Gadgetory

hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and this is a tour of the unreleased HTC touch flow-3d 2.6 also known as manoa 2.6 now we showed you touch flow 3d 2.5 recently which brought a lot of changes in terms of how you interact with touchflo 3d so the interface went a lot deeper everything was very well optimized for finger-friendly navigation which made us think that HTC is working on a capacitive windows mobile device and now we're hearing about the HTC lio which supposedly has a capacitive screen so this is all starting to make a lot of sense now touchflo 3d 2.6 brings some additional changes mostly aesthetic to the touchflo interface so we're going to go through them now what you probably notice right off the bat is that the clock has been changed the clock looks just like it does on the Android based HTC hero so let's slide that over so you get the clock with the current temperature and the high low temperature so which is really convenient because you can quickly glance at your your device on the homescreen and see what the temperature is without having to flip all the way over to the weather tab in touch flow 3d also new but this wasn't new 22.5 but it's new to all of the released versions of touchflo 3d that are out there is that you get a variety of actionable shortcut buttons so you can you can assign these to link to a program or link to text message someone would like to call someone I'll show you all the options so you can flick your finger you can tap the plus icon and you can have a contact or a bookmark a widget or a program be listed in the grid so that's very convenient really HTC is allowing you to bring forward the most commonly used functions of your device right on the home screen so you don't have to dig in to the Start menu and things like that so if we go over to the next step and also notice how we've got color in these buttons down here on the bottom which is actually quite nice touch flow 3d is usually pretty flat with just gray icons on the bottom oh and you slide your finger to the right you don't get color but now it looks like they've integrated some color which is a nice little touch so if we go over to the people tab instead of having to flick through a bunch of people kind of like coverflow we now have a finger friendly grid and you can add a variety of items to this grid but we saw this in 2.5 the email screen and then the SMS screen are the same we can link over to the web where we have large finger friendly tiles that we can assign to our favorites or we could search Google right from the top calendar whoops calendar is also a little bit more deeply integrated than it was in Touch flow-3d 2.0 so here we have the weather integrated we've seen that before and there are some new views here so we can go to agenda we can go to week and month and day you've seen before over to the pictures tab that is the same same as the music weather is also the same and settings is a lot deeper than it was in Touch flow-3d 2.0 but pretty much the same that we saw on touchflo 3d 2.5 that that we showed you recently so we can go into sound and pretty much a lot of the settings of Windows Mobile are now wrapped in the nice elegant touch flow 3d interface so we go to personalization change the background wallpaper change which tabs you have loaded on touchflo 3d but you've seen that before even on 2.0 you start getting into the more nitty-gritty settings such as programs and storage and they are actually skinned in touch flow 3d so very nice so overall it's great to see HTC evolve touchflo 3d so it's more usable it makes a lot of sense to have three quick shortcut buttons that will link to whatever you want to do on your device it's a really great idea to have the weather integrated right into the clock like you have on the HTC Hero and finally we get a little bit of color down here on these buttons a very small touch but very welcomed nonetheless so we'll continue to watch touchflo 3d as it evolves and we'll keep an eye on how it changes we'll be back soon with more that's it for now