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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and this is part one of the software tour of the Verizon XV 6900 we're going to take a look at the programs that are included on the device and in part two we're gonna take a look at touch flow including flick scrolling and other touch enhancements now I could use the stylus to operate the device but hey it's an HTC touch so why don't I use my finger so let's start here I'm gonna zoom in a little bit this is the HTC home today's screen the HTC home plug-in is a good today screen enhancement on the first tab we have access to our messaging so we can go right to our email or we can go right to our text messaging and over here we can go to our missed calls on the second tab we can go to weather and here I'm in Philadelphia 75 degrees and if you click this right arrow we get a four day forecast the next step over we have an application launcher and you can add add applications by clicking the plus button and it'll bring you to a list and finally we have a profile selector so if you want to leave your phone on vibrate if you're in a meeting or turn off the ringer completely you can do it from there also down here we have a button a shortcut to the phone and I really like this phone skin the buttons are large so you can use your finger to to type numbers we have a link to call history if we go to to the second button here we can do a device lock so right now I can't do anything with a device because it's locked and to unlock it I press unlock down here and then press unlock again on the screen usually though I just pressed the power button on the top of the device to shut it off so that I don't accidentally press a button in the center here we have another link to messaging although we have one over here as well I don't understand why we need to if we click on the shopping cart we go to mobile tank and Ango calm if we want to buy some software for our device looks like Verizon has a deal with handing go and to the right we have a photo gallery which is much better than the default photo gallery for Windows Mobile and we're going to talk about that in part 2 of the video now if you notice in the upper right corner we have the HTC task manager it's fantastic as you know with Windows Mobile devices when you press the X in the upper right corner it doesn't actually close the program well with this we can set using the little wrench picture it'll bring us to a setting that will allow us to have the button and the program the way I have it now is is if I want to end a program you have to tap and hold the X otherwise it just goes into hibernation mode so if you want to see how much program memory you have or if you want to close some program so that you get back some program memory you can do it from this task manager here okay so let's go into programs as you can see it's operating quite well with just the touch of a finger we've office mobile and it includes OneNote mobile going down the list we have Adobe Reader for PDFs camera Communication Manager which actually is dressed up quite nicely so you hear if you're going on an airplane you can turn off all your connections you can turn on Bluetooth it doesn't have Wi-Fi the xc60 900 unfortunately does not have Wi-Fi so that's why you don't find it in the Communication Manager movie mobi TV doesn't come on the device I downloaded that separately modem link is for tethering to your laptop or your desktop if you want to get an internet connection through the e video radio on the device going down some more we have a running programs application which is basically the same as the HTC task manager just looks a little bit different we have voice speed dial which unfortunately has to be trained it's not Microsoft voice command and if we go down further we have wireless sync which is kind of like Microsoft Exchange but for people that don't have it I don't like using that because you have to install a program on your desktop in order to get the wireless sync which lets you sync your email contacts and calendar data that sort of thing and on the bottom we have an application to make zip files so that's pretty much it in programs let's go into settings ok let's go to the top standard standard and here's something that's different large start menu as it is set now the Start menu has large buttons good for touch so if we want to take that off and perhaps use the stylus you can make it smaller and fit more programs there but I like to have it on the large Start menu so that I can use my finger going down the list everything else is pretty much standard except here voice speed dial this is where you go to train the voice speed dial and unfortunately you have to do it one by one and that's a very tedious process I rather just use microsoft voice command here on the system tab everything is pretty much standard error error recording hard to say make sure you have that turned off it slows down your device going down the list here's something different long press end key this will specify what happens when you press the end button down here so as it's set now if I press the end button I get what's called the quick list so here I can lock the device or end the data connection to save battery life turn on vibrate or if we go to settings it will take you right back to the long key press dialog box we can also have it do other things like lock the device or well pretty much anything you see in the quick list I'll leave that as default going down the list we have a setting for touch flow but we're going to go through that later in part two of the video let's go to memory see how much we have free right now we still have plenty of memory free even though we're running a lot of programs 48 megabytes so that's good and back up to the top and let's go the connections tab nothing unique this device does not unfortunately have integrated GPS in the next video we're going to talk about flick scrolling and all of the other touch enhancements that HTC brings with the Verizon XV 6900 that's it for now