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Hello and welcome to Hands on Tech. If you are watching this, you're probably thinking that I just, I don't know, ascended, no, descended I guess, from the heavens.

As there was this beautiful glow going on around me,

forgive me, I am working with a new improved camera, but it has some adjustments I need to make so if you're

distracted by the beautiful soft tones of my skin I can completely understand but I wanted to get that out of the way so that you are not distracted by that and we're just talking phones today.

So here's the deal, as any tech company does,

when it comes out with a new product,

seeds some of the product to certain people in the press and says on this day you can tell

everybody about whatever it is we've given you. And that is the way that things typically work in consumer

tech journalism. So there have been lots of reviews for the new iPhones.

You've seen many reviews for the new iPhones.

And given that you've seen so many reviews for the new iPhones,

I felt that it would be dishonest, disingenuous to try to do a review, well actually not even, that's the thing, I couldn't even call it a review given

that I just got the phone on Friday and it's only Sunday.

And I didn't feel that it was fair to those of you who clicked on a thing

that's at iPhone review to hear me give my Saturday take on the new iPhone. I got it Friday night because UPS was driving all over the place.

Yeah, and so I did something very difficult for all of you. I want you to know. I sacrificed because even though I got this phone on Friday night, I kept it in the I can't tell what you're saying.

Oh it's a world's false violin okay.

I messed up.

My producer is playing the world's smallest violin,

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