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hey guys it's Branham in oven from pocket now calm and this is the hardware tour of the HTC hd2 the device comes with this leather pouch which does a really good job of protecting the device although at first it's extremely tight another small problem with the pouch is that it's hard to get the device out you can squeeze from the bottom which will probably turn on the device accidentally you can see that now or you can kind of try to pull it out from the top although there's no really no real easy way to do this you gotta kind of force your fingers down here and pull maybe as the case gets a little bit looser this won't be as big of an issue so let's take out the device absolutely gorgeous device every time I take it out of the case I'm amazed over and over again let's zoom in to the top here and talk about what we have up here we have a proximity sensor which will turn on and off the display when you're on a call to the right of that is a light sensor and to the right of that is an LED indicator light which is always great to have so you don't have to turn on your device to see if you have a new message can just glance at it and see if there's big blinking light here's the speaker grill and then if we go down the phone we just see how the screen goes from edge to edge and there's really very little bezel on the side so let's go down to these buttons these buttons have a fantastic brushed metal finish to them so I move it in the light you'll kind of see that there are five of them on the left is cough start this is home start menu okay back and this is actually the standby button they didn't put the standby button on the top as they've been doing for several generations of devices now and it actually makes a lot of sense because now you can turn on the device with one hand which without having to hold the device press up here so we can tap that and it will turn on the screen will cover software in a future video none of these buttons are programmable by the way if you go into the settings you can't change the function of any of them let's talk a little bit more about this screen obviously it's a capacitive multi-touch screen which is the first for Windows Mobile is 800 x 480 resolution which is wvga the clarity is fantastic the the contrast is terrific the screen is made out of glass I know a lot of people were asking about that in terms of sensitivity it's not as sensitive as the iphone it's probably within the same realm as the HTC hero and other HTC android devices that have a capacitive display what's interesting is that the screen sensitivity is not too different than say an HTC touch pro in fact I'd say that the hd2 has about twenty twenty-five percent increased screen sensitivity where you really notice the change to capacitive is how the screen feels of course on the touch pro two you get a little bit of a sunken in feel when you you press on the screen because it's resistive it requires pressure but on the capacitive display since it's made out of glass you get no sort of machinist it's a very firm screen which feels pretty good when you're moving around in the operating system obviously this device doesn't have a stylist because it is a capacitive touchscreen and style I don't work on capacitive touchscreens or at least most of them that are out there let's take a look around the rest of the device on this side we have the volume rocker on the bottom we have 3.5 millimeter audio which is great and a micro USB port for charging and syncing and this is quite a deviation from HTC's EXT USB port which they've been using for a really long time now but this is a more standardized port and so we're glad they switched and here is a microphone on the other side there is nothing except the little notch that you use to open the back battery cover which is pretty challenging by the way and up here on the top again there is nothing a very clean design they obviously wanted to make it all about the screen and it really is let's turn over to the back and zoom in a little bit up here on the top we have the speaker grill the 5 megapixel camera and the dual LED flash we're going to talk about photo quality in the upcoming review now kind of a problem is that the edges for this camera are extremely sharp in fact so sharp that if you have it face it down on a table or on its back and you move the phone you may actually cut into the surface a little bit if it's kind of a soft wood texture or even something like this very weird design having that be so sharp hopefully it's not too big of an issue this back battery cover is real metal it's brushed metal and if you moving the lighting kind of see how beautiful it is and it says HTC and then with HTC Sense touchflo 3d is now called HTC Sense and as mentioned in the unboxing this area and this area has that nice soft rubbery feel to it so it really feels secure in hand when you're holding it so that was a look at the hardware on the HTC hd2 the hardware is absolutely beautiful the build quality is fantastic and you know it's not so big to wear it feels bulky in your pocket that's the biggest surprise of all it is very pocketable we'll be back soon with a lot more on the HTC hd2 that's it for now