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you in this last video installment comparing a droid 2 point 0 to windows mobile 6.5 with touchflo 3d we're going to go ahead and look at these settings programs and marketplace and how those differ between the two devices and operating systems in the first video we explored the user interface the voice command feature any multimedia capabilities of both devices we've explored also the email and calendar applications in the second video and in this last video let's go ahead and unlock android first we're going to go ahead and take a look at the settings menu here you see a graphical user interface on touchflo 3 or on windows mobile 6.5 if you do set a password it will be either a numeric or alpha numeric pin so in order to access settings all you have to do is hit the settings menu which brings up a contextual menu where you can have different options so we're going to go ahead and tap settings under settings you have different options including wireless network to connect to bluetooth and Wi-Fi and you can manage devices that way you have call settings for voicemail hearing aids sounds and location and a variety of different things the settings menu is highly touch sensitive you have large boxes to select from you have pull down boxes and options and radio buttons as well so let's go ahead and go into your location and security so everything is very touch friendly the program's menu the main programs menu other than the shortcuts and widgets that you see on the three home screens here is accessible by either tapping on this arrow or swiping and pulling it up in this way you see all the different programs that are installed you do have kinetic scrolling so it offers you some speed as you scroll from the top to the bottom of a very long list one of the programs here is a market android market which is a marketplace application where you can download applications paid and freed applications both at the main screen here you have a list view of some of the feature applications more applications are available under apps games and Verizon has its own branded app store inside android market so let's go ahead and begin with apps by tapping on that you do have different applications genre such as news and weather multimedia we're going to go ahead and tap on news and downloading an app is pretty simple go ahead and we're going to go ahead and download a free app and we're going to download weatherbug gives you a warning comments and ratings and then if you tap install it will show you that weatherbug will require access to your location which uses GPS your network communications for internet and some of the system tools we're going to go ahead and just accept that and it will begin installing once the program starts installing it shows up at the top notification bar so let's go ahead and swipe down it will show you the progress here of installation and once it's completed you just tap on it and you can either uninstall it or open it let's go ahead and instead of wait for it to load we're going to go back to the home screen opening an application is very easy all you have to do is just tap on the application and it should open we're going to go ahead and go to our phone application and show you some of the nifty things that the phone app does oops under the phone app unfortunately it does not use on contextual dialing so if you typed in say dad 323 which spells da d it doesn't pull up dad there's a pretty detailed call log but under your contacts the cool part is if you tap on a contact it will show you all the different ways you can communicate with that contact including look placing a call looking up their contact card emailing text message you can even navigate to that person if their address is saved or look up their facebook profile as well and you can do that in also the text message or any application where the content or the contact name is selected so that's a quick look at the settings programs and marketplace for android let's go ahead and do the same for windows mobile 6.5 with touchflo 3d in order to go to these settings you can just quickly tap on settings here or you can go to programs the shortcuts and tap on settings that way this pulls up the main touchflo 3d settings and some of these settings that you can control via touchflo 3d but if you want deeper control you will have to hit all settings and then once you go deeper in it becomes less finger friendly and it looks like there's a bit of a disparity between windows mobile 6.5 with all the touch implementation and it looks like here we're taking back to an interface that is reminiscent of windows mobile 6.1 with the tabs and the small buttons that are more stylist capable than finger capable to access the main programs all you have to do is hit the start by nor the windows button here or you can do it with the on screen on the left side this brings up a shortcut on touchflo 3d if you hit on all applications you get a grid or a list view rather than the grid view and you can pull up different applications let's go ahead and take a look at marketplace for mobile which is the app store for windows mobile instead of the list view here with all these showcase applications you have it in like a carousel view here at the top and then here you can log in with your live ID by going into the menu let's go ahead and go to what's new and see what we can download that's free let's go ahead and download glympse because that looks to be free and again you can browse by genre as well and it looks like it's initiating the download and it takes you back so that you're not on that screen so you can browse for more applications you can download simultaneous apps as well and view screen shots and reviews here and we're going to wait for this to finish downloading marketplace will also automatically download your applications updates if there are any as well and you can rate your application at the top here can sign in or sign out looks like installing a little but this has been a quick look of marketplace some of the programs and settings on both windows mobile and android 2.0 thanks for watching and stay tuned for additional android and windows mobile coverage on pocketnow.com