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hi this is chun win and today we're going to actually be taking a look at the software tour on the storm two from Verizon Wireless so let's go ahead and take a look at the software and compare it with the original storm so let's go ahead and begin the software comparison between the storm two which is on the left hand side with the subdue tungsten light chrome edges and the original storm on the right hand side which has the shinier chrome border on the software side it looks like a little bit has changed since the storm one or the original storm was released on the top you see Verizon Wireless now uses a 3g indicator on the left hand side with a blackberry logo to show that it is connected to the blackberry server to be pulling or receiving push email on the right hand side you see the capital one xev to show that it is on the evdo network which is a 3g network that Verizon Wireless uses and the capital letters actually shows that it is connected to the blackberry server so you will be receiving push email aside from the aesthetic differences let's go ahead and take a look at the software on the new storm if you're actually on the main screen if you tap down the icons globe it won't stay lit on the original storm if you tap down the icons will stay lit however if you are in the icon screen if you tap they will continue to stay lit on the new storm two on the storm to the SMS application has changed a little bit pictou graphically and also the media application or icon has changed somewhat compared to the more cluttered media application icon on the original storm so let's go ahead and take a look at the browser and see health in a non-scientific test the browser rendering I have enabled JavaScript on both browsers and we're going to go ahead and go into the bookmarked page and view the pocket now home page on both devices and see which one finishes first were on 3g on both devices so let's go ahead and give it a go looks like the original storm is getting a head start and it looks like both pages are popping up at the same time and it looks like the original storm actually finishes first and this is basically the same experience that I've had playing with the device it looks like the original storm actually renders a page a web page a little bit quicker more quickly than the storm two let's go ahead and zoom in a little bit and we're going to go ahead and take a look at the pocket now home page to actually zoom on the storm two you can actually zoom in with the icons on the bottom of the screen you can hit the + to zoom in or the minus to zoom out or what you can do is just tap on the screen in the text area and it would actually zoom in however if you tap on a link it will actually take you to the link so be careful if you're trying to zoom and not tap on the link also with the storm to you actually let's go ahead and go back out to the menu screen you actually have kinetic scrolling so you can actually flick and scroll like on the iphone that will be actually available for the original storm via a software upgrade package in the future but if you just flick and scroll it would actually take you a lot further through your list than on the storm one which will actually just pause let's go ahead and take a look at the scrolling on the storm one go ahead and go back out so if you scroll it would actually just pause in the middle of the list here and then you can continue to scroll but there's not that kinetic action which takes you through on the storm two on the storm two there's also another application that comes with the device that we have seen on the HTC imagio which is a windows mobile 6.5 device for Verizon Wireless that program is called city ID which allows you to actually look up the city and state if you know the area code and phone number or if a caller calls in it would actually show their city & state location on your caller ID display so that's a cool part with the city ID application there's also now cut copy and paste so let's go ahead and look at this web page it was actually a link that we clicked on earlier from the now page but in order to activate cut copy and paste you just place two fingers on the screen actually that just zooms in see just place two fingers on the screen and it will bring up I'm going to go ahead and zoom out actually and it will bring up these indicators so you can actually move the indicators the top one and the bottom one a shame let's go back to the pocket now homepage but basically cut copy and paste will give you two indicator so you can move the top one and the bottom one to select the amount of text that work that you need to copy and then there are icons on the bottom here which will show up in the right context so that you can actually select copy or cut so let's go ahead and zoom in a little and tap with two fingers okay actually not cooperating so you see one of the indicators here so you can actually move that indicator there and then there's a bottom indicator here and then to cut copy and paste here you see the icons on the far left you have the cut icon the next one over right here is the copy and then here it would just cancel your selection so you just tap on the screen you don't actually have to click down because if you click down it would actually zoom so you just tap and then you can just move the indicator selector icons to select the right amount of text and then you can actually tap again and it will bring up the menu so here let's go ahead and just copy and then if you don't want that you can just cancel the selection and it will return your screen back so aside from kinetic scrolling we now have cut copy and paste in a finger friendly gesture menu on the storm two and this is a brief look at the software tour of the verizon wireless blackberry storm 2