Gadgetory

hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and this is a video of getting started with the toshiba g 810 I'm gonna turn it on for the first time now I've just installed the battery it looks like the power button is off to the side here so I'm gonna hold it in and okay there we go I haven't put my sim card in just yet so it'll tell me that I won't have any signal windows mobile 6.1 they're very nice let me zoom in a little bit more and of course tap the screen to set up your device let's find the stylus the stylus where could the stylus be hmm is it okay cuz that's it I cannot find the stylus okay I found the stylus what you have to do is actually slide your finger along the side look at this thing and try to get into focus here this is the stylus it's very unconventional I'm not sure if I like it anywho that's good it could start with this okay I'm gonna skip that of course change the time later says the SIM card is missing I know that I look at these buttons glow blue very interesting okay so no evidence okay here's something select an application to install Toshiba virtual keyboard and it gives you a description Toshiba virtual keyboard is a unique text input tool it covers the entire screen it has enough large it has enough keys large enough to be tacked with the fingertips I'm just gonna put all of these in see what happens and click Next this can use up memory okay that's fine okay guys so after about two minutes I have something to show here we have SP be mobile shell that looks like which is a program that s PB sells for I think 25 or $30 and it gets very high reviews because what it allows you to do is access all of your information from an on windows mobile looking interface here which is pretty nice so here we have a clock in the center and if I click on the clock I get well the time and times in other cities should I choose that if I click the back button I can go to weather and then we're back into the kind of standard Windows Mobile look and I can choose a city but I'm gonna do cancel because I don't have a data connection just the second we have links to messaging here so if I click on that it'll bring me to the standard text messaging application and of course this is windows mobile 6.1 so we have threaded text messages which is really great I'm assuming clicking on this brings us to missed calls and of course I just turned on this phone so there are no missed calls this is a profile switcher Windows Mobile professional still doesn't have profiles but they added a way to switch between silent vibrate and normal in mobile shell now on the bottom this lets you toggle through the various views that you'll see on the screen so the first view is lit up it's the calendar and if I click on the 9th of July they're actually we're in January right now if it'll bring open the Windows Mobile calendar if we go to the bottom to the second one we get an application launcher and the internet is standard wow that was interesting I like that animation Wow wow did you see that it's kind of got some cube it's like a cube that rolls forward I like that I'm so you go to Internet Explorer and like I said I don't have a data connection so I'm gonna get out of that and notice how each time I exit a program I am taken back to this SPD mobile shell display not sure if I like that I have to get used to where everything is placed in the screen before I can use it all the time what else is up here we have this one which takes us the screen brightness is that yeahit's screen brightness so I can make it real dim or real bright it's quite convenient this looks like Wi-Fi connectivity this will rotate the device landscape I'll keep it in that for now and back so let's go back to landscape we have a lock button which I'm assuming is the device lock and well that's annoying I don't want to lock my device and if you notice when I turned it to landscape and actually reoriented the the buttons on them that we're on the bottom now they're on the right so let's continue up to this icon for phone this allows you to dial favorite people and I'm assuming it'll allow you to associate a picture with each person's name and finally this X actually gets you out of SBB mobile shell and into the standard today screen ok now quickly I want to take a look if there's any programs in the Start menu that aren't typically installed on a windows mobile device so we have Auto config here this is probably yeah you can set it up based on your carrier in the US so I'm going to choose AT&T Wireless because that's who my carrier is and it'll set up all the connections with GPRS and whatnot to make sure your device works I don't want to do it now I'll click cancel okay a GPS this has assisted GPS to get a quicker fix which is good auto install not sure what that is not going to tap on that black list looks like you can block people from calling you ok FM radio please connect a headset of course this device uses the headset that you connect with earphones as the antenna to get a signal we have full screen keyboard here by SPB that's another enhancement and you're supposed to be able to use your thumbs to type on this I've never actually used this let me try the the quick that didn't really work very well okay so I need some practice on that how do I get out of here doot doot okay that did it good we've getting started which is the windows mobile 6.1 kind of cheat sheet on how to set up various aspects of your phone such as making a call and the flick scrolling doesn't seem to work in there that's strange let me go back yeah it doesn't that's odd okay we have image to text which is a neat application that lets you take a picture of a business card and store it as text it actually uses OCR to do that pretty cool we've image editor that's new okay I'm gonna click on an image I'm assuming it'll allow me to paint on this let's see draw here it is and I choose a color red and it's not drawing I need to look into that some more and figure that out so that is the image editor internet sharing built in of course task manager that's in windows mobile 6.1 it shows you the memory usage of all the programs open and how much of the CPU your they are using streaming player wonder what that is probably a streaming internet player I must say that the performance of this device is pretty good let me open up the settings menu for the first time it's pretty fast it's almost as fast as the I'm 890 502 which doesn't surprise me because it uses the same processor let's see how we're doing in terms of memory get a little closer there so program memory we're using about half of what we have available and that makes sense we have a lot of programs open I think this integration of SPB software on a new device from Toshiba is quite interesting and I'm gonna have a lot more to say about this device I also want to play with these buttons down here to see exactly how they operate they are indeed touch sensitive by the way so more on this soon