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hey guys it's brand a minimun from pocket now calm and this is the unboxing of the HTC hero this is androids latest and greatest we're going to be taking a look at the latest rendition of Android and the Sense UI from the perspective of a Windows Mobile user we're also going to be looking at the Sense UI because it's coming to Windows Mobile in various forms so really going to take a look at where HTC is going with their user interfaces so without further ado let's get to the unboxing came in a little bag here HTC bag that's interesting small box what wow this box looks to be super small I guess this is the the next wave of HTC boxes they're gonna be about the size of an iPhone box although this is much bigger than the iPhone box Wow look at this never seen them HTC packaging like this this basically has the same internals as a lot of the HTC Windows Mobile devices as the Qualcomm 528 megahertz processor it's got 288 megabytes of RAM this sounds just like the touch pro2 actually this is a European phone so you're not going to get us 3G with this so Wow let's see how this slides out wow this is great and then it presents the device nicely in this in this way wow that's beautiful let's take out the device and we'll look at that in a minute see what we get in the box looks like we have a micro SD card two gigabyte microSD card that's great wall charger welcome to HTC HTC care warranty okay very nice everything's white so we have the white wall charger which is actually quite different than the wall chargers the HTC devices usually ship with and we have a USB cable with HTC's proprietary is that what it is yeah their proprietary ext USB which also also work with your mini USB accessories and then we have some headphones here while to take a look at that in more detail later so let's push this all aside and take a look at the hero all right so go out this tab Wow this device feels awesome it's got the chin wow that is amazing it's got a Teflon coating it feels very non slippery in the hand actually it doesn't feel like I'm going to drop it it's got almost a it's smoothing yet it's got a very fine texture to it Wow it's pretty thin although it's gonna be thicker than the other devices that we're gonna compare this against feels like it would make for a very nice phone with the chin holding it up to your ear obviously let's take a look at the hero compared to other devices so we'll take a look at the iPhone first the hero has a much smaller screen than the iPhone in terms of thickness it's kind of hard to judge thickness because of the chin but it's definitely thicker than the iPhone let's take a look at the new Samsung omnia 2 also has a smaller screen than the omnia 2 and is about the same thickness a little bit thicker possibly the hero doesn't feel as thick as say the omnia 2 because it's got this tapered edge sort of like the iPhone does let's take a look at how it compares to the HTC Touch HD and there are some similarities between these HTC devices like the speaker girl at the top with the LED indicator light on either side and in terms of thickness it is thicker and finally next to the HTC touch diamond2 it's a more wide than the touch diamond2 if we stack them on one another but in terms of thickness turn it the other way they're actually about the same thickness so that's it for the unboxing of the HTC hero really impressed with the new style of HTC boxes how the device slides down like so it's really important when you spend a lot of money on a cell phone that the unboxing experience is one that you actually enjoy so coming up soon we're going to talk about the Sense UI we're going to talk about how the latest Android experience compares to that of Windows Mobile so we'll be back soon with more if you want an HTC Hero of your own there now shipping at Clover co uk we'll be back soon with more that's it for now