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what's up guys it's CJ lips true from Pacquiao com we recently took a look at the hardware of the HTC droid incredible so in this video we'll be giving you a glimpse of some of the software you can expect out of verizon's latest Android device I think you'll see that HTC has worked hard and finding ways to enhance the Android experience through the sense interface widgets and other customizations they have done a fantastic job and it really seems to go a long way in making the experience more enjoyable for users so let's get started so first off we have HTC's custom lock screen which displays the time date and notifications if you have any let's drag this far down to unlock and we're instantly greeted with this amazing weather animation for current local conditions right now we have some clouds but if it was raining you'd see raindrops if there was a thunderstorm you'd actually see some flashes of light mixed with the clouds it's really an awesome unobtrusive way to keep updated with the weather so starting at the top we have HTC's combo clock and weather widget let's go ahead and tap on the clock and it pulls up these handy time related tools notice the sweet looking slider down here at the bottom for navigating between all these items you'll actually see this a lot because it's something you can find throughout the sense experience as you drill into different widgets and programs so right now it looks like we have a clock for your desk moving over we can look up times throughout the world settings for your alarms a simple stopwatch and a timer so a really nice way to move through all of these different tabs here so let's go home and we'll click on the weather we get this nice extended view of the weather and if you had more cities added you can go ahead and flip through those let's go back again so here we have the calendar widget and we can pull up the next appointment or clicking on the date will actually bring up this beautiful calendar right now it's a month view but we can switch to agenda and if we go to menu we get some other options like week view let's go home down here we have some shortcuts here's the messaging app and again this nice slider for all messages text messages and picture mail or voice mail let's go to mail same thing with that received conversations group unread and attachments people for all groups online directories and call history so rather than having a simple app tray like on stock android 2.1 HTC has this a larger menu bar the app tray can be pulled up from the left and the dialer can be pulled up from the middle let's go ahead and go home and the + button will of course add different widgets shortcuts and folders of course you can add delete or move widgets and shortcuts around seven different screens unfortunately this can get a little tiresome because there are seven screens instead of five like on android 2.1 the stock version of it so HTC has decided to add a new feature called leap so if you pinch on any of these screens you actually get this nice little overview of all seven screens at once now you can jump from one side all the way to the other side so it's very convenient so for people who like one-handed usability there's good news HTC has also made it so you can access the leap feature by pressing the home button when you're at the home screen so again really convenient for users that are big on one-handed usability so let's go to the first screen and will actually take a look at the rest of the HTC widgets here is the weather widget and we've seen what it looks like inside of the weather program so let's slide over this is one of my favorite widgets which is the text messaging widget and we get the preview of the message with functions to reply to or delete the message right from this widget we can flip through all of your text messages drill into the messaging application or compose a new message slide over same thing with the emails we get the previews and the functions at the bottom we've already seen these here's a large finger-friendly widget for bookmarks and here's a new widget called french stream which is basically like HTC peep which I'm sure you've heard of if you happen it's a HTC's Twitter client this is actually not only for Twitter but this aggregates also Facebook and Flickr into this nice stream of updates so let's actually go into here and here we have all updates status updates photos and links let's go over here here we have the music player so we can cycle through the different albums and songs let's go ahead and tap on it we get the nice cover flow view and here we have again the sense interface to sort through artists albums playlist songs genres composers and purchased okay and those were widgets that I had set up on my layout of sense I wanted to go ahead and show you some more HTC widgets so I cleared out my screens and I'll click the plus button go to widget and we already took a look at this bookmarks widget but we can get another view it's more of a traditional list view of bookmarks so that may be a choice for some people same with a calendar we have a larger calendar view here's an agenda view and the view i was using and here we have some clocks there's the one I was using there's a travel clock compact clock and a bunch of analog clocks to round them out HTC footprints this is for geotagging photos and viewing them through the widget I'm not sure if anybody still uses this but it's an option french stream mail and messaging widgets the music widget here's one for notes you can write on a notepad and then flick through all your different notes let's go back to the widgets here's a widget for contacts you can have this large grid for your favorite contacts or you can slide over and pick this one column favorite contacts widgets if you like photos here's a photo frame widget or even better you can use the photo album and you can basically flick through all of your photos this guy kind of looks lost let's go ahead and tap on one and we get to view our picture album I kind of wish you could use the 3d picture album you get with android 2.1 but this isn't so bad let's go back to widgets and we'll go down here's a google search bar here's a widget for stocks there's a large view smaller view and an even smaller view so here's a tip calculator today in history here's HTC peep the Twitter widget and the widget for weather and finally with so many different features to choose from it's really hard to pick that perfect layout so that's why HTC has a feature called scenes which you allows you to set up different layouts and save them so right now we're on custom one let's go to custom too and as you can see I set up an analog clock I have a different live wallpaper and of course you can add different widgets and shortcuts so if you have a layout you like during work hours you can set that up and then when you come home you can switch to something you set up for leisure time or maybe for the weekend so that about does it for the tour of HTC Sense interface although android 2.1 is perfectly usable in its stock form i think HTC brings it up a notch with some very stylish and cool features that's it for now thanks for watching