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it seems like rugged is the next big specifications that you're gonna start seeing showing up on your handheld devices today we're going to unbox and do a quick Hardware walk-around of the NEC terrain-following in the trend of durable devices we have a new entrant by NEC this is the NEC terrain and according to the box it's made for real life let's go ahead and crack it open after we do a quick look around the box just it says durable it says rugged to me we'll go ahead and open this up here's the device this is an 88 ante package device so you can see right there it's got nice cover on it don't if you want to open and close the back cover blah blah blah we'll show you a little bit about that later let's look inside the box we'll just lift that out lift the next layer out and dump stuff all over the ground apparently they've got stuff hiding away in these little cubbies here so there's our product safety and warranty statement we've got our AT&T Quick Start Guide we have a terrain made for hard work kind of brochure that has some really really nice-looking pictures of the device close-up kind of sells you the device after you've already bought the device so that's kind of interesting whether or not this is just for us so we can highlight the details or whether this is something you'll get in your box I don't know but we'll cover some of those as well here we've got our NEC branded battery this is three point seven volt 1900 milliamp hour and seven point zero three watt hour according to the specs right there we've also got a wall wart rich charger there set that aside and we'll find what fell on the floor here and that is our USB cable nothing rugged about this it's just your standard USB to micro USB cable so we'll set that aside and let's take a look over here at the phone take this off it looks like we're just gonna slide it out rather than open it up the first thing that I'm noticing this is a very grippy texture this is if really feels quite nice in hand it looks like a regular device with a keyboard on the bottom that's in a case however rather than something that's designed and built all together it's got a nice closed headphone port up there so you can keep the dust and grit and whatnot out of it there is your camera I haven't read the specs on that right let you know what they were open that up there's your micro USB with it's nice intrusion proof gasket power button on the side it's got a nice little recessed a little scalloped here all along this edge in fact all across the bottom where your microphone is and up this other side there's your speaker button another rugged II feeling button and then a volume rocker and then we're back up to the top where I forgot to mention we have your noise cancelling microphone on the back we can use this little lever to either free or lock the battery in place the back cover so we'll go ahead and lift that up and not an easy task to do it's got this gasket to seal all around it does have little contact points here for antennas or something that's that's back here your SIM if I can get to it is way up in here a little pull handle there to get it out this one's already Friedan pretty installed because it is our review unit we'd like to thank NEC for sending this out to us and letting us take a look at it for you you also have a micro SD card slot right over here that this unit does not have anything in but it should be relatively easy to get to here you've got contacts for the the back plate and then contacts for the battery so let's go ahead and place the battery in the phone make sure I'm getting this the the right way don't pet it right first time we'll just set it down there it fits relatively well can't help but notice there's a lot of empty space all around the battery might be nice if they filled that up with battery but 1800 milliamp hours seems a little bit small and go ahead and push that gasket down will switch that switch over to lock and now let's power this up I've got the AT&T logo here we've got the NAC logo on first boot I've got a vibration there as well more AT&T logo information now while we're waiting for that to boot these keys feel very very nice and a one complaint that a lot of people out in the field have is you know they might have dirty fingers and touching on that screen it's just gross you know you've got dirt and grit and whatever on your fingers you don't want to get that on your screen or it's not easy to get recognition as guys who work computers all day we have clean fingers but if you're working out in the field and construction you know you might not hear it says we need to tap twice don't know why that is but let's go ahead and unlock different kind of an unlocker right there once we get in there we've got a relatively small screen but it looks fairly stock Android like let's go ahead and take a look over here in our settings a little bit different in here and we'll come down to about phone all the way the bottom the version that this comes with is Android version 4.0.4 that's Ice Cream Sandwich and we'll go back very small buttons down here I would have expected these buttons to be there a little bit bigger or capacitive down in this area but you know you got to make some concessions when you're talking about making it durable phone so there's a first look at hardware walk-around of the NAC terrain now I'm gonna use this as my daily driver for the next few days and come back with another video so I can show you guys a little bit more about the software how it looks how it performs and how it stacks up against some of the other rugged devices that we showed you just recently if you missed those make sure you click one of these links over here so you can see Michael Fisher's video talking all about some very rugged very cool devices as well if you like what you saw here please give the video a thumbs up make sure you share this with your friends on all your social media we're there you should be too 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