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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and in this video we're gonna unbox a phone that needs no introduction although we're going to give one the HTC Thunderbolt the first 4G phone running on the LTE network on Verizon Wireless let's get to it alright so here we go the moment of truth this is probably the most important phone so far of 2011 alright and when we rip off this bubble right here and here we go I have a blank looking box has HTC on the front and 4G on the top of course that's the the most important part of this phone really is the 4G and let's see if they've at have any specs on the back to do it comes with a 32 gigabyte micro sd card those are very expensive so it's pretty impressive that the HTC and Verizon are including a 32 gigabyte card that's a lot of storage right off the bat so you don't even have to go and get a bigger card so I've got some really cool red showing through here kind of the colors of Verizon alright put that aside for just one second see if there are any surprises in the Box let's see we have car charger whoo not a car charger that would be cool thing for the car Chargers win it just an HTC charger and the USB cable oh and what is this here 4G SIM card whoa that's cool looks like it's already been put in the phone so if you get a thunderbolt you're gonna get a SIM card and it's so weird to see SIM card and Verizon on the same package as you know their CDMA network has never used SIM cards but for 4G they are making the switch to sim okay so let's move everything out of the way and look at the device yes we can remove this tray first impressions the device is definitely heavy but just like the inspire 4G it is heavy because it makes use of a lot of pretty cool materials so I've got some metal over here with this kickstand very high quality stuff okay let's remove it turn it on for the first time now at my apartment I am pretty much on the border of the 4G coverage if you look at a 4G coverage map so it's possible that right here there's no 4G but if you walk outside into the right there is 4G so we're gonna have to see that let's turn it on get it going maybe you run a preliminary speed test this button is a little bit small you know it's so strange that HTC keeps changing the location of their power buttons so if we take a device like the inspire 4G which is in a lot of ways the same phone as the thunderbolt we see that the power button is changed to the right side of the device we can also see that the Thunderbolt is a thicker phone than the inspire 4G now people are criticizing Verizon a little bit on the thunderbolt because they took us long time to roll this out we first thought it was going to come out in February and then it was delayed a little bit Furber has it that they delayed it because the 4G network wasn't really ready for primetime they were finishing some tests and things like that you know we're fine with that look at that animation Thunderbolt that is awesome we're fine with them delaying it if if that means that their 4G network is going to be ready when the phone launches unlike AT&T which is launching 4G phones when there really is no 4G network out there through our tests okay so let's see what happens here we're gonna zoom in on the screen will slide off the inspire 4G and do a little bit more in terms of comparison in just a few minutes alright so it might not be activated or maybe it is let's see what happens okay it looks like we've got full bars here while it's doing its thing let's sort of move around the device here and talk a little bit about the hardware now so we've got a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera of course the inspire 4G did not have the front-facing camera again it's quite thick it's it's probably about as thick maybe a little bit thicker than the Evo we've got the microUSB port there for syncing and charging 8 megapixel camera dual flash record 720p video let's take off the back battery cover curious to see what what it looks like under there looks like you're gonna have to pry this off got it here so let's see what we have here I'm assuming that the SIM card slot is under the battery this has huge battery it's about 1900 milliamp hours compared to the battery on the inspire 4G which is probably about 12 to 13 hundred millionth hours and you know the inspire 4G has pretty good battery life they needed to increase the battery size for the Thunderbolt because 4G faster data speeds that means more battery being used up so they had to bump that up let's move around see where the micro SD slot is we'll have to take another look at this let's see if we've got any service on this guy pop that back on there's no real metal back here except for the kickstand whereas on the inspire 4G the entire back is metal which gives it a nice feel this is kind of the soft touch rubber which is also quite nice got some fingerprints on the screen okay right now it's on 1 XR TT obviously it's not quite it's not quite ready yet let's go to a website Wow very fast device that says 768 megabytes of RAM it's a ton of ton of RAM and let's see if it switches to hopefully 3G and then 4G so they've included some stock widgets here if the friend stream this is a very fast phone it feels more snappy than the inspire 4G strangely now let's really quick see what version of Android just so we know that there are no surprises about phone ok so we are software information there we go Android 2.2 point 1 the same as the inspire 4G what I'm noticing is that these buttons have a different sense to them if we look at the inspire 4G you get you get this extra sort of bezel here and over here on the thunderbolt it's kind of made a little bit smaller by this design element which really doesn't do anything it's just sort of a design cube but the microphone is over here ok so right now we're getting 3G it may flip on to 4G but we're going to do a lot of tests when this is on 4G because obviously you want to know how fast is 4G we've got a lot of tests coming up we're going to compare this thing to the iPhone we're going to compare it to the Samsung focus on Windows Phone 7 and of course we're going to compare to the inspire 4G because if you're looking for a 4G phone right now there are and you want a 4.3 inch screen you have a fair amount of choices the inspire 4G and the Thunderbolt being two of them so a lot more coming up on the HTC Thunderbolt subscribe to our channel so you can see when the newest videos hit and we'll be will be covering this a lot really awesome phone please thumbs up this video if you liked it and thanks for watching that's it for now hmm