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what's up everyone John retton's you're from TechnoBuffalo hear that advice I'm actually pretty excited about this is the AT&T variant of the Palm Pre Plus we've seen the original pretty launched on Sprint about a year ago and the Palm Pre Plus comes Verizon a few months back so this is the 18 team version it's gonna run you a hundred and forty nine ninety-nine on a two-year contract after rebates and it'll be available in stores on May 16th if you do purchase in storage for a limited time you will get a free touchstone charger which palm traditionally sells for around 60 bucks so a nice value add so enough of me yeah Pat let's go ahead and cut into the boss top of the tape is already ripped pull that of course we use the obligatory don't cut your fingers off a big ol knife so here is what you're going to get if you purchase a palm free plus you're gonna get the Palm Pre itself as well as a touchstone charger for a limited time if you go to a retail location so push the charger off to the side let's take a look at the Palm Pre Plus box looks very similar to the other palm boxes that we see in the past it's a very nice unboxing experience although this time it is now emblazoned with AT&T orange there's a picture of the device on the front those you're not familiar with the palm operating system called webOS it's a multitasking powerhouse uses something called the deck of card features and I'll show you the operating system in an upcoming video but handles multitasking very well it's got a capacitive multi-touch screen which is 2.63 inches the resolution of 320 by 480 gigabytes of user storage it does have a removable battery which is 1,150 milliamp hours so about five and a half hours of 3G talktime and about 350 hours of standby talktime it does have a two megapixel forced focus digital camera with flash and it does have a camera and obviously has a camera and a camcorder a lot of other sort of pretty impressive functionality it's got about a 600 megahertz processor and isn't par with some of the hardware that's been released recently although it's certainly not a gigahertz chip as some of the other devices that have come out our so here is the box just pulled off that sleeve device on the front back of the device nothing on the top so this looks like let's go ahead and open this up there we go so here we have the Palm Pre plus it looks very familiar those you that have seen a pre plus on Verizon or another carrier oh I will say it does feel like the sliding mechanism has been improved it was one of the complaints that I had with the Verizon version I felt a little weak this one actually has a very nice spring-loaded field that's good push it off this Eifert to submit it and see what else comes in the box so it's in this hard plastic shell all of your must read materials here so you've got a QuickStart guide there's a lot setting a messaging Wi-Fi it of course has assisted GPS it has as well texting and driving it can wait obviously very important it can certainly wait and here are your accessories sitting underneath this nice little piece of plastic you have of course your USB charger which I believe palm uses a micro USB for their devices which is hiding right under that flap on the side we'll take a look at the device in a minute so very small charger which is quite nice we've got pair of headphones which appeared to be the same headphones that are shipped with previous devices assuming a USB to micro USB cable these things aren't quite ubiquitous and a little bag carrying case which is not leather but some sort of micro fiber needs to clean the screen or keep your device in there push that back close a box and let's take a look at the phone itself since this is the main attraction so like I mentioned it does have a two point six three inch multi-touch capacitive which is very nice its gesture areas right down here if you're familiar with Palm webOS it loses the original button that the initial pre had and now it's sort of virtual you just touch it and it recognizes the click so on the left side of the device you've got your volume rocker on the bottom you've got your microphone port and there's a battery release on the right side you've got your charging port that pulls right out and you can do your charging on the top you've got your profile switch to go from lock or provide rate to ringing your 3.5 millimeter non recessed headphone jack 2 megapixel camera with your flash it also does your camcorder NISS and you've got your speaker grill right there so let's take a look at the touchstone one of the cool things about the palm devices is that they can make use of wireless charging you actually have to plug in the touchstone I believe it's called conductive wireless charging plug in a touchstone and your device that's right on top of it so let's unbox the touchstone as well you may have seen this with the Sprint version when the touchstone came in and the Verizon versions as well but it is a really nice sort of addition to have certainly not a necessity it'll charge fine just the regular wall plug but it does make it a kind of fun so here is the touchstone box go ahead and pull that out and see it is relatively small go ahead and pop off some plastic and it uses its kind of cool gecko feet technology the same technology that yeah it was having their feet the bottom of this uses just a stick it doesn't feel sticky at all but it'll stick to almost anywhere which is kind of neat and I assuming here we've got a cord so if you take this wrapped inside cord which is not an actually so you must use the cord that comes in the box the microUSB to USB cord you plug it into the back right there that goes into the wall and when you want to charge your phone you just plop it right on top and you will be charging without any wires connected to your phone at least which is pretty neat so I've used webOS on many different vices and I've been a big fan of it I'm curious to see how 18th he's implementation comes through though I expect it will be a very similar experience stay tuned to the channel for a full battery of reviews I will be covering operating system how it performs guess it's competitors and a few other tests that you request but as if I usually do with my phone unboxings let's do some size comparisons with perhaps the pre pluses biggest competitor here is its AT&T stablemate the iPhone 3GS you can definitely see that there is a size difference they're stacked on top of each other you'll see there's a size difference there as well the pre plus has a full slide-out keyboard as of now there is not a on-screen virtual keyboard you have to rely on the smallish slider move that off to the side here is its I suppose cousin here is the pixie Plus this which also will become an 18 Phoebus is a Verizon variant so there's certainly a thickness difference there as well and here is the just-released droid incredible for Verizon Wireless so this is been an unboxing of the Palm Pre Plus for 18 t Wireless again stay tuned to the channel on TechnoBuffalo comm for all of your tech news I'm John Rhett enger' and I will see you in the next video buh-bye