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hi everyone this is chang win and today we're going to take a look at two mobile television entertainment experiences both on HTC devices running Windows Mobile on the top we have the HTC imagio which runs vcast television service from verizon wireless which operates on media flow which is a Qualcomm technology so your television content doesn't stream over the internet rather there's a separate terrestrial broadcasting antenna that picks up service that way on the bottom we're taking a look at streaming service from slingplayer mobile which you actually do have to purchase a separate set top box which streams your home television cable or media content over the internet using verizon wireless's evdo cdma network since this is a verizon wireless touch pro2 so let's go ahead and take a look and see how smooth the services the buffer times and if there are any audio lags or chops i'm going to go ahead and turn on the volume on the top device which is the HTC imagio and see how that performs and we're going to go ahead and switch through channels so here we actually have a more finger-friendly intuitive menu you can actually flick to scroll and change the channels we're watching spongebob right now little audio and video chop right there in general the surface is pretty clear sometimes you do experience a little bit of choppiness and audio and video performance as you see again right there after you change the channel and it looks like we have no TV signal right now the interface is pretty nice it's actually very finger friendly you have large icons so you can tap on it bring up programming guides where you can flick through or tap and it does support gesture so you can swipe to change the channels which is pretty nice so I'm going to go ahead and turn the volume down on the top one and take a look at the bottom one here where we have slingplayer mobile running on the touch pro 2 in landscape mode I'm going to go ahead and increase the volume as you can see here the controls are not as finger friendly you do kind of have to use a stylus or the hardware keyboard on the bottom so you actually change the channel you can go ahead and pull up the programming guide change its channel 9 it's a little bit of choppiness at the beginning where it's buffering the quality isn't as crisp and clean as the media flow service but it is definitely watchable and it is actually quite good a little bit of a delay after you hit the channel that you want but once the channel starts loading the quality is pretty good and you don't really notice too many audio choppiness or video lags going to go ahead and turn down the volume and we're going to take a look now at the motorola krave which is another device going to go ahead and power that on go ahead set that aside for a minute so you can watch the two the motorola krave actually has a clear touchscreen that you can press through it's a consumer device it definitely has a smaller screen than the HTC imagio but still uses the same the cast television experience that the Amazo uses so i'm going to go ahead and launch the V CAST service so on the top here we have the crave and on the bottom we have the imagio the crave definitely has a smaller screen you can go ahead and expand the screen here but the display it gets a little bit distorted on the imagio to fill out the screen on the crave it's still very finger friendly you still have the on-screen menus which you can scroll through unfortunately it is not a capacitive tour it is not a resistive touchscreen so I can't use a stylist you do need to use your fingers the smaller screen makes a control a little bit harder but the experience is still the same you still get all the programming guide the info button and it really does replicate a set box like experience on the V CAST mobile TV experience so on the top the crave motorola krave the bottom the HTC imagio and then here we have the touch pro two running slingplayer mobile so this is chun win and that's a look at mobile television on your mobile device thanks so much