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so I'm in China courtesy of ZTE ZTE can

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never keep track of what the Canadian way is check out this hotel

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room not much privacy in the bathroom but fortunately Brandon and I are not

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sharing a room it's huge and it gets

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better check this out views

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incredible uh hold on

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but why would ZTE sponsor us all the way to China to make a video I mean how many

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kilometers is that I guess we'll never

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know and what exactly is it that goes on at an event like this well I'm going to

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take this opportunity to show you guys

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firsthand what it's like to attend a press launch event as lonus from lus

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Tech tips so we're on our way in to get briefed on the phone let's see how long

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it takes Brandon to hate on myself stick

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oh it starts with the Totally Above board early access to the event venue

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you can tell in this shot that they weren't quite ready for me because the

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red carpet still has the protective plastic covering on it which Brandon of

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course trampled on next it's time for the VIP room this is where most of the

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learning actually takes place and it was where I saw the axon 7 for the first

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time these briefings are great because

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they give me a chance not only to run through the specs of the device but to

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probe about the rationale behind the various design choices so the philosophy

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then behind the axon 7 is influenced heavily by trying to answer the question

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what makes a phone quote unquote Flagship well first and foremost is spec

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so the axon 7 supports a quadcore Snapdragon 820 with adrino 530 Graphics

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4 gigs of lpddr4 RAM a 3140 Mah non-

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removable battery with Quick Charge 3.0 Support over its USB type-c connector

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and a 5 1/2 in AMOLED 1440p display with

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Corning Gorilla Glass 4 but the other big thing at work here was apparently

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figuring out common use cases and then

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addressing them one by one so a lot of work was put into audio with a dual

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Standalone chip amp and DAC solution from akm with Dolby Atmos software

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running on the back end and dual front-facing speakers something that I

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wish was much more common this was done for a variety of reasons to improve call

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Quality on conference calls for business-minded folks and to help music

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lovers avoid carrying around a Bluetooth speaker with solid headphone sound

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quality as another great bonus another use case specific feature is that the

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axon 7 has Hardware support for pretty much every Wireless band known to man

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along with a second slot next to the primary slim slot that can be used

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either as micr SD expansion for the 64

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gigs of storage that comes standard which shouldn't be overlooked by the way

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as something that to me defines Flagship as I've said before it is laughable to

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me that some other companies are trying to sell 600 plus doll phones with 16

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gigs of storage or it can be used for a second Sim slot for frequent Travelers

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or people who find a better deal on data from one carrier and voice from another

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next it's pretty common for me to cause some kind of a disturbance at the event

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until I get a of my own to Tool around with all right so we just got out of our

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briefing and uh people are trying to have a conversation and I went and

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turned this thing on and now they're like what are we going to do with this guy he's just talking on his little

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camera over there so I've got the phone in my bag

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already manag to secure that at this point but we're trying to find me a VR

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headset apparently they don't have them out yet but uh I'm never afraid to ask

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for special

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treat at which time we'll sometimes wander around and try to get early

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access to people or areas of the event that again normally wouldn't be

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available until later hopefully the Bly security guard lets me through yep it's

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all about just walking around like you own the place so at my second briefing I

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got a lot more information about the camera it's a 20 megapix still 4K video

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affair with an f1.8 lens and both electronic and Optical image

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stabilization to help with low light performance and stability while shooting

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video with a redesigned simpler app with automatical mode selection and voice

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controlled capture as well as the fingerprint scanner that's positioned

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between two grooves on the back for easy access without looking and that ZTE is

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claiming and it looks like there may well be some validity to this is one of

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the fastest available on the market and then finally perhaps most importantly if

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you're into that sort of thing their upcoming VR headset that combined with

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the axon 7 will be one of the first Google Daydream compliant Solutions with

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significantly low latency and hopefully pretty solid image quality thanks to the

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1440p screen from there out of politeness I sometimes attend to the

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keynote usually if there's still an

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important piece of information that I'm waiting for

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fashion I thought I was going to the

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fion just like I was to stay

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here sometimes these Keynotes are weirder and more Awkward than other

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times but in this case it turned out to be totally worth it since I managed to

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ask someone what the characters next to the numbers meant on one of the slides

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and I found out the axon 7 will be launching at 449 in the US not too

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freaking shabby considering everything we've seen then finally when all of

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that's done I lie in my room with my boxers on writing up a video much like

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this one but I won't subject you to that part of the experience so thanks for

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watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was good get

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tips Community now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering H gee what should I watch next

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there in the right hand corner I'll see you guys when I'm back in

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Canada I'm very far away right now and

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sick