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hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and this is part five of the showdown between the AT&T q9 global in the blackjack two in this video I want to talk about software and see which one's stronger out of the box so I'm going to start with the q 9 and to unlock you do the unlock soft key and then star now to lock it's kind of interesting you press the HOME key and then the space the space bar it's kind of unconventional usually it's a press and hold of the call and the button but it's easy to get used to so let me let me get it into focus here zoom in on the screen a little bit okay here we are so I'm going to start I'm going to go into the start menu and kind of flip through here and show you some things they're unique so everything here in the first frame is is pretty standard messaging calendar contacts activesync 18t music cellular video media net then over on the second side here we have IM and email which will take you into the get good if you want to use that sort of email or get express mail and they also have 0 Z messenger as number three we're going to go back here if we go into office tools we have mcafee virusscan now I've never used antivirus on a windows mobile device I don't plan to do it use it anytime soon because I don't know of anyone that's had a virus on their device but if you are worried about that kind of thing when you when you start it it will install the program for you and I don't want to do that someone to go back into the start menu okay so let's go to my stuff this is where things get a little different than other devices so let's start in my device it's kind of a file manager that's what it is it's a little more robust than the standard file manager in windows mobile standard to go to my documents they don't certainly take it take you to my documents same with my pictures and video and everything else is pretty standard you get down here to personalize my cue and I kind of like this from here you can customize the right softkey on the home screen and I really like this because you can you can specify the name so if you have a particular website you like to go to a lot of course i'm going to right pocket now and then you can go to you can choose an Internet Explorer favorite you can choose anything from the start menu to link to or any other application so this is really helpful that you can you can do this you can't do this on the blackjack two so I'm going to cancel this because I don't want to change that and then home screen settings will let's see link you right to the setting that you're used to in the control panel or the settings as they call it windows mobile standard and they actually give you some really really good colors choices there's a lot of colors if I expand the list here there's about two four six eight about 11 of them usually you'll get you know five or six colors and I really like this one called in material I'm going to click done and it should load in about a second or two there it is kind of reminds me of the tmobile shadow colors kind of a coppery type scheme kind of looks red on the camera right now but in person it's a copper color then we go to Home screen shortcuts and we can specify how big the icons are if we want to show text so if we do show large icons and show text I'm going to go back to the home screen and well I don't see any text all right well I wonder to what that applies it's probably a different home screen that i'm not using right now so let me go back into my stuff and personalize my cue from here you can also change sound and ringtones and you can adjust the start menu view I like to have the list so though some people like the iconic view so here is the here is this the selector you can actually choose by folder which is great so if you go to I am an email if you remember that screen we can change it from list view to icon view and it's rude most devices don't let you choose all the way down to each folder so that's really great okay so I'm going to go back here back up a little bit and I'm going to go back to this domain start menu this phone comes with opera is usually a 2500 if you want to buy it it's $25 so it's great that they threw it in here this is the default browser opera mobile is much better than pocket Internet Explorer it lets you view web pages kind of at a iphone like zoomed out view and then you can select a part of it and zoom in and pan around so that's that's a welcomed addition going over to the right if we click on applications here we have some standard things a lot of AT&T branded stuff you know you can download TeleNav Internet Explorer is hidden over here camera application file manager that kind of thing and over here on the next page is my cast whether Bluetooth settings documents to go this doesn't have office mobile on here which is surprising but it does have documents to go which will let you view PowerPoint Excel Word files and that kind of thing so let's go back again go into system tools now you can format the storage card do a lot of other things like master clear which would be like a a hard reset you can do master reset which is a standard rebooting of the device memory manager which kind of lets you see how much memory you have and how much how much is free and that sort of thing settings will take you right to the settings menu I wish this was out more in the preceding menu rather than buried in this where are we here we are in the system tools menu so I actually assigned settings to number two on the keypad so if i press and hold to i get right into the settings and then we have a very plain old task manager here that shows us the programs that are currently open but it doesn't tell you the memory usage which is a bit annoying and from here you can kill the applications and whatnot so that is system tools and i added google maps it's a must-have application or Windows Live search and then TeleNav navigator if you pay for that which is between five and twenty dollars a month depending on how much you want to use it so that is software on the q 9 global alright so let's take a look at the blackjack two to lock the blackjack two you press and hold the right end call button and to unlock you do the same sequences with the q9 and I'm sorry if you catch a glare on the screen the blackjack was very very shiny so it catches the light once in a while alright so let's start off here I'm gonna go back into the start I'm going to start in the start menu like I did with the q 9 global and we have the same exact thing that we had in the q 9 global some singular or AT&T stuff and you know messaging and calendar that's sort of bit and we're going to go over to the right here and then things are a little different we've AT&T mall we've I am an email and of course we've 0 Z messenger we don't have get good or express mail here call history organizer let's see what's inside of there so some standard stuff that the q9 doesn't have actually such as let's see doesn't have a stopwatch the q9 smart converter that kind of thing which could be helpful if you're traveling internationally d-day I never really knew what that was and every Hughes dit maybe someone can explain that to me someone to go back my stuff is just a a file organizer going back games if you remember we didn't find games on the q 9 for some reason but you know we have the standard bubble breaker and solitaire on the on the blackjack two we've internet explorer this doesn't have opera it defaults to internet explorer over on the right to applications and see what we have in there a camera file explorer telenav a PDF viewer q9 takes care of that with documents to go on the next on the next frame here we have RSS reader the q9 did not have that Smart Search to you know flip through things then we have Office Mobile which is refreshing so you can get the the full version of Excel and PowerPoint and word well the full version as full as it can get on your on your smartphone the capabilities aren't that different from documents to go which is on with which is on the q 9 okay so we have that let's go back a frame and where are we here in this up yep back a frame again and then if we go into settings it'll take you right into the settings menu and there's TeleNav again and Google Maps now this does have a task manager you press and hold the home and then you should get a task manager and this is a somewhat better task manager than on the q 9 but it still doesn't show memory usage per program it only shows you a memory use down here hopefully can focus a little bit this is a twenty nine out of 10 9 and so not too much of a difference there so it's a really tough call between the two devices the motorola q9 global has opera it allows for some better personalization with the right softkey and and some more color combinations whereas the blackjack 2 has the real version of Office Mobile and it has some other smaller applications like smart converter and a slightly better task manager in the end they're about equal i think that the q9 is a little bit of a little bit ahead because it includes the $25 Opera Mobile which I think a lot of people would find useful and it really helps your internet experience so the winner for this round in the software Department is the q 9 global one more point for that