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hey guys it's Branham in a min from pocketnow.com if you like what HTC is doing with their new one series of devices but don't feel like shelling out 600 plus bucks for a 1x you might consider the 1v the least expensive HTC one series device it's only about 350 bucks and it has some really interesting specs oh and it's got the chin in homage to the HTC legend and the HTC Hero from yesteryear so let's do the unboxing of the HTC One V now and you can get one of these for about 350 bucks unlocked over at Negri electronics calm reasonable price for a brand new device the spec sheet is not the most impressive but I'm sure it's going to be a fast device with really good build quality and again it's got that really cool chin this is available in brown and grey this is the brown version it's kind of interesting let's turn over to the back and take a look at the specs that we've got here you're going to get just a single core CPU here although it's a tried-and-true Qualcomm Snapdragon 1 gigahertz CPU you know it's going to be snappy it's not going to be amazing with gaming but it's definitely going to get the job done it's got 512 megabytes of RAM it's got 4 gigs of storage built in but it does have microSD expansion so that you can certainly add more memory if you need to we've got a 3.7 inch WVGA display so it's much lower resolution than the One X lower than the 1s but it still is a high pixel density because it's only a three point seven inch screen 800 by 480 that puts it at about 250 PPI so it's still going to be a super crisp and clear screen although is smaller it's got a 5 megapixel camera f 2.0 to allow for a lot of light into the lens just like the other HTC One devices 720p HD video recording not 1080p and all that other good stuff so let's get to the unboxing here really curious to see what HTC has done with this I don't want to call it low-end but their budget HTC one device because it has some of those premium features just cost less and doesn't have an amazing spec sheet and again we see I'm the one you've been waiting for by the way if you haven't seen our HTC One X review yet we're going to put a link up here throughout the video so that you can go back and check that so really cool device here it feels just like the HTC legend it's got this wonderful aluminum unibody construction it kind of has some heft to it which makes it actually feel pretty high-quality in the hand this really feels like the hero although much evolved it feels very thin it's got a little bit of a rubbery texture down here it says Beats Audio I'm assuming this slides off let's see if it's using micro SIM or regular SIM can't really tell from here it looks like it's micro SIM and here is the area where you put in the micro SD card lots of micro stuff to talk about let's slide this back on will power on the phone in a moment and see what the screen looks like once we finish with the unboxing all right to put that aside so this is writing Sense 4.0 whether you love it or you hate it it's better than previous versions of sense we can tell you that it's still a little bit heavy in some areas but it adds some pretty cool features so we've got that and that and I'm assuming because there is no micro SIM a little guy like this that came in the One X that's actually using the standard sim so I've got a wall charger this is for other country and some headphones this stuff is boring so anyway let's turn on the HTC One V see what this screen looks like power buttons on the top like other HTC devices this is kind of an interesting element perhaps this is an LED notification light which would be super cool to have it right there just a little strip there really feels awesome with this metal it's really great to see HTC using the unibody construction we saw it on the desire hd and several other phones from them looking at the front we just have a flat piece of glass we've got the buttons built in here for Ice Cream Sandwich and I didn't turn it on yet by the way just a really sharp edge here I'm just noticing some of these details it overall it feels like it's been etched with a laser so let's turn this on it looks like it's a non user replaceable battery and perhaps it's not charged at all or perhaps I'm just not holding the button and long enough and we're back after going through the first time setup and the device actually came with no charge which was very strange usually advice that you get new has a little bit of a charge very strange indeed so how does sense 4.0 work with a device that is a single core processor because the 1s and the 1x both have a multi-core processors so we're not a full review coming up looks like the leap feature isn't even enabled and I've also noticed that there are fewer animations like when you click on a folder it just pops open rather than on the One X for example and there I take it out and make the one v look very small next to it folders open the little bit of a flare a little bit of an animation there certainly to take advantage of all those cores so we've got a for review coming up with the HTC One V will also have further videos to see this is the device for you if you don't feel like spending 600 bucks to get one of HTC's latest and greatest this certainly has all the great features of the One X like the great camera the great camera application the new version of sense and all that other stuff you like this video please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now you