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hey guys Davey here from pom pom instead of me doing a review on the HTC EVO 4G LTE from Sprint basically this guy is Sprint's variant of the HTC One X but of course being an Evo it does have a few extra features which I'll get into later on in the video but for now let's go ahead and do a quick hardware tour on the front of the device you have this big display it's 4.7 inches going diagonally it has 1280 by 720 resolution so it's an HD screen giving you a PPI of 312 at the bottom of the front you have a capacitive back home and multitasking buttons on the top you have your 1.3 megaphone facing camera capable of 720p video capture got your earpiece right over here at the top of the phone you have your power button right over there your secondary microphone and 3.5 millimeter headset jack on the bottom of the device you have nothing but your mic main microphone on the left you have your micro USB charging port on the right you have your volume rockers volume up and down and your dedicated camera button on the back of the device you have your 8 megapixel camera capable of 1080p video capture you've got your LED flash got a kickstand so I'll go ahead and try to pull this guy out if I can there you go so you got a kickstand which is unique to the Evo and HTC logo sprint logo got this matte black look with the shiny at the top got your speaker grill right here at the bottom and let's go ahead and pull this guy off this guy is removable the phone does have NFC capability you see it has a whole bunch of little connections here for the back cover you've got a mic or micro SD slot that you can actually expand which is really nice it's right over here I don't know why I'm pointing clear it's right over here also the phone on the inside has a non-removable 2000 milliamp battery underneath the hood the guy has a 1.5 gigahertz Snapdragon s4 dual-core processor and one gigabyte of RAM so that's pretty much it for the device where's the hardware goes it's about 8.9 8 millimeters thick so definitely a thin phone it is pretty light as well it was 134 grams or 4.7 2 ounces so feels really good in the hand pretty sturdy build quality but let's go ahead and talk about what I like and dislike if you guys follow the channel you guys know in reviews I start with what I dislike about a phone and I end it with what I like I like to end on a positive note with all my phone so anyway I'm gonna go ahead and do that and talk about a couple of things that I wish were a little bit different on the Evo 4G LTE alright so the first thing that I dislike about the Evo 4G LTE is the shiny back cover I mean I think a lot of people will actually notice this and dislike it I know there's a few people out there who like her a lot of you guys who like it but I'm not one of them I feel like this guy picks up a lot of finger prints and it just doesn't go with the phone I mean the whole phone is matte black you know on the front it's all a matte black on the sides it's matte black of course you have the silver aluminum outline but anyway on the back it's matte black over here and it's that anodized material that HTC uses basically scratch resistant resistant which is really nice you know you scratch all you want you see a little bit of residue but that's really just your fingernail anyway the back cover this top part this doesn't go with it thankfully it is removable so my hope is that maybe somebody on the you know third some third party maker makes a custom back cover that is matte black just like the rest of them but considering that has all these little connections I see that being a lot harder than it sounds so we'll see if that happens if it does I'll be really happy because it'll take away one of the things I dislike about this phone making it you know all that much better try it get this guy on correctly the next thing that dislike about the Evo 4G LTE and this pretty much with all HD devices is the lock screen but in location they put them at the top of the device now it's fine for the smaller devices even on the HTC One S being a 4.3 inch screen this guy's 4.7 inches so it's definitely a bigger device so I find it a little bit harder to out you know reach all the way up here and press the power button to turn the screen on on a phone like the galaxy s3 you have it on the slide which does make it a lot easier for me also on the galaxy s3 have a physical home button which brings the screen on as well over here these guys are capacitive so obviously it's not going to do anything unless the screen is on in the first place so that's another thing I dislike and the last thing I dislike is the non removable we you can't pull this guy out I mean if you run out of juice you're out of juice you gotta charge it up obviously they have a two thousand million battery which is actually more than the typical 1x so that's nice to see that HTC did that but at the same time I just wish I had the option to choose you know as I see they gave us option issues with that memory with the expandable memory card but unfortunate they didn't do the same with the battery but anyway those are the things that are disliked I mean honestly not that long Sony just three things the rest of the one I like and we'll go ahead and talk about some of those things right now all right so the first of many things I like honestly I'm not gonna be able to go through all of them but the first thing that I like is the screen on the Evo I mean the screen is 4.7 inches it's an HD screen so it's 1280 by 720 but it's also a super LCD to screen so you don't have that you know shared the sub pixel layout like you would on the galaxy s3 with the AMOLED screens it's a lot brighter than you would expect an AMOLED screen and has a higher ppi 312 so I mean everything this looks clear I did a screen comparison on the channel between this phone and the galaxy s3 if you guys want to check it out personally I like this one a little bit more mainly just the fact that when I'm out in the Sun I can see the screen a little bit easier than I can the galaxy s3 because it is brighter I don't have to you know try to cover the glare from the Sun like this because the screens bright enough for me not to have to do that so that's the first thing that