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hi john hi audience

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today i'll be checking out the note air by books

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they have sent us this e-ink drawing tablet to check out and i am

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really excited to unbox it so let's get started

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so as a graphic designer and illustrator i've been using

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a ipad pro during most of my profession

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drawing things like the abc book for ltteststore.com

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but i want to see if this e-ink drawing

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tablet would be a good alternative to the ipad for those who simply cannot afford it

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since it is very expensive too expensive apple

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so i'm gonna initially take a look at

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the oh i guess this is just protective film there's no manual

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so i'm just going to push these aside for now

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and i'm going to take a look at the tablet as a graphic designer

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i do love the matte black and spot gloss

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that you see here wow

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it also feels embossed which is pretty cool uh i love packaging

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sometimes it makes or breaks whether or not i buy a product

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so this one is pretty cool

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all right wow i'm gonna take it out of

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here um so here's our tablet

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it looks quite nice i will take the sleeve off of it

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uh

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yes i'm the most gentle person alive

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okay what is she doing now what what

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okay it it's in

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uh it also comes with a screen protector

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which i'm not gonna bother putting on because i'm gentle

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uh we also have the warranty card

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cool uh don't need that uh we're definitely not gonna break anything

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today and i believe this is the charger and

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the stylus uh by the icons that are on

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the top of this packaging box okay there's the stylus

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it feels nice um i would say it's

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not as nice as my apple pencil but for the price of this product

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uh it's definitely workable

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feel it feeling wise so it feels

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a little thicker than what an average pencil or pen would feel like

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but compared to the ipad pencils

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uh it's pretty similar i believe it clips

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on to charge i might be wrong but

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not there there we go so it looks like

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our little e-ink tablet is usb-c

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charged yeah somebody else is cleaning that up

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and it looks like our tablet also came with a cover i'm

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not sure about this little red piece right here it kind of throws me off

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uh but whatever yeah it's cute you can carry it

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if you need to carry your your tablet case around

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i mean sure why not ah you can buy this

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this dope ShortCircuit

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shirt from lttstore.com uh the case feels pretty

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premium feels like a book which is kind of cute

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um i don't know what oh this is for holding the stylus

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let's pretend that doesn't exist right now oh i will

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install my tablet to its case

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they're oh are they magnets oh they're magnets

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okay so i'm just going to take the protective film off

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nice oh it doesn't feel like it does much

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really

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okay what are the point of what is the point of the magnets then

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maybe that's no this would go on the front right because it looks like it

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holds the holds the stylus it's a mystery

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what's that stripe on the back uh just the design choice that i disagree with

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but it looks like a book i guess that's

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their point but i guess so you can't draw in books no oh

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you can't well i'm not supposed to go to jail

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this is a 10.3 inch e ink tablet with a

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5.8 millimeter thickness and it charges with usb-c

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as we saw previously when we were looking at the charging

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cord uh the button is also on the side and there's speakers which is pretty

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cool so i'm just gonna put it back in the case now and we're gonna turn it on

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uh it's weird that it's black and white it feels like it should be color but

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it's not uh that's one of the downsides of this

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product so the screen resolution is 1872 by

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1404 which offers us a 227

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dpi screen we love an easy to follow setup

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and this is one of them now we will calibrate

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the stylus let's see how this goes draw

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a happy face oh i will uh the first thing that i

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noticed with the stylus uh the first time that i touched it to

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the tablet itself is that the tip is quite fine

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with the ipad pencil in comparison

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uh this is way finer which is actually

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quite nice at first glance we have a couple of options here

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and the one that i am most excited about

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is drawing which i don't see

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here anywhere oh wait okay no it's not

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that let's check out each thing individually and see how we like it

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so first we have library where i guess

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you can add books the no air offers connection to wi-fi networks that are

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2.4 gigahertz and 5.0 gigahertz

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so i'm just going to connect to the wi-fi and we can get going

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books so many books

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why does it say banned books

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let's go there i want to see what the band

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said i'm feeling naughty

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i'm sorry i i'm not

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a fan of the smoothness of this

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scrolling yeah it the the hurts hurt but

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with that being said there's quite a large variety of books here

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including vintage and classic animals uh

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happy surprise whatever that's supposed to mean

