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greetings all this is deke Adams of pocketnow.com today we're taking a closer look at the hardware on the samsung galaxy s2 epic 4g touch from sprint so sit back relax and enjoy the show so on the front of device we have the four capacitive touch buttons that we saw in the unboxing we have a notification LED the speaker grill a couple of you know sensors and light sensors and the like and then the front-facing video camera the 4.5 2 inch screen super amoled plus and we'll get to comparison in just a minute for that on the bag we've got a kind of a plastic finish that's a little kind of hexed and it's kind of brushed across the whole back of the device this is the only place where you see the sprint logo and the galaxy s2 displayed as well we have the 8 megapixel camera with flash and then it's got a little bump down here and the speaker grill foot speaker phone is back here as well moving to the side we have the volume rocker on this side and then on the opposite side we have the power button and really nothing else the edges are kind of beveled here along this edge is a little bump right there beveled inward rounded corners which makes it feel really really nice in the hand and then here we've got the headphone jack on the top really not a whole lot to see a very plain-looking outside device very lightweight easy to hold pop off the battery cover here no near-field chip here that's that I've been able to find a no access to it maybe they'll add a door since its you know Google Wallet was just released but so far 1800 Miller hour battery and the micro SD card slot and there is no included micro SD card with this device it just has 16 gigs of internal memory 1 gig of ROM barmy 1 gig of ram and really it's very very snappy and we'll get to some of the benchmarks in the full review but really this this device is very very quick the notification LED is really nice to have the cameras so far have been outstanding we'll see some more of those samples in the final review if we take a look here at in comparison with the original epic you can see it's just a little bit longer obviously a little bit wider due to the screen size here and it's as thin as the keyboard was on the epic 4g the original epic the screen colors on the samsung galaxy s2 are a little the contrast a little stronger on this super amoled plus which means that the colors are a little more rich and deep compared to the screen on the original epic but otherwise you know it's not really that much of a difference even at fulbright this one's a little bit brighter but not by very much compared to another device such as the photon so here's the photon of course I have the screen right in a set to auto right now it's just a little bit thinner a little bit longer screen is different technology we're looking at a pentile screen here on the the motorola let's go ahead and take this up to full bright there's Fulbright there and in comparison here the colors look really kind of washed out it's it's probably not in the video so much but the color difference between what black is here and what black is on the Samsung device night and day difference the blacks on this are so much more incredible this is almost kind of a hazy grey look here come in comparison which is is very very noticeable and there's no pixelation like the pin tile screen has Wi-Fi Bluetooth the typical pieces that you would expect the resolution is 480 x 800 it can do 1080p out it can also record a 1080p video and the one thing the good and dimension is that the bluetooth is actually version 3 battery life on the epic 4g touch has been outstanding I got about 16 hours of battery life before the meter actually popped up the first day of use that was with three hours of solid phone calls in addition to surfing the web and setting up the device and so on and so forth and that's been pretty consistent today I'm down to about thirty percent right now and the it's been on for about 12 hours or so give or take once I took it off the charger and frankly that's that's fantastic for this sort of device you can see here battery usage so 12 hours and 12 minutes and then look here at these status it's at thirty two percent so it's got another few hours before it's going to pop up that battery air you know battery low message plug your device in so data speeds on the epic 4g touch have been outstanding in 4g mode getting 12 down and 1.4 up and here is the eight and then 10 or rather not eight but this was a point 8 down as Chinh tu 3g mode and then back into 4G for the 3g service has been what I expected now the Samsung 1.2 gigahertz Exynos processor is really really fast on this device everything is just butter smooth transitions even with all the widgets on the screen with the swapping back and forth between the screens is extremely fast very little lag giving other than what you might see in the animations and if we scroll down here to this functionality which will demo more in the software view but you can see how fast I'm able to scroll back and forth and back and forth between these zones which is just simply outstanding as far as a performance on the device so far my only complaint here is the lack of the near-field chip and the possibility that it might you know have been better as a world phone as well but that could have also increased the size it with the CDMA and the GSM built in to the same device that wraps up our closer look at the hardware on the samsung galaxy s2 epic 4g touch from sprint if you have any comments or questions leave them below thanks for watching