He added that he remembers thinking in the 60s that "if we do really good and give a very special performance to these great Paul Simon songs, we might last right into the next century and be appreciated".

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Or from a public school, they'd write, 'Young Camilla will give a polished performance, but we've had to work very hard with her.

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Before we close out, we'd be remiss if we didn't give you a little more information about specs and performance claims.

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That said we picked a smaller battery to be sure we were able to give you the same performance and to keep it thin.

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There's not a whole lot to say here, but we figured we'd give you a quick rundown of the hardware before digging into the actual performance.

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Still, despite not knowing much, we wanted to give you a look at this device anyway because we thought it would be a good opportunity to give you some early impressions of the performance.

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"The performance we'll need to work on but you have to give a little bit of credit to Samoa, " said Kidney.

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