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hey guys it's Joe with PocketNow and today I've got an unboxing and first look at the HTC Desire s courtesy of our good friends over at Negri electronics let's go ahead and unbox this thing see what we've got so first let's do a walk-around of the box this is of course an HTC device it is HTC branded and it has the HTC Sense UI it's very understated with the the nice HTC sketches that they have on the side which kind of gives the feeling that it's all just a little bit more for the average ordinary guy now there's all kinds of words and whatnot on the sides of the box just doing kind of a walk around for you here on the back it's got all the specifications and whatnot but that's really not what you're interested in so let's go ahead and crack it open and see what's inside alright so this box is a slide off the top just like that now inside we've got the device a nice little pull tab here we'll look at the phone in quite a bit more detail in just a minute lift up I like that that's a kind of a molded box instead of just a cutout holder so that's something I haven't seen before it looks really nice a couple HTC Void stickers that they give you for I don't know why gade gade gade gade manual information warranty statement and contact us alright there's the paperwork put that off to the side down from there we've got some headphones that looked like they probably double as a headset as well it's got the traditional headphone jack in there not the the old-fashioned HTC mini USB connector it's got a nice lanyard clip so if you've had a pair of HTC headphones before this is just like them it works really really well they look really nice stay in your ear well yeah what else can you say about headphones okay next we got the HTC wall wart this one is a European phone so it comes with the European prongs but of course on the other end it's USB as you can see right through there and I really don't see why you know you can see through these bags they're clear and transparent whatnot so rather than showing you my ineptitude at ripping plastic bags apart I thought I'd just show you through this way but USB so if you've got an existing USB wall wart you can just plug in the power cable there and you should be just fine of course if you have a USB hub a powered USB hub you can get away with having all these wall warts and charge up all of your USB powered devices that way with just one wall work to power the hub takes a little bit longer to charge your devices that way but if you're doing an overnight charge there you go maybe we'll do an Android quick tip of about that in the future so moving along we've got also a nice USB cable and this is that solidus it's just a USB type-a - somewhere over there's a micro USB there it is micro USB connector average length so that's it there is a little pull up on the bottom of the box but that just shows you the wraparound I really like this it's you know it's got a nice cardboard feel to it it's paper stock but it's very simplistic in its design simple and elegant so that's the box let's move on to the phone now shall we okay so here's the phone it's got this nice protective cover over it and it says important to prevent damage do not apply excessive pressure to the screen or device case all is a good idea and not just for this phone but others also says please remove the phone from your trouser pockets before sitting down also very good we don't want to crack the screen and for more details you can look at one of those guides that we just breezed past so over here on the back there's a quick four step process and how to get stuff into and out of the phone so we'll refer to that in just a minute now this is adhesive so we just pulled this and it's one piece comes off very slick very clean and in this video we're just going to do an initial walkthrough of the device just the hardware we're not going to actually boot it up or not will do that in a future video but first of all I'm noticing you've got a very nice curve here to the back of the device on all sides it fits very nice its kind of squared off on the edges so round it a little bit and then a nice square almost a negative in fact I think that is a negative relief on it which gives you a little bit of extra grip to hold on to it I like it it's really not really heavy but it feels significant in your hands so very cool there it looks like we've got a front-facing camera here the nice big speaker on the top a little bit of a curve to the glass to the it's flat glass as far as I can tell but a nice little curve so it's not just a square slab sitting on there HTC logo featured on the top we then of course have home menu back and search buttons that are all capacitive buttons down at the bottom and then we've got this in kind of unique little chin that we were introduced to with the the t-mobile g1 and some of the other devices so they've kind of brought that back a little bit that little lip for whatever reason might help it sit a little bit easier in a dock but let's go ahead and do it we'll walk around to the device looking at the bottom we've got a microphone hole down there over on the other side this would be the the right side there's nothing up at the top we've got the power button and a traditional multi-purpose headphone jack over on the other side we've got a volume rocker and it feels really responsive to me and then we've got our microUSB port as well over on the back of the device we've got a flash it looks like that's an ambient noise microphone for some noise cancellation so what I'd bet that that's going to do for us we've got this camera and to cheat a little bit and look at the back of the box that is a see if I can read it here really fast that's a five megapixel autofocus camera with of course the LED flash over here on the side and we've got another hole over there and I don't know why we have two of them and we'll see if we can find out what that's all about now down here we've got the HTC logo just nice subtle and then down at the bottom with HTC Sense if this were a Google device it would say with Google or something to that effect the g2 for example just has with Google down at the bottom and you can kind of see comparison of size they're about the same height the desire s is a little bit shorter and then we'll just go ahead and do a comparison here between the two so looking at the two devices from this angle it looks like the desire s is quite a bit smaller than the g2 as far as length goes you look at width a little with comparison here there's no physical keyboard on the new phone as compared to the g2 and then of course we do a comparison with wise they're almost identical right there so very cool looking eye very nice very sleek I like it quite a bit let's crack this open and see what's inside and the instructions say we press with our thumbs right there and just ease this up gently and it pops up relatively easily we'll take that off we do have some contacts back here which don't have any pass-through so I'm actually looking down here to see if there's anything that I can see if there were any antennas or if that's just for a carry through and I can't tell right at this point but I wouldn't be surprised if there's some kind of an antenna inside of that so next we have down here those contacts where they will they make contact with that we have a little open prompt here to open this up so we'll go ahead and do that and this is a little hinged device opens it up so then we can get access to the battery the battery of course ships without the contacts making contact so there's a little sleeve there I'm going to set the phone down for just a moment and let's look at the battery typical HTC branded battery very slim very nice looking if we get into it and I've got a read here off camera a little bit 1450 milliamp hours so really not bad that's a pretty good size battery of course you've got your moisture indicator right there as well but let's take a look inside the compartment see down in there there's not all that much here's where your sim goes let's go ahead and do that now this is a t-mobile SIM and trying to see the orientation of the little guy here the tab goes that way and this is you know much easier to do off camera than on and it comes prepackaged with an 8 gigabyte sandisk micro SD card and it is a if you can see that it is a class 4 which is actually pretty darn good micro SDHC now we're not going to use that that for this review because I've already got all of my stuff loaded up over here on my it's a Kingston 16 gig micro SD and it's a class 10 but that shouldn't affect anything that we do with it we'll go ahead and pop that in there and again a lot easier to do this when you don't have a million people watching you on camera so now that we've got that done we can have to try and remember how we got the battery out so I assume I think it's that way we'll find out here that's your little battery retainer to hold it in there snug we've got our back plate now we put on and you can see a little bit of a gap right there because I didn't put it on all that snugly and that's kind of my complaint with this style of bottom plate if you will once you get it on it's nice and snug but you do have to gain access to it to put your sim in there and it's kind of a pain to get it back on and have it looking right so that in a nutshell is the phone it's the hardware walkthrough it's very very nice like I said the HTC Desire s next video up is going to be a first boot and initial setup look you've seen that before so I'm going to keep it kind of brief after that then we're going to do some some videos with the camera and we'll do some some pictures as well so make sure you subscribe to our video channel to get all of that stuff and of course we'll have a full write-up review on this in the coming days so head on over to pocketnow.com and make sure you've added that to your bookmarks leave us comments if there are things you would like answered about the phone or if I have gotten any information factually incorrect let us know that as well very cool device and we're eager to show you more for pocket now I'm Joe Levi