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hey guys it's brian i'm in a min from pocket now calm and in this video we're going to talk about the home screen experience on the motorola droid x let's go okay so let's walk through this on the home screens here you get three buttons along the bottom the center one opens up your program list the one on the right is your contact list and the one on the left allows you to open up the phone application now you can't change these shortcuts along the bottom and they follow you on all of the seven home screens and by the way when you swipe you get this little navigator on the bottom it makes it pretty easy to jump from home screen to home screen in case you're filling up all seven with lots of widgets and shortcuts and other things like that now we've got some kind of trippy live wallpaper back here i'd call it spooky instead of trippy we have the droid x live wallpaper we've got some smoke we've got a I that seems to be twirling every second pretty cool if we go into the wallpaper settings because this is android 2.1 we obviously get a variety of choices for live wallpaper most of these are all of these you've seen before on other devices like the nexus one and HTC Desire so I'm going to leave it on droid x now I'm going to swipe to the left and show you some other widgets that come on the device so here is the calendar widget which quite simply shows me my next appointment and I can tap on that drills me into the calendar nothing too fancy their Google search at the top and I can use my voice to search for things this is a pretty cool widget it's a messaging widget but it integrates with a lot of things so if I tap on it I can go to widget settings and I can select where it's pulling messages from so we can do Twitter and Facebook text messaging gmail pop3 all kinds of different messaging services and you can even name the tug the widget to anything that you want so you can really customize what services are being are notifying you when there is a new message and you can also change how many days of items are shown very handy to have so I think to the left we have an active weather widget which actually opens up within the home screen which is nice you're not having to dig into an application up here we have some pretty cool looking toggle switches which are very visually friendly and so I just turned on bluetooth now it's on it changes color to blue quick way to know what's going on swiping to the right we'll talk about some other widgets included on the droid x this is actually pretty cool this is just a update widget so if I tap here I can update twitter i can update facebook in one shot what's also cool and i was taken away from that screen is that i can resize this widget and this is something we've never seen on an android device the ability to actually change the size of widgets with little handles in the corner it doesn't always scale so well but i like the concept you can do this with multiple motorola widgets let me show you some others so if we tap and hold and go to motorola widgets you've seen all these airplane toggle bluetooth otago will just walk through those this one is really cool quick contact quick tasks so let me add a contact to my home screen real quick and show you what this does ok so what I've just done is put in widget here for Adam Lane and I can add to quick tasks based on that person so if I click Add I can see their twitter status so I click done and it's going to load and if I tap Twitter it will jump me right into Twitter and i can see that person's profile although it's going to the web not to an application and what's pretty cool is that you can actually set other quick actions so along that drop-down I could have the other one be to call Adam or to text message Adam so you can have two quick actions for a given contact kind of a cool way to save some time let's jump back in and see the other widgets we have here simple date and time widget and you can change the clock color let's do blue analog I'd like that digital and here it is just a simple day and time widget and let's delete that go back into motorola widgets gps toggle you already saw that messages is that one lets you pull in for a variety of sources that will provide messages news i'll show that to you in a minute photo slideshow it's like having a picture frame on your home screen social networking so that's the one that you just saw at the top of the screen actually social status the one you saw on the top of the screen if we go to social networking you can change the name of it you can scroll down for some items I've only got Twitter hooked up to this phone right now and so right now I'm seeing the latest twitter update in my for my final followers let's jump back in and continue our way down the list see what else we have here sticky note you saw that earlier whether pretty cool accuweather widget and of course Wi-Fi top now let's jump to the screens on the right so here i have a few quick context i'm not sure why didn't pull the picture and here's another one of those quick task and drop downs and we can change the size of this to be huge with multiple actions or just small with one action so and shrink it back down sometimes it gets a little tricky to resize these let's wipe it all the way to the right and now you just have two actions even smaller you have one action so just going to leave that alone swipe to the right so now we have some other widgets we have a widget for photos so we can tap here to see pictures that you've taken you can launch the camera quickly like that we'll talk more about photo quality and video quality in the review and up here is just a simple android widget for playing multimedia right from your home screen so the right we have that news widget i mentioned and this pops up just like the weather widget in the messaging widget and you can click here to read the full story from USA Today and we can go back and we have some tips and tricks for the droid x usually just toss that away let's see if there are any final remaining widgets that i want to show you if we go into android widgets we have the basic things that you'll find this is a really cool widget that i got from the market called battery widget it's free and you saw it earlier it simply gives you the battery in percentage on your home screen because of course you don't get to see the percentages up in the notification bar so that was a look at the home screen setup on the motorola droid x i really like the widgets the motorola has added to this device they're very powerful very social friendly I think a lot more customizable than what you get on the motoblur interface which were never a big we were never a big fan of coming up in the next video we're in a journal to some of the included programs talk about the hdmi output and all of these other fancy things that the droid x can do if you like the video please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for more smartphone 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