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greetings all this is deke Adams from pocketnow.com and today we're taking a closer look at the hardware for the LG revolution from Verizon Wireless so sit back relax and enjoy the show now the LG revolution does have a nice big 4.3 inch screen and I hate to say this but it's one of the only things it has going for it at this point since I've used it for a couple of days the edges here around the casing while it makes it feel really solid after it's been resting in your hands for a few minutes starts to cut into your palms and up here on the upper edge where you would normally place this against your ear it's really actually quite sharp there as you can see and that was a little exaggerated but holding it up to your head does but some doesn't do some damage on our own your earlobes there um the smooth edge here makes it you know nice to hold in the hand but it as a I can't say that it's really comfortable in even my largest hands compared to other phones that I've used other things I've noticed is that this door is a little bit of a pain to get open although once it's open it works just fine but it's ready just come on there in my opinion it doesn't slide on very well and here's this side I haven't really had a chance to use the hdmi out because I don't really have the cable and I don't really use that phones for that purpose but again it's one of those slider doors or pop open doors the volume buttons up and down work just fine but I since I've used to using samsung devices I find myself going over here for the power button and turning the volume up and down speaking of volume the volume levels are are pretty good I found that the speaker phone levels are a little quiet compared to other devices on the market today the camera is so far so good we'll talk about more in the actual software review so we'll come back to that later headphone jack is nice and solid no problems there although I did run into an issue where I had bluetooth enabled and then try to attempted to plug in the headset here and it tried to still send the audio through the Bluetooth even though that I had turned bluetooth off and disabled the headset that required a complete reset to work again internal memory a it's really hard to tell in the software but it does have the 16 gig micro SD card and it does have an additional 16 gigs of internal memory for storage which is really nice that's that's a good chunk of storage battery life is been about average I'm getting about seven hours with about you know three to four hours of phone calls before it's asking me to charge the device again that's without any 4g enabled at all no Wi-Fi Bluetooth and the brightness set to auto speaking of brightness let's talk about that for a moment I'll just jump into here does something black now this is on full bright right now and as you can see the blacks aren't really black at all and it's still difficult with a device like this but if we compare it against another device say the nexus s 4g from sprint you can really see the difference is there between the LG and the Nexus and the black here versus the kind of grayish black here which causes all of the other images and videos and everything else on the device to be look really washed out even if it's on auto brightness this grayness doesn't disappear when you increase the brightness it doesn't increase the brightness of the texts as much as it just increases the brightness of the screen in addition the up here in the ball the text looks really sharp and and easy to read here in in this section up with the smaller text like the clock and it's difficult to see in this view and it's not good it's not really going to make much sense without actually seeing it this is seems a little fuzzy a little blurry not as easy to read once again compared to other devices the the crispness of this screen is not as good as others other things I've noticed is that the one I'm touching the screen and try to navigate through it oftentimes I'm finding that I have to tap things twice all that time was just fine I'm finding that I'm trying to scroll across pages and nothing will happen or I'll try to tap a button and have to tap the button again in order for it to work perhaps I've got a faulty unit but with the screen brightness being odd it doesn't really make you know that much sense at this point it still got some some major flaws that I can't I wouldn't live with in a device power button on the top is just is really small it is easy to hit once you you know recognize where it is and it turns off on and off without any problems I've heard or read some other complaints about folks having issues with lockups again I haven't had anything like that happen with this particular device other functionality and features of this phone I it seems to work just fine but again it's mostly the awkwardness of the device compared to the Nexus S widthwise they're almost the same with the curved glass wait why's this the LG revolution actually weighs more than the sprint epic 4g dozen it's got a removable keyboard a removable can pop out keyboard pardon me speed on the LG revolution is about what you would expect I mean things flip back and forth when the screen works if you know if you don't run into a problem with it a lot you know locking up as you page through items it well we'll come back to more software bits and pieces things load fairly quickly the 3g service from verizon is very stable we'll cover more of the software side the speeds of the LTE and 3g when I get into a NLT air area later this week will cover that in the software review but otherwise I'm pretty pleased with the performance of it but it is just a Snapdragon processor that wraps up our hardware review of the LG revolution from verizon if you have any comments or questions leave them below otherwise thanks for watching