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hey everyone it's jeff arena with pocket now calm and one of the devices that's been stealing a lot of the spotlight lately is a samsung device it's available on verizon and that is the samsung continuum so let's go ahead and unbox it and we're back with a nice view of the samsung Continuum's box now as you can see here it is a galaxy s phone that one really cool thing about this device is it actually incorporates a second screening or a ticker if you will which we will take a look at further and one of our software overviews but just come taking a quick look around the box just to hear containing the package is going to be the device itself a pre-installed eight gig micro SD card the wall charger battery warranty information and all that fun stuff so let's go ahead and get this guy open now we have the actual Samsung continuum device here we're going to add and put it aside real quickly and we're going to jump right into the box itself first up we're going to have the USB sync which is a micro USB so it is good to see that almost all if not all the Android devices are now using the micro USB you're going to have the wall adapter which will give you the option to plug in that sync cable there lithium-ion battery which looks like it's going to be a 1,500 milliamp hour battery and then we're going to have the actual manual tips hints and shortcuts so let's actually go ahead and put the battery or in the device itself get it booted up and we'll take a quick look at how it first appears when you turn on for the very first time okay and we have now booted up the device and as you'll see here it's loading the typical samsung galaxy s logo the verizon logo pops up was really cool was that ticker was actually animated the entire time and that's going to actually display the clock down here for us it shows a lock symbol so that's actually a kind of a dual notification system will actually go ahead and get this device unlock now this is the first time we've actually turned it on this is a raw setup which we're going to skip for now and once again that was the backup assistant and we'll also skip the Google setup is for the time being we want to give you quick look at the actual device it does give you some tips on how to actually use it it's basically going to show notifications which are going to involve email SMS updates messages instant messages voicemail RSS feeds etc in the future on that ticker screen once again we're going to skip through all of this here just so we can get to the home screen right off the bat we're going to see a typical samsung touchwiz style interface as far as the menu system goes which will let us scroll left fry it's going to give us the seven home screens at least default right now we're in the middle you can see these dots up here we can scroll to the left three screens and to the right three screens as well as typical fashion a lot of the devices now becoming pre-populated with different widgets and applications we will give you a further look at the software this device in a future video but for now this is just a quick look at how it actually appears when you first turn it on ticker and all that will be one of the very cool things are going to actually take a look at is going to be that ticker and we'll show you how it actually works in a real world use case scenario so as always thank you very much for watching everyone if you've liked this video please give it a thumbs up and make sure you stay tuned for our future coverage of the Samsung continuum from Verizon Wireless thanks everyone