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HTC S640 Unboxing

HTC S640 Unboxing This is Jason Dunn from Smart Phone Thoughts and this is an unboxing and first impressions video of the HTC S640. Now this is an interesting unboxing video because this phone is only available on the TELUS network. I’m Canadian, I live in Calgary Alberta and TELUS is our only city carrier here or rather one of our only carriers. So this one particular product from HTC is a bit unique in so far as it doesn’t—the device is not actually on any other network as far as I know. So I’m going to crack open the box here, I will take a look of what’s inside of it. I should point out that this device is essentially the successor on some level to the T-Mobile Dash or the Excalibur, the Cavalier that sort of generation of device. Maybe I’ll show you to what I’m comparing it too, so this here is my T-Mobile Dash. Now this in my opinion the single best Windows Mobile Smart Phone ever made for Windows Mobile standard devices. It’s a fantastic device, it has a great keyboard, it’s incredibly slim, very durable, and it has a decent screen. All around is just a really great device, but unfortunately HTC hasn’t really made a newer version of this that works on the GSM network, what they did however was create a device for TELUS and that’s what the HTS S640 was. So we’ll just kind of flip open the box here and I’ll take a look at it. Okay, so this is the device, this is a CDMA device that has sort of similar specifications to the T-Mobile Dash. Of course this device runs on TELUS 1XRTT network, so it’s going to be a lot faster than the T-Mobile Dash which of course simply is an edged device. So first impressions, it looks very similar in terms of you know thickness, it might a millimeter thicker but it’s so close it’s virtually impossible to tell. It is essentially the same height. It doesn’t have—when you’re holding it, it doesn’t have the same kind of edge that goes backwards like the Dash does but it still feels very good to hold in the hand. Looks like it has a similar style of keyboard to the previous device, slightly different in the layout and buttons but overall looks to be you know pretty similar. So I’ll se that aside for right now, we’ll just take a quick peak inside the box here to see if there’s anything else worth noting. So it comes with a slip case here, it comes with a pair of headphones because of course it uses the HTC USB adapter, sort of the mini USB adapter. It also comes with an adapter that allows you to essentially charge and also plug in headphones at the same time, so you connect this cable here to the bottom of the device and then this allows you to plug in two more things. Although—hold on, hold on, I think I made a mistake here, I’m looking and I’m actually seeing a headphone jack down here. Looks like its probably 2.5 millimeter but I’ll probably need to take a look at the specifications and double check but that’s kind of exciting for me because I always give HTC a really hard time whenever they only use this one particular sort of port for headphones. Because I don’t want to go and plug in my ultimate ears headphones to a regular sized jack and go. I suspect this 2.5 millimeter but you know just stepping on the right direction. So we’ll take a look at anything else in here, we have a quick start guide, some basic—looks like a screen protector. And then looks like we have a sync cable, I mini USB sync cable. Now its kid of curious here is there is no AC adapter for charging, so I received this unit directly from HTC, so I might need to follow up with them and find out if that’s actually normal. That just seems a little bit weird not to have an adapter although you know sometimes carriers like TELUS will want you to buy—it has an accessory so you know they’ll let you recharge it by plugging it into your computer or USB port or something but they wont actually give you know a cable or an adapter to recharge it. So I will have to find out about that, now lets just get this out of the way here. In terms of comparing the 640 to other devices, this is an HTC Touch Diamond right here; the HTC Touch Diamond is a fair bit smaller overall. You can see it’s a little bit shorter, it’s a little bit you know less wide and it has also I would say slightly thinner, not by a whole bunch but little bit different. And then this device here, this is my Samsung—it’s called the Samsung Jack up here on Canada on the Rogers Network but essentially a Black Jack Two and this device, the two of them have quite a bit in common. Looks like the S640 is going to be a little bit shorter, it’s going to be a little bit wider, you know just by a millimeter or three and it’s a little bit shorter but they’re very similar in size. So what I’m going to do now is I’m going to pause the video for a second and I’m going to power the device up and we’ll take a look at what the software and interface is like. All right and we’re back, so I had a little bit of chance to look into a couple of little issues. The first one with the AC adapter is that yeah, there should be an AC adapter in the box. It was just simply left out when the product was shipped to me, so if you do get this phone from TELUS, it will come with an AC adapter. The jack on the bottom, that is actually a 2.5 millimeter headphone jack, so its not a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, so its not as useful as it could be but at least you can get a—I think you can get a smaller adapters for 2.5 to 3.5 millimeter headphone adapters then you can if you don’t have to use the mini USB port. Now I have the phone booted up here as you can see. It’s got a 320 by 240 resolution screen, 64,000 colors so pretty standard for most Windows Mobile Devices. It has a rechargeable lithium ion battery. I think when I checked; actually I think I can pop this off without disrupting it. Yeah it’s a 12,000 mili amp battery, so that’s actually a nice bump up from the 900 millimeter—sorry, mili amp so of the battery that the most of these other phones will have. So I just need to actually unlock it here because apparently when you take off the back of the battery it locks it. So the phone does have built in Wi-Fi as well. It has—like I said, it has it’s a 1X E-video phone. It says on the webpage that it is REV capable but with the software update that is still not on at the moment. Weights about a 120 grams and it is 14.2 millimeters thick, so it’s fairly thin. It has lock up internet access through the phone so basically you can use it for tethering on the TELUS network. In terms of storage, it comes with 171 megabytes of storage, at least that’s what the software reports and there’s about 166 megabytes of that storage free on the phone when you first boot it up so you can use that to install you know applications. It comes with 64 megs of RAM but only about 22 megabytes of that memory is actually free when you boot up the phone. So 22 megs of RAM can be eaten up pretty quickly but the smart phone with just standard mobile operating system is quite good at dealing with memory, so I haven’t run with a whole lot of issues in terms of running out of RAM and it does support micro SD cards so—lets see if I can pop this open here. It’s a little bit tricky to get this open; okay so this little slot right here, this is a micro SD card slot. The TELUS webpage specified it can use up to four gigabyte cards but I actually put my eight gigabyte micro SD card in here courtesy of San Disk and it reported that there is 7.6 gigabytes of storage free. So it does support SD HC cards which means theoretically as they release higher and higher capacity cards you should be able to support—should be able to support pretty much any of those cards. It comes with a camera as well; I believe it’s a two mega pixel camera. I’ll just verify that a little bit later on because I don’t have the specs in front of me here but it’s a two mega pixel here and then on the side here they have a job wheel. Let’s see if I can get back to the screen, so on the left hand side here they actually have a job wheel, sort of like what you might see on a Blackberry. This is a big improvement because the original—the T-Mobile Dash or the Excalibur Cavalier devices, they actually have this little touch strip and the touch strip frankly was pretty irritating to use and didn’t really work all that well. So it’s actually great that they use this little scroll wheel here and then this button here, I’m not actually a 100% sure what this button does. I’ll probably have to look it up, okay its actually a voice tag. See when you press this button then you can use it for voice activation software. Other than that all of the buttons on here are pretty standard, you have your power button here, you have the home and back button you know start a call, end a call and then the two soft keys. So that ends my unboxing in first impressions video. If you have any questions about this phone, feel free to post a comment. If you’re watching this over on YouTube, please rate this video, post a comment if you want to have anything to say about it and then also subscribe to our channel. So that’s it, this has been Jason Dunn from Smart Phone Thoughts looking at the TELUS H640 Windows Mobile standard smart phone. I will probably be doing a written review of this phone, so I check out Smart Phone Thoughts for the full written review once that’s done. Thanks for watching.

