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hey guys this is Adam Lane with pocketnow.com next up we're gonna do a little hardware tour of the Lumia 710 from Nokia I'm t-mobile but we're also gonna do a little comparison with the HTC rare for Jesus that's a pretty comparable device first off be sure to check out the link in the description for more details on all the specifications on the Nokia Lumia 710 and we're gonna just gonna take a little tour around the device there's our screen up here we have a sensor that is not a front-facing camera there's your speaker and nokia logo and down here we have the back Windows key and search button it's all one piece of plastic but it's we can press different sides of it and this is a physical button this is not your normal capacitive buttons which are cheaper make and smoother to the touch and easier to touch easier to activate but there's a good thing about this if you're playing a game you don't accidentally press your buttons over here you really have to press them because they are plastic buttons and there's your timo logo and the microphone I'll just lit right there on the bottom we don't have anything except for a lanyard hole this is for people that like to attach dangly things or you know a little looped you know keep track of it so we have that there over here we have nothing but a little fingernail slot that's to get the back battery off battery cover rather at the top of our micro USB port a 3.5 millimeter headset jack and the power button over here we have the volume controls and the camera button camera button is kind of flush with the device see it's hard to feel you gotta find it before you press it but the volume buttons have a little ledges there which make them pretty easy to feel kind of wish the camera button was easier to feel for while you're holding in your pocket so you can you know go straight to the camera right hold him down like that okay on the back we had our five megapixel camera and an LED flash nokia logo again and just this little tiny slit is the speaker and this is not really your speaker's just decoration and there's your Nokia 710 label and if you put your finger over the speaker it definitely gets muffled really easily now this back is a nice soft matte feel to it and in the hand it actually feels very ergonomic really feels nice you see these little ledges there those those fit really nicely with your fingers it's where my thumb and fingers are it's a really nice feel to it okay let's open this up now to open it you gotta get your finger in there and push it pretty hard there we go so there's our battery this is 1300 milliamp hours and is very thin that's pretty nice and there's your micro SIM card slot it's kind of difficult to get it out but can you get I'm just gonna leave it in there okay and one of the cool things about this device is these backs you can replace them and get different colors you know white yellow pink blue so if you're one of those people that really likes another color of your phone to be something personal you will eventually be able to buy different back for this alright you guys step back in place now since this device is on t-mobile for only 50 bucks but sometimes it can get free we're also going to compare it to another pretty budget-friendly device on t-mobile the HTC Radar 4G so here's your size comparison they're pretty close the radar is a little bit thinner and of course the radar is metal case non removal battery and capacitive buttons there and the radar also has a front-facing camera so you can see what differences there but let's also look at some of the benchmarks for the screen okay so what is the screen like on the Lumia 710 this has actually has a polarizing film as a layer under there which is supposed to make the blacks much blacker and also reduce glare a little bit so here's a color ramp and you can see the differences there this one seems a little bit more washed out and let's go back to a different style let's look at the ingredients you can see a different hue here this one seems a little cooler maybe there's a little bit of green in there and let's do these colors so both of these we see a lot of banding but we definitely have better blacks over there and let's look at the blacks and this one actually we do see a little more glare so the polarizing may be helping that on the Nokia and lastly let's look at color shifting from different angles you can see the colors are actually different already and the Nokia seems to change as we tilt it probably has something to do with the polarizing film now you probably also want to know how that compares to a really good screen like the Samsung Focus s so again we're seeing a little bit different shade of color there and you can see how it changes as we tilt but the color ramps are pretty close looking pretty good there and there's your blacks okay now for speed this is a one point form gigahertz processor and actually in the speed test it does pretty well gets the score in the 90s on WP bench which is pretty nice so we're not talking a a slow device even though it's very inexpensive so that's our quick look at the Nokia Lumia 710 hardware stay tuned for more on the software side of things that's it for now