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hey guys John Ranger here it's an unboxing for you of the new Samsung mythic for AT&T Wireless this foam is gonna run you $1.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate it is a 3g full touchscreen phone from Samsung running their TouchWiz interface that we've seen in the past the impression and a few other Samsung devices let's go ahead and get to the unboxing and I was also I'll tell you about it as we go so it's got a camera of course 3.2 megapixels with a three time zoom it's got your music players supposed to a full HTML browser it also has a mobile TV let's go ahead and of course use the obligatory big ol knife for this and I'm also doing this unboxing on a live Ustream show so close you guys that are watching this later thank you for tuning in let's go ahead and cut this open and I believe this follower was just released so it's still relatively new see where we go go ahead and rip open the package nothing else inside so here we have the Samsung mythic looks like the Box got a little dinged up in transit so your typical AT&T box just with the tray down below you've got a picture of the mythic on the front how much it looks to be a pretty slick device I'm a fan of the TouchWiz interface it's a widget based so you can actually pick these widgets from the side and drag them off to the home screen I'll show you what that looks like in a later video well it's got TV it's got your three megapixel camera believe that icon is for the a-list and of course it's got email and a lesser sort of your att's version of my faves with t-mobile's been doing some more about the device through megapixel camera actually stands for social networking it's a social networking phone email and I am let's go ahead and dig in its take out the tray and see what we got inside push the box off to the side we've got your Quick Start Guide which I don't know anybody who looks at these things but if you're the kind of person that does there you go seeing is believing all right I've got a disc for your disking needs and here we've got the device itself go ahead and push it off the side for just one minute we'll see what else we get in the box we've got your Samsung 2 USB cable and look at this it's the first time Samsung actually hasn't used a proprietary charging port it appears to be micro USB nope that's proprietary not micro USB that was a micro USB cheese so we've got your your wall charger and that's really all you're gonna get in the box let's take a look at the phone it's got a nice feel to it this one looks sick it's got sort of a reddish crimson look on the back so let's take a look at the phone and see we have we've got what appears to be an optical d-pad we've got a I soon will be your sending end buttons on the front I'm gonna peel off this plastic - and we'll keep doing our tour of the device I will do that in a minute a little hard to get off you've got your volume rocker up and down on the left hand side of the phone on the right looks like you've got your a camera button the zoom button and you've got a lock button as well let's power this thing on and see what the OS looks like especially if it's got a SIM card in there I assume that we hold down the power button we do on top you've got a 3.5 millimeter headset jack and looks like your charging port on the top which despite my previous assertions actually is microUSB so that's quite nice I'm gonna see if we can get this plastic off the front there you don't see we get this satisfying whooshing noise we did get the whooshing noise so I'll zoom in a little bit you guys can check out the device and while that's loading I'll do a comparisons for you have some other devices that you might be familiar with here is the iPhone 3GS as far as size comparison goes here is also the Motorola Droid for Verizon Wireless get sort of a sense on how big the screen is here on the mythic it does have haptic feedback and this feel to be very responsive as well it is a resistive touchscreen unlike these two devices so the touch is made by a pushing down of two layers of film as opposed to a transfer of electrons so I'll push this off to the side and take a quick gander through so you've got your menu options this looks to be very reminiscent of other Samsung touchscreen phones but it is responsive and you know definitely useful it does not have a slide-out QWERTY keyboard that is done via an on-screen keyboard so guys I'll be doing a few more videos on device so I'll walk you through the operating system as I've done in the past in case there is a interest and definitely I'll be doing a full review as well so for exclusive contents checking out a Twitter twitter.com slash John Ford Lakers and to get all your tech news and sign up for your own technology blog and social network and talk to friends check out TechnoBuffalo com this is John Ratner and I will see you guys in the next video this was an unboxing of the Samsung mythic bye bye