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HTC S640 Unboxing

This is Jason Dunn from Smart Phone Thoughts and this is an unboxing and first impressions video of the HTC S640. Now this is an interesting unboxing video because this phone is only available on the TELUS network. I’m Canadian, I live in Calgary Alberta and TELUS is our only city carrier here or rather one of our only carriers. So this one particular product from HTC is a bit unique in so far as it doesn’t—the device is not actually on any other network as far as I know.

So I’m going to crack open the box here, I will take a look of what’s inside of it. I should point out that this device is essentially the successor on some level to the T-Mobile Dash or the Excalibur, the Cavalier that sort of generation of device. Maybe I’ll show you to what I’m comparing it too, so this here is my T-Mobile Dash. Now this in my opinion the single best Windows Mobile Smart Phone ever made for Windows Mobile standard devices. It’s a fantastic device, it has a great keyboard, it’s incredibly slim, very durable, and it has a decent screen. All around is just a really great device, but unfortunately HTC hasn’t really made a newer version of this that works on the GSM network, what they did however was create a device for TELUS and that’s what the HTS S640 was. So we’ll just kind of flip open the box here and I’ll take a look at it.

Okay, so this is the device, this is a CDMA device that has sort of similar specifications to the T-Mobile Dash. Of course this device runs on TELUS 1XRTT network, so it’s going to be a lot faster than the T-Mobile Dash which of course simply is an edged device. So first impressions, it looks very similar in terms of you know thickness, it might a millimeter thicker but it’s so close it’s virtually impossible to tell. It is essentially the same height. It doesn’t have—when you’re holding it, it doesn’t have the same kind of edge that goes backwards like the Dash does but it still feels very good to hold in the hand. Looks like it has a similar style of keyboard to the previous device, slightly different in the layout and buttons but overall looks to be you know pretty similar. So I’ll se that aside for right now, we’ll just take a quick peak inside the box here to see if there’s anything else worth noting.

So it comes with a slip case here, it comes with a pair of headphones because of course it uses the HTC USB adapter, sort of the mini USB adapter. It also comes with an adapter that allows you to essentially charge and also plug in headphones at the same time, so you connect this cable here to the bottom of the device and then this allows you to plug in two more things. Although—hold on, hold on, I think I made a mistake here, I’m looking and I’m actually seeing a headphone jack down here. Looks like its probably 2.5 millimeter but I’ll probably need to take a look at the specifications and double check but that’s kind of exciting for me because I always give HTC a really hard time whenever they only use this one particular sort of port for headphones. Because I don’t want to go and plug in my ultimate ears headphones to a regular sized jack and go. I suspect this 2.5 millimeter but you know just stepping on the right direction.

