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hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocket now calm and this is a software tour of the AT&T tilt two which is the touch pro 2 variant on AT&T we're going to take a look at how the software differs from other devices that run the touch pro 2 to kind of see how AT&T has customized this device we know you've seen the touch pro 2 in a million ways so we're going to try to keep it to the things that are unique to the AT&T tilt two so let it start off in touch flo 3d this is kind of the older version of touchflo 3d that doesn't have the the weather built into the clock here like you would find on say the verizon imagio we can go over to the right tab here which is the people tab of course you can add favorite people you can flick through their pictures the next tab is SMS you've seen this before the next one is email the next one is something that i would definitely remove this is where all the AT&T proprietary stuff is stuff that links only to their web and their app store in their ringtone store you can remove this tab i'll show you how in a sec the next tab over is for the internet tab and here you can have push internet pages meaning if you check a site every day at the same time you can have it be ready and waiting for you at a certain time so we can go to menu and well actually we click here add a new push page and it says it's going to use data and we can say that we want pocketnow.com and by the way the keyboard on this device is among the best that you can get on a smartphone it's very wide it has offset keys so we can set the frequency here to every six hours every three hours let's say every 12 hours I want it to update I'm going to put the title as P now and click Save and let's go back into portrait and there it is pocket now and it will load every 12 hours let's see how it looks while we're on the web browser tab we're going to tap on pocket now kind of see the performance of opera mobile 9.5 on the tilt two and here it comes through now you can also use skyfire or opera mini five which uses server-side rendering to pull down pages faster opera mobile 9.5 is more so of a full web browser that that renders everything on your device so here comes now and we can go into landscape with the accelerometer or if we flip open the keyboard will also go into landscape okay here we go our pocket now calm we can tap and drag to go down the page performance on Opera Mobile 9.5 is very good we've seen this browser in a million different devices and they all exhibit great performance we can double tap the zoom in or we can use this zoom bar on the right side and so we drag our finger up to zoom in a little bit and then we can pan around further double tap to zoom in and it fits the column double tap to zoom out we've seen this before an opera mobile 9.5 great performance on the tilt two for the for the internets let's get out of this okay moving on we've calendar and you can view all of your calendar stuff right in the screen so if we click on today we get that nice animation we can tap on new appointment from right here although we're dumped back into the standard windows mobile interface future versions of touchflo 3d will actually keep you in a nicer looking interface so you can go to month view debut it's kind of a nice way to sort of see all of your appointments and not have to go into the windows mobile calendar which doesn't look as nice as this go into stocks tab and we can click on any of these stocks and get a chart and says tap here to update data we've seen this before let's go back photos and video and as with opera mobile you can use the zoom bar to zoom in on pictures so we can slide it like so there it goes and it zooms in zooms out you get the idea and then you can flick I guess it's down because we're supposed to be over here to go to the next picture kind of like you get in the iphone all right so let's get it back into portrait and here we are in music and of course you can flick through your your album covers and play music right from your home screen here and we can go into library to get the nice touch flo 3d interface where you can look at albums or different playlists that you may have a very nice little music application that you can access right from your home screen we can go into whether and of course see the weather in your area or in multiple cities flick your finger up you get the full forecast on the bottom which is always a nice touch let's see what settings we have so we can go into sound and we can change you know the ringer volume or the ringer type things like that we really can't change this big AT&T logo in the background we can only change the wallpaper on the home screen tab which is a little bit annoying but you know 18d has to get their their footprint in the device certainly so right now I just changed the background on the home screen but all of the other ones still stay the same in settings we can set up mail we can sync data customize the tabs this is where you would remove certain tabs that you don't want and keep the ones that you do and you can of course rearrange them by tapping and holding the button over here I want to click cancel and over on the right is a program launcher if you don't like the windows mobile 6.5 program launcher which by the way has the new honeycomb interface then you can access the program launcher through touchflo 3d so let's go through and see what programs come on the 18 d tilt to actually first let's take a look at how this works in landscape touchflo 3d finally works in landscape if you had the HTC fuze from AT&T you may remember that there was no touchflo 3d in landscape you just got a grid of icons so now we have this little button here that hides away all of the menu items and we can kind of slide along from there and everything kind of reflows nicely for the lands landscape screen so then we get the weather on the right side instead of on the bottom and within a few seconds this bar will hide away so that you can see the full forecast and there we go okay so let's put the keyboard away screen rotation speed is quite good very fast it's always been fast on the touch pro 2 right now it takes a little while longer to redraw the screen because we're in a graphic intensive area i'll show you how fast screen rotation speed is in SE text messaging where speed really really counts okay so let's go into the start menu and we can go there by tapping on the windows flag or just by going up here and we've