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what is going on everybody I'm Noah from TechnoBuffalo comm and this unboxing was doomed as an unboxing from the start I mean you know when you get a phone shipped to you in a box it just says number 13 on it I actually like the number 13 but a lot of people look at it as an omen anyway I shot the video and then the files would not import to my computer for editing the files were corrupted apparently so in the meantime I played around with the phone some and now it's not an unboxing it's a first hands-on it's any rate it's the Samsung Galaxy Preval for boost mobile and issues with the unboxing video notwithstanding I'm still kind of psyched about this phone because it's service is dirt cheap or at least as cheap as smartphone plans get right now it's on Boost Mobile it's a froyo Android device Android 2.2 2.2 - to be specific and the phone itself is 170 999 it will be when it comes out later this month late April availability through Boost Mobile online and then sometime in May in the stores but we got one early hence the lucky number 13 box so 179 99 no contract if pay tax but that's it and then 50 bucks a month for unlimited voice and data and then it's also on the kind of neat sounding but unfortunately named shrinkage plan on Boost Mobile which basically the deal is if you pay your bill on time six months doesn't have these systems in a row just if you make six on-time payments they knock five bucks off of your monthly plan and they'll do that up to three times so if you make 18 payments on time and a year and a half which is a long time but in a year a half you can be down to paying 35 bucks a month for unlimited voice and data fifty bucks a month is already you know like $30 less than what t-mobile is doing you know basically I think it's around I'll double-check this but I think it's around $30 less than the cheapest unlimited plan or close to unlimited t-mobile for 80 bucks is 1,500 minutes a month not full unlimited but you know 50 bucks a month way cheaper than what you're going to pay on the big four carriers from nationwide unlimited voice and data but then you get down to 35 which again takes a year and a half to get to that so that's a ways out but over the course of a two-year contract you could save you know 50 bucks $30 a month versus $1 a month so $30 savings a month would be $360 a year seven hundred twenty dollars over a two-year contract but then also that could decrease as you go on so worth looking into anyway and it's a full-on Android phone with the market it's got Android 2.2 with access to the Android Market so um you know you can definitely use it as a real Android phone not kind of a metro pcs has an LTE phone out but it's not a full-on smartphone that kind of thing anyway the phone itself you know it's definitely not high-end but for some people it'll be just fine 3.2 inch display it is 320 by 480 resolution this is running an 800 megahertz Qualcomm processor I've been playing around with a little with the phone this afternoon and you know it's snappy enough it works fine we'll take a quick tour on the phone you've got your it's multi-touch it's got you know Android voice search and everything true hoop blog all right true who not sure hoop true hoop log cool call old log theater no cancel let's do it the old-fashioned way I was haunted anyway I used true hoop log and not technical flows site for these Android homes because for some reason I can't get out of mobile mode sometimes in TechnoBuffalo and I wanted to show you your the phone loading up a regular web page it's on Wi-Fi right now Sprint's 3G service is what powers this thing and it was working fine for me before you've got multi touch capabilities pinch and zoom it's it's responsive enough you know it works well it's a smaller screen but everything seems to work fine it's got an accelerometer so you can go portrait and landscape the phone itself on the bottom you've got four capacitive touch buttons on the left spine you've got a rocker switch a lanyard pork shoutout to Aaron Baker lanyard port micro SD card slot comes with a two gigabyte card pre-installed on the right side you've got a camera button Hardware button for the camera on the top three and a millimeter headphone jack power on/off lock switch on the bottom micro USB I believe in the retail packaging you'll get you know the USB cable as well as the AC adapter but I don't know that's what came with lucky number 13 and then on the back it's a two megapixel camera no flash I believe it's fixed focus it shoots video clips but pretty low resolution so you know for me that would be the biggest drawback I think is the camera not being so good because I use my camera a lot these days on my phone but you know you can listen to music on it you can rock the Android the whole thing you can put up to I believe a 32 gigabyte card in there if you want and you know what's Android is some search some I'm sure somebody's going to figure out how to route this thing you also get it's got GPS built in and you get tell nav from what the press release said you get TeleNav unlimited for free it's got some stuff there's telling F it's got some stuff built in you've got Frank think free office you've got the scavenger hat of course Google navigation you got layer augmented reality browser so you know you can do some things with it and if you're in the market for low-cost and especially if you don't want to be tied down into a contract it's definitely an interesting an interesting option here was looking before go back here go back here - I was looking for John for the Lakers video before so let's do John unboxing the robot vacuum here so the YouTube app you can rotate and it goes into full-screen mode you can hit the high quality button again this is connected to Wi-Fi so it's faster when I was trying to do it before I'm on that Oh crash well that's it let me get this playing here popping robot come on now I want to hear John complain about how he doesn't like to do housework just to show you the YouTube app works well you can watch YouTube videos no problem you're not gonna have flashing this thing personally I don't care it's actually are you I don't think you're gonna have flesh I don't I've never really had a phone that did flash well anyway but let's see maybe you do maybe I'm wrong the phone does have swiped pre-installed which is neat I'm not used to using swipe but I was messing around with it before and I liked it better than I did when it first came out and obviously it's become quite popular but again you know an interesting option if Sprint service works well where you are yeah so and there you go but I'm sure there's a way to shoehorn flash onto here if you really want to anyway if it works well where you are you don't mind the lower quality camera the 2 megapixel with the the low res video option it doesn't even tell you when you you know when you go in there you've got video quality high or low MMS and that's it so and then when you switch the camera mode yeah there isn't even an option it's you knew geotag but it's a 2 megapixel camera so if you can live with that you know you really want a smartphone the $50 unlimited thing definitely is is compelling to me anyway then again there's a reason that I pay out the nose to carry around you know top-of-the-line smartphone instead of this so it's one thing for me to say it is another thing to put my money where my mouth is I can't even spit the words out and would I actually switch to the galaxy prevail on boost I don't know but I'm excited to find out I'm going to check it out report back to you it'll be much more on the galaxy prevail and of course all those fancy high-end phones over on TechnoBuffalo dot-com so until then thanks to the folks at Samsung for loaning us to prevail to check out again the galaxy prevail launches in late April on boost it's an Android 2.2 smartphone 179 dollars plus tax no contract $50 a month unlimited shrinkage so you can shrink that bill down to 35 bucks a month but it'll take you at least 18 months to do that that's a long way away a lot can change and that much time well next time I'm Noah thanks for watching see you later