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Unboxing the Pantech Matrix Pro

2009-02-19
hey guys jon rettinger here with an unboxing for you of the pantech matrix pro for AT&T it is a dual sliding windows mobile 6.1 standard phone it'll be available in stores next Tuesday which is februari 24 for 180 bucks after manufacturer rebate and the required two-year contract let's go ahead and dig in the scissors off here the PR material here is the box for the pantech matrix pro if this film looks familiar to you it looks very similar to the ocean to which is out for virgin mobile's Helio service that's because the same maker pantech also makes the ocean keep that office will sign go ahead and open it up and see what's included in the box so first score some specs on the vice dual slider like i mentioned windows 6.1 standard it's a tribe and 3g phone with 850 900 and 2100 it's got assisted gps 2.4 inch display it's got a 2 megapixel integrated camera it can play video audio voice command and all the rest of that fun stuff that Windows Mobile can do i'll actually never used a windows 6.1 device looking forward to using it and seeing how it fares to something other phones i've tested just some paper on top here's some booklets getting started probably never really look at that but it's nice to include it in case you're interested some more tissue paper like stuff and since this device is not yet released I'm the first one to actually reviewed this one so it's still sealed in the plastic go ahead and push that off to the side let's see what else comes in the box first we have a wall charger with a proprietary ports that's socks I hate when they include project reports but it is what it is I think we have a 3.5 millimeter headset jack adapter to that fly in port on the end it's like they also included some sort of case open it up and see what it looks like and what it's made up a fake suede material in it's just a bag I don't know who really use a bag for a case but if it's your thing it's included in the box here is the battery I believe it's a 13 20 milliamp hour battery which should be more than enough to power this but let's take a look to be sure pantech yep 13 20 milliamp hour batteries or three point seven volts so there's a decent size battery and push that off to the side what else comes in the box USB cord for syncing and probably charging the back of the phone the requisite windows mobile CDs probably activesync and some other software on there but all that is periphery let's take a look at the phone itself take out of the bag it's got a decent amount of weight to it actually let's put the battery in and see what it feels like i will put the back of the phone on you know it's got a really decent mount of weight to it it slides put it down to show you it slides out revealing just a typical number pad you can close it up and you can slide it the other way revealing a full three row qwerty keyboard which is actually very nice the keys have a decent i depress to them they are a little close together and they're flush with the device to be able to slide in there so there isn't much of a raised Ridge to feel them but it does look to be a very type of book keyboard dressing slide both ways so I'm going to pop a sim card in here and i'll do a first boot up for you guys alright so the sim card is in let's go ahead and peel off the plastic on the front and power this on there's a separate power button there it goes boot enough you got a sort of vista looking windows logo do the windows mobile splash screen looks like from a cold boot up it's got a little bit of time and the colors down here the sending end buttons are glowing and I'll walk you guys through the hardware in just a minute if we do a first boot up you get that unnecessarily loud AT&T 3g logo and that's it we are in click Next to set up your windows mobile base device go ahead and do that little bit later let me walk you guys through the hardware so there's the front of the device you've got a send key and an end key down at the bottom you've got two hot keys here one for whatever shows up down the bottom left whenever shows up in the bottom right you also have a home key and a back button on the left side of the device you've got a record button and a volume up and down rocker on the bottom you've got a expandable microSD card slot I believe this will read up to a 32 gigabyte card on the right side of device you've got a dedicated camera button right there and that must be where the charger goes underneath that little door slide off the door plug it in and you are good to go so guys have just been a real quick unboxing of the new pantech matrix pro again this will be released februari 24th four hundred eighty dollars on ET and T's network I'll use it for a little while and give you guys my opinions hope you enjoyed and for exclusive content be sure to follow me on twitter twitter.com / John for lakers see you guys next video bye bye
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