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hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocket now calm and this is part two of the video review of the AT&T tilt now I want to talk about the keyboard for a second as with most HTC devices with a slide-out keyboard the keyboard is really nice it's big it's it's it's lighted so you can see it at night and what's special about the the keyboard in the AT&T tilt it's got a rubbery coating to it which which feels great it's kind of like the soft rubber coating that you would find on the back of back of the device I'm something that bugs me a little bit is that when you tilt the screen up these Hardware soft key buttons kind of get difficult to press I don't know if you can see that but they're kind of hidden by the screen the screens in the way so anyway that's it's quite an annoyance and when I first heard about this device i think it was in the beginning of this year or possibly at the end the 2006 I wanted to myself who would have the need for a tilting screen you know when you're messaging and you flip out the keyboard this is completely adequate right like on the HTC wizard and Hermes well I found two ways that the the tilting screen really really is important for example if you're navigating in your car and you don't want to use a cradle or you don't want to have your passenger hold the device for you you can tilt the screen up and rest it on your dashboard now hopefully you have some kind of nonstick or non non sliding Matt I should say on your dashboard so that doesn't slide around but but having a tilting screen in the car is really really helpful another time when it's really helpful and I'm going to take out the stylus and demonstrate something here is for watching videos personal entertainment so I'm going to pull up mobitv here it's included on the 18 detailed there's a three day trial after that it costs a certain amount per month off to check on that for you so I'm going to bring up see if you can see that when I bring up the weather channel i think it's since I've two days remaining and there is the weather channel mobitv is great it's pretty good quality over over Wi-Fi which is what we're on now good quality over 3g too so so imagine seeing this you know set up in front of you on the tabletop as you listen through bluetooth stereo headphones or wired headphones it's just kind of like your own little personal entertainment device you don't need to hold it in your hand it's really convenient so that's the tilting mechanism actually gotta close the program here we'll talk about the task manager that's built in here because i have it set so that i have to tap and hold the X to close a program ok great so I was getting some questions on on the elements of the touchflo that was built into this device and there's only one and if that's the scrolling that's the the finger flick scrolling I just want to show you what that looks like on the iphone I'm sure you've seen it before but it's done really really well so the faster I flick the faster the list goes if I want to stop it I just tap it gently it's really easy to use but on the tilt not so much I'm not I'm not really happy about this so I go to contacts right and here all my contacts and to use this I have to press CC doesn't even work all the time I have to press pretty hard to get the list of scroll and if you can see that and I can tap it and it stops and I can scroll faster and I'm going to try to get it as fast as possible here and that's about as fast as I can get it to go and I've got 750 contact so it's going to take a long time to get to the bottom of the list through this through this means i don't think the screen sensitive enough on this device to warrant the the flick scroll really and you can also use the flick scroll in other applications anything that requires scrolling for example i can open internet explorer here let me pull that up and you're we at pocket now calm and a little bit of a click and drag will get the scrolling the work but again it's it's not that good it really isn't and that is part two