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here we are closed up on the shadow 2009 next to the 2008 it's slide mechanism is real smooth fact I've had this shadow for about a year now and it's slide mechanism is still good there's a little bit of play and this 2009 feels very very smooth many of the buttons are in the same place as the 2008 at the camera button this shortcut key button on the other side we have the volume keys as well as the microSD slot at the top now is power button and as you can see they have moved the USB adapter socket from the left side to the bottom which many people prefer and it works better with a lot of the charging stations inside of there is one plug for the mini USB it's got a nice color fade on the back here from burgundy to black they've also moved the camera to the center as you can see and there's the speaker port it's not as open as it was before okay the keyboard is real nice the numbers are highlighted with white Alt key its twenty Kiki port can't see much difference between the layout there are any differences on the keys except on the star key it says t9 instead with a lock right there and on the one key there is a voicemail icon now in the front the buttons are a little bit different there's still the scroll wheel the button for the scroll wheels much bigger but the send ends back and home keys aren't as pronounced as they were as on the old shadow so hopefully we'll have less of those in an unintentional calls this d-pad also has an up left right and down directional and then there's the soft keys right here these are more pronounced than on the old shadow the back cover is a bit odd so I'm wondering how this is going to play out for extended batteries with their optional covers on the old shadow you just have this small piece that comes off this one the shadow 2009 you push down and up on this cover to remove it that's a flat just a really thin little piece so I'm wondering if that thing will loosen up over time we already have a sim card in there and battery that is 1100 milliamp hours which is 200 million powers larger roughly larger than the old shadow here's a nice close-up view of the shadow 2009 it's got nice smooth corners as a good it has a good feel to it scroll wheel is a lot it's about the same size but the button in the center is bigger the buttons aren't as pronounced as they were on the 2008 shadow many of the other buttons are in the same places the volume there's the micro sdhc card slot the documentation says it supports up to eight gigabytes but if you understand the sdhc format you'll know that it will support up to 32 gigabytes there's a power button on the side here shortcut key and the camera button along with the micro USB or the mini USB port on the bottom as well as the land yard loop the slide function is real nice and here's the key layout see a difference here there's a t9 where there used to be a lock pressing that actually locks the screen as well as a voicemail button for one for those of you that might have noticed there's some pink bars up here that represents the UM a capability of the shadow 2009 which means you can make calls over Wi-Fi networks pretty much like voice over IP except you don't need some third-party app and another user name and the login and you don't have to I credit you just sign up for their nine ninety five or ten dollar plan on t-mobile and anywhere you have a Wi-Fi connection you can make calls so if you don't have a signal cell phone signal this comes in really handy another benefit to this is people that work deep inside office buildings where you don't have a signal or students whose universities have free Wi-Fi networks basically all you have to do is add the network the Wi-Fi network to your phone and you'll be able to make calls over it now t mobile customer care told me that we needed the t mobile router to use the hotspot at home service but I don't have one of those and it's worked just fine and I called Brandon a moment ago over the Wi-Fi network I walked out of range of the Wi-Fi network the call was seamlessly transferred to the cell network and then when I walked back within range it was seamlessly transferred back over the Wi-Fi network so you don't have to really worry about the call being dropped now here you can see the burgundy NiO interface this phone is about half a second to a second more responsive than the shadow 2008 each one of these pains helps you get to a specific feature quicker you can go through your photos you can access your menu your music from the home screen or some internet options deal with your appointments deal with messaging your calls or your myfaves people you can since this is windows 6.1 you can use the sliding panel interface for windows 6.1 each one of these panels is similar to the NiO interface you go through your appointments calls there's a getting started pain that helps you get the phone set up for email device lock bluetooth speaking of Bluetooth it does support the stereo Bluetooth profile could also access your songs and library as well as your images here's a picture taken with the camera of the shadow 2008 and is very responsive the Kent pictures just slide by or it can access your profiles Communication Manager and so on there's also a setting where you can just display your recent programs when you hit the start key or you can access all programs for the Java monkeys out there be pleased to know that the java application is j blend so that gives us a little bit more room to work with when it comes to 3d java game for the business minded folk out there this phone does have Office Mobile on it so you'll be able to access Excel Word PowerPoint and OneNote the task manager is fairly quick to access can end all tasks so you don't need a third party program to do this so let's do a side-by-side speed test with this 2008 in the 2009 shadow so you can see how responsive it is you can see that on the NiO interface the 2009 brings up the results a lot quicker let's go to the images accessing the media library much quicker on the 2009 the screen is 1.6 inches 320 x 240 pixels it's a 64k qvga display it's a quad band world phone so it will work over 850 900 1800 1900 megahertz using gsm GPRS edge and Wi-Fi it doesn't have 3g you can sync it with outlook on your pc and if you connect it to a windows vista pc you won't need microsoft activesync or even windows mobile device center to use the phone as a USB memory key does have stereo Bluetooth capability it does have speakerphone and voice-activated dialing it does handle my favs so you can still have that interface that you're used to and it's available in white mint and black burgundy finishes so if you have some additional questions that I haven't covered in this video please post them in the comments and I'll be sure to go over them in the next one be sure to check our site for more tips tricks hacks mods and valuable reviews for t mobile smart phones until next time i'm mike benton for all 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