Gadgetory

hi this is stephen skarlatos of pocketnow.com today we're going to take a hardware tour of the zinc 2 first off let's slide out the back cover and we're going to insert the thirteen hundred and fifty million lithium polymer battery next we're going to insert the SIM card i have my AT&T sim card here and we'll slide that in it slides in fairly easily but i found it the hard to take out we'll put the cover back on and then that slides on easily I was not happy to find only one telescoping stylus it's nice to have a spare however it does fit snugly into the bottom right hand corner of the unit as we go around the unit starting with the right hand side we have a camera button the power button and the reset button moving on to the top left hand corner we've got a lanyard hook then we have the volume plus and minus buttons then the start button and the microSD slot I'm not a big fan of an open a microSD slot because of dust issues and the possibility of losing the card I did try the microSD slot with an eight gigabyte card and it worked with no issues on the bottom of the unit we have a mini USB connector and the microphone the tour takes us back to the stylist now let's take a look at the front of the unit at the top we have the speaker and we have a flush screen design which is very nice and is the in style these days then we have the d-pad in the call and end button and notice that there's no right and left softkey buttons so it will be very interesting to see how that works on the back of the unit we've got the 2 megapixel camera and an external speaker next will power on the unit first thing that comes up is the mwg logo then we have the windows mobile 6.1 splash screen and then the today screen comes up with my AT&T service you can see the H on the top status bar which signifies HS PDA service I was a little dismayed that the auto configuration utility did not include North American carriers so i had to configure the data connection manually which is really not good also notice the d-pad lighting up any time you press it a neat feature well that does it for the external hardware tour next up data speeds GPS functionality and the camera