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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocketnow.com and in this video we're going to cover the built in software on the samsung omnia pro be 7610 samsung has done a lot to cover up windows mobile when they've really skinned almost every part of the operating system we're going to take a look at the interesting things now but will cover everything in full in the final review coming up soon on pocketnow.com so let's start off and turn on the device and zoom it on the screen a little bit ok so we've already talked about the home screen interfaces I'll put a link up at the end of this video if you in case you want to jump back and see it let's go into the start menu and we're going to cover a few things here so we're not going to talk about the settings right now because we're going to cover that in another video there's a lot of things that you can change on this device let's go down the list a little bit let's going to the media player which is actually really fantastic this device is divx artif ID so it can play divx video and really any other video format you can throw at it which is great because even HTC devices can't play that many video file formats so you probably have to buy core player for twenty or thirty dollars which is ridiculous but but fortunately the omnia pro has a fantastic multimedia player so if we go into landscape right now it will kind of go to a cover flow like display which is not as nice as some other devices but it's pretty cool so we can kind of flick flick through our music tap on an album cover it goes off to the side and and it will play and if there is no album art like as is the case here it it will sort of put a default album cover there click stops so it stops playing I'm going to go back into portrait going over to the next side we have albums and we can flick through something that's really interesting about the omnia pro is that when you flick scroll you get haptic feedback you get a vibration that gets it gets faster as you flick faster and as you get slower it goes tick tick tick tick kind of until it stops just really interesting sensation haven't decided yet if it if it really helps but no other device that i know of does that we can go over to artists we go to video and here I have an episode of the office and it starts playing and this is a divx file and I can flip it over to landscape and it will go into widescreen there we go video quality is fantastic it looks terrific on the AMOLED display frame rate is pretty darn high very smooth motion video and it's great that you can just load up an SD card or microSD card with video files that you may have on your computer and be able to watch them right on your device without getting a new video player and of course it has 3.5 millimeter audio so that you can just plug in your headphones and watch some content very nice let's move on here we have the photo viewer which is quite simple I've added some pictures here from the snow folder so we can tap on an image and it will open it up and if we jump into landscape pretty fast screen rotations we can flick from picture to picture it's taking a second to render it there because i think it's searching the storage card we can double tap to zoom in assuming it's pretty smooth we can see over here in the corner where we are in the picture double tap to zoom out zooming is that as smooth as you'll find on an HTC device but it's pretty capable so very nice photo viewing experience on this device and the AMOLED screen really helps to make colors pop quite a bit the device comes with opera browser pre-installed its version 9.5 and it works quite well let's go to a website just to see how it renders pages and how quickly it does so I'm going to slide out the keyboard and do pocket now calm and let's see how long that takes it's over Wi-Fi right now okay so it's almost done they're reasonably fast about 10-15 seconds definitely not as fast as the HTC hd2 which really benefits from a 1 gigahertz processor and a custom version of opera mobile but definitely capable browsing that is similar to other devices that use this particular browser of course if you want to get really fast browsing you're using an over edge skyfire is definitely the way to go it's going to exit that moving down a list we have FM radio which will only work if you of your headphones plugged in camera we will cover full camera photo quality and video quality in the full review we have scheduled which is really Samsung's replacement for the default Windows Mobile scheduled application of the calendar application which works quite well so you can tap on a particular day you see what's going on down there you can tap down on a particular appointment to see the details of that you can switch views from from week view here which shows you your appointments and you can tap individually on an item here to zoom in we can go to agenda view which is always handy and you can just flick through and see what your appointments are coming up in the next few days so a nice replacement to the windows mobile calendar application and while you'll notice a lot is that the omnia two and the omnia pro does a lot of white text on a black background and that's to help really text pop to take advantage of the AMOLED screen and also helps to save on battery life a little bit the device is only lighting up the pixels that it's using so the fewer white areas there are on the screen the less power consumption that's taking place let's go down a little bit more see what else we have here we have the memo application which we talked about in the in the previous video we have the video editor which is a simple way to edit some video that you take on your device it's nothing too fancy this is obviously not going to replace desktop software we have file manager task switcher which is kind of interesting we saw this on the omnia to basically it will provide a little thumbnail of all of the tests you have open or the programs and can flick through them in a palm pre like way although it's just an extra step it may be smart to link this to one of these buttons down here so quickly access that if you find it to be useful we have streaming players so you can watch videos off of em youtube com we have a few games the sort of usual games that if you've come to expect a podcast viewer office mobile communities which is essentially just a link to lots of different online communities they're really just simple website links you click on facebook you can go to the site you can upload pictures to facebook which may be helpful you can also do the same with a flickr friendster myspace photobucket or picasa so if you've got a lot of the lot of figures on your device and you want an easier way to get them from your device to facebook this may be a helpful way to do them let's go back into the start menu smart reader which will convert a business card or text that you take a picture of into actual digital text and it works so so you really have to position the card just right we have a simple voice recorder here although it works a little bit better than the standard voice recorder in Windows Mobile hello this is a test and it comes through quite nice going back down the list we have adobe reader we have unit converter a lot of little added extra things that that helps to round out the offering here's the standard Windows Mobile calendar in case you want to jump back into that we have a cool digital picture frame feature which we we saw in the omnia what it'll do is it'll provide a slideshow and the time plus notifications so the idea here is that when you're at work you could put this up near your computer because this device is so power savvy it doesn't matter that it's turned on showing you the time and the slideshow in the background because it doesn't use that much power so it's a nice little way to use your device as a for another purpose than just using it for phone calls and that's pretty much it for installed programs on the samsung omnia pro be 7610 they've really done a lot of things to customize the interface and to hide the fact that it's running Windows Mobile the mo LED screen makes everything look fantastic and the power consumption is really incredible 2 i'm at 71 % i've been using this device for a day and a half now it's just it's mind-boggling coming up in the full review we'll take a look at all of the programs in detail we'll talk about battery life will talk about performance compared to other devices and a lot more that's it for now