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hi this is Steve Carlotta's from pocketnow.com and today just received one of the latest phones that Verizon Wireless is selling so let's go ahead and open it up the big box or what I'm sure is a little box inside we can't pull that out of the way and what do we have here we've got the verizon wireless HTC ozone which is what's being marketed as a global smartphone it's a variant of the HTC snap but it has cdma ev-do as well as gsm support and this is what makes it a global smartphone so let's go hook and crack up this box it's these boxes seem all similar this is the verizon format now and take the phone now this is a demo version from verizon so it looks like its previously been used put that aside see what kind of accessories we have with this unit we've got the dreaded dongle for the headphones soon to be remedied by HTC it looks like we've got your this is a global phone european plug AC plug looks like we've got a british UK plug and I think we have a plug from Down Under yeah I believe that's what that is and the familiar a familiar American plug here on this side we've got the USB cable and the power supply the power supply which obviously you put the type of plug you one on the front so for the US flag we should be able just slide this in and then use the USB cable and this is essentially just a USB charger plug directly into the unit then we've got our manuals here this is the overall Quick Start Guide looks fairly detailed steps to take to get your smartphone going we've got the companion CD we've got the verizon access manager to allow you to set tether the the phone to a laptop and various tips and instructions and so on that verizon provides you so you basically have your basic setup with the phone so let's take a look at the phone see I guess the battery was already inserted this is a 1500 milliamp battery what I was most interested in seeing was the sim card and it looks like a verizon vodafone sim card yeah so it's all set to go to access the global gsm network and then maybe we'll try with an AT&T card just to see what happens this phone is actually quite a deal currently at 49 99 with a two-year contract so anyway I will get this phone charged up and we'll see what it can do I'll be back with the hardware tour shortly