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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocket now calm and in this video we're going to take a look at some of the really cool enhancements made to the toshiba g 8 10 okay so let's start with a hard work tour of the device as i said before it's a flush touch screen there are no edges and i want to show you something really interesting after i take out the stylus in the extremely awkward place i hate i hate the stylus it's it's plasticky it's crappy it's really annoying to use but anyway you see these buttons i mentioned that they're completely flat so they're touch-based right they actually have the same characteristic as the touchscreen so you know if you ever tilt your device to the side and you touch the screen you can see the kind of the the colors Bend because it's pushing down on the screen the screen actually has some play the same thing can be said about these buttons they use resistive touchscreen technology which means the two layers touch each other underneath the button and that's how the device knows that it's registered a button press so they require a little bit of pressure to get them activated but not too much here we have a d-pad and it takes a little bit of getting used to to not have not be able to feel for the the edges of the button let's see we have a home button which takes you back to the now screen on spb mobile shell start menu to completely useless a soft key buttons the reason i say that they're useless is because just you know three millimeters above that you can press on the actual screen to get that soft function to work here we have start just call start and call n button and on the bottom we have a microphone and some branding from toshiba on the bottom it says qualcomm 3g cdma on this side we have a a slot for the microSD card but why is it exposed there should be a filler card here I don't want it dust and such to get trapped in there to the left of that we have a soft reset whole a power button and I actually like the placement of this power button because I pick up the device with my left hand I use my thumb to tap on the tap on the device and then I whip out the stylist with my right hand I think it's better than a placement on the top here we have a volume up and down button nothing on the top and this is what it looks like when you take out the stylus and then there's a button here for record for voice notes and camera shutter button and here's the port for mini USB flipping over to the back we have the three megapixel camera with autofocus so that's good self-portrait mirror and a fill light okay let me show you some things about this device that I didn't show on the second video that talked about software enhancements to flip from screen to screen you know we have these three different screens in spb mobile shell you can actually swipe your finger look at that and you can change that animation I'll show you where to do that in a second there's a second animation that takes place when you click on an icon so right now we have the rolling cube icon going and that will work for other things too to change these animations you go into the settings button and we go to spb mobile shell settings for toshiba i'm going to click on the animation tab and here we can change the more and back functions and the main window function so i'm going to change them up just to show you what other options we have for the main window we're going to change sliding to sweeping and for the more and back we're going to change it to folding so I click OK takes me back now let's see what we have ok now it's a sliding action and you can also use the soft key buttons down here to toggle through the screens though some may prefer just to press the buttons along the bottom ok so then the question is how do I get to that now screen when I'm doing something else in Windows Mobile the standard interface well there are two ways one of them is to press on this home button and we're back and press the X and another way and I think this is kind of an undiscovered feature of spb mobile shell if you take your finger and drag from the top of the task from the top bar down you get this this will let you toggle between the three different spb mobile shell windows so we have the phone application here Affleck asian launcher and then the regular now screen so that could be a good way to quickly get to a particular screen of spb mobile shell rather than just pressing the home button and going straight back so that's another way to do it now I want to show you the the flick scrolling enhancements made to this which only work in some programs we get the flick scrolling enhancements from spb pocket plus so I'm going to go into internet explorer and here we have pocketnow.com mobile loaded and let me show you how this works it's it's quite precise I know exactly how much the page is going to move down because it feels like an iPhone it feels like it should you can go pretty fast you could stop it very quickly you have to you have to double click on the screen and I think this probably works a lot better with a stylus to highlight text yes exactly and this flick scrolling also works in something like contacts so go to contacts and I flick hence top and flick and flick and flick much better than the flick scrolling of the HTC touch flo found on the HTC touch and tighten too and that sort of thing and the last enhancement I want to show you is spb full screen keyboard which in my opinion is the worst on-screen keyboard ever to land on Windows Mobile so here i am in word mobile and i'm going to click new to open a new document and here I've got the standard windows mobile keyboard on-screen keyboard and I'm going to click on this button in the corner which will cause me to rotate the device and reorient my fingers so that i can type on this keyboard this keyboard covers the entire screen so that I can only see one line of text so that is not very convenient today is Friday I've been practicing with this keyboard and even with practice I'm still not that fast I don't find the touches to be very precise for some reason it's got really good word completion so I don't have to spell a word fully it kind of knows what I'm trying to say if i misspell a word it will correct it for me but still the whole idea of covering everything on the screen to get a keyboard and you know having to turn the device into landscape to type is just silly I think you're much better off getting a program like touchpal which give you aa gives you options to have a t9 like pad and a shirt typepad rather than just the standard windows mobile keyboard or this horrendous full screen keyboard okay so that's it for this video if you like what you see subscribe to our YouTube channel we add videos all the time and that way you can keep abreast of when we add new ones I'll be back with the full review soon look for that on pocketnow.com