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hey guys it's joe from pocketnow.com and i just got a package from FedEx I think it's the mytouch 4G alright so let's take a look at what comes inside the package taking it out now this is very unusual packaging for an Android phone generally speaking you've got a box and it either lifts up or lifts off this case it's just a wrap it's got the branding on the side some information on the back top and bottom are open and then of course it's got your unique identifying barcode type information on the side so that's gonna vary by box I won't show you that but we'll go ahead and slide this out now the first thing you're gonna notice is a very nice looking case with a little looks like a little metal piece down there that says my which is that the team look at t-mobile logo for the mytouch series of phones kind of squishy kind of nice let's go ahead and open this up with the zipper open that out okay the first thing we've got is a pretty good presentation of stuff so let's go to cables since we're always interested these are white cables which is kind of unusual generally speaking the cables are black in color we've got headset no magnetic stuff here like Zune just regular headsets with squishies and clip attached looks like you've got foam squishes as well as the silica style squishes if you like those a little bit better take off the white rubber band here and we'll go down fairly long toward for a headset you do have the controls right there forward back play pause and your phone buttons of course this is also your microphone for your headset and then a rather large comparatively speaking headphone jack down there most of the time these are getting smaller and smaller Apple kind of started that with their their iPod series of devices this is a little bit bigger which I kind of like it's got little raised edges here to help pull that out so it might be a little bit easier to use still not big not bulky like they used to be way back in the olden days but let's go ahead and keep looking next thing is we've got this USB cable and it is a micro USB nice rounded edges again with that little lip there to help you pull on both sides so that's kind of nice move on we've got our power wall wart it's got a nice cover over here it's a little hard to come off this is a u.s. phone so it's got the u.s. style prongs not grounded but most of them are not and then of course your USB port for charging they're really nice looking I like this it's not quite as small as some of the others that I've seen but still looks very good and with it being all white to match kind of the other accessories it's kind of cool so let's move on to the paperwork because I know you guys watch these videos just so you can see the paperwork so we'll go ahead and get that out of the sleeve we've got a getting started guide the mytouch 4G collection terms conditions return policy and limited warranty and of course what's becoming more and more standard is a prepaid mailing label so you can send back your old phone for recycling or repurposing so that's kind of cool if you guys haven't done that before I'd highly recommend that you do that gives your phone new life and it keeps it out of the landfills so there's your be friendly to the environment plug for the day let's go ahead and move along and we have the device itself we'll go ahead and lift that out and I'm gonna just set that to the side while we look and see there is not anything extra but you do have a couple extra pockets in here and whatnot so that's really nice we'll go ahead and move the case out of the way and onto the phone so here is the phone we'll just do an initial look around first of all it is white with black on the front silver accents which is really nice fitting in the hand it fits pretty nicely not quite as nice as say the the HTC Desire HD does you know they could do a little bit more beveling on these edges but you do have a nice glass front with plastic and actual physical buttons which is usual rather than the capacitive buttons you have a volume button over here on the side this is a feels like it functions like a true rocker now here's something very unique reminiscent of the Nexus and that's those three gold dots don't know what they're for but I am suspecting that this is to allow for some docking whether that's a desktop dock or most likely a car dock for GPS and whatnot I bet they're going to use those just like the Nexus One did there is your micro USB port and it kind of stands out from this rounded back relatively well we've also on the back of the phone got your speaker your tama and flash and just looking really fast the the camera is 5 megapixel it does have auto focus and zoom so that's kind of cool and then we've got them nice back panels which feels like it is metal we'll get to that in a minute over here on the side we've got a camera button up on top power and headphone jack the front of the device of course has your speaker has some mytouch branding on it and then of course your front-facing camera which is one of the selling points for this device so kind of cool down on the bottom we've got home menu back and the the Google search for the my search or the whatever button you want to call it that is the Google genius or the the T Mobile genius button and then of course an action button on the bottom you just have a very simple microphone and that is it so let's go ahead and open this puppy up so very easy that is in fact aluminum and this is the mytouch 4G white 2 inside we've got a battery we've got a push the SD card to release so it pops out rather than the lifts up what's coming standard with most devices anymore is this Samsung 8 gig microSD it is class 2 so that comes with this it comes with a SIM card now this is a review unit from t-mobile so they're giving us the unit to try and they're also including a SIM so I'm going to use their SIM with their their wireless plan so it doesn't come off of my plan and of course their phone number as well I'll wire that up to Google Voice so that my phone calls will still come through to it and whatnot during the testing period but they've been gracious enough to provide us this unit to test and of course our results are our results and not theirs so let's look at the battery now it lifts out pretty well there's your water damage indicator on the phone and then another one on the battery standard battery this one is a 1400 milliamp power so a little bit smaller than the Nexus One but a good chunk bigger than that of the Desire HD so we'll go ahead and put that back see how this backplate this if I don't drop it don't do that at home now one thing this kind of stands out so I'll show it to you right here on the lip is what looks like damage to the the backplate I don't know if you can see that well in the video or not but it looks kind of like it's been pried up or folded up that's okay that's that's supposed to be there that actually blends in with the surround around the camera so don't worry about that it's kind of one of those weird things when you look at you think oh no I've bent my phone but no it's actually okay and it's good so there you go the unboxing and hardware first look at the mytouch 4G from t-mobile of course we're going to be showing you quite a few more things about this phone next up is going to be the first boot so make sure you subscribe to our video channel so you can see that if you like seeing these first looks at new hardware make sure you subscribe to our channel and head over to pocketnow.com to read the articles associated with these devices and of course for pocketnow.com I'm Joe Levi