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hey guys its brand am in a min from pocket now calm and this is the software tour of the LG incite now on the AT&T network now there's a lot to cover on the insight in terms of software so I'm going to stick to just the interesting things and i'm going to have everything thoroughly in detail coming up in the full review on pocketnow.com very soon ok so here we are now the way that you turn on the phone is by pressing the unlock button on the side of the device and then you press unlock here and unlock here now every time you press the screen on the LG incite you get a little bit of a buzz vibration some haptic feedback and i think that the haptic feedback is useful but just when you're using the keyboard i think it's kind of a waste of battery life throughout the operating system but you may feel differently it's a really a matter of personal preference right now I have to have it turned on so you actually may hear it vibrate every time I tap the screen so this is the standard new LG today's screen and I like it a lot because what it has is a clock on the top and then it has a link to weather and we can tap on the little cloud and get a forecast here and we also have an icon bar on the bottom and what's pretty cool is that right in the center is the standard today screen stuff that you can turn on and off selectively so right now I have no unread messages my calendar appointments no missed calls right there and I can also minimize all this junk say it's the weekend and I really don't care if I have a an email or something like that I can just press this up arrow and everything goes away ok now let's cover these icons along the bottom if we do the one on the left we go to the phone application it's a quick way to get to that one to the right of that is contacts to the right of that is email to the right of that is an application launcher that you can customize so if there are certain applications that you launch all the time you can press press on the plus button here and it will give you all the applications that you have on your device after you press register and so we can choose one from there now the next button is another launcher that is more categorized so we have one by phone one by media one by kind of productivity shows so it shows you your calculator stopwatch off this mobile there's 14 settings and then pressing on the home button will take you back to the main home screen now the LG incite has an accelerometer built-in with pretty fast screen rotation so let me show you how fast that works let me zoom out a little bit so you can get an idea if I turn it this way it'll rotate rotate and the other way and to give you an idea of how fast this is let me bring out these the omnia which also a screen rotation and you can kind of get a feel for how fast the insight is so here we are in the same screen and let's rotate both devices so the insights actually faster than the omnia and the screen rotation I don't know if that's because of this us the animation that the omnia uses or just because the insight has actually a pretty fast refresh on the screen rotation but that's good to see okay so before I talk about the programs i want to talk about input because the insight doesn't have a keyboard so on-screen keyboards are really really important so that you can type text messages fast and email so i'm going to open up word mobiles so that i can show you the on-screen keyboard options and by the way pretty much everything throughout the operating system here is is finger friendly so there's flick scrolling the screen is sensitive enough where I don't need to use a stylus which is good because if you remember in the other videos you need to carry this thing around on your phone if you want to use a stylus which is pretty annoying anyway so here's one of the on-screen keyboards it's a shirt type style keyboard and every time you type a letter you get a little bit of vibration feedback now you can turn on t9 text entry if you press function and then this button right here so that we can type quicker and of course it's kind of awkward to type while shooting this video but let me try to try to demonstrate how fast you can go trying to type the creek quick brown fox well you get the point but there's actually another on-screen keyboard which is really good and it only shows up when you're in landscape let me show you that here is the full screen keyboard it's a really really good keyboard huge letters and and you get the vibration feedback so it feels like you're typing on a real keyboard one of the problems is that it takes up such a large amount of the screen so over here if you press this down arrow the bottom bar disappears so you get a little bit extra screen space but not that much this is one of my biggest complaints with the insight is that this on-screen keyboard though it is pretty good takes up a tremendous amount of the screen and oftentimes it's kind of debilitating and trying to use the application that you're typing into okay here we are back in programs let's take a look at what we get let's start off with apps here and apps just take you to some java based trial where so there's nothing really interesting here unfortunately AT&T really likes to load of their windows mobile phones with java based trial where we saw it on the AT&T epics also we can go into games and we have the standard games but again more java-based trial we're going down the list we have messaging we've