Gadgetory

hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and this is part 2 showing off the new software from a software company called mobile SRC they're new in the windows mobile world this new piece of software called G scroll will work with the HTC touch diamond the HTC touch pro the fuse the touch pro and Verizon Sprint and pretty much every other variant of the touch of diamonds and touch pro that exist and there are a lot of them right now now what this application does it's actually like a utility really is it takes advantage of the capacitive touch area down here below the screen now by capacitive I mean that you don't actually have to push on the buttons with pressure to make a key press be registered now out of the box the HTC touch diamond touch pro really doesn't take advantage of this very much the only place that you can use the capacitive touch panel is when you're scrolling through a picture you can run your finger around the ring around the d-pad but this program that i'm about to show you turns up the functionality on this area hugely ok so really we're talking about three pieces of functionality then i'm going to go over here to having to do with scrolling and one having to do with program launching so here we are in the in the program's menu and of course i can scroll around by clicking and dragging my finger on the screen or now with g scroll I can actually rub my finger along the capacitive area and you can see it move on the screen and I can do that on either side I can do it up or down and I can also do it side to side so it kind of acts as a really quick way to move around around on the icons kind of like a d-pad the only con I hear see here is that the sensitivity isn't that great so if you scroll one time it goes down one icon I would like to see future versions of G scroll allow you to change the sensitivity on that now this really comes in handy when you're in a pocket internet explorer for example so let's go to pocket now mobile and I'll show you what it's like using g scroll to scroll around on a long webpage ok so here we are and i want to scroll down the page and just like the program's I can you know do that with my finger but instead i'm going to run my finger down and you can see it scrolled down here like so now now like I said it's pretty useful though I wish the sensitivity was adjustable the other thing you can do with G scroll that has to do with scrolling is actually use the XYZ axis so you can tell the device this way this way or this way to scroll around the way you do this is you have to enable the feature by double tapping your finger gently on the in the center of the d-pad ok so I've got the 3d esque scrolling enabled and watch what happens i tilt the device it Scrolls down a little bit i tilted some more I i tolt it all the way and it Scrolls down all the way I tilted back and then it goes up is this useful I'm not too sure the problem with this is that if you want to scroll down a lot you have to kind of tilt the screen away from your face and that kind of changes the viewing angle you may not be able to see the screen where I see this being useful is if you want to scroll down just a little bit so you would kind of just inch it up a little bit inch it up a little bit and if you're walking down the street and you're trying to scroll down without you know using two hands I think this may be a good way to to do that though again I wish there were some options on sensitivity and to turn off this function if it's annoying you like it is me right now you tap on the center button and it turns off now the other piece of functionality that I want to talk about is the the program launching so now instead of just these four buttons to work with we have four programmable capacitive buttons so I've set the home button to open up messaging if I double tap it so watch this and there's messaging I've set the call start button to open up the calculator and there comes the calculator very very useful that functionality especially because out of the box the touch diamond touch pro really don't have that many customizable hardware buttons so let me show you what this all looks like in the settings and how you actually configure the different things so I'm going to go into settings and system and G scroll so here we have tap and tilt mode which is the one where you double tap on the center and you tilt the device around like this and this to scroll around and there are a lot of options here that determine when the tappan tilt mode actually works so sometimes it will work when the scroll bars are present or when there are no scroll bars present so you really want to read the manual and the same applies down here for panel swipe mode you can turn it off or you can have it work conditionally so look at the manual for that and then we have the quick launch interface which is really easy to use so if i want to make the back button be set to a program i click set and i will get a list of programs and I can move down the program list and say I want Teeter to start when I double tap the back button so i click ok and if i double tap the back button here comes to eater so overall I think geez scroll is a pretty good program on the right track that's kind of half-baked there were times when I had to consult the user manual just to understand what the settings meant and really in a good program there's there's help built in there are ways to know what it means when it says send scroll only or send direction Keys only I really don't understand what this means simultaneously the sensitivity wasn't that great in some programs and I always have trouble enabling and disabling some of these modes to get it to work right fortunately the program is very cheap that's four dollars and ninety-nine cents you can get it at mobile SRC com I really like it for the the functionality of the program launching and also for scrolling around with the the touchpad I think that really makes it well worth the 499 but again it does need some work in the next version and i hope the developer is working diligently on that that's it for now