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hi this is Steven skarlatos of pocketnow.com and here is part one of my video review of Verizon's SMT 5800 Windows Mobile 6 standard smartphone let's take a tour of the device the SMT 5800 is based on the HTC s7 30 but was specifically designed to run on Verizon's cdma/evdo network this is a Windows Mobile 6 standard edition so it means it has no touchscreen it has a numeric keypad here the home screen button back button make call answer call button and call you can also use the end call button to lock the phone and then we have the 2 Windows Mobile soft keys here as well as the d-pad on the side we have a power button which brings up a menu option to either turn the phone off or change profiles so if i unlock the phone here you can see the different options that are available when you press this button right now I'm on the normal profile you can also access the com manager through here or lock the phone then we have the slider button and the slider button manipulates the volume up or down or when you're on a web page or an email or a document use you use that to page down or page up on the top of the phone we have nothing on this side of the phone we have the camera button which activates the 2 megapixel camera on the bottom of the phone we have a latch for the battery cover the mini USB connector and a strap hook the mini USB connector on this phone is also used for headphones and Verizon has included an adapter for headphones you also have the microphone inlet there on the back of the phone you've got a speaker for the speakerphone and listening to music as well as the 2 megapixel camera this phone also has a slide-out keyboard which is a full QWERTY keyboard and the spacing on the keyboard is actually fairly comfortable to be able to thumb messages at a reasonable pace the one thing that's missing from this phone from a hardware standpoint is Wi-Fi but since I've been using it over the last few days I haven't had the need to use Wi-Fi because of Verizon's EVDO broadband network which has actually been quite speedy in terms of browsing and retrieving emails it is rumored that this phone is upgradable to a video revision a which will allow for faster uploads the screen size on this phone is 2.4 inches it is a QVGA screen 240 by 320 pixel and the entire device weighs 4.2 ounces and feels quite comfortable in my hand the SMT 5800 has 128 megabytes of ROM in 64 megabytes of RAM which these days is a little weak but up to now I haven't had a problem with that amount of memory it also has a microSD slot and I'm using a 2 mega a 2 gigabyte microSD slot and I believe you can go up from there at least with four gigabytes well this about does it for today's tour of the SMT 5800 and I'll be back soon with some information on its Bluetooth connectivity options bye for now