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hey guys it's joe from pocket now calm and t-mobile has been gracious enough to supply us with a mytouch 4g phone to review in our last video I showed you the initial unboxing and a hardware review of the the device just a walk around in this video let's see what the first boot looks like alright so here we go the power button is up here on the top so we'll go ahead and push that and we will wait for the initial boot we've got a vibration to indicate that is booting up along with the tmobile and the mytouch 4g logos kind of an earthy green something that something that i like and then we've got a mytouch animated logo right in the middle of the screen so we'll go ahead and let that run now while we're doing this it's worth mention that first boots initially take longer than subsequent boots not just power on and power off where you're powering on and off the screen but where you're actually powering on and off the device so bear that in mind when you're booting it up the first time so I've got ahead and done that and this is using the sim that was provided by t-mobile so that we could review it it should be able to go out and grab the time here pretty quickly so we'll just go ahead and let that think but in the meantime I met with some striped horses here and new voicemail how about that go ahead and unlock the screen just by dragging it down and I've got my welcome message now this welcome I don't know if I can bump the brightness of the phone up here so you'll have to bear with me a little bit go ahead and go through the next it's got a nice welcome message will say next and then we've got a welcome video which is kind of cool now this is kind of interesting showing you a an advertisement to the phone that you've just bought trying to guess convince you hey you should buy this but you know we already have it in hand it's kind of neat showing you the features and capabilities of the device and it's something that honestly I haven't seen before on on an Android or any other smartphone for that matter don't do this at home the phone does not actually float or fly at the screen all right so now we're back to the welcome screen we've got this welcome to your new phone with a few clicks we're going to set it up so we're going to go ahead and walk through that just so you can see it and of course we've got a replay button there in case you missed the video you can watch it again and again and again we'll go next we can choose a theme now this is a very HTC Sense esque so we're just going to find one that we like dead tree zebras nice close-up of flowers eight you know what you guys always like when I show you flowers so let's choose our flowers theme here because I know you like it so much no of course what we can do now is I check my social networks to keep in touch with my friends and family yes I do and I listen to my personal music yes I do know what this is doing is its setting up what you're going to see on these themes on this on your home screens basically go ahead and say next and how do i coordinate activities with my friends and family while I keep up with my schedule and I check my email so yeah that's fairly obvious will select those and then of course we've got the location consent where we say yeah I want to be able to share my location with google and for Google services so that I can get better search results and stuff they're checked by default you just saw what happens when you try to uncheck them it tells you why you might not want to we're going to leave them selected and say next and then it goes through kind of a wizard where it sets up the home mode applies your theme load some widgets and does something else that went by too fast now I can set up email accounts video chat and social networks right here so email accounts will choose Google this is the standard Google set up now and i am going to sign in with my account so let me do that off camera and I'll be right back okay so I just provided my credentials to google and it came back and said everything was good and now it's giving me the option to back up my data with my google account which i always do that makes transferring phones a lot easier to and then we'll finish the setup so that's all I have I can also set up an exchange server if I have one or yahoo mail or some other popper smtp or IMAP mail I don't have any of those so I doesn't give me an option here but I'm going to go ahead and hit back and that works for me now next I'm going to skip video chat for just a minute and we're going to go to social networks and I will set up my facebook and twitter now those take you to the standard setups and again I'll go ahead and put this in just so you can see what the end result okay so I've set up all three of my social networks and while I was doing that it showed me that this particularly in the flicker area is using the HTC media uploader which gives me the impression that this is an HTC Sense UI or something that uses the sense UI components so we'll definitely get into that as we go further so let's go back and now let's go on to that video chat will choose that then it says what do I want t mobile video chat or a yahoo messenger well since I don't use yahoo messenger let's use a tmobile video chat go ahead and sign up now video chat is cool because you have this front facing camera now this is not like a Apple solution where you can only use it over over Wi-Fi this you can actually do over 3g or 4g or at least that's what the claim is you do need to have a kik account so if you do not you will need to sign up for one i'm going to go ahead and log in here okay so after providing my login credentials i met with this screen of course if you didn't have a kik account previously what you need to do is go ahead and set that up and there is an in app setup for that to create a new account so here you can create or you do a video chat which is a two-way live video call you can record and share now this is kind of like youtubing stuff boat instead of recording stuff on the camera and then uploading it to to youtube later it actually streams it up to the kick server so you can get real life stuff as it goes on now if you're ever involved in any kind of police activity that's a really good thing to have because you can record what's going on and have it streaming up an online and even if they confiscate the phone and destroy that recording it's up on the web not that I get into trouble with the police too much but this is the app of choice for that just so you know you can also record a video mail which is just like it sounds it's like a voicemail but with video and then of course there's the video gallery where you can manage share and sync your videos so that's kind of cool now why am i covering the top of the phone it's because the the auto brightness is kind of Wiggin out with the camera and whatnot I'm not trying to hide anything from you I'm just covering that up so it thinks it's dark and lets you see it a little bit brighter on camera so that's what I'm doing that but let's continue through I'm going to go ahead and hit back we're not going to set up yahoo messenger so we'll go back again I've done all of these and we'll go to the next option now it lets me learn more stuff learn about the genius button about the media room which is all of my media in one place at least what that's what it says right there learn more about video chat learn more about screen share to broadcast photos and videos to a high-definition TV that's something cool and something I want to get into in a later video and then of course how to use the swype keyboard the phone does come with swype and it is set as the default keyboard it's got kind of a nice white theme to it so you might not know it swipe right off the bat but it is and you can use it just like you would with any other swype keyboard so we've got ahead and done that so let's it done and what we've got now is the mytouch logo and it's showing me my picture gallery just kind of cool because I don't have that on this phone it's pulling that in I I suppose through picasa so that's kind of cool and if you're wondering what that is that's a that's a cable modem that has the stupidest button in the world on it the button being the internet on/off button not the device on off but internet on off okay so what you're going to notice the first and foremost this is sense UI very clearly sense UI you've got all the sense widgets you know friends stream you can see it's already populated with my friends information playlist stuff is empty and then it's got the phone and contacts and app drawer buttons right there so there is your first boot and initial look at what comes on the mytouch 4G obviously we're going to be doing more videos about this in the very very near future again want to thank t-mobile for sending us this evaluation unit and including the capability to do data we'll see if we can get 4G where I am located out here in Utah and if not we'll see what their 3g speeds are and we'll do that in a later video but thank you to them for that and of course our views and our review comments and whatnot are our own and they're not that of t-mobile USA or any of their affiliates associate assigns or any other legal entities yadda yadda okay legal stuff done so go ahead and subscribe to our video channel will give you a link for that right now and make sure you come back give this video a thumbs up if you liked seeing first boot and initial impression stuff and showing off the the mytouch 4G I'm Joe for pocketnow.com