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The Apple iPhone X has been available for just one day but already plenty of people have them - and plenty of people have found that it was frustrating to activate! Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ was definitely in that group with his shiny new Apple iPhone X 64GB space gray phone. But once it was all set up, boy, what a cool phone.
In this video, he offers a hands-on walk-thru of some of the most interesting features and capabilities of the new iPhone X including FaceID, Animoji, and the all new gestures...
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yes I've had the iPhone 10 for 24 hours
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let's talk about it Dave Taylor here and
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I I've actually had my iPhone 10 for a
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little less than 24 hours in fact here's
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what happened is I went to Best Buy calm
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and ordered it there and then they said
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oh it'll be about November 15th and then
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right around 11 a.m. on November 3rd I
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got a text message from them saying hey
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dude come and get your phone man
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actually it didn't quite phrase it that
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way but that was the general gist of it
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so I popped in to Best Buy
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pretty psyched and picked up this baby
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this is a 64 gig Space Gray iPhone 10
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and then spent most of yesterday super
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frustrated because I couldn't actually
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get it all running because Apple servers
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were so ridiculously overloaded it took
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me hours and hours and hours to actually
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get to where I could get apps to get to
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where I could restore from a backup oh
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my gosh last night up till about 6 p.m.
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super frustrating Apple you got to
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figure this out because you knew there
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was a huge demand and my first couple
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hours the experience was not really
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glamorous but then I got it all working
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and oh my gosh there's a pretty cool
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phone Apple's really jumped ahead with
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this and I just want to say right off
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the bat you can see here the knotch
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really isn't a big deal now if I go to a
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full white screen yeah I don't want you
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to look at my mail let's go to just go
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to music or something and you can see on
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a full white screen it's a little weird
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it looks like it's almost a sticker to
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peel off I'm not you know that might
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take a little getting used to but in a
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lot of apps it really just goes away so
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let me just show you real quick a couple
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of features that I really like about it
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one of which perhaps the best of which
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is Qi charging and I love the fact that
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I can just drop it on a charger and it
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starts actually getting more energy more
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power it starts charging up and I don't
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have to plug anything in now the
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Lightning connectors are pretty nice but
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wireless charging that
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is the 21st century so super cool to
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have that that's also on the iPhone 8
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but seriously iPhone pen come on
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so there's also has the true depth
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camera and I haven't done much with that
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yet because I haven't really had a
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chance I'll come back and talk about
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that in another video but I thought it'd
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be fun to show you just a couple of
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things so first off let's show you some
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of the different gestures so there is no
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home button so how do you get to home
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well if I'm in an app then you get to
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home by simply swiping up and now you're
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home but here's the thing that's kind of
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cool about that is if you swipe up and
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hold then suddenly you see all your
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other apps and so that's how you get to
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there and then I can actually choose an
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app and now I'm there instead and of
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course I can swipe up and I'm back home
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now not only that but if you remember on
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the older phones you would swipe up and
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that would get you the control center
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right well I can't get to the control
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center from there so that gesture is
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from down here and now I have my control
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center and I can go up and then if I
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swipe from here now I have notifications
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so it's actually surprisingly easy to
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get the groove with all that and you
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know at first I'm like no home button
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this is gonna be a big adjustment but in
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fact it's really no adjustment at all
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really nice and then so what else let me
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tell you an emoji superfund my friends
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are already sick of it let me show you
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real quick I'll show you on this little
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on the side here I shall send an emoji
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to let's send an an emoji to Twitter
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because Twitter needs a little more fun
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right so as you can see in the insert
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all you have to do is you click on the
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little shiny monkey and then pick the
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animal you want and if you watch it's
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already tracking what I'm saying and my
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gestures so very fun to record one all
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you have to do is hold and push and hold
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the record button so let's go ahead and
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do that and I'm gonna look at the phone
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so you can see how that actually
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interacts ready hey Twitter
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everything's going great hashtag dog
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face man
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so now at this point I can actually
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choose to map a different face on it so
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maybe that's more of a cat or maybe more
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of a robot robot and so then here's the
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thing that actually got me confused what
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confused me a little bit when I first
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was doing an emoji is that if you just
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drag it on to the text then you actually
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get a sticker but if you want to send
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the full animation then you tap the
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arrow and it actually builds it and
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sends it and I'm pretty sure that the
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Twitter bot isn't gonna know what to do
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but it would be fantastic if it
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responded with its own animated robot
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saying please don't send messages to
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this particular address
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what does leave it struggling through
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its own thing that's fine
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face ID surprisingly easy to work with
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and I can't actually show you that too
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much because I'm actually screen
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recording at the same time but one of
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the things that's really really slick
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that I was a little unsure of but I'm
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really impressed with is that if I have
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my phone on sleep and notifications come
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in then it will actually just show a
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summary of the notification which is
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nice
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but if I look at the screen they
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automatically expand without me
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unlocking it now that's a little hard to
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explain but it's gonna be hard for me to
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capture just take it from me or see if
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you can get a demo somewhere it's really
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really pretty slick
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so that is perhaps one of the best parts
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of face ID having a you know no thumb
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scanner or anything and whatever so
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actually I can show you one thing with
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face ID let's go ahead and stop this
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little screen recording and so now I'm
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gonna lock the phone and when the
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phone's locked you see there's a padlock
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there but if it actually and so
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notifications come in and it's just
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telling me there's a notification from
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something and I know it's a little hard
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for you to see but if I actually pointed
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at my face
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oops if I pointed at my face now the
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padlocks unlocked and so it's as easy as
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that it's a subtle cue but now that if
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it's locked let's go back to it being
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locked alright if it's locked and I do
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this then it just says I need to see
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your face or you can enter your code but
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if it's unlocked
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in fact that was enough it saw my face
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did you see it unlock there that's
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pretty good I was not looking directly
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at that phone so really there's a lot of
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cool stuff here in the iPhone 10 I'm
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really really pretty psyched about it
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and I just would have liked to not have
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had this nightmarish experience when I
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was trying to get it all working but if
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you're looking for the next generation
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of iPhone there's no question this is it
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and you know the iPhone 10.1 is gonna be
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able to you know refinement on this and
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that'll be interesting to see what they
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do next but right now I'm super
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impressed with this and I'm really
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looking forward to having some more time
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to actually try out and really push the
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edges of all the different features so
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this is these 64 gig iPhone 10 and it's
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999 dollars at Apple or any of those
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companies or the 256 gig versions 11:49
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now at the beginning I said that I got
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it at Best Buy and so I paid a little
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surcharge but that's okay because with
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Best Buy like I said I got it the same
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day and I didn't have to line up I
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didn't have to do anything at all it was
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as easy as it could possibly be and for
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me being able to get it a month or two
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early I think that might have been worth
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a hundred bucks so I'm totally fine it's
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a free market you can choose to go there
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or not but Oh before we're done do me a
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favor and click on the subscribe button
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because I will be talking about a lot of
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iPhone 10 stuff over the next couple of
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months as vendors start sending stuff
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for us to review anyway this is Dave
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Taylor I'm back to my phone and I'll
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catch you in my next video
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