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hey guys it's brandon minimun front pocket now the samsung focus is one of the first Windows Phone 7 devices and it represented the platform very well it was thin it was light it had a speedy CPU it had a beautiful super amoled display it was based off of the galaxy s at the time and overall it really provided a fantastically fluid and smooth experience that help people fall in love with Windows Phone and so it's no wonder that Samsung is doing a successor to the focus the focus too but this time the focus has LTE a faster cpu and a new design in this video we're going to unbox the samsung focus to on windows phone 7.5 so let's get to it all right and here's the box and it comes in white and we're going to take a look at the specs as mentioned it as LTE the original Samsung Focus did not have LTE right now you'll be hard-pressed to find an area with AT&T LTE they're building out the network but fortunately they have that really fast hspa+ fallback speed so you're always getting pretty fast download and upload speeds with this phone the processor is a single core snapdragon 1.4 gigahertz so technically 400 megahertz faster than what you get on the original focus this is actually the same ship used in the Lumia 900 so performance should be quite good at 512 megabytes of RAM eight gigs of storage space for inch Super AMOLED screen as wvga resolution so the pixel density will be better than the Lumia 900 because it's a smaller screen but it's still not going to be sharp and as Chris pets as some of those higher android phones out there like the One X so let's open up the box and see what we have and of course texting and driving can wait we know that don't text and drive and see if we have any interesting accessories white headphones to match the white color of the phone and nice little tiny samsung charger let's move them out of the way and take a look at the new focus too feels very plastic in hand just like the original but that's okay plastic texture kind of usually means that going to be a lightweight phone in fact this actually feels a little heavier than the original focus curious to how it looks next to the original focus it looks sharper and cleaner definitely definitely more grown up there about the same size they have the same size screen a some might argue that the black looks a little bit more slick but white is is the the color of the day here in the in the smartphone industry we've got that silver strip going all the way around kind of a design cue from the original but interestingly it appears on the back which is a nice touch it really is I both have five megapixel cameras and of course Windows Phone as that dedicated camera key which makes it quick and easy to take pictures ok let's start off we'll do a quick web browsing tour to see if there's much of a difference between going from 1 gigahertz to 1.4 gigahertz on a similar kind of configuration all right here we go we've got both devices turned on the focus to and the focus on the right both are clean of any user data they're both on the same Wi-Fi network and they're actually running different software versions we've got windows phone mango on the focus to Windows Phone 7.5 and we're running with Windows Phone 7 not 7.5 on the focus the reason we're doing that in this test because we want to see how far the hardware and the software has come since about two years ago when the original focus was released will do future videos where we compared the focus to with another mango device like the Lumia 900 so keep an eye out for that so let's kind of move around in the operating system and take a look at the hardware the screens look pretty much identical that's because they are identical both sumer Super AMOLED panels wvga resolution and things just pretty much look the same I can't tell a difference between the contrast they're both saw set on default brightness right now let's go over to Internet Explorer and launch that okay so definitely the focus to was faster and getting to the web so we're going to go to pocketnow.com okay the address is in let's press the button will probably be asked to choose between the mobile site or the desktop site we're just going to go full throttle here on the desktop site to see which of these guys goes faster ready set go it looks like the focus to is getting their first and the focus is a little far behind we're going to let it load in the word move around the page and see if there's a perceptible difference in the performance because we've got the faster processor on the focus too so while the focus is is rounding what's going to pinch around windows phone always is very buttery smooth in the browser especially with the latest and greatest single core Snapdragon very smooth flip down the page it's quite good we got a little blank out there for a sec zooming and panning is good let's go to another page a little delay there a lot smoother here on the focus to naturally and that's the way it should be two years later and let's see if we can get this to kick out the next page and they're off it's actually pretty amazing how much of a delay there is between these two devices definitely much better performance on the focus to which we want to see with a faster processor and the latest software so we've got a lot more coming up on the Samsung Focus to its an LTE phone and it's pretty cheap too it only fifty dollars pretty amazing how inexpensive the latest and greatest smart phones have become first impressions it feels very slippery very slippery in hand it also feels very kind of shared looks very shiny which is nice and it's white so it's not going to pick up fingerprints too much but definitely a plasticky phone which also means it's a light phone it's a quite thin but definitely doesn't feel as thin as the original focus so if you're upgrading don't expect this to be a thinner phone if anything it's a little bit thicker it's got that lovely LTE radio in there if you're lucky enough to have LTE in your area otherwise you've got the hspa+ fall back so if you liked this video give us a thumbs up and if you want to know something specific about the samsung focus to drop a comment and we'll do our best to answer your question that's it for now