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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocket now calm and in this video we're going to cover the software on the HP ipaq glisten that runs on the AT&T network so let's start off by turning on the device and we're going to zoom in on the screen we're going to take out the stylus because the screen is kind of small and from this angle it's a little bit difficult to operate the screen with touch so the screen is an advil LED display which really means the colors pop and it should be good on battery life we still haven't run this through several days of testing so we're not sure if that's the case the HP ipaq glisten comes with the most minimal install of windows mobile 6.5 that we've seen meaning there are very very little added programs almost everything is set to default the way that Microsoft wants it to be and this is a good and a bad thing it's good for the people that like to tweak and change things it's good for people that like things fast and minimal but it's bad for anybody that wants to have a little bit of fun and wants to look at some eye candy because there really is none on this device so take that for what it's worth so here we have the standard titanium interface for windows mobile 6.5 we've seen this before we can see our music in one screen we can flick through our pictures we can go through our text messages if we have new ones we can check out Outlook email this is an interface that we've seen many many times here's a little bit of a problem I think they should have gone with the for icon white grid because right now you only get to see one two three four five icons on the screen at one time so you're always having to flick down and flick down and flip down and go to the bottom which is really annoying I understand that they limited the number of icons because of the small screen size and the low resolution but I think they could have fit for there's definitely a registry hack for this now I've added opera mobile 10 beta because the device doesn't come with a better browser it only has internet explorer mobile so I've added opera mobile 10 beta which is a quite a good way to to browse the web and it works quite well on the on the glisten and so if we go to Wikipedia it's loading and it's right now it's over a 3g connection not Wi-Fi should come up relatively fast and here it is Wikipedia obviously this device is not made to be an internet browsing machine but it definitely is capable so here we have Wikipedia and it's both desktop glory we can tap in on a column to zoom in it takes a moment to resize but here it comes through after the page is loading their now it's resized and it's the text is perfectly readable so if you're checking a quick website you can definitely do so using opera mobile 10 which is free for windows mobile too bad the device doesn't come with that so let's exit out of that and we'll go back into the start menu to see what else is in here so leave the basic windows mobile stuff activesync email phone all of this is just default let's take a look at the camera application which is actually quite good and it's different than what comes standard on Windows Mobile so it's hard to see right now but we've little gear icon down here and we have this really nice interface we can change the timer or the frame we can go to the next panel a very intuitive finger friendly interface for the camera we can adjust the brightness and the contrast we can change the white balance through various different degrees we can change the effect and then we can also change the resolution the camera is 3 megapixels you can also go down to 2 megapixels or even smaller than that and you can switch modes by actually pressing the d-pad you can go from you know taking a photo too let's see if I can get that back up to 2 taking a video right now we're in video mode and let's see what the resolutions are for the video we're actually an mms video so now we are in the proper screen and the maximum resolution unfortunately is only qvga for the video this is not going to be a device to replace your video camera but it will take quick video and we're going to post samples in the full review on pocketnow.com coming up soon so let's go back into the start menu and see what else we have here so we have a lot of AT&T proprietary stuff and we see this on all of the AT&T windows mobile devices so App Center and AT&T Navigator stuff that I'm not going to go into mobile web but this is all AT&T stuff let's go into apps and take a look at what we have in here we voice commander which isn't as good as Microsoft voice command but it lets you control the device remotely with your voice so you'll say call Bob home and it'll it'll call Bob home we have some widgets in here the facebook application for windows mobile and then we have something called HP photosmart so HP use the photosmart sort of branding on an application that i don't think really deserves to be branded with HP photosmart photosmart printers are fantastic their software is good but this really is so from here you can launch the camera you can print this if you're connected to a printer via bluetooth or other means you can trash it you can email it basically it's like a glorified photo management tool that isn't necessarily better than what's built into windows mobile by default so we're going to exit from there let's go back into the start menu and we justwhen its apps and then we have the marketplace of course we have games and in here we have a lot of trial based java we're so pac-man and monopoly you can only play a few times before you actually have to pay for it 18d does this a lot going down the list with Windows Live mobile video which is an AT&T branded thing we have something called YP mobile and let's launch that and YP mobile is just a link to the Yellow Pages mobile download application so you can go and download that if you'd like although my guess is that it has similar functionality to Google Maps mobile or even Bing mobile so let's go back down the list to where we were before AT&T Wi-Fi so you can get on AT&T Wi-Fi hot spots we have Office Mobile suite which is nice pictures and video if we go into tools we have some things we have the standard Windows Mobile calculator internet sharing a printing utility remote desktop although you're definitely not going to want to use remote desktop on such a low resolution display proxy manager sort of more technical things in here windows media player file explorer everything else from here on down I've added these two things is is stock stuff that we we see in the standard install of windows mobile 6.5 let's take a look at the settings to see what things that we can tweak and what hardware buttons we can change so here we are in power and this device has been off the charger for about three hours and it's down ninety-three percent which is quite good we expect this to have good battery life and we can go into personal to take a look at what buttons we can change the function of and there are four buttons that we can change the function of and they all reside on the bottom of the keyboard here which is quite nice that you have four programmable Hardware keys so if you want to quickly launch opera mobile without having to go into the start menu you can do that and so on and so forth here's some settings for voice commander we're going to go back go into system and we can do a factory restore we can look at device information let's see how much memory we have we've been opening a lot of programs fortunately the ipaq glisten has ample program RAM which is fantastic right now several programs are open and we're still looking at 130 megabytes of free ram which is really quite fantastic it's even better than say the samsung omnia two which gets well below 100 when you open up a few programs let's see what else we have down here again pretty much everything is is stock down here if we go into backlight we can change the backlight setting and have it be set to automatic backlight which is probably makes the most sense for to save on battery power or you can manually switch the backlight all the way up to 10 gets really bright and uses a lot of power go down to one can hardly see the screen oddly you can turn the backlight off on the omnia two and the omnia pro which has at which have AMOLED screens but with this device it seems to really rely on the backlight to be able to see things on the screen go back we can go finally into connections and we can go into the wireless manager which as no surprise is the standard default wireless manager nothing has been changed and here we have GPS data for the a GPS on the device the assisted GPS and real quick let's go through typing so you can get it feel for how fast you can type on this device we're going to go back into the start menu and launch word mobile so down here the performance artist device is quite good it's running a snappy 533 megahertz processor it has plenty of program Ram you may see some delays that's because I'm missing the screen because I'm shooting from a strange angle here so let's give a little bit of a test I haven't been practicing for too long but maybe you can get a feel for how how good the keyboard is quite nice I made some errors there it says this is a test of the keyboard with a little practice I think this is going to be a really fantastic keyboard be sure to check the final review to see our final verdict on the keyboard and how good it actually is so overall we're really surprised to see such a bare-bones install of windows mobile 6.5 on the HP ipaq glisten it really looks like HP spent no time customizing this device which could have been on purpose to make it all about the hardware the hardware is quite fantastic and is really productive with great one-handed usability an excellent keyboard and the touch screen that looks great with AMOLED technology that said the tweakers among us are going to want to put on spb mobile shell or change the interface of bid and customize how many icons are on this screen because out of the box the device is a little bit bland I'm just to say the least but again I think it's going to be a fantastic tool for people that want to be as productive as possible so be sure to check pocketnow.com for the four of you coming up soon we're going to talk about battery life and speed photo quality and a lot more that's it for now on the HP ipaq glisten