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hey guys it's Brandon Minnemann from pocketnow.com and this is the hardware tour of the HP mini netbook the 1151 n are to be exact that's running on Verizon Wireless is a video network and this is among the first batch of netbooks that are being subsidized by carriers in this case Verizon so that you can use wireless internet whether you're in the back of a taxicab or at the park or anything like that so let's take a look at the hardware on the HP Mini it's a good thing that they include this cleaning cloth in the HP mini box because the front cover is a fingerprint magnet I think it helps a bit that it has a nice little texture to it or this this swirly design but it does pick up a lot of fingerprints but it also makes it look quite nice and Sheen when it's sitting on the tabletop so let's go around the device here on the front we have the power button which lights up but unfortunately it's awkwardly placed down here it's a little difficult to push over it takes a lot of pressure and it would have been it would have been much nicer if they put the power button inside the netbook when you open it so that you didn't have to reach your thumb down here here we have two status lights to the right of that is the Wi-Fi switch and it also will turn on and off the all of the wireless connections so if you want to save some battery life or you're going on an airplane you would use that going over to the other side we have the SD port or SD card reader so you can take that out and put in some memory to the right of that is the USB port and it is one of two there are two USB ports on the HP Mini and to the right of that there is a port for the HP Mini mobile drive bay I don't think I'll be using that but if you use their proprietary product you can use that port for that go over to the back we can see the hinge which is kind of in an aluminum like color to the other side we have the power port to the right of that is the USB port there's a little vent there's a fan inside that goes on the red of that is for the video out and you need a special adapter to do this to convert it to a standard VGA cable but it's good that it has a video out to the right of that is the microphone although it has an integrate microphone as you'll see in a second and the headphone jack to the right of that is a standard Ethernet port if you're not using wireless covered by a rubber cover so let's open up the mini and the mini isn't secured by anything except its own weight so there's no magnet that I can tell or there's no latch you just lift it up and there it is now one of the best parts of the HP Mini netbooks is the use of of the space to make the keyboard as big as possible it goes from edge to edge the keys are a nice size it takes a little bit of getting used to and they also have a little Ridge on them if you can see so that it's easy to kind of feel them with your fingers the touch pad is a pretty good size it's kind of small naturally for a netbook you can turn on and off the touchpad with this button and the buttons being on the left and on the right isn't too difficult you get used to it pretty fast and of course you can easily scroll if you slide your finger along these dotted lines here now the screen is 10.1 inches diagonal and it's got a nice flush look to it other netbooks do not have a flush screen so it's much appreciated to have that up here's the webcam and there's a little light next to it and a microphone next to it so that if you want to do a Skype call or something like that you can use the built-in webcam the resolution is 1024 across by 576 down which is quite low I recommend you use Google Chrome as your browser because that takes advantage of as much screen space as possible by taking away the status bar on the bottom some other netbooks out there such as the dell mini 10 v has much higher resolution 13 36 by I think 768 which really makes a difference but the most standard resolution is what this netbook has so you have to expect that with a netbook that you're not gonna have a super high res screen and so that's pretty much it for the hardware tour of the HP Mini 1151 and are on the Verizon Wireless Network wish it didn't pick up so many finger prints coming up next we're going to do speed tests we're going to talk about what it's like to use the e video connection how long it takes to connect and how fast the speeds are and then we're going to compare this to the red fly which is a Windows Mobile companion that has been around for a while and people are starting to say why would you spend you know two hundred dollars on a red fly when you could spend two hundred three hundred dollars on a netbook well we'll try to answer that question in that video so that's it for now for more on Windows Mobile and other mobile technology follow us on twitter at twitter.com/randymckown