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Samsung Galaxy S7 Smartphone Review
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May 30, 2025
Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ reviews the Samsung Galaxy S7 running Android 6.0 Marshmallow and finds it a "honey" of a smartphone, one of the very best on the market today regardless of operating system. In particular, the camera is amazingly good, as he explains in this video review...
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Dave Taylor here again and this time I
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want to talk about the latest and
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greatest from Samsung that's the galaxy
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s7 that's this and this is a honey of a
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phone this is the nicest smartphone that
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i actually have seen on the market right
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now and there's just so much they've
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done right they've really learned from
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all the previous generations of the
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galaxy phones one example is look real
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closely people that had previous
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generations of the samsung galaxy phone
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remember with frustration how the camera
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stuck out so if you put the device flat
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on the ground or flat on a table it
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wouldn't actually be flat on the table
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it would stick out a little bit well the
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s7 solves that problem and it solves
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that problem with a pretty extraordinary
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camera this camera is so good that i'm
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using this now all the time to take
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pictures even within sets and picture in
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pictures on other videos i'm doing so
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this is the nicest most convenient
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camera and that's just one of the
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features on this s7 so it also has a
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fingerprint scanner and you can't really
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tell but the home button I don't know
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why it keeps going there the home button
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actually is a thumbprint or fingerprint
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scanner pretty darn easy to set up and
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this is a 5.1 inch display if it can
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actually stop going to other places it's
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a five-point 10 a.m. 0 le d display and
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it's running at 2560 x 1440 which gives
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it a pretty amazing 577 dots per inch
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that is as good or better than mostly
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what you get from paper and print outs
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right so a printer runs it probably 600
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DPI this is basically that level of
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quality and crispness it's really really
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nice the rear camera is the nice one it
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has what's called dual pixel which gives
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it super fast autofocus and act like i
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said it's very crisp and because of that
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technology it works very well in low
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light situations I've been testing it
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out and if you go on ask dave taylor
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here's a link you can click on an art
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or I'll show you photos from this phone
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the s7 vs. photos from the iphone 6s
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which is the Apple's latest and greatest
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you know what does a better job it does
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better pictures the front facing camera
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is a 5 megapixel camera you know quite
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adequate certainly great for selfies and
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for when you're doing video chats for
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those of you that like to do that the
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processor itself is a two point one five
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gigahertz quad-core too and it actually
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also has a second 1.6 gigahertz so
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there's a lot of processing power going
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on in here and 3,000 milliamp hour
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battery so that's also really great and
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what people are saying in the field is
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they're saying that they are running
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this from the beginning of the day all
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the way to the end of the day and still
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having thirty or forty percent charge
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that's really nice because if you're
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running a modern smartphone all out and
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you're using video and you're playing
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games and you're checking your email and
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you're instagramming and all this stuff
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doesn't take long for that little
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battery indicator to go down to the
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point where you're like need to plug it
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in again well putting a bigger battery
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in this has really helped that and I
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will say on standby it seems to run
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about two or three days if you just
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leave it untouched based on our testing
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but that's pretty good too because who
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the heck doesn't use their smartphone i
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mean really come on these are designed
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for people to use them see what else it
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charges with micro USB on the bottom
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here which is really nice because a lot
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of vendors are moving towards us bc and
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that's a whole new set of cables a whole
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new set of chargers and i understand the
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move towards it because it is a better
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technology but i like that i can use
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existing cables and existing docks and
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such so another point for the galaxy s7
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let's see its water resistant i have
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opted not to test it because this is
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only a loaner from AT&T and i'm pretty
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sure they get pretty upset if I like
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dropped it in water and they said oh
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that's not what water resistant means
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cakes so we're not testing that but what
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samsung says is that if you drop it in a
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puddle if it falls into the sink and you
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pull it out real quick
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and such you're fine it's not going to
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damage the phone pretty cool apparently
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there's also moisture sensors in the
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connectors so if you try to connect it
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and there's moisture sensed then it
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actually won't charge and won't make the
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connection to make sure there's no short
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so pretty slick running Android 6.0
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marshmallow the latest and greatest
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version of Android and that's a win too
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and let's see what else samsung pay well
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it goes without saying is that Apple pay
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as it is widely accepted is it something
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that you're going to be using a lot well
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that's up to you but it's nice to know
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that that features supported and one of
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the other things that's interesting
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about this is that this is the first
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phone you can see here I've turned it
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off but the display is still on so this
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is what an samsung calls they're always
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on display and you can customize it or
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if you really really want to be super
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fastidious about your battery life you
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can turn it off but I kind of like it
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because then when it just like is
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sitting on the table it's working and I
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can glance over and I can see what time
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it is that's pretty nice actually and
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let's see no removable battery though
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you can put in micro SD card so you can
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actually it comes with 32 gig of storage
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but you can put up to 200 gigabyte more
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not sure why you'd need that much
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storage on your phone but different
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users different use cases I like that it
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has the micro SD again that was
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something that was lacking in the s6
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because they actually took the microsd
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support out and people had a heart
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attack and so now the microsd support is
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back which is great does not have a user
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removable battery you win some you lose
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some I think that's going to be
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something that's going to be from the
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past actually because more streamlined
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designs and more tight and certainly
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like with water resistant and stuff
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having the back be able to pop open to
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change batteries makes that a little
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harder to accomplish the other thing
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people are saying is that the front is
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overly reflective and that it's a little
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smudge prone I can see here you can't
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see this but I can see a lot of thumb
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prints which probably makes the NSA
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really happy but for the rest of us it
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means you're probably going to be not
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frequently doing this sort of thing or
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rubbing it on your sleeve I don't see
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that is a huge problem but it's worth
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noting check it out in the store if
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that's something you think of bug you
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anyway Samsung Galaxy s7 really really
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awesome android phone i would say
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probably a fair statement to say it's
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the best smartphone on the market right
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now and there's a reason people are
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falling in love with this device amazing
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camera really really nice feel to it and
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a pretty hefty price tag to go with it
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so this device is 695 bucks if you go
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through someone like AT&T it comes in
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black this color or gold and if you go
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through someone like AT&T they also have
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various payment programs and such so you
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can get it for as little as twenty three
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bucks a month and I've seen a lot of
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smart but smart phone carriers are also
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running promos buy one get one free
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upgrade your lines all that sort of
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stuff anyway this is dave taylor and
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this is one of the few devices i'm gonna
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be really bummed to send back so AT&T
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wireless you owe me because i'm sending
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this back and not keeping it samsung
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galaxy s7 dave taylor catching my next
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