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hey everyone it's geoffrey de with pocket now calm and our initial unboxing video of the samsung transform we were able to give you a brief look at the actual hardware of this device well in this video we're going to go deeper and get the nitty gritty and some of the hard specs of what makes up the samsung transform we're also going to compare it side-by-side to at the end of the video to the big brother the samsung epic 4g so let's begin all right now the first thing you're going to see when you look at the samsung transform is actually a front facing camera here right above the Sprint logo and toward the bottom you're going to see your standard for capacitive android buttons that is your menu home back and search key now moving right on to the side here the right side we're going to see a dedicated camera button which is always a nice addition to have because that makes taking pictures on a touchscreen much easier we're going to have a dedicated voice activated or command voice command button moving on from there you're going to have your power / lock screen switch the top of the device will have your 3.5 inch or a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and you're going to have what samsung is kind of started to include now on every device which is actually very cool it is a sliding mechanism door for the micro USB port and what that basically means you're not going to damage that port because you're actually at protection now as you see there it actually clicks into place moving to the left side of the device you're going to of course have your volume rocker up and down it's going to do it for that side and the bottom will have your mic port as well as actually a little spot where you can put your fingernail in to get to the battery which we will see next before we do look at that though we want to actually flip over to the back of the device and you'll see a 3 megapixel camera with an LED flash this of course has the sliding keyboard which makes us a different alternative from some of the other touchscreen devices that are on spring and the other carriers out there now as you'll see the keys are very evenly spaced and they're actually a soft key it's almost like a gel but it does provide a good amount of tactile feedback it does click with every key that you hit so you do get that feedback that it is in fact working now before we do take off the battery the last thing we want to talk about here is actually the screen it is a 3.5 inch screen with a resolution of 320 x 480 and that is an LCD screen it's not a super amoled or anything too special in that case but it's not the bottom of the barrel now lastly it does also have a 800 megahertz processor as well as 256 megabytes of RAM and 512 megabytes of ROM now it's going to get to the battery by actually prying off that back panel there you're going to see your typical Samsung 1,500 milliamp hour battery which will actually provide you at least of what it's rated to provide you is six hours talktime as well as 350 hours standby time then let's does have a microSD port this will come with a 2 gigabyte microSD card included but it's compatible up to a 32 gigabyte microSD card lastly as far as the connectivity options go you're going to have the bluetooth 3.0 that's going to be there as well as Wi-Fi be Angie so the typical connectivity options are here with this device now the device weighs actually five point three seven ounces which is actually hundred fifty two grams if you're able to convert that very quickly which is much smaller than the samsung epic 4g we actually have a 4g here with us we can do a direct comparison so what we'll do is we'll actually zoom out here a little bit and bring the samsung epic 4g in side-by-side now the epic 4g is the bigger brother to this device it has a faster processor it also has the 4g hence the name and the first thing you're going to notice is actually the screen difference here this screen is actually a black or a blue or this is the typical almost like a graphite appearance and that is because this is an LCD screen where's this is a super amoled screen but where the transform really shines is actually going to be just in the overall size in terms of the thickness it's very tough to tell here but they are actually pretty much right on par the transformer is actually a little smaller than the epic 4g now of course these size is a very different story so if you're looking for a smaller device when it's easier to hold in the hand is not going to take up too much space in your pocket the transformer is definitely a viable alternative in that case but will do actually slide open these keyboards and show you the two different differences in the keyboards and as you can see they're the top keyboard is going to be your epic 4g so it has the extra row whereas the bottom will have the transforms keyboard now looking at these two side-by-side it's actually somewhat easier to type on the transform only because those keys are a little recessed so it makes it harder to have a typo as well as you get that softer appearance so your fingers will actually grip to the keys whereas these are of hard plastic on the epic 4g now in terms of these screens of course these are both capacitive screens these are actually both set on automatic brightness right now one thing you're going to notice is that the epic 4g is a much brighter screen now what we have found is that the epic 4g is also a more responsive screen it tends to be a little difficult here to actually get you know exact details with the screen sometimes scrolling through will actually render a false click on some of the different shortcuts so this has been our hardware overview of the samsung transform as well as the direct comparison to its bigger brother the samsung epic 4g as always thank you very much for watching everyone our next video will actually be the software overview part 2 we're actually going to compare some of the browser test speeds as well as the YouTube application speeds to the epic 4g here as always please give us a thumbs up if you liked this video and stay tuned for the next