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hey guys it's Branham in a min from pocketnow.com you know many agree that the web OS operating system is a shining star in the smartphone industry it's just been sort of underutilized in hardware that hasn't been so great which is one of the reasons that people really applauded HP's move to buy palm because now HP with their vast resources can really invest in webos and they're doing just that we're going to have webOS tablets new webos devices heck maybe webOS printers so there's a very bright future for webos and in this video we did an opportunity to review the palm pre 2 we just wanted to talk about it we may or may not do a full review because the phone has been out for a couple of months but wanted to take a look at it and give you a different perspective on it to see how webos 2.0 the new software and the new hardware comes together to create a new smartphone experience let's get to the unboxing okay and this is the unlocked version that will work on a TNT's 3g network so I'm just going to rip this open here and dive into here it's also no secret that verizon is going to be getting this device soon so here it is the palm pre to packaging is very similar to the earlier palm devices let's see what we get here palm to smartphone battery yep okay let's open this up really cool packaging here for the palm pre you don't actually have the little tilting area here there you can set it on that slant but pretty cool box nonetheless very minimal design changes between the palm pre 2 and the palm pre plus and the palm pre we're going to compare it to the palm pre plus in a minute so I can already tell you off the bet you've got a much flatter screen here hopefully the build quality is superior to the palm pre plus because it really wasn't that great I've got some information here packaging isn't as fun really basic stuff here I mean I don't even see headphones just uh just a pamphlet so pretty basic that's alright saving on packaging keep the world green alright so let's take a look at the palm pre too so it's got the same smallish screen kind of low resolution so it's 480 down by 3 20 across you know hewlett-packard has come out to say that there are going to be higher resolution web OS devices with different form factors coming out soon which we're really looking forward to I'd be nice to have a slate like webos device with an on-screen keyboard so if you're we've got the slide-out keyboard keyboard looks identical to the let's see the palm pre plus the mechanism feels a little bit more secure let's get a closer look at these keyboards got the new one on the right and then we've got the legacy sort of legacy palm pre plus on the left so they look about the same keyboard feel is about the same the hinge like I said feels a little bit upgraded it's kind of cool to have this flat screen they're kind of unusual and of course this is compatible with a touchstone inductive charger flipping over the back here pretty much I'd go back here identical there I mean it pretty much tells the story here these are very similar devices let's pop off the back battery cover and take a look at what we have back there without ripping okay so we've got the touchstone mechanism there we've got a battery which is of size interesting that it came already installed ok so it's 1150 milliamp hours really hoping that this has much better battery life the original pre had horrible battery life the pre plus a slightly better battery life and now hopefully with the palm pre 2 we get battery life that can last through the day with heavy usage now of course this has a much faster processor 1 gigahertz kind of giving more power to webos which really needs more power because it's such a visually intense operating system with awesome cards that you flip through things like that there is your slot for the sim card we're gonna pop in a sim card I'm going to use it for a few days and come back on camera and talk about experience here with the the new palm pre to select this video please give it a thumbs up and if you want to see even more about the palm pre to let us know if you're still interested in this device and we'll be sure to cover it in its full glory thanks for watching