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hey guys its brand the minimun from pocket now calm and this is a look at the Leo test ROM which features HTC Sense in true landscape this has been extracted from the t-mobile USA hd2 ROM it's running Manila version 2.5 build 1922 for those of you keeping track we're going to go through sort of the features of this new version of Manila because it finally offers true landscape for HTC Sense so one thing of note is that there's a new program from HTC it's called voice recorder so if we tap there we get a nice interface for recording our voice very simple program so let's test it hello this is a test get a little equalizer up there and play it back very simple and from there you can share it to email or you can send it through an mms there goes send via bluetooth we can go to all recordings and then we get this sort of HTC Sense like interface here so just a quick just a quick look at that let's go back to the home screen so everything is pretty much the same and by the way I'm running this Leo test rum on the touch pro 2 here so I'm going to slide out the keyboard and you're gonna see sort of how everything reflows in landscape HTC sets so all the information goes to the left side of the screen and let's see if we can get the weather animation to come up so let me go into the start menu and go out of it and it doesn't look like the weather animation is coming on the screen again this is a test rom and over to the right we get the icons that reflow sort of vertically there so that everything fits let's go to the right to the next panel we have favorite people and again everything reflows nicely for the landscape screen and there's a look three by three here and more like to buy five in the landscape but it looks quite nice to the right we have text messages and here is email and everything flows nicely to the screen you get a wide screen preview which actually gives you a better look at your email and you can flick up and flip down performance of this is a little bit slow right now but but you get the feel for it I'm going to go over to the right and here we have the the internet tab and again I'm just swipe to the right to the left but obviously I could just move my finger along the bottom here works the same and the icons reflow downward like so let's go to the right and here's the calendar and the calendar looks quite good in landscape so we can tap on a day go to agenda view everything looks nice on the screen we can go to to the week view which actually looks kind of strange especially when you have a lot of appointments on the screen but it works quite well in landscape nonetheless let's go to the right here our stocks so we can tap on a particular stock and we've seen this in in landscape anyway before and swipe to the right then we'll get pictures and we can flick through our pictures performance is quite good to the right we go one more time and here's the new documents tab which actually doesn't work too well in in the landscape view basically what this documents tab does it creates a sub interface if you go to all documents and puts all of the documents under one place it's very convenient let's open up the keyboard again to get landscape and we'll go to the next item which will be music and we've got a simple way to play music but what's new about this step we go into library and I don't have to be in landscape for this if you go to artist before if you tapped on a particular artist and it's loading it right now if you tapped on 311 it would go to another panel but in this case there's a drop down so you stay within one screen without having to dig deep into many different screens which i think is a nice way to clean things up a bit so let's go back whoops let's see how weather looks in the reef load column or the refloat horizontal view so it looks very nice you get the forecast here on the right and the the main conditions over there on the left if we go to the right this is for Twitter I haven't logged in yet let me do so ok so i logged in and it doesn't look like the twitter peak from HTC has been optimized for the horizontal display things are kind of set over to the left there perhaps that will be will be changed in future versions of this rom let's go to the right once more and here we have footprints which also hasn't really been optimized for the lands view over to the right we have settings and then we are to the end of things but this this works quite well in the in the landscape view so that was a look at the Leo test roms new version of HTC Sense that's build 1922 it looks like that the hd2 in that is released on t-mobile USA may be able to go into landscape when you're using sense which would make a lot of sense because most other screens work in landscape on the hd2 why shouldn't the main interface of sense so it works quite well we'll post the link on pocketnow.com with more information on how to get this if you want to try it that's it for now