The latest addition to the T-Mobile myTouch family, the myTouch 4G ($200 with a two-year contract from T-Mobile; price as of 10/28/2010) has the most impressive specs of the myTouch phones to date, boasting a front-facing video camera, HSPA+ data speeds, and HD video recording. HSPA+ coverage isn't everywhere, however--and it might be spotty in cities that do support it. High-Quality Design The first thing I noticed about the phone is its stylish, yet sturdy design. 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The plastic is still there (on the face of the phone and on the hardware buttons), but the device is primarily metal and has the feel of a higher-end phone. The phone will come in four colors: white, black, plum, or red. The phone has a vibrant 3.8-inch WVGA display, which nicely showcases the phone's user interface. Below the display, you'll find four hardware buttons: Home, Menu, Back, and Genius (more on that one later). Measuring 4.8-by-2.4-by-0.43 inches, the myTouch 4G is a manageable size. Like the other myTouch phones, the myTouch 4G comes in a handy case for storing all of your phone's accessories. Custom Skin Over Android Running Android 2.2, the myTouch 4G has a custom skin, which is sort of a mash-up between that of the HTC Sense and the myTouch skin we saw on the myTouch Slide. As on the HTC Sense, you get a dynamic weather app and a socially-aware address book (which aggregates your friends' contact information from your social networks). You also get HTC's Friend Stream, which takes all of your friends' status updates, links, and photos from your various social networks and displays them in a single feed. Another unique, user-friendly feature is MyModes, which lets you customize your phone for your work life and for your personal life via widgets, homescreen apps, and wallpapers. If you want to avoid work e-mail and appointments as much as possible over the weekend, you can simply set those applications to be hidden from your homescreen when you leave your office. You can program MyModes to switch by location (using GPS), or you can switch it manually. The Genius button, mentioned earlier, is a useful tool for smartphone newbies. Press it, and you jump to a simple voice-command menu. From there, you can use commands to make calls, compose and send texts and e-mails, search the Web, and more. It worked fairly well in my hands-on tests, taking a few seconds to figure out what you said, but producing generally accurate results. The more you use the feature, the better it gets, too: It employs Nuance's Dragon Dictation Software, which gradually learns your voice and thereby improves response time. Remember T-Mobile MyFaves? T-Mobile's cheap calling plan of yore (which permitted users to make unlimited calls to five people of their choice) is back--this time, in the form of a speed-dialer application on the Slide. The app has a kind of 3D effect that you spin through to get quick access to your favorite friends' contact information, pictures, and social networking account links. You can add up to 20 friends as your "faves." You can easily get to the MyFaves screen by hitting the dedicated hardware button on the phone's face. The myTouch has a new feature called Media Room, which organizes all of your music, video, and Internet radio in one place. For media syncing, the myTouch comes with the excellent doubleTwist software onboard. Of course, you also get the dedicated YouTube app, which also supports HQ videos. HQ versions of YouTube videos are leaps and bounds better in quality than the normal, fuzzy YouTube videos. While I like that the myTouch skin provides customizability, I don't really like what HTC and T-Mobile have done with the 4G's camera interface. Rather than the stock Android 2.2 interface, which gives you access to white balance and exposure controls, the myTouch's camera does all this automatically for you. It isn't a big deal, but it is an example of how these skins can sometimes interfere with features found in stock Android. I honestly think that the myTouch would be slightly better--and perhaps even faster--if it ran the stock Android OS.