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what's up everyone this is Todd Hazleton with TechnoBuffalo today we have a very exciting day despite the hurricane that's raging outside it's Windows Phone 8x this is from HTC it's big Windows Phone day there's nothing to see on the box but let's unbox it anyway so big day for Microsoft they're discussing today Windows Phone 8 this is the 8 x1 of the flagship devices that will launch here's what's in the box you've got the charger a set of headphones standard HTC fair and then the wall mount there let's power up the device because that's where it gets exciting right ok so here we are you can see the front face here that's a 4.3 inch display it's Gorilla Glass 2 on the back you've got an 8 megapixel camera with LED flash here's the Micro SIM port it just sort of you could pop it out with a nail but you can also just up tap something in like a pin pop it out volume keys here they lay really flush with the surface of the phone you can actually see that there it's really hard to see even from the angles there you go on the other version of this phone it'll launch in the neon yellow or red and a blue 2 those are the same color as the body so it's always kind of buried like that here's the camera quick launch key just hold that down microUSB charger on the bottom Beats Audio of course you've got a little speaker grille here 3.5 millimeter headphone jack up top front-facing camera that is a wide-angle lens it's a 2.1 megapixel camera can also record 1080p video and then of course you've got the the grill there in the windows buttons here let's get it powered on you can see it's already attracting fingerprints that has been so this is already powered up I already set it up because otherwise you guys would be sitting here watching you just sort of log in everything so okay so that just showed it Sunday I'm filming this video in advance of the storm tomorrow in case my electricity goes out in any case here you go this is the new home screen that was a funny picture of me so in any case you can now resize any widget on the home screen so let's say we want the New York Times one to be bigger we can just pop it out like that and leave it whereas we can also make it small now same goes for these larger widgets up top so or live tiles I should say you can push that in or you can you can make it smaller so in the space where you had four logos or four apps before say or one app before you can now have four or more than that so here we go one two three four five six seven eight in the screen that this takes up so there you go and now if we wanted we could take more real estate of everything so that's what's awesome about Windows Phone eight from the get-go is that it's much faster this has a 1.5 gigahertz Snapdragon s4 processor and it's highly customizable we'll go through here you can see it's the same as before the menu but there are a couple new things here music and videos now instead of Zune Microsoft has already done that office of course and OneNote great applications for syncing and staying in sync up to the cloud storing with the cloud and store now so before it was called the Windows Phone Marketplace now it's the store and go through here same apps that you've seen before right so I haven't seen much new here in terms of like we don't have Instagram right now yet or some of the games are kind of math in my opinion I'm hoping now that we have much more powerful processors on board then we have dual core support and Windows Phone 8 then we actually get those apps that we've been looking for for a long time in any case so what you'd expect here let's dig back into settings now okay so here whoops went to emails in accounts of course that's the same as before for the most part now you can change the color of the homescreen so if we wanted to say go with this bright red color well actually that's an older color so it's uh let's show you I don't know this lime green one or even this olive here the home screen you see it's all brand new here let's get this one back out cuz I like it big it's all olive quick color change you can also of course change light and black backgrounds but those are still the only two colors let's see our hues I should say while it's new I actually don't want to show too much because I have my own card set up on here but here in any case if you have say a debit card or anything you want it'll add that if it's ever been stored or used to purchase anything from Microsoft but you can also add your own cards so let's see a deal name okay so this is if you had like a deal nearby and you wanted to make sure you take advantage of it you just manually enter so blockbuster Delta this isn't actually working properly right now and I'm not sure why it says open app Delta miles there's not one yet and actually when I was trying to do this earlier it kept adding information from my bank account instead of Delta so I'm assuming Microsoft will address this today or Monday rather and go over everything more detail and release the apps that work with this but right now it's not fully functional so let's get to the camera now you don't want just a shot of my table here's the remote so we'll take a picture eight megapixel camera now by default I believe it goes to five and that's just to get the right I put it on eight earlier okay goes to six by default so it sort of takes up all the real estate of your screen unlike the One X you don't get the rapid-fire I mean it's pretty quick but it's still kind of trying to save unlike the One X ray like Bam Bam Bam Bam rapid fire mode other features here you can change of course the effects that allows you to go sepia or grayscale you've also got the resolution that I already showed you contrast saturation sharpness the ISO and face detection a pretty good camera I just find that the iPhone 5s camera took much better shots in a lot of scenarios especially late at night out on the streets the lamps all had this weird glow to them from the One X or from the Windows Phone 8 X rather as opposed the iPhone fiber was just more natural and the colors looked a lot better so in people now there are rooms so before you've always had what's new recent you know everything like that you can see I talked to my mom she's concerned about this one so now we have what's called the family room or buddies you can add your own so you have your chat now I don't have any more Windows Phone 8 devices so I actually can't talk about too much of how this works because I just can't test it until we get more but then you have a calendar so everybody can share the same calendar you've got photos you can just upload a photo so that everybody or a video so everybody can see them in your shopping this one's pretty cool notes so so you got to go go get milk eggs and bread for Mom let's make sure that shows there you go the screen is pretty bright or you can create a new note you know hi whatever and that of course stays in sync because it's one notices in sync with your SkyDrive so just the members chat calendar notes really cool new feature I hope this takes off of course you have to have a Windows Phone for it to to work properly in any case that is a very quick look at an unboxing stay tuned for much more I also have my full review of this phone up on the site today it's the Windows Phone 8x this is the international version from HTC I will be reviewing or we will a TechnoBuffalo that you TNT t-mobile and Verizon versions of this phone and you'll expect LTE there right now I just have HSPA here in the city from AT&T what else can I tell you about it real quick one gig of ram 16 gigs of storage we talked about this briefly this 2.1 megapixel camera is really cool it's front-facing and it has an 88 degree viewing angle so that means you can fit more of the landscape or whatever you're taking a picture of into the photo and it's really neat it's only 2.1 megapixels but useful if you're in you know just hanging out and you want to take a shot of everybody even at an arm's length you could fit much more than two or three people really cool so i'll show you that in the review manual you can read the text online on the site this is todd Hazleton with TechnoBuffalo