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Everyone can afford the NUU N20 Budget Android Smartphone - DEMO & REVIEW
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May 29, 2025
If you've been conditioned to think that you have to spend $750 or more on an Android smartphone, you'll be startled to learn that the NUU N20 Android Smartphone - with a 6.6" HD screen - costs less than the tax on a top-end device. Tech expert Dave Taylor checks out the latest from NUU and finds that while it has some significant limitations, it's also a remarkable phone with a lot of great features at a budget price. Check it out at: https://amzn.to/42SAKRW Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ 0:00 Introduction 1:22 Intro to the NUU N20 2:18 Basic Specs 3:20 Camera Specs 4:00 Photo Demos 4:52 Video Demos 6:08 More Phone Specs: Not 5G 7:29 Included in the Box 8:56 Important: Carrier Compatibility 9:45 Commentary 10:55 Price and Wrap-Up #android #smartphone #nuu #budgetphone #nuutelecom #askdavetaylor
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a big bright beautiful Android
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smartphone and you won't believe how
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affordable it is let's check this
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out dave Taylor here and I'll tell you
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smartphones are getting more and more
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expensive in fact I probably don't need
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to tell you that you probably already
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know that top-of-the-line smartphones
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can be
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$1,000
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$1,200 $1,500 if you're looking at ones
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that unfold they can be
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$2,000 that is a lot of money for a
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smartphone now to be fair it is the
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centerpiece of most people's
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technological lives and we really do
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rely on them so having a really nice
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high-end phone is really fun but not
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everyone needs that you might be a
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teenager or have a teenager you might be
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a senior citizen you might have a family
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member who never really uses a phone
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except once in a blue moon but in those
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cases they still want the access to all
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of the apps and the social networks and
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they want to be able to go and stream
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content and even watch a movie on an
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airplane or something so there's a
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demand for really affordable smartphones
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but you ain't going to find them at most
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cellular carrier stores so enter
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third-party companies this is the new
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N20 budget Android smartphone and I'm
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going to just take all the suspense out
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of this and tell you this is
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$125 that's it that's the full price for
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this and that is less than the tax I
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paid on the last iPhone that I bought i
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didn't even like that wasn't even like
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buying the phone that was just paying
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demand for the privilege of being able
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to buy the phone and this is a whole
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purchase you get it and it's yours and
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it includes a soft rubber case it
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includes a screen protector that's
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pre-installed and as you can see this
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one is a very nice purple color it
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actually comes in four different colors
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but let me tell you a little more bit
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more about it and then later I'll have
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some demo photos and video footage so
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it's not you know as good as a thousand
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phone but it's remarkably good at what
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it does so it features a 6.6 in HD plus
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display at 1600 by 720 running at 90
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hertz so 90 Hz is the refresh rate and
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bigger numbers are always better so if
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you have a really slow refresh rate and
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for example you're in an environment
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with fluorescent lighting the frequency
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of that lighting can make your screen
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look really weird so this is a faster
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refresh so that's not an issue it's
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powered by an octaore UNISOC T606
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running at 1.6 GHz max and it's not the
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fastest phone in the world but it's
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certainly fast enough that I can do
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things like move around and get apps
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running and such let's go back to where
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I was let's see so I mean it runs along
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pretty snappy and certainly snappy
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enough and that screen is really nice
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and bright
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128 gig of storage it has three cameras
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the two cameras on the back are a 16
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megapixel regular camera an 8 megapixel
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wide angle camera and then on the front
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in what they call the hole punch is a 5
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megapixel front camera it also has a
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fingerprint sensor on the power button
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so I set it up so if I just put my thumb
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on it it will unlock so very modern
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phone right with all of these fancy
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features it also f going back to the
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photography it has an AI image
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enhancement system though again the
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images well you know what let's just go
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ahead and go jump into some of these
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demos we'll start with photos and then
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I'll give you some video examples let's
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start with all the defaults on photo
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capture you can see it's a very nice
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image if we go to an extreme zoom though
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it does look pretty pixelated and so
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probably you're not going to be doing a
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whole lot of zooms
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and then you can look at instead of
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capture compare that with these pro
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defaults for a
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photo and then an
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ultrawide and then a
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selfie and then a selfie using portrait
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mode and then this is the challenging
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part night mode and it didn't do very
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well with night mode to be fair that's a
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really tough environment let's jump over
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to some videos this first video is the
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default video capture
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settings then I'll zoom in for the
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second
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video slow motion
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time
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lapse and a couple of different selfies
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this is a selfie video and it's doing a
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pretty good job with the lighting it's
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actually really pretty awful lighting
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cuz the lighting is behind me and mostly
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directly overhead but I am in a windy
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environment and you can still hear my
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voice and you can see it's doing a
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pretty good job with this capture so
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this is a selfie video this is another
