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I want to see the first Samsung built windows phone 8 device for America yeah you do ok so this is the atif Odyssey for Verizon Wireless we reviewed its high-end sibling the atif s last month but Samsung hasn't been able to get that one on to retail shelves in America yet so the mid-range atif Odyssey here is actually the first Samsung windows phone 8 device to see a stateside release let's have a look in the back of the box here it gives us a little spoiler as to what might be inside that's very nice let's pop up in the box it is very cold in the northeastern United States right now there's the attivo de sea and it was so cold when I took it out of the FedEx truck that it was actually in a in a reboot loop so we've let it warm up a little bit also the screen protector came off there so I placed it gingerly back on so we can have our little moment of pleasure pop open the box itself here's the battery which is still still cool to the touch here is a USB cable here is that Samsung uniquely shaped Samsung wall charger a start here a guide and I believe that's going to be the end of the box materials so let's go ahead and pull the screen protector right off you're here beautiful sound beautiful field there's that display that is a 4 inch Super AMOLED display at 480 x 800 resulting in a pixel density of 233 PPI you can see the windows phone buttons down below to explore the sides a little bit power standby button is all the way up here under the thumb this is the multistage camera key which feels a lot like it does on the t VES coming around to the other side volume down volume up the hatch for the microSD card more on that in a second and we'll hop on back to the back here this is a 5 megapixel primary shooter capable of 1080p video recording the battery is under a removable door obviously since it's over there door does not feel as flimsy as on any other Samsung device that really beefed it up here obviously not afraid about thickening up this already somewhat chunky phone go ahead and pop the battery in there's our verizon sim card right there underneath is the predictable Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 o'clock at 1.5 gigahertz backed up by a single gig of ram 8 gigs of on-board storage but that is expandable via the microSD card we saw before go ahead and peel this back protector off so we can take a look at the texture on the back very very familiar much more akin to the sticky much more akin to the galaxy s3 or galaxy note 2 on the back here this is not the achieve esas polished metal more like the the hairline finish on the s3 and the note 2 coming back around to the front we've already got some fingerprints going on but let's go ahead and give it a first power on here 12 got some reassuring vibration there there's our Windows Phone splash screen up above of course we have the front-facing camera on proximity sensors here and once again looks like the same earpiece as used on the galaxy s3 and the note 2 there's our samsung mobile splash screen with samsung's website address down below device feels pretty good in the hand actually it we handled this before we handle this at CES cos samsung was nice stuff to show us a pre-production model there it conforms very nicely to the palm because it's not afraid once again to be a thick device there we go we didn't get this far before this verizon splash screen and welcome to your achieve odyssey wonderful wonderful stuff guys that's going to wrap it up for our unboxing and quick hardware toward the Samsung at Eve Odyssey stay tuned for a lot more including comparison videos we're going to do a comparison with UTS and of course our full review coming very shortly follow us at all the usual spots down in the description below thank you for watching throw us a like if you liked the video we'll see you later you