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hey guys it's Branham in a min from pocketnow.com and this is the hardware review of the new HTC incredible s let's get to it are you now this boat is sold unlocked and it actually has the band's do t-mobile's 3g which is quite nice you can get it right now negri electronics com it's about six hundred and forty dollars yes expensive but if you get an unlocked phone you know that you're going to pray pay a premium for that right now the HTC incredible s has somewhat of a vanilla design as you can see looking at it right from the front there's not many interesting characteristics about it probably the most interesting part of the design of the front of the device so that there are no buttons on the bottom it looks like a buttonless phone until you turn on the screen but there's a reason for that and there's an actual downside to having that and we'll talk about that in a minute but let's talk about the rest of the device so we've got a speaker grill up here with a nice LED notification always nice to have that so you don't have to turn on your screen to see if you have a new email I've got a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera which is a resolution bump from the typical vga resolution the screen is a pretty good size 4 inches across and it's 800 down by 480 across resolution the contrast on this display is fantastic the color reproduction is great it's a super LCD panel let's compare it to another super LCD panel here on the desire HD well this is actually the inspire 4G it's a bigger screen and we've got the same skin loaded on here so we'll really be able to tell sort of how the contrast looks and if we bring these up close look at the difference these are both set to automatic screen brightness and the screen on the incredible s just seems a lot more clear more contrasty there seems to be almost a bluish tint over the entire inspire 4G screen here whereas on the incredible s it's clear as crystal it just looks really really great in colors really pop so a lot of points here for the incredible esas display which is super amoled now a few things about these buttons what you're going to notice is that these button we'll actually rotate which is pretty cool so if we goes into say the web browser and we rotate the display well the buttons rotate that's really cool right well sort of I mean it helps but there's a problem with the buttons depending on how you look at the buttons they will have different level of brightness so looking at them head-on look at this area right down here in fact I want to zoom in a little bit hopefully I can show you this on video if we tilt the device a little bit towards the camera they get really dim and then the search button becomes extra bright and then these are sort of different brightness levels the brightness is very inconsistent and if we go to the center and kind of tilt it more directly at the camera they're all very bright and then if we keep going they become dim again so it's just it's really strange how they've done this and you can actually see that this is sort of the tipping point where they get bright and where they get dim so the buttons kind of look very low-quality the home button is always a little bit more dim than the other buttons maybe this was done on purpose but it kind of creates a lower sort of quality feel okay so let's zoom back out and continue our look around the hardware on the incredible s so if we go to the bottom we've got a microphone and we've actually got some other microphone holes potentially but they don't actually look like microphone Holt's talk about that in a sec turning over to the side we've got a nice size volume rocker a micro USB port for syncing and charging the the power button is actually on the right side of the device and I wish HTC would make up their mind because on their last generation of devices they put it on the left not a big deal if you're getting this phone you'll get used to it but in the world of phone reviewers we kind of get frustrated when they change the location of the power button which with every generation of phones and they also have the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on the top on the desire HD it is on the bottom so just a small design change not too big of a deal then we get this pretty cool backing back here which is very reminiscent of the the droid incredible on verizon we have an 8 megapixel camera with dual-led flash and a speaker now this also takes video at 720p now back here we'll also see a hole here and also two holes here what are they for well if we take off the back and we see where they sort of go to they kind of are part of the antenna system you need an engineer to come in and tell us what this is all about so here is the first hole over here comes through where these two contacts are and the other two holes down here are from these other two contacts will calls why are there holes in the back battery cover where the contacts ARF to help with the antenna system we're not sure we're gonna have to look into that but the back is pretty cool because you've got this sort of stage where the battery and the camera lenses and then the rest of it is just razor thin would be cool if one day smartphones were as thin as the thinnest part of this kind of down here so the battery is fourteen hundred and thirty milliamp hours I've actually got to show you here that it comes with in eight gigabyte class for micro SD card so good size there on the incredible s when you buy it now let's talk a little bit about build quality the incredible s is a lighter device and when you get a lighter device that often means that they're using less metal and glass if you look at a device like the you know desire HD here which has metal on the back a big piece of glass on the front it's quite heavy and it feels high quality of the incredible s as you saw is using a lot of plastic it's got a glass screen of course and you know go like that so they take care that it's glass but beyond that there's not any metal on the device it feels a little bit low quality again it feels light which is good but it feels low quality which is not so good and one final design note the incredible s has actually a raised lip to be very hard to show here around the device it's about a half of a millimeter that protrudes sort of up and around almost like a tray really doesn't matter very much although it may collect a little bit more pocket-lint than your average phone overall the the hardware of the HTC incredible s isn't really what we expect from HTC nowadays there are no chrome accents there are no interesting design elements it feels lightweight and a little bit low quality but some people again like the lightweight feel but overall it's a little bit of a downgrade from some of HTC's higher end devices like the desire HD so coming up soon we're going to talk about the software on the incredible s talk about benchmarking speeds now web browsing performances and everything else like that if you 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