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hey guys it's Brandon Minnemann from pocketnow.com and in this video we're gonna unbox the htc inspire 4G this is sort of a 4G phone on 18t we're going to talk about why this is a very important phone for AT&T when we come back let's get to it so AT&T in our opinion has one of the best strategies for their 4G deployment what they're doing is they're rolling out HSPA+ today and it's available to pretty much anyone that has a teen t3g service the idea behind this is that they're gonna launch their 4G LTE network later than 2011 and kind of big-time in 2012 the cool thing about what they're doing is that because they're gonna have to sort of roll out LTE slowly there are going to be times when you don't have LTE and this box is being kind of a pain so the idea is that you'll fall back to the HSPA+ speeds instead of in the case of Verizon and you know Sprint falling back to the much slower 3G speeds makes a lot of sense so that you can get really the fastest connection anywhere you are this is vastly different than than the 4G strategy for Verizon and Sprint of course where they have really four G and then 3G but here ATT has something in between that should be pretty awesome so let's throw this box over here and here we go the inspire 4G it's it's really funny HTC has rebranded the Desire HD in many many many different ways we had the Evo 4G we have the Thunderbolt coming out and now we have the inspire 4G don't let them fool you this is the Desire HD just with a different logo and slightly different design which isn't necessarily a bad thing the Desire HD has a large 4.3 inch display it's got a fast Qualcomm one gigahertz Snapdragon processor it's got 512 megabytes of RAM the latest version of sense it's a pretty sweet package so let's take a look at the inspire 4G a lot of AT&T people have really been waiting for this phone because 18t hasn't had that huge 4.3 inch display phone yet so here we have a Quick Start Guide here we have the device without a little notch to take get outs got to turn it over pretty heavy pretty thick first impression let's pull out the orange goodness got an HTC charger no headphones that's alright we probably have this already turned on as it was activated and whatnot and so here we are the inspire 4G this thing is a tank very heavy you know I don't think it's as thick as some people are making out to be looks like the battery door has been sort of popped open and here is the battery door okay pop out the battery and this is of size let's see here here it is twelve hundred and thirty milliamp hours a smaller battery than the Thunderbolt probably because the Thunderbolt which has LTE capability on Verizon needs more juice to be able to run through with the LTE so let's pop this back on if I could figure out how to do that really weird how they've brought over almost the HTC legend the unibody style of design may have to pop this back in and cut back in okay got it in and this should be able to pop off we've got a SIM card in here also the microSD slot it comes with it should be an eight gigabyte microSD card it yep and it is a class class - alright pretty cool so we've got one gigabyte of built-in storage plus another eight gigabytes coming on the card so I've got a total of nine gigabytes so down here it says Dolby mobile surround sound SRS so presumably better audio output let's take a look around the device we've got an 8 megapixel camera here dual LED flash an interesting design speaker grille here this is gonna be annoying - trying to keep this in hopefully it stays in volume rocker on the left side up here we've got a large earpiece with that's not a front-facing camera unfortunately unlike the HTC Thunderbolt which it does have front facing camera capacitive buttons look at beautiful 4.3 inch display which picks up fingerprints really really well so we're gonna boot this up and while that's booting up let's compare it to some other devices here got the HTC hd2 of course another device with a 4.3 inch display really miss the design of the HD - HTC went in the direction of sort of more rounded edge is the hd2 is a little bit boxy and it's super slender because of that let's compare it to the old Nexus S which has a four inch screen of course we've standard LCD over here and Super AMOLED on the Nexus S and the iPhone of course 3.5 inch screen this thing is not intended to really go head-to-head with the iPhone it's just such a larger device although if you look at it interestingly sort of the the width and the height isn't that much greater than the iPhone even though it has a 4.3 inch display so really really curious about HSPA+ the kind of speeds we can get we tend to benchmark as phone speeds a lot so we have a lot of data right now it's showing edge which is very very strange because there's absolutely 3G in this area it's got to move around on the screens a little bit and just talk about what we have this is the new version of HTC Sense we saw this on the Desire HD and a lot of other devices and what this means is that we've got sort of a new way to organize sense a new way to personalise sense and of course we've got the my location thing up there so you'll see the weather clock there we go each plus you know I want to get right to it and run a speed benchmark because I'm sure you're very curious about what kinds of speeds you can get so I'm gonna download speedtest.net I'll be right back alright and we're back we're just gonna quickly download speed test net it's still using the old version of the Android Market but of course within probably three minutes the new version will be pushed to this device downloading let's go into the settings real quick and take a look at some of the about information curious about certain things you've already got some fingerprints on the screen so let's go into down here a bat phone and let's check Network just want to see what it says it's very interesting it says HSDPA and yet it says h plus implying HSPA we'll have to look into that let's see the software information here so this is running on android 2.2 point one unfortunately not Android 2.3 although this device is likely to see an upgrade it's one of HTC's flagship devices now they want to make sure that they give enough loved where love is due so let's find the speedtest.net application you're going to see it run for the first time here we've got a full signal of HSPA+ here so we should be really getting the fastest speeds possible just for some context AT&T 3G in this area will max out at about 2.6 megabits per second down and about 1.3 megabits per second up that's the average of literally hundreds of tests that we've run from this location let's see what we get drumroll please okay that is probably not accurate we're going to let this run and we're going to run it again sometimes speedtest.net does this it shows a very very low speed as you just saw it bursts it up to 1.5 yeah this is definitely not a good representation let's let's run it again okay test again very strange here getting these slow speeds we're gonna have to take this out into the field and perhaps the device needs some I'm gonna need some braking in time or something well if we just saw a burst 2 3.3 megabits per second down so maybe something's happening here and let's do it one more time just for good measure hoping that it comes through and shows us what it's really capable of with the HSPA+ here we go no it's not so we're gonna have to come back and talk more about the speeds it's one of the you know the biggest stories of this device is the HSPA+ speeds and we're going to come back and talk a lot about that after we benchmark it from different places maybe there's something wrong with the cell tower around here so that is the htc inspire 4G this is a commanding phone it's very large but I mean if you're getting this you really want a large display but it's also quite heavy simultaneously it's got a high quality feel which I think many will appreciate so if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and we'll be back with plenty more on the htc inspire 4G and of course check out the review coming up in the near future on pocketnow.com that's it for now