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Bad news, gamers. Brain rot is real.

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Social media and their funky algorithms have screwed everything up. But

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thankfully, some people are starting to realize this. And that's why all of

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these nonsmartphones, dumb phones, if you will, minimalist

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phones, have sprouted up with what they

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say might be a solution to that problem. A phone you don't like using. It's

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counterintuitive. We've covered a couple of these on the channel. I think Lionus

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did the Light Phone 3 which had a OLED display but it made a mistake that a lot

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of these dumb phone makers are making which is thinking that in order to get

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people to use their phones less you need to take away functionality from the

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actual phone. The minimal phone

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takes a different approach. You can do almost everything on this phone that you

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do on a regular smartphone. It just kind of sucks, which might be what you want

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if you're going for a product like this. So, let's take a look at it before we

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take the look at the phone at itself. Let's see what's in the box. Got a SIM

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card tool, a only 10 watt charger. This

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thing is probably not going to suck up a lot of battery uh with an e- in display.

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I think it's only got a 3000 mAh battery, which is pretty small, but also

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10 watts is pretty slow these days. We'll see what the Labs data says about

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that. Also a USBC cord about four feet

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as they tend to be. And is that it? This

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is what there's a skin in the box. Dbrand. This is a Dbrand skin because

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Minimal they did a collaboration with Dbrand uh to offer Dbrand skins. Right

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now these are only available on Minimal's website and not on Dbrand's

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website. And that is all that's in the box. Uh let's move to the device itself.

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Now, you may have noticed this thing has a physical keyboard on the front. That's

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because with an e- in display, you're probably not going to have a great

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typing experience. They're not known for their uh fast refresh rates and like

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responsive touchcreens. So, uh having an uh included hardware keyboard is pretty

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nice. But let's look at the actual rest of the device. So on the front here, we

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got a 4.3 in 4x3 aspect ratio, e-

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paperer display, 600 by 800 resolution.

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We got a home button, back button, multitasking button. We'll get into

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that. On this side, we have the power button, which also doubles as a

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fingerprint reader. I haven't uh set that up yet, but we will. On the top, we

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have nothing else except for the mic, one of the mics. Anyway, on the right

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side of the phone, we have kind of an interesting arrangement here. We have the volume up, volume down, and in the

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middle is a refresh button for the

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screen. So, as we're using the screen, uh, it's going to be ghosting a little

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bit, e- in. Uh, and that'll just do a manual refresh, like, uh, shaking an

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etch a sketch to like clear it or whatever. And then up at the top here,

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we have a dual SIM card tray that doubles as a micro SD card slot. You

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don't see that anymore. On the bottom, another interesting assortment of ports.

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We got a USBC port, speaker, the other

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mic, and a headphone jack, 3.5 mm. We

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got micro SD card slots, dual SIM cards, 3.5 mil jack. Like, what? This is why

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it's so nice to cover hardware made by passionate people who are like creating

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a very intentional device instead of just like the big stuff from the big

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giant tech conglomerates. They don't care about you. They're trying to rot

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your brain. On the back, we have a plastic pretty fingerprint magnety uh

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surface there, which is kind of too bad, but there's a camera there and flash.

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And also, you can't see it, but I happen to know there's wireless charging

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support in the back here as well. So, that's nice to see. And one thing I

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totally forgot to mention while I was looking at the front here is that the

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selfie camera is way down in the corner here. So, it's nice to see it has a

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selfie camera. On a like a e- in phone like this, you might even expect that

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they would just drop that. a strange placement for it. We'll find out if that

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uh feels weird. Okay, let's find out what it's like to use this thing. Let's

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get minimal and do a minimally intrusive

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begin. interacting with this is, you

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know, based on normal kind of swipe gestures like any other Android phone. I

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mean, the the difference is that it's running a custom Android skin on top of

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Android 14. We have a home screen here with just words uh instead of icons, but

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all of those lead to the actual apps. I know that some of the other phones have

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like custom versions of all these apps. Like the Light Phone 3 has restrictions.

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They didn't have Google Maps. They had their own kind of map service, but this

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has maps, messages, and notes, but notes

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is Google Keep. Maps is Google Maps. And what what what screen refresh rate am I

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in? This is I can I can barely see

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anything. And right away, I feel like we

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are running into the issue here. You need maps. Quick settings, though, is

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something different. So, this is Let's familiarize ourselves with these before

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we get too deep because this is how you're going to customize your

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experience with this display. There's a brightness slider up top. Labs measured

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the max brightness on this top slider, which is like the blue backlight. Uh,

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that goes up to 124 nits. And then you can get with the orange backlight, it

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gets even brighter up to 351. That's important. You can customize the

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kind of color and brightness of the display. You can have a max blue

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backlight and then you can change how warm it is. Oh, and this slider down

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here is the uh keyboard backlight. And then down here you got some presets. So

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if you want to quickly make it fire hot

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or cold cold or uh more of a nighttime

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sleepy mode, I made this uh custom mode.

