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hey guys it's branham inna min from pocket now calm and this is the hardware tour of the mobi nova ice this device has a 3 inch touchscreen of resolution 400 down and 240 across that is wqvga it's actually the same resolution as the samsung omnia but as we'll discover later when we do the software tour you really only get a QV g a screen because you have an unchangeable row of icons down here that you cannot move or take off the screen or at least I haven't found out a way to do that yet so really think of it like a qvga screen so we'll go back to that part later now if we go in on the device we have the speaker here we have a light sensor kind of hidden off behind or to the left of the front facing video camera and then we have a very flush looking metallic shiny screen and then we go down to a very minimal offering of hardware button so we've calls start and call end but we also have this old LED screen here it's 96 x 96 pixels in its touch screen and the idea is that this takes on certain functions depending on which screen urine so if you're just in you know on the today screen you'll get a d-pad if you are in a media player you'll get certain media controls this functionality is pretty limited and again we'll cover this in the software tour now it does do some other things if i press on the camera button i will get some notifications here so it tells me the time it tells me if i have an email it tells me battery life and signal strength which is pretty convenient so that you don't have to turn on the device to check out all of these system indicators also you may have seen this about 30 seconds ago you will get a glowing envelope that will imply that you have a new message I don't know when this happens I think it's after you turn off your device let's see if it'll do it yep there it goes right after you turn off your device which is kind of a weird time to notify you you'll get that glowing envelope and you really can't do anything with it so let's continue around the device if we go over to the side we have a port which uses mini USB which is great because you don't have to use a proprietary connector that said this device doesn't have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack so you'll have to get a converter for that just like some HTC devices going to the bottom we have nothing there but the microphone on this side of the device we have the microSD expansion slot which is fortunately located on the outside of the device so you don't have to turn off the phone to get to it then we have a camera button volume rocker and on the top we have the standby button here and here's a really nice feature to have its the silent button so with one tap it goes into silent mode and with another tap the speaker comes back on kind of like some palm devices that are out there now you may have seen the stylus over here which is a unfortunately a collapsible stylus and it's got an extremely fine point I don't know if you can see that okay going over to the back we have a 3 megapixel camera and we have what appears to be dual speakers although it's kind of deceiving watch I'll take off the back there's no speaker there it's just there for show there's only one speaker and here is the hard reset or the software set whole I should say and we have a batter here that is of size 1080 milliamp hours which is kind of small actually and we'll have 20 on do some battery test to see how long the battery will last so overall the hardware of the mobi nova ice is quite good-looking it's a stunning design I think and a lot of people that have seen you on boxing say wow that phone looks really really cool and yeah it does look really really cool it looks kind of futuristic that said at the end of the day it's the software that makes the phone and we're going to have to take a look at how this optical or how this oled d-pad works and these static buttons on the bottom of the screen to see if they lend to a better device experience or whether they just impede usability so we'll be back soon with the software tour of the mobi Nova ice that's it for now