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hey guys john r Ettinger here's an unboxing for you of the 18 t tilt - this is 18 T's variant of the touch pro2 the spiritual successor to the about a year and a half old 18 scenes hilt and the actual successor to the HTC fuse that AT&T I believe is currently selling this will be available tomorrow October 18th let's go ahead and open this thing up and see what it looks like this will be my first experience using windows mobile 6.5 hours Microsoft is calling it now Windows Phone so curious if it increases usability so we use of course the big ol knife - I'll put this up let's see we got inside and this will complement the HTC pure that AT&T has in their lineup this has a full QWERTY keyboard as you'll see in a minute so here it is the HTC tilts to picture the device on the front with the curved obligatory circles letting you know it's a world phone obviously email GPS and it has a 3 megapixel camera on it as opposed to the pure and the touch diamond2 actually have five megapixel cameras this one got downgraded a bit but we'll talk about all those specs in just a minute some more information on it and some more info on the back let's go over that real quickly battery time eight and a half hours standby time 20 hours 3.6 WVGA touchscreen with stylus so that of course means it is a resistive touchscreen 512 megabytes of ROM 2088 2 megabytes of SDRAM and a 528 megabit were sorry megahertz processor and the rest of the business let's go ahead and open the sucker up see what looks like so we've got the QuickStart guide on the front telling you how to use Windows Mobile and one particular use touchflo 3d which HTC the manufacturer of the phone sort of puts the skin on top of it and the skin is known as preview they also make the sense UI for the hero for example this story shows a little bit about touchflo 3d and how to use it here is the phone itself put that off to the side for just a minute and see what else did get in the box alright digging through we're getting some TeleNav information your first 30 days of GPS navigation for free I can tell you that the GPS navigation that ett offers at Allen app service is fantastic it actually is really really good got some CD information and it's like a screw protector in the box and that was nice we've got HTC's wall plug with the us plug plugs right down on the bottom which i assume is right here so just slides on down we've got a 18 T's or sorry HTC's proprietary mini USB to mini-usb - there's a 3.5 millimeter jack on there somewhere and there is a 3.5 millimeter 2.5 millimeter and another mini USB port the HTC diamonds - and in this case the tilts - actually uses a proprietary mini USB port but it will work with standard mini USB ports just something to keep in mind but if you want to use 3.5 millimeter jack you're stuck with this dongle what itself is a funny word dongle and then we've got the USB cable to plug it into the computer alright enough of the accessories that's not why you're here let's get to the phone itself so here we have the tilts to take out of the bag and it's only a little bit about on the front tilt - uses touchflo 3d gestural navigation to the ATT Quick Start Guide honestly who is gonna look at the Quick Start Guide so I'll peel off the card from the front is always a very satisfying thing to do see if we get that plastic whooshing sound which we did so now we've got this surprisingly flushed resistive touch screen now if you used a windows mobile phone in the past odds are your touchscreen was not flush it was sort of reef this is a next-generation resistive touchscreen it definitely has a little bit of squish to it but not nearly as bad as previous devices so let's go around and see we have on advice on the left side we've got a volume up and down and we've got a soft button on the right side there really isn't nothing there's a microphone port and on the bottom there of course is a stylus which is non collapsible and non magnetic now the back is really where some of this action happens so what we have here is the 3.2 megapixel camera that's fine and we've got this speakerphone button and this is pretty unique to the touch pro2 an agency's case the tilt to this whole grill around here is a speaker and it's got two microphones and two speakers for actually noise reduction it's got a really cool feature that if you're on a phone call and something you want to put it on speaker or start a conference call it take the phone turn it down and it certainly has an accelerometer so it'll notice that it's been turned and automatically kick the speaker on supposed to be one of the best speaker phones on a mobile handset so I'm really curious to use it and this is right here is not an LED flash it's actually a button to turn off the speaker phone if you like so I will say the back of the device does have a very nice feel to it that's sort of a glossy plastic and I speaker grill in the middle does give it a bit of a classy look let's power this