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so today I'm actually going to be
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revisiting a tablet that is honestly one
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of the most popular Android tablets that
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I've seen in quite a while it's the
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Samsung Galaxy Tab A9 plus and it's very
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popular not because it's the best tablet
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but because it's such a good value this
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year so I really wanted to revisit that
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tablet and really look at how it's
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changed and how that tablet has aged
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over time for me so with all that being
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said let's get right into it and let's
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talk about the Samsung Galaxy Tab A9
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Plus
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so the Galaxy Tab A9 plus it is in the
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Samsung Galaxy a line of course but last
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year it wasn't all that good with the A8
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but this year we are seeing such
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dramatic improvements that I really feel
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like a lot of people are resonating with
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this tablet because it's actually a lot
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faster than the A8 and the A7 and a lot
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of those other previous tablets and we
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even get a 90 HZ refresh rate this year
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and what we're seeing now is that the
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tablet is even better whenever you
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consider the value so this tablet of
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course does retail at
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$229 but what we are seeing is a lot of
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sales so I've seen this tablet go on
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sale quite often for about
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$180 and lately with the very biggest
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sales like the biggest sales you're ever
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going to see on this tablet it will
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probably bring it down to about $150 now
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that does come with 4 GB of RAM and 64
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gigs of storage but remember this tablet
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does have an SD card slot so that is a
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very very good value of course there are
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a lot of competitors out there with this
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tablet but it is really the fastest
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tablet that you're going to find around
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this price point whether it is 180 even
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if you find it for 150 I think those are
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really the sales you're going to be
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looking for and if you find it for 160
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170 180 and whenever you go to Best Buy
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you could look at the open box Market
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you're going to see that this tablet
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again really provides a very good bang
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for the buck but there are still some
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compromises we need to look at of course
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if you look at the design of the tablet
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you're going to see it's very decent and
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very good quality speakers of course it
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won't be as good as those 67800 tablets
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but the speakers are actually pretty
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decent here and it does have a nice
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feeling aluminum build to it now it does
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have a keyboard cover and that is
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something we have to talk about because
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at the bottom of the tablet you are
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going to see these little Pogo pin
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things for a keyboard cover and no one
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has been talking about it because
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Samsung has been slow to release that
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keyboard cover but finally they have
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released it and I have to say I am
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pretty impressed this keyboard cover is
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similar to The Slim keyboard covers that
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we have seen in previous years from the
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tab S9 lineup and the tab S8 lineup so
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yeah it's going to be very similar to
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that it's not going to have a touchpad
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but it is a very good experience in fact
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I used to have a lot of keyboard cover
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bugs with previous Samsung keyboard
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covers they wouldn't really keep up with
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how fast I can type and this keyboard
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cover is keeping up so I am am actually
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very impressed with it now is it worth
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all that money whenever the tablet costs
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almost as much as the keyboard cover
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well it does depend on who you are as
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far as what you're willing to pay but it
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is a very nice keyboard cover that I do
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like and if you don't like that of
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course you could get a Bluetooth
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keyboard there are plenty of bluetooth
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keyboard options that will work for this
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and you could just get a case and bring
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the keyboard with you whenever you need
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it but that is a very impressive update
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to finally have a keyboard cover of
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course we do have an SD card as well and
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a headphone jack which is something not
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a lot of people talk about but most
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tablets just don't have that anymore but
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one thing that's missing is a
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fingerprint sensor there is no
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fingerprint sensor on the sides there is
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none in the screen you're just going to
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have to use a pin code or use Face
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Unlock and Face Unlock is okay it works
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fine but it's not the best thing in the
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world now I will say some of you are
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going to be looking at this tablet and
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you're going to consider buying it for
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your kids it is a very fast tablet for
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what a lot of kids are going to need
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it's going to be very good for a lot of
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basic things it's going to play most
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games on Lower in settings but it's
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going to be able to play them fine it
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works with Roblox and a lot of other
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games so it is going to be good for your
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basic usage for things like that but if
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you're worried about durability and how
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it's going to last in the hands of kids
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I would say you just really need to get
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a good case for it so I did get a nice
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case for my daughter it does work very
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very well and if you get one of these
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it's really easy for a kid to carry
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around it has a nice little kickstand on
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it of course with these two little legs
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that pop out so if you get a good case
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it's going to be in good hands now my
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tablet it did not really do too well but
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it's mainly because I dropped it while I
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was recording some stuff but whenever my
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daughter was using this tablet it
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actually had no problems it wasn't
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breaking or anything like that and she
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was able to take pretty good care of it
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not because she's so great but again a
