's like watching a flower unfold or

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something and also on the back here we got the camera array but we're going to talk

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about that once we actually do the camera tests let's turn her on

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today okay so if you decide to use it

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just as a regular phone you're getting a 6.5 inch screen with a 2480 by 1176

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revolution revolution let's go unfolded

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it's a 7.8 inch screen uh with a 120

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hertz refresh rate which is pretty nice with a 2480 by 2200 resolution and Jake

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really wants me to tell you that that means it's fhd plus it's like if you had

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the short side of a 4K display twice did

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that make sense I also neglected to mention that on the inside we have a

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processor that is at this point two generations old so you are compromising

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there it does have eight gigs of RAM which is pretty good 512 gigs of storage

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in this model but I think there's also a 256 gig version is that right I'll talk

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about the form factor for a second because with the flip 4 I spent a great

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deal of time complaining about why anyone would make that or why anyone

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would want it and the fact that it was the most popular phone makes me makes my

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blood boil frankly this form factor makes a lot more sense

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to me it looks sleek you know it looks a lot more Sleek if that's something that

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you care about if there were more phones on the market that had this form factor

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I would expect this to be more popular as long as you're talking about the

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Aesthetics of it and like feeling cool this feels pretty cool to kind of like

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fold it up like this and especially having like the physical release to be

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like Oh I'm on the phone uh hold on let

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me check that on my on my little mini tablet thing

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that feels cool that feels way cooler than using one of these phones and being

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like oh let me just see uh nerd you get the benefit obviously of

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more screen real estate which will let you do some cool things like uh you know

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multi-window becomes way more interesting and useful on a phone like

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this we're in the music app I bring it in bring it up and the multitasking

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interface also looks like iOS that's interesting if I touch and hold no does

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that give us an option oh I can get rid of it what's this oh I made a windowed

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and that is smooth you can really see that on the one well I mean you can't

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Maybe on YouTube or flow plane or wherever you're watching this okay we

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can't have multiple we only have the ability to have our sidebar oh that's

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pretty cool though optimally I would love if you could like pin an app there

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and then minimize another app and put it like here so you can just like

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immediately switch between them like it was a taskbar that's pretty cool that

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they like hide in the edge of the display there so if I tap on that then

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you have that option so that's not too bad let's see how intuitive this is to

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put them side by side okay you have to individually tap them to get them out of

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I have the app in full screen mode and I do this and then I can click another one

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to go in full screen mode okay that's pretty cool screen experience is off

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I like seeing a larger form factor Android devices being able to use that

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kind of thing so that's great but this phone is very limited so the OS is

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called Harmony OS it is based on I

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believe Android 11 that might not be accurate but you know we're on Android

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13 now you're using it you can tell that this is essentially Android the

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important thing is here because it is actually based on on Android on some

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version of Android you can side load apps but a lot of times they won't work

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properly because the underlying systems are different there are instant apps you

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can use like through the web but it's a lot of work it's more work than a than

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another device the other thing that this phone it really notably compromises on

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is the battery battery is only 4 600

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milliamp hours which actually is not that small of a battery but in my

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experience and in the experience of some other people I've seen a reporting on

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this phone ends up being not very strong

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I think someone was saying with full screen use they only got like 4.5 half

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hours or something Huawei sort of makes up with it from what I can tell by

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having a fast really fast charging charge the phone up to 90 in 30 minutes

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obviously maybe your mileage will vary I've saw some other people saying that's

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not quite the case but at the same time you buy this fancy phone and how much is

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it Jake it's 2 000 Euros there's not a

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lot of prices uh available for like what they're selling it for in North America

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because they're not selling it in North America as far as I understand oh this

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is funny that Google is still the home page on the browser though I wonder if

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that's just like you know the typing experience with two hands YouTube

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it's pretty good I liked that I liked when I typed like that

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that's Max I mean they're not the worst speakers

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I've ever heard on a device ever I guess but they uh yeah there's there's

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Distortion especially at the higher volumes there there's uh a lack of bass

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anyways that's the speakers they're not

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great GSM Arena tested it and they measured 506 nits uh at all the way to

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the end of the brightness slider where we are right now so 500 nits for a

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tablet you know isn't isn't the worst thing in the world what what does a new

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iPhone get like is it 2000 they're not quite there let's check out the cameras

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touch to turn on the secondary screen

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whoa oh that's cool so I can see what

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I'm doing over here and I can also see

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and you can see what I'm doing wait what so wait what do you see right now

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if I press if I take a photo what does that look like

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all right you're seeing right

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but I can't make it so that I flip it around and then you are also you can't

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see anything the button that I used to do that is gone there's a button there

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this is the button that you press to activate the rear screen one of these

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cameras is a 50 megapixel main shooter there's a 13 megapixel Ultra wide and a

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8 megapixel telephoto well we're at 30

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times Zoom okay I want to take a photo

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stabilization seems to be catching up pretty good

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oh yeah I want to hold it by the nubbin all the

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time but when I go like this to get what I hope is going to be landscape video

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instead of vertical video wow we got some crazy this the stabilization makes

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it so that when I do this you guys are just like in a Perpetual state of motion

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blur maybe if I'm doing a selfie I should just accept that I have to do it

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this way and then I hit record and this is the

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selfie cam what's up guys

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I did vertical video though that's what it is I I like the quality

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of this this looks pretty nice for a selfie cam which is a what 10.7

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megapixel not that that megapixel really matters but it's a f.2 f 2.2 aperture

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and all that I don't know it really comes down to the experience and that's

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not bad at all on the flip video people are saying I'm what I was incorrect

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about my putting it in my pocket and saying that it was less comfortable and

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stupid that's my opinion if you like it that's uh you know that's that's up to

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you but I didn't like it because I didn't like there being like a Little Rock in my shop in my shorts I prefer

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there to be a a longer slab because then it's kind of like is more uniform it it

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does indeed fit in your pocket it fits in my pocket when it's unfolded

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so it'll fit in everyone's oh God so at the end of the day you know as as

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beautiful as this device is as thin and light and uh you know nice to the touch

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as it is in fact the matter is that this phone could have been more useful to

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customers outside of China than it ended up being a battery is is another thing

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that's not so great the cameras seem pretty good speakers are bad am I going

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to buy it no Should you buy it I'm not here to tell you what to do does it fit

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in your pocket absolutely should you subscribe to ShortCircuit

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definitely subscribe to Tech hey if you like this video go watch my uh Samsung Z

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flip 4 uh video where I which I referenced multiple times in this video

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so just so you just so you know just you have that