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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here and i want to give you a hardware overview of the HTC hero I don't generally do hardware / use of devices but I've got a lot of requests from people who are interested about this since it's not released in the US what people don't know that much about it let's go ahead and get started first thing size wise it's 4.41 inches so down by 2.21 across by point five six and you also notice that there is a as i said in my unboxing a jay leno esque chin on this bad boy moving on we've got a 1350 milliamp hour battery which unfortunately I can't test its full capacity because this doesn't have us 3g on it so just using edge speed the battery is going to be fantastic it's got a 320 x 480 pixel resolution on display on its 3.2 inch size wise so it actually is the same resolution as your iPhone it looks fantastic on it it's got a 5 megapixel autofocus camera on the back with camcorder capabilities which is quite nice oh there is no self portrait mirror so moving on with the specs this thing can handle a ton of multimedia cluding mpeg-4 h.264 h.264 mp3 AAC aac+ wma WAV it's got a micro SD card slot which is hidden underneath the back panel here you gotta take off the battery it slide in the mini SD card microsd cred rather but unfortunately i'll show you you do not have to remove the battery taking off the back cover is kind of a pain you got to pop it up with your finger and take a nail if you have one sort of slide it down pop it up and pop it up on the other side and then your microSD card slot just goes right in there you can see the battery in the sim card is right underneath though as hard as it is to get the battery off it's just as easy to put it back on so I'll keep going through some of the specs on the device it is of course running Android it's got the Qualcomm 528 megahertz processor the same one that you'll find in the touch diamond2 it's got two hundred eighty eight megabytes of RAM and 512 megabytes of ROM it's got a full HTML browser and in a later video I'll give you a demonstration of the browser capability isn't leaving to a head-to-head comparison against the iphone this browser however does have full flash capabilities when you can play youtube videos right from within the browser just like you would on a normal website you can access a ton of other flash content as well as I said before it's got mini USB 802 11 B and G it's got bluetooth to point with stereo streaming it's got a lot of connectivity options now the actual hard work on the device it's got a send key the typical Android keys that you'll find on most devices the send key the home button a menu button and a call end or power button it's got they pretty useful trackball it's got a search brings up a universal search or google search and a back button on the side and I look this the first time I actually didn't think it had a volume rocker but if you can see it looks like one piece that actually is a volume rocker up and down very traditional like you would find on most phones just doesn't look like it it's got your speaker up front on each side it's got two LED indicators one for charging want to let you know when you have new messages so the charging is on the left new messages will blink on the right it's got HTC's proprietary mini USB port but that will charge and work with any mini USB accessories so that is actually quite nice on the rights that a device you've got nothing snap the case back on it's got this sort of metal accents on the side definitely gives it a nice look and feel and on top you've got that coveted 3.5 millimeter headset jack and as I showed you on the back it's got the 5 megapixel camera on this you'll notice that it nowhere does it say with Google even though this is running Google's Android operating system so that means you get a custom build of android right out of the box and you get this sense UI which is a new skin on top of the Android operating system I'll do a full demonstration of the sense UI in a upcoming video as well so the phone overall this have a very nice yield to it it's got just enough weight to feel substantial but not enough to feel heavy it's got a capacitive touchscreen so it's same touch screen you'll find on the iPhone the g1 and the blackberry storm so no stylist here so it does feel like a solid piece of glass and the touchscreen does seem to be very responsive overall am I just day with the device I really like the way it feels it's got a Teflon coating on the back sort of feels like the soft touch that you find on some windows mobile phones but not quite as soft touchy but it doesn't feel like it's going to go sliding out of your hands I definitely feel like it's going to stick in there overall the hardware feels great and seems to be quite responsive one of the knots and device has been that the processor speed is a little bit on the slow side but I'll talk about that more in an upcoming video so just a quick hardware overview of the HTC hero hope you enjoyed for exclusive content be sure to follow me on twitter twitter.com / John for lakers and learn more about TechnoBuffalo check out technobuffalo com I will see you guys in the next video bye bye