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hey everybody it's Jeffrey know with pocket now calm and you recently watched us unbox the LG nitro HD on AT&T well in this next video we're going to give you a further in-depth look at these software that comes pre-loaded on the LG nitro HD and how it runs some of its apps so without further ado let's dive in and we're back now one of the first things we want to take a look at is the version of Android that this device is running heading into our settings menu you will see that it is running Android 2.3 point 5 obviously it's not ice cream sandwich which is Android version four point oh however LG has promised that this device will be upgraded in the near future LG only has a few Android devices out there so it's very tough to judge their track record we'll have to see how soon that update actually arrives returning back to the home screen one of the first features we want to point out here is a notification bar it's your typical notification bar however LG with their custom skin has added some quick launch buttons here for silent mode for example turn off volume going to vibrate you can turn your Wi-Fi on and off your Bluetooth your GPS or put your phone into airplane mode very quickly the choice is yours this does offer some shortcuts and getting things done a little faster as mentioned LG has put their own skin over the android operating system here which is typical from the non-google experience devices which is practically any device being sold with a manufacturer's name in the title for example the LG nitro HD manufacturers name in the title therefore you're going to have a skin that's how it sits for now unfortunately many of you commented on our unboxing video that the skin closely resembles touchwiz 3.0 and you're right it definitely does resemble touchwiz 3.0 it gives you almost an iOS if that's a word and iose if that's a word type feel the icons are very colorful cartoonish almost especially when you go into the grid option here and you can see they're very colorful and an almost very cartoonish now what they've done is they've separated the installed applications from this top section here and your downloaded applications down here it has a nice feel it allows users to see which applications they've installed in a much clearer fashion wanting to know was this stock was this not many times carriers and manufacturers will install trials of games such as Madden on the phone you'll open up madden waiting to play the game to be shocked surprised and let down to see it's only a trial well that won't happen here you can tell what you've bought what you've downloaded yourself staying with that let's take a look at the bloatware the carrier bloatware that's installed here by AT&T we're going to have the ATT code scanner family mapping AT&T Navigator which are all typical on the ATT Android device phones live TV which uses the u-verse that AT&T offers my ATT which we give you a shortcut right into your account now those are the 18t notice there is visual voicemail included on here without an extra charge but on top of that you're also going to have for example get HD games featured apps which will bring in two separate essentially a separate market you're going to have mog moosic which is a music service that you pay a monthly fee I believe it's ten dollars to actually download music so the choice is yours you may like that we have smart share Wi-Fi share and then of course will yellow pages and zynga poker HD the nice thing actually believe it or not about the zynga poker HD is it does true take advantage of your high-definition screen some of the games out there don't do so I won't get into this but some of the games out there don't take advantage of that high-definition screen which almost defeats the purpose of having it not with zynga poker HD if you haven't yet noticed the LG nitro is a little different from other Android devices because there's actually three capacitive buttons here at the bottom will look more into those in our hardware review which would be our next video but something to show you for now is the left button here as it's lighting up is actually a menu and then you can see the magnifying glass it's actually a search button as well so a one press will bring up your settings menu whether you be on the home screen or in a nap however if you long and it may not work it does work here this will give you that search key so if you're within an application let's say you're in the market for example you can hold down the menu to bring up the search right from there so it's actually kind of nice that it eliminates a key giving this a dual purpose you have the ability to add seven home screens with LG skin which is nice if you're really into customizing your device and putting a lot of widgets and a lot of icons on that screen and staying on that they've actually incorporated essentially an animation that goes on behind it's actually a movement or a grid that lines up why are trying to move icons to show you where that icon will be so for example if we grab places here and it may be tough to see with the finger in the way but there's actually a pin they're showing you I should do it this way there's actually a pin they're showing you where that app where that icon will line up so if your first time Android users or even an experienced Android user that will help especially when you're trying to add widgets so let's go ahead we'll grab this widget here and we'll bring it over so again you can see that template is there showing you what's really going to take up just kind of a nice side effect next up let's take a look at the browser very quickly this is actual one of the first times we've tested it out let's go ahead and bring up pocket now calm from scratch as you can see it hasn't been typed in yet so we're experiencing this for the first time together here so pocketnow.com it may go into the mobile version at first we can make it load the full version by scrolling down here to the bottom clicking on desktop now this is on home Wi-Fi but as you can see it is loading fairly quickly let's go ahead and try and zoom in some of the text here the zooming isn't bad at all it's definitely not the smoothest slightly jerky slightly hesitant almost but it does do a fairly good job now it has it finished load and let's go ahead and give it a few seconds for it to finish loading before we really judge that and it has finished loading the page what you're seeing the occasional loading bar is actually the ad switching so now let's go ahead and zoom and it still isn't the smoothest there's still a slight hesitation if you enjoyed our software review please give this video a thumbs up as always thank you very much for watching everyone stay tuned for our continuing coverage of the LG nitro HD in which we will do a hardware overview a HD recording test with the camera on the back and our final review for more details on the software this device please visit the link in this video's description thanks everyone hm