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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocket now calm and this is a look at the hardware on the AT&T tilt to the successor to the very much popular AT&T tilt so let's take a look at the hardware on this device starting at the top and let's zoom in a little bit up here we have the speaker grill and to the left of that is the LED LED indicator light which is very convenient because you have the phone across the room and you want to know if you have a new message you just glanced at your phone and see if you have a blinking light to the right of that is the light sensor what you can't see up here is a proximity sensor so if you're on the phone with someone and you put it up to your face the screen will shut off to conserve battery life very handy indeed and it works quite well surrounding the entire device is this chrome strip which looks quite nice and it feels and looks high quality the screen is 3.6 inches diagonal and that is quite a bit larger than the HTC fuze or the 18 tito which only had 2.4 inch displays the resolutions 800 down and 480 across that's the greatest that Windows Mobile can support going down we have the zoom slider which will work when you're browsing the internet are looking at a photo you can rub your finger to the right to zoom in and to the left to zoom out below that our buttons Skol start call end the Windows Start key to open up the start menu and the back ok button let's take a look outside on the side we have the volume rocker although what's new over here is to push to talk button I still don't know anyone that's using push-to-talk on AT&T but actually it's good that they put the button here because this is programmable so you can have this quickly launch messaging or a widget or any program that you use on a regular basis you've got a built-in button here to launch it which is a really great addition so I'm quite glad they put it in on the bottom what we see down here is no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack this version unfortunately doesn't have that capability and what you have to use is the converter jack that comes with all the devices and the only way to get 3.5 millimeter audios to use this kind of cumbersome can murder Jack that comes with a device so you plug it into the bottom and then you get conversions for 3.5 millimeter 2.5 millimeter and a USB passthrough so you can still charge your device while you listen to audio so a little bit of an annoyance going on the other side of the device we have nothing except the secondary microphone this device has two microphones for use with the Straight Talk speakerphone which actually brings a noise cancellation and sort of almost conference room grade speakerphone to your mobile device not quite as good but it is very high quality and on the top we have the standby button and also turns on and off the device over on the back we have a nice brushed metal gray dark gray strip here surrounded by a gray metallic background with a nice texture in the center very beautiful backing we also have the 3.5 mm megapixel camera with the mute button so that when you turn the phone on its face for a speakerphone and you want to mute the call to talk you can press the mute button it will turn red and then you press it again it will turn green let's take a look at the keyboard if you remember when we first heard about the tilt two on et MTU it was called the HTC fortress and then actually had a weird split keyboard design there was a number pad off to the right and the standard qwerty pad on the left is a great thing that they didn't go with that because that would have been super awkward to have to position your fingers on the kind of left side of the device to type and probably not many people would have used the number pad although it would have been an interesting design nonetheless so the keyboard is fantastic all the keys are offset and if you look closely in terms of design it's got a nice brushed metal background to it it's hard to see it's actually the same brushed metal design that you get on the back here in terms of the key layout we have the buttons for the numbers kind of dispersed within the numbers so in order to dial a number you have to press the function button and go over here you get a dedicated row of characters at the top which can be quite handy you know the at sign underscore ! parentheses and so on and so forth so depending on your usage you may find it more convenient to have the sort of characters up here then to have the numbers up here and of course we have this awesome tilting screen which doesn't tilt as much as the last generation till we're gonna actually do a comparison in a moment and the tilting screen is great for watching move movies for changing the viewing angle when your text messaging getting just the right you know viewing angle and it's also great for gps navigation putting the device up on your dashboard while you're navigating around so let's take a look at this device in comparison to the european version and you know i bet you're not going to be able to tell the difference they're very very similar they're very very similar except of course that the ett version has the ATT branding right there that's a big giveaway same size screen same buttons down here they're not different in any way what is different is that the european version is the front facing video camera and also if we turn them over to the back we see some other differences the european version is silver with silver brushed metal and the AT&T version is the darker color with a darker brush metal I think it looks a lot nicer actually having the darker color it looks more sleek in my opinion also you get some different writing here it says 3.2 megapixel camera right here whereas over here it doesn't quite say that and it also says touch pro2 and it doesn't say it there and it's a straight talk although they make no mention of straight talk on the AT&T tilt two let's look at the keyboards briefly these devices do have different keyboard designs and also you'll notice that the tilt two has the kind of black background while the touch pro 2 has the silver background and the really main difference here is that the numbers are at the top whereas the characters are at the top and some other button placement is different such as the function key and where the control key is and things like that so overall very very similar devices indeed compared to the old tilt the tilt two actually doesn't tilt back as much in terms of the screen angle so we can get to about 45 degrees here maybe a little bit less maybe closer to 40 or so whereas with the original tilts and you have to remember that this device has been used a lot so this hinge is worn in it could go almost 90 degrees I'd say that's probably about 80 degrees which really isn't necessary but perhaps if you are looking at the device from very far away in the room you may want to have that ability to turn it up and make it sort of perpendicular to the ground so you have a better viewing angle the reason that the tilt two can't tell back as much as quite simply because of the way that this edge is designed it can't quite go past a certain level and also you know they've made the cable short to kind of resist the movement of the screen also notice you get this AT&T branding so that when you're typing out a text message you've got the screen so that everyone knows that you're running with an 80 device and finally let's take off the back battery cover to see what's behind here it's a quick action to remove the back battery cover just move it up a little bit back here we have the 1,500 milliamp hour battery which provides fantastic battery life in our tests you can go about two days under moderate usage which is quite unusual for a smartphone we can see the two speakers back here for the speakerphone has a very loud speakerphone and we also get to see the microSD slot which unfortunately is behind the battery cover if you remember on the tilts the original tilt you had it in this kind of nice little external slot that could be easily accessible without taking off the back battery cover also back here is the stylus which is not magnetic but it does take this device out of standby has a little switch inside so if you pull out the stylus the device comes on saves you a step so over all the hardware on the AT&T tilt two is quite fantastic the build quality is amazing it looks stunning it feels slim in the pocket even though it has a full slide out keyboard the tilting screen is great the large 3.6 inch screen looks massive in comparison to the 2.4 inch screen found on the tilt and the HTC fuze so if you're upgrading it will be like a world of difference and you'll probably be pretty happy with it so that's it for the tilt to be sure to follow us on twitter at twitter.com/worldsdumbest