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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and this is a look at the built-in applications on the Google Nexus One some of what you're about to see is unique to the Nexus One while some stuff you'll find on newer Android devices Android 2.0 and above in particular so let's turn on the device and we'll do a slide to unlock and get a little bit closer to the screen so you can see it okay so let's jump right into the application tray just pick out a few things here to show so we'll start off in the calendar quite simply and we're going to tap on the Menu button and zoom out to the month view very nice looking calendar of course built at the Android can flick up to go to the next month and so on and so forth and we can tap on a particular day to sort of drill into the day and see what's going on we can swipe to the right and swipe to the left and you can also get a nice agenda view for that particular day which is especially useful and seeing what you're where you need to be and when and then we can go to the week view which is nice especially when you have a lot going on it helps you to sort of visualize the activities that you have planned in that day and then we can also go back to the day view which is what we started off with okay so let's go back to the application tray and go further we're not talked about photo quality soon we're going to do some demo videos and some demo photos the car kit is quite nice it features real navigation although a lot of people say the navigation is not as good as you would get on a Garmin device or a TomTom device so we can tap on navigation we can get turn-by-turn voice guided directions which is quite helpful and it's nice to have on your phone without having having to pay for it beyond the data plan that uses it used to download the the maps okay so we can go into into contacts and this is the contacts application and there's a big problem with this and I haven't figured out how to quickly get to a contact without having to scroll through a massive list and perhaps I haven't spent enough time with this device but it doesn't have quick dial like you would find in you know windows mobile device so if I'm trying to dial John in Windows Mobile I would do J o n well in this case you get six-six and nothing more you can also go to the call log and back to contacts and then you can see favourites and it organizes by the most frequently cod which is quite useful to have ok let's go to email email is implemented quite well and of course you can do a lot of actions on particular emails by doing checkboxes over here on the left and you can add a star mark as unread or delete right now it hooked up to my Microsoft Exchange account and it works it works very well we can tap on a message and we can click show picture it will download the picture you know usual stuff that is quite nice ok let's go into clock here and quite simply this is sort of a plot that you could put on your desk to sort of show you the weather and the time you can turn off the screen brightness as well and it may be difficult to see in the video but the screen is actually still visible so maybe a nice way to sort of leave this out on your desk especially if you get a dock for it let's turn the screen brightness back on we can go into the alarm clock function we can go into the photo slideshow mode it's a really scary looking picture of my dog music playing and then we can go sort of back home from that screen so let's continue down the line we have Facebook an excellent Facebook application is included now we can go into gallery which is pretty unique for this device so what you can do and it took me a while to figure this out is that you can have this actually organized into stacks on the stack of pictures and I go over here to this upper right corner it actually will organize it by date and you can organize it by other ways to what it will actually do is try to pull up the location so what actually geo tags the pictures so you can say okay I want to look at all the pictures taken in media Pennsylvania and then you tap on that and here they are organized by that particular area you can go back into the stacks view or the gallery view and a very nice way to view lots and lots of pictures you have this little scroller along the bottom and of course simultaneously this will work in landscape it's a really quick way to flick through a lot of pictures I don't have many on this device but if you didn't have a lot of pictures you'd have a easy time organizing them so let's go back and go down the list again let's quickly go into the market you've seen the Android Marketplace before it's been evolved a lot since our your versions of Android it's really fantastic we should be over Wi-Fi right now so of course you get a little bit of a preview area up here that shows you some recommended applications then you have some more featured apps and down along here there are about 10,000 applications in the Android store right now definitely not as robust as you'll find for the iPhone and iPod Touch what but it's getting there so we go to all applications and then we can drill down by top free and top paid and it works quite quickly and of course you get the the ranking and you get a little note whether it's installed or not and tapping on here will allow you to see the downloads and all the applications that you've downloaded one of the greatest things about the Android Marketplace is that it integrates with the phone actually the notification tray so if we go to a free application say like let's do let's do backgrounds it's actually a pretty cool application you click install and it shows you all of the sort of system resources that it will use you'll get a notification in the top bar here and wait a second for it to show up there it goes and if you pull down the window shade which of course is androids way of showing you all the system notifications it gives you an update on the download progress of that application so you can tap on here and open up the application which works quite well of course this isn't unique to the Google Nexus One but just wanted to show you sort of how far we've come with the Android Marketplace it really has evolved a lot since earlier versions of Android so let's get out of this and continue our way we talked about Google Goggles which is an a free application available in the Android Marketplace they'll actually take a picture of an object and it actually tries to recognize what that object is most of the time it works quite well Google Maps is nice though I wish there was multi-touch here's something cool let's go into messaging into a text message and there's really good voice recognition built right into the operating system we showed this on the first video from the home screen you can search using your voice but you can also skip the keyboard and press this little microphone button so let's give it a test hello this is a test of the voice recognition on the Google Nexus One period hello this is a test of the voice recognition on the Google Nexus One period works perfectly let's try it one more time this moment it this time I want to talk for a long time the Google Nexus one features a Qualcomm one gigahertz processor and it was released in January ok almost perfect quite nice not to have to type every time you want to send a message and as you can see it works in pretty long stretches without having to stop and let it recognize and then having to record again a very nice feature of the Google Nexus One indeed ok and we're back and I downloaded a few of these programs like Fandango and gallery as you saw give the Amazon mp3 store which is always nice to have we've the music application I haven't put any multimedia on here yet or at least I didn't think I did but maybe this is some stocked soundtracks we can go to artists and drill down by artists we can go to albums and of course this all works very well in landscape too we can tap on something to get it started and there are a lot of backgrounds that will actually synchronize with a particular with a particular song so let's go straight to the songs and play it ok and so we can track so a nice way to listen to music on your Google Nexus 1 let's continue down here we've Google Talk built right in which we're not going to talk about Google Voice which I haven't experimented much with obviously it integrates very low of Google Voice does Google Voice can provide the voice mail service for your phone replacing with the service you get from your mobile mobile carrier Google Voice you can play and view transcripts of your messages on your phone and computer you can also vary your voice mail by caller and take advantage with low-cost international Congress so pretty cool if you use Google Voice integrates quite well out of the box with the Nexus One and of course there's a link to voice search on voice dialer you can do a lot with voice you don't even have to interact with the device very much if you're trying to do something quick like talk a text message or tell the device who to call let's go into the YouTube application real quick and let's see some videos and just get a sense for how the quality is this it was kind of weak over Wi-Fi so it may not stream so quickly here I broke my nexus one let's take a look at that here it goes so there's the video it's very smooth and it came through pretty quickly too so we'll go back here and that's the YouTube application and it works in landscape just like most other screens though oddly the home screen does not work in landscape you can't really get it to jump and so that was a look at the built-in applications on the Google Nexus One a lot of really good offerings here and and something I actually want to mention real quick because I didn't cover this in the previous video where we talked about the home screens is that you can jump from screen to screen on the home screen by tapping and holding on this button here or on that button you get a little card view here so this kind of solves the problem of having five home screens and not being able to get all the way to the right without you know swiping your finger a million times this way you can just tap and hold and jump from home screen to home screen so pretty cool a pretty cool feature that that is new to Android 2.1 so hope you enjoyed the look at the applications on the Google Nexus One coming up soon we're going to go through all of the settings that can be found on the Google Nexus One there are a lot of things that you can change in this device that's it for now