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what stuff everyone John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo here with an unboxing of the Droid Charge this is the newest 4G phone for Verizon Wireless let's go ahead dig in I kept trying to think of any charge jokes but I just couldn't come up with any so insert your own charge joke here put them down below let's go ahead and unbox this guy so presumably we are going to see a release very soon on the next few days at least in the month of May so go ahead and pull off of the paper you've got that robot looking droid I rip this off here nothing very exciting on the box I will say it's me take a fit of skill to get the lid off there we go and here is your charge this is a device that we first saw at CES it didn't have a name then it was rumored to be called the stealth we even got some hands-on time with the device when it was pre-release it was actually one of my favorite phones from CES 2011 so I'm really looking forward to getting in there and seeing what we've got so we've got some Samsung media hub credit I will actually put this out to the first one to claim it can have it there you go okay so droid charge we've got some reading material don't think people are gonna read that but you've got it you're sort of now standard accessories there's a wall charger so we've got a micro USB to USB cable we do and don't have any sort of headphones in there okay let's go ahead and take a look at the phone and because I know my audience I'm just going to leave the plastic on here while I film you guys won't mind right um alright so we'll slide it out of its plastic baggie and we will rip this off if we get to whooshing noise no whooshing noise I'll do that to a camera accident there some sort of whooshing noise zoom in a little bit and let's run through these specs first to see if there's a battery in there it feels like there is I will power it on while I'm talking assuming I can find the power button which looks to live on the right-hand side of the device see if we have enough of a charge please you can watch something while I'm talking all right so this is the Droid Charge oh there's my joke he came charged get it okay so it's got a 4.3 inch diagonal Super AMOLED plus display but Wow you're not gonna want to turn this on when you're in class or in a meeting it's a Super AMOLED plus display if you've seen the beautiful Super AMOLED screens on the Galaxy S series of devices this takes that beautiful screen takes it a step further you may have noticed that the Galaxy S or any phone the Super AMOLED screen had a little bit of a bluish tint to it I talked about in some of my videos it wasn't anything that really competed you but it's something that we definitely cognizant of when you were using the phone this takes care of that so you are gonna get really really bright colors you're going to get some rich images go ahead and unlock that dark color don't look bright black you're gonna look black great visibility in direct sunlight this is a gorgeous screen I'm ever coming away from CES really really impressive it's a Super AMOLED display resolution of 480 by 800 so it's a very very very high res screen on the phone as you can see it is running Android 2.2 or as you can see at least it's got TouchWiz no Gingerbread here but being a new phone presumably it will get a taste of tasty tasty Gingerbread if we check out the rear of this guy and there's another sticker I'll go ahead and remove this before I start talking it's going to see where that is there we go boom removed because I read the comments and you guys hate stickers with a passion so we got an 8 megapixel camera on the back with an LED flash and it does have auto focus business in it which is kind of cool that will shoot video at 1280 by 720 which is 720p we've got a front-facing camera right there for all of your video chatting needs that's 1.3 megapixel one of the nice things about this phones is 1600 milliamp hour battery that lives right under here this is an LTE 4G phone LTE sucks in battery life unfortunately the way that LTE is done right now is there are two seperate radios a 4G radio and a 3G radio and that can definitely be a drain on battery however Samsung is claiming you're gonna get 11 hours talktime and 280 hours of standby time so that's pretty nice it's being powered by a now tried-and-true 1 gigahertz Samsung processor there is no dual-core action here unfortunately but on the upside it does have mobile hotspot capabilities for sharing all of that hot 4G action which you can see I have right there 4G that is one extra G than most folks might be used to you can share that mobile hotspot for up to eight devices so awesome there it is very thin and surprisingly light device so let's take a quick tour of it so there's that front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera we've got the Baba's and logo and we've got some physical buttons nothing capacitive here the typical Android I really like the physical buttons actually we've got your menu button home button your back button and your search button on the left volume Muraki up and down there is your charging port micro USB that's now become standard really nice for that sort of charging and syncing standard looks like there's a microphone on the side as well another dual microphone on top 3.5 milimeter headset jack that is non recessed so any headphones that you've got will work even your Hello Kitty headphones as I know you guys use the power button is going to reside as we just discovered on the right hand side of the device power and lock and right above that is right below that rather is HDMI out under a door unfortunately that is going to be a separate cable they're gonna hook this guy up to the TV you can do so the back of it is hard plastic it's not stuff soft touch you can see it's got a bit of a reflective look to it and it is a with a Google device a little bit of a hump in at the back you can see your right towards the bottom right there when it's sitting on a flat surface it's got a little bit of a rock to it but it does feel nice in the hand so let's do a real quick size comparison here is another four point device this is the inspire 4G for 18 t similar to the desire hd or the Evo it's a 4.3 inch filament you can see the difference from a size comparison just for thickness let's bring in an iPhone 4 in case you are on Verizon and you're considering perhaps this phone the Droid Charge or the iPhone 4 you get a size comparison certainly the size of the Droid Charge can be larger kits got a much larger screen but that exercise doesn't come with much extra thickness this is a very very thin phone I've got to say it feels really nice in the hand I think that if I had to pick a phone on the verizon network to pick up right now this would probably be the one that I would choose go ahead and unlock it our pricing is gonna vary depending on what outlet you choose whether or not you go to Verizon or maybe Amazon's having a deal that day or your local retailer I think ideally just don't know I will say though with the screen here looks really pretty although I'm sure that's not gonna translate onto camera let's go ahead and jump in see if I can find a gallery and open up an image for you this won't waste just put it up for the first time it's fine gallery and you guys are probably gonna see it it's right there it's right there but sometimes I crack into the pressure I don't see these things when I'm looking so let's see what we got a voice search navigation you take a look at all the applications that are going to come on here if you like touch where they don't like TouchWiz when the great things about Android is that you can totally customize your device to make it look however you choose so it's like we've got the stock Android gallery application here it is loading and this is going to be expandable so if you want more storage you can put up to a 30 gigabyte card in there looks like there's nothing stored in here unfortunately so there's a camera app and speaking of that there you go you can see what that would look like you see my boxes hit the home button micro SD card slot is going to live in the back here so I can get the top off okay can see the jokes already today I'm going to slide your fingernail if you have any all the way around and presumably that will get the back of this off let's see theory theory it'll do it I'll keep this in it's in the video so you guys can make fail jokes there we go alright so 4G SIM card kind of still strange to see a SIM card on Verizon devices you do not have to take out the battery though to get the expansion card slot which is quite nice it looks like it's going to come with a big card in here very nice 32 gig card so you're gonna have that choice of purchasing option so you can have a lot of storage here I love the fact that you can swap cards if you need and get a ton of space and there is our 1600 milliamp hour battery still very strange to see the SIM card as I mentioned but I love the fact that it gives some tasty tasty 4G action if you guys are in area where you have arrived in 4G go into a Reisman store and try it it is incredibly fast I was using it over the weekend in Southern California not this one I was using the Novotel hotspot when I was getting 12 megabits down and four up which is really fast and a lot faster than most home connections so until a network at saturated presumably those speeds go down a little bit you're gonna get lightning fast speeds this has been a very long unboxing video I felt like we got a chance to talk and get to know each other a little bit better um this is the Droid Charge for Verizon Wireless presumably it's going to be available very very soon so check at Verizon Wireless calm to get your droid charge on I'm John retinue from TechnoBuffalo check out the website for all your tech news leave me questions down below if you wanna leave me a joke down below or tell me you're having a big day because it makes me have a good day when I know you're having a good day see you guys in the next video buh-bye