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selfie video but this time I've managed
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to find a little bit of shade so you can
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see it's doing a much better job by
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comparison this video I'm capturing with
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the rearfacing camera so theoretically
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it actually should be higher resolution
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and it should look better it has also
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gotten a bit windier so I'm not sure how
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this sound's going to be but I'll let
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you decide what you think it's running
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Android 14 with Bluetooth 5.0 and that
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supports Wi-Fi ABGN and AC so it doesn't
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support Wi-Fi 6 it doesn't support Wi-Fi
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7 which is the very latest standard but
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odds are pretty good you don't have
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Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 7 more importantly I
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should emphasize this is not a 5G
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compatible phone this does not have the
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chipset needed to run on the higher
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speed 5G cellular network now some
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people are concerned about the health
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ramifications of that 5G network so
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having a non- 5G phone they might view
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as a plus for the rest of us it still
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works it still works just fine it's just
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not the fastest cellular connection
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possible but given the price point are
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you willing to save 90% on the price of
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your phone so that you actually end up
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using a slightly slower network i think
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a lot of people would say yes so dual
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SIM fingerprint
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sensor and I love that it has no
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bloatware so there's nothing else that
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the company adds there's literally
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almost nothing from new there's new help
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that's the only app I will tell you
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especially like Samsung and stuff they
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add so much stuff it's really kind of
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annoying so phone comes with the
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protective case comes with a screen
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protector comes with USBC to USBA
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charging cable and a wall charger most
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companies are now skipping this part so
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it's nice to have everything you need
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and instructions and of course who
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doesn't love stickers so it comes with
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two stickers too so that's a lot let me
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give you a tour of the ports because it
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has a 3.5 millimeter audio jack i wish
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all phones still had that but everything
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else is moving to Bluetooth new said you
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know what 3.5 thing you plug in easy
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let's make sure it's part of the phone
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so starting on the top this is the top
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and you can see there's three holes
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punched for a tiny little speaker and
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then there's that 3.5 mm audio out on
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the right hand side is the power button
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aka fingerprint sensor and then the
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larger button is actually volume up and
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down on the bottom is USBC for charging
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and all of those little holes are
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punched out so that the speaker on this
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side actually sounds better and gives
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you a little more audio and then on the
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left side there's that SIM tray that you
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can use on the back there's really not
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much other than two camera lenses and a
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little flash that's built in and on the
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front well that's the phone so the
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front's pretty easy i will say that you
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have to check carrier compatibility with
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these sorts of third party phones this
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one is not compatible with a lot of the
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major carriers but it is compatible with
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a lot of the sort of secondary com um
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carriers check their website or check
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Amazon i'll have a link in the
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description and it'll give you exact
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details do that before you acquire one
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of these lest you have a teenager that
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says "Seriously you bought me a phone
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and it doesn't work with our cellular
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network." Did you even think this
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through no one wants an raging teen been
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there done that dimensions wise 6.5 in
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by 3 in by.35 in thick it's really a
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beautiful piece of engineering in fact
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let me just say the fact that this is at
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the price it is is really astonishing
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because this is a really nicely made
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phone and it feels like it has a lot of
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great features and it's a really good
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build quality comes with everything you
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need this would be such a great present
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for someone and as you saw it does okay
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with video and photography it's not like
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the top-of-the-line sensors that it has
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in the unit but it's certainly good
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enough to get you going and if you're a
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tween or a teen or a senior it's going
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to work just fine night mode could do
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with some improvement but that's
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something that's just most phones have a
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hard time with anyway so there you go
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that's pretty much everything I got i am
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a fan you know this comes in four
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different colors green purple this color
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or blue or pink and it's just a delight
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to get something that's in a little
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modest box and you open it up and it's
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everything you need right there ready to
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go no more fuss no having to go back to
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Target or Walmart or Best Buy and say
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"Oh we forgot a case." Right so
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everything's in there so really lots to
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click that thumbs up great this as I
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have been saying is the new N20 budget
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Android smartphone comes in four
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different colors and it is
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$125.99 at
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amazon.com so there's lots to like here
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and you know really it makes you wonder
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why are you spending $500 $700 $900 more
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for a phone when something at this price
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point is entirely functional for a lot
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of people that's what I got hope to
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catch you in my next
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