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hey guys it's brandon miniman from pocket now calm and this is another exclusive look at Windows Phone 7 in this video we're going to talk about the Start screen the settings and the camera application so let's get to it you are now again we just want to emphasize that what you're about to see is not final hardware or software it's not a representation of what you're going to be able to get when Windows Phone 7 devices start shipping we're doing this for fun just to give you a sense of what Windows Phone 7 is all about so let's get started with that the notification screen actually gives you a lot of useful information so on the bottom you get notifications of missed calls miss SMS and if you had any missed email and it also kind of bounces on the bottom which is pretty cool because it shows you what's behind just a really cool effect I think above that is a notification for your next appointment followed by the date and the time and along the top you just get your system notification Wi-Fi status and battery status so let's slide to a mock and we reveal the start screen now the premise behind the start screen is to give you ease of access of information and actions which is a great idea it's a vertically scrolling list that you can add endlessly to you can have a variety of different tiles as they call here so you can have tile notifications for phone and for mms and SMS and for email or you could have live tiles so for example the people tie on the upper right corner is a live tile you can actually see information be updated within the tile in real time so I can just glance up there and see who is updating their status on facebook windows phone 7 does not integrate with Twitter right now but again this is not final release maybe it will when it comes out that would be a nice addition and there are also other things that you can link to your Start screen you can link a website shortcut so here I've got a link to mobile twitter com and you can also link your favorite people which is something that for example the iphone can't do you can't put a link to your favorite people on your main screen so that within one tap you can dial them out very nice feature okay so let me tell you how I have set up my Start screen here of course I have no third party live tiles to work with but presumably when windows phone 7 comes out there will be a wide variety of live tiles tiles to show sports scores to show twitter status stock status whether status all sorts of things so really within one glance you could just look down your Start screen and know what is going on without having to dive into applications pretty cool concept if it comes to fruition okay so here we've got the phone app the phone tile showing me that I've one missed call here's the People Hub and you've seen that a lot and from the People Hub I can pin people to my start page and it jumps back and now I have a new person down here so I'm going to take that off okay jumping up to the top we have an indicator for SMS we also have a indicator for email I'm not going to talk about those two things in this video down here with an indicator calendar which obviously jumps you into calendar now what is a little bit annoying about how Windows Phone 7 X right now and again this may change it may not change is that if you are on the bottom of the list of your Start screen and you go into an application when you go back to the start screen with the start button you are taken to the top of the list always to the top not to where you left off kind of an annoyance but not not too big of a deal here on the Isle link to Internet Explorer so I can quickly get to the web browser I've got a link to the zune application and it'll show you a little this is another example of the live tile function it will show you a little example of the music that you are listening to previously so if i tap into here you can see kind of the music that i was listening to i don't know exactly what it was but a nice little feature they're down here i've got a link to mobile.twitter.com because there are no third party apps for Windows Phone 7 available right now I'm having to use the mobile site for Twitter which is not too big of a deal it's very easy to pin websites to your start page you just expand this upward you hit pin to start and bada-bing it is there take that off to keep it clean now I've got a link to the marketplace which again isn't really in use right now because windows phone 7 isn't out below that I have a link to the pictures hub and this actually shows you your latest picture that you took with the camera so I took a picture of some crackers in a bowl and it just shows you a little preview of that down there then we have the camera application well I like to take pictures and here's the settings and here are two people that I call on a regular basis kind of bouncing around and moving around kind of as if they were alive so that is how i have my Start screen set up there's a lot of promise to how you can have your Start screen arranged once you start integrating third-party tiles and especially the live tiles that update information in real time so let's bounce it to the camera application just talk about that there's a really cool feature of the camera application now when you go and take a picture and let's say we're taking a picture of the nexus one here and by the way all windows phone 7 devices will have the very nice to have camera manual camera button when you take a picture this is not going to be the best picture watch what happens it slides over to the left now this isn't a new thing where a smartphone operating system will give you a quick way to get back to your picture but I think this is the easiest way of any smartphone operating system you simply swipe to the left or swipe to the right and you are taken to the picture you just took if you want to go back in time you keep going and if you go all the way to the right you're taken back to the live camera view which is just a really cool way how they integrated the the camera application with the photos application actually recorded some video over here this device is capable of recording in 720p but again this is prototype hardware so you shouldn't really judge it on that so that was a little look at the camera application and I think it's here we go let me just jump into the settings real quick and again this most likely isn't final in fact this is LG branded so it's very possible that this isn't a windows phone seven specific feature so we can change the photo resolution hit back button white balance color effect photo quality I'm sure that some OEMs will be able to customize the photo application based on the hardware that's