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hey everyone its Jeff Farina with pocket now calm so far you've seen us unbox the samsung transform with sprint well now we're actually on jump into a quick software overview in part one we're basically going to show you some of the different tweaks that sprint has done the device to actually make the device yours and make it easier to actually jump into the smartphone world if this is your first smartphone device so let's get started all right in we're back and jumping into some of the software that sprint has actually incorporated on to this device the samsung transform one very unique thing that sprint is included here is called sprint ID now at first glance this is a type of device that will actually bridge the gap from a normal cell phone user to having a smartphone the reason being is what they've done is they've actually created a very simple setup process for the Android operating system now the open-ended opportunities with Android in terms of the customization the different apps you can add are a great opportunity for many of us but for some people they find it overwhelming now what's Sprint ID does actually this little application is little icon here it opens up different profiles that you can use so as you can see we have the standard sprint one already set up we have my very own it's just a custom one that comes on there it's just a blank slate and then you can of course add get new sprint nighties and I what this is basically going to do is take care of adding all the widgets for you adding all the different screens so as you can see here this is the main screen what we've actually done is added the what weather and talk flip clock and our own little shortcuts here but what Sprint ID has done scrolling over to the right you'll actually see that they bring the sprint TV widget right there for you as well as all of these different icons these were actually already pre-loaded in terms of the TeleNav GPS which is the sprint navigation you have your sprint football coverage there you have the NASCAR coverage you have the family locator ESP and again these are all shortcuts that sprint has already taken care of adding for you so this makes life a lot easier because you can get up and going right away you can press the Facebook app there it actually won't bring into the application we're actually bring it to the website if actually just press right here this will open up the browser and it will bring you right to the facebook website as you can see here now it's automatic a little the mobile version of Facebook for your viewing pleasure so that makes life a lot easier because you can actually get through things now if you are brand new user to Android especially this is actually your first smartphone now you will have the ability for five home screens so actually scrolling back to the left to our Center home screen once again this is the one that we've customized ourselves going over to the left one rice you're going to have the messaging widget so it will show you your messages there you can reply to a message right on the screen itself it will give you some icons down here for you know music camera browser in the market as well and then one more this is actually the very cool one we have what's called the sprint zone so it will basically give you shortcuts to my account if you press that you can also press find a store that sort of thing but it will give you kind of a toggle for Wi-Fi GPS Bluetooth airplane mode so i can actually press bluetooth on and it's that simple you'll actually see the icon pop up there once it actually powers there we go power is the actual Bluetooth chip on itself so this really is going to make your transition to a smartphone even just to an android phone let's say you've been a user of a different phone before you know whether it be a knife on a blackberry whatever it maybe even a nokia device and you're switching to an android device now and you're you know not looking to kind of jump in over your head this will be a good option for you because the Sprint ID will actually set things up and to actually demonstrate that I'm actually going to press the ID here and just go to the custom one that they call my ID now this has not been touched at all we have not loaded any kind of widgets on here now one thing you're going to notice it's a little slow to load so far the experience hasn't been the snappiest it hasn't been painful either though now as you'll see it's the standard background and it keeps giving us that error there about the widgets so standard background and actually give you some directions in terms of swiping to the left and right you'll have your google search toolbar so same idea we're going to have the five home screens here but these are now completely blank so you can start from scratch change your wallpaper or whatever it may be so you can use the Sprint ID and just customize that as usually as you see fit of course but once again that's the kind of make your experience a little bit better in terms of easing that transition this way though you can change things as you see fit now one of the really nice things is you do have the phone button there the actual dedicated phone button you can bring up which reminds us froyo how they have that launcher and for sure there's no browser button built-in now this is running Android 2.1 and to actually show that we're going to go right to the settings and go to the about phone section to show you so they've actually kind of tweaked the UI a little bit to give you a different experience there now the nice thing is it doesn't have the TouchWiz UI which most people aren't a fan of so if you don't like TouchWiz this could be a good option for you as you see here we have 2.1 for the firmware the advantage of already being on 2.1 right out of the box means that most of the applications in the market if not all are already compatible with your device if you were to pick up a android device that has let's say 1.6 on there right now for the current version you would be behind you wouldn't be able to actually access a lot of the current market applications such as the official twitter app so that's always a great thing to be up to date if not ahead right out of the box now it doesn't include Froyo as we've stated but 2.1 keeps it somewhat close so this has been our brief software overview part 1 and part 2 we're actually going to compare the samsung transform which you see right here to a samsung epic 4g which are both sprint devices we're going to compare actually opening up some of the different applications such as Facebook the Twitter applications Google Maps the browser that's a big thing doing actual browser test so actually going to test both those out with the Wi-Fi network now we're also going to compare that to the epic 4g for the hardware overview as well so we're actually going to go into detail of the hardware of this device here and we'll finish that off by comparing it to the hardware of its big brother the samsung epic 4g so as always thank you very much for watching everyone please give this video a thumbs up if you liked it and leave any comments that you see fit thanks everyone