got the kind of four icon wide grid that we can go through so let's see what we have here calendar let's see what games are included on this device a lot of java-based trial where AT&T likes to put this sort of software on the device such as guitar hero for we can launch it but it's going to say that it's only a trial this one's saying that we need to be in landscape mode so let's see if that actually is true and then go to games and go to guitar hero for and see what happens let's help the screen a little bit screen is great sensitivity very close to being capacitive it is resistive but it has a high level of sensitivity let's see what we can do here by full game yeah of course so we're not gonna be able to do too much with this i'm going to do career select avatar can we flick scroll no press the buttons okay be this guy okay select guitar this one looks cool let's go easy I don't know if that says okay and it looks like you tap I'm not so good at this game and I'm obviously planting it wrong so it looks like you get some trial where I'm definitely sure I want to exit and if you want to use the full version of course you'll have to buy the game so let's go back into the start menu and see what else we have their 18 nap navigator we have the App Center which is a tease proprietary app store although this device has the marketplace for Windows Mobile which we're going to go through in a second here's the camera for the 3.2 megapixel camera on the back which unfortunately doesn't have a flash but as very good quality and we'll talk about that soon let's go down to settings and see kind of how much memory we have and things like that we'll start off and personal to see if there's anything interesting here this device comes with voice command you can specify a keyboard sound if you want every time you open the keyboard but that may annoy the people around you so you may want to keep that off we can set a voice command hearing aid compliance we can assign some of the hardware buttons to launch programs such as the send key when you hold or the push to talk button which would probably be a good idea because a lot of people don't use push to talk anyhow so why not have it open up say email with one click that would be probably a good idea or good use of that let's go into system see how much memory we have right now only 63 megabytes I've been opening a lot of programs so presumably there are several programs open after a soft reset you have about 80 megabytes of free program memory which is pretty good not amazing if you disable touchflo 3d and use the standard windows mobile today screen interface you get back about 10 megabytes of RAM which may be important for you standard stuff in here we can calibrate the g sensor which will work in Opera Mobile 9.5 in photos and some other places you don't get screen rotations in every screen although you can always flip out the keyboard it has a GPS Wi-Fi of course let's go back also you see that as TV out if you have the right cable you can do TV out connected to a projector or to a flat panel it will do output in its native resolution so you're not going to get really high quality video output but good enough for a projector if you're giving a presentation and let's go back to where we came from we've pocket internet explorer or as they call it now Internet Explorer mobile if you want to use that to view flash content because opera mobile doesn't do flash internet explorer mobile does we can go into the marketplace and you've probably seen this before the windows mobile or as they call it the windows marketplace for mobile is the App Store equivalent and right now it doesn't have that many apps it's kind of growing right now there are about 250 apps but every day gets bigger and bigger and the cool thing about this is that when you pay for a nap you can have it go on to your AT&T bill which is different than the iphone where it's always going through iTunes and your account with them so it's a convenient way to pay let's go back into the start menu let's go to office mobile and take a look at screen rotation when you're typing so we're going to make a new document here and you get these great on-screen keyboard options but I want to put that away whoops and let's see how fast we get a rotation pretty much instant which is really what matters so that by the time you get to landscape you're ready to go and ready to type and the keyboard is absolutely fantastic i'm going to zoom out a little bit just do a little test very very comfortable keyboard probably one of the best that you can get for a mobile device so I'm gonna click OK and get out of that all right so let's go back in the start menu see what else we have in here oops didn't mean to do that we have album which is HTC's photo album you can organize by folders you can drill into different pictures based on the folders you can put all your videos in here and a lot of this stuff is 18t stuff so App Center 18t music AT&T Wi-Fi AT&T Navigator so stuff that you may want to clean up if you want to go into file explorer and reduce the amount of programs that are in this screen actually i'll show you how to do that real quick we need to get to file explorer which can probably be found in oh it's good they included the facebook app by the way the file explorer can probably be found in in tools so let's go in there go to file explorer and we're going to want to go to the the windows directory so tap on windows and don't tell ATT i'm showing you how to do this we're going to want to go down to the start menu and the programs and let's say I'm going to get rid of AT&T music I know I'm never going to use it I'm going to tap and hold on it and whoops let me go back up I miss that here it is delete yes I want to remove that and all of its contents yes 20 and 80 music should be gone and yes it is so cleaned up the start menu a little bit so I get get it down to the programs that I'm going to use on a regular basis so overall no big surprises in terms of software on 18t tilt two we're really confident that anyone upgrading from the AT&T tilt or the HTC fuze is going to be very very happy with this device the touchscreen is extremely sensitive the keyboard is fantastic with nice fast screen rotations and now you get windows mobile 6.5 which means you can get the app store widget support and its overall a little bit faster than you would get on the same device running windows mobile 6.1 awesome upgrade to some devices that really held the bar high that's it for now