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nice case can go a long way so I would
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recommend that if you do have kids
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moving on to the display the display is
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is mixed I know some people are going to
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dislike it they're going to say it's
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Dole it's not AMOLED so if you have a
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phone like a Galaxy s23 or an s24 even
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if you have some of these four or $500
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phones most of them have OLED screens or
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AMOLED screens well you're not going to
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get that in a tablet around $200 so you
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are going to have to deal with a screen
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that is a little more dull as far as the
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colors it's not as good as the tab S9 Fe
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for example and it's not as good as the
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r tab S9 so mostly at least in tablet
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world you're not going to get a AMOLED
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screen or an OLED screen unless you pay
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at least 4 or $500 and most of those
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tablets even don't have an AMOLED screen
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so yeah you are going to have to deal
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with the colors being a little more
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lifeless you're not going to get a crazy
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bright screen here it's going to be just
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under 500 nits and some people are going
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to notice it around 450 or so but the
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one good thing about the screen is that
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we get a 90 HZ display and that is
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something that we're seeing now in
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budget tablets but we haven't seen that
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it's actually a fairly new thing so a
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refresh rate is very important for a lot
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of people because whenever you are
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scrolling on your device it allows your
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screen to refresh faster it will make
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everything feel smoother and the A9 plus
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does feel actually pretty smooth
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whenever you're using it now the base
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model it does have only 64 gigs of
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storage so that is an issue for some
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people and also it only has four gigs of
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RAM if you want more RAM that is going
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to make it a little bit easier to
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multitask between apps it will allow
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more apps to stay open in the background
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so you won't have to refresh them or
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reopen them so if you're someone who
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only does a few things at a time and if
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you don't mind just waiting with that
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initial stage of an app opening I think
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you're going to be fine with 4 GB of RAM
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but if you are someone that wants to go
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back and forth between a lot of apps and
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leave them open in the background then
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yeah getting that extra Ram will help
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and whenever we see these crazy sales
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that means you could also get great
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sales on the model that comes with 128
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gigs of storage and that is actually
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pretty important if you could find that
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model under $200 well that is going to
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be a great way to get a good tablet for
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a reasonable price now this is an 11in
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tablet so it's not a huge tablet there
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are some tablets out there that have
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been going on sale that are a little
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larger just remember that you typically
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pay for screen size so if you want an
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11in tablet and if you want to get a
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cheap companion to bring with you this
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is a great option for those of you who
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aren't going to be nitpicking about an
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OLED display if you're not going to be
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nitpicking about having perfect
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performance because this does perform
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very very well for the money so it does
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have a Snapdragon 695 and it does
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actually fly through quite a bit of
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stuff of course if you are using it for
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more intense things or if you want a
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game on very high settings that's not
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going to happen but it does actually go
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through basic tasks pretty well and
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that's why I just hate how a lot of
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people aren't considering tablets like
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this a lot of people think they need $7
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800 devices but we are finally in a day
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and age where you could get very good
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performance for this price and I'm
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actually very very impressed here at
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this point what you're missing is that
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extra boost that extra jump that you
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need if you are gaming on higher
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settings or if you really have to wait
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for just even half a second a lot of
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times we get annoyed if we have to wait
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that extra half second so yeah there are
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going to be some people that really want
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better performance this does compare
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very well it's actually fairly
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equivalent in performance to the Galaxy
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a25 if you know that phone it's very
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equivalent in performance to the Galaxy
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Tab S6 light of
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2024 so you're going to get pretty good
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performance here but it won't be quite
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as good as the S9 Fe it's not as good as
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the Galaxy a54 or the Galaxy A35 so that
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should give you an idea of what you're
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looking at and if you're okay with that
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you're still going to have a fairly
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smooth experience and I think a lot of
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people won't mind it's going to be a
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very good companion and that's why I say
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it's very good for kids too because if
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you're worried about buying a tablet
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that's going to lag all the time I think
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this will actually be pretty good
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especially for kids all right so now
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let's talk about extra features that's
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really what you're missing whenever
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you're buying a tablet like this and
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whenever you look at extra features well
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you're not going to get a ton you do get
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Samsung decks which is very nice but you
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cannot connect it to a USBC HDMI adapter
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to get it to a monitor if you want to
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use a monitor with this you're not going
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to be able to have that experience
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you're going to have to do some things
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wirelessly or you're going to have to CH
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cast to a TV or do things to get your
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device connected and that's going to be
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a little bit too much for a lot of
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people also battery life battery life
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isn't Sensational it's a 7,40 milliamp
