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now it's no secret i've always been a bit of a nerd but i bet you guys didn't

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know that i was actually one of those people who carried around

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not just a cell phone but also

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one of these this is my personal

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digital assistant and this is from way

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back over 10 years ago when i was running my painting business i was

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digging around in my attic looking for like a cable or something and i happened

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to cross it in the box and get this guys

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it still works so i'm going to show you what passed for

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cutting edge pocket-based technology

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back when i was in university

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okay so while i was showing this to you guys i actually realized that my stylus

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is missing and that might not be the end of the world

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the screen does still work without a stylus

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but the way that it works is actually fundamentally different so modern touch

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screens use what's known as capacitive touch whereas this was actually a

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pressure sensitive touch so here's what here's what that means

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basically if i touch the screen really lightly you see that

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it doesn't have any effect at all i have to actually

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press the screen in order to activate things so for that reason using something with

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a a really small hard point wasn't

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necessary you could use the back of a fingernail or something but it was

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strongly recommended now what i think is that it's possible

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it just fell out in my pile of accessories i'll show you guys all this

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stuff too

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yep all right there we go that's better so i guess this is a perfect opportunity to

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kind of walk through the the physical tour of

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this thing so up on the top you got your stylus you've got your sd card slot and

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compact flash reader so that was a pretty unique feature of this one

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because sd cards at the time didn't go up to massive capacities like

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two gigabytes and also compact flash has a performance advantage if you wanted to

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load uh media onto your pocket pc so you can

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watch on the go over here is a headphone jack also

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useful for watching on the go i forget what this button does but it's in the

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shape of a cassette tape so maybe it's like a memo to self button that was

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popular back then here's the charging port at the bottom

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that seems to be a microphone but it's been a little while at least one of

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these is a speaker and then i forget what all these buttons do so we're going

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to have to go through and discover them together now you might have noticed my

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screen protector is a little unique now i actually spent

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500 canadian dollars on this thing so i was

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pretty paranoid about keeping it in good shape so i actually used the included

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flip down screen protector and

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uh like a second kind of crappy plastic

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screen protector over top of it though to my credit i did do a pretty good job

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of applying it i mean taking this thing and holding it up against a modern

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device there's a few things that really jump out at me number one is of course

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the form factor it is so

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thick compared to something like a note 9 in spite of the fact that the note 9

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obviously is much faster has way more

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features i mean even the stylus is more advanced it's a wirelessly charging

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stylus with a remote button pressure sensitivity like technology has come a

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long way in the last decade another one is the proprietary charging

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cable so generally speaking they were pretty good about providing a charging

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cable in the box but the issue was that

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everyone used different standards and even the same brands would change up

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their standard periodically so you could get stuck with a broken or a lost

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charging cable no way of charging your device and assuming you can even find

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one in stock it could cost 50 60 plus dollars for a replacement it was

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ridiculous it was a bad time the other thing that really stands out is the

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difference in screen there we go let's crank this up let's go ahead and try

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adjusting the backlight on this puppy there you go that is that is the best it

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can do let's go ahead and fire up a white background here whoa

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so using this thing in direct sunlight was basically not a thing

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now i want to show you guys the navigation on this thing so it uses an

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Intel x scale processor so that was Intel's old ARM-based mobile CPU

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division that they acquired from someone and then later sold to someone it's

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totally dead project now but this thing actually uses i think it's a 500

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megahertz processor i'm going to go ahead and see if i can bring that up and

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it runs Windows mobile

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yeah that's right designed for Windows mobile baby so

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if you've used a modern touchscreen device you would probably expect that

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this is your home button

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but it's not actually that button does nothing

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you were expected to use the stylus all the time

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that's your home the start menu

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but it's in the top left instead of the bottom right so let's go ahead let's go

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back to the settings uh system about

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uh here we go so this is an ARM 920 t px a27x it actually has 64

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megs of RAM i believe that's rounded down because some of it is reserved

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we're running Windows mobile version 5. um

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i was looking for what processor we're using that see i would think that's back

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but no this is actually like a shortcut thing for your your quick settings uh

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right you can change to landscape oh yeah look at that look at that rotation

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do you think we can get on our wi-fi obviously no support for five gigahertz

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i actually don't even know how to go back what the okay give me a sec guys

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it looks like we're not going to be able to get online this device doesn't support wpa2 and i believe our network

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for security reasons rejects devices that only support wpa

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so oh well that was worth a shot

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so now i want to show you guys what the desktop looked like on this thing it was

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actually called today so you go ahead and go here and it would

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have any active tasks that you have and then it also had your calendar

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there you go so you could see your appointments the calendar app for this thing

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actually surprisingly was not bad now

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the whole idea of scrolling something by just clicking on the body of it and

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moving around that's a relatively new paradigm so you actually scroll by

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grabbing the scroll bar on the side and then you would create an appointment

