While many users of the OPPO Find X5 Pro are enjoying the new ColorOS 12.1 experience, some people might not know just how powerful and effective some of the included tools can be. Certain areas of the user experience have received a strong focus on improvement. This can particularly be found with efficiency features, audio/visual experience, and safety. In this thread, I'm going to go over many different aspects of ColorOS 12.1, which will let you be a power user.
Smart and EfficientMulti-screen connect
Everyone shares the load of work and play between their smartphone and computer. OPPO is always looking for ways to make the connection between these two devices simpler. With Multi-Screen Connect, you can sync notifications, files, and the clipboard, across the two devices. This means that when you switch to your pc, you can set your phone down and not bother checking it for any incoming notifications.
This feature is especially useful for anyone that does productivity work on both their mobile and PC. A more unified experience with the two devices means fewer distractions and an easier workflow.
Tip: The most effective way to take advantage of Multi-screen connect is with wireless file transfer. Use the 256GB of storage on the OPPO Find X5 Pro as a backup drive for all of your work documents.
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Flexdrop 2.0
It took me a while before I got the hang of the split-screen type feature on my OPPO Find X5 Pro. Flexdrop 2.0 offers split-screen and floating windows. Both of these types of multitasking environments can be adjusted as you see fit.
To get started with Flexdrop 2.0, go to the Special features menu in the settings. Here you’ll be able to change the settings for Flexible windows and Smart Sidebar. Both of these play a role in your ideal Flexdrop 2.0 setup.
Tip: The best Flexdrop 2.0 configuration
Smart Sidebar - Toggle on
Show app names - Toggle off
Button free Flexible windows - Toggle on
Quick-hide windows in-game - Toggle on
This is the most distraction-free and easiest way to take advantage of Flexdrop 2.0.
Air Gesture
As a new feature in ColorOS 12.1, the goal of Air Gestures is simple. This lets you scroll through websites and apps with the flip of your hard. You can also control incoming calls with air gestures, but I think very few people will actually use that.
Turn on Air Gestures and go through the tutorial. Once you’re all set up, you can scroll through apps without physically interacting with your phone.
Tip: Use Air Gestures to scroll through TikTok. Prop your phone up at an angle when you’re at your work desk, then casually flip through videos without touching your phone.
Adaptive Sleep
If you’re tired of your screen dimming or shutting off when you’re trying to read something, enable the Adaptive Sleep feature. This feature uses access to your camera to detect when you’re looking at your screen. Your screen will no longer shut off when you don’t interact with it, as long as you’re looking at your device.
Tip: Use adaptive sleep for long meetings, so you avoid audible screen touches or button presses through your microphone.
Audio/Visual/Physical experienceColor Vision Enhancement
Color Vision Enhancement is much more than just a higher color saturation of your display. This settings menu lets you test different color filters to find the best visual setup.
Tip: Take the color vision test to determine which color settings are the best for you.
O-Haptics
The revamped user experience extends to the physical feedback that you get from your phone as well. Equipped with the most powerful vibration motor in any phone, the OPPO Find X5 Pro is the perfect device to take advantage of the O-Haptics settings. You can adjust the way your haptics feel with an intensity slider.
Tip: Set “How touches feel” to Crisp or Gentle to further customize the feel.
Binaural Recording
A more immersive and realistic audio result will be paired with your videos when you shoot video on the OPPO Find X5 Pro. Expect clearer vocals and less background noise intrusion when you watch your footage back.
Tip: Turn on Smart mode in Audio effects if you use digital zoom when you film. This mode can focus the recorded audio on your subject as you zoom in on it.
For an experience that merges all of the new audio, visual, and physical enhancements, try O-relax. This included app contains many different relaxing ambient sounds, visual stress releases, and world immersion using O-Haptics.
Tip: Explore the Alien World in O-Relax for a very interesting look at an impressive display of all of these features in one place.
Safety and PrivacyPrivacy Control
ColorOS is known for implementing some powerful privacy tools. Use these tools to control access to apps, permissions, camera/microphone, and more. You can even set up an entirely fresh system with System cloner, or hide specific apps that you don’t want others to see.
