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In this video I unbox the new iPad Air that just released on Friday, November 1st. A full review will be coming in the next week.
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(Sorry for the slight blur in the beginning. The camera was being stubborn and I honestly didn't realize it until after posting the video!)
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hey folks Robbie Payne here again with
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an unboxing this time of the iPad Air
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the space gray black version 16 gig uh
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it is LTE and I was able to snag this
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this morning first thing from uh
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T-mobile and for those of you who don't
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know T-Mobile is offering 200 Megs for
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free and they're going to do it across
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multiple tablets iPad just being the
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first one um you walk in no down payment
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uh spread your spread the cost of the
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device uh with no finance charges
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nothing over the course of 24 months
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which shakes out with this guy to be
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about 26 and some change uh per month uh
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so if you don't have the money to go in
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and drop $600 $500 whatever whatever
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model you're looking at on an iPad but
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we really like to try one um and would
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like a little bit of data or the
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possibility of adding data down the road
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this is a great option uh and it makes a
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an easy case for saying Hey I want to
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try the iPad out and so I was able to do
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that this morning T-Mobile no no real
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hassles I do know that you have to have
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Credit in order to get it so keep that
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in mind uh you're also going to have to
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pay your tax up front uh which uh I
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think was $40 something do uh for this
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guy um and and for whatever reason they
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had to put uh the 2 gig option on mine
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in order to get it activated and then
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said hey you you can turn around and
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take this right back off if you call
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customer care that's kind of annoying a
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little bit um not a huge deal I'll call
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here in just a little bit and get that
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taken off but um just know those kind of
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things up front before you go in and I
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didn't have an account set up uh really
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and so the whole thing took like 20
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minutes which wasn't bad and I was the
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first one you know first person in this
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store doing this you know free 200 make
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plan so I'm sure they're going to have
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to work out the Kinks but overall it's a
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great deal um and like a lot of the
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things that that team we doing right now
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um just for their customers it's it's
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pretty cool anyway so I got my hands on
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this wanted to do a quick unboxing get
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you some uh initial thoughts about the
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feel and the weight and the look and all
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that kind of stuff I mean under all of
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it it's still an iPad but what really
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caught my attention with this guy was uh
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I really I really enjoyed the iPad Mini
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last year I just hated the display and
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as someone who reads a lot um display is
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is pretty important to me and that that
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can sound like a first world problem
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probably is but uh reading books reading
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articles and that kind of stuff on that
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older um what was it uh 1024x 768
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display it wasn't terrible but it was it
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was pretty bad bad and without font
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being reasonably sized um it was really
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difficult to read so really looking
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forward to re a display on the iPad mini
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but this kind of caught my caught my
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attention because now they've packaged
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the full-size iPad with much smaller
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bezels much lighter much thinner um and
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uh we're we're talking a quarter of a
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pound I believe heavier than the iPad
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Mini so um you're getting a lot more
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screen real estate without much more
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bulk so that's a that's a pretty cool
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thing um so I wanted to check it out and
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uh spend a little time and as as those
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who subscribe to the channel know um you
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know I review whatever I can get my
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hands on and so if it's something I'm
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going to use or I'm interested in
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personally I'm going to review it I'm
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going to unbox it I'm going to do all
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that kind of stuff so as I get it I'll
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review it uh which means there's going
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to be a lot of stuff I don't review
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because I'm not going to spend the money
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and time uh to get my hands on stuff
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until hopefully I get enough subscribers
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and enough viewers that like these
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reviews uh hopefully I'll start getting
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some free stuff to actually review from
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companies but until that time comes um
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I'll review what I can um and so today
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we're looking again at the iPad Air I
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will also be doing uh Nexus 7 um uh kind
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of a few months in review maybe more
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thoughts less about the hardware and and
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and showing you around and more about
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hey here are some of the cool things
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I've seen with the Nexus 7 here are the
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things I like here the things I dislike
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and um give you a couple months review
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which You Don't See a whole lot usually
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you get a couple week a weekend or
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something like that and then the review
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units have to be sent back so you don't
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get these long um uh longer longer
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thought out kind of reviews very often
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so I want to do that with the Nexus 7
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cuz obviously with this I'll be sending
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it back so you get basic iPod or I iPad
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packaging here um nothing really amazing
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uh pretty blank on the back um set him
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aside for just a second um the main
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manual that kind of stuff in here
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charging cable lightning um and then a
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block that's that's it that's pretty
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standard Fair uh Apple's not known for
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changing things up too much and so here
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it is uh we're going to take it out of
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its plastic sheath real
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quick and set that to the side and I
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must say just touching it like just now
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holding it here I mean it's is
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substantially lighter uh and uh and