I really like but with an HD screen like this and also considering that this is a 4G LTE phone the second thing that I like is the kickstand so obviously unique to the Evo brand on Sprint go ahead and pull out the kickstand this guys a little bit harder to take out than it looks but kickstand is nice and sturdy and you know what more would you want then being able to watch you know HD video or in this case Google or somehow I managed to open that on this week is set it down and look at it that way but that's not it you could actually flip this guy over and go the other way if you want a different slope so if you want a different angle you get hit like that this one's a little bit less of a slope which you know is obviously a nice thing to see so you have two different options kind of with the same kickstand like I said it's really sturdy put it in like that and then once it's in you don't even feel it it's like it's not even there so this is one of those things are an extra nice extra if you don't like it guess what you don't have to use it if you like it then great I definitely like it so that's another thing that I like about the evo and another thing that alike is the camera button it's actually a dedicated button so normally you have to press you know the camera button you have to put on your home screen or app dock in order to access it and I do it with you know pretty much every and refer when I have they seem to have gotten rid of that but it's nicely that HTC came back with it yeah makes it really easy to take pictures and launch your camera I will say that it seems to lag sometimes to open up the camera from here for example if I were to close out the camera so I think I just close it out and press and hold this guy you can see it's lagging a little yeah okay I let go and now it opens so takes a really long time but of course once it's open it doesn't take that long well maybe it does so anyway I don't know why I mean that's obviously the software issue because if I tap this guy boom it opens it right away and that's one of the things I like and that's one of the things I'll talk about so now we talked about the cameras talk about the camera itself I mean launches up really quick if you're using the software but at least and I'm sure you know once they do update it'll fix that hardware issue as far as it lagging but one thing with HTC Sense is in the HD image chip is you're able to take a whole bunch of pictures at once so it's brush photo mode by pressing and holding took a bunch of pictures of my little Android that has his ears chopped off on furniture unfortunately I could choose the best shot just like that and takes absolutely great pictures takes great video check out the video sample I did on the channel as well gives you a better idea as far as the video and audio quality that you can expect out of this a megapixel camera on the back next thing that I like about Thea phone is the speed so like I said earlier it has a 1.5 gigahertz Snapdragon s4 dual-core processor so this phone is definitely no slouch it's really really fast in which you'd expect out of any phone with the s4 running Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.04 so gonna show you that right now since I mentioned it where is the software information there you go so I stacked Android 4.0 3 I'm sorry so once it gets the update it or trade go to 4.04 or i'm not sure if they'll just skip it altogether and go to jelly bean but anyway really fast experience I mean the apps pretty much open as soon as you tap on them so definitely something that I really enjoy in here I did a side-by-side comparison as far as the speed goes with the GOG three galaxies we did edge it out a little bit consider he does have an extra gigabyte of RAM the scale has one galaxy s3s too but I mean really we're talking the difference of milliseconds so it's not that big of a deal and honestly it's like comparing a Lamborghini and a Ferrari if I had to say one which one is what I say this one's a Ferrari just because it's black and red and those are Ferrari colors but anyway you're gonna get a really fast performing device I absolutely love the performance that appeared it's match that with the screen the dedicated camera button and the little kickstand you have a great entertainment device in the unifor Evo 4G LTE and you know like the name implies it as 4G LTE which makes streaming all your online content really really nice on here but um that's pretty much you know all want to stay I mean I do like the micro expandable SD card slot which is nice because a lot of phones are seem to be dishing those at least the last recent HTC phones have been doing so so it's nice to see that especially you know since I consider that entertainment device really you want to have a big memory card so you can store all your movies and shows and whatnot and music on here obviously has Beats Audio beats by dre by dr. dre which is nice you have HD voice capabilities which is you know one of the first phones with HD voice on Sprint's Network like I said it has NFC so it comes pre-loaded with Google Wallet see if I could find that so tap on this guy and Bluetooth 4.0 and stuff like that so I mean you've got everything you know we thought you'd expect out of a high-end phone on here overall I mean III do recommend this phone I love it it's really close between this and the galaxy s3 I mean if you want you know certain things you might go for the galaxy s3 if you want you know more of an entertainment device I'd recommend the EO 4G LTE because that kickstand in combination with the you know I think it's a better screen as far as you know the brightness and clarity and dedicated camera button you can't really go wrong with the Evo 4G LTE so you really put decide what you like but if you over the things that you know I that I pointed out as far as disliking it then this is definitely a device Reap anyway that's it for me in this video if you found it helpful please hit the like button and subscribe like I said I'll be doing a lot more videos I'll be doing a in-depth review of the touch or I'm sorry the HTC Sense UI so that way you guys can get a better ideas for us you know what to expect from since if you haven't before anyway thank you for watching the video