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When the delievery truck pulls up at the PhoneDog office, it usually means you are about to get one of our famous unboxing videos. With each new rumored phone the excitement builds around when we will receive a copy of the device to review.

In our unboxing segments, we highlight what you will find inside the device box, the look and feel of the phone, keyboard type, card slots, and much more. So sit back and enjoy your first look at our first look of the hottest new releases.

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Samsung Behold 2: John's unboxing and hands-on

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HTC Eris: Johns unboxing and first impressions

HTC Eris: John's unboxing and first impressions

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John unboxes the Samsung Moment (Sprint)

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Re: Verizon Motorola Droid - Unboxing and Hands-On

Noah! Make iDog! You guys have a site for almost every other (beside windows mobile cuz we all know it sucks)mobile platform a phonedog site! I am begging you!

Re: LG Chocolate Touch (Verizon) - Unboxing

i like this phone it seems better than my sis's phone which is tha choco 1 and i'm even thinking abt getting my self no lie
and you doing you're thing girl keep it up

Re: HTC Eris: John's unboxing and first impressions

My wife and I looked at this last Friday and she fell in love with it. She is very hard to please when it comes to phones and to see her loving what I thought was going to be a phone for me was VERY pleasing. Looks like we'll have two in April.

Re: HTC Eris: John's unboxing and first impressions

i like an all metal casing for ease of in& out of the pocket. D'you think eventually there'll be an all metal casing i can buy?

Re: Verizon Razzle - Unboxing

was looking for more of an opinion, than if the reviewer was razzled or not. however, did a nice job with what he did do. thought the phone was cool and different. my concern is how long will that swivel work, especially because the box contained info for not breaking it...lol... I do appreciate the vid. thanks

Re: Unboxing: BlackBerry Bold 9700 (T-Mobile)

interestingly enough, the AT&T version ships with the premium headphones...they are GREAT for free headphones.

Re: Verizon Motorola Droid - Unboxing and Hands-On

Is the box supposed to look that beat-up?

Re: Re: Verizon Rogue (Samsung) - Unboxing

that would be the best dogfight ever! Im ripped between those two.

Re: HTC Eris: John's unboxing and first impressions

Thank you so much for comparing the Droid and the Eris. The Verizon associates seemed to only want to talk about the more expensive Droid when I really liked the Eris.

Re: BlackBerry Storm2 (Verizon) - Unboxing and Hands-On

hey noah, i just want to say that ur reviews are really cool, that phonedog has become really famous in colombia
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