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The market for unlocked Android phones is booming and Nuu Mobile has you covered with an entire line of low cost options. The latest addition: The X4 with its sleek design, metal exterior and bright 5-inch screen. Just as valuable is the fact that it supports dual SIM cards, so you can have two phone numbers assigned to the unit or even get a second SIM when you're traveling overseas. Very, very useful. A review by Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
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hi Dave Taylor here and this time I want
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to talk about Android phones now I don't
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want to talk about Samsung or HTC or LG
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or any of the big brands because there's
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this whole world of other companies that
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are making Android phones and the one
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I'm holding it's a very nice very well
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designed phone with a nice bright 5-inch
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screen this is from a company called new
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mobile and uu mobile and what makes this
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interesting is not only is it a very
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well designed phone with its metal edges
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and the beveled side you can sort of see
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that but what's really interesting is
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it's a dual SIM cell phone what does
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that mean that means that you can use it
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just like a regular phone you can have
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it on your carrier you get your phone
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calls you get your text messages and
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everything but then when you want to
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travel you can put a second SIM card in
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for your destination country or perhaps
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you're one of those people that has two
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cell phones you have one for work and
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one for home you could have both phone
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numbers on this phone and it actually
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lets you let you very easily switch
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between the two and I really like the
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idea of dual sims because it really
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gives you the ability to be much more
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flexible particularly when you're
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traveling overseas and I'm gonna tell
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you all about this phone I'm gonna hold
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off on how much it costs because you
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will be amazed at how inexpensive this
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is so this comes with a 1.3 gigahertz
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quad-core MediaTek processor so it's
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pretty speedy it's running android 5.1
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lollipop how quickly they'll move over
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to marshmallow when that comes out I
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guess we'll have to see but they're in
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the same boat as everyone else with that
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this one has 16 gig of memory and a
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microSD card reader and very helpful
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it's very nice to be able to slip in a
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micro SD that you might have actually
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downloaded a bunch of movies or your
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favorite CDs on to see zinc aluminum
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alloy case as I was saying this is
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actually metal on the edges it's not a
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plastic that's painted to look like
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metal it has a really nice
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feel to it I really like this phone in
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terms of its sort of aesthetic
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experience um the 5-inch screen is a
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1280 by 720 and it's a very clean
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looking display I know that you can't
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really see it very well but it's crisp
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it's very attractive-looking
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certainly very usable I would not be at
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all embarrassed about this phone if I
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was using it 13 megapixel camera in the
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back five megapixel camera in the front
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and it's interesting because it has some
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sort of air gesture stuff I'm really
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experimented with this much but the idea
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is that you can like wake the phone up
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by just sweeping your hand over it now
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new mobile doesn't document this very
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well so this might just be sort of a
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generic Android thing for phones that
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have that level of sophistication I'll
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let you do the research on that but
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really pretty slick stuff and finally
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like I said it's a dual 4G LTE SIM and I
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told you I'd save the price to last how
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much would you pay for this smartphone
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this five-inch beautiful color dual SIM
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Android phone well whatever you're
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saying I'm sure you're gonna be
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surprised that it's only a hundred and
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sixty-nine dollars and that's completely
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unlocked they send you the phone in a
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box with all the other usual stuff the
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charger the earbuds and everything and
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that's it you can now go buy whatever
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SIM you want you could even go and get
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the pay-as-you-go Sims so I see these
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sort of phones particularly great for
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teenagers for the elderly for people
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that really aren't hugely into mobile
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devices but want to have a decent one
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when they do want to use it and a
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pay-as-you-go can be insanely cheap
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we're talking like 20 bucks every three
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months type of thing if you use it a lot
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maybe that's not going to work but if
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it's primarily just that you want it is
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a remote computing device which really
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is what these guys are these are really
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just little tiny pocket computers this
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is a real really nice device so the new
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x4 dual SIM LTE 5-inch color screen you
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can learn more about it at new
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mobile.com and you you mo bi le
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and I will just really quickly say that
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it also has available they have cases
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for this exact device which turns out to
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be helpful one of the challenges you
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have when you buy these sort of third
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party Android devices is you don't have
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that world of peripherals and extras
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that everyone else has so this little
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device case here it's nice it's a sort
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of very rigid rubber it certainly is
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gonna complement this and it's about 25
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bucks on their website - oh and one more
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thing for those of you that remember the
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good old days of Samsung Android phones
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and for those of us that have iPhones
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and have never experienced this it has a
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battery on the back you can pop out so
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if you really need to you could actually
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have two batteries and keep both of them
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charged and then when you're halfway
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through a really long day in the field
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or something switch batteries and you're
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good to go again so me I actually kind
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of prefer chargers but I know a lot of
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people really like the ability to switch
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batteries so this is Dave Taylor and I
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think I'm gonna go travel to somewhere
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exotic and try the second sim so I'll
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see you in my next video
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