Gadgetory

hi this is Steve from pocket now and today we're going to do a hardware tour of the verizon droid Eris by HTC this is an Android smartphone and it comes with version 1.5 of Android but soon it will be upgraded to 2.1 which includes the Google navigation software which will be great when that occurs so on the front of the device we have the speaker at the top we've got a 3.2 inch screen which is 320 by 480 HVGA we've got a set of dedicated buttons at the bottom of the screen here for home menu back and search we've got the talk button we've got a scroll pad here and then we have an end button that also serves as the power button on the device on the side we've got volume up and down when you hit the volume all the way down that goes into silent or vibrate mode the other side is clean no buttons there on the top a great feature for HTC which is a dedicated headset jack which is new to their devices on the bottom we have a mini USB for syncing and charging plus the microphone is right above there on the back we've got the five megapixel camera which has a 1 X zoom in his video capable inside the unit we've got a 1300 milliamp battery which is removable and we've got a micro SD card the unit comes with a an 8 gigabyte card but you can put in up to a 16 gigabyte card your maximum storage for the unit is 16 megabytes the internal storage we've got a 512 and B ROM and 288 and megabytes of RAM the processor is a Qualcomm 528 megahertz MSM 7600 in the unit weighs about four point to three ounces now let's compare it to other devices that I have the big comparison let me grab the iPhone here is this is an iPhone 3GS it is smaller than the iPhone 3GS the iPhone 3GS is has more curves on the side but it feels much more slippery than the year as the Eris is a beveled angle here and and feels quite good in your hand on the iPhone 3GS I actually have a rubber case around it to make it feel more secure in my hand but I don't think it's something that I would need with the ears compared to a windows mobile device we've got a rise in omnia the screen is about the same size but the iris is slightly thinner and I think a little lighter as well then an older HTC device is an HTC touch diamond2 much smaller screen in as much thicker and in today's terms this actually looks fairly clunky so if you put all these devices together you can see that out of all these devices the ear is smaller but yet doesn't feel smaller especially when compared to the iPhone yes the iPhone has a little bit more screen real estate but I haven't found that to be a problem with the ears so that does it for our hardware tour and I'll be back with a software tour next