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hey guys it's Brad a Minutemen from pocketnow.com what did he get when you take a Samsung Galaxy S smartphone and you add 4G connectivity and a slide-out keyboard you get the Sprint's Epic 4G and in this video we're gonna unbox it it's finally here let's get to it all right and this very well could be the most impressive Galaxy S smartphone yet this could be the phone to get of 2010 let's get to the unboxing it's a big box and inside there is a small box so we'll put that to the side and here is the box for the Epic 4G this is the second 4G smartphone in America the first was of course the Evo 4G had a 4.3 inch display let's see what we have on the box we've got some icons for Twitter little Android guy galaxy s smartphone 4G the keyboard looks really great really great let's look around the box and see what we have here Super AMOLED got the sprint colors on the back the bright orange or bright yellow inside the box we get the battery AC charger no case or anything like that okay well let's just get right to the unboxing here I'm gonna lift off the lid and here it is introducing the Samsung Epic 4G Galaxy S smartphone with a stunning Super AMOLED display I'll put that aside just for a second I'm sure the accessories are standard fare inside here we've got a lot of heaviness inside this looks like a large manual for the for the device and of course if you don't have 4G in your area the epic 4G will work on 3G just like the Evo so nothing terribly interesting in there we've got some headphones and where is the battery the battery is probably already inside the device looks like it actually comes with an SD adapter that's kind of rare so it's a micro SD to SD adapter from Samsung so that you can plug it into your computer or your laptop anyhow let's take a look at the epic 4G it's already feeling quite thin and you know devices with slide-out keyboard can be thick but this is actually very thin can't wait to peel this off Wow gorgeous the front is just completely black unless you tilts it you can't even see the screen it looks very futuristic very much different than the other Galaxy S variants that are out there so let's take off as much plastic as possible so you can really get a sense for how this device looks and feels let's take a look at this keyboard spring-assisted fantastic always nice to have very very thin profile compared to some other devices we're gonna compare this with in a second see how this keyboard feels medium click enos not terribly clicky but it's got a lot of bounce to it so the keys bounce back and really quick very large size keyboard well balanced and weighted but the front is just what's really impressive it doesn't look like a slide-out keyboard device if you look at it from the side because it's so thin in fact if we compare it to the Droid 2 which has a smaller screen 3.7 inches the thickness difference is is really apparent here and let's take a look at the keyboards how they compare and of course the Droid 2 doesn't have a sprint assistant keyboard so it'll stop in the center like that so let's take a look at how these keyboards compare the keyboard on the Epic 4G is definitely bigger the keys are spaced apart more but they're arranged in a grid like fashion which may bother some people that that are concerned with ergonomic s' let's try to turn this on for the first time as we continue to do comparisons not sure if the battery is and I think it is and here's the power button on the side there it goes turning on so let's compare this to some other devices here is next to the good old Google Nexus One which has a smaller screen I can tell you the screen on the Epic 4G is incredible on all the galaxy s devices the Super AMOLED display is just fantastic okay so here we are we'll just do a little first time setup here so it looks like to unlock we just slide that up and we get the the usual galaxy s interface so we can have up to seven home screens but we can remove them if we want super buttery smooth interface with a hummingbird platform we've got this interesting arrangement of icons that we can change to a variety of things we can customize that and right now it's updating the setting so that I can get a a signal curious to see if I get 4 GU right here typically there is 4G around my apartment so we'll give that a couple of minutes turn off the screen won't allow the screen to shut off let's compare it to the HTC Touch pro2 another slide-out qwerty device and of course the screen on the epic 4G is indeed bigger one of the larger screen size is four four inches let's compare the keyboards so on the touch pro2 we get keys that are offset and kind of rectangular whereas on the epic 4g they are square let's see if anything's happening yet not yet it's still thinking we'll come back in a second and see if we're getting 4G okay now for G wasn't enabled by default so I had to go into the settings menu and turn it on and now it's saying 4G net Network disconnected another way you can access the 4G setting is of course through this pulldown window shade here so it looks like I'm on 4G right now kind of a low signal and now it's sort of bouncing back and forth let's jump into the web real quick and see if we can see some 4G speeds here although it looks like this is a low signal area to get the 4G because it's obviously going in and out so slide open the keyboard super smooth slide out I'm curious to see how this keyboard feels after using it for a while first impressions us is that it feels really fantastic has a really great smoothness about it and I'm not even connected to the internet here maybe it's because I mistyped the address okay here we go this is over 3G but just want to demonstrate the the speed over 3G and then we're gonna cut out and come back in another video talking about the software and the hardware and really all the cool stuff that Sprint Epic 4G has to offer now what's interesting is that the Android buttons aren't really visible over here you can't really see are they gonna light up hmm that is up there they are that's really odd actually that you can't see the buttons unless they're illuminated so when the device is off and this is why the device looks kind of cool from the front you don't see the buttons you only see the buttons when you turn on the device and they become illuminated a pretty cool effect to really give this device a clean look from the front as you can tell we're very excited about the Epic 4G this may be like we said the one of the best Android devices of this year definitely the best Android device on sprint right now especially if you want to slide-out keyboard although if you don't want to slide out keyboard the evo 4G is also a really good option got a lot more coming up on the Epic 4G please subscribe to our channel if you like our videos and give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it thanks for watching that's it for now