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Demonstration of vTap on Windows Mobile

2008-04-01
hi I'm Mike been for all shadow calm and today I'm going to walk you through another method of watching online video on your windows mobile phone the first part of this video will be shown on the tmobile shadow and then I will show you on the dash in the wing the same application okay for the sake of this video I'm connected to Wi-Fi to help the download faster okay to begin go to start internet explorer and we're going to go to the address bar and we're going to type in v-tach calm I'm going to let that load up now the website automatically Big Tex what kind of phone you have so this is a non-touchscreen phone so we're all we're going to go ahead and click download okay it's going to ask us where we want to download the file to I'm just going to click yes it's just the CAD file after it installs I can ever installs I can delete it okay then it's going to run through this in sauce you can if you have a storage card you can install it to your storage card the shadows got plenty of internal memory so I just install most of my programs there one of the great things about v tap is is a ready-made solution you just install it there's no real hacking or registry edits or anything needed and you just open it up in and go now the great thing is it supports streaming or downloading the file okay it tells us where it is and we're just gonna go ahead and push yes so to launch there's a little license usage agreement terms of use go ahead click accept okay you'll see across the top you have web clips and Wikipedia if you go over to Wikipedia you can you can look up things in Wikipedia as well and it kind of formats it for the screen for the device so you don't have to really start looking for stuff for internet explorer now great thing about V tap is as you type it begins to search we're going to start typing all shadow com now one thing about V tap is it changes your input mode to ABC so if you have like the W is the second character on this key so I have to push that key twice it doesn't use the t9 and after you use V tap you go somewhere else you have to change it back to t nine if that's your default input method alright look we've got some videos for all shadow calm and there's our old video how to watch online video that one uses the core pocket media player searching the web you know unboxing how to load opera mini so if you select something it brings up a short description of whatever it's on it also tells you where it's at so right here is a walkthrough on a better search experience in click keep video it'll keep it in your favorites or download it and add it to your that video feed the of the all shadow com user name for metacafe or click info and it will bring up the whole thing how many tips there are tags things like that my head put back you can look up related let's go to the source one page or share it with a friend if you want so let's show you how well this works for playing we click play brings up the details shows that it's connecting it's preparing it starts downloading immediately what's great about this is it will work over GPRS the connections a little bit slower than Wi-Fi but it works nonetheless and then it starts playing so that simple so one thing you'll notice that when you first install it is the video quality might not be that great which is fine if you use GPRS a lot you just want to get to a video quick but if you use Wi-Fi a lot then one thing you'll want to do is improve the quality so we'll push tools options will go to media then we go to you can if you want better audio you can do that put out a media quality and change it for medium to high and that will improve the video quality now on this video you might not be able to see the improvement in the video quality but it is a definite improvement and you can save topics or favorite users on the beat on video sites actually save videos that you can share again later access them quickly so go to V tap calm on your desktop computer to create that now if you just want to listen to the audio of a certain video you can do that as well you can look at your history past searches bookmarks that you've placed in there that's really a useful tool to have now let's take a look at what it looks like on the dash and the wink alright I've already pre-loaded this on the wing and it pretty much looks the same so let's open it up and type in I'll shadow and it brings up a little list for us I'll shadow and everything pretty much works the same on this one to type the little the screen fix a little bit longer let's slide on this but that's alright we're getting our do when we want it right there you go now for the dash now the dash is another smartphone just like the shadow so a lot of its going to work the same of course we're using different keyboards or input methods so it's really pretty seamless when you're working with it with the dash and in the wing because you don't have to change your input method so there we go so you see the screens a little bit different there just because of the wide screen see if the scroll down a little bit more if you want to read the rest of it but it loads nonetheless actions you can load it in the background notify when when you're ready to to play it and go look through other things as well now that works on all three devices so i hope this improves your day to day video browsing so you can pass some time while standing in line or ride the bus subway however it is you get around I wouldn't suggest watching video while you're driving though and enjoy and until next time I'm Mike Benton for all shadow com
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