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hey guys it's Brad a minimun from pocketnow.com we just got a hold of Windows Phone 7 build 61 - 76 for the Windows Phone 7 emulator there's a lot of new stuff to talk about so let's get to it okay so if you remember the last emulator image there was no phone but finally there is a phone so let's take a look at what it looks like you're gonna notice the emulator is a little choppy at times and I've found that sometimes it's choppy and sometimes it's fast it's just I guess the time of day so here we are on the phone we can bring up the dial pad and make a simple call you can hear the dial tone I'm gonna press call and we are connected now what's kind of interesting about how Microsoft did the phone is that the dialer is actually an overlay and let me show you an example if I go back to the Start screen we get this iPhone like notification at the top if I go into another application like calendar the notification stays and if we click on it it gives us a little drop-down with a little bit of transparency in the background which is kind of cool so you can still see what you're doing and not totally interrupt the task that you've got at hand we can open up the dialer through this button or we can bring up the in phone options by tapping here we can go on speakerphone Bluetooth hold add a call and that sort of thing so just a neat way I think that Microsoft implemented the phone within Windows Phone 7 Series so let's back it let's bounce back into the phone I'm going to go into my phone book I've only got one contact that I've added here it's dudette I'm going to tap on dudette and her phone numbers should come up okay there they are you can call dudette right from this screen or you should be able to use quick dial actually so I'm going to go back to the previous screen and whoops click on the phone again and go into the dialer let's see if I can do quick dial it's not implemented yet but I'm sure that it will be come Prime done so let's go back to the Start screen now a few things to notice on the Start screen new is a interesting animation when you click and drag around tiles so watch move around messaging and before you've got this kind of very orderly like movement of the other blocks the non active blocks but looks look what happens they sort of bend and twist as you move messaging around so kind of an interesting little animation and the broken heart icon which implies that you're going to take it off your Start screen has changed to just a thumbtack with a little line through it so I'm going to close that and here we are back on the Start screen now something else that's new for the Start screen is through this emulator version you can add contacts so let's see if I can remember how to do that so I'm gonna go into dudette oh there it is I tapped and hold held on it I'm gonna click pin to start and dudettes should show up somewhere here it is down here and what's kind of cool about dudette is that you get a little little animation a little peak animation so you can see this is their caller ID picture and it kind of bounces up and down kind of a cool little little feature there okay so another thing I want to show you is that if we swipe to the left and go into our program list now if you tap and hold on any of these you get a little a couple of options three of them right now are not active for this particular one because it's a stock program but if we go to another app say OneNote maybe it'll work here maybe not um you can rate and review uninstall or pin to start so I'm gonna pin OneNote to the Start screen and there it is down here it adds to the list of things that you want to see on a regular basis okay so there's a few other things I want to show you first of all we can go into email setup this has been cleaned up a little bit so we can add facebook and Outlook and Windows Live I tried adding a variety of accounts it still won't synchronized which is a shame because we really can't get a full sense for the email experience and in the contacts experience and the calendar experience until we can synchronize it with these services so hopefully in a future version that will be working okay let me show you zoom because there's a new thing there obviously we can't synchronize with a zoom service because it's not really a connected emulator although Internet does work oddly we can go into radio this is kind of funny one of the stations actually works see if we can paratis so kind of kind of funny no other stations in it oh there's some other stations kws oh perhaps that's some internet streaming service so let's go back to the previous screen let's bounce into the new office application when we saw office in the last version of the emulator it was horrible it just didn't make sense but it's we're starting to see how office is going to be an awesome experience in Windows Phone 7 so let's bring it up here we're taken into the office hub which is sort of a place for all things office we can mess around with OneNote OneNote really hasn't changed you can make a note you can add a voice recording to it kind of basic stuff and if we click on all it takes you to take you to a screen that wants you to personalize your copy of office so I'm gonna type my name here just for good measure click OK and take you into your notebooks go to the previous screen will swipe to the right through the Metro interface and we can go to the SharePoint screen where we can see our the