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hey guys it's Brianna minimun from pocketnow.com and this is the software tour of the HTC Touch pro2 now what you're gonna find is the software is very very similar on the touch pro2 to how it is on the diamond too in fact there are only a very few amount of changes that have been made to the software experience we're gonna cover everything fully in the review but right now we're gonna go through the main things that are different so to start we finally have true touchflo 3d in landscape it's been a long time coming if you remember touchflo 3d on the touch pro was just really a row of icons when you opened up the keyboard but not the case on the touch pro2 we finally have true-to-life touchflo 3d in landscape and what it does it just reorients things on the screen you get a little button here which expands the list of of icons on the screen that you can go through so things are kind of arranged differently but they are not too different so we can go into favorite people you've seen that before we'll go right into text messaging and here is a text message from John and I'm going to tap on the screen to open that up and here's the new text messaging screen and we also saw this in the diamond too it's a much more elegant way of communicating with people that will put it into this nice little threaded view now also part of this part of this screen if we zoom back out let's go back in for a second and flip into portrait is the unified communication screen we're going to talk more about this in the review we covered it in the diamond to review the idea is that when I'm in the unified communication screen with John I can see all the emails that I've sent with him I can see any cause that I've had with him and I can also see some Facebook information although the Facebook integration isn't that great it lets you add a picture for the person and also update their birthday on the contact card so far I haven't seen that much more functionality out of this and finally if you go to the button on the left you get to see the person's you know name and address or any other information that you entered in again I'm not showing that now because of security information but we're gonna cover it fully in the review great concept to have the unified communication screen ok and of course we have email here and we have calendar and the calendar is fantastic because it actually integrates with the weather so if I go to today I get to see the weather in Philadelphia which is where I am we go into landscape and screen rotation is super fast by the way I'm sure you've seen that by now you have to scroll a little bit if we go over to the Internet of course we have push Internet and the idea behind push Internet is that you can set up a few different web pages to preload so let's say every day at 4 o'clock you check your stocks so you have yahoo.com slash finance preload itself every day at 4 o'clock and the way you add a new push page is quite simply you add in the address you specify the frequency there and it won't get it ready for you now you can also specify how often this this works if you go to schedule settings so let's say you don't want the page to be pulled down during the weekend so you turn on Monday through Friday you leave off Saturday and Sunday and that way you're not accruing data charges when you really don't need to be looking at a particular website and over here as stocks and stocks have been read down a little bit it's actually the same stock screen that you had in the HTC Touch HD so if we go to Starbucks here we gets to see stock details now here's where the landscape integration doesn't work too well if we flip over to landscape things reorient but it requires you to scroll things still don't fit on one screen it would have been nice if they put the graph over to the left and put these these buttons for the various time intervals to the right of that and put all this information all the way over to the right because kind of annoying having to scroll whereas when you're in portrait everything is right there on the screen of course we have photos and video and we've seen this before and the camera on the touch pro2 as we'll see in the review is quite fantastic and so we can use the zoom slider to move in a little bit and to move out or you can flick your finger to the right to see the next picture and that's actually a little video and the the scrolling from side to side is much smoother than it was in the touch Pro I'm you can go halfway and stop before it was kind of this weird artificial animation but now it's a lot smoother and crisper and you can also zoom in by double tapping and zoom out but the zoom slider is there for you the zoom slider will only work in Opera Mobile and in photos unfortunately it won't work in Skyfire if you get that or in other programs so it's it's functionalities quite limited to Opera Mobile Google Maps and and photos so let's continue our way in Touch flow-3d of course you've seen the weather tab but now that we have a massive WVGA screen we can see the forecast right on the screen the touch pro actually made you go to another screen before you saw weather but here it's integrated all into the same screen and finally here we have settings which bring some new things if we tap on sound we get this super elegant display that allows us to change the various settings for sound on the device we can slide up the volume now when you press the start menu button or the windows flag you're taken to the HTC program launcher which is it's ok it allows you to add programs and customize things and if you press remove there are some things that are locked like these ones at the top are locked so if I really want to have Opera Mobile right right at the top I can't do that it's got to be right here this is where you can start customizing now the only way to disable this HTC Start menu is to disable touchflo 3d which is kind of silly there should be a way to just turn off this menu I actually like the standard Windows Mobile Start menu because it allows me to see more on the screen at one time more icons and it's a little bit more customizable I think this is not very not very user friendly and we can go to all programs but again to get to the bottom of the the huge list we have to scroll a lot it's not like the standard Windows Mobile program menu where you get lots of lots lots and lots of icons and you can see everything that's on the screen at one time now something that is new is the conference call feature so I'm gonna bring that up now and you get to the conference call feature by flipping this little button in the bottom right corner now what we can do is we can go down the list and check off people that we want to have in a conference call and the more you check and it seems that you can check as many as you want you get a little counter down here where it says conference now if I tap on conference it's gonna take me to another screen that's gonna walk me through connecting multiple people to the conference call so basically it's like a conference call wizard of course with cell phones you can conference call many different people and you can do that if you go to menu and add caller but in but sometimes if you're adding lots and lots of different people it gets a little bit cumbersome so this conference call wizard makes it a little bit easier to do that and you couple this with the Straight Talk function and we demonstrated that in the last video and you have a really compelling solution for having cause with multiple people and using the device as a speakerphone and things like that we'll cover this more in the review coming up soon on pocketnow.com so that's pretty much it for the software on the HTC Touch pro2 again the software is very similar to what it was on the diamond too with a few exceptions and we'll cover everything fully in the review coming up on pocketnow.com soon it's great to finally see true touchflo 3d and landscape although the implementation is kind of strange you always have to go back to this button to bring up the row of icons and in some screens the screen space I don't think is optimized perfectly for the landscape because you have to scroll a lot whereas in portrait you don't for the touch pro2 HTC has added a little bit of eye candy to the messaging inbox so if you tap on a message it will fade in watch so I'll do that again so this isn't really that functional and it actually probably slows you down a little bit but it's a small way that HTC has helped to make this a little bit more of a refined experience also lending to better usability or or improved aesthetics is the the new soft key menu so they're much larger kind of like in windows mobile 6.5 although a little different looking and this is throughout the entire operating system you give these large menus and finally if you tap the notification area up here you get a notification box like this so this is a nice little tray that will accumulate all of your SMS notifications email notifications call notifications it'll tell you if you're connected to Wi-Fi or if there are any networks detected and from here you can access the wireless networks and go to your Wi-Fi screen and things like that so coming up in the full review we're gonna have speed benchmarks battery life tests and screenshots of pretty much every aspect of the HTC Touch pro2 so check out pocketnow.com for that full review it will be up very shortly that's it for now