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hey guys it's bran amendment from pocket now calm and this is the hardware tour of the android-based HTC hero we're taking a look at this device from the perspective of a windows mobile user so let's go through the hardware now the device is covered in white paint although the hero will also come in black it's got a Teflon coating on back which gives it a really good feel in hand it doesn't feel like you're going to drop it like some of the other devices out there with a very shiny coating it's kind of a hybrid between smooth plastic and the rubbery coating you find on say the t-mobile dash or a lot of other devices now come with that sort of coating it's got a metal ring around the screen which gives it a high quality look and feel it's got the chin which makes it feel like a good phone in hand kind of like the old style flip phones that really felt good when you rested it against your face so the chin is pretty neat let's go around the device and take a look at what we have up here we have the speaker grill with a light sensor to regulate screen brightness the screen is 3.2 inches diagonal and is 480 x 320 resolution this is a resolution that windows mobile does not support it's the same resolution as the iphone as the palm pre and as the g1 the first Android device that came out so let's zoom in to the buttons down here and I should also mention that the screen has the a coating that will prevent grease and fingerprints from accumulating on the screen like the iphone 3gs so we'll have to see if that actually works well down here we have a call start and call end button menu home back and search and this button will actually also power on and off the device and take it out of standby and here we have a trackball which also illuminates that acts as a status light so if you have a new email or misc aww you'll see this this item glow right here let's go around the device on the left side just like other HTC windows mobile devices such as the you know the touch HD we have the volume rocker it's kind of flush on the bottom we've HTC's x tu as a V port which will work with all year mini USB accessories here's the microphone whoops going over to the other side we have nothing there and on the top we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack which is great and this is how you take off the back you stick your finger in out now in there and pull back now the camera is 5 megapixels with autofocus there's no flash unfortunately and here is the speaker grill now let's take off the back battery cover and see what we have underneath it's very interesting to see a back battery cover have a curve in it not many devices have that so back here under the battery is the slot for the sim card we have the slot for the microSD memory expansion here and the battery is of size thirteen hundred and fifty milliamp hours so we'll have to take a look and see how great battery life is on the HTC hero so that pretty much does it for the hardware tour of the hero we're going to be back soon more with lots of video content about the sense UI and how it compares to touch flo 3d and other phone interfaces that you may know that's it for now