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when we looked at the librium phone five a lot of you were asking why are you

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looking at this piece of trash i mean i'm not saying that it was trash

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you guys were saying that it's trash obviously it wasn't quite finished yet

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and there was a whole bunch of other issues and you're like why haven't you taken a

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look at the pine 64 the pine phone you know this thing here

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and i'm like because we are like this has been on our

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radar since it was announced this thing has taken a long time to get to a like

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workable state and what we have here is the community

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edition uh i haven't actually like looked at this at all yet

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so here we go uh

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the box itself is pretty plain uh this is pine 64

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mobian edition uh on the side here package contents user manual quick start

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guide pine phone USB-C power cable and USB-C dock

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really interesting okay nothing terribly interesting on the back although it does

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say that it has a 2 800 milliamp hour battery

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what's small it's pretty small

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doesn't want to

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like everything else in Linux you do it yourself right

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all right tiny little user manual

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anything in there before using this device please read this manual carefully

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oh back case removal right so this thing has a removable battery and stuff too

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what's this the operating system build you're receiving is more than a month

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old so following the initial setup of the device you should update to the latest

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available release so what's in the box we got the phone itself which again

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is not coming out oh okay a micro sim

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nano send a micro sim adapter we've got a nice red

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USB-C to a cable

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and a usbc dock oh that's actually really nice it's solid it's got an

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aluminum shell it's got Ethernet probably gigabit

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HDMI and two usb type-a ports on here

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and uh yeah that's everything but

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yeah it's really nice oh and it has a little uh

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power input here as well so b

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i wasn't expecting to have something like this in the

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kind of box if you remember the libra phone

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um part of the problem was that

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not everything was fully touch capable

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at the time so a dock like this helps significantly

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with things that may or may not be fully compatible

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yet also i mean this is just running Linux this will get you a Linux desktop like

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an actual Linux desktop on your phone so

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it's actually cooler than letting on and here

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is the phone itself it is significantly less chunky

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than the uh the librium in fact it is

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well it's not quite iphone slimness but it's like

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decent slimness i don't see any hardware disconnects or anything like that on it

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but it does have a camera and i'm going to test to make sure that that works

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um do we have a sim card people asked us to like make sure that

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like calling actually worked on the previous phone should we make

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a call on this phone did that have a semi-jack tool and

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i feel like it didn't have a jack tool in it

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i went to all the trouble to get a sim eject tool but then i realized

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the back of this thing comes off so it probably doesn't even need one

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i don't know if you can see that make it out there's a little divot in here

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you can get your thumb into

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you just pull it right off

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just like that how does this work okay so the battery

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obviously just comes out i think

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okay either this is like glued in place

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or something or i'm just stupid remove the battery using your fingernail

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or prime tool well i've been trying to do that oh that that is that is not pleasant

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okay why was that so difficult clearly this phone has not been set up yet so

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we're gonna go through the whole experience usually phones are set up prior to

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hitting the ShortCircuit set now that i look at a little closer

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there's a bunch of things here like there's an sd card slot

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and a micro sd card slot here uh

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this module looks totally removable this reset switch

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i'm not sure what that does and these dip switches what do these do well

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these are like those hardware switches that were on the librarian phone

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so instead of having them on the outside you need to pull the back off to get to them but they'll actually

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physically disable the like the webcam

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uh well not the webcam the actual camera

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the modem wi-fi and bluetooth microphone rear camera

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front camera and headphone jack so you have much more control

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actually so i guess you would use something like this spudger here

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to go in and just toggle it off like

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that not as easy but you get more of them so

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let's pop the battery in for the first time oh this might need to be charged

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pop the back back on and i'm noticing they even have this little uh

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pre-applied screen protector so i'll just go ahead and peel that right off you ready to power

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card i guess we're going back in

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does this take nano sim it doesn't look like you take now sim everything should

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be using nano sim there's no reason to use sam or micro sim

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this adapter is not very fun to use

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there that's that's probably in

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it's got a nice little power led look you can see me in the reflection

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you are about to install mobian bullseye user interface flash

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okay partitioning formatting blah blah running mount operation installation

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failed no partitions are defined for mount to use well this is going to be a short one oh

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wow it just like straight up dumped me out to a terminal yeah i got

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nothing there's there's no keyboard there's no uh actually i've got

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i have this type c doc uh hey johno can

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i get you to like get me a keyboard

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all right maybe that's what the reset

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button is for uh i'm gonna try pulling the battery

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okay it's booting maybe

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and it crashed again they really weren't kidding when they said that you needed to read the entire thing huh

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power the pipeline on blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

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so without sudo what can i do

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yeah i think probably what i'm gonna have to do is flash an operating system

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onto an sd card and come back to this well this seems to

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be a bit of a thing with my short circuits isn't it

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so we talked to pine and they didn't

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really know what happened exactly so we're just going to chalk it up to a

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you know bad firmware image from the factory

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thankfully they actually do have some images you can download to an sd card

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and i've got one of them right here that i'm going to throw in

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and they also have an image that lets you just plug your phone in with usb

