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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and in this video we're gonna take a look at the unique and interesting features of the Toshiba g9 10 so just this screen on the front and the fingerprint reader on the side and some other things that are pretty interesting now the screen on the front is an OLED display so it's very bright it's only monochrome the resolution is 96 by 39 so you don't get that much data on the front but it does show you some interesting things to start I'm going to call my phone from my landline here and you'll see what it looks like when a call comes through on the front screen many people think that the front of this device is ugly and yes I agree that it is quite ugly it looks like a device from 1992 or something so let's let's see what happens I'm calling my phone right now okay and you see what it does is it Charles forth the caller ID from your phone book and the suit associates the phone number to the name and says my line cuz I'm calling from a landline and to ignore the call you press the red and to answer it you press the green and from here you'd put it up to your face and use the speaker here in the microphone there to take the call okay now let me go through what you can do with this external display if we press the button to the left we can scroll through our contacts and dial a contact from the front screen here and it's showing me that I have a new message right now so I'm gonna try to get that away this isn't very useful because I have about 500 contacts and it would take me a really long time to find the one that I want here but if you have a few contacts that's helpful pressing to the right will go through your missed call notifications it'll show you your next calendar appointment which is useful we can see if we have an unread Outlook email we can change the profile which is cool so we can press the up or down button to rotate between silent and normal and vibrate and then we press the center button to set that if we go over to the right one more time that goes back to the time something else you can do is actually dial from this screen though it's it's not it's not too quick of a dialing action if we press the green call button we get a dial pad and so I can kind of move the cursor around the screen and type out a number although I don't know why I would just why I wouldn't just open up the phone folder call that way because this is gonna take too long so that's pretty much the the functionality the of the external screen it's kind of useful I wish you could see more information on it it's a very small screen but I like the I like the fact that you don't have to open the folder to answer a call when it comes in that saves a battery life and certainly is quite convenient too so let's open the folder and talk about some more features when you open the folder the screen immediately turns on which is good and it opens to reveal this excellent keyboard this is actually one of the best keyboards I've ever used because it's so large and it just feels great it's it's basically the same as the keyboard on the 18 t tilt but every button is about 20 to 30% bigger so that's really great the stylus is placed in a in a very convenient location often to the right like here and the reason that the stylus is so long is because they figure you're gonna hold the device in your left hand and you're going to be reaching quite far with the stylus so you need that extra length let's go into the Settings menu and take a look at something I'm going to show you this device has a fingerprint scanner on the side here which doesn't offer too much utility let me show you what you can do with it so I'm gonna click on the fingerprint whoops went into the wrong thing there let me just zoom in on the screen a little bit so you can see what I'm doing I'm gonna click on the fingerprint utility and this is where we register a finger so I'm going to register my right first finger so I'm going to click on that and what it requires me to do is I'm gonna try to tilt this so you can see the whole thing scan my finger three times so one it says quality's too low I got to go slower swipe successful swipe successful and enrollment successful okay great so that means that my right index finger is enrolled and then I can use it to do certain things like launch programs that's pretty much it there's no security software built into this so you can't unlock the device with a swipe of your finger I'll show you the the utility in a second and you can also set your this this biometric pad to scroll on lists which is of useful but it doesn't work too well let me show you if I go into context and I kind of swipe my finger downward it scrolls you see that but it's not too fast it's very precise because you can't move very quickly and they'll do dialing something but that's one of the features of the biometrics pad and let me go into the program that will allow you to associate a a program action to a swipe of the finger so if I go to so as you can see here if I swipe my left foot um it will open the calculator program and if I select the right first finger I can have it launched let's say Windows Media Player and I'ma click done done ok main main battery low gotta charge my battery but let me show you what that will do now so if I go and I swipe my right index finger guess I didn't get a good swipe there okay so I've discovered something in order to launch a program with your finger get ready for this you actually have to launch the program and put it in the foreground so now that if I if I swipe my index finger Windows Media Player opens yeah extremely silly I will never use this feature why would why should I have to launch a program to launch a program I just