thing on and see what we've got continuing the tour though on the front of us we've got a few hardware buttons we've got what I assume is a send key which I probably glow green got an end keyed on the right you've got a Windows key and you've got a back key let's do a quick size comparison a few other devices odds are you guys are familiar with of course your obligatory iphone 3gs comparison you look at them from this angle they look to be pretty close competitors you stack them on top certainly the tilt to is a little bit quicker a little bit fatter and a little bit fatter for a very good reason it's got a full QWERTY keyboard let's see how that was sliding mechanism out is a little bit stiff but it'll probably loosen up as we continue to use it and on first blush the keyboard does seem to be quite usable Scott's a full 5 rows so you've got four rows for your actual keys and a full row of symbols which should be quite useful the number keys are sort of staggered all the way through but not too bad if you want to dial a number you can just use the touch read and I have to rely on these but if you are texting with numbers you got the function and number key in my for review I'll go over how that keyboard works and how useful it is but right now I will tell you it does feel quite nice and it's called to be tilt too because drumroll she tilts and it tilts not that high up but does tilt enough that if you're on an airplane or watching a little bit of a movie or a TV show you've got a much better viewing angle than you would if it was just sitting flat or even if you're typing and texting you know it could be nice to have that up and type in text and you'll notice that when the screen comes up you lose some thumb room behind for using this top row of keys that's like something to keep in mind it was up suddenly these top row is right up where your thumb is now the last sort of bit of hardware I want to talk about for turn on the device if you can't really see it right here but there is a zoom bar which will let you zoom in on webpages and pictures and a few other key things so that's sort of Windows HTC's answer as opposed to the multi tap method found on the iPhone or the zoom buttons on the t-mobile g1 and speaking of t-mobile g1 since that is also a slide-out QWERTY device let's see how that stacks up on a size comparison so the g1 is known for a lot of things definitely not known for being the pretty girl on school it's definitely the girl with a good personality so eat till 2 then clearly best sit in the looks department right here certainly in screen size as well size was just about the same so if you're able to fit a g1 in your pocket gonna notice not much of a difference here with the tilts to let's power it on and see what we have I definitely stick around to the channel I'll be doing a full comparisons on Windows Phone and how it compares with the iPhone how it stands on its own legs this has Microsoft's new application store in there so curious to get in and download things from the rap marketplace and see if it's worthwhile and worth the weight and worth the hype I've been on a record of saying I'm not the biggest fan of resistive touchscreens but supposedly this has been tweaked quite highly so you don't even notice that it's resistive but so as I will be the judge and you'll be the judge of me so we'll say in a minute first boot up here generally takes a little while I'm gonna cut off the camera until something happens alright so we finally got some action here you get a new Windows Mobile or router start calling out Windows Phone splash screen telling you to prepare your device for first use it's going to restart the home the screen is going to actually install touchflo 3d while it's on the device that actually installed the first boot up should taste it through the install process so that's what it's going through right now looks different than the 6.1 screen and 6.0 spring that we've seen before you've seen other devices but you know an orange screen doesn't quite make a phone good guess the quality of the phone itself in the OS will so let's see how Microsoft implemented their new version the operating system that whole process I'd say took about five minutes and how we get a looks like a setup guide so import sim contacts I think there's already a sim in there but since I don't know what's on that we're going to not import the sim contacts so I'll hit cancel and here we are with touchflo 3d surprisingly it didn't ask me to calibrate the screen and let's see what it looks like it's kind of on first blush and we'll do a full walkthrough of a touch both reading looks like there are quite a bit of setups guides to go through here so guys just a what I would say would be a short unboxing turned out to be quite a long one of the 18 T tilt to for exclusive content check me out on Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers and to learn more about TechnoBuffalo check outs TechnoBuffalo comm I'll see you guys in the next video bye bye