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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocketnow.com and this is part two of two of the sony ericsson xperia x1 software tour now be sure you check out part one where we talk all about the panels and what they actually do because I'm not going to talk about them right now to start off I want to show you a few things about this main screen we have the HTC task manager in the upper right corner which lets us close program selectively and programs all at once or we can dictate what happens when we press the X in the upper right corner and windows mobile because as you know by default it hibernates the program it doesn't actually close it thus eating up program memory well you can choose to have the button actually close the program with this task manager what's really interesting is that out of the box the the x1 is set to end programs that are running I think this was something that Sony Ericsson did to try to get back more program memory this device is fast enough to where opening a program is very fast and it doesn't matter if it's in already in program memory or not now something that really bugs me about the x1 is that there's no easy way to find out how much battery life is left as you can see there's no information about battery life on this panel or on any of the panels we don't have anything up here except if we hit the clock but then we get a very crude battery meter that only shows us every quarter so we don't know if we have eighty percent left or seventy-five percent or anything like that okay so let's go into the start menu in the start menu we have Office Mobile so the full version of office 2007 mobile which is good if we go into programs and by the way everything is so fast on the Xperia if we go into programs we see that everything is finger friendly here so we can do the flick scroll we can do that in context an Internet Explorer pretty much anywhere in the whole device you can use your finger let's start off in games and usually I don't go into games but in this case hey we actually get some extra games and it's not trial where we have extra where Sudoku and astraware bejeweled 2 let's take a look and see what they look like so it's a game of sudoku a full game it's great okay let's get out of that and we have adobe reader for pdfs standard things here let's look at the Communication Manager which has been changed a little bit it looks very similar to the communication manager in an HTC device while this is an HTC device technically if we want to file explorer you can see that I can flick my finger to move around we've getting started Google Maps this includes handango in hand and we've talked about this before this is really the only application store program for windows mobile and it's not even it's not even that great unfortunately you can't download trials windows mobile software is typically more expensive than than some of the other platforms but you know it's it's really better than nothing I suppose so I'm going to close that okay going down the list we have internet sharing something for java messenger quit gps for using a gps okay so let's go into the phone application so i'm going to press the call start button this is how i dial phone numbers and let's say i want to die on my friend met so i do ma TT and I scroll down where I can unhide the keypad and there is right there and as you've noticed on the skin for the phone application is really cool it's it's brushed metal it looks like it has this 3d effect when you press inward it looks really great okay so let's go into the settings there's a lot to show there okay so here in the settings i'm going to show you the bands that i can use this on this is the x1 I and here's a list of the bands that I can do gsm 900 1800 1900 and 850 and then for UMTS i have 2100 919 and 850 that is why i'm able to use this device on AT&T and get 3g speeds if you see up there in the top here at says h4 hsdpa I was kind of surprised by that by the way when I got the phone I wasn't expecting to be able to get 3g on AT&T let's go to the next one which says there's a lot of lot of stuff in here let's go down the list to illumination this device actually has indicator lights all around the device one here here and here and here and let me show you what that looks like i can give you a demonstration so when it's charging this is what it will look like see that it's kind of a multicolor LED that that fades in and out let's see if i have a low battery it will look like this red if i have a voicemail it will look like this kind of a orange color double looks like it's blinking three times two three yeah three blinks for a missed call or for voicemail so if you kind of memorize all of these different notifications you can just glance at your device and know if you have a missed call or if the battery's low or if you have a reminder for your calendar appointment so it's a really innovative notification feature I like that and of course you can turn it off completely to save some battery life going down the list let's go into memory okay and in terms of memory we have 200 and a little more than 200 megabytes of program memory total to use which is huge it's as much as the HTC touch pro and a lot bigger than most other windows mobile devices so that really lets you multitask a lot and use advanced programs let's go down the list here optical joystick here we have some settings for that we can set the sensitivity we can enable it we can enable the scroll functionality and Internet Explorer messaging in contacts going down the list we have some settings for spb mobile shell which is now installed on the device for free courtesy of that free xperia x1 panel that you saw in the first video on software let's go to power and this is where I come pretty much all the time to see how much power I have left so far battery life seems to be ridiculously good right now it is about five o'clock and I've been using this device all day long and this is how much battery power I've left this is pretty amazing and the backlight can automatically be adjusted with a light sensor although I have it on manual right now so that when I shoot the video it's not going in and out different sort of brightnesses and if we go over to connections we have some Advanced Options like I said I inserted my AT&T sim card and the device automatically configured itself which was great it asked me do you want to configure to AT&T settings which is fantastic and finally i want to show you opera mobile which has been optimized for the xperia x1 it's much faster than any of the betas out there and it looks a little bit different too ok so here it is and i'm going to go into landscape and i'm going to go to cnet com I like to go there because it's a relatively complex web page so cnet com you can see the keyboard backlighting as i type dot com ok there we go all right and this is over hsdpa right now i'm not even connected connected to Wi-Fi and look how fast it is and i think a lot of this has to do with the speed of the device the speed of the software and also the speed of the network certainly helps and just as in any opera mobile browser you can just move your finger move your stylist double tap to zoom in on an area opera mobile works really really well on the xperia x1 so i think the xperia x1 is a really good software offering one of my favorite parts of the device is how fast it is even things like screen rotation are super fast almost instant which is kind of unheard of for windows mobile devices will be back with the full review check out our twitter account to know exactly when it hits twitter.com slash pocket now tweets we'll talk all about battery life will run benchmarks and we'll talk about all the pros and cons of the x1 to determine if it should be your next device that is it for now