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what's up everyone John retinue from TechnoBuffalo here at the unboxing of what's sure to be one of the hottest handsets this holiday season for professionals and consumers alike this is the Droid Pro for Verizon Wireless let's get started so as you can see from the box the Droid Pro is a form factor that many people have been asking for it's a touchscreen on the top it's got a full QWERTY keyboard down below there's no sliding needed it's always accessible and available so let's go and start at the Box own talk about the specs as I pulled the phone out you got a picture of the device on the front we've got some packaged content listing on the side but we'll see that on the right hand side you've got some jumbly stuff about handling and Erica Pat ability another picture of the device on the back alright let's go ahead and dig in here is the Droid Pro which is sort of like the randy quaid of smartphones it might not be the best-looking out there it's not going any beauty contests but you know it's gonna do a good job it's gonna be reliable and it's gonna be able to get your hair you need to go alright so let's go ahead and pull this thing out first off this eye for just a minute and see what else we're going to get in the box this is actually one of the devices that I mentioned as being one of the hottest and probably most desirable smartphones for this holiday season so we've got a micro USB charging port or charging cable rather with the wall adapter we've got the back of the phone we're gonna need that got a few European adapters here and we'll go ahead and talk about why those are here and some are European some are for other countries and will work in other countries so again push those out they do come with three sever ones and I'll show you which ones they are in case you're gonna be travelling I don't ask you to name the countries that they are for go ahead and see what both of those are and the third all right so we've got a battery which will talk about capacity wise again in just a minute is a nice heavy battery actually now we've got a micro USB cable alright so enough of all that let's talk about the phone and let's go over the specs that this guy is packing because it brings quite a lot to the table it's gonna set you back about 179 dollars on a two-year contract and this is a global phone with 3G compatibility it's actually 3G radios it'll work in the US but the phone is not going to be unlocked if you want to see something very weird and something you're not used to you turn it over I've got a SIM card slot a few of the Verizon global phones have this it's still a little strange to see a Verizon Verizon bandid branded SIM card in the device kind of fun alright so it does have a 3.1 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 320 by 480 the battery that we just mentioned is a 1420 milliamp hours so you should be able to get a decent amount of use out of it probably about six to seven hours of talktime this guy is running Android 2.2 with a new version of motoblur on top it's got a TI OMAP 1 gigahertz processor so it should be plenty fast 512 megabytes of RAM we're gonna help that on the back we've got a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash and autofocus and that same lens can shoot 720p video so it's gonna be 720 by 480 at 30 frames per second and of course it's got Wi-Fi interestingly enough it's got Wi-Fi B G and n let's go ahead and power it on and see what we can expect from the Droid Pro this one really does bring a lot to the table grow global roaming capabilities a full QWERTY keyboard which will see if it is worthwhile or not and a lot of networking options it's supposedly very long battery life let's go ahead and pop it in and I'll go ahead and power this guy on alright so we put the back on and I know how much you guys love when I leave stickers on the devices so I will pull it off and the back is made of just plastic it's not soft touch sort of has that fingerprint II look to it just hard plastic and there's a bit of a hump there on the side for the camera front we'll go ahead and peel off the label here as well see if we get that whooshing noise that everybody loves and we do and this is running motoblur it's sometimes these phones don't actually have a search button look at some the other motoblur options this one actually does have that search button the buttons are capacitive so I will go ahead and power it on I'll do a tour of what's on the device and while that's doing its thing so as we just talked about your 4 capacitive buttons buttons that are sitting below the 3.1 inch screen you do have a full QWERTY keyboard here let's do a first blush to see how this keyboard feels the keys are beveled and slightly rounded they do have a decent amount of throw to them the number keys are embedded and overall I think it feels very nice we'll see how it works so in some real-world usage on the left hand side of the buttocks we've got a volume up and down microUSB charging port on the right we've got a hard button probably for as it yells at me droid I assume that's going to be a camera shutter button you can set that for whatever you like on the top you've got your lock and power button 3.5 millimeter headset jack and there is some droid action going on here welcome to the Droid Pro I'll go ahead and do the setup and come back and show you what that looks like before I do let's go ahead and do some size comparisons here so you know what the Droid Pro is going to look like next some smart phones make you familiar with so it's Android stablemate in the Verizon lineup here we have the Droid X 4.3 inch screen versus a 3.1 but this does have a full core to keep where it's easy from a size standpoint they're not all that different to go ahead and look at them thickness and see that they're just about the same there's a more pronounced camera hump however on the Droid X a from phone that you guys all are generally familiar with I think here is the iPhone 4 go ahead and see what those look like and we'll make a smart phone sandwich here with the Droid Pro as the meat in the middle and you can see what all those look like from a thin the standpoint so I'll come back in just a minute when this guy is all booted up set up and ready to rock so I'm activating the phone right now obviously the speaker volume on this actually surprisingly loud and I wanted you guys to hear in this initial video quite surprised at how loud this is so go ahead push one and let it do its activation but if you're worried about speaker phone volume on your mobile device not going to be a problem right here the phone is now being activated so we'll go ahead and simply a stand alive when they program the phone I will say that I would have liked perhaps hard buttons especially having a QWERTY keyboard here for sends an end you canif rely on the touchscreen for that so this one's getting activated I'll come back again in just a moment alright so you've got the phone all booted up and you've got the less obtrusive I'd say version of motoblur here start any sort of colors at the bottom like you've seen other devices and jump right to the home contacts or menu let's go and take a look here at some of the options that are going to come on it and what's sort of pre-installed it's all your typical home screens have seven of them to choose from let's see what applications are going to be pre-installed on the device we'll go ahead and jump back to the home and we'll see what's here that's unique this is a mobile hotspot capable device so if you have that plan you can go ahead and use this - it's Heather I believe up to five devices you can see all the applications that are going to come pre-installed here and there are quite a bit including Skype mobile which is always handy to have VZ navigators to your onboard as well if there's a demo for Need for Speed Shift you forgot of course Google Maps Navigation which is awesome by the way totally free and surprisingly still in beta got some mobile share and some modal blur apps overall this is in the phone that I know a lot of people have been waiting for there's been a lot of times when I've been really wishing I had a full QWERTY keyboard and without having to give up touchscreen or having to sort of slide something out and give up the thinness of the candy bar form factor so this is the phone that I know a lot of Verizon users have really been looking forward to myself included so I'll put it through the paces and let you guys know what I think if you have any questions or things that you want to see in the review or see covered be sure to leave them in the comments I'm John rhett endure from TechnoBuffalo be sure to check out the website for all your tech news for exclusive content check them out at twitter twitter comm celeste jaan for linkers all the links will be down in the what-have-you i'll see you guys in the next video bye