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thinner than previous IP iPads I keep
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saying iPods I'm not sure why
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um and design wise I mean it absolutely
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takes all its cues from the iPad Mini so
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if you've held an iPad mini um this is
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going to look extremely similar um the
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way things are rounded The chamford Edge
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on the side um the
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thinness uh the speaker light out with
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the lightning Port here uh the volume
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rocker buttons uh being separate and
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metal as well uh with the um dual mode
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switch there you can either use it to
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silence or lock rotation nothing on this
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side earphone jack microphone jack up
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top the plastic sheath because we're LTE
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here um camera on the back power button
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I mean this is all standard Fair um
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surely to goodness most of you have
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probably seen an IP an iPad um by now
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and so so if you've if you've dealt with
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an iPad mini um you're you're going to
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be in very familiar territory here
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what's not familiar is how light this
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thing is compared to a normal iPad the
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experience is way more uh the way I felt
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when I picked up and iPad Mini for the
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first time and thought man this is
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really light um it it's just incredibly
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light so we got the hello screen we need
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to I need to go through the setup
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process real quick um so we'll take a
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we'll take a break really fast let me
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set this guy up and I'll be right back
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all right guys we're back um got
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everything signed in and um apps are all
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downloading I will say um just having
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used it for just a minute just to get
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everything signed in and moved around uh
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the slightly narrower uh form factor
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does help with portrait typing um so
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that's been nicer and I forced myself to
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hold it in one hand uh during all the
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sign in and setup and all that kind of
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stuff just to see if the fatigue is
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there um the way it is with the regular
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I iPad and it actually wasn't um it felt
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way more reminiscent of holding an iPad
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Mini so um those two things very good uh
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the device is incredibly light
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um and you see my thing I'll take that
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off probably um part of the setup
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process but um very light screen looks
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gorgeous I mean it's a retina display um
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looks great uh viewing angles are
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awesome um performance is really Snappy
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and that's impressive because you can
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see all of these are darked out um so
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it's it's still got a lot of stuff I was
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able to restore from a previous iPad
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Mini uh backup that was done back in
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April so you know I have to tweak that a
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little bit but um it's at least I don't
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have to go hunt and Peck for all my apps
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and it's in the process of doing that
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and really just not even having any
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issue whatsoever um getting in and out
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of things
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um yeah he want update I'm just going to
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back out of
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this we'll just jump in a couple things
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here just so you can kind of see like I
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said it's it's
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installing you know 30 40 apps in the
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background right now and just really not
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having any issue whatsoever we'll open
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this Samsung tablets rank highest in JD
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Power owner satisfaction on my
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iPad um you can see just
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top-notch performance here so the the A7
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chip is not disappointing the written
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display looks great form factor is great
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device is light um so really positive
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thus far um don't have don't have
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anything really negative to say about it
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um we'll do a real quick we'll jump into
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the
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camera
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and just take a picture of the Box how
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about
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that so as most of you probably know
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already you're not going to get any of
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the fancy um uh features on the iPhone
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5S camera unfortunately but it's just
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part of it it's a tablet probably
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shouldn't be taking pictures with it
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anyway but in a
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pinch focus is pretty good pretty
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quick shutters instant which is awesome
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you got the square option for
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Instagram and then obviously we got
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video as well so
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um nothing mind-blowing here we can turn
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hdr on and off so we'll do one in HDR
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just
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kicks so we'll go into that real
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quick um and there's your HDR
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shot and regular shot now we're in
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really bright light so I don't see any
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difference
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really and the regular and the HD
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HDR but you can see textures really good
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uh this camera would be way more than
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passable uh in a situation where this is
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what you had in your hand and you need
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to take a picture of something um it's
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going to work it's going to work quite
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well for that so I would not worry one
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bit about the camera um but I think it
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is the exact same module that's been on
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the iPod or iPads uh for the last little
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bit so um again nothing groundbreaking
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here as far as the camera goes but it
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works it's passable thinks fast it's
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light it's thin uh and the screen looks
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great on it and then after that I mean
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it's an iPad um so you kind of know
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largely what to expect the device
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hopefully gets out of the way and lets
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the apps and and all the functionality
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to the device shine through all that
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stuff and so I'm going to spend a few
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more days with it and then I'll kind of
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give a better uh more overall review of
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things I like things I don't like um see
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if it's going to stick around for a
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while or not um until then thanks for
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watching and see you later
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