actually taking the pictures so let's jump back to the start screen now let's talk a little bit about notifications because notifications are very very important I want to call your attention to the top of the screen here very interestingly these the network status and Wi-Fi status is not showing up unless you tap and then it pops up very interesting and you have to wonder do you care about seeing your your signal strength all the time or would you rather have a cleaner look and have that information be hidden away as is the case in this particular build of windows phone 7 just something to think about so what I'm going to do is send this phone a text message so you can see what it's like when you're working let's say you're on the web and suddenly a text message comes through so so I'm going to take this other phone here and send a text message watch what happens okay there we go text message and you get a little preview which is really awesome and what you can do is you can ignore it and it will go away or you can tap and it will bring up the text message and this is the really cool simple interface for the text messaging program so simple so you can use the on-screen keyboard of course say hello how are you a really really sweet keyboard by the way except from this angle it's difficult to you to use and so that's how notifications occur they occur on the top and again this may not be final but this is just the way that it is now so what I'm going to do now is call the phone and you're going to see what it's like to receive a call on a windows phone 7 device so I'm gonna so I'm going to turn it off okay and here we're getting a call and if there is a caller ID associated with this you'll actually get a big bright background here and what you can do is slide up to action on it but that's not enough you have to determine if you an answer or ignore it I'm going to ignore it and then you're going to see now I have two missed calls here in the notification area and if I slide up now the counter has gone up to two another thing that's kind of cool another cool effect is that the counters actually change after you unlock the screen not before so for example if you haven't turn on your phone for a while and you unlock the screen and slide the the unlock screen up and you have 10 emails this will go from 3 to 10 before your eyes it's just a cool little effect that makes your phone feel kind of alive I think that's a good a good metaphor to use ok so finally let's bounce into settings take a look at what you can change in Windows Phone 7 right now again I'm sure the settings will change but just want to give you an idea of what it's like right now so we can do some application specific changes to the settings or anything just go into system and from system we can go into ringtone and sounds the Metro interface continues and we can change the ringtone so we can tap on a particular area you get the point it's never fun to change her to change your ringtone nothing special about that we can change the theme so we can have a dark background theme which is perfect for a mo LED displays or we can do light which is good for you know standard LCD displays and then you can change the color accent to a variety of different things let's say blue with a white background and now if we go back we have blue with a white background and notice what I just did I went back to the start screen and then I hit the back button down here and it took me to the to the previous screen kind of stepping me through time just quite nice the windows phone 7 platform may not have a multitasking interface but you can very easily jump back to applications that you are working in previously so the back button gets a ton of use in windows phone 7 so now that we have a different brighter theme we can turn on airplane mode again just a simple toggle switch here we can turn Wi-Fi on or off bluetooth on or off very simple stuff email and accounts you can add a variety of different email protocols although i'm sure the list will get bigger when you can buy windows phone 7 device but you can add exchange of course gmail yahoo a hotmail you know the usual suspects we can change the lock screen and wallpaper and the behavior so the screen timeout until tells you tells the device how long until it shuts off can change the wallpaper of the lock screen and it comes with some pretty fancy wallpaper to start so let's say we want to have this interesting one set as the wallpaper we hit the check mark and it's done let's go back location turned on so that will work with Bing Maps cellular i'm using this over AT&T right now can change the date and the time we also have brightness right now it's set to automatic some people were asking about the brightness during the previous video or we talked about the browser and I mean the screen gets pretty bright not that it matters this is the maximum brightness it's very bright not that it matters because this is reference hardware and it's not intended to be final release so let's scroll down a little bit more we have keyboard you can change the keyboard to another language region and language ease of access speech auto confirmations is turned on find my phone is presumably a feature that they will have enabled so that you can use a web interface to locate your phone which is always a nice little feature there now let's swipe to the right real quick and see if there's anything interesting here so let's see if there are any game settings Xbox Live is turned on although the service is an active yet Internet Explorer this will take you to the same settings that you get if you were to access them from Internet Explorer Maps marketplace it's not much you can do right now with with the with the settings here for the applications so we're not going to go too far in search will let your delete history and use your location so overall I've been able to cut demise the Start screen on windows phone 7 so that it works for me i can quickly dial the people that I care about I can see certain updates and I can jump in and out of applications that i use on a regular basis again the promise of Windows Phone 7 is that you will be able to have a lot of third-party live tiles here that really bring information to your fingertips and I think that if that promise comes to fruition it'll be a fantastic paradigm a new paradigm on how we should interact with our devices so that was another quick look at windows phone 7 please thumbs up this video if you liked it and be sure to subscribe to our channel also if you didn't see the previous video where we compared the browser of Windows Phone 7 to iPhone and Android you got to check that out i'll put a link up on the video to get that and thanks for watching that's it for now