don't see the use of that so perhaps you can find some third-party security software that will utilize this biometric security pad but out of the box it static it's very poor support for any sort of interesting functionality for that ok so let's move on in the first video I tried to figure out these shortcut buttons that are that run along the side of the device so we have one for messaging looks like internet calendar and there are some others here - such as media player and I couldn't get them to operate by just pressing them here well it turns out you have to press on the dot so if I press on the dot Windows Media Player launches and of course if I click on the dot on the checklist I get tasks it's firmer press and here's tasks now fortunately all of these buttons can be customized so if we go into Start and settings we go into but buttons they act just like hardware buttons on any Windows mobile device so we can go down and we see a right button one right button - and they have a little icon and of course you can click on it and just change the assignment of that button so that that's useful because this device really doesn't have that many hardware buttons on the keyboard you have camera and and that's really it so having these shortcut buttons are quite helpful on the screen there now something I want you to notice is that this device is pretty slow unfortunately I think it's because the screen has so many pixels did you just see that the icons took about a second to load unlike a device like the eye main ultimate 95o - where everything is just right there let's go into file explorer there's a delay with everything that you do and it gets a little exhausting to use I have to be honest about that ok so what I want to do now is continue the tour of the hardware I'm going to zoom out a little bit replace the stylus on the side here we have a video camera for making video calls we can't do that in the US certainly we have the keyboard of course with a light sensor that will adjust the brightness of the screen if you want and turn on the the backlight on the keyboard when it gets dark to the right of that we have a soft reset hole very conveniently placed right in the keyboard I've actually found myself to have to soft reset this many times there were times when I would close the phone and open it and the screen wouldn't turn on or it would turn on after about three minutes that's peculiar so let's go around the device on the bottom we have a mini USB port that is covered by a by a piece of plastic here we have a lanyard loop here of course the fingerprint scanner a button to adjust volume up and down to the right of that is a dedicated headphone port but it uses this weird-lookin proprietary jack it doesn't look like micro USB or anything like that this device does come with a converter jack that will convert this to standard headphones so at least that's good on the top we have the slot for the micro SD card externally place that's good news okay and to the right of that is the button to power on and off the device and of course this micro SD slot cover takes a minute to get back on and of course there's the hinge it there is some spring assist so if I close it a little bit it will snap shut and again I really like that sound that it makes when you close it let's flip over to the back we have a 2 megapixel camera with autofocus and it also has an LED fill to fill light which is always a welcomed addition here's a speaker external speaker for speakerphone and and that sort of thing and finally to wrap up I just want to give you an idea of the programs that come installed on the g9 10 see if there's anything unique or interesting of course we're going to cover this in depth in the review which is coming up soon on pocketnow.com so i'm gonna start by going into the Start menu and I find that the stiffness of the hinge is good enough to where I can press on the screen pretty hard and it doesn't move so that's good so let's see what we have here this looks pretty much standard we have Java applications what we have here is image to text which is a little bit of OCR that uses the camera to convert text that you take a picture of so in a newspaper or a magazine business card and it'll convert it into text on the screen which is pretty neat we'll cover that more later we have live search which I installed opera browser is this opera 9.5 no it's not it's opera eight-point I think it's eight point six five let me take a look at that again you can't see that because it's really tiny but it is eight point six five it's the old version of opera which still does a pretty good job in rendering webpages but it's nothing close to opera nine point five and that's pretty much it I'm gonna go into the settings menu real quick and let's see everything's pretty much standard we have the the fingerprint reader we have video call settings I can't touch those because we're in the u.s. I'm going into system we have master clear which will reset everything back to the way it was before going down the list everything is pretty much standard here let's see how we're doing on memory right now I know if you a few programs open we've got 35 megabytes three okay that's that's decent running programs we have a lot of running programs right now so that makes sense the world we don't have that much program memory running there are left and over in connections nothing's really unique Wireless manager hasn't been skinned it's the standard Windows Mobile 6 Wireless manager which is pretty ugly but that's ok we don't need a fancy Wireless manager and that'll do it for this video again we're gonna have a full review coming up and we're going to cover every aspect of this device and run benchmarks on it you can see that at pocketnow.com soon that's it