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what's up everyone John retinue from TechnoBuffalo here at they for review for you of the HTC Desire Z which is essentially the unlocked version of the t-mobile g2 here in the US we're gonna try some a little bit different I'm gonna see if I can get through a full phone review and under five minutes giving you just the facts let's get started I always start out my phone reviews with phone quality this guy pulls in a very strong signal although through in the US and you're on ATT like I was you're only going to get edge service but it did pull down a very strong edge service 20 call test I only have one dropped call reception was a very strong speakerphone quality very very very loud and the fidelity of voice calls was really solid the voice quality is gonna be fantastic respects quick recap 3.7 inch coarse capacitive screen 480 by 800 running Android 2.2 with HTC's custom sets on top 1.5 gigabytes of internal storage I feel like the micro machine guy which has a microSD expansion card thirteen hundred million power battery battery life not fantastic you are going to have to recharges definitely on a daily basis on the rump you've got a five megapixel camera that can shoot HD video it's average didn't get service standard photo and video quality from the phone don't throw away your DSLR I really do like the metal feel of the back it's got a really industrial feel to it let's go ahead and power this guy on no SIM card installed right now slide this down son lock and you can see the new version of HTC Sense which lets you fully customize the look of Android again the Android 2.2 you've got a lot of customization options that live right here you can go ahead and check out some of these customizations in the unboxings but you in the unboxing video which I'll put down below you've got seeing the wallpaper and skins at this point I should mention that the folks at cloak coat UK hooked me up with this review device links to them are also going to be down below you can customize the way this phone looks one of the big point this phone which one of things that I love the most about it is it's full slide-out QWERTY keyboard which you go ahead and slide out it's probably one of the best keyboards that I have used it's spacious there's a lot of room yes of customisable keys spacebar is really nice and big one of the things that I didn't like which I thought I was going to is a slide-out mechanism which is kind of neat but it wasn't as Springwood as I would have liked so often times I found it sort of getting stuck right in the middle right there so you have to really make sure you push it all the way out if you don't mind this is going to work really well and then you've got the landscape orientation of the phone this is again Android 2.2 so it's gonna be able to handle all of your flash contents and web browsing with flash 10.1 web browsing on this guy is a fantastic experience it's got an 800 megahertz processor but don't get caught up in the megahertz this phone is fast it is a screamer and has really been optimized for the software that it's running probably one of the fastest phone that I have tested thus far you can see even with Flash content running pinch-to-zoom and everything just works really really really well you've got four-way navigation across the bottom with an optical trackpad which I don't think I used once on this guy I know a lot of people are wondering hey John how fast is this really are you lying to me well I'm going to show you if I'm lying to you or not you can see it for yourself this is a little bit on the subjective side but I am going to run a quadrant benchmark test I'm gonna go and skip to the results but if you want to watch the whole test being run after the whooshing Buffalo at the end credits you can actually watch the test being run so let's go ahead and launch quadrants alright so here are the results of the benchmarking you can see this phone is actually at the top above the Motorola what is I can't read it outright actually above the Nexus 1 the Motorola Droid the HTC EVO the Droid X Samsung Galaxy S and pretty much every other Android device out there this guy actually came out top on the quadrant test and that really does translate very nicely to real-world speed from a science standpoint despite having a full QWERTY keyboard you're not dealing with that much bulk here we've got an Xperia x10 to go and look at this side sigh there's not a giant difference so what's the moral here with this phone I would you happily happily happily use this as my everyday phone if I were you however I cannot because my primary carrier is AT&T and I'd like to be able to get 3G speeds however if I could get 3G speeds or if there was a variant that let me do so I would definitely use this phone so if you are a t-mobile customer this is going to be one you have to look at and our guys if I got to give it a 1 to 5 stars this thing earns a really really really solid four point nine five stars really the only small deduction being for that keyboard sliding mechanism which I just didn't like this phone is a great choice for the Android lover and you I'll see in the next video bye bye run the full benchmark test ooh 3d flashing red planet plus moon DNA deoxyribonucleic acid we want to proceed