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battery so sure you're not going to be
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powering up some jet engine with this
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processor and that's going to help save
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maybe a little bit of battery life but
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still you're not going to get tremendous
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battery life compared to some higher in
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tablets that have a little bit of bigger
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batteries but it's still okay it's still
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good I could still say about 6 to 7
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hours of screen on time should be fine
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for you but you're missing a little bit
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of battery size here you're missing that
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fingerprint sensor you're missing that
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extra jump in the screen to get you to a
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very nice OLED or to get you the nicer
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screen that the tab S9 Fe has you are
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going a step below that having a little
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bit of more dull colors but you're still
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getting a full resolution on the screen
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so you're going to have a nice looking
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display for some people again it really
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just depends on your expectations that's
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that's what this tablet is really about
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it all depends on what you're expecting
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if you're wanting a cheaper tablet to be
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a companion this is one of the better
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tablets you could find on Android around
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200 bucks in years like there has not
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been a tablet around this price point
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that has been this good for a while so
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Samsung really stepped it up now we get
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Samsung deck we get a decent performing
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device with a decent Snapdragon
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processor and normally we would have to
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pay3 or $400 to get that last year we
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got a uniso processor from the tab A8
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for example whenever that came out so
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the point is we are getting a nice step
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up this year in the budget category no
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it's not as good as the performance that
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you would get from those base level
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iPads I understand that but we also get
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decent performance with some extra
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things like Samsung deck it will work
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really well with Android phones of
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course we have Quick Share allowing us
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to share files between all of our
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Android devices so there is a lot to
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like now you're not going to get all of
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the Galaxy AI features that you are
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getting in other devices in fact you
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won't get very many of them at all so
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yeah we are seeing some things trickle
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down but not a whole lot as far as other
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things that you might talk about an s
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pin well there's no s pin here you're
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going to have to buy a compactive stylus
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and that's basically a stylus that
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doesn't notice it's a stylus it really
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thinks that you're using your finger
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whenever you're using it so there's no
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extra features that are built into it
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but you could always find a compassive
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stylist if you really care about that
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and if we talk about competitors at this
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price point I think the only real
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competition right now is the Lenovo M11
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and I'm talking in the US now there is
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more competition maybe overseas but the
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Lenovo tab M1 is very very good it does
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not perform as well but the display is
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very similar as far as quality and it
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has a cheaper price point so that's the
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thing the Lenovo tab M11 you might find
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it on a nice Prime day sale or you might
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find it on a Black Friday sale or
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something around A1 $ you might find it
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for 110 or 120 if you find it for a
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really really low price like that
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obviously it's going to be a great deal
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Samsung their very best price that you
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might see is about 150 but most of the
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time a very good sale on the Samsung is
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at
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180 so you're going to save 30 or 40
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bucks to go to Lenovo if you do choose
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that but you are going to take a hit in
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performance to get that so that's why
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it's a great competitor but at the same
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time I'd say the Samsung it really
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stands its ground and if you compare it
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to the tab S6 light 2024 yeah that
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device is great if you really want an s
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pin if you don't want an s pin the A9
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plus is really going to be a better buy
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in my opinion so when we look at
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everything that's out there and if we
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look to see if the A9 plus is worth
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buying I would say it's a great device
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even today I would say it is worth
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buying it's held up very well even with
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my daughter using it a ton I've used it
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off and on it's been very very reliable
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able it's been very quick I know some
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people had a little bit of an issue as
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far as multi-touch whenever they were
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gaming for example if you had two
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fingers on the screen at the same time
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it wasn't recognizing them properly I
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have not had that issue now I didn't
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really pay attention much to it early on
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I didn't really notice it but with some
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updates I'm sure it got fixed I guess I
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don't know but I've been able to game
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just fine using two fingers and going
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back and forth there so those issues
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maybe you'll see that type of issue
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again feel free to comment down below if
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you're still seeing it maybe there's
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some Hardware issue there with some
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people I don't know but I haven't
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noticed that my device has been working
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great I think this tablet is a
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tremendous value under $200 the screen
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is more than good enough with a full HD
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resolution it is quick enough for a lot
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of basic stuff and I would still
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recommend it even now there has not been
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a lot that's really changed with it I
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still think it's one of the better
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values and with all these sales that has
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been one of the biggest changes we've
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seen I really think that you should
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still pick it up even today so thank you
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I really appreciate you and I really
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hope you have a great day and I hope you
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