Tip: Regularly check your Privacy dashboard, to see which apps are using sensitive permissions like camera, location, and microphone.
Accessibility
Smartphones are always including more accessibility options that make these devices easier to use for more people. Check out the large number of options that are listed in the accessibility setting menu.
Tip: Toggle on Amplify speech volume, to really boost the max volume of text-to-speech features when you’re in loud environments.
Use these features to maximize your usage of ColorOS 12.1, and use your OPPO Find X5 Pro to its full extent. If you have more ColorOS tips or questions about these features, leave a comment in this thread.
[Thanks to OPPO for supporting this thread]
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Is there a way to use multi screen connect on Mac Os?
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As usual with every Nexus launch, we run into early adopter bugs and pain points that get fixed with 6.0.x updates. Since Hiroshi seems to listening (e.g. the emoji update via reddit thread), I figure we should compile our bugs/features requests into a nice list, cross-post with reddit, and then send it on to the Android team? They most likely know about these things, but may not know the impact ...
These are my bugs / feature requests:
1. [bug] - Video camera is recording inverted. (To reproduce, download Barcode Scanner and see the inverted recording live. Setting up Google Authenticator was a pain ....)
2. [feature request] - Option to disable haptic feedback or shorten it when launching the camera from the power button. The long, strong buzz is not wanted.
3. [feature request] - Soften/dial down the haptic motor. It's a bit sharp with an audible pitched noise. Very jarring from the low, wobbly rumble of the N5
4. [feature request] - More consistent ambient display behavior (or publish guidelines on how to trigger)). Right now it's a crapshoot when I see it and I haven't figured out how to trigger it regularly.
5. [bug] - USB settings aren't sticky in developer options. When setting it from charging -> MTP in developer options, this selection doesn't stay sticky when connecting to a Mac (on El Capitan). It defaults to charging only no matter what.
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As usual with every Nexus launch, we run into early adopter bugs and pain points that get fixed with 6.0.x updates. Since Hiroshi seems to listening (e.g. the emoji update via reddit thread), I figure we should compile our bugs/features requests into a nice list, cross-post with reddit, and then send it on to the Android team? They most likely know about these things, but may not know the impact ...
These are my bugs / feature requests:
1. [bug] - Video camera is recording inverted. (To reproduce, download Barcode Scanner and see the inverted recording live. Setting up Google Authenticator was a pain ....)
2. [feature request] - Option to disable haptic feedback or shorten it when launching the camera from the power button. The long, strong buzz is not wanted.
3. [feature request] - Soften/dial down the haptic motor. It's a bit sharp with an audible pitched noise. Very jarring from the low, wobbly rumble of the N5
4. [feature request] - More consistent ambient display behavior (or publish guidelines on how to trigger)). Right now it's a crapshoot when I see it and I haven't figured out how to trigger it regularly.
5. [bug] - USB settings aren't sticky in developer options. When setting it from charging -> MTP in developer options, this selection doesn't stay sticky when connecting to a Mac (on El Capitan). It defaults to charging only no matter what.
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On 4 I had this problem, but I've found it is constantly triggered if I lift the phone whist moving it vertical, if it is already in the hand, lower hand so the X5 is more or less horizontal then bring it vertical.
On 5, this is a safety/security feature to stop malware or a virus's being installed from rouge chargers or other any computer we might be using just for charging, so as a fail-safe, the phone does't enable any data communications unless told to.
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On 5, this is a safety/security feature to stop malware or a virus's being installed from rouge chargers or other any computer we might be using just for charging, so as a fail-safe, the phone does't enable any data communications unless told to.
