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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and in this video we're gonna take a look at some of the built-in applications on the Samsung Galaxy s2 samsung has added a lot of really cool apps that we want to show you let's get to it so previously we talked about the hardware on the galaxy s2 and we also dived into TouchWiz 4.0 which is of course comprised of a lot of really cool elements that makes the UI really interesting and fun if you want to check out those videos we'll put links up at the end of this video we know a lot of people are following these videos on the Galaxy s2 it's going to be a very popular device this year and it's actually been delayed it's not shipping right now but it should be in a couple of weeks we're just very excited to be able to show you this device before you order one and we know it's expensive we want to help you make the right decision so let's dive into some of these included apps we're going to skip any of the stock built-in apps like calendar and and and clock and whatnot because those are basic also we're going to talk about the internet browser in the next video we're going to compare the browser with that of iOS Android and Windows Phone 7 the browser on this thing smokes it is probably the fastest browser we've ever seen it is really incredible what two cores or at least the Exynos processor can do for browsing and we're gonna compare coming up soon so let's go through this were these are all stock applications we've got something called readers hub here which is really cool what this is is basically a gateway for all kinds of digital content we've got news over here and what this lets you do is download newspapers and the interface is really cool I've downloaded an issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer you can pinch to zoom it looks really good on the Super AMOLED plus display on the Galaxy S 2 most things do look really good on this display and this application is cool because if you want to try it you don't have to sign in you don't have to pay anything and if you go over to store you can actually filter out newspapers by country it really is quite comprehensive the number of newspapers that are available and you can quickly download an issue you can set it to automatically download the new issue every day so you can read newspapers on your phone pretty cool if we go back we've got a book section which is just linking to the Kobo ebook store of course there's also the Amazon there's the Nook ebook store and many others there's Google Books now so certainly you don't have to use this if you don't want to they're just suggesting that you do and also there's a magazine hub which is just the Zinio application which you can download anyway from the Android Market you have to sign in you have to create an account it's much more interesting when you can test something and not have to sign in like this news feature up here now another thing down here is Game a pub there are three hubs there's actually more than that but let's go into the game hub we've got two panels up here two tabs we've got social games Samsung just rep Samsung's just sort of recommending games for you to download and we've got premium games over here all of these are trials unfortunately there aren't any you know full-featured premium games included on this device which is kind of a shame I've already gone ahead and downloaded GT racing so let's take a look at what that looks like GT racing doesn't seem to be optimized for WVGA resolution strangely but you can get a sense for how gaming performance is with this particular application we can take a look at loading times and frame rates and things like that so let's play this for a couple of minutes or at least four for a few seconds before I crash into a wall so loading all right your guilt just sounds through this real quick we'll take that car which let's start kind of just fly through these screens so we can get to an actual race all right and we've got the accelerator on the right I'm just gonna floor it right off the line and can you please and see how bad I am at this game but you see frame rates are pretty darn smooth I mean it's it might be a testament to the game it might be a testament to the to the hardware performance of this device but other games I've tested look really really good on this phone which kind of makes sense there's a lot of power behind this so the game looks good the resolution is it's perfect it doesn't looks optimized for the higher resolution WVGA screen here but that is eNOS when we get out of that okay and we're back into the application tray and there's something else called music hub which is Samsung's music store if you want to download music to your device Google is probably going to release a music service actually today or probably by the time you see this video they will have announced that Android really doesn't have a good music service right now Windows Phone 7 has ooh and iOS has iTunes but Android really doesn't have anything so Samsung's trying to beat Google to the gun here and sort of create the application that allows you to download music so we've got Beastie Boys new album you can buy for five bucks or you can download these tracks so it's a four pay music service obviously and you can download music right into the music library of your Android phone which is pretty cool so we can go back and get to the previous screen okay let's swipe to the right see what else we have the device comes with a file explorer which is nice so you don't have to go ahead and download a third-party file explorer we've got a music application which is actually very simple it looks pretty much like the stock Android application actually for music I've got a video playing application if we go down we've got voice command and voice talk and this is actually pretty cool so if we go into voice command it's a very well done voice command application you can see sort of the things that you can do with it you can call somebody you can update Twitter you can reply to text messages so Twitter update let's try this one Twitter update I am testing the Samsung Galaxy S to see if it gets it check it