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the obvious joke what is there to say about the nothing phone one nothing haha

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video over but the truth is i've been using this one for about a

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week and i actually have a lot to say

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let's start by getting it opened up oh right i forgot how their package works

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you rip open the thing and you go like that and you get this which is your

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accessories which is basically ha nothing

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a type c to type c cable no charging brick thank you apple for that industry

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trend and thank you nothing for continuing it then on the other side

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we've got the phone itself there's a little sim removal tool very stylish and

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really that's going to be your first impression of the nothing phone one

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these guys have taken the boring black

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brick and they've really added something to it i gravitated toward the white one

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like i think pretty much everyone else but now that i've seen the black one in

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person this is this is my first time i might like it better it's less flashy

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but still unique enough that i'll probably still get comments on it boy

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did i ever get a lot of comments on the nothing phone just anytime i was using

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it like oh wow what's that so if you like something that is

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attention-grabbing i'd say the white one is the way to go but if you want

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something that's cool but more understated the black one's super cool

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on the back of every nothing phone one you'll find their glyph interface which

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is a series of lights that can illuminate in different patterns for

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silent ringtones and notifications personally i did not find it

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particularly useful i am not a put my phone on the desk next to me and

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then watch out of the corner of my eye if it lights up kind of person and i

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would have absolutely no hope whatsoever of remembering which particular flashing

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light pattern corresponds to which contact in my address book

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but if nothing else it's got style you can

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also use them to light up your shot when you're recording videos other than that

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i love the transparent glass back you can see the charging coil for their qi

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wireless charging that goes up to 15 watts and does 5 watts of reverse

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wireless charging for your earphones or whatever else the case may be and you

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can also see some ribbon cables the camera module and most of the rest of

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this i don't really recognize other than that about it physically

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there's not a whole lot to really say lock button on the right volume on the

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left great positioning for those you're very unlikely to accidentally mash your

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volume buttons when you're trying to lock the phone which i mean has been a

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frequent complaint for me over the years on the bottom you'll find type c charging dual sim as well as a bottom

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speaker it does have an amplified earpiece speaker but from what i

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experienced the stereo balance of it is extremely poor so hopefully that's

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something that nothing can tune in nothing os which is their skin for

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Android and something that i want to spend most of my time talking about i

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bet from here you guys can tell that it's all coming out of the right side

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that's that's actually quite an achievement the last thing i do need to

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talk about physically though is that whether you love or hate the ergonomics

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is pretty much going to come down to whether you love or hate the ergonomics

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of an iphone max

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notice any similarities ladies and gentlemen

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nearly identical dimensions

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even down to the thickness to the point where i was coming back from lunch with

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Jake who happens to have an iphone 13 pro max and he's like wow it feels so

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similar i should take off my case and we should put it on the nothing

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phone it fits like a glove

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obviously you're not going to have the same you know positions for the volume

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rocker and the lock button so you wouldn't actually want to use this you

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know your top microphone for noise cancellation is not gonna be exposed

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but the freaking thing actually fits like it doesn't you know you gotta

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you gotta work to get it up there i personally do not like the ergonomics of

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the iphone 13 pro max but i'm also not a fan of the software so let's talk about

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what nothing has done to make their Android skin stand out from the crowd

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first of all you've got your fingerprint facial recognition both of which work

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well not to mention speedily i do have one complaint when you interact with a

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notification while the phone is locked by dragging it down when you drag it

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back up you're not prompted for a fingerprint unlock instead you get a pin

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code then you have to go back then you have to go like this

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which means that you're not actually going to open up that notification you

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were trying to interact with it's just little things like that that have

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irked me i don't like how much space my quick

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controls take up up here i prefer a much higher density interface than what

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they've done here other little things they're in the interface for uh turning

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your hotspot on and off you have to kind of swipe to access it that's something

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that i use a lot and i would like to be able to just have be a one touch turn on

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turn off thing rather than opening up the menu overall it seems like nothing

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has adopted what at least used to be the oneplus approach to their software where

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it's a pretty clean mostly stock Android experience and with

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my personal opinion pretty nice style to it

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and not a lot of extra that means you won't

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find any bloat i haven't removed a single stock app from this phone you can

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see there's just no random crap on here but it also means

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that you might not get the same richness

