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The Flagship LG V35 ThinQ Android Phone -- REVIEWED!
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May 29, 2025
Looking for a great Android smartphone but not a huge fan of Samsung? Or just want to see all the options out there? LG's new V35 ThinQ Slim is a great new choice for a wide variety of users, featuring a gorgeous screen, terrific sound and an AI-based camera system. But is it really the best possible choice on the market? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the LG V35 and finds it a solid option in the Android space, with much to really like. There are, however, a few things to know before you make a purchase decision... Learn more at https://www.att.com/
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it's definitely slim but is it a good
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Android phone let's check this one out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at this
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this is the LGV 35 thin Q slim and of
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course with the word slim in it you're
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expecting it to be slim and it is it's a
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remarkably beautiful piece of
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engineering and not only that but you
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can see that the screen is almost edge
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to edge and there's no notch for people
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that don't like the notch on the top
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like the iPhone 10 LG has not said let's
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duplicate that notch because hey Apple
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does it so it's interesting it's
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actually the same design as the V 30 and
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it's the same camera as the LG G 7 but
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we'll get back to the camera let me
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start with some basic specs so this is
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powered off of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
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with 6 gig of memory 64 gigas storage
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and microSD support works on Bluetooth
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5.0 which you'd expect on a modern phone
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has USB C charging it also has tada
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it has Qi charging so it works
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wirelessly - which I just I really like
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wireless charging that's cool on the top
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it's sporting a headphone jack which is
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a nice thing if you've been living with
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Bluetooth only for such a long time it's
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running Android 8.0 Oreo but I'm
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certainly expecting the next generation
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will show up as soon as LG can get it on
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their phones and dimensions are 6 inches
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by 3 inches by 0.2 9 inches so just a
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smidge more than 1/4 inch thick and it's
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5.6 ounces and here's one thing that's
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nice it's ip68 water-resistant I'm not
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going to test it because I'm a
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contestant but IP 68 means that if it
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gets into a dusty environment if you
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drop it or you spill some coffee on it
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or something you don't have to freak out
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or panic it's gonna be fine now
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battery life wise it actually has a 3300
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milliamp hour battery which is going to
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give you about 9 to 10 hours of typical
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use
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might be nice someday for LG to have a
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twelve-hour phone but on the other hand
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quite honestly especially with Qi
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charging it's pretty easy to have one of
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these by your desk have one of these at
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home and even if you just get a few
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minutes of charge on that that's still
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gonna help you make it to that 12 hour
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mark or worse or or worse or better now
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the screen itself as you can see is
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really quite gorgeous so I'll show you
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some pictures up close from the camera
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but just to start out you can see here
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that this is a six inch full vision o
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LED screen running at twenty eight
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eighty by 1440 at 538 pixels per inch or
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PPI
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it also supports HDR 10 which is the
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next generation of like really full HD
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which gives you more blacks and a lot
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more of a color palette I don't have any
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HDR 10 content to test it with but I
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trust them when they say that also has
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DTS X surround sound now it's all well
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and good to say all that stuff but if
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you're listening to the speakers on the
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phone there's no magic they could do to
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make this sound full and lush I will say
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however via headphones or earbuds this
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definitely sounds beautiful is really
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nice I was listening to Spotify for many
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hours yesterday and just really really
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enjoying it another interesting thing is
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it also has what the LG calls super
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far-field voice recognition and this is
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particularly for things like okay Google
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and what it means is that you should be
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able to talk to your phone from up to 10
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feet away or further and have it be able
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to hear you in process so at that point
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it becomes almost like having a google
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home device or something so that's
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pretty cool now let's talk about the
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camera because that's really one of the
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big differentiators now in modern
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smartphones this features a dual sensor
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camera and on the back you can see both
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of them there one of them is a 16
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megapixel @f 1.6 and that gets you a
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resolution is crazy up to 46 56 by 34 92
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why are people still shooting with
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cameras when these little tiny devices
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can do so amazingly
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and then the other camera here is the 16
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megapixel wide-angle camera and that's
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at f 1.9 again both of them really nice
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and fast you can shoot 4k video at 30
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frames a second and LG has much to do