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So you can select custom, move things around, and then hold actually if I want

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to make that brighter. And then you hold the wrench, and that locks in that

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custom preset. So then you can switch to that again quickly. And then down at the

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bottom, we got refresh speed. So each of these sections has this handy little

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info uh thing you can bring up. You got slow, ultra, and in the middle, you got

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hybrid, which tries to adapt to the

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content you're looking at on screen. Because yes, it's Android. You can play

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videos. You can play games if you really

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want to. You shouldn't want to, but you know, I'm not going to judge. I'm going

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to leave it on slow for now. We can get back to this screen by holding the

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refresh, the manual refresh button. That'll bring it back at any time. So,

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that's handy. That's our home screen. Swiping up gets you your full list of

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apps, which is again is just a regular list. It's not like a grid or anything.

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And uh you know, you got all the the apps that you could want on here. If you

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really really really really need a fix for something that you can only get on a

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normal Android phone, you can get it through Google Play. And as you can see,

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you know, even in the slow mode, just scrolling through stuff isn't the worst.

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Like that's this is more than usable. Uh if you scroll super fast, that might get

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a little bit confusing, but if you're reading or reading, it should be fine.

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Okay, so that's the basics of the display. Let's check out this keyboard.

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I'm going to write a little note here. So, open Google Keep, which is called

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notes. And wait, what is the part of the

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plus sign is missing. I wonder what that's about. While doing some research

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on this phone, I saw some people complaining about the pixel density of

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this display. It's only 800 by 600 and it's e- paper. It's not even like e in

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branded the offic like cuz e- in is like an an entity. It's a third party thing.

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And they had some complaints about how, you know, really small stuff can be kind

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of hard to see on this display. But I'm

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confused about this. Like, why is it just taking out? As I clicked on it, it

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it appeared. Can I I can't zoom in on it. So, I guess be aware that some UI

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elements uh might just not be there. I guess I don't that that's kind of

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strange. But anyways, let's type something. Can I do a haiku? makes

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me love phones. Typing is bliss.

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Typing is bless. Yeah, I like that better. Is that only four? What? Um,

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that wasn't fun. Uh, but that's because I think I just haven't had enough time

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like getting used to this. I will say that the keys are nice and clicky. I did

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like if I if I just like button mash for a second and pretend I know how to type.

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Yeah, that feels good. From what I can see, people who have been using this

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phone do like the keyboard. It just will it'll take some getting used to if you

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haven't used a physical keyboard in a while. I can't stop focusing on this

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camera down there. I need to find out. I need to find out what that's about.

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Camera activate. Okay. Okay. Interesting. We're in the slow refresh

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rate mode right now because it's like Oh, no. We're in the fast mode. Oh,

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okay. What does it look like in slow mode? I hit the multitasking button.

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It's got the same old Android Oh. Oh, it's got the same old Android

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multitasking interface, but you can see, ooh, in slow refresh rate mode, this is

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not It doesn't want you to do this. It's stopping you. It's stopping you from

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from wanting to use your phone. It's not stopping you from doing the things you

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need to do. It's just making you not want to do anything else. Oh, wow. Look

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at that. Okay, wait. I'll try to hold it as as still as I can. Well, let's take a

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camera. Let's take a picture there. So, this is a 16 megapixel camera. It does

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take in full color. It doesn't take full like monochrome uh pictures or anything.

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Um 16 megapixels, you know, it's not going to be amazing. This front selfie

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camera is 5 megapixels. Does it have the camera shortcut? It does. Okay. Double

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clicking power goes to camera. So, that's nice to know. And we're back to

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doing this crazy thing. Sometimes slow mode can't handle uh you know, high

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refresh rate uh in the camera app, but sometimes it can. Okay. in high in high

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refresh rate mode. Yes, it's it's

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keeping up. You can you can use the viewfinder well enough to figure out

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what you're looking at. Okay, let's do a selfie. See, like I'm It's funny. I'm

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expecting the camera to be up here, but the camera is down in the corner.

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Oh, that's a horrible photo. And I'm sure it'll look even worse in the full

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color version. But like you see, like that's kind of a fun like effect. Maybe

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I want to look at all my photos like this. Wow. It's a camera. If you really

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need to snap a photo of something, you know, they have a camera on there. But

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don't pretend like you're going to be posting those to Instagram. Taking a video. This is me taking a video. And I

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guess we can hear what the mic is like on this guy. Um, what do you guys think?

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Does it sound good? And this is what video is like on the other side. Stop

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Um, wow. This is actually looking pretty nice on the actual camera display. I

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could vlog like this. Let's go to YouTube. I open YouTube and it goes to

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the shorts right away. Oh, it's an ad for Tik Tok. What? How ironic. Hello.

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You can't hold it. You can't hold the button to go up. You have to manually

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click it all the way up. Also, when I hit the volume, the slider is in the

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middle of the screen. He can't see the UI properly.

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How do I Okay, I can just guess where the play head was.

