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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and this is a look at the settings on the HTC Desire Android is a great operating system for people that like to tweak and change and customize and the desire is no exception so let's take a look at all the things that you can change through the settings menu so to unlock the screen I'm gonna zoom in a little bit here ok let's go right into settings we get these nice colored icons which is new to the newer versions of Android so let's go right into personalize and from here we can change the scenes for the HTC Sense home screens with the different layout configurations then we can go to a home wallpaper and we get a variety of really fantastic HTC wallpapers and I know the cameras having trouble focusing there we go and these these all look very very good with the AMOLED screen the colors are super vivid and the blacks are very black very good contrast so they give you a really fantastic selection and you also get the live wallpapers which we saw for the first time on the Google Nexus One so galaxy grass magic smoke these all come from the Nexus One which also to Android 2.1 but we get two new ones we get HTC Sense which is kind of this morphing of colors that you just saw and also this one's pretty cool maps maps live wallpapers so it'll show you actually a satellite view or a map view of your current location I assume that this uses a lot of battery so you probably don't want to use this on a regular basis but it's pretty cool so what I have enabled right now is the Sense wallpaper you can see these kind of colorful bubbles moving in the background I think it's a nice touch let's go back in wireless and networks so from here we can change our our Wi-Fi settings turn on bluetooth manage that VPN kind of boring stuff there calls also pretty boring we can manage voice mail call barring and forwarding then if we go into sound of display we see some more interesting things we can change the sound profile we can change the media volume the ringer volume the phone ringtone so I'm going to move around there have some fun okay notification sound we can have the phone vibrate for incoming calls we have a cool feature here called quiet ring on pickup this is actually on the HTC hd2 so if the phone is ringing and you pick up your phone it will reduce the volume when you do that because basically you don't need the phone to keep ringing as loudly as it is if you are already if you already know that the phone is ringing so we can scroll down audible touch tones haptic feedback SD card notifications we can tell the device if we want it to change orientation in certain screens with the accelerometer let's look at brightness now with an AMOLED screen you don't really need the backlight in indoor situation so if we slide it all the way down you can see that you can still see things on the screen if you did this with a traditional LCD display that would not be the case or you can maximize it if it's really really bright outside and you need the help of a backlight I leave it on automatic you can also determine screen animation so right now I have it set on some animate some animations obviously the more animations you have the bigger the toll on battery life XI sensor calibration you can also determine when the LED flashes there's a green LED that flashes when you have a new call or a missed SMS or something like that and things like that and you can check off which ones you want them to go on for very handy okay let's go back accounts in sync this is where you go to determine all the sync options so right now I've got five different things or six synchronizing exchange activesync Facebook and so on and so forth and from here you can determine when these things sync and how often which is good to have in one screen location you can check off if you want it to use GPS satellites or just use the wireless networks obviously if you use GPS satellites you'll get a little bit more precise in a map application but it will use a lot more battery life than the latter going down we have search so we can change some settings in the Google search search history and web suggestions going down some more we have some privacy options use my location as Duff this is cool automatically the desire and the legend actually backup your data to the SD card so if I were to factory reset this device when I turn it on it'll ask me do you want to restore all of your information from the micro SD card it will restore all of my settings so I don't have to enter my Wi-Fi passwords again any sort of HTC Sense widget configurations very handy feature ok go to applications we can manage applications kind of comment for for most Android devices SD in phone storage so we can see how much space we have available it comes with a four gigabyte microSD card which is quite handy date and time you can change the format language and keyboard you can change the language to five different languages or technically four touch input settings so you can determine if you get the haptic feedback you can do a tutorial ad to the user dictionaries so in those names and things like that accessibility I'm not going to go into that text-to-speech is an application you have to download and only certain other applications can take advantage of this like navigation programs it'll take text and turn it into speech you can hear a sample so not too bad sounds like a robot but what do you expect and finally at the bottom we have about phone from here you can you know see your network status see what is using the battery which I love to see this is a really fantastic addition to Android so I know that Wi-Fi is using a lot of my battery life and so is just the cell standby pinning it being on I don't know why they include that and from here you can tap on these to action on certain things you can turn on Wi-Fi turn it off phone idle display it'll take you to the brightness settings and you get the point so that's a look at the settings on the HTC Desire there's a lot you can change about this phone they really give you a lot of customized ability which is great if you liked the video give it a thumbs up and that's it for now