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of experience that you would expect from other skin makers and a perfect example

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of this is screen shotting so let's take a quick screenshot here and i'm going to

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go ahead and share this okay that's a pretty normal looking share interface no

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problems there what if i wanted to edit it before i share it oh my god i have to

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click a thing before i can crop it then

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wait what now save copy

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i can't share it directly i can't click this to open up my photos app so now all

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of a sudden it's a tedious multi-step process to

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take a screenshot crop it to whatever you want or draw on

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it and then to send it to someone we can compare this to samsung for contrast

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nothing also has a similar scrolling capture feature which is really cool but

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here i can draw on it quickly crop it and my share menu is

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still there it's definitely a better experience we'll talk about software

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more in a moment because it's kind of the most important part of the phone but

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first let's touch on the hardware it's got a snapdragon 778 g plus which is

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about what most people will ever need we are long past the point where flagship

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chipsets are actually necessary in a smartphone to have a good experience

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you're able to record it up to 4k 30 with that chipset you can play pretty

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much any game that you can throw at this thing it supports a 120hz variable

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refresh rate on its 1080 by 2400 6.55

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inch display which in my opinion is pretty much the sweet spot if only it

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wasn't for these squared off freaking corners it'll do 1200 nits peak

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brightness in HDR which is about all that you're going to need and i just

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didn't notice any kind of

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slowdowns i mean slightly weird behavior in the animations sometimes when i drag

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up from the bottom with the gesture navigation it's like i don't know a

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little bit weird sometimes because i'm really tempted to do it the iphone way

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and kind of drag it in a j shape you can see actually right now it's not even

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registering is telling me how to do it like not an idiot but that's just down

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to their animation design it was never the smoothness of the interface of the

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phone it's available with 8 or 12 gigs of lpddr5 memory and 128 or 256 gigs of

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ufs 3.1 storage meaning that at the

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price which is starting at 399 pounds and then it's 499 pounds at the high end

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i mean we might actually have you know

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a new one plus back i mean i guess that was

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kind of the point right i guess we should talk a little bit about nothing and where they came from the founder

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carl pay was one of the founders of oneplus and

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if i had to guess based on the direction oneplus has gone since his departure and

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my first experience with nothing os with the nothing phone one i would say that

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he was the one who made oneplus good i mean

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i'm not trying to be a hater or anything but look at this

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double-click to open the camera app

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obviously the way oppo does that with

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the the the draw you draw a c on your off screen it's it's asinine

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i would be open to nothing adding you know more options for quick launching

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the camera i'm not saying that just because i prefer to double tap the lock

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button means that absolutely everyone should prefer that

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i'm just saying that it's a lot quicker than basically anyone else's way of

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doing it including apples okay so i have to lift it up to wake

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long pressed this no i shouldn't have to look at the device

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that should do it especially since it doesn't already do anything else you're

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not even using it sorry sorry i got all angry again for a second the haptics of

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the nothing phone one are outstanding the iphone actually reminded me of that

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because up until now apple was one of the only one to really get haptic motors

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right usually one of the first things that i do when i pick up an Android

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phone is turn off the vibration when i'm typing but in this case you can even

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just tell from the sound

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it has a really nice tight feeling to it

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it doesn't feel like you guys know what i'm talking about

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right a very a very apple-like feel and i'm

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surprised to find that in such a reasonably priced device since we're

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talking about the camera the best thing i can really say about it is no

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complaints you know it really doesn't seem like whether we're talking screen

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color calibration or the camera that nothing has overcooked anything i don't

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know that they're necessarily delivering the absolute finest image quality in the

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market but there was never a situation with the nothing phone where i felt like

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oh this is really holding me back and they've certainly got the hardware

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behind it they're using a 50 megapixel sony imx 766 sensor for the main shooter

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and then their wide is using a 50 megapixel samsung jn1 sensor you've got

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optical and electronic image stabilization on the main and then just

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electronic image stabilization on the wide which is

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pretty much what you'd expect again this is not a flagship tier phone with a

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flagship to your soc and flagship trimmings it's got a 16 megapixel imx

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471 in the hole punch camera which i honestly didn't use this will be the

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first selfie i'm taking with the nothing phone yeah it's a little processed um

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not the greatest let's see if we can hold it a little

