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you hi everyone this is chun win and today we're going to take a look at the user interface voice command and multimedia features and compare that between the android 2.2 mon the motorola droid with windows mobile 6.5 and touchflo 3d on the HTC imagio also on verizon wireless in a second video segment we're going to explore email and calendar and a third video the final video we're going to look at the settings programs menu and the marketplace and how that differs so let's go ahead and take a look let's go back to the lock screen actually at the main lock screen at the bottom here you have the day date and time you also have a notifications here if you do have notifications such as emails missed call or voicemail you can tap on the lock here and it will pop down to show you how many and which notifications you have currently we have no notification so it's not going to show anything you can slide left or right on the main lock screen to go to the main home screen or if you have notifications they should have individual lock icons themselves so you can swipe those to go directly into the application such as if you have a missed call it will launch the call application here we're at the main home screen which gives you a touch flo 3d experience which offers you also different tabs that gives you a widget like experience so you don't have to individually launch applications such as the weather or the calendar application it will give you a quick view so here's the calendar if you tap on the day it will give you a schedule of what your appointments are so this is our October calendar we're going to go ahead and exit out of that and go here to the weather and it does pull in using your gps location the weather and this is the weather for los angeles for los angeles and it gives you a five-day view so that's a quick look at the user interface here the user interface unfortunately falls a little short and isn't always as touch friendly as you see so let's go ahead and dive deeper and once you dive deeper you'll see what I'm talking about and we're going to go through the personal settings and when we go into phone here we're reverted back to a windows mobile 56.1 like experience here and you see individual tabs here at the bottom and arrows which are not to finger friendly and so that's a little bit of a of a disadvantage with windows mobile 6.5 is that it doesn't completely skin all the individual applications to bring it up to date to a consistent you I feel you also have voice command on here which you can access by pressing and holding the send button here so let's go ahead and do that open windows media player you can tell it to open applications play songs by music or genre you can tell it to say call and your contact name or dial a number and you can also ask it for command such as what is the time but it doesn't allow you to search or navigate through programs such as the GPS in multimedia we're going to go ahead and take a look at the HTC implementation of multimedia on touchflo 3d here on the screen you can flick through different pictures that you may have or if you hit on album it will take you into an album like view which shows you pictures in a grid like view and we're going to go ahead and tap it again to select what we want to look at we're going to choose the storage card and if you tap on a picture it will launch in landscape mode and you can swipe left and right to change the picture and here we have a play button so that is a movie let's go ahead and play it I have Lord of the Rings set up here if you tap on the screen it will give you an on-screen control let's go ahead and fast-forward through it a little bit the movie seems like it starts out to populate it into a full screen mode which takes up the screen but we know this isn't a 16 by 9 screen so let's go ahead and shrink it back you do have the option of watching it in widescreen here which is what it was encoded for and if you don't like the black bars at the top and bottom you can actually open it up so you can have a full screen view and fill out the screen that way as well go ahead and stop the movie and this has been a quick tour the user interface voice command and multimedia features on the imagio running windows mobile 6.5 let's go ahead and do the same for the android 2.2 here we have the main unlock screen which shows you you can set a instead of a password you can actually set a a pattern to unlock it that only you would know so if you enter the pattern it will unlock it at the top here you have the notification bar you can't access notifications directly like you can with windows mobile 6.5 on the unlock screen but after you unlock it you can swipe down here and it will show you that you have a new notification and tapping on that opens up the email application which we will cover in another video but you can scroll through your emails that way here is the home screen you do have three panels which you can add widgets or shortcuts to hear we have a widget to the financial stock market we can go ahead and add another widget by tapping and holding and choosing widget on the pop-up and we're going to add an analog clock to remove a widget just tap and hold and drag it down to the trash it will glow red and let go and you widget is gone programs are accessed by either tapping on the arrow here at the bottom which will pull up a grid view of all your programs or if you want you can swipe up slowly to get a peek and swipe it down android also comes with voice command it's a more ubiquitous voice command and is a combination of tell me which is a Microsoft subsidiary and also Microsoft voice command so you can tap and hold on the microphone here and you can tell it to search for different things and it can search for your phone and then pulls up the search also on the internet as well you can tell it to call a person let's go ahead and tell it to search search for starbucks starbucks and then it should pull up the results in a browser interface here and you can scroll through the results you can also tell it to navigate to a certain location as well so we're going to go ahead and tell it to navigate to the Getty Villa navigate to get Eve illa and it will pull up google maps with navigation which offers turn-by-turn voice guidance gps navigation which is nice I'm go ahead and select this as a result exit navigation here and go to the home screen at the home screen if you tap and hold on home you have a task menu which brings up these six most recent applications that you open let's go ahead and open up gallery so that we can see some of the multimedia features so here's our gallery you can open up a picture unfortunately you can swipe but if you tap on a picture you can go ahead and scroll through to the next picture and here we're at the movie which is another I don't know if it's the same Lord of the Rings clip but if you tap on it and tap play go ahead and resume playing good and fast forward if you tap on it it will give you additional on-screen commands unfortunately this isn't coded to the proper screen resolution so you do see black bars at the top and the bottom but you don't have the option to expand it to fill the screen which is rather unfortunate for those who want to watch the thing the movie using their full screen and not be bothered with the black bars so this has been a quick look at android 2.0 using we have taken a look at the user interface voice command and multimedia and have compared those basic features to windows mobile 6.5 thanks for watching