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hey guys it's Brandon Minnemann from pocketnow.com and this is a hardware tour of the samsung omnia i 900 let's begin on the front on the front there are no buttons except for these two right here call start and call end and this has the same brushed metal texture as does the back and we'll go back to the rear in a second in the center here we have an optical joystick or a d-pad so you have the option of rubbing your finger along it and having a cursor move around on the screen or you could use it as a d-pad right left up down and click inward the screen is 3.2 inches diagonal and compared to other devices like the iPhone the iPhone is 3.5 inches diagonal the HTC touch diamond2 two point eight inches so it's a larger screen for windows mobile device which is nice the resolution is 400 down and 240 across that's w/q vga for those that are keeping track on the top here we have a front-facing video camera for those that can use that functionality and a speaker which I found so far to be kind of quiet but we'll get to that in future reviews going over to the side we have a lanyard loop here and over to the right we have a little trapdoor here and if we open that up we get the port that is used for audio charging and syncing that uses Samsung's proprietary USB connector that one if you have a Samsung phone you've seen that before let me close that up and let's go to the bottom there's nothing there except for a microphone going to the other side we have a dual action camera button so it has autofocus if you hold it in half way it will focus the camera and all the way we'll take the picture we volume up and down over here is a notes button and on the top in the same place that you'll find it on the iPhone is the standby on an off button let's turn to the other side here's the back it's got this nice finish to it we have the five megapixel camera sensor here with an LED fill light taking off the battery is very easy just like so and here we have the slot for the microSD card unfortunately it's not along the edge here you have to open up the battery to swap out the microSD card and of course we have the SIM card holder here now you may be wondering where is the stylus well quite interestingly this device doesn't come with a stylus built-in I think they did that to keep down on the size and indeed they did that but it's kind of annoying because you have to carry around this thing if you want to use a stylus this is not a makeup holder like I thought it was in the the unboxing it's actually a stylus and the idea is that you carry this around either in your pocket where you use the lanyard loop to loop it into this hole well I am certainly not going to carry around a stylist for my phone they're trying to encourage you to use your finger on the screen or use the optical joy joystick here which I think really helps to make it easy to navigate the device I'm actually not missing the stylus with the I 900 here and finally I want you to notice that the screen is completely flush and it feels really nice the sense sensitivity is fantastic I found typing on the keyboard to be much better than typing on an HTC Touches keyboard it has a similar kind of on screen you know you have a choice between sure type and t9 and all those sorts of things so in the next video we're going to actually turn on the device and show you all the cool things that this does it automatically reorients the screen when you turn it to landscape and there's a lot of other cool things so more to come really soon