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the CM Storm sf7 uses a massive 18 cm

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fan to cool your gaming notebook and it adds a four port USB hub click now to

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learn more so why am I holding an iPhone

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5S or why have I been using one lately you might ask great question since my

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trust the iPhone 4 Apple has released three incremental updates to the

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smartphone that served me really well for 3 years so I figured as a supposedly

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unbiased technology lover who has been using Android in one flavor or another

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for about a year now I owe it to myself and to my viewers to take another run at

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iOS with the iPhone 5s and see if they've done enough to win me back

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welcome to my late but hopefully interesting iPhone 5S

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review as always the iPhone experience starts with the Box Apple's attention to

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detail continues to amaze me all I had

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to do was put the iPhone box on the coffee table and my toddler was

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immediately drawn to it the power of great packaging eh once we get past that

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stuff though physically the 5S is nothing groundbreaking the difference in

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weight compared to the four was shocking for me now that they've done away with

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the glass back but aside from the lightning connector and the bottom

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mounted headphone jack the io and buttons pretty much haven't moved at all

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and unfortunately neither have the speakers for a company that claims to

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care about audio Apple's track record lately with poopy speakers on the

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bottoms and backs of their devices hasn't impressed me compared to other

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implementations that are available the home button hasn't moved either but the

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tactile click does feel a little bit different to me although it could just be because my old one is worn out to the

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point where it only registers clicks like half of the time now the size is

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still perfect for one-handed operation for me which was a refreshing change now

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that I can like type with one hand but I

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did still find myself frustrated by the upper left corner placement of back

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buttons in many apps and I think that's something that will have to change if

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and when Apple does release a larger iPhone to be clear guys I'm aware of the

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swipe back gesture the problem is that it doesn't work in plenty of third party

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apps so it's still an issue for me speaking of iOS 7 features most of them

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weren't really anything new because I still use my 4 as an MP3 player and

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Apple has done really well by me here to have given me updates for so long on a

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device that compared to similar class Android devices at the time like the

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Samsung Galaxy S is equally old but

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still much more functional but there were a few things that I hadn't used

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much Apple's Maps app has evolved to the

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point where not only is it not totally terrible but I've actually stopped using

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Google Maps in the couple of weeks that I've been using the iPhone 5S Google

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Maps has actually not been that great lately it started flaking out on me a

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lot it can't find the local dump it never finds the nearest location of a

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chain restaurant for me me anymore and its voice recognition for GPS navigation

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is just plain not as good more on that later Apple Maps on the other hand was

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world's better for me in these regards from my use and I also like their

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Tastefully applied 3d effect um but I do

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have a couple of complaints about it I did find that GPS data lagged a little

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bit behind where I actually was on the road and I definitely miss the ability

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to pan around when I'm in turn BYT navigation mode to look for alternate

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routes and then quickly press a button to go back to turn by turn the good news

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though is that like so many Google products Google Maps is also available on iOS now with turn by turn so you can

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have the best of both worlds if you really feel like it that said it's not

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always quite the same experience and heavy Google product users like me will

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find little differences at every turn so

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some of them are good and some of them are bad like for example two-step account validation is not as seamless on

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iOS and you'll need to set up some app specific passwords to upload to Youtube

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from iOS you still need to share to YouTube through the photo gallery versus

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just uploading through the YouTube app like you would on Android on the other

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hand the YouTube app supports sorting the comments by most recent instead of

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just by most popular on iOS but I can't find that functionality on Android maybe

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it's there but I definitely couldn't find it so there's a bunch of little differences I noticed and there are a

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lot more than that moving on to the camera a lot of fuss got made about the

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iPhone 5S camera and how amazing in DSLR quality it was and you know what the app

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is fast and super easy to use it's pretty awes awesome I mean the beauty of it is definitely its Simplicity I did

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miss sometimes the bajillion options that you get in various Android camera

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apps but what I didn't miss was the fact that on Android they hide cool features

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like slow-mo or 4K recording Within These like deep difficult to man

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navigate menu systems that take a while to get to Apple makes it simple you

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press the button you swipe for the different modes and then you press the button again to capture it's just faster

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and gives you a better chance to grab that moment while it's happening that

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said speaking of grabbing moments I did miss HTC's Zoey shooting mode now that

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I've gotten used to it it takes a bunch of pictures and video at the same time

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so it's great for uncooperative subjects like cats and toddlers with all that

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said you know the camera is okay um when you're looking for perfect testing

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scenarios to show it off I think you can make it look fantastic but at the end of

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the day for me as a casual user it might be slightly better or slightly worse

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than competitors s or H but it's not DSLR quality and it's it's all right

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now I alluded to this before on the map segment but compared to the you know

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it's all right it's still a phone camera camera Siri is not Siri is awesome from

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the speed to the voice recognition accuracy to the fact that it just plain

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does more stuff like allowing some system settings to be adjusted apple is

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so far ahead of Google right now in terms of real world usability that I

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really did find myself considering a permanent switch back just for Siri like

