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hey guys its brand a minimun from pocket now calm and we're excited to give you a preview of manila 2.5 also known as touchflo 3d 2.5 that's going to be coming out on future HTC devices this comes from a ROM from XDA developers it's very buggy doesn't work too well right now but I can kind of give you a an impression on what it will look like when it ships now we're likely to see touchflo 3d on HTC's next wave of devices so that's the firestone the whitestone we may see it on the touch pro 2 and the diamond to when they get their windows mobile 6.5 upgrades here's something very very interesting this whole interface the new touchflo 3d 2.5 doesn't work well with a stylus it works very well with a fingertip which makes us possibly think that HTC is a capacitive device coming down the line especially the fire stone which looks very very similar to the HTC touch HD it has a lot of the same specifications although we're thinking that there's gonna be one big differentiating factor it could be that it has a capacitive touchscreen we're hearing conflicting reports on whether windows mobile 6.5 will support capacitive screens right now we're going to say right in the middle it may or it may not but there's a good chance that it may especially now that we see that manila 2.5 does really well with finger navigation and you're going to see a lot of the things have changed to be more finger friendly starting on the main screen so we're going to zoom in a little bit from this main screen we can add a shortcut and we're taken to this ad ad quick list where we can add a program or contact or bookmark which is pretty cool because you can put pictures right on your main screen of people that you call on a regular basis and I have no context right now in this phone so I'm going to go back and we can go to program and this is very buggy it may freeze during this demonstration and we can add any program to be an item on the main screen and so we have bubble breaker and activesync we can have a picture of somebody we can flick our finger and get even more shortcuts right on this main screen if we flick our finger again we are taken to the time we tap on calendar we are linked straight to the calendar tab and of course is the new deeper calendar tab if we go to menu and new appointment we are actually taken to this new HTC appointment screen if you remember on the touch HD and the touch pro 2 and the touch diamond2 we kind of had the ugly windows mobile interface for the new appointment but now we have a much deeper implementation of touchflo 3d through the new appointment it's very very beautiful and it really hides windows mobile a lot so let's go back over here and next we're going to go to people and people we no longer can flip through pictures of people I think HTC found that this was very much of a novelty and it makes a lot more sense to have just a grid of people a grid of pictures that you can click on and you can dial people directly from the screen so that makes a lot of sense and furthermore it's very finger friendly so you don't have to take out your stylus and try to get something more precise messages I've nothing there email looks the same although I things set up email on this device not sure if that is the same if we go to Internet we also have a different screen here we can search Google right from the top here or we can scroll down and add again finger friendly links to websites that we visit on a regular basis and presumably this will add icons that represent the websites that you're trying to visit if we go over to calendar we already know that it goes a lot deeper than it did before on the previous touchflo devices stocks not connected to the internet although I'm assuming it's going to be about the same if we go over to pictures it's about the same we've seen this before we flip throw pictures we can link to our camera or to the video camera if we go over to music this is also going to be very similar weather again very similar and it says there's an error trying to connect the data which makes sense and now we have footprints and footprints was first introduced on the HTC touch cruise the new touch cruise basically it assigns geo-coordinates two pictures that you take so if you take a picture of a nice Italian restaurant that you found in the city you can assign a place to it on the map so you can get back to it it looks like footprints is coming to all future HTC devices which makes a lot of sense all devices have have that capability and then get into settings where we see a lot more of this deeper integration with Windows Mobile so if we go through a few of these things we recognize some screens we've seen the screen before it's included on the touch pro 2 and the diamond to you can use the nice touch flo 3d interface to manage your profiles and the system settings like that if we go into communications were linked actually directly to the communications manager and again we've seen this and then if we go into personalization things start to change so we can go into wallpaper and we can choose a picture to make our wallpaper we can go into home screen which allows us to move around the items on touchflo 3d we can actually change the fonts and before this was a setting in Windows Mobile in the standard interface and now we can actually change it right from touchflo 3d in this nice environment if we go back we can change the contact card and we can also go into advanced personalization settings which just gives you an option of to vibrate certain items on the screen so let's go back and see where else there is deeper integration with the touchflo 3d and finally we can take a look at other things in here such as phone information which will show you things about the ROM you're running and so on and so forth this rom is so buggy this is a pre-release obviously that it freezes half the time I've actually had to reset the device many times while filming this video so anyway touchflo 3d 2.5 looks to bring a lot of deeper integrations with Windows Mobile it really skins the interface so that you're staying in touch flo 3d most of the time also there are a ton of finger friendly enhancements that have been made which leads us to believe that there may be a capacitive HTC windows mobile device coming out in the near future we'll have to keep an eye out for that it would make a lot of sense and we'd be really excited to see something like that so for more on Windows Mobile follow us on twitter at twitter.com slash pocket now tweets and subscribe to our channel for more videos on windows mobile and upcoming software releases we'll be back soon for more that's it for now