HTC First Unboxing By Jon Rettinger

What's up everyone John rent from Techno Buffalo here than unboxing for you of the HTC first, the very first phone shipping with Facebook's brand-new skin at Facebook home- that's going to be coming to other devices, but this is the only one right now that is going to come with an experience right out of the box, so it's going to be available for $99, but by time you pick this up. What we have here might not be. What you have is Facebook is promising monthly updates. Let's go ahead. Take a look at this guy, see how it stacks up item here is the teeny tiny box for the HTC. First, the only video were in the comments.

It'll be acceptable to yell. First, alright, so we've got the 18 G globe, again HTC, four sorts of Facebook, looking font, making a Facebook, there's Facebook's F, letting you know this is Facebook home. This is the first device that is shipping with Facebook home right at the box would be available to download on a myriad of other devices, but this one is fully ensconced. Inside the phone will have some features that others won't, including some notification features, so I'll go ahead and slide off this little sleeve, and here is the HTC box. As a reminder, this is shipping now for $99 from AT&T.

So here is the phone. That's 4.3-inch 720p screen that is 1280 by 720. That's pretty nice so far in the hand, go ahead and peel off the plastic actually before I. Do that, and I get all excited, going to push it off to the side. I still get super excited, never I, unbox, new phones.

So underneath the've got some serial numbers HTC stickers. We saw this with the HTC One. It's kind of nice you're doing that now. So if you want to show your HTC love, you can do that sim removal tool, Quick Start Guide, for you guessed it, and we've got nothing really else in the box. Charging cord and wall work pretty generic HTC stuff.

Alright. So let's look at the reason we are all here. This is the HTC first texting and driving it can wait. That is a true statement. I was actually driving it a day and there was a guy on the freeway texting made me very nervous, so don't be that guy okay, so here is the phone on first blush.

It feels very similar to the One X and the one X plus it's got sort of us off touch rubber feel to it. It does feel really nice HTC's devices I think have some of the best build quality in industry. So I will power this guy on and see what happens, and I'll run through the specs for you here in just a moment. Hopefully we got some juice, we'll see if it does have juice. It's coming from a 2000 William hour battery see a nice transition talking about specs, you got the little Facebook home logo that shows up right there, so Android 4.1 at launched and Facebook home is on top of it. You can, however, turn off Facebook home and really be left with stock Android again that is 4.1. You can also turn off Facebook home and leave chat heads on if you want it's one right here.

It's a very interesting way to manage your Facebook messages and SMS, so it's being powered by a 1.4 Gig to Qualcomm dual-core chip. That is the eight nine-30 double an if you are keeping track at home. Gig, RAM, 16, gigs of storage, but you're not going to find here is any place to put expandable storage because that ain't an option. Look at that Facebook log and that's something interesting. You don't see when you first turn on your phone, so it's got a five megapixel camera living right there on the back.

It is flush, though, to the back, so you might want to keep a cloth or your shirt before use. In is probably going to collect some Durst dirt and dust Durst I just made that up it's. My combination word: it's got a front-facing camera as well at 1.6, megapixel, shooter, 802, 11 a BGN. So if you'd expect Bluetooth 4.0, it does have NFC and a micro SIM card slot which lives right there. So, let's do our tour of the device on the top.

There is a 3.5 millimeter, headset jack noise, cancelling mic power and a lock button in the upper right-hand corner of the phone. On the left hand, side there is your charge and sync cable. That's the now standard microUSB SIM card slot. You got to stick a pin into to pull out the little shelf on the bottom. We've got speaker grille and on the left-hand side, very well, pronounced volume.

Rocker we've got the typical Android controls here on the bottom, we've got back home and multitasking or menu depending on how it's set up. Interestingly, we've got sort of a circle button. There, though for home I, guess that sort of matches that circle button right there as well I'm going to go ahead and login, and we'll do a real, quick look at Facebook home, of course, do a full review of the device and also a full review of Facebook home, showing you guys what the heck it does. I'll be right back. Alright, so here is Facebook home.

Interestingly enough, when I turned on the phone, the only login and asked me for was Facebook. It didn't bring up connect to Wi-Fi or any sort of Google stuff. It was just Facebook, and this is what I am greeted with, and coincidentally, we've got Ava Choir who hangs out at her office with Lucy as our picture, so on first blush you can do a pretty decent amount with Facebook home. Furthermore, it's your lock screen in your home screen, which is kind of weird. So if you want to like a picture, you can just double tap it, and you get a big of thumbs up.

If you want to do that down there as well they're shortcuts for it or to see the comments, you can hit that little icon right down there. So if you hit the home button, you get all of your apps sort of right from your lock screen. It's pretty standard apps. One interesting want to notice, though, is this one right here called home settings. You can actually turn off Facebook home.

If you want, if you want to go back to stock Android, you could turn off Facebook home, but you can leave on chat heads if you want which will pull up a little chat notifications as you go with a picture of the person. That's talking to you. It's actually pretty interesting to see, and you can see. Pictures are scrolling here from everybody on your newsfeed as your friends on notifications, you just saw those guys show up right there. You can drag one and throw it off the screen, or you can stack them together and throw them off together.

So you've got a text message from AT&T and let me know Wi-Fi networks are available and there is your icon showing you what you look like on Facebook home. So a few other things here are kind of interesting. As you go ahead and scroll through. You can see again all the pictures no multi-touch is on here. If you want to zoom into pictures, if you want to see the whole picture, you can log pro long press and see it.

So the big deal with Facebook home addition to sort of making Facebook your home and lock screen is as I just mentioned, chat heads, so chat. Heads is a kind of cool way to manage all of your Facebook messages and an IMS. So when a chat head comes in and there's perfect time, anyone from ROI it'll show up, and you can keep that ever any application. You could drag it anywhere. You want no matter what application you're in.

So let's go ahead and open up an app we'll keep that chat head there. Let's say I want to go to Chrome I can start browsing and see the message from Roy up that and continue in that chat. Head stays there. If I want to jump to that, I can always just tap it, and I'll go right to that chat. If you want to go out of it again, you can just hit home and that chat head will stay there for as long as you want, you can move it anywhere.

You want it to be now you want to get rid of it. You just drag it right to the X and you can throw that chat head right off. It's a pretty neat way to manage your conversations. I like you, can move it anywhere on the screen, so I'm going to try Facebook home and see how it works and how it performs one interesting sort of glaring omission from it, though, for a phone, that's meant to be very Facebook. Centric done the way to access a camera is to either go to your apps and go to camera, there's sort of a camera shortcut which is a little on the odd side to me.

If you hold down your icon one other thing: you can do jump right to messenger, go right to Chrome or you can jump right to your apps, and that is really it for Facebook home. This is the $99 phone. It's not meant to be their flagship. You know quad-core phone, the HTC One is definitely that guy, but for $99 price point or getting a very nice phone now consider this. If you're thinking about something like a nexus 4, for example, you can get stock Android on here, it's 4.1, you can take off a spoke home if you choose to, but you still get access to LTE, which is something that you don't get on the Nexus 4. So consider, what's important to you, you know you guys anything.

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Source : Jon Rettinger