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You don't need anything more than that. Invite some friends over. Gather around

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the minimal phone. But anyways, the speakers are bad. Uh I don't know what

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you want me to say. They were going to be bad always. Uh but again, same theme.

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You can do it. It's going to suck. you should only use it for a calculator,

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calendar, all of these things. You know, it is kind of weird. I didn't talk much

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at the beginning about like the kind of a wonky design of this thing like in

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general. Like it's got these thick bezels and these like really flat sides

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and it's pretty thick for like a smartphone. That's something to

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consider. It's It's probably not wider than most phones are these days, but it

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is kind of like a strange design. I think it still fits in your pocket

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pretty nice. like it's doesn't it doesn't it's it doesn't feel weird in

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your pocket. It feels like a normal phone. But there is a certain element of

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like when you buy a phone like this, you know, you kind of need to know what

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you're getting into. And what you're getting into in terms of performance is

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not a lot of it. It's got a MediaTek

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Helio G99. Uh it's a 6nm processor that,

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you know, no one's ever heard of probably except for you, the person who

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recognized it. You got it. And the base model is 128 gigs of storage with 6 gigs

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of memory. You can upgrade that to 8 gigs of memory with 256 gigs of storage.

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just put in a giant micro SD card if you're ever worried about storage space

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on here. And because this does run normal Android and you can do the normal

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Android things on it, we had Labs do their normal testing with it. So,

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unsurprisingly, Labs found that the minimal phone uh you know, it's just uh

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the performance isn't that impressive on Geekbench 6 multi-core. We got 2,000

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score compared to 10,000 with the Samsung S25 Ultra and 4500 with the

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Pixel 9a. I'm not sure whether they put a weak processor in because they're

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like, "Ah, it's in display. You know, you don't need that many resources or whether that was part of their sort of

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like willful impedance of your ability to use uh the product." uh you know it's

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a feature not a bug. I don't know. Labs did our normal stress test with a like

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gaming benchmark and they wrote no thermal throttling but uh this device

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doesn't perform enough compute to generate enough heat to throttle. So

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gotcha gotcha good. So we got a bit of an interesting result here with the

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battery discharge test. Typical performance of modern phones in this

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test uh according to Labs they get usually around 16 to 24 hours. This

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phone, however, on their website, they say that it has a 4day battery life, but

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with our battery discharge, which was playing 1080p video streaming from a

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Plex server, it lasted 4 hours and 22 minutes. The whole idea is that you're

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not going to be using this for video playback. From what I've seen, uh,

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people are using this and it lasts, you know, like a day or more, which is like,

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you know, that's what you can expect from modern smartphones. Charging was

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also an interesting situation. With the 45 watt charger, it took 144 minutes to

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charge. With the 20 watt charger, it took 107 minutes to charge. You're not

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going to get like the most crazy uh super quick charging performance out of

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this thing. One more note from Labs that I make want to make sure that I get to

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here. They signed in with their uh Google account and then when they were

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typing, the password for the Labs account showed up in the autofill.

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That's something to maybe fix. Minimal phone. Oh, I didn't do the fingerprint

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reader real quick. What? Well, it won't let me do a pattern. Oh, it'll let me

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start from the top. There's just little janky things like that. You know, it's

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not refreshing. So, I can't tell whether I'm making progress or not. It's It's

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doing little vibrates, but normally with this graphic, like it's a fingerprint

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and it'll like fill out as you add more to it. Oh, it worked. Okay. Wait, let's

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unlock it. Okay. I feel like that was a great

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little microcosm for this phone. You can

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do the things. parts of it are going to suck and then other parts will be just

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fine. This situation is just so fascinating to me because here we have

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these like amazing devices in our pockets that can literally do

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everything. They're Swiss Army knives times a million. We have calculators,

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cameras, sensors, wallets like NFC. This

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thing has NFC as by the way you can use it like that. We have so many different

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tools in our phones. What comes along with that is like being hooked into

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these apps that are literally melting our brain and especially melting kids'

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brains. We have people kind of trying to address that on like the other side.

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They're trying to change social media platforms. They're trying to change regulations, trying to ban phones and

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schools. And then the other side, we have people trying to attack it from

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this dimension where they're like, "Okay, the portals that you use to get

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to that brain rot uh stuff. We have to

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take this pipe that you go through and shrink it so you can only go get your

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arm through a little bit. Swipe Tik Tok with one finger." It's an analogy. It

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works. So, at the end of the day, I like that the minimum phone exists. And it's

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actually not as expensive as like a more premium kind of device like the Light

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Phone 3. I think that goes for around like 600 bucks. This thing is starting

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at $400. I think that's like an early bird price. The upper tier is uh $500.

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At $500, you're kind of getting into like, okay, at what point do you decide

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you can just have some self-control and turn on monochrome on your regular

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Android device and delete apps that you don't want you don't think you should be

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using and all that stuff. So, overall, I'm happy that it exists and I'm happy

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that you watch this whole video. I like the time that we spend together.

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How about we spend some more time? Go check out some of the uh e-aper e- in

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tablets I've done.