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now I don't usually start a video with a shout out to our sponsor but if it

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wasn't for dbrand I would not even have my hands on the Huawei mate XT ultimate

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design this phone is so exclusive that

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these are going for about $9,000 on eBay right now the hilarious

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part is they don't even make accessories for it no cases no skins no nothing

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because it's China exclusive and I'm pretty sure they don't let DeBrands SK

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into China anymore after all this they've pulled over the years so we've

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got that in common anyway without further Ado massive shout out dbrand for

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getting this phone over to us however the hell it is you did that unlike a lot

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of our recent phone videos there's no Labs testing or anything it arrived we

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jumped through a bunch of freaking ridiculous Hoops to set up a Huawei

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cloud account and I jumped on set I am so excited to see this thing you will

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pay for this that's my garage door why is my garage door open that's a really

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weird anded up thing to have in the packaging is this from dbrand yes

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wow it's freaking huge I have looked at

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basically no media coverage of this thing because I wanted to experience it

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in person it's got about the same crease

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as I would have expected on like a first generation folding device but what jumps

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out to me is the astonishing thinness

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I'm daily driving an iPhone 16 plus right now this is the thickness of the

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iPhone in comparison it's on a whole other level

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I am loving the design too Huawei has

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gone from being just like a copycat brand to this looking absolutely

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incredible dude it's basically as thin as it could possibly be and still have a

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SIM tray I've seen concept devices for like a trifold for example on the

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Samsung booth at CES the difference is that even their concept devices weren't

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this thin that is not an IR emitter shut

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up it has an IR emitter this is a device

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that I look at and I go yeah they couldn't have fit a headphone jack in

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here not this one on the right volume

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rocker what appears to be a fingerprint sensing lock button USBC

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Port look at this can you even see the

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edges of it how is there room in this thickness at the edge of this port for

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the entire display stack is this leather it can't be can't be real leather it's

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got to be a faux leather but it feels really good oh oh it's folded oh dang

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that is so cool oh buddy in there yeah

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that's cool it's like a folded metal oh oh oh what what else is in the Box oh

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important reminder thank you Andy right I forgot Andy's my cameraman today oh

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this this Buddy ain't waterproof I'll tell you that much don't go where it's

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cold don't touch it with anything sharp don't touch it at all don't fold it if

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it's under 5° oh - 5 I can see why they

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didn't bring it to the Canadian Market this is the kind of thing

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that feels like they built a concept car

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and then they were just like you know what it we'll make a handful of them you

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know like it reminds me of that uh that Sony OLED from 2008 they were just like

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yeah this thing makes absolutely no sense at this price and size we're going

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to do it anyway oh it comes with Huawei earphones now I know that these are a

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thing that's good shut up 88 watt

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charging on this thing there's no way yeah okay this is an 8 Watt wait why

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does it come with comes with a car charger does it come with a reg oh dude

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this thing is the whole package regular

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charger 66 WS two cables oh it comes

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with a case that's great this carbon fiber oh my God I think this is real

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carbon fiber the reason I think it's real is a it looks real and B they know

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there isn't going to be a single accessory on the market for this so

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whatever comes in the box that's the only possible case that body can get for

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it which means if you have the kind of money to afford a phone like this it

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better be a good one how much does this cost in China it's not even that much

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like to be clear $2,800 is a freaking

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ton for a phone but you'd spend almost that much on a top tier iPhone

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especially if you pay for Apple Care which this includes similar service too

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it includes four Replacements of the screen protector in the first two years

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and a full out broken screen so it's not beyond the realm of what people are

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spending on phones it's just that uh

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that's for 16 gigs of RAM and only 256 gigs of storage I don't even know how

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they put a n chip in here let alone 250

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you can get it with up to a terabyte of storage but that's going to cost you

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$3,400 $1.2 in display absolute freaking

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game changer for on the-go entertainment 3K resolution 92% screen to body ratio I

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believe it look how tiny these bezels are it's like a Samsung Galaxy fold plus

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a third phone this thing's crazy like

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pretty good anti- glare treatment it's not perfect but like guys that that's a

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studio light you know oh that's cool it prompts you for the password down in the

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bottom right cuz it knows how you're going to be holding it oh you can tell it if you're right or left-handed or if

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you're holding it shut up shut up Andy

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said if you're holding it with your left hand no way oh they did the work man

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I've been using a fed since the first generation Samsung Galaxy fooled okay

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and with those early ones you could really tell like it was basically stock

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Android but like with some tablet tweaks and you know they didn't really have it

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all figured out dude it moves where the pin prompt is depending where you swipe

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that is freaking awesome it's little touches like that that make all the

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difference in the world with a device like this it comes pre-loaded with a lot

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of garbage that I know is pretty typical

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for Chinese devices we've talked about three

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screens two okay how does it feel in the s that

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is smooth the way it transitions you

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guys also this is totally a high refresh rate display what are the compromises

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people 90 htz which is good enough

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obviously 120 144 is better or whatever you're extreme gamer but if you're an

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extreme gamer you're not buying this phone now that I finally got it folded

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down the whole way dude it's not even

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thicker than a bfold from Samsung and

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it's a trifold wow yeah it's thicker than a traditional

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candy bar phone but it's not totally unreasonable either like again as

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someone who used a fold for a long time it feels pretty good in the hand and not

