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greetings all this is deke Adams with pocketnow.com and today we're going to take a closer look at the software on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 from Verizon so sit back relax and enjoy the show now if you've seen honeycomb once you've seen it as many times as you're going to see it it's exactly the same on this device as it is on the Wi-Fi version save it's got a couple of the verizon type apps on it including some games that were included on like uno and dead space it's got the daily on here as well Netflix is built in unsurprisingly it's got the mobile hotspot capabilities which you wouldn't have in the Wi-Fi version it's really as expected blockbuster the backup you know capabilities my verizon unfortunately you can't delete any of these apps at all it's terrible and I really hate bloat I would rather see a clean stock device but in this case verizon does have some of that on there it would be interesting to see when ICS comes out how much of that gets taken away or when a custom rom comes out for this particular device how much this device speeds up by removing some of the backend below to you it may be exact as we mentioned in the harbor review that it may actually be due to Honeycomb but I had to do some other honeycomb devices that work this kind of sluggish you've got your standard soft home buttons here and the unfortunate camera or rather capture key here you've got the quick options here and you can edit them based upon the apps that they provide not your own and you've got various widgets on the screen and it looks just like honeycomb would apps up here if you go back to this menu then you've got your settings here Wi-Fi etc and then if you go into settings then it will pop up the standard honeycomb options here go to about device see the Android 3 to see our battery use just that you would expect on honeycomb nothing terribly surprising here the thing that it does have and it's not any different than any other Samsung device it's got your screen display style your mode so you can change it from standard to dynamic movie you've got the motion sensing capabilities so if you turn on those motion movements then you can you know scroll back and forth between screens by using the gyroscope or you can you know zoom in and out on pictures by tapping hauling then twisting the device back and forth not items that I generally like to leave on but they are there a couple other items of note on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 from Verizon we've got the browser up here in the quick launch mode which you can enable on the labs which gives you the ability to kind of slide over from the side and and select the kind of multi tools here and your settings a nice view here it's something we covered in the original 7.7 software tour and just want to pop in here and show you kind of what we're looking at for the browser just to demonstrate we really are looking at the same kind of configuration here save the LTE and the 3g capabilities from verizon in this as you see we've got the browser app it's still loading just a little bit there give it a couple more seconds to finish loading so that the speed difference isn't noticeable one other item that we didn't mention earlier when I was talking about these smart buttons down here this button while it set the camera capture or the screen capture by default it can be changed in the settings it's just not really intuitive and frankly I had I would think would be better to serve as a shortcut for the camera by default rather than the screen capture by default so now we're looking at the whole page fully loaded for pocket now calm if we scroll down you see that kind of refresh that's happening here is it swipes across the screen the black that goes back and forth there and even as it go up it does the same thing even though the page is completely loaded and to me that's really just the distracting in my personal opinion it does work just fine and I really do like the functionality of having this little sidebar and would love to see other browsers be able to implement similar things as well the other item of note that I like to show you here is the smart road which gives you the ability to take advantage of the IR port here and it's essentially a TV watching style of app although it you can see here we've got TV shows and it's got a listing of what's available in my area and movies and sports etc etc but most importantly we have this option up here where we can turn devices on and off such as my TV or my audio system and if we go into here and we say rooms and devices we can see we've got the provider set we've got the TV type we've got the AV receiver and then you can add multiple devices further devices as well that allow you to control those devices by IR anything like that that works on IR will connect with this and it's got a pretty good wizard for viewing how that stepping you through the process and really making it very simple to be able to use this app there's been a couple of free updates since I got the the application while I've got a different multi-function remote personally I found that this was actually pretty good and surprisingly very useful for this style tablets not something that I expected to find on this device if you want to see more about the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 specifically in with with the OS the TouchWiz OS and how honeycomb works on this then go out and look at our original Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 video that Brandon did it will give you a lot more detail about some of the settings that are available otherwise it's the same device it just has the LTE and 3g capabilities put in and it suffers from the same problems as the original devices does as well the screen voting times and the the rotational speeds etc etc that wraps up our software tour on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 from Verizon give any comments or questions please even below if you like the video please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching you