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hey guys it's Joe for pocketnow.com and today I've got a really quick hardware only overview of the HTC Desire HD let's go take a look okay so this is the HTC Desire HD this is a european / asia-pacific phone and unfortunately it's not something that you guys in america are going to want to get unless data is not all that important to you regardless if you've got AT&T or t-mobile or some other carrier that uses similar bands this phone is going to be stuck on edge for you now over in in Europe in England in Singapore you're probably going to be just fine at 3G speeds should be great in fact everything about this phone except the reflective screen which we'll talk about in a bit is just completely fabulous let's go ahead and take a look first of all on the phone and you can see what i mean by reflective screen this thing is ridiculously reflective in fact i'm going to go ahead and turn the screen on to to try and cancel out some of those reflections screen itself is 4.3 inches it's very bright it does really well in almost all lighting conditions except direct sunlight now that's not too unusual for for android phones or for any phones for that matter the bigger the screen gets the more subject to reflection specifically from bright lights like sunlight it is and you can just see all over the place how how those reflections really come into play so let's take a look around the phone first of all you've got this really nice big speaker up at the top and it's got an LED hidden here in this speaker grill and then another LED not hidden inside the speaker grill I don't know why they didn't hide both of them but they didn't they both look really good they functionally well they do what they're supposed to it's nothing quite as big and bold and in-your-face as that pulsating scroll wheel that some of the HTC devices have like the nexus one and then some earlier phones but moving right along screen is very nice very responsive to touches down at the bottom you've got your capacitive buttons and when I was evaluating the samsung epic 4g these buttons the capacitive buttons rather than physical buttons just didn't work very well at all I mean they were they were miserable over here they're not bad you touch these they're very responsive I've never had to double touch to try and get them to execute whatever it was I was trying to do so that was really nice you've got very minimal branding HTC on the front in this case because it is an HTC phone rather than a carry your phone down here on the bottom we've got a microphone that's your headphone / headset jack and then a microUSB port that works very very well it's very snug and because of the beveling on the outside of the case it's really easy to get it in and to make sure that it's being plugged in the right way rather than the facing upside down so moving over to the other side we have something that this is the site it's completely empty there is a bevel hear that i'll come back and talk about up on the top now we've got the power button now this is a power button that's I don't know why they'd like to change it all around here's a g2 for comparison power buttons on the opposite side on the Samsungs it's over here on the edge but this like the nexus one is right up there so I as a phone reviewer I'd really like power buttons to be in one consistent spot it would just be a lot easier for us to use but if this is your daily use phone you're going to get used to that positioning and it's not going to be a big deal moving over to the other side you've got not really a rocker and in my last video I showed you this I thought that these were the buttons at the top of the bottom but turns out the buttons are at the top and the bottom of the silver part it's not a true rocker switch and there's not a lot of play in here that it does its job and just what it's supposed to there's just not a lot of tactile feedback here's the battery compartment door this is relatively easy to get off but very difficult to get back on properly down on the bottom here is another compartment door and I'll show you that in a minute there's actually a little trick to getting it to sit flush that I will try a show for you it doesn't work all the time and then we've got our noise cancelling microphone our our camera back here this is an 8 megapixel camera some people have complained that when you set the phone down you're setting it directly on this lens that's not entirely true you've got a little raised lip right around here so it's actually sitting on that lip that's around the lens so you don't have to worry about scratching as much as some other people are making out and then of course you've got a very bright dual flash some more HTC branding with HTC Sense and some Dolby and srs logos on the bottom so that's that let's look now at this bevel now this is a unibody aluminum construction and I love this kind of construction it's just amazing how it feels it's lightweight its sturdy it's strong and with this bevel here on the edge can't see that all that well maybe that way it gives you just enough gripping surface to be able to hang on to it and have it feel really good in hand all right on the battery compartments to get this off there is a little indentation here stick your thumb nail in there and just lift and it pops off very simply there's no retention on the battery at this point so if your phone was on it is now off take the battery out it is a very very slim battery 1230 milliamp hours which is hardly anything at all keep in mind this is a 45 nanometer processor inside the phone so it's a lot more efficient with its with its power use but I don't like to see a 1,500 milliamp or bigger battery for such a big screen that screen uses a lot of power but that's how you get your battery out it's very simple and the first time you get your phone you're going to have to do this because there's a film that covers the battery contacts and then that's normal so let me look in here and see which way I need to put this battery back in just like that now getting this back on is a trick just line it up like this and kind of tip it and then push down and if you do everything right it'll be poking up in weird spots you just kind of muscle it around until you get it back in and if you don't get that top corner down you've got to start all over because there are some contacts in there that I believes just for grounding so there you go just like I said brute force push it back in and you should be nice and solid and flush along the edge right there now the bottom compartment comes on easy just pull straight down you're good that's where your microSD card is and this comes with a samsung branded 8 gigabyte micro sdhc it's a class 2 so not ridiculously fast but fast enough and then you've got your SIM slot over here as well now getting this back on is a lot easier than that but it's hard to get on properly so let me show you the best way I've found to do that is lay it face down on the surface slide this up on the bottom and then using as many fingers as you have at your disposal hold this back plate down and slide the phone down into it and doing that will help so that you don't have much of a bulge right here and you can see I still have a little bit of a of a lift right there on the bottom now where you'll notice the the problem is if you get this on just a little bit crooked it'll still be on secure but you'll have a little bit of a gap on one side or the other and even still this doesn't line up very well even though I've got it slit up this isn't a problem it's not something that I'd complain a lot about other than it's just so uncharacteristic of HTC to do it's a new way to cover a battery compartment or some other access compartment and I think it needs a little bit more refinement especially with this unibody construction so all in all not terrible but they've got some room to improve the phone in general overlook those shortcomings if this is a phone that you're considering it's an amazing phone it's phenomenal it's fast it's beautiful and I think you're going to love it speaking of fast let's go in and run a quadrant benchmark score on it to see exactly how fast this is all right and what hardware review would be complete without a full run of quadrant now just so you remember quadrant is the benchmarking utility we use the free version over here more because it's what you would use on your phone to see how fast your phone is compared to this now a lot of people have problems with benchmark saying you can't compare apples to oranges to that yes there's some truth to it but I like to say that benchmarking is what allows you to compare apples to oranges it takes apart the phone into a cpu and a video into a whole bunch of stuff and it runs all these tests against one another and then it spits out a score now how they arrive at that score that's subject to some debate but overall it shows you my device is a thousand points your device is 2,000 points well then your device's twice as fast as mine so that's kind of why we like to include quadrant now of course I'm just saying this to help fill the time while you're watching this on camera but overall it's very smooth very clean not much jag eNOS or jerkiness this DNA test is pretty quick go ahead and send that off and get the results back and if you can read that up here this device scores 1767 points see if we can zoom in on that a little bit so very very fast the processor in this is one gigahertz it's the new technology second-generation stuff 45 nanometer so it's really good of battery life too and just really really impressive so that's the hardware the HTC Desire HD I hope you found it useful if so give the video a thumbs up don't forget to subscribe to this video channel because we've got a whole bunch of other videos not only regarding the the desire HD but other smartphones as well from windows mobile to Windows Phone 7 iphone and of course my favorite android so speaking on HTC Desire HD for pocket now I'm Jolie by