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hey guys it's Joan from pocketnow.com and we've been telling me a little bit about the g2 from t-mobile it's the successor to the g one that well it's a long time coming supposed to be out on october sixth of this year but some people are saying they're starting to see tracking numbers come a little bit sooner than that well today i got this in the mail UPS three day and i think it's the g2 let's go take a look ok so let's unbox this I've gone ahead and cut the side open here just to make things a little easier and sure enough it's the g2 nice slick box a little bit different than what we're accustomed to with android boxes this time it's got a top half of the bottom half with a gap in the middle so here's our side the bottom with a seal right there the other side the top again with another seal and that then the back and i'm going to cover all this up down here a little bit more information on the the box than what we're used to but i know you're not interested in the box so let's get into it open up the seal on the bottom and on the top and crack the box open now the first thing that we've got is the phone now the phone looks very much like the nexus one did except without a scroll ball so there's that very reflective screen feels really heavy in my hand I'm impressed with the the weight that it's gone sliding it up now you'll notice this has a unique opening mechanism kind of like the old g1 that kind of slid around this one kind of toggles up and it's spring assisted so it opens really easily in fact I like it quite a bit it doesn't get in the way it doesn't take a lot of strength to either push it up or down it's really nice it's got a little cover over the keyboard I'll move that off and out of the way and one thing I really like these keys are staggered not like on the epic 4g where it was all in a grid it's offset which is great I'm going to go ahead and take off the screen protector on the front and then it's got another one on the back here looking at the back big branded HTC with the g two on the bottom it says with google down there this is metal the rest of it is looks kind of like texturized plastic it feels really nice it's got a flash with the camera volume up and down on the side and the micro USB port is right here on the side to I like that it's not on the bottom where it can get in the way of being docked or on the top like it is on the epic so that's kind of cool over here we've got a little slide button that looks like okay that pops the battery out just kind of cool have to remove that big battery let's take a look at that looks like this is a completely unknown size now there we go 1300 milliamp hour so not too bad it comes with a micro SD card and that's underneath the battery looks kind of tricky to get out we'll have to come back and see just how to do that in a later video apparently should be an eight gig and it looks like it is a class two so not that fast but still not that bad sim card goes right in there and then you've got what looks like a little microphone port right there probably for noise cancellation bust we'll see how that goes i'm going to go ahead and put the the battery back in at this point it big heavy battery it feels nice it fits in very snuggly I like having this brushed aluminum back it feels really good in fact it snaps right in and there's no wiggle room at all in there so very very nice button right here on the side looks like that is for a camera push t-mobile branding on the front capacitive buttons for home menu back and search just like we're accustomed to and then a little action pad there doesn't feel like that toggles up and down at all just that it you know it might be a touch pad we'll see we'll come back to that in a later video hours on top along with the little microphone and headset jack and I think that's the whole device but it looks really really nice feels excellent in my pocket I forgot to mention the microphone hole at the bottom but compare that to the epic 4g and just look at the sizes here it's about the same length maybe a little bit a little bit shorter in length looking at it in width looks a little bit slimmer there although just marginally if that and as far as weight goes the g2 definitely definitely weighs a lot more feels a lot more solid and a lot more well-liked it's higher quality in my opinion sliding mechanism to compare the two about the same but I do like the mechanism on the g2 a little bit better so there you go the unboxing of the g2 the long-awaited device by HTC from t-mobile and we're definitely going to show you more of what this device has in upcoming videos so thumbs up if you like this kind of video of course subscribe to our Channel and for pocket now i'm joe levi