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hi I'm Kent chairman senior management here at Cena today we take a first look at the Huawei verge yeah this is a really basic phone there's not a lot here but I'll tell you a little about it anyway now this phone is really for making calls that's really it I wouldn't really give it much more than that but even for that I would say this is probably a phone I wouldn't buy there's certainly a play time in a place for a simple device that's easy to use that's not expensive that doesn't is it complicated and doesn't just have a lot of stuff you don't need but yeah there's a time and a place for that but this phone even if a $49 for MetroPCS is no contract service I think you're much better served by spending an extra 20 dollars so that's 69 and getting something like the Samsung freeform three but let's go through the phone anyway tell you a little more about it phone looks like it's about a decade old as far as the design goes you know it's a classic design you could certainly say that and it is simple up top is a 2.4 inch display it has full color and it's relatively bright you can change a few of the settings but you know it's not it doesn't have a great resolution not for graphics not for photos nothing like that menus are pretty easy to use you have to press this soft button over here to get to the menus I really prefer it when you have the the ok button in the center to get to the menus but what this OK button does it does let you scroll through a kind of an app tray down below for shortcuts again these aren't really fast fancy apps I think like take you directly maybe the browser or metros browser portal or something like that so that's a nice touch though also you can get some a couple widgets to show up that are like you calendar and weather so nice a nice touches for a basic phone certainly inside the menus are pretty well designs they're just icon based in the front in the submenu so it's all list so very easy to use very familiar if you've ever used a cell phone before you'll know how to use this one and that that's something to be said for that you could probably get this phone to anybody and they would pick it up and they know immediately how to use it below the display is the navigation array it's got a square toggle in the center with that OK button that I mentioned too soft keys there's a back key there's a dedicated speakerphone key which is nice and then the talking and power keys down below are the keypad buttons I do like that these are actually separated from each other it's not just sort of one big block of keys that you usually see so there's a little bit of space it gives you a lot of room for texting quickly of course you got to use the alphanumeric texting if you can remember how to use t9 I certainly have a hard time getting back to that after using a keyboard for a few years and the keys are backlit here in the side there's the volume rocker and them down below is the mark USB charger port around back is the camera lens it's a pretty basic camera doesn't have a high resolution not a lot of features and pictures aren't that great and down below is a speaker just a single speaker for the speakerphone if you are using the speakerphone and you have the phone on a table you might just want to rest it upside down just so the speaker's facing you the phone is a pretty good size it's not too small sometimes these basic phones get so small that you lose them in a bag certainly could find it easily if I had it in a bag but it was I almost forgot I have in my pocket it is so light and it just fits squarely in the hand there's a plastic shell though so it feels a little flimsy this is in the phone I wouldn't want to bang around so not only be careful of it call quality was ok not bad not great speakerphone quality about the same but like I said if you just want to phone for making calls and maybe sending messages you're better served by something with a full keyboard just a few more features that just cost a little bit more I'm Kent Sherman from scenic here with the Kwame Virg