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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocketnow.com and now we're going to go in a hardware tour of the verizon touch XV 6900 as you can see it's painted in white it's not a metallic paint it's a flat white paint but it still looks very attractive the XV 6900 has a very minimalist design there aren't many buttons on the sky turning over to the side we can see that it's point 5 inches thick it's relatively thin for a windows mobile phone and on the back we have nothing more than the camera and it's lens self-portrait mirror and an external speaker back on the front the only buttons that we have are the call start and call end buttons plus the d-pad with a select button in the center the screen is flush which is really really attractive and it feels quite nice to the screens made of plastic as is the entire device which makes it feel a bit cheap but also it's very very lightweight it's only 112 grams we have this chrome strip that runs along the perimeter of the device again it's plastic so it's not high quality metal but it does make the device look thinner the stylist can be found in the upper right corner here and it's a non collapsible stylus high quality it's kind of short though but that's ok it fits nicely in the device flipping over to the bottom we have a microphone mini USB port for listening to audio charging and syncing and a lanyard hook here to the left we take off the back battery cover and something else I like about the XV 6900 is there's no seam from where the the back detaches from the body it's actually the entire back that comes off here we have a 1100 milliamp hour battery and in order to access the micro SD slot you have to take off the back battery and it's a very awkward movement you have to pull pretty hard with a fingernail to remove this massive plasticky chrome panel I don't like the placement of this at all so let's get that cover back on and you saw they're a camera button so that you can hold the device like so and take a picture this is a very attractive bone that I wouldn't mind taking out with me on a friday night resting on the bar next to my keys and it feels quite refined I should mention also that there's a volume slider here on the left so you can increase the volume and decrease the volume but that does not work as a scroll wheel or Scroll mechanism unfortunately so that's the hardware of the XV 6900