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hey guys this is Steven skarlatos of pocketnow.com this is part 6 of the video review of the verizon samsung i760 today i will go over some of the verizon and samsung specific software in settings included on the i760 let's take a look at the today screen we've got the samsung digital clock plug-in we've also got the verizon wireless plugin which allows us to access the wireless manager directly and this is a verizon application that allows you to manage the different communications features on the phone and allow you to turn everything off for flight mode we also have a little link to get applications which will take you directly to the hand ango website where you can download applications over the year to be installed on your i760 now let's look at the settings so if we look at the personal settings the first setting that you'll find that is different from most other windows mobile phones is the skin setting this allows you to modify the different phone skins easily I mean it's also possible to do this with third-party applications but this is the included settings applications which is a very nice little feature under system we've got the data connection application which allows you to set tether a laptop either by USB or by bluetooth I found that the speeds were actually lower on the Bluetooth than the USB and since this phone does not do evdo revision a which is the faster version of evdo it's actually slower than most data card you could you you can purchase from verizon but the speed is definitely still acceptable in his downloads upward of one megabits per second in uploads in the three to 400 kb range you also have a little sound equalizer which allows you to actually manipulate the sound for the headphone jack but this only works for the headphone jack and does not work for Bluetooth enabled headsets we go over to the bluetooth settings you'll find that there's some additional settings you can set up a printer which is something that's not part of the standard wooden window mobiles of Bluetooth stack and there's an obe x ftp profile available under bluetooth given the current constrained memory models of windows mobile i found the best part of the i760 is the available storage and program memory at boot time without any user application or data installed on the system you have about the 64 megabytes available and almost 30 megabytes of program memory available this is up plenty of memory to run many programs without having to do a soft reset every couple days like is required on some devices all in all I find this phone to be very powerful I mean you may debate me on the looks with the keypad and the fact that it is a very utilitarian looking device but it really gets the job done and is a very nice windows mobile phone and is extremely solid I've really only had to soft reset it when i was doing installed or changing settings I think Samsung and Verizon a winner here it would just be nice for it to be a global phone but the rumors are that samsung and verizon will come out with an i860 in the future which will have both cdma and gsm capabilities that's it for this review and I'll post my likes and dislikes in the near term here