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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and today we're excited to unbox the HTC snap this is the true successor to the HTC X caliber or also known as the t-mobile dash and a lot of people really like the dash because it was a small device with a great form factor a fantastic keyboard and a great in hand feel people could tap out a message on a dash in seconds and it was just a really productive device and the HTC snap it brings a new keyboard it brings a trackball in the center which really helps with navigation hopefully a huge battery and also a feature called inner circle which lets you filter out email from people that you don't want this is the European version so it will work in the US but it won't get 3G we're gonna have a release of the snap on many US carriers including t-mobile Sprint and Verizon and it's likely that most global carriers the major ones will see the HTC snap it's gonna be a very pervasive device and so watch out for that so let's do the unboxing right Wow the feeling this is gonna be a stunning looking device very nice keyboard on the front there's the trackball has a nice brush metal aluminum look to it it's gonna be very classy device I think the back will be covered in kind of that rubbery coating that the - had that a lot of people liked it made for a non-slip grip let's take a look at what we have here Qualcomm 528 megahertz processor 256 megabytes ROM 192 megabytes of RAM which is a little bit less than we like to see it's a non touchscreen device which is good and it's bad it's good because you can be very productive you don't have to reach up to touch the screen everything can be done with the hardware keys and it's bad because a lot of people like touch screens and that may be a problem but let's take a look at the device really excited to see what it looks like all right put the device to the side for now let's see what we get in the box just like with the touch pro2 and the diamond - and most HTC devices we get the headphones here with the HTC's proprietary jack here charger standard we have a battery which is 1500 milliamp hours which for a device like this should allow for some pretty amazing battery life so we're really excited to see how long the battery will last on the snap and of course we have the USB cable and some documentation and software of course so warranty card accessories Quick Start Guide probably not in color HTC doesn't like to do color guides but that's okay and let's take a look at the device can already feel it's very small much smaller than it probably looks in the pictures Wow Wow feels just like the - actually it does have the rubbery coating on the back very smooth extremely thin let's take off the cover here screen is kind of small but you have to expect that with a device like this the trackball super smooth the keyboard is gonna feel great very large Keys arranged in a kind of smiley face like pattern let's see how it compares in size to say a credit card so as you can tell by this a very compact device you're not really gonna feel it in your pocket it's made to be a small messaging device and it really feels great in hand it's very light right now can't wait to put the battery in and see how heavy it is so let's compare it to some similar devices here's the q9h which was an extremely popular device thanks to an amazing keyboard and really well optimised hardware key layout similar design although the snap is not as wide and is not as tall and is not as thick so think about it like a smaller q9h we're gonna do some keyboard tests to determine which keyboard is actually better so let's compare it to the old blackjack 2 which went under many names throughout the world again the snap is smaller it looks actually a little bit wider but the key the keys are closer together here they are spread out in terms of thickness the snap is thinner which is great and how about the propel pro with the smiley-faced keyboard from Samsung the keys are definitely bigger on the snap and it's much much thinner and just for the sake of comparison next to the HTC Touch pro2 it's shorter of course it's gonna be much thinner and if you want to compare the keyboards although this isn't really a fair comparison here they are it's a much smaller keyboard but I think it's gonna be really well optimized for ergonomics and the like so a lot more coming on the HTC snap I know a lot of people are really waiting for this device and we're gonna have multiple video reviews including a full review coming up on pocketnow.com soon for more and to know exactly when the video is hit follow us on twitter at twitter.com/worldsdumbest for