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hey guys it's Jodi Android guy in our recent video we showed you the unboxing of the Motorola Droid 4 in this video let's take a hardware walk around and see what the first boot looks like ok so let's take a look at the Motorola Droid 4 from Verizon this is the phone we haven't booted it up yet we haven't even finished taking all of the the plastic off but let's look at and see what it comes with first and foremost this fits very nicely in hand we've got a 4 inch qHD display now this means it's 960 by 540 so I'm not quite you know high definition but it's still very nice very very high quality screen is what we've come to expect out of this on the back we've got the Motorola logo Verizon and the fact that this is 4G LTE we've got a speaker this back is also relatively textured so it's has a nice attack to it it feels really grippy in hand up at the top we've got a 1080p capable camera with flash this is an 8 megapixel still camera by the way on the top we've got our headphone a headset jack and our power button and what looks like it might be a little mic at the top on the side we've got our volume rocker now that's over here underneath the index finger on the front it tells you that that's your volume up and down it also doubles as a zoom on the front we have another camera now that is a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera got our main headset speaker there it's also tells you that the power lock and headset are in the front there's our screen on the bottom we have actual real buttons so not Ice Cream Sandwich on this yet we have a search button back home and menu with some verizon branding again this comes off and we'll take that off here in just a little bit we've got our micro USB connector over on the side and our HDMI connector on the side as well so looking at that side that's the only thing that's on that side does have a little bit of a bump out there to accommodate them nice rounded area but since that's down here in your poem you're not going to notice that it's not going to be a problem then of course you've got your voice mic down at the bottom so that's the walk-around of the phone this phone however you'll notice how thick that is relatively let's compare that to the Galaxy Nexus you can see that it's a little bit shorter quite a bit thicker compared it that way in some places about double the thickness all right set the Nexus aside now looking at this the reason it's so thick is it has a slide-out keyboard now that sliding mechanism is a little bit stiff right now part of that is because of this back sheet of plastic which is kind of difficult to remove actually go ahead and take that off and set it aside so you've got a nice mirror finish back there just kind of unusual but that's why you've got that really really sticky protective film on it we'll take the protective film off that front as well and now we've got this keyboard the keys are very responsive and that they have a nice ergonomic lay out some of the other keyboards that we've seen like on the Epic 4G have just a square grid that's kind of hard to get to things it's not that ergonomic this one has a nice layout like that you've even got a directional pad down there as well so overall it looks pretty good we'll see how it behaves let's go ahead and boot it up before the first time push and hold the power button now this is a dual-core processor at 1.2 it does come with Android 2.3.5 which is Gingerbread it's got bluetooth of course Wi-Fi B G and N five row keyboard like we mentioned and of course we expect it to be every bit as good as the previous droids before it the nice Droid logo here in the middle with the Droid audio sound - to welcome you that nice trademarked sound now I'm feeling a few little vibrations from the motor inside of it as it's booting up and this is likely going to take just a minute to get to of course this now at the top we're preparing the internal storage I don't have any external storage but it does accept a 32 gig card go ahead and tap the droid to continue this of course because it's a CDMA phone has to take a little while to activate the phone on the CDMA network sometimes that can take a few minutes other times not I'm gonna go ahead and say okay select my Wi-Fi I'll type in this password using the awesome keyboard and I'll do that off camera here so I've typed in the password and connected and we'll go back to the phone setup now part of the reason I do that is because in my area my Wi-Fi is significantly faster than 4G so I like doing that as it's pulling data down I can get it quicker and without gobbling up my precious data from my carrier now that doesn't really matter if you have an unlimited plan but if you don't want to be throttled you know setting up a phone for the first time usually entails an awful lot of downloads I mean in my case I'm downloading about a hundred apps if they're you know two three megabytes each that's 300 megabytes that died pulling down over my data network so I'm gonna go ahead and let this go and grab a hold of this activate with the verizon network and we'll pick right back there where we left off alright the phone activated and it asked me to restart and now I'm back at the touch the Droid to begin so we'll go ahead and do that add a Google account go ahead and do that as well I'll sign in type in my username with this nice keyboard and with the limited use that I've had of the keyboard I'm relatively impressed with it having a little bit of a hard time finding the the @ symbol and typing off-camera here so nice having a 5th row because you have your numbers up on the top and it's kind of easy to to get that in there so what you're basically accustomed to back up room store we want to go ahead and do that this usually takes just a minute to go through and do hey we've added the Google account we're done we'll hit finish it's now setting up our backup assistant which is something that that the motorola droids have that some other phones do not it's communicating with the server which is taking a little bit of time again where I am I'm connected to 3G with relatively strong bars and full bars on my Wi-Fi are all but full bars just got some new email coming through with the nice trademark droid audio announcement there and it's going through and syncing the rest of my stuff now I really don't want to do this right now so I'm going to skip it it tells me how are you sure you want to yes I want to skip for now you probably don't want to you probably want to go through and set all that up and I recommend it because if you lose your phone then pictures and whatnot you're not going to be able to get back unless you've synced them somewhere I use Google+ to automatically synchronize my pictures up to the cloud but this is something else you could do now we've shown you this on other things like the Droid Razr for example has this account setup screen and it has an awful lot of accounts that you can set up very nice it's all in one place we're not going to set anything up here because it's just input and credentials and that's kind of boring for you to watch but we'll go ahead and continue now next is our privacy caution and data use and this just warns you that hey it's got GPS and stuff in here so you might actually be telling people where you are yeah we kind of know that but it warns you anyway and we'll go ahead and say next to that rural consent to all three of these if it wants to accept that agree agree and agree so all three of the location options so if some videos again we showed you this with the razor you can see a basic setup on how to use your phone video which is really neat kind of a tutorial to show you how to use your phone my a Verizon mobile video and of course just any additional videos go ahead and take a look at that and just see how it looks really quick how to set up bluetooth using the Android Market and web browsing okay great we're not gonna watch any of those we'll go ahead and finish and say done we're getting really close to being able to use our phone for the first time next thing we have is just kind of a brief tutorial it tells you about notifications how they're up here touch and hold and options menu now of course this is something that you can tap and get instructions right there on screen so if you're unfamiliar with that with a Droid or with Android itself you can learn how to use it really quick so there you go I've got everything set up I've got my droid for wallpaper logo really nice scrolling and it's kind of already set up some of my favorite people that I can pull down to show who they are pull up to close again very fast and very fluid so really kind of cool so there's a kind of a hardware walk around in a first boot did take a little bit of time but nothing that we're not accustomed to with a CDMA device like this of course we love the the Droid family and will be impressed to show you the full review and get that all posted up at pocket now in a few days as soon as we have well honestly a few days with the phone in hand so we can tell you how it works in the real world what we like about it what we don't like about it it's pros and cons and whatnot so next video up is going to be a video demo of the camera again 1080p HD video camera in there 8 megapixels still so we'll go ahead and get those pictures posted up to the the YouTube channel as soon as we can for pocket now showing off the Motorola Droid 4 by Verizon I'm at Joe the Android guy