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what's up everyone John rhett endure from TechnoBuffalo here is an unboxing for you of the HTC Desire Z this is the unlocked cousin of the t-mobile g2 so I say what's up everyone in all my videos but nobody ever answers me what's up so in the comments tell me what's going on with you alright so enough of that let's go ahead and dig in and see what you're gonna get with your desire Z so the folks at clove Kota you can hook this up with the desire Z let's take a quick look at the box then we'll dig in take a look at the phone specs and the rest of the unboxing goodness you've got a picture the phone on the front with a little bit of its QWERTY keyboard peeking out there from the side you got nothing on the left is Siri typical HTC box nothing over there you got some specs on the back we'll run through those oh I do like how it says for platform it just says Android Android the platform to get updated so often that oftentimes these phones by time they reach market aren't accurate anymore with what's printed on the back so here is the Desire Z we will shall pull that out of the plastic it's pulled out of plastic push it off to the side let's go ahead and lift up the tray we're going to have your usual array of accessories you've got a power adapter here it's going to plug into the wall charger right here it's gonna push right in this one is for some European markets here you can have a US one or use whatever you like it just has a USB port on the end charges via micro USB so any micro USB wall charger you have will work here is that micro USB wall charger and you're also going to be getting a pair of stereo headphones will see it as a microphone on don't don't Oh with out a microphone so you're gonna get just a pair of stereo headphones in the box alright let's go and look at the phone push all that business off to the side in case you aren't familiar with the g2 in this case the desire Z let me run through the specs really quickly this is one the higher-end Android devices out on the market right now it's got Android 2.2 with HTC's new version of sense sitting on top of it it's got an 800 megahertz processor and don't let that processor speed for you on this world of 1 gigahertz and now coming one gigahertz Plus this is a next-generation 800 megahertz chip which is really optimized the hardware for the software that this runs this thing is a screamer one of the fastest phones on my opinion the market it's got a 3.7 inch wvga screen with the resolution of 480 by 800 this phone's backside you are going to see a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash capable of shooting at 720p it's got about a 1300 milliamp hour battery so you're not going to get outstanding battery life you're going to want to probably monitor that a bit closely this does have Android 2.2 so we're going to get full flash 10.1 support and it's got Wi-Fi VG and n as far as 3G band supports European and Asian 3G bands with 900 by 2100 in the US 18 to uses some about 2100 bands so you might get a little taste of 3G if you're in the US with this guy alright so let's go ahead and look at the phone you've got a optical trackpad right there which can be depressed so you can turn make treat it like a five-way joypad you've got your typical Android buttons across the bottom and they are capacitive you can see me right there in the camera you've got a home button a menu button a back button and a search button we got your speaker grille and microphones in their usual places left hand side volume rocker micro USB charging port on the right camera hard button and if you want to expose that battery that is hiding underneath here there is a lever for that go ahead and push that lever this metal thing pops up there's a batteries also where your SIM card is going to have to be inserted gonna push in right there go ahead and put that back at least attempt to put this thing on this is really a very heavy thick metal HTC devices just have a great sort of industrial feel to them and this desire Z is really no exception to that really high build quality at HTC being known for alright so we've got the back one of the cool things about the phone is it's full slide-out QWERTY keyboards and then I forget which way it slides so if you go ahead and figure out which way it does slide and you push open you get a kind of a neat spring-loaded mechanism pushes the phone actually up over the keyboard supposed to sort of sliding it right out on top of it you can see that right there and you've got what I consider to be one of the best keyboards available on the market the keys are spaced out have a great throw there's a really nice big space bar which I like of course is in the landscape orientation here let's go ahead and peel off this plastic there we go plastic is off I know you guys are hate that kind of stuff so you got some programmable keys here on the bottom you can set this wherever you like them to do if you use something a lot go ahead and set it to do that so I'll go ahead and do walk through and review let's go ahead and put this guy on and see if there's any sort of charge here we'll take a real quick look at what the new Sense looks like you may have seen it before but it does a lot of really cool things that we haven't seen really before on the older versions of HTC Sense so I'll go ahead and let this boot up and I'll come right back all right so we're all booted up here let's go ahead and see if we can make sense of this UI skin that was super cheesy I know all right no SIM card in there we know that cuz I didn't put one in go ahead and slide that down get the HTC logo and let's get started all right so it's gonna ask for English will just tell it we're in the UK I'm gonna have to go through some setup here remove the back cover insert the SIM card will go and skip all this stuff skip skip you can go ahead and set up all of your information here Wi-Fi Wi-Fi only whatever might be go ahead and skip all the setup stuff of course sense will sync all of your social networks and that kind of business use Google yes we want to go and do that skip finish and we are going to finally actually be in the UI of the phone this is going to probably very familiar for those you that have used Android HTC devices in the past let's go ahead and configuring right now on this option this actually new version is going to give you some customization options that we didn't have before and all that new customization stuff lives right here with that new paintbrush and palette icon go ahead and give it a little click and this is where you can go ahead and personalize sense now which is kind of neat so before you can obviously change the wallpaper there were some live wallpapers and widgets but now you've got a ton of new things you've got so let's take a look at some of the scenes we have so you can go ahead and sort of pick different looks you can see that things look relatively similar but the overall feel changes a little bit so the clock there is a bit different the bottom stays the same width of three icons you can go ahead and pick one you can get more from the HTC Sense website let's go ahead and go back go ahead and pick whatever one you would like if you want and there are now skins here as well which is kind of cool and that's going to take that one step further than the scenes actually change the way the operating system looks so right now you've got sort of that curved three icons across the bottom go the next one it becomes flat there are some talaq looking ones there's some wood ones I actually like go ahead and use this sort of metal one we'll go ahead and apply and again you can get a ton more of these you can people are actually making their own there a lot of really cool choices and ways to very easily customize your android phone without having to get into the routing business which some people is outside of their comfort zone so here you go here's a sort of a new look and feel of course you've got the you can jump to everyone it's called snap you can snap it over how much bring it like you've got all the same widgets that you've been used to on HTC device to take a look at what those are real quickly there are a ton of them here all of your social networking Facebook mail music and just a ton of other choices let's go and see what HTC bundles in here in the applications there we go go ahead and pull out the applications tray and there is a lot of good stuff here this does support Wi-Fi and USB tethering of course you've got Google Maps Navigation which is an awesome free turn-by-turn navigation choice there serve a lot of good stuff in here and there's that Wi-Fi hotspot that we talked about because of course this is an unlocked device like I just pop in your SIM card and you are off in the tethering world so guys i am john r Ettinger from TechnoBuffalo this was an unboxing and first look at the HTC Desire Z thank you to the folks at club coat UK for hooking us up with this device I will see you as in the next video bye