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Ah ok, that makes sense. In that case, #5 should be a change to the Android File Transfer app. With the new default USB behavior, the user experience is:
1. Plug Android to computer
2. Android File Transfer auto-launches and throws this error
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3. Swipe down and pick MTP from the USB options list
4. Close Android File Transfer and wait for it to re-launch with MTP enabled and access to files
This is a poor experience for a normal task. It should be
1. Plug Android to computer
2. Android File Transfer auto-launches and confirms phone is connected and currently in charging mode (and a note that swiping down will give user more usb options)
3. Selecting MTP gives access to device
Accessibility options are designed to make your device easier to use — while normally associated with making Android more approachable for the elderly or for helping the physically disabled, anyone can benefit from checking out some of these lesser-known settings. Let’s check out what Android has been hiding.
1. Services
1.1 Talkback: Google Talkback will give you verbal, audio, and vibration cues by acting as a built-in screen reader. It's perfect for the visually impaired.
Steps to enable feature:
- Go to settings >Accessibility .
- Select Talkback .
- Click on Talkback settings to set volume , keyboard echo , touch exploration etc.
- After you enable this feature it will give you verbal cues for each action.
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- long press on power button then to disable this feature touch and hold the screen with fingers for more than 3 seconds
1.2 Switch Access: It allows you to configure hard buttons to perform certain tasks to enable better navigation for the visually impaired and makes a pretty powerful tool when paired up with Talkback.
Users can assign hard keys for different tasks.
2. System
2.1 Captions: Enables the system wide closed caption system for videos. It allows videos to display captions based on the parameters decided upon here, and you can change the text size and color within set parameters.
2.2 Magnification Gestures: Magnifies the entire system UI. Activate by triple-tapping on the display inside any apps on the device, pan around using a two-finger drag and zoom in/out further using pinch-to-zoom.
2.3 Power button ends call: When this setting is enabled, you can simply press your device's power button to end a call. This setting can make it faster and easier to hang up
2.4 Speak Passwords: Exactly what it says it does. Use only if you really, really need to use it and please use it with caution even then.
2.5 Accessibility shortcut: This will allow you to quickly enable accessibility features, even while the device is locked.
Step 1: press and hold the power button until you hear a sound or feel a vibration.
Step 2: Touch and hold two fingers until you hear audio confirmation
2.6 Text to Speech: This allows you to choose the text-to-speech engine of your choice, where Google's is the default. Even then you've got languages to choose from and the quality of sound you want to hear.
2.7 Touch and Hold Delays: For those with dexterity issues, how long you need to press and hold to complete actions could be an issue. This allows you to alter the duration required to three different settings.
3. Display
3.1 Color Inversion: This feature flip the entire device color scheme to the inverse. It works across the whole system UI and inside all applications.
3.2 Color Correction: There are options to change the display mode based on different types of color blindness:
Deuteranomaly (red-green)
Protanaomaly (red-green)
Tritanomaly (blue-yellow)
Screenshots taken and shared in any of these display modes will not reflect the changes you've made, so anyone else will be able to view them without any changes.
To enable or disable the abovesettings, follow these steps:
1. Go to Settings > Accessibility.
2. Select any Option you want from the above .
I hope I've sparked your interest enough to encourage you to check them out for yourself because there's some truly great stuff in there, whether you think you need it or not.
What is Tasker?Tasker is an automation app for Android. The basic concept with Tasker is “if X happens, do Y,” where the ridiculous number of Xs and Ys available making it as complex as it is. An example of a relatively simple Tasker setup is “if the phone is put upside down while ringing, mute the sound,” but the sky is the limit for how complex something can be.
Why should I learn Tasker?Learning Tasker is guaranteed to revolutionize how you use your Android device. Tasker gives you the ability to custom tailor your device the way you want it, so that you’re not forced to use some lowest common denominator product. I personally have replaced a lot of actual apps with Tasker creations I have made myself, and custom made those to fit my exact needs.
Can anyone learn Tasker?Tasker shares some similarities with programming, but that’s by no means a prerequisite for learning it. Having an analytical mind that thrives on logical thinking will however help you a lot, and it doesn’t hurt if you’re creative either. The more experience you have with using software of any kind, the easier it will also be to use Tasker, because this is not an app that comes with a user manual, and so you have to be able to use common sense and just try to see what happens a lot of the time. Because of that, impatient people who expect everything to be handed to them should stay as far away from Tasker as possible.
