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hey guys it's brandom in a minute from pocket now calm and this is a hardware tour of the palm pre plus on AT&T let's take a look so the more I used the palm pre plus is my daily driver the more I dislike it and I'm actually surprised hear myself say that because I've been looking forward to this device for a very long time but there are just a lot of problems with the phone that are really starting to bug me but first let's talk about the hardware on the device this is the palm pre plus on ATT this is the palm pre plus on verizon they are completely the same there is no difference until you take off the back battery cover so let's do that and the only difference of course is that the AT&T version has a sim card slot whereas the CD cdma verizon version does not they both have the touchstone backing and of course the AT&T version comes with a touchstone charger for free but that's pretty much it everything else is exactly the same so put these back on so before I get specific about the hardware on the palm pre plus I have to say that the phone feels and looks dated even though it's only a year old the original pre came out on sprint about June of 2009 it just it feels very thick in hand when compared to say the iphone or the hd2 or the google nexus one it's just a very thick device even though it has a slideout keyboard it's just very large in hand and it's kind of large in the pocket as well so let's take a tour around the device ok here at the top we have the speaker and the hole in front entire front of the device is completely flat they got rid of that button that they did have on the original palm pre which means that this is a capacitive button and there's also an indicator light over here that shines when you have a new email although you can turn that off while this flush pneus is kind of cool looking it just it makes the device feel numb like there's no tactile sensation in fact you slide open the keyboard I've always found this very difficult because there's nowhere to hold on to so you have to put your finger on the screen I'm always afraid I'm going to do a Miss press or I'm going to put my finger on this button here afraid that I'm going to hit the home but there's just no easy way nothing to grab on to to slide out the keyboard okay so let's continue around the device on the left side here we have the volume up and down rocker and on the bottom there is nothing except the button to press to pop out the the back battery cover here on this side we have this really flimsy door for the charger and on the verizon version this door is permanently damaged it just never closes and I can see that the AT&T version is starting to exhibit that and it's only been a couple of days so palm hasn't figured this out yet how to fix that here in the upper right corner kind of a weird and awkward place is the standby button there's the silent button here and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack now let's talk about this keyboard I cannot get used to this keyboard I like the keyboard very very much on the palm pixi I think it's one of the best keyboards I really really like the keyboard on the HTC touch pro2 it's also one of the best keyboards even going back to an old device like the samsung propel pro it gives you enough space there's enough clearance to be able to type on all of the buttons and you don't feel like you have to use your fingernails when typing on the keyboard that is not the case with the palm pre and maybe pre owners that have had the device for a very long time will disagree with me but in my first couple days of using this I just can't get used to this keyboard my fingers are relatively small and I'm having a very tough time being able to type quickly because it feels like these keys are way too small they do have a little bit of depth to them but it just feels not so good down here is the microphone and that's pretty much it in terms of hardware on the back we have a 3 megapixel camera with a flash pretty good camera on this I must say and here is the speaker which distorts that kind of high volume but it performs better than say the nexus one or even the iphone it's a little bit louder which is nice to see and then we get this palm logo on the back and here it says AT&T on the verizon version guess what says verizon so that was a look at the hardware on the palm pre plus on ATT we're going to talk a lot more about the software experience on this device coming up soon please thumbs up this video if you like what you see and subscribe to our channel for more smartphone videos that's it for now