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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocketnow.com and this is the hardware tour of the unlocked HTC s 743 this device will work on AT&T 3g network in the US and if you have tmobile it will work on their edge network so let's take a look at the hardware in the upper left corner we have a ambient light sensor which will help to adjust screen brightness based on how bright it is wherever you are we have a speaker to the right of that the screen is 2.4 inches diagonal with q vga resolution so that's 240 across and 320 up now because it's a smaller screen it looks pretty crisp even though it has technically a low resolution screen but it looks good and you'll see that in the next video I'm going down we have HTC logo and then we have a very interesting kind of cluster buttons down here call start and call and are very very tiny buttons but fortunately they are raised quite a bit so that if you're running your finger along the screen you can easily find those buttons the d-pad is very pronounced which is good a lot of people who have the touch pro or touch diamond complain that the d-pad is completely flat and thus it's pretty hard to use not the case on the S 743 very pronounced very easy to use with a huge select button in the center below that we have a home button which will take you to the home screen and a back button now here we have the numeric keypad and I was hoping by the looks of the prototype images that they would have little ledges on them but instead they are completely flat too which makes it a little difficult to feel for them although you get a little bit of a bump on the five that's something you'll have to get used to and all of these keys are backlit if you start using them in a dark room ok let's take a look at this keyboard the keyboard is a 4 row keyboard unlike the HTC touch pro which is a five row keyboard that's because there is no dedicated number row up top and so if you want to get to a number you have to hold down the function key and then press a number which is kind of annoying but I mean they wouldn't be able to fit an extra row here because it's not that big of a device we have some shortcuts here if we do function and symbol will launch the internet browser she turn on and off t9 through the green letters here and profiles and there's some other things there as well now something I find kind of weird is that the right softkey button is all the way to the right when on the screen you'll see the right soft key command show up right here so it takes a little bit of getting used to and over here we have lights for function and caps lock on the side we have volume up and down buttons and the power button is right on the top just like the touch diamond touch pro on the bottom we have USB mini USB port which will work for audio and charging and syncing unfortunately there's no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on this device and if we go to the right we have a camera button and flipping over to the back this may look familiar too because if you look at the HTC touch pro it has pretty much the same exact backing it's got the faceted backing with these kind of soft rubbery material that feels really good in the hand and then you have that diamond-cut look with the camera lens same thing over here 3.2 megapixel camera and a speakerphone hole right here and if we take off the back cover we reveal the 1000 milliamp hour battery and that probably seems kind of small but for a device of this type that should be enough though I'll have a full wrap up of the battery life in the full review on pocket now calm and you're probably wondering where the microSD slot is and the SIM card holder well it's not under the battery it's actually awkwardly placed behind this screen and I always have trouble with this you have to slide this open and then you get the sim card here and if you take out the sim card you will get the microSD slot so really awkward place for the micro SD card and even the SIM card so hopefully you don't swap your your microSD card too much and you just leave it in there so overall I like the hardware on the HTC s 743 it is a very high quality feel it feels great in hand and in pocket I just wish that HTC would focus more so on function than they would form the front of the device looks beautiful but the small start call call start and call end keys the flat numeric buttons aren't really practical and and they did this to with the HTC touch pro and touch a diamond where the d-pad is completely flat and a lot of people have trouble using the d-pad fortunately the s7 43 has a raised d-pad what the flatness of some of these buttons will take some getting used to we'll talk more about that in the review coming up we're going to do a software tour and show you all of the added software and enhancements that have been made to the s7 43 that's it for now