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hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocket now calm and this is the software tour of the acer d x 900 if you remember from previous videos this is one of the very few devices ever to exist that can manage two phone lines from one device by having you insert two sim cards into the back of the device so in this video we're going to take a look at the software on the device if you want to see what it looks like to manage these two phone lines I'll put a link up on the video to the the video that shows using the two phone lines in action so let's take a look at the software my turn on the device with the button on the side and the screen has been rotated I'll go through that soon and what we're taken to immediately is spb mobile shell 2 point 0 as you know three point 0 is out which brings a lot of improvements but this is actually the old version but we still like the old version right so we can flick our finger we can access favorite people add new ones click our finger again get access to our internet favorites and settings and multimedia and this is a very customizable platform to allow you to really make it your own so we'd like mobile shell we think it's a good addition we just wish that mobile shell three point 0 would have been included on the device so we can exit mobile shell by going to the exit button here and we're taken to the standard Windows Mobile today's screen which is kind of bland and boring but that's why they put mobile shell on top of it okay so let's go into the start menu and I'm having to use the stylus because i find the screen on this device isn't the most sensitive screen then we've worked with before so let's go through this in games we have the typical games bubble breaker and solitaire nothing interesting there in gps we have some gps utilities such as gps viewer which will let you give it see a better idea of which satellites you're connecting with in that sort of thing location SMS will send your coordinates to someone via SMS if we go to multimedia we have the camera application and the camera is a 3 megapixel camera and there is got to get it in focus here and there is a flash on the camera which is good and it has rotated again we've streaming player so that you can watch videos from m youtube com mobile YouTube going down the list we have some entries here in phone such as sim manager scenarios which will allow you to kind of set profiles if you want it to ring or vibrate or or depending on what you're doing outside it'll keep the ringer at a very high volume spb mobile shell that just has some utilities in there we also have some utilities backup utility memory optimization which is actually kind of funny it will on a regular basis reset your device because windows mobile doesn't always close programs when you exit them so the idea here is that you reset your device and all the memory gets flushed out in your back to zero again default settings will bring it back to factory condition application recovery is if you accidentally delete some of the preloaded programs on the device and you want to bring them back voice commander is a program that lets you control your device with your voice and you don't have to train it just like microsoft voice command so that's good you can say please call Bob or what time is it or what's my next calendar appointment going down the list we have communications manager let me show you what that looks like it's a very finger friendly communication manager you can individually turn off turn on and off phone one in phone too and of course phone two is the auxiliary phone line that you use associated with the second SIM card going down the list we have some usual stuff task manager and that sort of thing if we go to the Start menu we see that we do have the office mobile sweet included which is good so we can view powerpoint excel and word documents now as you've seen a few times already this device has an accelerometer built in so that you can do screen rotation in any screen and the screen rotation is actually pretty fast and you can't go down this this way it actually flips back the other way and you can turn this off if it gets annoying I would probably turn it off personally because I think having an accident rotate all the time which it has been doing is kind of annoying although you can't change the sensitivity of it so if we go into settings and we go over to system gravity sensor we can change the sensitivity right here so if you want to make it low then you probably won't have as many accidental rotations so let's go back into the settings here if we go into buttons we have several hardware buttons that we can customize to launch certain programs which is good so that you can quickly launch email or a gps program like Windows Live search at just a press of a button we've settings here for phone one and phone too because obviously there are two phone lines on this device an overran system we can take a look at how much memory we have left we've been opening a lot of programs we don't have that much memory left sadly and I think this device slows down significantly if you if you're using a lot of programs so you're going to want to make sure that you're closing programs are exiting them if you have that option so that you keep free memory available and final if we go into backlight we can determine if the device uses the light sensor to regulate the screen brightness which is always recommended so that you can maximize battery life and finally over in connections we've nothing interesting here although we have connection wizard which will pre configure the connection settings on your device to the carrier that you're using so this is an international phone and they have Dave settings for many many different carriers across many different countries so I'm in the USA and I went to the list went away and I went to AT&T Wireless and by the way this does have the bands necessary for AT&T 3g as you can see up here i'm getting a little h4 hsdpa so in terms of performance a view as you've seen through this demonstration it's a little bit laggy going from screen to screen is pretty fast I have a concern about the amount of program ram that is available when you start to multitask a lot in terms of battery life it's okay battery life nothing great you're definitely going to have to charge this every day if you're using you know any level of email or GPS or Wi-Fi or things that take their toll on the battery life and a quick note on the on-screen keyboards this is the finger friendly on-screen keyboards called easy keyboard unfortunately it's not arranged in a qwerty fashion and that thus it's very difficult to use however he rotate to landscape you actually get a much better layout of the keyboard that is quite large and I have to say it's actually easy to use when it's this big so let me try two types a little something here take some getting used to but it's actually not that bad I just wish that there was a qwerty keyboard that is that was finger-friendly that you could use in landscape so it takes some getting used to but it's not it's not that bad though the keys are pretty big so overall I think the acer d x 900 is is a good solution if you want a windows mobile device that does two lines it's really one of the only options that you have I have never been a fan of acer previously eaten Eaton's quality build quality isn't that terrific on this device it just doesn't feel high quality in hand like an HTC device and I feel like the software is kind of haphazardly optimized you know they threw spb mobile shell on the top of this to make a finger friendly but nothing else has been changed to be finger friendly the menus are small I have had to use the stylus a lot through this demonstration because really the screen isn't sensitive enough and items aren't big enough on the screen to make a finger friendly so really in the end this is a mediocre device but really an okay choice if you're looking for a device that can handle two phone lines which is a pretty unique capability so that's it for the acer DX 900 if you want a device like this of your own they're shipping right now at clove co uk that's it for now