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today I'm here with a review of the htc inspire 4G and this is one of the premier Android smartphones available on AT&T so thank you guys my full review tell you what I like what I didn't like all that kind of good stuff so to begin with let's talk a little about the data so if I just pull up a speed test and give you guys a little demo of the data speeds and of course this is a 4G enabled phone on the H on the ATT HSPA+ network now do you want to practice this by saying that AT&T in my area is not stellar so I was not able to get a lot of speeds that a lot of other reviewers have so do take this with a grain of salt typically people do get better than this you see here had a lot of really bad results where I really didn't have any reception at all but right here about my best result was 1500 killed that's down and 200 up now again typically people have gotten a lot more I've seen a lot of other people who have better ATT servers get somewhere in the neighborhood of four or five and six killers four to five and six thousand kilobits down and anywhere from five to fifteen hundred kilobits up so certainly not horrible speeds not still not going to be on par with something like the Verizon 4G but definitely something to keep in mind if you have good 18 T servers in your area you'll get some pretty decent speeds as far as phone calls go I didn't really had any major complaints I could hear people just fine they could say they said they could hear me just fine as well and overall I really didn't have any major issues with drop calls either which is definitely pretty good considering that like I said I live in a pretty poor area of HTT service so when it did find a signal it did tend to latch on to it pretty strongly no wait let me get in a little bit into the specs of the phone so of course it does have a one gigahertz Snapdragon processor this is the second-generation variety so I compared to something like an Evo 4G or a Nexus One it's going to be considerably faster it's going to be of course the second generation I mean also was paired up with 768 megabytes of RAM and an 8 gigabyte microSD card which of course Travis does come with the phone so overall all this together I found that it's a really quite snappy experience with the inspire 4G I'm not while it's not a dual-core phone that's not going to be blisteringly fast or whatever I really don't have any major issues you know it's able to play games just fine and of course you can just do the cool little things with sense which I get a little bit into sentiment but overall didn't really have any major issues especially in the browser and I do want to show you guys the browser here the browser is probably my favorite feature of the phone this is an absolutely outstanding browser certainly the best Android browser I've ever used um so as you guys can see here here's actually a embedded YouTube video which of course runs in flash since this is an Android 2.2 phone and does come with Adobe Flash Player pre-installed so in fact let me just play video for you guys and show you so um just real brief clip there I can show you guys that really quickly here um you can actually open up various tabs implement let me open up something else here so as you guys can see here open up multiple tabs if I you just pinch out you can scroll between them and I select them nice little bit of eye candy but anyway the browser works really quite nicely pinch to zoom I'll show you guys even with flash on the page and as you guys can see it's a fairly long web not really that bad but I'm pinch to zoom very very clear one thing I did notice was a little bit odd was the text reflow in on uh this is something more general to Android phones but the text reflow is a bit wonky on a lot of websites it does work fairly well I'd say for 90% websites but every once while you go somewhere and it kind of messes it up but not a big deal I definitely really did enjoy the browser then moving on from that let me talk a little bit about these software on this of course this does run like I said Android 2.2 Froyo with HTC Sense pre-installed so what sense is now well I'm not gonna get into a really in-depth that's a little bit outside the scope of this video but since is a general thing of course it adds this down here and it redid most if not all of the Browse the applications in the phone so let's give you guys a quick demo for this beta oops a little widget here course Android one of the great things about Android is that it does support widgets so we can just open up oh I don't know let's just grab a music and so you guys can see here if we had some music playing I don't want to play it due to copyright we could just play it right from there and we have other widgets where if I want to search Google I could absolutely do that and we also do have the famous HTC Sense clock which I really do love impact by lock the phone unlock you'll see it has full screen weather animations so you can see there kind of a cool little animation and does that varying on what the weather is in your location now as far as the pre-installed apps go generally there are some pretty decent stuff but on the other hand there's some others kind of jump so as you guys can see here there are quite a few apps some of these I have pre-installed but most of them I haven't I'm so for example it comes with asphalt 5 so you'd like to play a game of course it comes with that I'm one of the look pretty cool things comes with a blocked caller so you can block college which is pretty cool another thing I like to not just get into this really briefly is the car panel what this allows you to do is because of course the nice large display if you want to use this is something like a dedicated GPL may not dedicate but if you want to use this GPS in your car just open up the car panel and it's a nice big UI so if you're driving whatever you can really easily get to what you're doing without you know wrecking you know your navigation and your voice search all that good stuff right from inside the app moving on in a while it will go through all of these pretty much senses the HTC has gone through pretty much all the apps and is risk in tweets and whatnot and overall I really don't have any major issues with it it looks really quite nice so yeah that's about it of course it does have a Wi-Fi hotspot feature so you can support up to five Wi-Fi devices so that is basically the way it works really simple it is with the phone you're connected to 3G or 4G and what you do is you open up the Wi-Fi hotspot and let's say I'm here with my Nintendo DS and I can play online or a laptop or whatever using the Wi-Fi hotspots that works really quite nicely the camera on the inspire 4G is really not bad at all of course it does have an eight megapixel rear facing camera along with dual LED flash and what I found was it especially if you're outside it takes some really nice pictures so as you guys can see here I'll show a few pictures up on screen