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so I hope you enjoyed and I will see you guys in the next video alright guys so here we have the Android homescreen and the really cool thing about the device is while most smartphones only have one screen the g1 and Android actually have three so on this home screen here I've got some icons and a Google search and if I scroll the write actually get another home screen and I can drag icons here or if I hold down I got a little haptic feedback and I can add widgets or clocks or anything that I like your so let's put a clock there and I can hold it down move it anywhere I like go back and you can select icons that you want on the homescreen if you find one you want you could just hold it down and it shows up by on the home screen go to the right and you have another home screen and you actually have the option to do that one more time so three home screens make it a very customizable experience I personally enjoy having everything on one but you may like having applications on one screen clock on another shortcuts or settings on a third really at various on user experience so let's go ahead and get started to walk through the software so the first thing you'll notice when you look at it is the strange little arrow down there a little arrow is actually one of the most important features of the operating system itself take your finger slide it up and it pulls up the myriad of menu choices that you have comes with alarm clock Amazon mp3 browser which is sort of like Google's Chrome calculator Calendar camera contact styler email Gmail which actually it syncs your contacts automatically with Gmail that prompts you to set up a gmail account or log in to your existing gmail account when you first turn on the device I am Maps Android Marketplace messaging movies is an application I downloaded music my favs pictures pro-basketball another one that I downloaded quote Pro for trapping your stocks download that as well ring toggle which is a must-have I'll show you that a little bit later settings twit droid which is a Twitter client for the device voice Tyler and YouTube so we'll go back here and then I've got a Google search bar you can click it slide open the screen type in anything you want and Google works so it will search it for you so you may have seen my browser comparison versus the IFO let me walk you through the browser here one more time now I'll just show you the highlights of the browser doesn't want to be selected there we go typing at a wrong angle and I'm using the devices capacitive touchscreen so it's not resistive so here we are in the home tree let's go ahead and search for will do basketball since I had that basketball application right there and the keyboard is extremely usable and it pulls up a list of choices I'll hit the scroll ball into enter and we will let it search just scroll down to search and we are off so we've got nba.com that sounds like a good choice we'll go ahead and click that and it's loading up on t-mobile's 3G connection which is actually relatively fast loading up and it's let me know that I need Flash Player which don't have right now let's go ahead and keep looking at the browser scrolling is very smooth zooming in and out is done through these positive or negative magnifying glasses so zoom out and you do get a very desktop like browsing experience it is very smooth and fluid one of the cool things that this browser has is in the corner there's four little arrows if you click it no trouble please select me right there one more time not want to be selected there we go if you have to tap it so if you tap it you can move around and you get a little sort of magnifying glass type things let's tap it again and hopefully you can see it right there on the screen I can move it around anywhere I like to find an area that I want to zoom in on let's say that advertisement let go and it zooms in right there it's actually a very cool feature tap it zoom it on that flash ad and there we go zoomed in and the browser is very full-featured and quite nice and if you want to rotate it get the slide out the keyboard and it will rotate device does have a built-in accelerometer but it Ford fortunately right now does not work with tilting similar to the iPhone let's go back to the home screen so like I mentioned before you can scroll up and scroll through your icons nice and simple I'm sure you would have figured that out what this does have though and is a very cool feature is makes use of the top bar for alerts actually take your finger and scroll down and you get a listen notification so if I had text messages your emails they would all show up right there in a list it's actually quite handy scroll that right up and if you want to see that again flick it right on down very cool feature so let me go ahead and walk you through some of the things that you've got to have on the device one of the annoyances I had with the phone was it didn't have an easy way to change profiles meaning if I was walking into work or a meeting and I want to set the phone to vibrate how to put the volume button down all the way all the way all the way that'd be a little bit annoying so I downloaded there's a ring toggle program essentially what it does pretty self-explanatory lets you select your profile so say it to vibrate and there it goes it's nice and set to vibrate very quick very easy and certainly very painless so the next thing you guys are probably gonna want to know is how does a stack up to the iPhone compared to the App Store well the Android Marketplace is in its infancy but it certainly has a lot of room and potential so let me go ahead and show you what the marketplace looks like as we're speaking about programs that you have to download so you're greeted with a very simple home screen applications game search or my downloads so we'll go to applique top locations its queuing up right there and I'm going to keep this in real time so you guys can see how this will load over your typical 3G connection so all application entertainment finance lifestyle and right now all applications in the amp store are free so I'm very into the social aspect of it so let's click social and it sorts by popularity or gain click a whole bunch of different choices so here we have one for Saint Mike's based mobile and it gives you star review on it there it goes if you love MySpace you're really gonna love myspace mobile you can read some reviews and just hit install and that is it piece of cake so let's install it so you can see what that looks like hit OK access to the network give me a hardware controls and it's downloading now if I pull down a little menu bar it should give me the notification status there it goes myspace mobile 0% 11% really shows the speed of t-mobile 3G network is actually relatively impressive so it's already halfway downloaded and now it's fully downloaded actually so I'll hit the home button go back to the home screen scroll up to where applications do we can find it there my spit is mobile hit the wrong button there it is my space more and simple login now as I showed you before on different home screens let's say I wanted to put that my space mobile icon let's say on the blank home screen so the one all the way over there right drag that up go back to my space mobile hold it down and I get an icon that I can drag anywhere that I like and even notice when I click the guy canal that's on the home screen little arrow down below - in the - a trashcan I can drag it right to that build trashcan and it will remove the icon from the home screen it won't delete it will just remove it remove it from the screen so we'll go back to the home screen here so it really does come with a myriad of games it's got a Google Maps application that everybody is very familiar with it looks like Google Google Maps on any device nothing terribly exciting there it's got a music player built-in but does not have a built-in video player although there are third-party video players that you can download artists albums songs and playlists it's a priest straightforward music player there are some pre-loaded songs in here here's one flight of the conchords big fan of them so let's open that up click it and it pulls the album information opens up the song go and hitting a quick to avoid any copyright friend here I'm not gonna be able to play that anymore for you but you guys can see what it looks like album art some information about it you can shuffle or go back I'll take a look at the home screen here so overall a felon device to be very usable the user interface is intuitive and it's only gonna get better with software updates so guys this is John Rhett enger' with John for Lakers comm just give you a very quick software overview of the t-mobile g1 and Android in particular hope you enjoyed and if you want some more exclusive content be sure to follow me on twitter at wwe.com slash John for Lakers I'll see you guys in the next video 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