out perfect I am testing the Samsung Galaxy s2 really cool voice voice command there this is great if you're driving you don't feel like getting your phone out and texting while you're driving which you should never do so you can use voice command and there's also a widget for this so you can quickly activate the voice command when you are driving and if we go down with another thing called social hub which is really just an aggregator for all of your social networking so from here you can add an account and gives you a wide variety of accounts that you can add so if you want to put your social networking in one place you can do it through that we've got a photo editing application which is kind of basic and and a pointless actually so let's just take a picture and you can see you can crop it you can fill it with colors you can add some ghost effects or whatever you have to make a selection first so very basic photo editing application nothing that will rival photoshop of course we've got something called AllShare here which is the DLNA application which allows you to share content from your device wirelessly to DLNA supported devices and it's a pretty nice application and this is really cool right here Keys air it's a wireless management tool that allows you to remotely access your phone from a local web browser I'm going to show you that now okay so we've got the keys air connected and let me just show you what the screen looks like it gives you a web address to use and it as long as you're on the Wi-Fi network all you have to do is plug in a web address to your browser and boom you are connected to your phone so let me show you some of the things you can do this is your dashboard so you can see photos that are on your device and videos over here on the right you can see music if you're playing anything we've got File Explorer and you can collapse these and move them around it's kind of a really cool interface a cool way to see your phone it's kind of like htcsense.com although the way it looked now is that you can't use you can't use this remote phone management tool if you're not near your phone you have to be on the same Wi-Fi network so we can drill down on these paddles on the Left two photos we can download them to our computer or upload new ones we've got music and videos and ringtones you can upload ringtones here's a really handy feature bookmarks so it's kind of annoying to add bookmarks onto a mobile phone especially if you've got a lot of sites that you check you can just do it wirelessly through this particular application there's no login required all you do again is enter this web address up here depending on what your phone is telling you to do if you've got SMS you can manage them from here you can manage your call log your context even jump into the File Explorer and see and see what's going on down here you can even play music stream music from your phone to your web browser really cool functionality here in Kies Air not as robust er or you know versatile as HTC Sense but certainly very easy to set up very easy to use to remotely manage your phone okay and we're back continuing on swiping to the right we've got a voice recorder a video maker which is really kind of like iMovie but for Android so what we can do here is we can make a new project you can create an effect so let's choose stage you can swipe to the right very much like iMovie as you can see so we can hit apply and basically you take multimedia from your phone whether it's music photos videos or even you can take a new photo or video you drag it to the timeline and boom it applies music it applies the transitions you've got an instant movie right on your phone pretty cool back out here I'm also on the screen we've got something called Samsung Apps which is hey another app store like we needed one so this will allow you to see certain applications that Samsung Repp recommends the selections really not that comprehensive we can go into category you can see the number of apps that are here I mean why do you why is Sam something doing this the Android app store is is perfectly fine the Amazon App Store is perfectly fine we don't need another app store and there's really nothing exclusive in there so it's not like they've added apps that you can't find anywhere else we've got the task manager which we've already talked about this is also accessible when you tap and hold on the home button you can just quickly go into the task manager we've got FM radio which is which is great if you like to listen to local radio broadcasts you have to have your headset connected naturally if there's a really cool sort of retro looking interface for that we've got a memo pad which we talked about previously Polaris Office which allows for more advanced manipulation of office documents so you can you know edit Word documents Excel spreadsheets or whatnot which is quite nice BBC iPlayer is just a way to look at BBC broadcasts we've got something called suggests right here which is just linking to a website this is kind of kind of silly that allows the Samsung to show you certain apps that it recommends and it's got a nice interface here you can swipe to the right and here are some apps if you need help in getting some apps to download you can click on that so a lot of really cool applications built-in we really like this Keys air remote browser management really cool feature there we also like the readers hub especially in its ability to let you look at newspapers without having to download or sign up for a trial at least in the beginning so a lot of really cool software offerings here not that much crap where are really no crap where we're happy to report on the Samsung Galaxy s2 once the carriers get a hold of this we're probably going to see crap where because that's what tends to happen coming up soon we're going to talk about the web browser of the Samsung Galaxy s2 you don't want to miss it it's really incredible what this thing can do in terms of web browsing speed again we're going to put up links on the video right now if you want to jump back to the hardware video or to the TouchWiz 4.0 tour we'll be back with a lot more on the Samsung Galaxy s2 thanks for watching and that's it for now