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this is adam lane with pocket now calm and this is our hardware tour of the 18 to fuse from HTC now the front of it looks a lot like diamond GG family now we have some very flat buttons here you can see some icons there a circular action button each corner leaves is a button but it's very flattened into cook feel with your fingers if you're not looking at the top we have the power button plasticky and it has an icon on it on the right side there's pretty much nothing so for a stylist this is a magnetic stylist then right bhana must be extended HTC USB port mini USB key that will function as both charging sync port and audio al as well as TV out in this case there's your microphone over here we have some volume buttons and a push to talk button that's new on the fuse this is the touch pro does not have this push to talk button and it's actually a different material kind of a rubbery plastic groceries are shiny plastic on the back we have our faceted nice looking diamond ish back gloss black so we get fingerprints all over it and here's our camera with a LED flash which is not too great and there's a speaker grill very tiny HTC logo and there's your land yard hole and over the back here's your sim card slot and a large battery that's great and there's a microSD card slot over here and we can fly it open for a keyboard we have a LED lights there to indicate caps or function buttons being odds if I turn function it turns the light on I do shift it does caps and something you'll notice that's different from the touch pro on the fuses keyboard layout we still have five rows of keys but instead the numbers being up here all in one row we have them here in a number pad fashion now you have to press the function button to get to the numbers but it's actually i think a lot easier to type numbers this way because they're all in one place i can do everything with my thumb was up here i would have to go two thumbs and i'd have to travel long distance to do these different numbers so for me I think that's a better layout for the numbers and where else is good from the touch pro better than the touch pro is we have a start menu we can open right away I can press keyboard shortcuts and navigate it that way and there's also an ok button down here which means I can close my very easily without having to touch screen what else is missing is soft keys I have to go all the way up here with my thumb to press that soft key and I have to look at the screen to do it this one's not so bad so let's look at how this compares to some of the other devices out here first the one that it replaces the tilt also known as the Kaiser or the time to you can see it's a little bit shorter a little bit narrower slightly and just about the same thickness so slightly smaller not at but we're missing some things that we would like to see in the Kaiser that haven't made it to the tues we'll talk about those things later here's the g one g it's a lot shorter about a little little bit thicker if you don't count the chin and a little bit narrower on the width we have the treo 800w fuse is slightly shorter Venera the fuse is almost the same thickness ok and then it's close relative the diamond practically the same size with the height wise that is we look at the thickness that fuses almost twice almost doubled thickens that's pretty big so there's our hardware to refuse