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hey guys John render a TechnoBuffalo here with an unboxing for you of the new HP I pack and glisten this is a phone for AT&T Wireless that'll be available in the coming weeks it's a windows mobile 6.5 or Windows Phone as Microsoft would like you to call it it's got an AM oh well let you scream GPS and a ton of other good stuff let's go ahead and dig in and take a look and of course for an unboxing we've got the big old knife but he seems to have brought friends these are both of them that I used for the unboxings they were sitting here on my desk we got dueling big ol knives but I have to kill myself so we'll just use one of them let's go ahead and dig into the box this would be available for a hundred and seventy nine dollars after a $50 mail-in rebate nothing else in it the iPAQ glisten hp's kind of gone onto the radar with phones for quite a while this is one that was teased a little a little while back and is now available for public consumption or will be in the coming weeks so it's letting you know on the front that it's got Wi-Fi gps email and a browser and you can see on the front it's sort of a candy bar looking phone sort of reminiscent of the blackberry bold or curved series looks like it's got some sort of optical trackpad in the middle or maybe there's a d-pad we'll take a look and it's got an unskilled version of windows mobile 6.5 telling you what's in the box but no need to look at that since we're gonna open it up in just a second well let's take a look at some of the specs here it is 4.45 high by two point four eight wide and point five two inches deep this flight is a pretty generous 2.5 inch QVGA 64,000 color 320 by 420 am oh le d-- screen so if those you don't know what the am LED screen is you right here it is mo LED essentially what it means is it's a low power really bright color so it's really what you want on your smart phone it's god's 512 megabytes of flash rom in 256 megabytes of ram and of course a micro key card for going up to 32 gigs it's got a camera with a 3.1 and megapixel sensor with a 5 times digital zoom and it's got Wi-Fi B&G bluetooth on all that other goodness you'd expect including GPS let's go and take a look at this I have not seen one in person so I have no idea what its gonna look like or how thick it's gonna be but let's take a look so I've got some getting started on the front some stuff about EMT navigator which I actually use my iPhones my daily driver and I use AT&T Navigator I think it's actually a pretty good option some cases from HP and some information from HP as well so here is the device itself and push it off to the side for just one minute but there's a pretty decent sized battery there as well we've got a wall charger for similar to what you get now with the iPhone and some HTC devices just a little wall plug with what appears to be a USB port so they'll plug right in and let's see what sort of connector each we decided to use with this they are using micro USB so at least it's not a proprietary standard then push all this off to the side and let's take a look at the device itself pop the battery in to and the battery is sighs let's see if it tells us on it all right so it appears to be a 1250 milli amp hour battery it's a little bit long but it's thin so that's not too bad so here is the phone itself let's take a look at what it looks like so you've got your full keyboard on the front and it looks to be a very generous keyboard spacing the keys have nice throw there a little bit slick and you can see there's a little bit of raise on them so you can feel which key is which from a window standpoint you've got your buttons that you would expect this is a touch screen by the way you've got your send key you've got your Windows key you've got your okay or back key and your N key that does look like well that's just not an optical joypad it's actually a full d-pad 5 way with a button selection in the middle and this is of course a resistive touch screen the only capacitive Windows Mobile phone out there is the HTC hd2 looks like we've got some LEDs and maybe a proximity sensor we've got your volume toggle up and down on the left-hand side continuing on the right you've got your 3.5 milimeter headset jack and your micro USB charging port there is your camera sensor does not have in any sort of LED flash and that's like you've got a stylus silo at the bottom which is a bit collapsible variety so whether you like that or not you're going to have it so let's do a quick the camera focus again let's do a quick size comparison to some other devices you might be familiar with here is a similar form factor device we've got the palm pixi force print the pixie is probably the smallest candy bar form factor chordophone that i've seen and it's not that much smaller than the glistens that goes to show that how small this device really is the keyboard definitely looks to be way more spaced out on the HP than it is on the pixie but to keep it on the pixies quite good so we'll see how this one stacks up from a thickness standpoint HP looks a little bit thicker but not much the obligatory iPhone comparisons people are familiar with the size of the iPhone they don't look to be that different stack them on top side comparison sort of rounding out some of the carrier's flagship devices here we have the blackberry storm2 looks to be pretty similar that's great the iPhone sort of rounding out the carriers flasher devices here we have the blackberry storm2 looks to be relatively similar in size and pretty close in thickness so let's pop in the battery and see what this looks like so here's the device sort of opened up there's your SIM card slot and your micro SD card slot is right there and let's see if once the batteries in if you have to pull it out to actually access that micro SD card slot I'm inclined to believe that you are going to have to just pop in the battery that looks like yeah it does cover up that slot so you have to pull out the battery in order to access the micro sd which is a bit annoying but it's pretty standard fare for most smartphones that push that back on and let's power this thing on and see what we got and it can take sometimes quite a while to power on Windows 6.5 devices especially for the first time so this gets to be a little bit long I'm going to cut it short you've got your big HP splash screen it's about a minute has elapsed now you get to the Windows calibration screen this is a resistive screen you're gonna want you to calibrate it and first it up your phone so they're saying happen so we'll go ahead and tap it so take out the stylus and we'll do the calibration go ahead and tap the center and that's it here we are now in the standard unscanned Windows Phone or windows mobile 6.5 sliding panel interface so like I usually do with all my phone reviews I'll use this for a little bit and I'll let you guys know what I think hope you enjoy it for exclusive content checking out twitter twitter.com 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