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basic B stuff like being able to say take me home at the end of the day and

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it plotting a course for home very satisfying love it another thing I ended

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up loving was the touchbase unlock if you recognize that for what it is and

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for what it's not it's not a bulletproof security measure it is a convenient way

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to sign in quickly and make purchases without entering a password then it's a

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great feature and another one that really had me kind of teetering on the

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edge there it works really well and I went from feeling like it was gimmicky

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to using it every single time I unlock my phone within like 2 days but it's not

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all completely Rosy and touch land and the touch screen actually gave me

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constant headaches the 5S is known to have poorer touchscreen accuracy

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compared to other Flagship smartphones but I didn't expect it to affect me

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quite this much I often misclick letters at the bottom corners and icons along

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the top and not because I'm not familiar with the Apple keyboard but because it's

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just not picking things up speaking of the Apple keyboard I do still like it

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and I have missed the multi-word correction that it does in special cases

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like Mother's Day where it goes back and fixes capital letters for you but I also

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wish as a you know longer term Android User now that I could change it out for

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something else if I wanted I mean maybe something with much easier click and

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hold access to symbols like swift key for example which I guess leads pretty

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well into the list of the rest of the things that I really missed about

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Android while I was doing this battery life is not as good as a flagship

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Android device but I guess I wasn't expecting it to be I am still typically

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getting around 20 to 35% battery at the end of a workday but that's about 15%

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less than the 1 M8 and on a heavy day I did find myself running out of battery

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sometimes I find it infuriating that I can't put a text cursor in the middle of

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a block of text or even in the middle of a word without holding and dragging it

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that was something I really missed about Android uh home screen

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customization um maybe is less of a big deal for me than it is for heavy widget

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users but not being able to at least

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turn my bottom row into folders or Force

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apps into a particular position on the desktop rather than waiting for the

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whole thing to fill up is a real drag the bottom right is where I like to put

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the icons for my most frequently used programs and it's the last part of the

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screen that fills up even though it's the easiest one to reach bummer the home

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button and multitasking are pretty darn good but not a replacement for a back

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button a universal back that works both

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within an app and for switch ing back to recently used apps is something I've

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always felt even before I used Android like iOS is missing the continued

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omission of a landscape mode lock is annoying when I'm trying to watch a

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movie in bed for example it's on the iPad Apple it's been years please just

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add it thank you and the quick toggles can't be customized can't be used to

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access the general settings menu and can't be used to turn on a Wi-Fi hotspot

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quickly it's something I use a lot so that bothered me as well NFC is

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something I never cared about before but since we did that recent video about it

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I've actually found myself using it more often I really wish Apple had that or

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something equivalent and finally taking iTunes off my computer is the first

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thing I'm going to do now that I'm done this video what a horrible blast from

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the past that was but as negative as all

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of that sounded in the grand scheme of things it's relatively minor stuff and I

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could probably find matching complaints in terms of annoyingness level on

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Android to match up to pretty much all of them

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but if you're still here watching this video thank you for sticking around and

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I guess it's time for the conclusion here it goes I'm not sticking with iOS

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not because it's terrible or because Tim Cook is the devil or something I just

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happen to like the bigger screen and better speakers on the 1 M8 better and

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on top of that my iPhone 5S is unfortunately a 16 gig model so it

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doesn't hold much of that sexy slow-mo video footage and this is what I think

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at the end of the day it's just a smartphone and doing this trial run

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reinforced the belief that I already had that with a bit of effort pretty much

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anyone could fairly easily get used to one platform or the other switching from

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the 1 M8 made the iPhone 5S feel like a little light toy but switching from the

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5S back to the 1 18 makes the M8 feel a bit like a clunky brick it's all about

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perspective and I think that people lack that sometimes when they get into the

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whole Apple versus Android Fanboy thing

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speaking of perspective I wasn't really

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sure how to do this normally when chero

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power has us talk about their stuff in our videos we are talking about like uh

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a great deal on one of their excellent portable battery Banks or something like

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that but when they generously provided us with the iPhone 5S that we needed to

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do this review they actually wanted a shout out not for a battery bank but

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rather a revolt Tech Dan board figurine

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that features artwork on the character's head that is inspired by chiro's

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danboard themed 10,400 Mah portable battery bank that we have featured in

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the past the figurine comes with a little stand is posable and even

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includes another head the link for where to buy one is in the video description

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and I have to confess here though manga

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figurines are a little bit outside of my area of expertise so I'd love to hear

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from you guys in the comments is this kind of stuff like totally Neato or are

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you more likely to geek out over being able to charge your cell phone multiple

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times off of you know a wicked battery

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pack like this when you're on the go and it's okay for enough you know to have

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like a cute character for your charger

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and you don't really need see it like lights up like that actually this guy lights up too there's a little switch on

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it and you don't really need uh like a like an actual action figure of it would

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love to to hear what you guys think about that um

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I think that's pretty much it thank you guys for watching my iPhone 5S uh I

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switched back video here thanks to chiro for sponsoring this episode guys like

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