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greetings all this is deke Adams with pocketnow.com and today we're going to take a closer look at the software on the HTC Vivid from AT&T so sit back relax enjoy the show as expected with this device we've got the HTC Sense and the typical ring unlocked functionality here which you can see still gives you the number of shortcuts that you can modify yourself and customize to your heart's content and does have some notification pieces up here at the top we go in here to the home screen view then as you move across the page you got your slide indicator down here at page indicator down here and typical widgets that are available you've got your all apps button here which will come back to the phone and then you've also got to the personalized button here which is also available via the menu here which all apps and notifications personalized wallpaper ringtones etc settings going down the notification bar up at the top gives you the HTC notifications on this side and then if you slide over this tab then you get your quick settings both are available in landscape and portrait format pretty nice setting a functionality although I do wish that it said stock gingerbread on it rather than being forced to use since there are some nice features of sense but mmm I do miss the ability to have customizable buttons down here without installing you know side loading a launcher or installing a launcher from the markets such as go launcher ex we go here into the settings about phone then you can see we're running Android 2 3 4 which is gingerbread HD sense 30 the rest of the settings here in the device are pretty standard nothing too amazing or or different here you've got your typical display settings so you can lock the device to you know stay on all the time like I've got said now you still have your personalized options wireless and network is where you can turn on and off the wireless tethering option which I've used on this device with much success then and then you've got your applications your power etc etc accessibility so go back home screen here and go into all apps I hit the right button so got the typical once again HTC Sense slide up and down to go through all of your apps some of the apps can be removed such as this 18t family map app you can actually uninstall but the AT&T navigator app you can't uninstall even though it's a pay for only style app so that's a little disappointing there there is a FM radio capability here which requires you to use the headphones in order for it to work as the headphones have to act as the antenna it's fine that's just a time of note there and then down here at the bottom you've got the ability to change your sorting options so you can change this to your frequent apps to your downloaded apps and then back to all apps and then if you go into your settings you can also change a list and share and sort them to your heart's content remove app etc etc one thing we didn't get catch on the speed test was a speed test in the hardware app video review and mostly because we don't have the 4g service but i do want to share with you that we even with the 3g service the garlic quote-unquote foji service at some devices are getting you can see here i got some pretty impressive speeds 5541 kb here and then 37 there with upload speeds that are really really nice compared especially compared to sprint device or a verizon device on there for geez that's part of a 3g service these speeds really blow that away other than that i found that with the sense on here even though it's not pure gingerbread moves very very quickly and i haven't had any problems other than the occasional flash where the HTC Sense block will appear up and almost like the phone is crashing and i did as mentioned in the hardware review have some phone hiccups where the signal would disappear so let's take a quick look at the camera application here we've got the zoom bar up on this side and over here we've got the shutter and then being able to rotate the camera to front back and then camera to video flash on and off the kind of nice functionality here is being able to go into this effects window here there's a lot of interesting effects that can you can apply to a picture as it's being taken unfortunately a lot of these facts cannot be applied after the fact which would be kind of a neat functionality if you go into a picture after it's been taken then you can tap on it and use this magic wand again but again it just gives you some effects but not all the effects that are on the camera full camera capability so you can go into vintage or bleak antique just some some interesting kind of Instagram Instamatic style photo editing capabilities right in the phone that give you a little better shot overall the image quality on this is we mentioned in the hardware is actually pretty good what I really liked about this camera is that the lens on it's got a really nice aperture so you can actually get some really nice depth of field and the little difficult to see on this particular picture but there's some some decent Boca but if it gets too and you'll see these in the final version they you look back in this section here on the final image and the bokeh really breaks apart very quickly and gets really grainy and and ugly and that wraps up our software overview on the HTC Vivid from AT&T if you have any comments or questions leave them below and we'll try to cover them in the final review if you liked the video please give us a thumbs up we'd appreciate that otherwise thanks for watching you