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what's up everyone john Retton Jeff and TechnoBuffalo here with an unboxing for you of the HTC EVO shift 4G it's got quite a long name it's a 4G Android running smartphone for Sprint's let's go ahead and dig in and see if shift happens alright so this is set right from the folks at Sprint we are going to bring in a long-lost friend to help us señores stabby the big ol knife make it a comeback go ahead and cut into this package and you'll do the whole unboxing thing we'll run through the specs we'll talk about the price we'll do of course some size comparisons we'll go ahead and rip this open like there's some PR material from Sprint today we're set off this lamp in just a minute continue to dig in there we go sprint EVO shift 4G a little bit of a long name but no problem so the telling us it's a demo unit on the side there's some demo unit information here we've got what's in the box but we're gonna see what's in the box there's a picture of it we're gonna run through all that business Android experience blah blah blah let's go ahead and open her up and here we have the HTC EVO shift 4G a lot of names like Sally Jessy Raphael go ahead and tilt that over a little bit so you can get it out boom we've been shifted alright so let me run through the specs real quickly then we'll take a look at what else is in the box if this looks reminiscent of the Evo because well be supposed to but also I know if I leave it like this and run through the specs the comments are gonna be filled to take off the plastic so I will first take off the plastic alright we are looking at a 3.6 inch diagonal screen the resolution of 480 by 800 thing powered by Android 2.2 this is an HTC built device and as such is rockin sense which is the newest version of sense it's got a Qualcomm 800 megahertz processor 512 megabyte Ram on the back there is a five megapixel camera with autofocus and flash we're gonna peel off the plastic tooks I don't want to hear it the camera can shoot video at 1280 by 720 so that is 720p the back is a bit of a soft touch to go through it it's got a very nice feel in the hand we've got four capacitive buttons across the bottom so typical Android buttons home button menu button back button and search proximity sensor on top this does not have a front-facing camera on the left hand side you're going to have your volume rockers up and down and your micro USB charging ports on the right-hand side you're not gonna have very much bottom not gonna very much other than a microphone port looks like the back to pull it off and gets the battery top there's your gonna be your power button 3.5 millimeter headset jack and when you slide this guy out you're going to have a surprisingly nonce preloaded full QWERTY keyboard here with d-pad and this I have had a chance to get my hands on the phone before the keyboard is actually very nice I don't like the fact that there's a lot of pressure at supply to slide this open I really do like when it's a spring-loaded keyboard the keyboard here is very nice the disease cinematic key throw despite its sliding mechanism you can sort of see it from the side plenty of room for your fingers to rest on the keys big space part which I like I'm not so sure how often you're gonna use a d-pad but I do have the option for it being here and you can use the middle to select so it had a glaze a five-way d-pad you've got your enter and delete buttons and of course functions as well go ahead and push that off and we'll power that guy on in just a minute but let's see what else we are going to get in your EVO shift box go ahead and pull all that stuff up so you've got your sprint getting started so we can go ahead and get started you got a USB cable and a power pretty Spartan affair in here but that's what you are going to get and as the 4G name implies this is a 4G phone so it's gonna be running on Sprint's WiMAX network it looks like the batteries installed here the battery is going to be a 1500 milliamp hour battery let's go ahead and turn this on and take a look at we're going to see and I should mention the power button is a bit sort of recessed on an angle and if you can see that so it's a little bit strange to get used to if you use your thumb to hit it you're gonna have a very hard time we're gonna have to use actually your forefinger to get to that as well alright so while this is booting up let's do a quick size comparison if you're looking for a sprint 4G phone with the full QWERTY keyboard chances are you're probably gonna wanna cross shop this or e will be cropping with more of the flagship this is the Epic 4G switch before a size comparison here this is Sprint's Galaxy S device now it does have of course a full QWERTY keyboard and it is using the hummingbird processor so it's going to be a bit faster from a price standpoint at least prices are always subject to change sprint right now is charging a very reasonable 149 dollars for the EVO shift 4G so I'm going to keep in mind if your price conscious you're going to get a very capable at least what appears to be on paper very capable phone it looks like we're going to be dying on us in just a minute you can get a chance to see what this looks like in here I'm sure you guys have all seen scents in the past this is actually not the newest version of sense we've got that little paintbrush icon in the bottom right you can customize different skins this appears to be just standard version of HTC Sense which as far as Android skins go is definitely one of my favorite and you are getting the newest version of sense this is advertised this is one of the newer versions of Android rather 2.2 you're not sitting on 2.3 Gingerbread the version of cents that's on here is newer than other US release devices but hopefully we'll see that newest version of cents make its way to devices coming soon that was a lot of stumbling alright so here is the phone it looks good it feels nice in the hand the capacitive buttons appear to work very well phone looks like it's really going to die on me for some other size comparisons so let me bring back the epic you can see how this looks so you're going to get a little bit of a smaller screen size to with the Evo chip the 3.6 versus a four inch on the epic but people you know generally like that smaller screen size if that's going to be your thing you're going to get a much smaller form factor as well if you really are concerned about scree resolution having the fastest specs you're gonna want to look at the epic a little bit more if you want just a capable phone that's gonna have nice messaging features and be able to do all your multitasking you're gonna want to give