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hey guys its brand name in a min from pocket now calm and this is a tour of the home screen set up on the samsung captivate for AT&T Samsung has done some really cool stuff to make Android different here so let's get to it okay so I'm going to turn on the device here and we can unlock the screen by sliding down or to the right I'm just going to slide sort of diagonal there and here is the home screen home screen number one now there are a few things that you should take note of number one is that we have four docked icons on the bottom that you unfortunately cannot change phone email browser and applications tapping on applications will bring you to the application tray we'll talk more about that in another video another cool thing that Samsung has done is some work to the notification bar so if we pull down the notification bar we get these for permanent buttons along the top that let you switch on Wi-Fi Bluetooth silent and vibrate mode very nice touch saves you a lot of time and also is good for power consumption so you can leave Wi-Fi off if you know you're not going to be using it without having to dig into the settings menu another cool little touch of the notification tray is that the but the bottom of the tray doesn't actually cover up the entire screen it sort of just hovers just a nice little touch and it bounces when you get to the bottom so pretty cool pretty unique for this particular Android device now you can have up to seven home screens in the coolest part about this is that you can delete ones that you aren't using you know an HTC Sense and other stock Android devices you can't delete home screens you have seven even if you use three of them so what you can actually do is hit the menu button here go to edit we can actually add home screen so you move to the place where you want a new home screen say right here and boom there's another home screen let's add one over here there's another home screen we can also delete the home screens from here by just tapping on the little delete button so let's go back and now we will have four home screens by the way which you can jump to very easily with these dots along the top so if I want to jump to the one on the left I just quickly go like that I want to go to the one on the right so really cool and easy way to navigate through your various home screens so let's talk about the widgets that that Samsung has added to these home screen so you can customize them as it stands now I just like to have a variety of programs shortcuts here to keep the device running as fast as possible I downloaded this little clock widget from the market as well as the battery widget from the market because I like to have a granular view of how much battery I have left so I'm going to swipe to a blank home screen and I'm going to add some widgets here so you can tap and hold and by the way you may have just seen that the backgrounds actually a little bit interactive if you tap on the bubbles they will glow yellow pretty cool so let's look at the samsung widgets we have something called the buddies now widget which is actually pretty cool acts as a carousel and you can flip through the people that you correspond with the most often this is kind of out of HTC sense I think and what you can do is you can add new contacts or edit the ones you have here let's delete this off the screen and we go back to Samsung widgets here's a calendar clock which is just a sort of pocky way to see the calendar in your next appointment you can really quickly add a next appointment by tapping on the plus button there or you can jump into your calendar by tapping on the date and we're back to that home screen so let's delete this so then we have daily briefing which actually comes stock on the device you don't have to actually add this and what you do is you can see the daily weather in your city your stock quotes also the news and on the bottom is your calendar so really cool all-in-one widget that lets you see what's going on in a given day we can do the accuweather widget by the way there's some really good on-screen keyboard options on the samsung captivate it as several and we'll talk about that in the next video so it's going to download the weather for Philadelphia I could do likewise for stocks and I could tap to get news from AP mobile and there it is pretty cool widget to have on one of your home screen so let's go back and see the other Samsung widgets we have days which is just a calendar application we've dual clock which lets you see the time in two different cities good if you're traveling feeds and updates is the social networking widget I don't like this too much because you always have to update it or you can have an auto update but then that uses battery but if you do like having Twitter on your home screen or Facebook this is a way to do it so here is my Twitter and go to settings change the auto refresh turn on myspace or Twitter or Facebook from here and let's go back and let's jump back to that home screen okay we're almost through the Samsung widgets there's one more at the bottoms just yahoo finance clock so this is kind of like the calendar clock the calendar clock showed your next appointment within a clock and now you can see stock quotes within a clock so if you're tracking stocks really cool widgets use let's take a look at the other ones that are here we've the stock Android widgets you've seen these before these 3 i've added you can put facebook on here instant messaging which it picture frame power control i added twee droid you can go to the android market and really download a whole range of widgets and this is this is pretty cool the weather channel widget if you use the weather channel application so i can move this up here and drop it and it should be updating and there it is shows me the weather very very nice so the home screen setups are very very nice on the samsung captivate you get a lot of choices of widgets of course it's Android you can add as many as you want you can get more from the market there's also some cool live wallpaper that come on the captivate so i'm going to go to wallpaper and live wallpaper you just saw the one blue sea which is just some bubbles floating around this one's cool aurora and it's actually also interactive you can well you'll see in a sec you can actually tap you get little stars in the background kind of nice and let me go to the other ones dandelion pretty cool also interactive a little bit more animated and potentially annoying and uses a lot of battery but you can tap on a dandy line and have the seeds sort of fly out beyond that there's one more live wallpaper that comes from Samsung it's called luminescence this is the most busy one by far looks like you're at a disco but you can tap off on the background and it sort of moves the light around so kind of cool but the sake of conserving battery I think a good old standard plain wallpaper like this does uh does quite well so overall the home screens on the samsung captivate are quite nice I like how you can add up to seven but if you don't want seven you only want two or one you can delete home screens very unique to Android I also like the icon dock down here though I wish it was customizable and it's pretty cool that Samsung through in these quick way to turn off bluetooth Wi-Fi and change the phone mode because a lot of phones make you dig through a variety of settings to get to it Samsung has put it right out here so if you liked the video please give it a thumbs up coming up soon we're going to dig a little bit deeper into the captivate talk about the web browsing experience compared to other devices and also this application tray thanks for watching that's it for now