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what's up everyone john record from TechnoBuffalo world of smartphones there are now two kings of the ring in one corner we have Sprint's evo 4G and the other we have apples just announced iPhone 4 well the iPhone 4 is not coming out for a few more weeks but we do have the Evo 4G to be unboxed here phone and I'm very excited to take a look at will run through all the specs as we do the unboxing so let's go ahead and dig right in I have not seen one use yet in person we're gonna use of course the obligatory big all knife and I will try again to not stab myself so ever and go up down and this is a demo unit from the folks at Sprint more packaging they really wanted to make sure this thing is very well packaged and here we have the Evo 4G for Sprint so this is going to run you $199 on contract after of course rebates thermostat I've heard it seems to be a well worth the money specs on this it has a gigantic 4.3 inch screen with a resolution of 480 by 800 it can show over 65,000 colors of course experience the positive it's got a whopping 8 megapixel camera which can shoot video in 720p which is obviously very impressive it's running a Snapdragon processor clocked at 1 gigahertz sitting on top of Android 2.1 and not 2.2 and using HTC Sense UI and as 512 megabytes of RAM and about a thousand 24 megabytes of ROM so enough of a geeky spec let's get to the phone I'm really excited to see this kind of comes in a egg carton I guess eco-friendly packaging go ahead and pull that off cardboard cover right on top pull it out and here we have the Evo 4G this thing is big I mean you can really that extra almost inch on the screen you can definitely tell what doesn't look too big to not be palpable push it off to the side and we'll continue our tour and see what else we get we have a red battery I think the inside this is red HTC started doing that with the incredible push set off keep diggin see those we get just a standard stuff for getting started a guy with no one's gonna read got a wall charger which just plugs in got a USB port on the end and we've got a micro USB port so it is a standard which is nice let's go ahead and do a size comparison here to see how this compares to some of its competition let's take a look at its Android stablemates first and reach across and grab it we have the Nexus One definitely a size difference there and we have Verizon competition we have the Droid Incredible right there and you can definitely see the much larger screen size let's see if there's any thickness difference between the three and they all look to be relatively thin phones so let's push the other two off to the side and continue our tour of the Evo 4G now I don't know if you guys get 4G where you're at I'm in Southern California we don't have it quite yet although it is supposedly coming sometime soon there's gonna be here on on regular 3G service on Sprint's Network so we've got dust on the screen but we have four capacitive buttons across the bottom sort of your standard Android buttons you've got your home your menu your back and search button there is the front facing camera which I believe is 1.3 megapixel and QS F for video calls over quick or Skype I believe - which is kind of neat on the left hand side we've got nothing on the right hand side you've got a volume rocker up and down and nothing else on the bottom you've got a stylist not just kidding there is your charging port and actually HDMI out which is kind of neat you can actually use this to plug into your TV and watch full HD movies right from your phone we've got a kickstand which you can use to prop it up if you want to watch something on the back there is your 8 megapixel camera and dual LED flash just kind of nice in the sprint Evo 4G branding speaker grille and you a 3.5 millimeter headset jack and I assume is a power in lock button go ahead and pry off the battery back so you didn't do this and let's pop it in and do a first boot up and let's see if somehow I've got 4G service where I am which I definitely doubt this also comes with a mobile hotspot app so you can use this as a MiFi device and similar what we've seen on incredible the back of it is totally red and it looks like the micro SD card sort of lodged in there a very weird way I assume they had to reshuffle with usually do things to get the extra antennas for of Y back which is for G to work again so your battery again which is big and red is of size C we can find the size on this thing well I assume it's gotta be 1500 milliamp hours which should be quite good to get through a full day's you go ahead and plug it in and I've done it tours of Sense UI in the past so I'm not gonna focus that much one sense in that coming videos but I will be doing comparisons with the competition to see how that stacks up let's go ahead and do a first boot up and see what we have like somewhere in gets rid of the standard Android we get the HTC EVO 4G and I gotta say this screen is huge in person but definitely not too big you could fit into a pocket probably just the right bigness that you can get sort of optimal viewing and not look like you're carrying around like a tablet in your pocket so we'll go ahead and watch this boot up screen I'll probably cut the end of this adapter watches all in real time sprint splash screen and at least where I'm in Southern California sprint service is very strong that reception is very good I experienced a very little drop calls when I've used their network in the past it looks like that's it's a very quick boot up process preparing SD card I don't suppose any way that's gonna say 4G up top probably not go ahead and push that down data call failure registration failure so we got to go through and do all the on-screen steps so here is this Ricki before Jean I'll do a sort of an overview and show you how things work if I see anything sort of interesting or notable I'll be sure to mention it in an upcoming video anyway I'm John Rhett enger' from the TechnoBuffalo go check it out for all of your tech news and for fluid context check me out at Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers just like the YouTube name and I will see you in the next video buh-bye