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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocket now and in this video we're going to cover the hardware of the HTC Touch pro one of the most highly anticipated devices of this year in the Windows Mobile space I first want to talk about the size of the device now when it was first announced with the touch diamond earlier this year a lot of people were disgruntled about how thick this was going to be and indeed it is thick but I'll tell you what guys this device does not feel thick it's thin in the hand because it's not very wide and it's not very tall compared to its Big Brother the Titan 2 or the Kaiser in the pocket it doesn't feel big in the hand it doesn't feel big the only time when you've got kind of sense that it's actually very thick is when it's sitting on a table top like so or it's sitting out in front of you and you look at a profile shot of it but beyond that it doesn't feel that big okay so let's open up the keyboard and of course the screen is going to turn on and we'll talk more about the software later and what we have here is a five row QWERTY keypad and it's really great that HTC has included a full number pad at the top here because usually what you have to do on these sort of devices to get you know five six five you would have to do function this number function that number kind of like you would do on the you know Kizer so a really great keyboard and even though these keys are smaller than they are on the Titan Tour the Kaiser they feel really feel really nice and I think this keyboard may actually be better than that on the motorola q9h which is considered to have the best keyboard of any windows mobile device so let's close the slider over here on the side we have a volume up and down button and here it says HTC innovation going to the bottom we have HTC's proprietary Jack and there's a soft reset hole and if you remember on the diamond the software set hole was behind the stylus so this is a much better place for it we have a microphone there going over to the other side there's nothing here except for this except for the stylus which as you remember from the diamond is has a magnet at the end so if I kind of put it slightly in it'll pull itself all the way in and when you remove the stylus it turns on the screen and takes it out of standby mode and of course it's stuck in landscape because I just had it in landscape and what's interesting and I don't know if the touch diamond also exhibits this the entire backing of this phone is magnetic look at this I don't know what the purpose of that is or if it was done on purpose but it's kind of interesting okay so let's flip over to the top we have a power and standby button now one of the differences between this device and the touch diamond is that it has a microSD slot so if we remove the back cover and before I do I want to mention that this coating is kind of the rubbery soft coating that you find on the xcalibur or a lot of other devices I know on the touch diamond it was a shiny plastic which you know didn't make it feel as good in hand but they replaced it on the touch pro so to open the back you kind of slide it up it's very easy and on the back here we have the micro SD slot and this is hot swappable so you don't have to turn off the device to take out the card and you can take it out and put it back in while the device is on and flip it back around to the other side and access music or movies or anything like that here we have the camera sensor and the the flash and of course the slot for your SIM card turning back to the other side and of course the phone went on we have let me get a little bit closer so you can see these buttons on the front and as you can see the device is an absolute fingerprint magnet hold on one second I'm going to clean it off for you okay that's a bit better and I recommend that you use the included screen protector so that you avoid getting so many smudges on this thing so here we have some buttons we have a home button which will take you back to the the touchflo 3d screen we have a back button which also doubles as an OK button in many screens there's a call and a call start button and all of these aren't touch sensitive except for some things about the d-pad I'll talk about that in a second you actually have to press them down and you get a little bit of tactile feedback which is good look at the fingerprint it just left its pretty amazing in the center we have a d-pad but it doesn't few interesting things in some applications like the photo browser to opera mobile if you run your finger along the outside it will zoom in an app which is a nice feature also if you're in a text message or if you're in an email doing this motion will make the text bigger or smaller which is good this button in the center actually has some touch sensitivity if you are in the camera application to focus the lens you tap it with your finger but don't press it down all the way and then to take the picture you press inward just as if it were a standard d-pad moving along to the top we have a front-facing video camera for those that can use it and we have a speaker and a status light here I should also mention that there are many different kind of status light configurations that go on down here when you're charging it it looks like it's filling up when you have a new call it blinks when it's on standby you can probably see it if I hold it for a second it when it's on standby it blinks like it does there so that's a really interesting innovation that you don't see on too many windows mobile devices so in summary the hardware on the touch pro is well done there's one issue that I found and you're not going to be able to perceive this over the video but there's a little bit of play in the keyboard when you push it up and down I can actually feel it move slightly up and down maybe you can see it in the video but I mean for a device that's this expensive I don't want any sort of keyboard play that that implies bad quality because h DC makes good devices and that's really not acceptable so that's pretty much it for the hardware on the HTC touch pro in the next video we're going to turn this on and talk about all the interesting features and how the integration with the keyboard works and everything like that so that's it for now