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hey guys its brand am in a min from pocketnow.com and this is a look at the hardware of the HP ipaq glisten which runs on AT&T network this device is really targeted at the business user the the person that appreciates a nice QWERTY keyboard on the front messaging product ippity it's not so much targeted at the consumer who wants a large screen for a great multimedia experience the glisten can do multimedia but with smaller screen it really doesn't make as much sense so let's take a look at the device starting with the top it's really interesting to see the HP branding on a windows mobile device it's been a long time since HP has come out with an ipaq but hopefully this is a sign of things to come in the past they've made some really great hardware for windows mobile up here we have a light sensor and a proximity sensor and the proximity sensor will turn off the display when you're on a call to save on battery life the screen is 2.5 inches diagonal which is kind of small but if you compare this to a Blackberry or samsung blackjack it's about average for this type of device with a keyboard on the front the resolution is only qvga so that's 240 down and 320 across you really can't expect to have a higher resolution screen on a display that is so small unless you're looking at a blackberry for example but for windows mobile they wouldn't put VGA on a screen that is 2.5 inches let's take a look at these hardware buttons here we've caused start and call end which are pretty flat but they have they have buttons they are buttons so you can feel them when you press in on them here's a traditional d-pad and it's nice to see a traditional d-pad really helps out a lot with one-handed usability and the d-pad is raised enough to where you can feel for it without looking at it which is great there's an ok select button in the center and then a button to launch the Start menu and then an okay or back button right here let's take a look at this keyboard and we thought that the keyboard was actually the same as the motorola q 9h in fact they look almost the same but they feel different the keyboard on the q 9h is very clicky listen but on the glisten not so much and we're not sure if that makes for a better typing experience or a worse typing experience before review on pocketnow.com talk about the keyboard but so far it seems like quite a good keyboard to have I'm down here we have some 18t branding I don't know if you can see it but it says no warranty down here because this is a sample pre retail version and on the top and bottom of the device we have this rubbery coating which extends all the way to the back which makes the glisten a non fingerprint magnet so you don't have to worry about getting fingerprints on this it also feels very secure in hand thanks to this rubbery coating so let's take a look around the device before we go back to the rear here we have a volume up and down rocker which is surrounded by this sort of chrome strip which is a nice touch on the bottom we have nothing on the other side we have micro USB for syncing and charging and we have a nice 3.5 millimeter headphone jack in case you want to load this up with mp3s and use it as a media player and on the top we have two buttons we have a really awkwardly placed standby button so most standby buttons either occur somewhere around here or up here on the left but on the glisten it's on the right it takes a little bit of getting used to then we have a OneTouch access button for Wi-Fi which is quite neat I think this comes from the the palm treo pro which makes it easy to turn on Wi-Fi without having to go through settings so it's a nice addition there now there is a stylus on this device down here in the bottom because this is a touchscreen phone although it's a collapsible stylists and it feels kind of flimsy and the device is sensitive enough to where you don't really need the stylus unless you're looking at really small things on the screen which may have been on this device back here is the camera plus a speaker and the speaker phone on this device is really fantastic let's take off the back battery cover see what is back here the battery is fifteen hundred and ninety million Bowers which is quite large for a device of this type unfortunately the microSD card cannot be replaced unless you take out the battery that's a huge con it's one thing to have the micro SD card behind the battery cover but to have it so that you can't even replace it without moving the battery is kind of a shame but again this is not really targeted to be a multimedia device so it's likely that the average person that buys a glisan isn't going to be fumbling around with micro SD cards so overall the device feels solid in hand it's small but not too small it's pocket friendly and it feels high quality which is great we're looking forward to doing more tests on the HP glisten coming up soon we're gonna have a software tour and go through the included software on this device will be back soon with more on the HP ipaq glisten that's it for now