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hey guys jon rettinger here and i want to give you a software tour of the OS found on the samsung mythic this is a new updated version of Samsung's proprietary OS called TouchWiz and incorporated some things that we haven't seen before in previous TouchWiz devices let's go ahead and get started and this is a new phone for 18 to wireless you can pick up for 199 after rebates on a new two-year contract so the first change you're going to see is on the unlock screen you've got a new touch and hold unlock and notification rows across the bottom and tell you what you have if you got some missed calls you have emails if you've got voicemail and a slew of other messages you can sort of customize that you always know if you've got one two three or zero and nobody loves you so let's go ahead and unlock the phone will do that using the new method to hold it them off because see the backgrounds also keep changing every time I come back now I've got a butterfly if I let it expire and come back the background change again go ahead will hold down that's my Makka now we've got sort of a familiar-looking screen with double bar on the side that will pull out the widgets and you've got this new sort of three row indicator on the top that's because you've got three home screens this is a resistive touchscreen so it's sort of squishy I'll get to the screen when I go over my full review of the device so as you can see I can sort of scroll through and I get that dynamic server scrolling the background image changes similar to what you see on on an Android device so that's nice to have a lot of screen real estate one of the downsides of the TouchWiz was that the widgets took up a lot of space and now you've got three screens in which you use them so here is the widget bar and you can pick any would you want and sort of drag it off to the home screen so we'll take a uzak one can drag it off there now I've got a music player I can hide it I can move this really anywhere I'd like so before when you're limited to just we can put on one screen you can now scroll over to the next one and put all your widgets there to your heart's content you can widget eyes everything you like this does have mobile TV in it which is sort of a will feature it also has some msn advanced connectivity that you guys can add for a little bit of an extra charge so I'll keep going we don't want to add a new birthday you can see the OS certainly not without its hiccups so you've got sort of a new and redesigned menu structure structure as well it looks very similar what you find on the samsung instinct for example all the icons are sort of held within their own square and you can now scroll through to see the different menu icons let's go ahead and talk about the keyboard for a minute let me go to the message will tap or rotate to add text I've always been a relatively big fan of actually the keyboards and Samsung's put on their devices and the soft keyboards in particular when you have it just in portrait you can forget your standard array that you'd see on a normal flip phone or slider phone you can use t9 if you'd like and you can sort of pick what you're looking for so numeric symbols emoticons which are those silly smiley faces but so seven accelerometer so when you turn it you get a full keyboard now the keyboard to your interesting because as you move your finger over you can start to see what letter you're typing which something that I really like on these soft keyboards sometimes you can't see what you're typing so let me do a keyboard test for you and we'll see how accurate this is and if the samsungs good keyboards have held up on the mythic so we'll do my usual thing this is a test and see how it works you can definitely see autocorrect in an action there this is a tier is what I ended up typing not entirely accurate but i'm not completely familiar with the keyboard on the device i'm not used to it yet i think it's one of those things as you get used to it you'll become more and more accurate so overall it's a pretty usable keyboard and a pretty usable OS so then you'll talk about the hardware and have the OS implemented during the review we've had a lot of requests to show how the phone works ensure the new TouchWiz interface so if you guys enjoy this is jon rettinger for exclusive content check me out of twitter twitter.com / John for lakers and to learn more about TechnoBuffalo and get all your tech news and create your own tech blogs and interact with our new social network check out of course technobuffalo comm links to both those will be in the sidebar I'll see you guys in the next video bye bye