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with what they call a I cam which is an
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object recognition AI system which is
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supposed to tweak your photos to make
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them look as good as possible for
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beaches and sunsets and portraits and
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snow and all these sort of different
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things now the front camera which i
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think is right there the front camera is
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an 8 megapixel at f 1.9 and that's a big
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step up from previous LG front facing
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cameras so that's nice too
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but mostly with these you're gonna be
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using your rear facing camera and I have
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to say I wasn't hugely impressed with AI
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cam let's have a look at a couple of
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these photos the thing that I found is
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that everything seems to be
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oversaturated which is a pretty easy
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thing for LG to get right you know I
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think that these should be able to nail
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the colors a little bit better but the
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resolution is gorgeous and there's still
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really nice photos so that's something
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to know now a couple more things it has
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a fingerprint sensor and it is nice
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smack dab in the middle of the back that
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also doubles as the power button so if
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you're on the side and you're pushing
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trying to figure out how to turn it on
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you just gotta actually pick it up and
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push it now interestingly because it
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also has Qi charging that means that
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when it's sitting on the mount on the
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charging standard on a charging flat
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unit then you can't actually power on
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the phone so then design is sort of not
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a hundred percent great to not have an
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additional power button on the side but
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it's something that you will definitely
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get used to pretty quickly the thing I
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most liked about this though is I just
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like the form factor you know we have so
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many phones that are big and thick and
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clunky and this as I said it's
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remarkably slim it's just it's a bright
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vivid screen it's super fast you know
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and takes reasonably decent photos and
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it's just a really nice has a nice hand
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feel to it it's really the perfect size
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for at least my hand
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for me to be able to maneuver all with
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one hand there's a lot I really like
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about it one of the other things I like
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about it is this is one of the few
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really cool phones to support project
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fee which is actually Google's you know
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one in cellular service over Wi-Fi and
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everything so if you are interested in
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project fee and I'm a couple of friends
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that are using it this is a really nice
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option for you now I got mine from AT&T
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so it also obviously is an AT&T phone as
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are really the entire range of all the
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phones from LG and this particular one
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well let's hold off and let's not get to
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the price quite yet because I want to
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tell you a couple more things one of
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which is that the Qi charger is not
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included but not only that the other
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thing that really surprised me is there
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are no headphones or earbuds or anything
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included it has a charging cable and it
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has a charging wall plug and that's all
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you get now yeah I think it's one of the
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very few phones I've seen in a while
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that doesn't include earbuds to be fair
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most of the earbuds are not that great
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but on the other hand you look at like
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some of the more modern stuff coming out
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from Sony and with your $900 smartphone
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you're getting $200 earbuds with it so
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you know Apple same thing you buy a
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thousand dollar iPhone and you're
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getting $100 pair of earbuds with it so
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I'm not sure what motivated LG to skip
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having earbuds of any sort in the box
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and I'm also gonna guess that no one's
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gonna make the no purchase or purchase
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decision based on that because you
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probably already have good stuff anyway
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but it just it was an interesting choice
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on their part now before I get to the
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price let me ask if you can click on
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be snarky I will be snarky right back to
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you so cool LG v35 thin Q slim
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their modern flagship smartphone it's
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really a sweet phone it will run you
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nine hundred dollars at AT&T dot-com
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which you can of course break down into
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thirty payments so it's nice and
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painless but here's something else to
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think about is that this is only fifteen
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dollars cheaper than buying the Samsung
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Galaxy S nine plus so I'm not sure LG
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priced this at exactly the right point
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at $900 but honestly if you're in the
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market for a high-end beautiful
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well-designed Android phone this could
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be one that should be on your shortlist
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this is Dave Taylor I think I'm going to
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get back to working on my photos which
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means I'll catch you in my next video
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