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hey guys it's brandon in a minute from pocket now calm and in this video we're going to review the hardware of the samsung focus on AT&T this is one of the first Windows Phone 7 devices to come out let's take a look so this device is slated towards people that want a big screen maybe not as big as the HTC hd7 on t-mobile but something substantial this is a 4-inch screen a very good size the same size screen that is used on the Galaxy S devices in fact it's the same screen as the Super AMOLED 800 x 480 display so let's walk around the device a little bit and see what we have we've got this flush panel here with these buttons down here on the bottom the required Windows Phone 7 buttons so that's the start button the search button and the back button every Windows Phone 7 device will have these three buttons up here we've got of course the speaker grow and if you look closely a proximity sensor and a light sensor no front-facing camera Windows Phone 7 in its current form does not support front-facing cameras now if you look at the screen in the right light it actually looks a little bit blue and this is the same effect that we got on the samsung captivate and we're going to talk about that in a minute it's using again the same screen the Super AMOLED screen four inches diagonal 800 x 480 resolution it looks really really good and it's super responsive turning over to the side the sides are adorned in nice chrome typical of an AT&T device we have this chrome strip that gets skinnier and skinnier as it goes down and stops towards the bottom volume rocker nicely placed along the side here on the bottom is the microphone and here's a little bit of a and allege that you can put your finger nail into to take off the back battery cover we'll talk about that in a second here's the dough action camera button that is required on all windows phone 7 devices and what's cool about Windows Phone 7 is that you can launch the camera application without unlocking the device so if I want to take a quick picture I tap and hold the phone vibrates and it launches into the camera application we can take some picture of the desk not so fun but very very handy feature in fact I've used it many times walking down the street I see a nice tree fall foliage want to take a picture don't want to unlock the device open the camera app asian one touch here get you there here is the standby button over on the top we have 3.5 millimeter headphone jack for audio and of course we have the micro USB port here for syncing and charging behind a little battery door some people like doors some people don't I think it's a nice touch to keep it clean now one bit of concern here with this flat panel on the front this flush panel of course it picks up fingerprints as you're seeing now but I'm starting to get a little bit of dust accumulation around the edges of the screen and some devices with flush screens can pull this off without accumulating Dustin some can't it looks like unfortunately the samsung focus is one of those devices you're gonna have to keep clean a lot and keep away from pocket length if you don't want the the edges to accumulate with dust so just a little note there let's go over to the back here we have the 5 megapixel camera with the single LED flash there's the speaker grill for the speakerphone have a really nice contour on the back this is really cool it's kind of a sliver design where it tapers down towards the sides and you get this nice little almost a racing stripe very cool we have the Windows Phone branding and let's pop off the back battery cover now the samsung focus is among the very few devices out there for that is running windows phone 7 that will have removable storage but it's not removable storage in the traditional sense you can't one day decide that you want to add more memory if you want to add more memory it's going to hard reset your phone you're going to have to start over from the beginning the reason being that Windows Phone 7 merges external storage with internal storage and the samsung focus has 8 gigabytes of internal so if you had a 16 gigabyte card it adds the 16 and the eight and puts that all together which is very nice because you can expand your storage but it's also a little bit a little bit misleading because you can't just hot swap your cards if you want to add a larger movie and you're taking a trip across the country on a plane for example but again it's nice to have that feature so here we've got a little notification that says stop and read the Quick Start Guide because they don't want you to hard reset your phone accidentally and here of course is a sim card holder here's the battery it looks to be the exact same battery as the samsung captivate the galaxy s devices around 1500 milliamp hours now in terms of specs the samsung focus is running the Qualcomm Snapdragon one gigahertz processor the same CPU that we're seeing in all of the windows phones out of the launch devices again it comes in at one gigahertz it's very fast the phone only has 256 megabytes of RAM compared to the galaxy s devices which are around 512 now the samsung focus when we went to New York City's felt like one of the fastest Windows Phone 7 devices despite having less Ram so don't let that 256 number to tell you because it really doesn't matter that much it's a very very fast device and the screen is super responsive coupled with the software to make it feel very very fast so let's take a look at the samsung focus next to the samsung captivate they both have the same exact screen in fact if we turn it on you're going to see that same level of really really high contrast and I know it's hard to compare apples to oranges here because you're looking at different things but just kind of get a sense for the clarity of both of these screens is just tremendous the Super AMOLED screen has really really good outdoor visibility really good contrast the colors are explosive compared to standard LCD technology and it looks just really really good now the samsung captivate on the left here is actually a little bit thinner than the Samsung Focus in fact the captivate is probably one of the thinnest devices on the planet and its really nice because what they do is they have a little ledge here it goes down and you feel this part which is super thin about nine millimeters well the focus is about 9.5 millimeters but you do tell a difference between the two it's very clear that the captivate is thinner and everything else is in the same exact spot coincidentally so on the left side volume rockers over there the button for standby is the same the captivate doesn't have a of course camera button here and on the top everything is the same year it's basically the same device but running Windows Phone 7 a different processor and a little bit less ram but that's not a bad thing to samsung captivate is an awesome awesome phone in terms of the hardware in terms of good quality Samsung did a really good job the only sticking point again is that some dust may be accumulating on the sides of the screen long term but in hand the device feels solid it feels high-end even though it doesn't make use of any real metal everything you see here is plastic unfortunately even this ring around the camera this screen is glass obviously it feels very very firm a lot firmer than you'll get on other phones that run Android or even some of the other windows phone 7 devices that was one of the things we liked best about the focus was the feel of the screen it's just tremendously sensitive sensitive and it requires an extremely light touch to operate so a very very high quality screen a very high quality feel in hand and overall a really good device in terms of hardware they did a great job at making this into a slick sleek-looking Windows Phone 7 device so that's it for now if you liked the video please give it a thumbs up and be sure to check pocketnow.com for smartphone news and reviews that's it for 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