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are you the dad book section no that's not a good part of the fanbook section

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so we have our book here it looks very scanned in

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but that's not what matters what matters is the text and the text looks good

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it looks extremely clear i feel like this would be an enjoyable experience

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for those who read i haven't read a book in a while so i

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don't know or for university students who feel like

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they need to mark up books to take notes or mark up

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important facts or pieces of text this

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could actually work really well okay so to change pages you can also use

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your finger you don't have to use the stylus and for people who enjoy

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typefaces you can also change the text

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uh whoa there are 36 pages of fonts

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which for a font nerd like me is

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pretty awesome sarah what's your favorite font

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oh no not comics yeah papyrus

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no no no i use monster ad a lot that's a good font google font you can download

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it yourself so i guess with the notepad this is also

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the drawing pad can i call it drawing pad instead i

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guess this tablet isn't necessarily directed or marketed

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towards people who illustrate just because

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it's not really a realistic circumstance to use this

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to illustrate things for say abc books

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with that being said let's check out what kind of

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illustration options it does offer so

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for colors since this tablet

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doesn't have any RGB colors but only offers grayscale

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it does give you quite a few options to choose from you have black

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dark gray medium gray and light gray so you can kind of differentiate

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between tones so we also have text boxes

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typing with the stylus is kind of uncomfortable but

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it's uncomfortable with the ipad too so i'll give them that

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uh how

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oh maybe with the lasso tool let's see

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okay there we go oh it's just so this is

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not fun oh no it doesn't shrink the text box it

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shrinks the text box and the text i hate when that happens in

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illustrator so this is not not good whatever well

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i'll give them the benefit of the doubt this is called notepad and not drawing

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pad so it's probably more for notes and less

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for drawing uh i'll draw a quick quick little little

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dinosaur here yay let's give him some spiky hair here

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and come down to okay oh wow

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he's a very old wise dinosaur it's a linosaur oh my gosh

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he kind of looks like dumbledore dumble sore okay wait we're going

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oh we can also adjust the thickness of the pen i believe

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okay actually uh it has approximately

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or actually has 20 different line widths

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which is nice and you can also change the brush pen

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so the stylus seems to adapt to pressure

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and angle which is kind of cool i say this every time but let us know if you want

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this sort of shirt it doesn't pick up my hand touching the

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screen when i'm drawing which does happen sometimes when i am

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using the ipad and it can be quite annoying so this is nice

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oh it saved the file for us look at that cute little mini version of it

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speaking of storage we have 32 gigabytes to fill up with music

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books and documents as well as we can

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download applications because this is compatible with Android 10. so

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speaking of apps let's check out what we can download

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oh let's see what what music we can

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add folder to playlist nothing is happening

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is it just because i'm not waiting or

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it says fetching songs and then there's no songs

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that are being fetched okay oh my god is she on youtube yeah

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in black and white this is this is vintage youtube

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oh the frame rate is just so bad

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i it feels like i am watching a vintage film

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there's no volume option unless i'm just

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dumb here's the perfect time to introduce this this product has a

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gravity thing or it's supposed to have a gravity thing

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but it's not

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uh this is this is really intimidating with Linus's face staring at me while

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i'm trying to figure this out bluetooth wait volume okay i added

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volume i don't know how i got to this page but it's a miracle

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oh auto rotate there we go i turned it on now

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yay we figured it out it's

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perfect okay that zoom wasn't too smooth

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oh yeah it's literally like

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it literally looks like you're trying to touch his face

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and there we go

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yeah i'm really good at creating art

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vintage crab raves

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dare i say the speaker is the best part of the tablet

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that was worth it that made the whole thing worth it so the speakers seem to

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be great and another awesome part about this product is that

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you can change the brightness and that means you can use it

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anywhere is this product an affordable alternative to the ipad

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absolutely not did i find it easy to use no

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uh speakers though it does you can

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listen to crab rave all day um i guess the battery life

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is great in comparison to

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the alternatives but for now i don't think i would recommend this product

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that's all cool well

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thank you for watching my first time on ShortCircuit i really hope you enjoyed

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and um catch you next time i don't know

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i just noticed this it says like a tablet

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unlike any tablet and that's right you can play

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crab rave in black and white um