For a head start, you can skip the learning curve, and just import the ready-made Tasker profiles that I have made for Lenovo K8 Note (Root not required).
Downloading & Setup Tasker, Importing things:Tasker gathers various information from all the sensors and os. So it need almost all the permissions of a device. That’s why I strongly recommend to download Taker from play store. A hacker may design a modified version of Tasker that can send sensitive private data over the internet (For example, Tasker can capture image with the front cam and send it to a remote location without any user interaction). Please check the functionality of a profile that isn’t created by you.
Setup: After downloading launch Tasker> Upper right corner menu> Preferences. In the UI tab disable Beginner Mode; in the MONITOR tab make sure Run in Foreground is checked. You can disable the notification icon by clearing ‘Show notification icon’. A permanent notification of Tasker will be on phone and this is important. Make sure any power saving feature/app like Greenify is not blocking Tasker from running in background.
Now go back from preferences> Menu> More>Android Settings> Enable all the permissions there.
Importing things: Tasker has four tabs on main screen: PROFILES, TASKS, SCENES, VARIABLES. A Profile is a condition (the ‘X’) with linked Task (the ‘Y’). A Task (which is normally linked with a Profile) is the action which will be performed by tasker if the condition of the linked Profile is met.
I’ll upload all the Profiles, Tasks required to achieve a functionality in zip file. De-compress/extract the zip file in a known location> Click on respective tab on Tasker> Import> point to the location of extracted files.
Get-Started:Bluetooth Auto Off:
Tasker will show a notification (With a button to disable Bluetooth) if Bluetooth is on for 5 min and no device is connected.
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Wifi Auto Off:
Wifi will be turned off automatically if not connected to any device for 2 min.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4331461&d=1510588399
Battery Alert:
At 15% Battery it will say loudly that it need a recharge. At 5% Battery, you’ll get a notification with error beep. And finally when the battery is fully charged, the device will say that loudly.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4331462&d=1510588399
Get a List of Players when Headset is Connected:
You will get a list of pre-configured apps to launch quickly whenever you connect a headset in 3.5 mm jack and it will set media volume to 11 (in a scale of 15). This profile needs manual configuration: you can add/remove apps to the list. Go to Tasks> Headphone Connect> Menu> Items to modify the list.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4331463&d=1510588399
Get a prompt for Tethering when connected to PC with USB:
You’ll get a prompt asking for USB tethering whenever you connect your phone to pc with USB.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4331464&d=1510588534
Add the missing Sound profile and Google sync toggle to Quick tiles
Tasker provides three custom quick tile toggles. Import the three tasks in Tasker. Then go to Menu> Preferences> Action> Configure the Quick Settings tasks as shown:
Now Edit your quick tiles and drag the first two Tasker tiles into visible tiles list:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4332419&d=1510679382
I will update this thread with some other advance Tasker profiles (caller name announcement, app lock with pin etc).
Do share if you use any other Tasker Profiles.
Reserved
This was much needed. Thanks!
BTW, does Tasker effect battery life in a negative way?
Anas Rahman said:
This was much needed. Thanks!
BTW, does Tasker effect battery life in a negative way?
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It depends on the tasks you are performing. For example if you configure a task that need to monitor your location continuously, then obviously it should drain battery. But for the profiles I have uploaded here, you'll never see tasker on the settings>battery.
Hi guys, lately I got my new lovely phone-Honor V10. I have to say, I really love its design, dual-lens camera, supercharge and so on.
But the most exciting thing is that this is my first AI phone. It is so smart because it has the kirin 970 and EMUI 8.0 based on Andriod 8.0.
So, today I would like to introduce some intelligent functions to you. Let's have a look.
• Smart tips
Better user experience — EMUI 8.0 learns your using behavior, predict your intentions and recommends quick operation tips, so that you use your phone more efficiently.*
For example: A smart tip pops up suggesting you to enable the Eye comfort mode when you've used your phone for hours for consecutive nights, or to enable Knuckle-based screenshot when you've taken multiple screenshots.
