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hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocket now calm and this is the unboxing of the HP ipaq glisten on AT&T it's been a long time since HP has released an ipaq they released many ipads back in the early days of windows mobile and they kind of went on a hiatus and it looks like they're back this device is slanted towards the business user for those of us that prefer a blackberry like form factor with the keyboard on the front and there aren't that many windows mobile devices that that have this form factor so we're really excited about this and it also has an M OLED display which should mean awesome battery life and really good color depth let's take a look at what we have inside the box so we sort of have the non retail box here this is a a review unit so here box if you get this device won't look like this let's see what's inside say we're going to put the device to the side for a minute so we have here Wow a really really tiny wall charger I think this may be smaller than the wall charger for the iphone and it is this is probably the smallest wall charger that I've ever seen says HP on it we have a table that uses let's see what this is using micro micro USB which is good to see companies starting to standardize to micro USB and the battery is of size the battery doesn't of the capacity listed on it we think that it's 1,500 milliamp hours so that coupled with the AMOLED display should mean really good battery life nothing else in the box again this is not the version that you will receive if you purchase 1 and this device is only available on AT&T s website they're not putting it into stores they're really going right after the business user Wow very small device it's pretty lightweight the battery is not in yet of course let's take this this screen protector off it's got a smallish screen kind of low resolution but this isn't made to be a multimedia phone it's made to be a text messaging phone and have really an email machine which which we really can appreciate the keyboard looks fantastic the letters go all the way to the edges this looks to be a very similar keyboard to the motorola q 9h which many revered to have one of the keyboards on a mobile device we have a d-pad here and it is a touchscreen it's resistive it's quite thin has a nice rubbery coating on back this is going to be a very productive device for people that really want to do a lot of messaging let's take a look at it in comparison to some other devices so here it is next to the motorola q 9h and you can kind of get a feel for how similar these keyboards are they look almost exactly the same although in terms of the keys being raised the q 9h has pretty larger bumps on all the keys and so does the the glisten which is really nice and actually the numbers are located in the same area on the glisten than they are on the the q 9h let's take a look at thickness this doesn't have the extended battery and they are about the same thickness I'd say the glisten is a little bit thicker it has this nice chrome strip down the side to take a look next to the HTC snap phone that doesn't get much attention but it's really a great device with a fantastic keyboard this device doesn't have a touch screen like the glisten the screen sizes are the same as you can tell if we tilt them upwards like so the snap is an extremely thin device so the glistens going to be thicker so we have a lot more coming up on the HP ipaq glisten this is HP's first windows mobile 6.5 device and it looks like it's off to a good start this keyboard probably is really fantastic this may serve as a good upgrade for those still using the motorola q 9h or the samsung blackjack 2 or even the samsung jack it adds a touch screen amoled larger battery and some other goodies as well we'll be back soon with more on the HP ipaq glisten that's it for now