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Pretty awesome

It looks like you're able to press a button to switch to extreme slo-mo when you need it, for a short while, which is a nice way to implement it. I"m not sure there are there that many applications for extended 960 fps for normal people, but that's why your phone has a terabyte of memory.

The memory goes so quickly. A video here, a hundred MP3s there, pretty soon you're talking real storage. I consider 64gigs the minimum any more in a portable device.

It's hard to articulate exactly why location tracking is creepy, but it definitely is. It's like having a gaggle of Googlers following you around everywhere you go, taking notes on clipboards of your every activity. Or Apple Geniuses.

They do more with that data than you might think. Google Maps shows some examples. Click on a business for more info, and you'll probably see a bar chart showing how busy the establishment is at various hours of the day. That information could only have come from collating location info from all the Android phones that went inside that establishment.

Since I live in California, I don't have to give two effs about this, but it might concern many people to see that tracking info for a cannabis store. Or (not a personal example) their local sex toy shop, or massage parlor, or weight-loss clinic, or furby costume shop.

And they do keep personal identification with the tracking. Several times now, Google has sent me email asking me to rate an establishment I recently visited. Google is actively watching. Their words say one thing, their actions another.

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