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hey guys this is Adam lien from pocketnow.com we're just gonna do a quick comparison between the HTC 7 pro from 2011 and the HTC keizer or also known as to be tightened to from 2007 so let's check them out so the Titan 2 from 2007 is the first smartphone with a slide-out keyboard that tilts the screen and this one is the latest one so we have it slightly different here this one spring loads into the tilting position but this one does not however it does have a spring-loaded sliding and let's just look at the interface a little bit we're a little bit slow on the rotation but I can open start menu here's my recently used tasks so I have a really fast task switching well theoretically it'll be fast and we can just scroll through whatever get to that and we've also got hardware buttons I can do shortcut keys so real easy that I can feel for this button and I know that would launch my TomTom Maps or I can hit that one and switch to the music player really easily I'll just by feeling the buns so that's in portrait mode let's go back to the keyboard and over here you don't really have shortcuts for anything you got to touch the screen it and do all your navigation this way so we got a look at the screen you know you don't have any buttons over here nothing over there so you can't feel any buttons you really have to look at it to do any interaction and even then if I'm looking at the camera screen or you don't see it and let's go back to keyboard so you're noticing that the 7 Pro does not rotate the screen so you you know it's kind of difficult to use here and on the keyboard we have arrows but they don't do anything let's go into maybe email so I can use the arrows and they still don't do anything here so I'm now scrolling you really have to touch the screen and let's see if we can use the arrows here yes that's the only place that they'll work there's also a shift key but holding it down doesn't let you select type so not much you can do with its keyboard even in the programs menu no no keyboard shortcuts doesn't do anything really and you got to turn your head to to read this search we can type stuff but not really you have to touch the screen and now you can type stuff okay now it gives me some choices and I have some arrows on the keyboard but if I press the button I can't choose those those choices you have to you have to take your hand off the keyboard and touch the screen so not really usable let's look at the old one now so here's our keyboard from four years ago we have a Start menu okay we have arrows we have soft keys to access menus so I could press Start I can use the arrows I can just type a letter and go straight to the thing that's associated with that letter so those programs I can hit letter M to go to messaging I can scroll through with the arrows lots of stuff I can do here all from the keyboard and everything is real because it's oriented horizontally let's open that one I can get two menus refresh up one get back here you can switch the clock all really easily without moving my fingers too much see they're all you know still here just chillin nice comfortable position for the hands and really I can do just about anything email really easy to do everything without moving too much in a comfortable position so that's the old Kaiser compared to the new HTC 7 pro so a lot of things have changed maybe not for the better hopefully we'll see better landscape keyboards for in Windows Phone 7 that at some point anyway that's it for now if you enjoyed this video give us a thumbs up