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hey it's Josh for Garf from Andhra thority what's going on buddy and these all right so here we are with these snapchat spectacles now if you don't know what these are these are camera-equipped sunglasses that Snap Inc formerly known as snapchat put together to provide an even different experience of sharing a story on snapchat now a lot of you out there really enjoy snapchat this is a new way to be able to share in quite literally your perspective your story on the app you can record them in 10 second snaps off of the glasses which will then send the video to the phone and then you can send that video to anybody on snapchat or just post it to your my story now if you don't know already these are actually really hard to get I have tried three times to find the snap bot which they give you a 24 hour countdown and once that countdown goes all the way to zero it will appear in a very random place I've tried three times to get to the vending machine and I've waited in line for hours on end trying to get these snapchat spectacles only to come up short each time but I'm lucky enough to actually have a pair of them now so we're going to do an unboxing right now the snapchat spectacles first come in a yellow case which also doubles as a charging dock so you'll be able to use the glasses for 10 seconds snaps throughout the day but if you run out of battery the case which has connector pins on the very corner will be able to charge the glasses for total times included with it are these short instructions which basically say that you have to hit the button on the glasses and then open up the snapchat app in order to connect to it using a snap code that it generates to start the pairing process it connects via bluetooth and Wi-Fi to an iOS or Android device and from there you can just start hitting the button on the side and be able to record 10-second snaps now included in the package is a cleaning cloth in the shape of the snapchat ghost which was interesting and then a proprietary cable which looks a little bit interesting something snapchat would definitely do and it connects to the case which you then charged up so you can charge the glasses once the glasses are paired to the and then just head out and start taking snaps ten-second snaps using the button on the top left side but even then they pinch a little bit on the sides they don't really make different sizes of these spectacles it's kind of a one-size-fits-all situation and then when it comes to peripheral vision there are these two barrels that are just on the corners of your periphery that they're not really distracting but something that you do definitely notice now these glasses do work on iOS and Android and when you get them connected via Android you just open up the snapchat app after you do some snaps and they're all found in the memories area there's going to be a section just for specs and you'll be able to select what specs to send out to or rather what shots to send out to your my story or to other users so when you're using the snapchat app you'll be going to the specs section of the memories now this is a little bit convoluted because when you take a look at the video in this particular section it shows you a full-screen traditional-looking snap but if you were to save it to your camera roll end or send it to your my story or to anybody else it's going to put this circular crop on the videos which is a little bit distracting I personally wish that you could just take the full video off of the off of the specs and not have that circular crop maybe that's a feature that they'll put into the software later on because obviously the camera takes a full video and then the app is what puts the crop on it what's nice is that on the right side of the spectacles there's a little indicator that tells people when you're actually recording something so that way no one really gets all that freaked out that you're just recording things incessantly and then there's this button on the left side that will trigger the recording and it's a 10-second recording and a light pops up that will allow for people to know when you're recording and you get to see the light yourself so you know when it stops recording the camera of course is on this side and one other control that you have is by tapping the side twice it will show the indicator to tell you how much battery is left after using the snapchat spectacles for most of the day I have heard from other people that the battery life is actually really good now the sun's going down right now so I would obviously recommend that people don't necessarily use these glasses when the Sun is completely down mainly because it can obscure your vision in the dark but a lot of people will probably want to use these glasses they are out in the nightlife or anything like that but at least at that point you can just hold the glasses hit the button and you'll be able to record it that way also not necessarily ideal but at least you'll have all of your vision for the times that you really need it so that's just a quick look at the snapchat spectacles you get a few examples of what the video looks like here in this video and Android aura tea but of course I'm going to be using these over the weekends and I'll bring you my full review on them when I get back from my trip this weekend until then you can actually follow me on snapchat and you'll be able to see what kind of video comes out of this and you might be able to keep up with me also as to what I'm up to while wearing these over the weekend keep it tuned to Android Authority and remember CES is coming up very soon so you'll be able to see probably our snapchat spectacle stories from CES as we were these in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show of 2017 keep it tuned for that and even more because we are your source for all things Android