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The Amazing Oaxis Inkcase i7 iPhone Case - With Its Own Screen! - Reviewed
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May 30, 2025
There's an element of mad genius to the Oaxis Inkcase i7. It's like they've glued an Amazon Kindle to the back of an Apple iPhone case, but more elegant. From photos to ebooks, a clock - updated every 60 seconds - to your daily appointments, turns out there's a lot you can have on the back of your iPhone case. But is it useful? Does it actually work? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Oaxis Inkcase i7 and finds that it's a mixed bag, as he explains in this candid review. Learn more: http://amzn.to/2fOMYah
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a screen on the back of your iPhone is
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this crazy or
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what Dave Taylor here and I can't decide
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is the oaxis ink case i7 genius or
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Madness so here's my iPhone 7 and it's
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yeah usual 7 and has a in a pretty nice
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case but the back of the case is a
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second screen
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now the technology of the second screen
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is called E in and you've seen it on um
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Kindle devices for example it's really
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interesting because it only uses power
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when you're changing the image once an
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image is on the screen it can sit there
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for months literally months without
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using any power at all but when you
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change the screen as you'll be able to
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see
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hopefully it is a little funky come on
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so you can see there's sort of a weird
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experience there but whatever it's
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really kind of interesting and so the
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idea behind this is if you could have a
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little tiny screen on the back you can
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use it for photos but there are more
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interesting things of foot for example I
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can actually read a book so here I am
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reading uh somewhere in here well I was
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reading um it's kind of buggy
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unfortunately but I actually have
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downloaded onto this um ink kit case
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Neil G's newest book Norse mythology all
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you need is an Epub version and you can
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literally download whatever chapters you
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want to read and there you are you can
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just go and step through pages and it's
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really basically like reading a book on
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the Kindle just a little teeny tiny
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Kindle screen now speaking of the screen
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it's a 4.3in display and it is running
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at 217 dots per inch at 480 by 800 and
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what's really cool about the in is that
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it actually is easier to read in
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sunlight in fact this is the perfect
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screen for you to read poolside now I
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know if you're using your phone pool
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side or in bright sunlight you're doing
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this sort of thing and you're trying to
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figure out what the heck it says so the
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E Inc is really cool in that regard but
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let's actually well hold on let me just
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tell you what else it can do so it also
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assuming it's working and friendly it
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can also do things like give you a
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little clock so now a little hard to see
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I understand but every second no sorry
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every minute it will update so this
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clock will actually stay current and it
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uses an infinitesimal amount of power so
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I expect that I could leave it like this
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and use it for probably weeks as a clock
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and never have to flip my phone over and
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use that so nice power saver there's
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also a calendar and reminder system I
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haven't had great luck with it um and
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there's also a re later news feature and
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all of this you're working together
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because there's actually an eink app on
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your phone and it's all connected via
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low power Bluetooth so here you can see
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in the eink app on my phone the choices
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are reader photos read later widgets
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which is reminders and such and then
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there's some setup options you have here
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um and the comes with a bunch of ebooks
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you can start out with things like Alice
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and Wonderland but but it's really easy
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to actually open up and and download new
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ebooks and the case itself it's pretty
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nice it's a shock absorbent they call it
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m standard protection but I didn't
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actually figure out what military
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standard they're matching so we'll just
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call it a good protective case now
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getting the phone out of the case is a
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little tricky they actually include a
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guitar pick so that when you pop um push
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it out you can run the guitar pick along
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the edges to help get the phone out of
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the case I don't have a huge issue with
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that because I like my phone to be nice
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and protected and it does actually have
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the bezel above the screen so if I do
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that the screen doesn't actually impact
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it at all that's good so it's a nice
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case and it has this fantastic
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additional feature of being actually
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like a little mini Kindle on the back of
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your phone now I have to be really
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candid with you when I first pulled it
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out I found it buggy and I kept thinking
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about why would I want this who in the
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world would actually buy a case to have
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a second screen but the more I played
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with it when it's working right the more
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I'm like oh that's actually pretty cool
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and so particularly like with the eBook
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reader the idea that I could be sitting
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outside and just reading a book and just
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tap tap you know just keep going from
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page to page is pretty neat the downside
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is that like I said I find the hardware
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buggy in terms of the buttons and I find
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the software itself is also a little
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buggy I even was getting errors like
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spotty Bluetooth and I'm like um the
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case is literally on the back of the
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phone it can't get any closer uh it's
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also worth noting that you need to
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charge the eink case and it comes with
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this very unique connector for that I'm
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not sure why they did that but it does
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mean if you lose this charging cable
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you're out of luck you have no way to
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charge this thing so micro USB kind of a
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better deal but you see this a lot with
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wearable too is where they have custom
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connectors and there's probably some
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really excellent reason why they do this
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but it's worth knowing that you need to
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make sure that you never lose the cable
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now if you lose the guitar pick you can
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probably improvise but all in all I have
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to say that it's a really interesting
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idea I think it's probably a little bit
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spendy for what it is and I really
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really wish it was less flaky and it's
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funny actually because I find myself
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constantly touching the screen thinking
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that it's a touch screen it's not a
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touchcreen it just has the little
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controls on the bottom strip and that's
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what you have to interact with so you
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sort of get the hang of it it's not
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horribly bad but it's definitely another
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thing to be aware of um if nothing else
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I guess if you have the money and you
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like it then even just having it for
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photos is kind of fun so here I am back
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to the photo of my kids and that's kind
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of neat you know it's it's a little more
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convenient than actually cutting and
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gluing or buying a phone case just to
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decide you have a new or better picture
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so having said all of that let's talk
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about the price but wait before we get
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to the price click on the Subscribe
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button thank you now how much do you
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think this is all right you're thinking
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oh I don't know 50 60 bucks maybe no
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it's
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$119 and that's what I'm saying is that
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the oaxis ink case i7 is a pretty
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interesting technology it's not even
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very thick right considering you're
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adding a second screen
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that's pretty nice it's just buggy and
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it is in a lot of ways a solution in
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search of a problem I think most people
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maybe would pick it up for 29 or 39
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bucks but for
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$119 that's a pretty spendy amount
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frankly you can buy an actual Kindle
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with a bigger screen and have it all
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work as a separate independent device
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for less than
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$119 so you know have they priced it
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right I feel like maybe Maybe not maybe
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it needs to come down in price but
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there's a lot of technology in here and
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it really is when you think about that
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there's actually a phone in here too
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it's remarkably Slim So this is Dave
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Taylor with a sort of lukewarm mixed
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review of the oaxis inase i7 I would say
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if you can score one without having to
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pay
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$119 it's pretty cool but I'm not sure
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it's worth the price so it's Dave Taylor
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and I'll catch you in my next video
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