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what's up guys John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo here's an unboxing for you of the Motorola devour a new consumer oriented smartphone running android for Verizon Wireless this is a Best Buy Mobile exclusive for right now at least and it's gonna set you back ninety-nine bucks on a two-year contract it will be coming very soon to Verizon stores near you this is running motoblur sitting on top of android 1.6 motoblur is a skinned up Android similar to Sense UI they may have seen on the hero or other HTC devices this is kind of being considered as the little brother to the Droid let's go ahead and dig in and I have yet to use even motoblur phone so I don't know how the skin works and quite looking forward to it so this ascent it's from Verizon for review if you've got some press material inside push that off to the side teeny tiny box Wow zoom in just a bit so here is the box for the Motorola Devourer picture of it on the front some SKU information picture of it on the back and some what's in the box stuff but no need to go over that since we're going to open the box so here is the Devourer handset it feels heavy I mean pick out a very solid feel to it we'll look at that in just a moment let's go ahead and see what else you're gonna get with your smartphone it's like the usual array of stuff you've got micro SV charging wall connector where you plug that into and some getting to know motoblur stuff so let's discuss some respect to the device and they'll give you a tour so when you first look at the Motorola Devourer I think you're gonna notice two things first you get a vs. screen which comes in two three point one inches and it's capacitive and you're also going to notice the pronounced optical track that sort of uses your d-pad or scroll ball and also can be pushed in for many notifications or to turn on your phone like we did right here this Motorola icon is just an icon doesn't have any sort of cool functionality just is for looks you've got some motoblur buttons on the phone too that are capacitive you've got your unlock button you've got a notification LED blinking sort of hidden lis right there home button and back button on the left side of the device you've got your charging port and actually your battery port as well if you slide this off to the side you get access to your battery which is side loading interestingly enough go ahead and push that back it's also where your micro SD card goes and included with the device let's check out the size that micro sd card phone freaks out you're going to get a 8 gig micro SD card go ahead and push that back in ok so moving right along on the right side of the device you're gonna have your volume toggles up and down you're gonna have a hard button I'm not sure sure what that does we'll see what that functions as in a minute and you've got your dedicated camera button on the top you've got your three point five millimeter headset jack lock and power button back you've got that sort of Motorola logo with the motoblur and verizon branding and a very pronounced speaker on the bottom you take the phone and slide it out you are greeted with a full QWERTY keyboard and the keys here seem to be very nice they've got a nice press and throw to him you can really feel a difference in the keys that was one of the knocks that I had on the Motorola Droid was that the keys were big what they were ben-moshe and close together and they were hard to use and type one does not appear to be the case with this however a separate compromise was made with this keyboard if you're looking at oh there's a full number row but the bottom letters the ZX CV and the rest of them actually on the same row as a space bar which can they take some getting used to so if you're interested in picking up a Motorola devour something that you're going to want to keep in mind I assume that's going to take a bit of practice the sliding mechanism is spring-loaded and really has a nice go to it the phone's got a very industrial high quality feel I don't know if they actually translate to good build quality or not but it does feel really nice it's got sort of a sturdy feel in the hand so let's compare it very quickly to the droid it's big brother so to speak and for a lot more Devourer Android coverage stay tuned to the channel and TechnoBuffalo we're gonna be doing some head to heads and more comparisons there so from a size standpoint clearly a difference in the screen believe you're looking at a 3.1 I believe the droids is a 3.7 so definitely a bit of a difference when you're using the Devourer you'll definitely notice that there is a very pronounced bezel along the phone I'm you stack them on top of each other to see a difference in thickness you notice there really isn't one there despite the increase in processor speed that the droid has to go ahead and look at their keyboards the devours targeted more at the consumer market those looking for maybe a texting and feature phone with some smart phone capabilities whereas a droid is geared more towards a business oriented crowd or a more power user than a bit of our but you can see the differences right here keys I was talking about nospace sort of hard to feel in a bit mushy these are sort of spaced out and have a bit more tactile feedback to them I'll be doing a full overview on the Motorola stands outbreaks a thumbs action my first time ever using sense so I'm kind of curious to get in and play with it I should also mention that the Devourer does have Wi-Fi and the GPS and since it is running Android 1.6 you can get the Google Maps Navigation for the turn-by-turn directions so this is really a quick look at moto blur I went ahead and set it up and asked you to type in your Twitter your Facebook and the rest of those passwords and it appears to have imported everything in this weird Moodle blurry way of no idea what this does yet I'm getting tweets are all sort of coming in you do get five home screens however in case you're wondering so I'll go back there message from LP you get five home screens which is quite nice you can customize them any way you want either with motoblur the standard widgets we'll go over all those standard widgets sort of are I just want you to navigator by accident so this is sort of what motoblur is gonna look like for you tray and everything looks similar to what you've expected dialer and Sajal I'll show you guys when I do a tour of the operating system anyway hope you enjoyed I one last thing that I do want to mention is we're looking on the back at a 3 megapixel camera a lot of features to go over on on these phones no flash so hope you guys enjoyed this overview and unboxing of the Motorola Devourer there'll be plenty more coverage coming up on TechnoBuffalo and the youtube channel for all your tech needs and to create monetize your own tech blog and to really interact with people on our built-in social network and to get all your tech news sure to check out TechnoBuffalo and 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