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hey guys it's Joe for pocketnow.com and this is the second in our HTC Desire HD unboxing and review series what we got today is a really cool device by HTC android powered of course and in our last video i showed you the unboxing which is just taken everything out of the box to show you what's in the box so you know what to expect before you go to the store to buy this now of course the most important thing you guys want to see is what does it look like what is the UI how does it act how does interact well this is the first boot and initial impressions of the device so let's get right to okay before we get to first boot we have to get into the battery compartment and to do that you flip out this little piece right here it's a little rubberized plastic piece you pull that out it's got a couple metallic contacts on there which i think is just primarily for continuity you've got your little volume buttons and whatnot down here that you press but the reason you have to do this is you've got to remove this little piece right here now that covers up the battery contacts so that it doesn't discharge the battery in transit and whatnot so kind of interesting there's not a true backplate like you'd see on most phones just that little thing so of course here's your battery and while we're here let's go ahead and take a look this is a 1230 milliamp hour battery so a little bit smaller than we're accustomed to the g2 is 1300 if memory serves we'll just pop that battery back in there and we will try and slide that back in place and of course this being as close to a live TV as we can get it's nice to see me fumble around with it the first time so if you want to make fun of me comments down below leave them right now anyway so it snaps back together just like that works really well now you might be thinking where do I put other stuff like my sim card or my micro SD card well that's down here on the bottom which is equally as frustrating to get off the more frustrating it is to get off that means the tighter fit it is usually so it's not really a bad thing micro SD is right there and this comes with a samsung branded class to eight gig which i believe is the same one that comes with the g2 while we're here let me go ahead and pop in my sim card from my g2 so we can see exactly what it's going to look like at first boot so here's my sim we're just going to take that line up our little tab see how that goes in and it just slides right in place and we'll take this bottom panel and put it back in and it just snaps up there nice and solid okay now that I've got fingerprints all over the front of this device let's see if we can boot it up for the first time pressing the power button at the top left we're first met with the HTC logo and you can see how much of this black front screen area is occupied by that screen that's just a huge screen well just wait for it while it boots up now of course first boots are longer than any other boots first boots and of course here when you flash a rom on it we just got an HTC quietly brilliant screen with a nice little HTC sound still booting up the first time and while we're waiting on that this does come with a 1 gigahertz processor it has 1.5 gigabytes of internal storage in 768 megabytes of RAM size and weight if you want to know that while we're in here it is a 123 x 68 x just a little bit shy of 12 millimeters and weighs a hundred and sixty four grams I'll get into more detail about what that is in non-metric units in the review that goes along with this video so make sure you check in for that it does have that 4.3 inch touchscreen like we mentioned before internal GPS and a whole bunch of networking but we'll come back to that in just a minute you'll see we're preparing the SD card and we're met with the HTC Sense UI just like you are accustomed to screams lot so we're going to drag down to unlock just very fluid and we're back to the HTC screen and this is most definitely a gsm phone because i'm hearing that on my speakers over in the corner okay so I am at the configuration screen and asked me to choose my language now it's got english UK English Ireland I don't see English us so I'm going to go ahead and choose UK well say next using the on-screen keyboard we're going to go ahead and skip that transfer data we're going to skip that we're going to go ahead and skip all the way through this but it lets you go through and set up all of the sink devices like you would expect now to make this process faster i'm going to go ahead and set up my Wi-Fi network and i'm going to do that off screen and I'll be right back so I went ahead and provided my wpa key and I've got a little green checkmark next to my Wi-Fi network will go ahead and choose next accept the defaults on this screen and we're just going to go ahead and skip that process and skip through all these as well this is where you get to set up your social networks now the reason that it puts all this first and foremost is when you're using the sense UI there are a lot of widgets and a lot of things inside this UI this user interface experience that tie into your social networks stuffed another default stock android doesn't have so they ask for that information right up front now the first thing that I'm noticing is I've got these tip bubbles right here which has a nice drop shadow I don't know if that's part of sense UI or if that's just part of this particular widget but adds a nice level of three dimensionality to it which I really really like you notice up here on the battery came with iconically about half a battery which is not unusual for the phone nice animations over here on the clock by the way this is one of the things I really like about the sense UI and we've got just all kinds of cool stuff so this is the sense UI that we're used to a little bit updated a little bit more fluid there's a lot of stuff that I can show you in here but just for a first first hand impressions let's just keep going through the phone one of the things that I like about the stock android app drawer here is that it has kind of a star wars ii 3d effect where your icons kind of fade off into the background of fade up down here on the bottom this just has it flat now that gets you more speed because you don't need to have as much of a processor behind it to display it so your speed is a little bit quicker in here comes with everything that you'd expect Adobe Reader pre-configured camera camcorder we'll look at those later in the video even has a flashlight which some of you call a torch and I'll just flip that around and it has both of those LEDs which light up very very bright I'll just and apparently you can Wow bump up the intensity so there is off there is one there's two and there's three so you can kind of see the intensity they're really neat to have that even has an SOS mode auto flash kind of neat anyway so that's a flashlight app it's HTC branded comes with the FM radio that has been coveted by oh so many people you do have to have your headset plugged in because that's the antenna so it's not going to let me go in and do anything but I can listen to actual real live at FM radio over the radio I mean it's just amazing in phone is a radio too and I say that kind of tongue-in-cheek because it's a phone I've got internet on it I can listen to pandora I can listen to slacker I can listen to stuff that's on here but anyway there you go it comes with a whole bunch of stuff Teeter one of my favorite games Wi-Fi hotspot built in all kinds of neat stuff but just to show you the initial impressions initial setup an initial boot of the HTC Desire HD there you go of course this is only one in a series of videos about the HTC Desire HD so you'll want to make sure you subscribe to this playlist grab to our video channel as well and leave any comments on stuff you'd like to see in this review or reviews in the future of course if you like these kinds of reviews don't forget to 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