right now and these are all taken totally untouched from the inspire Ford Jean in fact what I'll do is give you guys a brief demo of the camera app so just open this up the camera app on HTC Sense looks really quite nice so there's really not a whole lot I could show you guys here but along here we can switch between video as well as photos so you can support in all these resolutions all the way up from you know once 76 by 144 which I have no idea I guess if you're gonna send it via MMS but you can go ahead and shoot all the way up to 720p and then if I switch over to the photos here you find that you have a few different things you can do some image chips there I mean do some image adjustments so if you want to manually do the exposure and whatnot the white balance and you also do the resolution all the way up to of course the full eight and make a pixel of the camera another a couple of other things you can do the flash and do all kinds of stuff one cool thing I liked is the various different things you can do as far as the filters go again I can't really show you because I've just got a desk here is not anything particularly exciting but uh you guys can see in the pictures it really does look quite nice so no real issues with the camera both the video and the pictures are decent not the best I've ever used but certainly not half bad for a camera phone now let me give you a overview around the phone to show you guys some of the cool things and some of the things I don't like one thing I absolutely love is the 4.3 inch display I know what the resolution is aw VGA which of course is 480 by 800 it's not the highest resolution phone on the market it's certainly not but I'm especially if you're coming from something like an iPhone or whatever you'll definitely appreciate the nice 4.3 inch display really large allows you to get a lot of the internet and whatnot on it although on the flip side of it the screen is not the most responsive I've ever used so this is especially apparent in internet browsing if you're viewing like a full desktop site there's a really tiny link well all the times the phone has a little bit of an issue trying to register exactly what you're clicking on now I found this is not really something unique to the inspire a lot of phones indeed I would say the vast majority of phones do have problems with the really small links which of course in normal day-to-day use you almost never had that issue but of course it is something I do want to mention up top here you'll find the speaker grill there's also an LED which is really quite nice it lights up if you have a notification or if you're charging or your battery's low which is really nice along the bottom here you'll find your row of Android capacitive touch buttons they worked really quite nicely a little bit of haptic feedback which you guys might be able to hear on the mic I'm a time you click on them and they do light out depending on how bright the situation is so very very cool no complaints whatsoever they're up top you'll find the sleep/wake button it's a little bit recessed not my favourite button in the world but certainly no real issues getting to it same goes for the volume rocker right here of course I already showed you guys the camera and the dual LED flash this is the speakerphone the speakerphone is a bit tinny something we definitely expect with for much any phone I mean it else is a little bit of an odd place of course you know when you're holding phone like this odds are you can really easily cover that up but again not the biggest deal in the world but I do want to say is that I really do like the hardware in general so as you guys can see here the screen takes up a huge amount of the real estate of the phone which is something I appreciate you know you've got a nice 4.3 inch display but you don't really have to have a phone that's going to be enormous you know there's not a whole lot of bezel whatsoever especially up top which is really quite impressive so yeah the phone is it's a decent size that Stefan would be a fairly big but I'm not half bad at all and the whole thing is made at I believe aluminium don't quote me on that but a certainly some sort of metal which gives it a fantastic feel I mean it's not particularly a thick phone it's not the thinnest either but uh very very very solid foam it's got a little bit of a weight to it but overall I can't say enough about the build quality in the field of the phone I see absolutely nailed it and as you can see here there are a couple of other little strips of I guess my strips but a little bit of soft touch plastic on this is where you get the battery out and I do want to say the battery is and it just takes forever to get out that's really really hard to get it out of there there's something you have to live with hopefully we won't have to be changing the battery very often I'm down here you can pull the bottom piece off and get your micro SD card as well as your SIM card now one downside of the phone is certainly the battery life now it does have a twelve hundred and thirty million power battery but with a 4.3 inch display 4G it definitely does burn through it pretty quickly so my experience I found that I was able to get through a full day of battery but I had to be fairly easy it's definitely light to moderate use so if you're a heavy user if you're always checking your email your Twitter your Facebook rather we're playing games I mean if you're a really heavy user you will probably not be able to get through a full day of usage with the inspire 4G which is definitely a bit of a disappointment I'm however considering the price point I will let that one slide you just do need to be a little bit cautious of the battery life don't you know you won't be able to run a full day of playing games and all that kind of stuff non-stop so guys that's about it for my review of the htc inspire 4G there's a lot to like about this phone and that currently does retail for $100 on a two-year contract with AT&T I'll definitely be sure to hit up I'll have a link in the description there are the prices are literally always changing so you know between the time you I make this review and you watch it just be sure to hit that the link it'll let you know exactly what the price is right now but anyway overall I really have no issues recommending this foam well it's not perfect 18 to 14 is not the best I'm not really a huge fan of it but if you're buying a phone on AT&T anyway the inspires is a great way to go and especially the fact it's got a great build and it really does work well pretty much the only major downside in fact the battery life is less than stellar and it does not have a dual-core processor which is not the biggest deal in the world but it is something you definitely do want to keep in mind as you're looking forward but again for the hundred dollar price point there's nothing that can touch this so if you're looking for a really really solid phone on the AT&T network I have no issues recommending the htc inspire 4G