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what's up guys Joey Davidson I'm one of the senior editors at TechnoBuffalo comm and I just wanted to give you a quick rundown of some of the PS Vita's user interface features all right so when you actually pick up your PS Vita if you actually pick up a PlayStation Vita you're gonna be greeted with a few features when you fire at the system and through your daily use it works a lot like a cell phone actually with with all touchscreen based manipulation when you're inside the main OS of the device that's the lock screen obviously with my custom background there so this is it this is what you're gonna see sans that wallpaper maybe this one when you fire up the system for the first time that's the default set of applications up there and it's several pages worth of content you can add and remove pages as you see fit I just put my games down on the bottom page for a matter of organization these are interfaces a lot like a smart phone is and there's basically applications here that you can launch by tapping you cannot stack them unfortunately so if I were to launch into the customization screen you can drag you can drop them but you can't stack so if you're a neat freak like I am when it comes to this stuff you won't be able to stack your your individual apps and the single trays or folders so the system is actually pretty sweet I have to commend Sony for what they've done here they they worked basically a new level of immersion into the device and into portable gaming you have a notification which you can see spinning here the notification bubble it just tells you what you're doing on your on your PS Vita at all times and you're notified when things finished downloading when you unlock a trophy and then there's the really really great multitasking something that to be honest isn't even handled that well on the PlayStation 3 is handled extremely well here and the machines never really sluggish I mean it's super snappy as you can see these are all the applications I have open now just just to kind of illustrate what it's capable of if I were to actually launch a game for instance so you can actually update from here you can go to the game's instruction man you can search for it on the web you can download the updates you see that ball that popped up it's the activity log shows you what I've been doing and wipeouts and if I wanted to quit any applications I can just peel back this sticker here so when you watch a game what's great about the PS Vita and one of the things I love about it is that it does have full-on gameplay experiences but then it also kind of touts this mantra of pick up and plate it's so standard and portable today you can suspend the game at any time I could lock it if someone walks in or I need to be doing something and when i unlock my device it's it's ready to go it's pretty much exactly where I left it um and that works for the PS button as well so I can go and I can look at my friends list if I want to think I have that open actually just hop in our friends list and look and see what's up yeah yeah plus is thinking with the servers here but that's fine so I can hop in and check things out and then hop out now I may actually do some gameplay videos later if you guys want that but for now this is basically what you can expect when you're looking at your PS Vita for the first time it's really smart multitasking decent UI some of the customization things are going to bug you like app management that type of stuff but honestly this is a fantastic interface for the device and stay tuned is technical for more PlayStation Vita coverage