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hey everybody its Michael Fisher with pocketnow.com and let it never be said that we don't cover Lumias particularly in the 800th series we've already reviewed the Nokia Lumia 810 for t-mobile USA we just finished our quick review of the Nokia Lumia 822 for Verizon Wireless and now we have the original version almost it's the AT&T version of the Nokia Lumia 820 we're going to give this device the quick review treatment as well but first we're going to unbox it give you a little hardware tour and give it its first boot I'm Michael Fisher this is PocketNow let's get to it so starting with the packaging we're not looking at anything different here from AT&T this is a mid-range device and it is in the same box as their low-end devices as their high-end devices as everything 80 very economical as far as packaging goes open up the flap there we have a quick start guide as well as a welcome to AT&T greeting we're greeted front and center by the device device still a little chilly from being in the FedEx truck we can put that aside this is a special NFC tag from Nokia telling us to touch the upper back of our phone to it to discover more Windows Phone apps this is a familiar card from our Lumia 920 unboxing telling us more about our phones features product and safety information the usual wall charger and USB cable and separately packaged removable battery in a very thin form factor very interesting this battery rating 1650 milliamp hours the 820 features a very interesting release mechanism for taking the back cover off you just pull this tab as it instructs you to and you can see the device well device is supposed to part yeah jeez I'm probably doing this very wrong but pull toward you to release cover than this boat yeah won't pulled it what woody what you're supposed to cement the phone down on your desk when you pull it toward you there's nothing else to hold on to pull toward you I see there we go okay well that was a little more dramatic than it needed to be but here's the back cover off of the device first things first though we want to make sure our SIM card is in place we're going to head and pop that in right there we'll go ahead and skip the microSD for now sim card clicks in with a reassuring mechanical spring back pop the battery in and let's see if we can get this case back on with a minimum of drama after we discard the word of warning here as we just found out the battery when it is inserted does not lock in without the cover in place just pops right back out of the phone there when you turn upside down so you do want to be careful about that let's go ahead and remove this quick pull sticker here and put the cover back on hopefully with a minimum of drama good cover snaps back on hugs the sides of the device tightly very nice and why don't we go ahead and get that screen protector off and if you've just trimmed your nails this can be difficult but let's go ahead and pull that screen protector right off of there very nice going on a little hardware tour of our all-black Nokia Lumia 820 up front here is a 4.3 inch AMOLED display with Nokia's clear black technology that has packin a resolution of 800 by 480 pixels down below the capacitive windows buttons for home back and search up above a little difficult to see the branding for AT&T and Nokia and the front-facing camera there on the right the typical Windows Phone buttons volume down volume up power and the two-stage camera key pretty good feedback right off the bat will tell you that's a little mushy err of a 2-stage key than we've had on some of the 820 s variants coming around to the back absolutely unadorned on this cover that is something you don't see very often usually there's some carrier branding back here are some additional Nokia branding nothing just the Carl Zeiss call out on that 8 megapixel camera there along the side not much going on just the headphone jack up top and along the bottom the microUSB port and a slot for the speakerphone unlike some other carrier variants of the 820 this one is relatively sleek it's nine point nine millimeters thin and it weighs 160 grams so rather than being a thick lightweight device this is a relatively thin somewhat heavyweight device which is an interesting change and it's a little surprising to feel after the 822 and 810 both of which felt very different in the hand we're going to wait for the quick review video and the comparison videos for some more in-depth thoughts on the build quality but for now let's go ahead and wrap this up by giving the device its first power on 1/2 there's our little confirmation vibration there the 18t splash screen is here and while this boots up we'll just call out the processor that will be familiar to anyone who follows the Nokia Lumia brand in the 800 series this is a Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 clocked at 1.5 gigahertz and backed up by a gig of ram there's 8 gigs of on-board storage expandable via microSD maximum size there are 64 gigs and we are being welcomed to our new Windows Phone we're going to go through the bevy of custom settings on our own here and turn this phone into our daily driver for a couple days get some more impressions for now this is the Nokia Lumia 820 for AT&T as I mentioned at the top this is only the first of several videos covering the Nokia Lumia 820 so stay tuned to pocket now and also stay tuned for our quick review treatment of this device follow us on Twitter so you don't miss it pocket now tweets is the official account if you'd like to follow me I'm at captain 2 phones that's captain the number two phones leave us a thumbs up here on YouTube if you like what you saw if you want to leave a comment do it but do it at pocketnow.com so we can get back to you if that's what you want in the meantime thank you for watching have a nice weekend we'll talk to you soon