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more still but studio lighting is kind of a best case

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scenario yeah if you hold it still it's good but i don't think my hands that

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shaky is it do they not have slow-mo video capture oh they do

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120 only 120 FPS though

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okay i mean it's little things like that that are

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just probably not built

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yet the software updates for this thing are coming hard and heavy so here are a few

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things that i found were just a little lacking like screenshot sharing the

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gesture controls are exactly what you'll be used to if you have an iphone i don't

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prefer them but the reason that i'm using them is because i feel like i

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haven't really been given a choice unfortunately nothing os does not give

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you the option to reverse your task switcher button and your back button i

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prefer the samsung orientation which is back button here because i'm

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right-handed and i use the back button a lot more than i use the task switching

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button so i would really really like to see

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them fix that for now i'm stuck with gestures which mostly work fine except

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when they're annoying and they do annoy me a little bit one

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nothing excuse me has not rounded the edge of their default screen protector

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here so it's a little scrapy when you're sliding in from the top sliding in from

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the side oh credit for including a screen protector though it uses gorilla

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glass on both front and back has an included screen protector and that did

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come in handy i actually dropped it on the pavement

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like an hour before we filmed this it was in pristine condition

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but it handled it like a champ all it did was dent the aluminum frame a little

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bit i've certainly had worse another thing i'd like to see them work

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on this would be super cool nobody else actually does this but man how cool

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would it be if your audio quick settings here allowed you to switch between

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bluetooth devices like what would you guys give

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to have quick access to switch between your car and your earpiece or your

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bluetooth headphones or whatever else without

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digging into your bluetooth menu there you go nothing i know you guys are

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watching this video there's an idea free of charge i found some really cool stuff

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in the developer options you can enable oem unlocking just like that right in

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the interface it'll tell you not just what your percentage of battery

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remaining is but your time remaining i

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actually found the battery life was quite excellent with its 4500 milliamp

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hour battery and less than flagship chipset this thing

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sips power and i was easily able to get through a full

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long day just as an experiment i woke up one

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morning with only about 35 left because i hadn't charged it that night not that

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i had started at 100 the previous day but i was like oh okay i'm gonna see how

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you know if i can get through the day with this and in the maybe hour or so it's spent in my little

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caddy in my car using Android auto charging a little bit i was able to get

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through the day so i'm pretty darn impressed it wasn't a heavy use day but

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it seems like they've done a pretty good job of just not filling this thing up

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with bloat which is a big part of battery life now they pointed out this

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feature where you can interface with third-party devices here experimental

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features like connect to tesla and i don't have a tesla but apparently they

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also have a way to read airpods battery life natively without needing like a

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third-party hacky app but that is not

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something that i have tried i mean let's

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see here so what do i just go into the settings

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i don't know i don't see anything about that that was in their notes though right

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it could be something that they're adding down the road but at any rate it doesn't seem to do anything right now

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there are a handful of other things i could talk about but the bottom line i

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think is already pretty clear for the price

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honestly it looks great and if they manage to

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stay true to their mission which appears to be a nice clean non-bloated Android

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interface at a reasonable price with good enough hardware maybe these guys

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actually have a future in spite of all of the the naysayers out there

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naysayers like our sponsor t-brand

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since as dbrand puts it basically nobody is gonna get their hands on the nothing

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phone they wanted you to be able to get something so they came up with this

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a a themed skin a white stylized version

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of their tear down skin that if you can't get a nothing phone which

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you may not be able to since they are not going to be available in north

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america at this point in time will mean that you can at least get

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something thank you dbrand you are truly an

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inspiration to us all you are truly a blessing on this world and we as a

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people without dbrand my life would truly be

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empty and sorrowful the something skin will be available on select devices at

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launch you can get the full details over on dbrand's website at the link down

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below and you can also request your device but just understand that they may

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or may not be able to accommodate it because it's not just as simple as

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taking nothing's thing taking a picture of it and slapping it on here they're

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actually mapping out the internal components of your particular phone and

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they're creating the skin out of that so there is a fair bit more work involved i

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hope you guys enjoyed this longer circuit inspired by the extra time that

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i got to spend with the nothing phone one and if anyone has a chance i'd say

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it's probably them really the same as what you'll be accustomed to if you use

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whoa hi