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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocketnow.com and this is the hardware tour of the HTC touch HD the most gorgeous windows mobile device that probably we've ever seen with an extremely large touchscreen now this sleeve is what comes to protect the device you can push out the device like so and I think it's a really good idea because with such a large screen you don't want to be carrying that in your pocket and where all your keys are kept and actually the screen protector that comes on the touch HD says the following to prevent damage do not apply excessive pressure to the screen or device case please remove the device from your pants pocket before sitting down for more details see the Quick Start Guide so they're they're really insistent that you be careful with this screen because it's got such a large area to it so let's take out the device in and take a look at the hardware features so as we mentioned before the screen is three point eight inches diagonal and that's point three inches larger than the iphone which has a pretty big screen already the resolution is 800 down and 480 across that's the maximum allowed by windows mobile if we look towards the top here we see a light sensor next to the speaker and also a front-facing video camera now if we go down to the bottom we have four hardware buttons and they're all capacitive meaning when you touch on them they don't press in but there's actually a little bit of buzz feedback that you get when you when you touch the buttons the the vibrating mechanism inside the device goes off and it feels pretty good you know that you've hit a button so we've call start home okay or back and then we have call end and that's really all you get using this device with one hand is is is doable but probably not so much as compared to like the touch diamond or touch pro where you have a d-pad and everything like that so let's go over to the side we have a large volume rocker here that's really easy to feel for when you're on a call on the bottom we have the USB port the EXT USB port which works with mini USB charging and syncing cables which is great and then we have a microphone here turning to the other side it's pretty much clean except for the stylus which like the touch pro and touch a diamond is magnetic so if you take it out the screen will turn on and we'll cover the software later if we go towards the top of the device we have a a standby button which is pretty large in size next to a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack which we always like to see so we don't have to use proprietary headphone connectors and all of that sort of thing over to the back we see that the back is covered with that nice rubberized plastic so it feels really solid in hand when you hold it when you get after you get over how large it is in your hand it is quite large although it's thin but it does feel good with the rubbery coating we have a 5 megapixel camera and the only other 5 mega mega pixel camera device I know of that runs windows Mobile's the samsung omnia and then we have a speaker here and we can open up the back cover quite easily to reveal the battery and here's the sim card slot and unfortunately the microSD slot is placed behind the battery cover but that's not too big of a deal so that's it for the hardware tour of the HTC touch HD it's really amazing to see such a large screen such a high resolution screen on a windows mobile device and I'm having a lot of fun using it so far we're going to talk a lot about software in the next video and be sure to follow us on twitter at twitter.com slash your pocket now tweets for some exclusives and you can find out before everyone else when we post these videos will be back soon with more