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hey guys it's Branham in a minute from pocketnow.com in this video we're going to talk about the hardware on the HP pre three the best webOS smartphone that you can buy right now let's get to it so again as you know the pre three is the last smartphone HP is going to make with webOS that doesn't mean that there won't be any more webOS devices out there it just means that HP is not going to be making them and it's the best smartphone yet to run webOS it's got a 1.4 gigahertz clock on Snapdragon single core processor I wish it were doing four we've got 512 megabytes of RAM we've got a 3.6 inch larger screen finally WVGA they didn't push a well beyond that just keeping with sort of that high inspect of 800 down by 480 across which is much better than all previous webOS devices which were only hvga were even less in the case of the beer the design is relatively boring actually it's it looks just like a pre - just a little taller it even looks a little bit like the pre plus so there's sort of the family of devices you know it's a pre which is kind of a problem the original pre came out in 2009 and the pre 3 just looks like a stretched-out pre and so at that point you start thinking well this device could really use a refresh but they didn't do that with the pre 3 they kept it with the same design and if we go next to the the vir 4G on AT&T they're almost identical here except the ones much bigger than the other now what they did with the pre 3 because the device is larger is that they could make the keyboard better or or bigger and it'll turn off the screen we're going to talk about how the 8 the WVGA resolution impacts webOS because we haven't yet seen WVGA on a webOS device so if we compare the keyboard on the pre 3 with the veer there's no contest you could probably fit to veer keyboards in the pre 3 and chase needs to be snapped there if we compare it to the pre 2 you'll notice that even then the keys are smaller so you get the best keyboard biggest keyboard on the pre three which really makes for a great typing experience there is a good amount of tactile feedback it makes kind of a clicky sound it's a pretty good keyboard but there still is no on-screen keyboard in this version of webOS it's 2.2 so if you want to tap out a quick email or text message without sliding open the slider you can't do that yet alright so let's move around the device here okay so starting off up here we've got the yes the speaker there to the right that's not a front-facing camera it's a light sensor you also have a proximity sensor up here we've got this 3.6 inch capacitive multi-touch display again it's WVGA resolution that's 800 down by 480 across down here on the bottom we've got the little capacitive button there that will also serve as a notification if you have a new email or whatnot if we flip over to the side we get a soft touch of rubber stop soft touch plastic actually covering the sides and the back which makes it feel sturdy in hand have a volume rocker adored and chrome on the left side nothing on the bottom there is the charging port for the micro USB of course this is touchstone compatible if you like to get your inductive charging on and then on the top here in the upper right corner same location is all webOS devices power standby and of course from the days of the trio the palm days we have the quick way to silence the the ringer there now over on the back like the pretty - we do have a flash with the camera this time it's been bumped to 5 megapixels we have a speaker on the bottom and a nice HP logo interestingly the pre - even though it came after the HP acquisition had the palm logo on the back so now they're full HP but again it doesn't really matter because they're not going to be making anymore webOS hardware we can pop off the back battery cover and see what we've got underneath we've got a SIM card slot of course now this particular model this is the UK model has the band's necessary to do 3G in the US on AT&T when we did the unboxing we didn't realise that but if you import this phone if you really want the pre 3 you can put in your AT&T SIM card and boom you've got 3G so it can pop out the battery here and take a look at the capacity it is twelve hundred and thirty million powers will do further tests on battery like to determine how good the battery life is now that they've got a larger screen to power on the pre three and you're not going to find a microSD slot the pre three has eight gigabytes of built-in storage really not enough these days but certainly is for some people who don't put that many apps and that many pictures on their device it will be enough so pop back in the battery but the battery cover back on so there aren't any surprises with the hardware on the HP pre three it is what you've come to expect from from webOS or from HP and that's kind of one of the problems with it with the whole platform in general they're they they don't exceed expectations ever since poem came out with the product in 2009 it hasn't involved that much beyond what it is today which is a big problem webOS needs a company that can iterate faster that can come out with hardware that doesn't just sort of meet the the specifications of a device six months ago but exceeds what we think is possible right now when it's released this device was first talked about at CES or a little bit around that time and by the time it came out in the summer of 2011 it's just not interesting anymore and that's sort of one of the problems with the pre three which isn't to say it's a bad phone if you want to get one for yourself you can get one at cloak topcoat UK stocks are dwindling prices are actually going down they started off around 500 bucks and now they're in the 400s and again this is the unlocked version UK version that happens to work on a TN t--'s 3G network if you want a pre three so leave us a comment let us know what you think about the free three are you going to get one or is this totally off your radar and if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and of course thank you for watching that's it for now