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all right hear me out I got my note 9 6 years ago so by my rough math if I were

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to buy a pixel9 pro fold today and use it for 6 years that's

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only3 $300 a year good Lord is that ever

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a lot to spend on a phone and if I end up needing to buy a subscription to the

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Gemini features that are included for now it could be even more it's really

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frustrating because other than the price man is this thing ever temped D is that

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is that the general consensus on this thing because I'm tempted but then again

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you guys already know that I'm a bit of a sucker when it comes to foldables

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Let's pop this open oo they say it's the thinnest

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foldable phone which is another way of saying it's not a very thin phone but

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actually ooh it's pretty handleable also

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this front screen dang from our brightness testing and from the spec

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sheet it looks like they are actually using the same screen as the regular

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pixel 9 which means that in candy bar

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form it's as usable as a regular phone

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it really is not that thick

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ooh guys I kind of like it like this is

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this is great the only question being if

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I like this so much why I just get a pixel n okay hold on hold on hold on

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we'll get to that but first let's talk what's in the box we've got a USB-C Toc

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cable a Sim removal tool and that's it so if

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you want to charge at the rated 45 WTS H

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not bad actually then you will need to get yourself a 45 wat wall wart on the

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top we've got one of our microphones one of our stereo speakers over on the

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bottom we've got two more microphones the other stereo speaker a USBC input

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and our SIM tray on the right we've got a power button and volume rocker and

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finally on the left not a whole lot just a couple of antenna bands they're using

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war in victus 2 glass on both the front and the back you know I always forget

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how big pixel camera bumps are and then I get my hands on and pixel and I'm like

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wow that's a big camera bump uh maybe it's Justified though you get a pretty

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decent camera array for a foldable even if it doesn't hold up to the pixel 9 Pro

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you get a 48 megap wide camera approximately 10 megapixel Ultra wide

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and telephotos and then you've also got two more cameras so one on the front and

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an inner camera in here now I have to confess I've done my usual thing with

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this launch where I've tried to learn as little about it as possible so I don't

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actually know if it's a pinhole camera or a through screen camera and I'm about

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to find out if I can figure out how to close this app

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hello I've tried swiping from every Edge

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okay I can see from a security standpoint how that's kind of useful if

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you just double tap to open the camera you cannot interact with the phone in any other way but you'd think it would

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just it would just prompt you for the pin if

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you sure I think they could improve that

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it's a pinhole okay so you just have a hole in your display but I mean

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realistically for a lot of the types of content that you would consume you're

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not going to need that part of the screen anyway because even 4x3 video is

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going to be like this this is practically a square display it's like

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having two phones side by side it's what the surface doer wanted to be of course

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the question is how well did they execute front screen I've already said

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what I need to say it looks great and we were able to verify Google's claims with

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respect to Max brightness both in standard dynamic range and in high

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dynamic range this is a really nice display of course you don't spend this

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kind of money on a phone so that you can just use the front display and I have

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some good news here the folding inner display also hits those impressive

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advertised brightness numbers meaning that HDR content is really going to pop

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off the screen oo now that's pretty but

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there's some issues here like any folding display there is a crease you

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could see oh yeah there you go if I catch the light with it you can really

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see it with that said when I'm watching a video and I'm looking at it head- on

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I'm really not noticing it unless I'm looking for it or unless there's a

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distracting reflection that's nearby of course the bigger issue for me is that

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with 16x9 content is that that much bigger I mean it's bigger but

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like man I don't know that's a tough one

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to justify I mean YouTube TV has that thing where you can watch more than one

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video at once that's not available in Canada so I can't try it

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but ultimate brain rot no it's going to

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come down to multitasking so you're able to set up apps side by side let's

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actually have a quick look at that uh super cool we actually talked in

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more detail about some of the AI features of the pixel9 lineup in our

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pixel9 and pixel9 pro video so you guys can go check that out in the meantime

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let's tuck this away I can't take video while I'm watching video hello there we

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go just a little interface bug there don't worry I'm sure Google will figure

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that out at some point so that's a use case I can I can take video while I

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watch video wow that looks like hot

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garbage there's no way the video recording on this thing is that bad no

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no it's smudgy it's smudgy hold on hold on okay that's

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better oo stabilization is pretty nice yeah man

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Google's got work to do still when it comes to video can we Le take a decent

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photo though oh so much better do you

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see the saturation keep changing as I zoom in and out you can really see it in

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the skin tones cuz I was trying to see like did it do a better job of actually

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like making you look alive and it does but only sometimes super weird anyway

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this looks really good this looks really sharp I would consider this to be

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extremely acceptable for sure what about the selfie camera I guess there's more

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than one selfie camera definitely going to take some

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getting used to if you haven't sideb sided on a folding device

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before how's this guy she's soft she's

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real soft which makes the Aging marks look even more jarring cuz like my skin

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is super smooth except for like giant crows feet M bokeh effect not bad though

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not bad Google look at that it even nailed the

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earrings that's a really tough one let's go ahead and switch to the other more

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different selfie camera good enough

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and same thing portrait pretty good maybe even great but I feel like I've

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gotten distracted a little bit here what am I supposed to be talking about uh oh