documents on our company's server you work for a company that has sharePort SharePoint or we can go into a new document for Word Excel or PowerPoint so I'm gonna jump into Word and show you really the new features here so here is some information about about the new version of word changing changing the text color and the size and the quick styles and just a really cool tutorial that walks you through how you can actually use the program to make real documents on your device which is something that we really haven't seen in previous versions of Office for Windows Mobile so I'm gonna hit on the pen here so I'm gonna go down here to the application bar I'm gonna open up a new document and as you could have seen just a minute ago there was there awaiting cursor a waiting cursor right at the top three little dots that go across I'll show you that again in a minute so I'm gonna type on my keyboard I haven't figured out copy and paste on here yet I don't think it's implemented but we can double tap a word to highlight bring up the little a button down here and change the font color okay so that's new that's pretty basic stuff but very very necessary we can also change it to underline what's kind of annoying is that every time you click on a new style it exits out of that screen hopefully that screen will stay on till you have it closed okay so another thing we can do which is very very cool his annotations right within the document so this is gonna be very handy one of your co-workers or your friends or colleagues send you a document with markup on it and you look through it and you say okay I don't like this word so you go down here to an annotation and say this word is bad okay and then you can click off of it and it will save the annotation so that next time I click on it it says Brandon that's me said this word is bad very handy it keeps track of annotations in a way that we really haven't seen before in a mobile office application clicking on this button that I just clicked on there shows you the currently open document so it's kind of like your document tray we can go back in here we can send off this document through email right from the office application so you don't have to go into email and add the attachment it's all done right here or you can save it so I'm gonna save it as hello this is a test I'm going to go back to the office hub and here we are hello this is a test is saved let's jump back in one more time to the word application and see if there's anything that I missed so you can search for certain things we can also open documents as I mentioned and save as just as you would in regular office so pretty robust it's really looking like office on Windows Phone 7 series is going to be awesome let's jump into Excel real quick some changes have been made here here's a really cool looking sample workbook and panning is a little choppy right now because it's an emulator but we can tap on a chart and we should be able to zoom in if you double tap should be able to edit it haven't really experimented much with this see the options that we get so we can format so save send save as so stuff you would get on the desktop we can also look at annotations or add our own annotations just like you could in word just trying to see if there's a way to edit this sharked this is a sample workbook I'm gonna make a new one real quick looks like you can't make a new one oh here's some interesting looking sheets this is the application trade this is the the currently stored documents on this emulator so likelihood to pay okay so here is another sample spreadsheet and it has a little wonder what this means it has a little speech bubble here I think this means that there are annotations there we go right here some blue annotations that shows what Ana has said about this particular document really cool stuff finally let's go into PowerPoint see what that looks like so there's a sample PowerPoint presentation you can swipe you should be able to add a new page so let's see what happens like this this is obviously not a final button down here so I just added the word test I think I added an adaptation but I can't really be sure so here are the two saved documents I can very quickly cycle between them it's gonna be really handy from here it looks like we can email add annotations and it's not really clear how this works this program is probably the least complete of all the office program so it has some work to go let's go back to the Start screen see if there's anything else that we wanted to talk about here let me show you something in Xbox Live to show you that waiting cursor I mentioned so look at the top of the screen this is what it's going to look like when the system is thinking it's a kind of good way to get it out of the way and you can actually use the application while it's thinking whereas in Windows Mobile when you got the waiting cursor you really couldn't do much on the screen it really throws the current state so we're going to continue to look through this new version of the emulator there's a lot of things in this one so we saw the phone we saw the new sort of physics engine behind the home screen we saw that the way that you can quickly add shortcuts from your home screen or rate and review or uninstall program then we walk you through office there's probably a little bit more if we find more we'll be sure to report on it for you please give the video a thumbs up if you like what you saw and that is it for now