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hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and in this video we're going to take a look at the settings on the samsung omnia pro be 7610 there are a lot of settings that you can change on this device so let's get started and go through them I'm going to go into the settings application and you don't get the usual windows mobile settings in fact I haven't found a way to get there yet and that's actually not such a good thing because there are some things in there that I I wish I could change but I can't so if anyone out there knows how to get into the regular settings please respond to this video with a comment or send us a message on YouTube anyhow let's go into each of these things we can start off in sound settings where we can change for example the ring we can change the type of ring and we tap on that we get a drop-down list different types of rings how it will vibrate there's a rhythm equation I don't know if you can hear that but it's it's it's vibrating at different frequencies so that one's a little bit faster very interesting to see different types of vibration for the ring it's kind of cool actually let's go back we can do the notification sound when something happens if you have a new text message you can can play a sound or not play a sound a much more spur stuff interface compared to the standard wind windows mobile settings you don't have checkboxes you have these little green dots that go inside of these little looks like a little LEDs almost clip cancel we can change voicemail SMS and so on and so forth we can also change the touch alert you may be hearing a sound after every tap and right now I can turn that off if I want none so now it doesn't make a sound when I tap things but I'm going to leave it on just so you can get an idea of when I'm actually tapping the screen we go to the hardware buttons tone so when you press one of the hardware buttons it will make a sound and right now that's turned on so leave it like that let's go back to the next item display and light so we can change the wallpaper and it goes into the photo picker so you can choose your own picture or you can choose one of the more good-looking i think samsung omnia wallpapers you get quite variety to choose from and these are some from the the omnia to that you may remember and these are some snow pictures that I've loaded onto a micro SD card so we can change the wallpaper you can change the theme to various windows mobile themes basically it'll change the color of the top and bottom bar but not too much else although if you're using the default Windows Mobile today's screen you'll also see a different background based on what you select here we can change items on today and we went through this before so right now I've Samsung today turned on but if you want to uncheck check that and go back to the standard old windows mobile today screen and due date and messaging and owner info or you can just do the titanium interface which is windows default you can check that and it will uncheck everything else I'm going to click click OK we can change the large indicator and what that means is up at the top if you tap on any of those icons you get these larger buttons on the screen this is actually the pretty quick change the system volume and you can turn that on there off if you want it to go back to the default Windows Mobile look but it makes a lot of sense to have that finger friendly a notification area we can change the brightness on the screen what's interesting about the AMOLED screen is that it doesn't require a traditional backlight the traditional backlight helps when you're outside we're going to go through a few other steps to get the backlight to be turned off you're going to see that everything is still quite visible if you turn off the backlight you're going to save a tremendous amount of battery power that said outdoor visibility will probably be pretty bad but if you spend most of your time indoors then it would be a good solution so let's get out of that lock screen you can determine if you want the lock screen to show up when you press the unlock button on the side I have that turned off because you're already unlocking the device while you need another step to get into your today screen so I'm going to click ok and finally main menu you can choose the style two different styles of the special Samsung main menu let's go back into general settings we have the wireless manager which looks pretty simple like the rest of the skin we've data filter which allows you to change sort of how the data data can Shin works in different scenarios we can go to launcher and this is kind of silly actually it's a it's a launcher that opens up when you slide open the keyboard that let you compose it it's like a quick link to compose an email on SMS but it slows down your device so I've left that turned off we go into power we can take a look at battery power and this is where you turn off the backlight so I'm going to turn off the backlight and it's not off yet actually think i have to turn it off and turn it back on to get the effect to work ok right now the backlight is off and yet you can still see things on the screen and if we leave the backlight off like i mentioned you're going to get a tremendous increase in in battery performance on an already very well performing device in this room so keeping battery power keeping the back leg turned off may be a good idea if you're really trying to squeeze a lot of a battery life out of this very interesting how it does that and we have some settings for battery power and I'm going to turn off the device to get it the backlight to come back on you probably just saw it come back on last-second there kick here we are and we can also do some cpu throttling so you can change the cpu performance too high normal or low in our test it seems that having this on auto is it makes it as fast as if you put it on high or normal if you do it on low things get a little bit slow you get some better battery life but auto seems to be a really good setting for it really rare for a device to have cpu throttling so that's a very interesting addition going down a little bit we a button and you can assign a button this device has a lot of hardware buttons but only two of them are programmable and actually it's technically one button that is programmable this button right here so you can have a tap and hold or you can have a tap so right now I've said so if I tap on this I am launched directly into email because I use email a lot very convenient or you can do a tap and hold to do the test switcher so it's nice to have that that capability we can change the up and down control but this doesn't really isn't really relevant because there's no d-pad we have wake up which determines the wake up behavior and finally we have the button we can end programs forcibly by tapping the X button in the upper right corner rather than it having to go into hibernate and that's a really good idea on this device it doesn't have that much free ram so you want to check that off if you get this device okay let's go back and continue down the line we can align the screen we can change the setting for the USB connection this does have TV out if you have the proper cabling for that you can register divx but i really don't see the point because you can play divx video whether you register or not owner information and you can change the language to many different languages okay so let's go back and let's go to the next thing which is phone settings and this is where you get into your default sort of settings for for windows mobile devices so we're not going to cover that in depth then we have some settings for motion we have the etiquette mode which comes from it from HTC really so if you turn the device face down the the sound is muted so if you're getting a call you want to be polite you put the phone down on its face it stops raining ringing it's a nice thing to have turn that back on calibration so we can calibrate the g sensor although that's really not necessary unless it starts acting a little wacky down a little bit more we've security settings and we can change it so that there is a a security lock or a pendant you have to put in when you turn on the device network settings and here we can kind of change the operator settings Bluetooth Wi-Fi all of that sort of connection stuff and finally down here in memory settings we can see our program RAM which is extremely low and yet the device is so fast it's very strange only 50 megabytes free right now and there aren't that there are a few programs open actually three programs open and the device is still snappy it must have really good memory management so we're going to click done main storage you can kind of take a look at of the 512 megabytes of RAM how much you have left although obviously you're probably going to want to get a storage card which I have done here with an eight gigabyte storage card you can format it from the screen or you can clear memory on the entire device and finally there's another tab here which really doesn't have anything terribly different we can into some system settings turn on ClearType turn on enough error reporting this is some of the standard windows mobile stuff but we can't change the text size which is a shame because if you go into email the text is way too large for such a high resolution screen and we can also go to install items and we can go to connection for sort of the browser stuff so that was a look at settings on the samsung omnia pro be 7610 so samsung gives you a lot of ways that you can customize this device which is really fantastic i just wish there was an easy way to get back to the standard plain old windows mobile settings so there are some stuff in there that will be nice to change so that's it for now and be sure to watch out for the four of you coming up soon on pocketnow.com that's it for now