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yeah let's talk about the hinge so as someone who daily drove a fold three for

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a couple years actually now I think about it one of the things that drives

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me most crazy is that within a very

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short period of time often with these phones you go from this super straight

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super flat display to one that only opens kind of most of the way unless you

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kind of you know force it a little bit and unfortunately that's not something

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that I can comment on now having just pulled this out of the box for the first

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time but what I can say is that the

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spring action feels pretty strong and at least

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out of the box it's extremely flat it's just a really big investment for

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something that you're not going to find yourself using all the time when I was

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dailying a fold for a few years what I discovered was that even media content I

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didn't always bother to open up the inner display and especially with a

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device like this that has such a good front screen experience I can tell you

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guys now I would do a lot of light web browsing on the front screen I would

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probably do almost all of my typing on the front screen I know a split keyboard

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is okay I don't like it I just don't

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find it as comfortable I don't find it as fast I like being able to reach over

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to the other side for maximum speed so the folding experience only really comes

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alive for me when I am reading a lot and

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you can tell man this view is so so much

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better you know especially when ads can take up so much of the page when you're

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trying to read an article it's an absolute GameChanger and of course for

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productivity um anytime you're remote desk topping into a machine or anytime

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you're accessing a big Google sheet it is an absolute Game Changer or if you're

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looking at reference material while you're you know filling something out

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man I absolutely love the foldable display and the good news is the

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performance of the pixel9 pro fold is actually pretty okay it's not the best

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the tensor G4 lags behind other Flagship chips when it comes to Performance we

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saw this with the pixel9 and pixel9 pro but more importantly it legs behind

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other chips when it comes to thermals which is why the pixel 9 Pro fold has

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even worse gaming performance than the candy bar equivalents and that's just

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down to cooling when you're building a device this thin there's nowhere for the

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Heat to go it shouldn't affect multitasking too much they managed to

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pack 16 gigs of RAM in here along with 256 gigs or 512 gigs of storage along

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with Bluetooth 5.3 Wi-Fi 7 which is

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pretty cool and a surprisingly similar

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capacity battery compared to the regular pixel9 and pixel9 pro leaving only one

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major question outstanding how are those stereo speakers man the really Square

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form factor I'm really not sure how to feel about it on the one hand it saves

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me the trouble of going like this to watch you know landscape content but on

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the other side it really makes me wonder wait is that worse I think that's

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worse I can't tell here I'm going to use this case box to Landmark I'll I'll talk

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about this in a second okay here so it goes to about the zero okay now we go to

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landscape mode oh my gosh that's really

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close I think it is ever so slightly bigger if you rotate it so that's good

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because that's where the stereo speaker are they're on the top and the

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bottom that's a pretty big sound for such a skinny thing that's what I tell

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my wife when we're arguing she yells at me no no I'm kidding I'm kidding can you

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imagine she'd kill me good thing she doesn't watch these

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videos having one of the speakers here and one of them here so they're offset

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that was a choice it's kind of hard to avoid covering one of them a little bit

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let's have a look at this case eco-friendly packaging all paper you

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love to see it well I don't know if you do but I do oh wow it uses adhesive you

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just stick it on there um there so it

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goes like that and now maybe less likely Breaky oh

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speaking of it's ipx8 so should be

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pretty water resistant which hey if you're anything like me and you break

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your folding device by uh accidentally

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carefully lowering yourself into a pool

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could be good overall though is it time for me to go back to a folding device I

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mean there's so many little software things that are so much better thought

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out than they used to be right like okay auto rotate whether it's folded unfolded

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I can have different settings oh man this is this is cool there's a look here

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mode so you can put a little character on here oh yeah there we go made you

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look oh I have to rotate the phone there

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you go oh there's different ones

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are you kidding me why would they do that no that's why the picture sucks I

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mean we've had AI change slightly where the eyes are looking since how many

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years now just have the oh no have them look over here and then just alter that

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oh they Ed the crappy camera for made you look yeah I want the worst possible

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textures of the child oh what a downer

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to end the video on bottom line though am I going to go back to a foldable it's

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tough the prices even if they fix the

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minor issues over the seven years they are planning to support this thing with

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software it's just so much for something

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that can so easily be damaged or or lost

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and I think that if you're anything like me might actually be nice to have the

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Peace of Mind of just having something that doesn't matter that much so you can

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just kind of you know Chuck it down and not really think about it bottom line I

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want it I want to use it I want to try it

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uh but it's the kind of thing that even if I love it if someone walked up to me

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and asked oh wow that's so cool would you recommend it it would be hard for me

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to say yes though if you are going to spend that kind of money hey at least

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full rain to abuse the crap out of it

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after I install it on the pixel 9 Pro

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fold all right nailed it and even if I

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didn't realistically it doesn't matter they include a second one now the

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question is what is this doing here Slide the

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drill bit along the surface of the glass like slashing a screen protector with a

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knife W you got to drill with it on

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yeah ha let's put more pressure on it I

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think should do

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dude damn you can pick up this and uh

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you know the same thing but for many other devices at short.com wasn't that

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fun or painful or humiliating I don't know I we shot that after um anyways

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