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by dragging something like this so we would go ahead and click new appointment

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um meet

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david and you could put in your location i

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don't know at the park who knows

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and then you could edit your times of course by

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clicking on these teeny-weeny little things in here uh set your reminders

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oh you could set one reminder so one hour before

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there you go and you could add attendees

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uh sensitive okay and okay boom

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and it would show up like that then if you went back to today you'd be able to

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see yep i've got some appointments and it would line everything up like this

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it was actually very functional as a personal planner

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now of course being an enthusiast i wanted to do more

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with it so uh that's where the core

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something media player i forget what it was called exactly but it was this great

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little uh piece of software and what was special about it was that it had support

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for codex that the default media player on here didn't

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so that is what allowed me to load my

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definitely legitimate media i do actually own

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this entire season so i'm not going to feel too bad about this but my

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definitely legitimate media onto my pda so scrubbing performance

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actually not bad oh no

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oh was it oh yeah there it is it's the 520 megahertz scale awesome there it is

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nice good catch david now you can really tell even a dvd quality file like this

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one is uh

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not at its best on the resolution of the screen i don't even know what the screen

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res is but it's not pretty now i've pointed out a lot of stuff

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that's kind of ridiculous and quaint about this thing but there were some

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ways where it's actually still ahead of

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some modern devices so check this out for example

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file explorer now this is fixed on the ipad now but on a modern iphone you

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still can't just browse the root directory where everything is loaded and

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installed on the device like looking at your documents or even check this out

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you can actually even load up the Windows folder and all the files are

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just there okay i'm not saying that's necessarily better but i mean being able

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to just browse your storage cards like this is

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incredibly important and i mean configurability so this is pretty cool

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if you go into uh i think it's

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buttons here you go check this out it's highly configurable so i actually figured out

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why those front buttons weren't doing anything it was because i apparently removed all the assignments for

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everything other than what i used so this one i left and that tape button

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let's see i apparently had that configured to the notes application

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hi

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actually you know what the latency is not bad on that

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all right let's see what else we've got on here oh this is cool so there were actually some pretty surprising apps

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available for devices like this this is called thompson and this wasn't one for

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me but this was actually something my wife used back when she was doing her

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pharmacy training so you can we loaded

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it on here because i think through her school she got a um

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a license for this so we can kind of look up any drugs and here's the dosing

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i actually wonder if she still has a valid license for this but hey the

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information's in here so if you want to know anything about a 3d vaginal cream

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there you go free of charge and of course the last

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thing that i spent a fair bit of time doing on it was gaming now there weren't

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a ton of games but one of the pre-loaded ones was actually

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super addictive and i played this a ton it's called bubble breaker and it's kind

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of like an early precursor to bejeweled you line up all the things and then they

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they pop so what do you think is that all people kind of need to know about

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this thing what does it look like on the inside

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oh i have no idea actually um

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i don't even know if there's a convenient way to shut it down

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to be honest with you the whole thing runs in RAM if i recall

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correctly so that's why it has 64 gigs of RAM but only like 56 of it is

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accessible so i think you would just have to rip the battery out or something

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there we go somehow this lithium-ion battery is

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still running so this is a 1440 milliamp hour one i'll go ahead and

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pop that out there's your convenient removable battery so yeah we could we

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could open it up with torx screws but honestly

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it's kind of sentimental for me because i really did use this thing for my first

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self-employed job and i kind of don't really want to destroy it it's in

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very very good working order as you guys can see oh i guess this is where we can

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figure out how that backup battery figures into things yeah so

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no this one has the backup battery but it does retain data if it dies

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but it doesn't turn on if the lithium-ion

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one isn't in so i don't know actually i guess one thing i didn't show i was

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super ticked off about this so i managed to convince them when my old one died to

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upgrade me a little bit to this one this was more like a 700 model if i recall

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correctly but i only paid 500 for the original one because i said well look my

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original one isn't available anymore and it has an ir blaster so

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i want like the highest end one to replace it and i had one of those

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service plans from canadian best buy at the time

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so i managed to get this one but the other thing i was really mad about when i got this one was that it did not come

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with just a charging cable it only had a dock so if i wanted to charge it on the

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go i had to bring this whole stupid thing around with me it's like who uses it

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like that that's ridiculous fortunately

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i actually checked afterwards and my old

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charging adapter for my old one still worked with it so i i kept that instead

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of returning it with my broken one and i managed to have two charging cables

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which back then like i said before was actually a pretty freaking big deal the

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other thing i didn't show you guys yet is how you synchronize it with your

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computer so this was my charging cable for the old or my sync cable for the old

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one so it was usb2 it went in like that and then you had to actually take your

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power one and put it in there

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and that made it pretty bulky but you

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could do both data transfer and power because um a usb 2 port was not able to

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like guys we take for granted the way that usb type c ports can charge

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a macbook or whatever but that was not always the reality

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