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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocketnow.com and this is the hardware tour of that new acer tempo m900 this is a very close competitor to the HTC touch pro2 because it is a very similar form factor there's a lot of similarities there's also a lot of differences we're going to cover all of the similarities and differences in an upcoming comparison check our Twitter for that twitter.com slash pocket nail tweets you'll know when it hits so let's talk about the m900 the screen is 3.8 inches diagonal across which is actually a little bit bigger than the touch pro to the touch pro 2 is a three point six inch screen and by comparison the touch HD actually has the same size screen as the m900 and that's the largest screen size that they make on mobile devices right now until the toshiba tg01 comes out which will have a four point one inch screen this sort of form factor the small cell phone like form factor really only goes up to three point eight inches and this is really the top here the resolution is 800 down and 480 across so that is wvga the greatest that Windows Mobile can support and let's zoom in to the top here up here we have a front facing video camera and a light sensors to the right of that you saw a blinking LED indicator light there are actually two one tells you if you have new messages and the other one tells you if you are charging your device it turns red and let you know that it's powering up the screen is totally flush it's a very interesting looking screen because it's a very shiny very reflective which looks kind of high class at first but as we're going to find out later in this video and later in the review the device actually has a cheap feel to it and I'll explain why in a minute now if we go down we see some hardware keys so we have skol start we have GPS which is configurable you can change it it just launches Google Maps mobile we have the fingerprint reader we're going to talk about that a second to the right of that is the button that takes you home and to the right of that is the call end button now what's really unique about this biometric button is that it has many different functions so you can use it to protect your device when it goes on so just anyone can't pick up your device and use it you have to swipe your thumb or your finger to get it to activate you can also use it to lock all of your pin information so your calendar and your contacts and your email if again you have this at work and you don't want anybody to get into your stuff you can lock the pim applications also this will double as an optical mouse cursor there's an option to change its function to the mouse cursor so that you get a kind of samsung epix like mouse cursor moving around on the screen and it's really great for one handed usability in addition you can make it into an eight-way d-pad which is really helpful when you're going through web pages and emails so you can just kind of brush your finger around here not have to touch the screen and scroll down in an email really great addition I think and we're going to talk about how well it actually works in the review go over to the side we have a charging and syncing and audio port this is a mini USB we have a scroll wheel which is always always a welcomed addition and they haven't been really adding these two devices lately it's on the left side of the device which is a little bit awkward especially if you're right-handed but this will help you scroll through emails and that sort of thing to the right of that is the external microSD slot which kind of feels cheap when you lift up the flap but it's good to see that we don't have to lift up the battery cover to get to the micro SD card slot as is the case with the touch pro two on the bottom there's a microphone on the other side we have a camera button which is dual action because it has autofocus to the right of that is the software set whole here is a hardware programmable button that's automatically set to notes and one thing you should take note of this button feels very very cheap it kind of sticks out unevenly just one of the reasons why I think it has low build quality and here we actually skip the stylist stylist feels very cheap it's collapsible it doesn't feel great like it does on the touch pro 2 so there I that we have the power standby button and on the top it says gps now let's flip over to the back on the back it looks like there's a piece of brushed metal and it's actually not in metal it's a piece of plastic with brushed metal design on it which still looks quite nice we have a really interesting looking area surrounding the camera here it's a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with flash and we're going to talk about photo quality and video quality in the review and then we have a big grill for the speaker right next to the camera now of course the m900 has a nice slide out keyboard the spring assist isn't as strong as it is on the touch pro two you see I'm moving it up slowly and up it caught right towards the top whereas on the touch pro two I would bring it up real slowly it kind of caught in the middle rather than towards the top now let's zoom into the keyboard and talk about what you get on the keyboard the keys are quite large just like it is on the touch pro two and actually the keyboard is about the same width as it is on the touch pro two which is good for people with large sized hands so you can have enough room here the keys take a little bit of effort to press more so than the touch pro two there in an offset pattern which is more ergonomic there's an oversized space bar which I don't know if it really serves a purpose stuff to get used to typing in terms of key layout we have some nice keys that will let you not have to touch the screen and keep all your fingers down here we have soft keys on the right on the left we have a start menu button here ok button d-pad style buttons over here so really good lending to usability and not having to touch the screen here's a big problem the period and comma R require you to press the function key to get to them which is ridiculous I mean this is the most is the most commonly used punctuation marks and they are hidden behind the function key very annoying but that's how they design the keyboard in addition you have to press the function key to get to the letters here it's not like the touch pro 2 where you have a dedicated number row at the top of course not all devices can pull off something like that and if we look closely at the keys we see that they're kind of raised towards the bottom which allows you to feel for them while you're typing it's a pretty good keyboard and we're going to have a full a full opinion on the keyboard coming up in the review on pocket now calm in terms of in hand feel the m900 feels large it like it should it's got a full keyboard of course in a large screen so it's going to feel large but in comparison to the touch pro 2 actually feels a lot more large even though it's only a little taller a little later and about a millimeter or two thicker it's just because the touch pro 2 is designed so well that's very sleek very rounded edges has a good weight to it the materials feel very high quality whereas in the m900 the edges are more squared-off materials feel very plasticky buttons jiggle all over the place in fact when you press the ok button in the upper right corner of a program get a little play in the screen here makes it feel low quality and if you open up the screen you can actually jiggle back and forth a little bit so there's definitely a difference in the in hand feel I really prefer that the the in hand feel of the touch pro 2 to that of the m900 but again the m9 hundreds of lower-cost device so that's what you have to expect so coming up soon we're going to talk about the software on the m900 there's a ton to talk about Acer's really added a lot of stuff to this and we're going to talk about the 3d interface the show interface that ACR is added on top of windows mobile and we'll be back soon with that in case you mix the unboxing video I'll put a link up on the video right now so you can go and watch that that's it for now