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• Home shortcut submenu
Simply touch and hold an app to enable the shortcut submenu without opening the app. Touch and hold and drag a submenu to the home screen to create a shortcut icon.
Let you quickly access the app features you use most frequently.
Supported apps: HiApp, Music, Dialer, Contacts, Messaging, Email, Calendar, Notepad, Settings, Themes, Clock, Recorder, Gallery, and Camera
• Bezel-less experience
Aspect ratio optimized from 16:9 to 18:9, with the layout of third-party apps automatically adapted
— See more on a bigger screen
Manual stretch is supported in some apps, where you can choose to stretch the interface to full screen or keep the original aspect ratio with black borders on the sides.
• Smart landscape mode
Smartly organizes columns according to the screen orientation
Your phone is set up for pad-like multi-column viewing, making work life on-the-go as effortless as sitting at your desk.
— More complete information, easier to use
Supported apps: Email and Notepad
• Smart split screen
One-touch smart split screen: When you don’t want to be interrupted, like when you’re watching a video and an incoming notification arrives, the phone will pro-actively propose to switch to split-screen mode, touch the icon to to enable this feature. You can send message without disrupting your activity.
— More intelligent and convenient
Supports 19 social networking apps and instant messaging tools including SMS, WeChat, QQ, Whatsapp, Facebook, and Twitter.
What's more? What's your favorite characteristic of Honor V10? Please leave a comment or have a discussion with me..
S-Susan said:
Hi guys, lately I got my new lovely phone-Honor V10. I have to say, I really love its design, dual-lens camera, supercharge and so on.
But the most exciting thing is that this is my first AI phone. It is so smart because it has the kirin 970 and EMUI 8.0 based on Andriod 8.0.
So, today I would like to introduce some intelligent functions to you. Let's have a look.
•Smart tips
Better user experience — EMUI 8.0 learns your using behavior, predict your intentions and recommends quick operation tips, so that you use your phone more efficiently.*
For example: A smart tip pops up suggesting you to enable the Eye comfort mode when you've used your phone for hours for consecutive nights, or to enable Knuckle-based screenshot when you've taken multiple screenshots.
•Home shortcut submenu
Simply touch and hold an app to enable the shortcut submenu without opening the app. Touch and hold and drag a submenu to the home screen to create a shortcut icon.
Let you quickly access the app features you use most frequently.
Supported apps: HiApp, Music, Dialer, Contacts, Messaging, Email, Calendar, Notepad, Settings, Themes, Clock, Recorder, Gallery, and Camera
•Bezel-less experience
Aspect ratio optimized from 16:9 to 18:9, with the layout of third-party apps automatically adapted
— See more on a bigger screen
Manual stretch is supported in some apps, where you can choose to stretch the interface to full screen or keep the original aspect ratio with black borders on the sides.
•Smart landscape mode
Smartly organizes columns according to the screen orientation
Your phone is set up for pad-like multi-column viewing, making work life on-the-go as effortless as sitting at your desk.
— More complete information, easier to use
Supported apps: Email and Notepad
•Smart split screen
One-touch smart split screen: When you don’t want to be interrupted, like when you’re watching a video and an incoming notification arrives, the phone will pro-actively propose to switch to split-screen mode, touch the icon to to enable this feature. You can send message without disrupting your activity.
— More intelligent and convenient
Supports 19 social networking apps and instant messaging tools including SMS, WeChat, QQ, Whatsapp, Facebook, and Twitter.
What's more? What's your favorite characteristic of Honor V10? Please leave a comment or have a discussion with me..
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IntroWelcome to the last Part 3 of my OPPO Find X5 review! In this last part I would like to go over my favourite ColorOS 12 features as well as some things I wish it included.
Table of contents
Part 1: Build Quality & Design, Performance & Gaming, Display
Part 2: Camera, Battery
Part 3: ColorOS Features (Currently reading)
At the end of each part I will also include the conclusion of the part and the index for navigation.