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and transfer a new image that way to the internal storage

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they call that jump drive so it's pretty

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hard to break one of these things so if that ever happens to you

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just get a micro sd card and flash one of their images

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it's getting easier over time wait do we

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do we still have the adapter

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now i get to deal with this again this this adapter is not very nice

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oh this this sim card tray is the worst there we go

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okay cool yeah it is booting off of the sd card i'm not sure if you can read that but it says resizing file system

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during the initial boot that's because the image is only like

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three gigs in size but it'll actually just expand out to whatever size sd card

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you have that way you're not losing any space oh

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okay so we've got a lock screen it's kind of slow it's obviously not

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hardware accelerated and if i were to open files for example

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it just kind of closes the app drawer and i'm not seeing anything until eventually it'll

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come up yeah there you go and what i'm presuming

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is a camera app called megapixels it may not be a

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camera app nope it is totally the camera app and oh

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oh that is a camera that uh

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doesn't work oh it works settings aren't

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functional yet so i'm just going to go ahead and attempt to call myself

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okay yep that the calling seems to be working just fine

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i mean it's a little scratchy it's not terrible call quality

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i've got another sd card here with 30 operating systems yeah you don't have to

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run mobi and you can run whatever you want so i'll just quickly keep going through

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mobi in here and see what else is in here will it play youtube

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it's videos you're breathtaking have you

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seen this so we can't blame that on the sd card

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the reason why this thing is not performing particularly well is because it's

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running an all-winner a64 quad-core soc

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with a mali 400 mp2 GPU that is the mali

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400 that's ancient isn't it uh 2 gigs of lpg r3 memory 5.9 inch lcd

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1440x720 uh 16 gigabytes of emmc this

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one is the community version which has 32 gigabytes of emmc

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uh hd digital out usb type c

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quacktel eg 25g with world five bands i

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guess that's the modem uh wi-fi n bluetooth 4.0

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it's got a vibrator

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they call it a vibrator um okay

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i'm going to find that app 2 megapixel

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front facing camera and a 5 megapixel rear and a samsung j7

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form factor battery so that's actually a relatively common battery you can buy

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which is cool it's got a headphone jack right did i

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mention that before it's got a headphone jack it's right there flashlight is that just literally

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oh it actually does work ooh even just

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running the task manager

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is basically spiking a core i'm trying

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to be charitable here let's shut this down so let's try manjaro plasma and see what

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that's like so this is kde touch it looks a lot more

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like Android but i feel like something is wrong i'm only getting half the screen oh hey

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great so this is a lot more like Android i kind of like the look and feel

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of kde touch a lot better than gnome and it has automatic rotation

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unlike the other one but it okay it's no longer

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decent this is 360 240p

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oh it just keeps getting worse okay there's the multitasking

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so i can uh open up the calendar wow that took like

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20 seconds for this calendar app to load wait youtube is running in the

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background no don't do that that's why that took so

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long kind of need to work on the app suspend let's just quickly look into ubuntu

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touch and see what it looks like ubuntu ubuntu ubuntu ubuntu now i don't

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remember how to actually say welcome to bluedo touch get started oh it's

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actually kind of a slick interface does it auto rotate it does and it's smooth

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and the playback looks actually okay too

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what's it running at 360p okay let's

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let's try let's try 720p and see what happens

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it's fine 1080p let's let's just keep cranking it

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yeah no we're in slow motion territory now okay

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so it can do it it's just none of the other operating systems has a browser

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that's capable of actually running it and closing an app is just like that

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cool ubuntu touch is a lot more like Android this might actually be the best

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experience so far let's try something else

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i just want to see what sailfish os is all about this is home showing your

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minimized apps we've accessed events can can i can i

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stop i don't okay i think that's enough of

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that selfish os looks like it's promising

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i would have liked to use it a little bit but it seems like it's

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decided that it doesn't really want to go any further from here

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but the idea behind this phone is great it's

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a privacy oriented phone

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that you can open up

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take the battery out of add sd card storage

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and adjust what actual devices you want to be running at any given time

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you can change the operating system you can

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develop your own operating system if you really had a mind to

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it's not powerful but at the same time at 200

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it doesn't really have to be in my opinion uh this is a

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very low volume product also it comes with this here usb

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hub which is great i don't know i really like the idea of having a phone

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that doesn't cost a whole lot of money that you can use for whatever you need

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to use it for like you can run like automation scripts you can

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hook into pretty much anything you want to hook into you can

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set up a raspberry pi and have this interface directly with it with no

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weird software that's you know standing in between it's got

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a full Linux experience if you want it it's a lot better

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than the librarian phone after having a little bit of time with this phone

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i can tell you that the librarian was kind of trash this is

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so much better it's still not great you don't want it if you want to like have a

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primary phone or if you're like oh i don't want to go to

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Android and i don't want to go to iOS so i guess i'll go to Linux that's not

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kind of what this is for this is for people who are either

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already Linux enthusiasts or who just want to play with something

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and i think that's great thanks for watching guys make sure you

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