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hey guys its brand a minimum from pocketnow.com and in this video we're going to take a hardware tour of the acer neo touch s200 but first some specifications this device runs on windows mobile 6.5 professional the latest it also has a Qualcomm one gigahertz Snapdragon processor which is really really high for a mobile device in the next video we're going to go through the software and see if that actually makes it faster and we're also going to talk a little bit about battery life it has 512 megabytes of storage rom but you can also expand that up to 32 gigabytes with a microSD card plus it has 256 megabytes of RAM which is a good amount but it's not as much as say the touch pro 2 or the HTC touch HD it's got a GPS Bluetooth Wi-Fi the stuff you would expect from a high-end smartphone and it is 12 millimeters thick and if you remember the touch HD which is a very similar device to the neo touch it was also around 12 millimeters thick but side-by-side and in the hand the neo touch actually feels a little bit thinner even though there around the same size probably because the edges are actually more pointed so let's take a look at the device the screen is 3.8 inches diagonal just like the touch HD wvga resolution so that's 800 down and 480 across it's a resistive touchscreen so you got to give it a little bit of pressure but the screen sensitivity is quite good that said the screen is a little bit too mushy compared to other devices like the touch pro 2 and the touch diamond2 that now have more firm screens that kind of fear feel closer to capacitive then kind of the older style resistive touchscreen devices let's look closer at the top here up here we have a speaker plus a front-facing video camera a proximity sensor to turn off the screen when you're on a call and a light sensor going down here it says acer and then we have some kind of cryptic buttons here that light up when it's dark so if calls start and call end obviously and then we have a back button and then a square which is actually the button to take you back to the home screen this book button in this bunk button pretty much have the same function they both will take you back home though obviously call and we'll end the call if you're on a call let's take a look on the side has a chrome strip all the way around the side that's just a huge fingerprint magnet here we have the standby button which will turn on the device going on to the bottom we have mini USB which is great because it's not proprietary and we have a microphone on the other side we've the dual action camera button for the 5 megapixel camera a soft reset hole which is nicely placed outside of the device not under the battery cover and a volume rocker which is on the right side usually we're pretty much used to by now the volume rocker on the left side thanks to HTC so this is a little bit different than other devices on the top we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack which is good and we've also got the stylists over in this corner which is unfortunately collapsible really cheesy fuelling stylist and unfortunately if you put the stylist in wrong you can actually get jammed so you have to get it just right so it fits but if you put it in kind of turn to the side you see this is how it ends up so you got to get your fingernail and pull real hard so not a good design in terms of how they put the stylus up in its silo here on the back we have a huge shiny black piece of plastic which picks up fingerprints and scratches way too easily and i say scratches because i've had this device for just a few hours now and it may be tough to see on camera but there are already tiny little scratches on the back of this device and it's literally been in my pocket for about 15 minutes so the back is very successful susceptible to scratches which is very unfortunate here we have a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and an LED flash let's take off the battery cover which fortunately isn't a sliding battery cover it's more of a pop-out cover kind of pry your finger now back here we have the slot for the microSD card battery which is of size thirteen hundred and fifty mili amp hours and slot for your SIM card so overall the hardware on the eastern neo touch is thin and it looks great unfortunately a search still hasn't gotten it right in terms of build quality it's not up to par with what HTC produces for example there's a lot of use of plastic materials that really pick up on fingerprints and its scratch very easily and it feels kind of cheap in hand fortunately the neo touch is an inexpensive device right now you can go to klove co uk and pick one up for about 270 pounds which comes out to about five hundred dollars depending on the exchange rate of the day which is pretty darn cheap for a high-end snapdragon powered windows phone so that's really the saving grace for the acer neo touch s200 and kind of makes it more compelling coming up in the next video we're going to talk about the software on the device see how fast the Snapdragon platform actually makes this device and how well it's optimized take advantage of that one gigahertz CPU will be back soon with more that's it for now