tools let's go into there and then we have some things we have the camera application gps utility file explorer this comes with remote desktop which is pretty cool a full version of sprite backup which is one of the best backup programs out there very good let's look at the browser this is really important this device comes with netfront browser which is kind of an older browser that is as far as i remember based off of pocket internet explorer and it's different than opera mobile 9.5 and then it doesn't let you zoom out all the way to see the page double tap to go closer so let me give you an idea of how net-front works i'm going to go to pocketnow.com and right now we are over a 3g connection ok here we are netfront has finished loading pocket now calm and I'm going to flip it over to landscape so we can get a kind of a wider view of the screen and there it goes and we have to wait for a minute for it to reorient itself I see up here and the little guide doesn't show that site is being vertical ok there we go and now we can flick your finger around and it's being a little bit slow right now this is why I really don't like net-front that much here it goes now it's rendered and you can kind of slide around the web page as if it were a piece of paper but zooming around isn't as intuitive as it is on upper mobile double tapping doesn't do anything it's really hard to see the content that you want although this guide on the right side is helpful to see where you are in the whole page I think you're much better off just downloading upper mobile 9.5 if you get this phone because netfront really isn't up to the task of good HTML browsing ok let's move down the list we have cellular video internet sharings let's see see how the flick scrolling works it works pretty well we've got media net pictures and video task manager oh I wanted to show you something on the today screen in the upper right corner there's a direct link to the windows mobile 6.1 task manager and here it is on HTC devices that would actually be a task manager that allows you to end the program selectively so it's kind of another step to have to go into here and if you want to end activesync you do end task and it goes away ok so that's pretty much it for programs let's go into settings and see what we have there ok let's go into buttons and see what buttons we can customize and there's only really two buttons we can customize the camera button and the voice command button fortunately this device has a Microsoft voice command so you can talk to it without having to train it with various voice tags you can say call Bob or what time is it or what is my next appointment and it will tell you that information here's another one for clock style and weather and this dictates how the clock looks on the today screen if you remember I'll go back there and show you you have a choice of clocks and this is what it looks like we can change the to a digital clock one or two we can have an analog clock we can also change the weather here you saw the weather being displayed we can by our city so that it shows us the weather for our area okay let's go over to system here and take a look at how much memory we have unfortunately the insight doesn't have that much program memory we only have seventy eight megabytes available for program memory compared to about 200 or in the upper 100's on the new HTC devices that are coming out and that are out right now so that just may mean that you may be a little bit limited in how much you can multitask and to kind of fix that LG has added this little LG button application which will let you close programs completely by pressing the ok or the X button in the upper right corner because of course windows mobile by default doesn't let you do that it hibernates the program keeps it in program memory so you can have it close the program from here let's go down the list we have video share which we still haven't been able to test yet because I don't think many people have video share it's an extra price and because of it a lot of people aren't using it and finally let's go over into connections and this device does have Wi-Fi which is great so you can use 3g or Wi-Fi if you don't want to pay for a data plan and that's pretty much it for settings now let me show you the phone application which you can access by pressing the green phone icon there or you can get to it by pressing this phone button there and listen to how it sounds when you dial it's kind of interesting it's kind of musical when you dial it's it's really interesting and of course if you want to dial from this screen you want to dial Bob you would do b.o.b and I don't have any Bob's listed here so you can quickly dial phone numbers just like you can in any windows mobile phone of this type so I think LG was successful at building a good mid-level windows mobile phone and I say mid level because it has everything in terms of radios and features that a higher level windows mobile phone has it has a proximity sensor hsdpa FM radio Wi-Fi a light sensor everything like that but at the same time the screen is grainy it's not high resolution the screen could be bigger it doesn't fill up the entire front of the device the web others not that great the build quality is questionable so it's a pretty good device we're going to have a full conclusion on the LG incite coming up in the full review on pocketnow.com of battery life tests benchmarks and everything like that so check back for that soon but that's it for now