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hey everyone I'm Jessica's all court for CNET taking a first look today at the t-mobile mytouch 4G slide you could call it the successor to the mytouch 3G slide but it's much much more advanced than that because there's 4G dual core 1.2 gigahertz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and Android 2.3 Gingerbread all onboard it also has the most recent version of HTC's Sense 3 UI like all other smartphones in the mytouch family this one is made by HTC as I mentioned it's got these typical brushed metal accents around it that make it pretty darn heavy it's 6 and 1/2 ounces it's got a 3.7 inch WVGA Super LCD screen which is pretty nice and bright there are five buttons here beneath the screen they correspond to home menu back and then there's the genius button on all the mytouch phones and this one calls up voice commands and voice-to-text features there's also an optical trackpad here that doubles as a select button given that it's called the slide there is a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard it's nice and spacious and it has some handy indicator lights and a few shortcut buttons on it but I wasn't crazy about the keys which were pretty flat and then slowed down my typing quite a bit I've definitely felt much plush or keyboard buttons that really bounce back when I'm done pressing them and I prefer that there is a front-facing VGA camera here for video chats but the real story is this camera on the back it's an 8 megapixel camera lens there's dual LED flash and it has support for 1080p HD video capture and playback it also has a few other goodies that lead HTC to call it the most advanced smartphone camera there is for example there's a special lens and light sensor that emulates the way that digital cameras work with light there's a ton of fun software inside that lets you switch all sorts of shooting modes and settings so for example their sweep shot which makes a smooth panorama there's burst mode that takes five photos in quick succession and then there's clear shot which is for HDR mode there's also portrait mode blink mode and smile mode all of which have different settings and properties I thought that that outdoor photo were really good but I still had some problems with some of the indoor shots and those low level lighting solutions did not work quite as well as advertised granted I really haven't had the phone so long at this point so I will be updating my written review with more tests and some comparisons with other camera phones including the iphone 4 so back to this HTC also claims that there is no shutter delay which I did not find to be the case at all overall the camera is pretty good and the options are definitely more exciting than normal it's really fun to use but I wouldn't say that it's quite on par with the digital camera not yet anyway the phone itself is a nice little package I can definitely compete with the big boys it'll cost you 100 $99.99 with the new two-year contract so I think that's a pretty good competitive price for this caliber of phone once again I'm Jessica Dahl court with CNET this has been the key mobile mytouch 4G slide I've got many more details on my full review on cnet.com so check it out