So we’ll take a look at anything else in here, we have a quick start guide, some basic—looks like a screen protector. And then looks like we have a sync cable, I mini USB sync cable. Now its kid of curious here is there is no AC adapter for charging, so I received this unit directly from HTC, so I might need to follow up with them and find out if that’s actually normal. That just seems a little bit weird not to have an adapter although you know sometimes carriers like TELUS will want you to buy—it has an accessory so you know they’ll let you recharge it by plugging it into your computer or USB port or something but they wont actually give you know a cable or an adapter to recharge it. So I will have to find out about that, now lets just get this out of the way here.

In terms of comparing the 640 to other devices, this is an HTC Touch Diamond right here; the HTC Touch Diamond is a fair bit smaller overall. You can see it’s a little bit shorter, it’s a little bit you know less wide and it has also I would say slightly thinner, not by a whole bunch but little bit different. And then this device here, this is my Samsung—it’s called the Samsung Jack up here on Canada on the Rogers Network but essentially a Black Jack Two and this device, the two of them have quite a bit in common. Looks like the S640 is going to be a little bit shorter, it’s going to be a little bit wider, you know just by a millimeter or three and it’s a little bit shorter but they’re very similar in size. So what I’m going to do now is I’m going to pause the video for a second and I’m going to power the device up and we’ll take a look at what the software and interface is like.

All right and we’re back, so I had a little bit of chance to look into a couple of little issues. The first one with the AC adapter is that yeah, there should be an AC adapter in the box. It was just simply left out when the product was shipped to me, so if you do get this phone from TELUS, it will come with an AC adapter. The jack on the bottom, that is actually a 2.5 millimeter headphone jack, so its not a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, so its not as useful as it could be but at least you can get a—I think you can get a smaller adapters for 2.5 to 3.5 millimeter headphone adapters then you can if you don’t have to use the mini USB port. Now I have the phone booted up here as you can see. It’s got a 320 by 240 resolution screen, 64,000 colors so pretty standard for most Windows Mobile Devices. It has a rechargeable lithium ion battery. I think when I checked; actually I think I can pop this off without disrupting it. Yeah it’s a 12,000 mili amp battery, so that’s actually a nice bump up from the 900 millimeter—sorry, mili amp so of the battery that the most of these other phones will have.

So I just need to actually unlock it here because apparently when you take off the back of the battery it locks it. So the phone does have built in Wi-Fi as well. It has—like I said, it has it’s a 1X E-video phone. It says on the webpage that it is REV capable but with the software update that is still not on at the moment. Weights about a 120 grams and it is 14.2 millimeters thick, so it’s fairly thin. It has lock up internet access through the phone so basically you can use it for tethering on the TELUS network. In terms of storage, it comes with 171 megabytes of storage, at least that’s what the software reports and there’s about 166 megabytes of that storage free on the phone when you first boot it up so you can use that to install you know applications. It comes with 64 megs of RAM but only about 22 megabytes of that memory is actually free when you boot up the phone. So 22 megs of RAM can be eaten up pretty quickly but the smart phone with just standard mobile operating system is quite good at dealing with memory, so I haven’t run with a whole lot of issues in terms of running out of RAM and it does support micro SD cards so—lets see if I can pop this open here.

It’s a little bit tricky to get this open; okay so this little slot right here, this is a micro SD card slot. The TELUS webpage specified it can use up to four gigabyte cards but I actually put my eight gigabyte micro SD card in here courtesy of San Disk and it reported that there is 7.6 gigabytes of storage free. So it does support SD HC cards which means theoretically as they release higher and higher capacity cards you should be able to support—should be able to support pretty much any of those cards. It comes with a camera as well; I believe it’s a two mega pixel camera. I’ll just verify that a little bit later on because I don’t have the specs in front of me here but it’s a two mega pixel here and then on the side here they have a job wheel. Let’s see if I can get back to the screen, so on the left hand side here they actually have a job wheel, sort of like what you might see on a Blackberry. This is a big improvement because the original—the T-Mobile Dash or the Excalibur Cavalier devices, they actually have this little touch strip and the touch strip frankly was pretty irritating to use and didn’t really work all that well. So it’s actually great that they use this little scroll wheel here and then this button here, I’m not actually a 100% sure what this button does. I’ll probably have to look it up, okay its actually a voice tag.

See when you press this button then you can use it for voice activation software. Other than that all of the buttons on here are pretty standard, you have your power button here, you have the home and back button you know start a call, end a call and then the two soft keys. So that ends my unboxing in first impressions video. If you have any questions about this phone, feel free to post a comment. If you’re watching this over on YouTube, please rate this video, post a comment if you want to have anything to say about it and then also subscribe to our channel.

So that’s it, this has been Jason Dunn from Smart Phone Thoughts looking at the TELUS H640 Windows Mobile standard smart phone. I will probably be doing a written review of this phone, so I check out Smart Phone Thoughts for the full written review once that’s done. Thanks for watching.

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HTC S640 Unboxing

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