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there's an old Finnish expression big fish are worth fishing even if you don't catch one the idea of a new smartphone platform in 2013 is certainly something of a longshot but the good people at Yola seem undeterred by the odds and now it's time to take a look at their very first smartphone I'm Michael Fisher this is PocketNow and this is our unboxing of the world's first Yola okay so we're not gonna get the full retail unboxing treatment here because this is it's not pre-production hardware its release hardware I believe but it is not obviously not the retail packaging one of things we can learn from the box is that our review device does not have the bands that we really need to to see what's going on in terms of 3G 4G performance here in the States I hope we're not confined to just GSM or GPRS data but we'll have to see this is just an unboxing we don't go we don't go that far yet just slide it out of the package here it's concealed in a protective pouch we've heard a lot about yola's new smartphone we've talked a lot with the folks at Yola limited had some wonderful interviews with them at some trade shows earlier this year and put the device aside let's just see what comes with our unit here and we're really excited cuz it's rare that that we get the chance to spend any time with a new smartphone platform give a big paw out of your way so you can see what's going on this is a power adapter this is a rechargeable lithium-ion battery with let's see what kind of rating we've got on there 7.9 8 watt hours 2100 milliamp hours not one of the larger packs we've seen and a USB cable let's put those aside nothing else is in the box we'll see if we can pop the battery in the device the fact that that step is required obviously means that this device has a removable user replaceable battery a big plus for a lot of people especially road warriors take it out of its little pouch we do have a screen protector we get to take off there's the front of the Yola device come around to the side here and hopefully get some focus as we give ourselves a little bit of room in a little more light and we can see the other half back of this device this particular one is white the front is black because of the very very interesting dual sided construction of this device which we'll talk more about in just a second so we've had a gander at the Yola user guide online and found some directions for removing the back panel before we do I just want to point out the very very the only sign of branding on the whole device right there little tiny Yola branding in the upper left hand corner but coming back around to the back and with a little wider shot so maybe you can see what's going on we are instructed to first pry up the lower left hand side there it goes now the lower right and the back cover of the back cover of the phone but also the back cover of the lower half comes off this is going to get somewhat confusing to talk about as we go on the battery's branded to that's very nice all right pop that sucker right in there we would put a we would throw in a micro SIM card at this point but we're going to wait to do that I'm gonna see if we can survive without that step just for now battery is in display is not turned on yet so we'll take the opportunity to pull the screen protector off of here and with the microphone well positioned to witness the moment here we go doesn't matter what phone it is that's always a fun moment and the very next thing on the agenda now that we're back around to the side here is to hit this power standby key you press it and hope this display springs to life there it goes there is the Yola logo little zoom there actually will give a wide shot to you this is a 4.5 inch IPS display a qHD resolution there are 16 gigs of storage within the device itself it runs on one gig of ram and you probably saw under the battery there or alongside the battery there is a micro SD card slot for expansion around back is an 8 megapixel camera those are just the basic specs so that you know what's going on welcome indeed something down there system language will be English UK English well I suppose I can live with that a little extra couple extra vowels here and there that sounds great I'll hit accept I could have just slid aside if I wanted to but I decided to use the other input method the device is preparing we see a little notification indicator down there below the screen and there's that IPS panel glowing gray when it means black as we're sort of used to from LCDs that's fine looks like the device is booting again aha there's our duck down below some of that looks familiar from our time with it back in back at MWC and we can select our favourite colour for initial setup that sounds like fun I'm gonna do blue you guys probably think I'm pretty boring about this mention that any exposure a little bit I just think I'm a little boring I'm gonna do blue now I'll do red why not let's just do that it'll be fun oh cool alright now I can accept it or I think I can just swipe gasp look the view to the right to go ahead to the previous view sounds good oh and the indicator shows you when that's possible date and time this is interesting minute hand setting what is it 15 thirty it looks like good forward time zone that is not my time zone let's go to oh my goodness I put in Boston are you gonna give me that no how about just Eastern what about New York hi United States thank you very much this is a lot like typing on any other device with a virtual keyboard except these colors are just amazing if I had chosen a different accent color of course you would see something that is after my birthday well that's very sweet of you I'm not gonna do my phone number right now I won't set my birthday either at the moment that's good I don't have to continue oh definitely near this area I'm just gonna hit save and I would like a Yola account that sounds like a lot of fun but it doesn't sound like a lot of fun for you guys to watch we're gonna go into this the remainder of this setup process probably and just the general experience of using the Yola in tomorrow's video our first impressions after a day spent with yola's first device the Yola and at some point we'll learn how to phrase that properly at any rate folks that is our unboxing of the world's first sailfish OS powered device the very first Yola and at pocket now our first device running a new platform in quite a while we're excited to start getting to know this device folks we know a lot of you out there are excited to drop us a comment down below letting us know exactly what you want us to cover in the full review because we really don't have a lot of time to put this together before we have to send this demo unit back while you're down there leaving us a comment please drop us a like if you enjoyed the video follow us on social networks like I said before and if you want to take a look at the sailfish OS in an earlier form check out our interview and hands-on demo from a tradeshow earlier last year it is right up here this year whenever it was it's right up here you should check it out click on it and stay tuned for a lot more from pocket now most importantly thank you so much for watching and we will see you soon