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hey guys its brand amendment from pocket now calm the HTC chacha also known as the facebook phone or one of the Facebook phones and there's also the salsa for the u.s. is called the HTC status and it's on AT&T in this video we're going to cover first impressions of this new interesting device let's get to it so right from the front of the box you get to get a sense for how AT&T is positioning this device kind of these fun colors this device is made for younger people social network friendly people in fact they even left specs off so 18 th DC are not advertising that this is a fast phone at this as cutting-edge graphics and amazing screen this is all about the social networking the picture messaging and you know all the other fun stuff that is associated with a facebook phone but that's not a bad thing HTC is building this phone and HTC doesn't make bad devices so this is going to be an interesting phone definitely we've already started covering the HTC chacha the european version on pocket now so i'll put a link up on the video towards the end of this video so you can jump back and kind of get an accelerated look at this phone if it's of interest to you so let's open this up and here we go here the device is presented will pop that out and there's nothing inside the box we're not going to go in there just the charger and you don't want to see a charger do you so let's slide that off first impression of this device after taking it out of the boxes wow this keyboard reminds me a lot of the HTC snap the HTC snap was a similar device is about two years ago it came out it ran windows mobile and it didn't have a touchscreen unlike these sucks the status and it had this killer keyboard although this is a little bit different the keyboard on the snap was actually staggered whereas this keyboard is arranged in a grid but it's also arg anomic lee curved slightly and these keys are really really nice there are spaced apart just just the right amount they have good tactile feedback they're clicky but not too clicky to where they're difficult to press really a key killer keyboard from HTC we've also got a good layout of buttons here we've got the shift button the alt button to get to the numbers facebook button what about that later we've got a nice a d-pad down here in the bottom right corner which is always a really good spot and then we've got a call start and call end key just kind of rare to have on a phone this whole form factor is very rare we often do not see a touchscreen with a front facing QWERTY so for people that really like the hard work court to keyboard but still want a touchscreen this is a good mix we've got an h vga screen here which is 480 x 320 so kind of low resolution but it's a small screen you really don't need that much resolution we've got a front facing camera here and of course a camera on the back with a flash really cool backing here with white on the top and the bottom of this nice little metal strip in the center we've got two holes here they don't look to be for noise cancellation they're probably part of the microphone or the extra the antenna system sliding off the backing here we get a twelve hundred and thirty million power battery an on hot swappable two gigabyte microSD card that comes with it and of course your SIM card there this is not a 4g phone or at least it's not right now it's possible it might be a 4g phone in terms of hspa+ wants AT&T upwards of software but it's not being advertised as such right now it's got this nice little curve to it which not only serves a purpose to bring the screen closer to the user when typing but when you're on a phone call it feels really good against your face with this nice natural curve here and over here we've got the micro USB port we've got the volume rocker nicely placed on the left side 3.5 millimeter headphone jack power standby button and that is pretty much it inside we've got an 800 megahertz processor 512 megabytes of RAM again this is not a device for for power users necessarily it's for people that want to be social and have a really good keyboard and text message a whole lot you know it's going to be really interesting is when the developer community gets ahold of this and brutes in and we're allowed to or were able to install stock android on it maybe overclock the processor a little bit have a feeling this is going to have really good battery life so it's going to have some room to overclock because of that good battery life so a lot of cool stuff for for HTC status owners beyond the basics or the default built in software speak the software there's a lot to talk about HTC has done a lot of really cool enhancements to make the status a really cool way to to connect with facebook and to also do all of the other android stuff it's running android 2.3 and it's a pretty fast device actually even though it has you know an 800 megahertz processor so we've got a lot more coming up on the HTC status let us know what you think of this keyboard and if you've been really holding out for a device with a good qwerty keyboard because you don't find that many of them out there everything's really on screen these days and let us know what you think about the status if you like this video please give us a thumbs up two thumbs up if you couldn't know youtube doesn't let you do that just one thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now hmm