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greetings all this is deke Adams with pocketnow.com and today we're taking a closer look on the hardware on the tmobile HTC Flyer so sit back relax and enjoy the show for those of you may have missed out on our unboxing we're going to do a real quick recap of the specs the HTC Flyer from t-mobile has a 1.5 gigahertz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor it's got a gig of ram and it's got 32 gigs of internal storage and you have an option for 32 gigs of additional micro SD storage underneath this little panel up here the Snapdragon processor is really fast as we show them the kind of the software review things are very snappy it works very quickly hardly any lock ups and there were just a few op times where the sense actually crashed we covered that in the software tour a little closer look there it's got gsm it's got the high bandwidth capabilities there is the hspa+ will go down here to speed tests show you some of our results here so as you can see here we got up to 56 90 here and then I dropped down into some lower speeds with the that was the up 14 down 522 down and 722 up and then the lower end speeds here are three thousand and six hundred up and down there so really the hspa+ the t-mobile service on this has been fantastic even on the road where there normally is a lot of pockets I haven't had any troubles getting signal on this device it's got GPS Bluetooth 30 Wi-Fi b/g/n den the capacitive buttons down here there's three of them versus the normal four and then the fourth button is this green button here which is actually for the pin you touch this and if you look at our software review it enables the functionality in the N trig screen we'll talk about in a second that allows you to write on the screen due to the fact that it's not running honeycomb or ice cream sandwich at this point that pin functionality is limited but it's supposed to get better one feature I like about these buttons here is that you can rotate them to the other side when you tilt the device that's shifts this down then green button moves over to here and then when you swap it back then it rotates back around the problem with this is if you're holding device like this and you flip the device around then what you get is the button starts getting pressed automatically there's no way around that and you can see the menu starts popping up if you're holding on the home button what you'll get is the home screen so a little bit unfortunate there something's just have to be aware of if you are navigating with this device just to hold it across this point or this point if you're rotating the device back and forth it's got a seven inch TFT display it's got the N trig digitizer which is what the pin uses 1024 x 600 resolution and as you can see the screen is nice and bright this is on full brightness right now really easy to view in sunlight it gets washed out a little bit but it still does a remarkable job of keeping that brightness the brightness is almost too bright in complete black almost hurting your eyes bright still if with all the lights out and you turn the brightness way down to be able to read the glass itself is not Gorilla Glass unfortunately this device here has already got some dents in it it's a previous review unit but it's got some scratches and dings in it so if you have this device my recommendation for this particular vice since it doesn't use Gorilla Glass is to get a screen protector the outside chrome has taken a little bit of dinging and denting as well that not nearly as bad as the glass dimensions we've got seven point six nine x 48 x point five to the thickness their point 52 it's not terribly svelte but it is certainly nice in the hand 14.8 2 ounces a little heavier than some other devices but not terribly heavy in the hand either especially with this little bump here on the back that you can hold on to makes the device a little easier to hold on to in the portrait mode and then when you're in landscape here it gives you another little grip point especially with these little to side beveled edges here makes for a nice handheld feel it's got a 4000 milliamp battery 1470 ours is the the noted battery life on this I found that really this this gets amazing battery life especially considering with the 3g radio on all the time I've been very impressed with the battery life on this device 1.3 megapixel front facing camera does a fairly okay job of pictures it's better for skype type functionality and you get what you would expect out of a 1.3 megapixel camera on the reverse side you get the 5 megapixel camera here it's again nothing special it can do 720p video but that 720p video is just resolution it doesn't mean 720p quality auto focus camera no flash and then if you take this cover off this whole piece snaps off and there's a piece covering up this camera that just slides right off speakers are plenty loud enough for this device a little tinny but it's perfectly serviceable for watching netflix on the go or with your your child or yourself in a restaurant or otherwise volume rockers here are nice and solid no problems there headphone jack on the top slides in very nicely and the sound out of it was really great coming back to the hardware form factor of this device i really like this size the 7 inch size so it'll be really interesting to see the next few devices are coming out the 7 inch screen size makes it very nice to hold in the hand and easy to use when reading it's a little small when viewing like graphic novels or comic books compared to the ipad we'll get more into comparisons in the next video but you know to say it's still very very nice size form factor and easy to carry around in a bag versus the 10-inch tablets which are a little bulkier and a little more difficult to manage as far as the case in build is concerned it's very solid device very little flex there's no popping or cracking the whip happens like the HTC RS are the HTC but Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 that we reviewed compared to other devices in the same size class like the nook color this is I got a much nicer build quality than the new color does and that wraps up our closer look at the hardware on the HTC Flyer from t-mobile if you have any questions or comments or things you'd like to see in the next video or on this particular video we got the comparison view coming up with some ipads and some other devices leave us know in the comments we'll get back to them as soon as possible thanks for watching hm