Gadgetory

hi this is Mike Benton for all shadow calm and yesterday we went over the unboxing video of the g1 and today we're going to turn on and look at some of the basic features as well show you how to do some simple things that you're probably going to want to do like turn on the GPS and the Wi-Fi okay so let's get started here it is the g1 nice and shiny it's got a really responsive screen and it does have three home screens that you can slide through they are entirely customizable and there's actually tactile feedback so if you press and hold on something the phone actually vibrates a little bit and you can move whatever it is that you're trying to move you move it around or you can actually drag it down to the trash can on the bottom and throw it away the trash can only shows up when you actually have an item selected on the screen so you can actually drag it there and throw it away if you want to bring something back you can press and hold on the screen you add an application shortcut widget or wallpaper so let's just add the clock back and and is good to go so on another screen i have google search so what I've done is this is basic stuff that i use on an every or pretty much every time i open up the phone i have some search related to our cuts on the third screen and on the second screen i have browser and email and i guess over time I'll customize that now up top if you drag that down as the notifications pain and basically up here it'll show you text messages emails or any messages that you have that might be waiting for you now some people might notice that every so often there's a little bit of a problem with responsiveness of the screen what I suggest is removing this small tiny plastic cover that actually covers the screen so you pull that off and we'll have much more responsive screen so all right let's take a look at what we have under the menu here um actually gone into the android marketplace and added a lot of applications and one of the more interesting apps is tunewiki and splash play as well shopsavvy and we can show you about those later so that's basically where your menus your programs are now two things that you're probably going to want to do is turn on your Wi-Fi and your GPS from the home screen press menu settings and then under wireless controls select that and select the first option Wi-Fi to turn that on and it will say turning on and then you can adjust your Wi-Fi settings if you have some other networks to add and it should automatically add network that scans and it will find a bunch and set those in there now we'll go back and go down to security and location will select that and use wireless networks to set location and right now it's set to location determined by Wi-Fi or other mobile networks and we can turn on the GPS by enable gps satellites that's useful for a lot of the applications that come in the android marketplace ok one thing about most phones today is like their calculator sucks and every time you need a good calculator it just sucks and that's what I initially thought about the androids calculator I open that up and I was like are you kidding me is that it I press a little menu button and you get a clear history and an advanced panel and push the advanced panel oh there's the stuff that I like to use except the problem with it is is that I thought that if you just press you have to press menu to switch back and forth between the two but when it actually you can just flick between them wait a few people that wanted to see the dialer and had a question about whether or not you have to open up the cap the keyboard to actually dial phone number well you actually don't you can use the keyboard if you want or you can just use the dialer that's on screen so you can dial numbers unlike the shadow it actually has the alphanumeric codes on the keys so it's actually easier for you to dial those 1 800 goog 411 numbers and that's the dialer you can also pull up a cow call log contacts and add people as favorites can pull up call log count X or add people as favorites to make your dialing easier yes the browser a lot of people are interested in the browser it's really a decent browser there's lots of reviews about the browser on the web it's fairly quick one thing that it lacks is the ability to switch between pulling up the the mobile view or the full desktop view of a screen so if you go to Twitter it pulls up the mobile view if you go to Facebook it pulls the full screen the full desktop screen and if you go to all shadow com it pulls up the full desktop screen so and depending on what you like there is no option that I could find a switch between any of them but it is pretty much a full-featured browser you can actually go to new windows and open up plenty of Windows for you to get things done when you get your gphone be sure to get a google account you might want to actually go out and a sign up for a google gmail account right now with the name that you want before they're all taken basically sign in and it works pretty well with the google calendar and gmail on the gphone everything goes in there the way it's supposed to so that's it for now and until next time I'm Mike Benton for all shadow com you