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ColorOS FeaturesOverall I really do enjoy the experience of ColorOS 12 on the Find X5. The system feels very refined and smooth. While I do prefer a system that is closer to stock Android, or similar I did like all the extra features ColorOS bright. Also especially with the 120hz enabled this is a great user experience as you would want to expect from this high performance chip and display.
Lock screenLockscreen has a very minimal design and is useful with customisable quick access buttons. I have mine configured to a payment card and camera. I especially like that you can swipe up to the pin code, and from there can swipe up again to get back to fingerprint unlock. Another good detail is after 72hr you are required to enter your pin if you only have been using your fingerprint so you do not forget it.
Notifications shadePulling down the notification shade, either from the lock or home screen allows for a very convenient access to the quick access toggles which also are super customisable. I enjoy small details such as a blurry background, nice font spacing and a very easy overview. For example when toggling on the flashlight you get a notification that easily lets you disable it, or enable it. Something that did take getting used to however was the way you dismiss notifications: Using other devices it was common to simply swipe to the right to dismiss, but on ColorOS you always get the settings toggle and bin icon, forcing you to stop the swipe and initiate a second longer swipe. This can be avoided by swiping left, it dismisses the notification immediately, but I found it a bit odd. Example: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ipMmiCtBAJCHU16M8
Extra featuresFurthermore the system has a lot of powerful features built into it such as flexible windows, a feature I found particularly useful when multitasking. It allows you to pop over small windows of apps such as chrome, calculator, etc. These can even be combined while watching YouTube picture in picture.
Widgets & HomescreenMost widgets that are available in Android 12 are present, which also comes with the Material You colour theming. What I noticed however there are still some bugs with for example the official google clock widget not scaling properly, or the missing google weather widget. For other widgets I had no issues. Example: https://photos.app.goo.gl/LyCHWwc6J4HwVyCS7 However, this can be resolved by using a different launcher. In Lawnchair I had no widget issues.
Another ColorOS specific thing I have noticed, is that you cannot swipe up on widgets on the home screen. While this is not a big issue for me it can be a slight inconvenience as I like to access the app drawer from anywhere on the homescreen and having a widget placed at the bottom area where your thumb rests makes it slightly harder to open.
CustomisationMy first customisation was to disable the search to allow for access to swipe down to the notification shade. Swipe up to enter the app drawer. My only issue I encountered was that you can not swipe up/down to enter either when you initiate the tap from a widget. Instead you scroll inside the widget view, which can be a bit irritating but is easy to get used to.
Customisation doesn't stop there, you can long press to enter the edit mode and change everything from the layout grid such as 3x5 to 5x6 and also transitions which have a few choices such as roll, cube, flip, card and tilt. Of course you can also access the widget drawer, change wallpapers or icons.
Unfortunately one thing I was missing from the customisation was in the icon field: there is no support for material you icon theming or system colour palette choosing. Supported apps are able to pick the colours from the wallpaper but it sadly ends there. For me this would have been very nice to have, as it allows for even more personalisation which has so far been great!
HapticsOther details I really did enjoy were the great use of the built in haptics engine, which provided a very satisfying feedback when scrolling to the end, using sliders in the system such as the volume or brightness, or while typing.
BonusA bonus feature that I did enjoy a lot was when using my OPPO Enco Buds, they immediately connected each time and when opening the case you get a pop up view showing the battery status of each earbud and the case. It’s similar to what AirPods do and seeing this built into the system is extremely cool! Unfortunately, when using other buds such as the Galaxy ones you do not get any pop up animation and need to rely on the galaxy app, or use the widget to see the battery status of each bud individually.
Conclusion Part 3Overall I did really enjoy ColorOS, it's well optimised and in my opinion adds a bunch of extra features that are helpful, a bit unexpected which feels innovative and runs overall smoothly. There are also a lot tweaks done to make things easier which I did quite like such as extra customisation. But also a few things did bother me such as not a full integration of Material You theming and how the launcher handles widgets or certain interaction patterns like notifications. However these smaller details are things that I could get used to and was able to enjoy the experience it provides!
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Part 1: Build Quality & Design, Performance & Gaming, Display
Part 2: Camera, Battery
Part 3: Currently reading