Gadgetory

hey guys it's jeff arena with pocketnow.com and you've already seen our initial unboxing as well as the part 1 software tour and hardware overview on the sony ericsson x10 mini in this video we're going to further extend our coverage by showing you the part 2 of the software overview video which will go into further depth on the social networking applications some of the gaming as well as the well famed and well-loved browser test let's go ahead and get started welcome back right now we're going to take a further look into some of the software that the sony ericsson x10 mini includes and what you can do with it on a software sense so as i showed you in the previous video we have the custom UI that they have overlaid here now first off i want to show you some of these social networking aspects of this phone itself so of course you can actually use the facebook application which i can actually load right here and we'll just go to my profile now as you can see it's actually pretty fast the speeds pretty good backing out of the facebook app i'm a huge Twitter user as many of you already know unfortunately though i use the official twitter application on Android and because this uses android 1.6 the twitter app is not available for this device so i had to use to i believe it's pronounced twitter so you can pull this up right now once again it loads fairly fast out actually go as far as to say this loads a little faster if not as fast and Matt doesn't my evo which is very surprising based on the cpu speed of the device so again i can scroll through here fairly decently the scrolling is where it gets slow as you can see it's locking up on most right now almost as like there's too much there too low what you mean i do have a pretty long and full feet here but it really has trouble keeping up with me on that sense next up i want to actually show you the YouTube application the YouTube app is something that we look at on every device that we typically use however on this one I was actually very surprised but the speed that it loads that it keeps up with everything else that I've used so far as you can see here I can search it is the same interface as the other apps on the android devices we're go ahead and go to the pocket now video page and now I can actually select the video here and this is where it's actually to show off the speaker guys raised you by before you go Haley speaker very very very low slot to the fact that I have to actually turn this down here now bring us a little closer so you can kind of see it's a little soft I would say a little blurry however it colors are very accurate the camera application can either be accessed through this application grid here or by pressing the actual hardware button for the camera and what we'll do is we'll actually bring the camera up right now so that's a little slow to load their response time isn't the greatest and I'll take a picture of my computer stand here this picture I just took the angle showing the camera you know isn't the greatest but fairly good quality picture the flash goes off pretty well and once again this screen doesn't do it justice these pictures actually come up pretty good when they're put on the computer itself moving into the email portion of the device I'm a gmail user myself so I can actually pull up the Gmail application here now we're still in landscape mode but what we can do is we can once again pick an email here and now it's actually going to load that email itself it's not the fastest once again i mean i think this processor does hold it back a little bit but at the same time make it keeps up with the best of them press show pictures here and now the logo shows up on most instantly and i can browse the image i do not have multitouch though that has the one downside here no mother should also kind of have to browse it for what it is does a good job of scaling a picture and what you'll finally you have to go left and right quite often to be able to see the entire email itself with any images now sony is also going to bundle quite a good amount of software on the device itself from the start they're going to give you neyo reader to act as your QR code reader or your scanner they're going to give you wise pilot which is a gps tool as well as the road sync so you can actually use their off the bat they're also going to give you some games what I'm going to show you is actually going to be peggle so you will pull up the game peggle you can see here it's a popcap game now it's actually works fairly decently on this device especially with the small screen i actually had expectations where i thought was gonna be pretty hard to play however it's really not i found it not to be difficult at all of course that won't let me turn it down while I'm in the application that's not too good but you can see here I'm actually playing the game and I can just simply shoot my little ball and hit all these other marbles simple as that so I'm playing peggle on a 2.5 inch screen it is very small there's times when it's a little finicky when you're trying to move the actual target because it is so small you know your thumb may hit a few different points at once and it kind of goes a little haywire but to be very honest it is pretty accurate from what I can tell and now it's time for the fabled browser test now I'm not going to compare this browser side by side with another device simply because it would probably not be fair based on the processor speed so instead i'm just going to show it on its own so you guys can make your own opinion slope up the browser here i'm gonna tilt it up so we go back in now pacquiao comments already prefilled in so we'll go ahead and press the return key as you see here it's loading now where it's sitting right now in terms of the status bar it will sit there for about 20-30 seconds typically before that goes away so there's some sort of code that it's tell us to finalize I actually believe it might be the scaling of the page itself to this resolution because it is very different now we're all set so now we can browse through you can see here it's fairly smooth there are times we gets a little choppy but you do not once again you do not have multitouch so you have to zoom out with this browser at least using these magnifying tools over here and that will give you pretty much the full view of the page itself alright guys and that's going to do it for the second part of my software overview video be sure to stay tuned for the upcoming final review on the sony ericsson x10 mini as always if you like this video or any of our videos give us a thumbs up and please leave a comment for any input you may have thanks guys