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hey guys it's random in a min from pocket now calm and this is a look at touchflo 3d 2.5 build 1920 this is the version of touchflo 3d that will be on the HTC hd2 which is the first windows mobile device to have a capacitive display the changes in 1920 may have actually been present in 1991 we did the video but we just didn't notice certain things so let's take a look at some new things that you may have not have seen yet if you follow us on YouTube the first thing we're going to take a look at is the weather demo so if we tap on this item here we get to see all these beautiful animations that you get now on the home screen this is dragged up or down to preview the weather condition so here is showers and it's a little bit laggy on the 528 megahertz processor on the AT&T tilt two but imagine it being much much faster on a snapdragon 1 gigahertz processor on the HTC hd2 so we continue to flick through and see all of the different 8 animations that you can get on your main screen that fill up the whole screen this one's pretty cool the AB the windy animation and here's six partly cloudy with Thunder cold snowy and finally thunderstorms now what you'll notice is that touchflo 3d 2.5 build 9 teen 20 doesn't work at all in landscape because it's not intended for a device that can have a landscape display when you slide out the keyboard so things kind of get really weird when you slide out the keyboard and go into landscape so let's go back and take a look at what else is new in this for in this build something else that's new and it's kind of subtle it's not that big of a deal is the splash screen for opera browser and now has HTC's new slogan quietly brilliant and the splash screen when you turn on the device also says this too instead of HTC innovation or what it was previously so we can get out of this if we go into weather typically they give you seven different locations by default but the problem with the seven locations that in order to delete them you have to go through one at a time and you have to flick through and go to menu remove menu remove but now there's a quicker and easier way to do this so if we go to menu and we go to remove location we can actually just check off all the ones that we don't want in one swoop so that we don't have to go one by one and remove the locations so now we only have three keeps things a little bit cleaner of course we have the new Twitter client which hasn't changed much since since build 1919 that we saw you in the previous video it works very well if we go into settings there's a lot of things that have gone much deeper than we saw before for example if we go into sound and display we can dial down very nicely into the notification sounds for all of the different notifications that your device may have so new email message we can turn it on or turn it off we can tap on the item to the left and actually determine which specific sounds you want for that sound for that alert so we can tap on this we can turn on the vibration click done and you can do that for all of these things miss call voicemail new SMS or reminder also you may have noticed back here new is pocket mode increase ring volume when in pocket or bag that's really cool not sure how the device knows that it's in your pocket also this is new this is a feature that we knew is coming to the hd2 quiet ring on pickups so when the phone rings and you pick the device and it senses movement it will quiet the ringer because the idea is that you already know that someone is calling the ringer should kind of get a little bit quieter so that you don't disturb people around you and the other things around here are sort of sort of basic over here in data services we have a one screen management of all of your social network so we can log into Facebook Twitter or YouTube all from this one screen also kind of interesting if we go into wireless control which will show you the connection manager we now have a button for mobile Wi-Fi router so if you tap on this button it will start broadcasting a signal kind of like the verizon mifi or the sprint mifi so that you're taking your hsdpa connection and beaming it out to laptops or netbooks or a computer around you to have that Wi-Fi connection and there are some settings with this I haven't actually gotten into work yet but it says it's running and if you click on the Help button it'll kind of explain exactly how this works a Wi-Fi router program like this was released on XDA developers for all devices but they've spur stood up nicely for this particular version of touchflo 3d so I'm going to click OK and stop the Wi-Fi router from going and finally there's one more change that we've noticed in this version of touchflo 3d 2.5 build 1920 if we go to the file explorer the scroll bars have gotten a lot thinner so if we go to a really long screen like Windows you don't get that really thick scroll bar that you get in windows mobile 6.5 on the tix up a lot of screen space so here we have a much much thinner version of the scroll bar it's not as easier to grab but the HTC hd2 will have a lot of integration with touch so it really won't matter that you have to you know get out your stylus and position it on the on the tiny little scroll bar it's just sort of an indicator of where you are in a long list so that was a quick look at touchflo 3d 2.5 build in 1920 a lot of new incremental changes that makes touchflo 3d go even deeper than it was before and we keep seeing it go deeper and deeper although there are times when you get into the windows mobile interface kind of in a jarring way for example if we go to keyboard sliding sound we are taken into the windows mobile interface and it's kind of a big disconnect to go from the nice elegance of touchflo 3d to the ugly look also knowing this rom one final thing we can't actually get it to work but if you click on car kit mode you can see the na'vi panel starts to load and that is sort of that full screen beautiful navigation display that you can have on hd2 with the optional car kit so hopefully future roms will be able to show that off so we can show it on video on our youtube channel so be sure to subscribe to our youtube channel at youtube.com slash pocket now video for the latest in windows mobile videos that's it for now