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only that but this is such a usable form factor man do you remember how small the

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front screen was on the first Galaxy fold like it's tiny I made that work

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this would be basically no compromise is no no I would go like this boom fold

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boom I got some movies to watch I want this thing so bad like so bad does it

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even work on Canadian bands come on wuwei it's not like we jailed your

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executive and kicked all your infrastructure out of our country or

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anything I'm going to try it I'm putting my Sim in it boys you can uninstall

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their garbage I can uninstall WWE wallet maybe blah blah blah yeah sure see you

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later okay cool so I don't have to keep any of that stuff in single window view

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you could swipe up and down to either side to scroll

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oh that's a nice usability tweak dude

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this is crazy it's so thin it's so light

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let's talk about specs we got a Kiren 9010 7 NM chip in

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7.9 or 6.4 in display no particular Peak

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brightness rating though uh hey you got the Play Store and everything wait what

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the hell is an aurora store no Google Play services you can't even force it

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dang it so wait what am I how am I what am I supposed to watch on here then we

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did find one source that says 1,500 nits we found another source that said 1,000

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nits either way it's pretty flipping bright this is not like your first

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generation folding displays where they're super dim and basically unusable

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outside looks a little yellow it's got a

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bit of a red cast compared to the iPhone but in terms of the brightness and SDR

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content I do not see any disadvantage here I

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will say this though the color accuracy is probably good enough for just about

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anybody who's not doing color critical work on their phone and can your iPhone

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do this holy crap no your iPhone can't

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do that it looks like even when they're powering the whole display the overall

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brightness is close it might be a little

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bit less bright oh man the auto rotate it's like it's off like it's 90° off

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oh it doesn't know what mode I'm in oh

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that's uh H that's a that's a downer and

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a half you could see it's working fine in byold mode but then I switch over to

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herp perp the lock button like right

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there you're going to accidentally Mash that constantly but this is like caveman

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technology by comparison this is awesome

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you got to put all your apps in like a little like shuffly thing like a peasant

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d don't you even have a bigger screen Apple oh oh I want to try the camera

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though it has a variable aperture camera

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how the crap did they pull that off oh oh no way you can go all the way from

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f1.4 to F4 basically that affects how

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wide the hole is through which the camera is shooting which affects the

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depth of field and affects how much light gets in so if I want to open it up

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all the way I can get real bokeh like

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not fake AI bokeh like real B on my shot

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that is super cool I can close it all the way and I can make sure that

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basically everything in my shot is in Focus okay let's go back to let's go

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back to auto mode though not the best I've seen not terrible pretty sharp

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actually 50 megapixels yeah you can count every one of them you can actually

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read the brand of our tripod on the Huawei can barely make it out on the

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iPhone pretty wild

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hey man look at that look at it like stretch out more that is so cool dude I

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want one of these so

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bad wow that's some big sound boys one

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speaker here one speaker

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here they're pretty muddy but given the space constraints I'm still very

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impressed I'm also impressed by how little the folds are bothering me once

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I've actually got content on the screen you can see as I move it around and

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catch the light you'll catch a glimpse of them once in a while especially when

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it's directly reflected towards your eyes but overall pretty good at most of

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the angles that you would actually care about even though it does have an older

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processor in it they've got a 5600 mAh battery in here that'll help a

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lot you'll probably get a day out of it all right let's put on the case this little flappy guard thing kind of gets

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in the way when you go from Bold to

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trifold but apparently it's there cuz people were concerned about the

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unprotected screen here and like this way it it's right there when you're

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holding it so I guess that's something oh yeah I was going to try out the stand

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oh yeah that could work there we go okay oh yeah oh yeah okay she's stable

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she's stable she's

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stabilized oh yeah there we go no problem bud I mean look you laugh laugh

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all you want but this was an engineering challenge that someone at wuwei had to

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solve and they did a pretty pretty okay

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job oh not bad not bad

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nope a little inconsistent oh ah it'll

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be better without the case I think so much better nope it failed I think it

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comes down to when I enrolled it it was kind of wonky because I had the case on

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I would definitely recommend enrolling with the case not on I want one so bad

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but there are multiple deal breakers here even if it did support North

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American bands which it may VAR well there's no Google services on here which

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doesn't mean oh yeah well just go get the Play Store and add Google surface no

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they won't run on it not unless you like I don't know rooe it somehow but then

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you're going to lose a lot of the optimizations that Huawei has made to Harmony OS you literally cannot put the

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Play Store on here and you can't run Google apps like Google Maps for example

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wait Google Maps works ah I see the

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rotation bug pretty brutal and even

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though we have it set to English right now there are many aspects of the device

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that remain Chinese only there's no IP rating so you drop this thing in the

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drink it is dead and setting up an account in Canada was extremely

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difficult because Huawei devices are aband in the country over security

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concerns finally the S SOC and Camera are well actually I thought the camera

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seemed pretty solid but the so is very

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last gen estimated to be about on par with a Snapdragon 888 which came out in

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2020 I really want one though and I want

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you to subscribe to ShortCircuit thanks again to dbrand for making it possible

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for us to get our hands on this thing I uh was not expecting it to blow my mind

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this effectively you can go check out debrand products for other devices maybe

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their cases or skins or uh accessories

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for your PlayStation console you can check them out

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atl.com is that the vanity URL these days

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Yeah ironic that it's called a vanity URL