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hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocketnow.com so I've gotten some files that have allowed us to get a lot deeper into the windows phone 7 series emulator than we were able to get before so we're going to have a series of videos here that cover a variety of aspects of Windows Phone 7 series to start we're going to talk about some of the Pym applications like outlook and the calendar then we're going to dig into the settings we're going to talk about the multimedia and also go through Office Mobile because on this emulator there are versions of Word PowerPoint Excel and one note that we haven't really seen before in depth so let's get started here we have just the basic unlock screen it says film pocketnow.com videos here because that is my next calendar appointment so you get a little bit of information here we can slide up to unlock and I added a password here just to show you that you can do that 1234 quite simply and now we are on our Start screen which is of course very customizable and we talked about this in a previous video so if you want to move something around you simply tap and hold it and then you can move it around or press the broken heart if you don't want it anymore furthermore you can tap and hold anywhere in the background on the Start screen and be able to rearrange really anything ok so let's go through some of these things I set up my microsoft exchange account on this emulator but it doesn't work and i think that will go for other email accounts as well so i'm going to go into my email just to show you the email application a little bit more than we've seen it before so to start we have this pivot list at the top we can filter by urgent or unread or all unread i'm really looking forward to being able to quickly filter by my unread messages only so i can get everything out of the way that I've seen before so we have a few buttons along the bottom that we can play around with we have plus to add a new message we have the folder to look at our folders and synchronize but I try to sync my mail you can see at the top is through that sort of pop down notification the toaster notification it says it cannot connect so we're not going to try that again so I'm going to press the plus button here to make a new email I'm going to going to email myself of course it won't work because it's not set up properly put a subject and say hey and then we can type hey this is a test now there's a few things we can do within an email we can send it down here we can add an attachment and take a look at this Microsoft is working on a new attachment manager which should make it easier to add attachments it's being a little bit slow right now but hopefully it'll come up in a second we go back okay let me try that again so it doesn't look like the attachment picker is working but what you get is a little dialog box that says attachment picker coming soon so presumably Microsoft is working on a really easy way to add attachments we can go down to the application bar and hit these three buttons to get some more options so we can show a carbon copy and blind carbon copy quite simply and easily and we can also change the priority of a message to make it urgent or normal and again some of these things don't work all of the time this is an emulator you saw sort of pop up for a second I'm going to discard this message and it's going to want to save it as draft although again a lot of this isn't working right now we can go to our folder list and see sort of that we have one draft waiting which is the email message that we just started we can go back to the inbox very nice way to look at your email let's take a look at the other settings we have here so we can go to settings for this email and you can see that it is using its using my email account on my exchange server so if I click server and sync settings it'll show me all of my settings although again it doesn't work from here we can change our email signature and by default it says sent from my windows phone presumably there are going to be more settings here hopefully once this application gets finished so that was a quick look at the the email application we can also add a new email account from here and here's a look at really what Microsoft is working with out of the gate for email so we can do facebook yahoo other pop3 accounts and Windows Live which includes you know Xbox Live Messenger and hotmail so let's go back to the start screen and take a look at some other applications let's go into messaging this is actually your text messaging applique and obviously we can't send a text message to a real person but we can sort of pretend so if i press the plus button down here i can say i can type in a phone number or i can just press the plus button here which should query into my address book although it doesn't seem to be working right now and i could say you know hey and press the send button down here or i can attach a picture and we get this very simple nice-looking sort of bubbly like text message and take a look at this this is a pop-up notification that is a little bit interruptive a little bit too much for my taste and so you a calendar reminder that you can either snooze or dismiss i put something in the calendar earlier before i made this video and that's why it's doing that somebody hit dismiss and we can clear the message from here now the back button works really strangely and we're going to talk more about that in a future video sometimes it goes back to a previous screen sometimes it jumps back to a previous application so something to get used to and here we can actually go into text message settings and it says SMS center number delivery confirmation on or off so very simple stuff let's go back to the start screen and talk about the calendar before wrapping up this video before we jump into another one so let's go into the calendar and i'm going to make a new appointment at 11am and you can see the out outlook and you can see sort of the layout of this is very simplistic so we can say film another video we can scroll down account so you can switch between my microsoft exchange account and the device store meaning the actual data on the device what this will allow you to do is select which calendar this is going to the calendar on Windows Phone 7 series is very good at managing multiple multiple calendars so we can scroll down we can click on more details and orange there and we can change the reminder we can change if we're busy add some notes I'm going to click done because I want to show you something to go back to the start screen and now in the little calendar tile we say we see it's been updated to show me my next appointment so very very handy there let's quickly jump back into the calendar to show you the other settings so we can go into the different views by swiping to the right up here we can go into agenda view or debut and then we can jump into the sort of zoomed out nice-looking the month view and I think you can sweat to the right to go to the next month let's see whoops moved it off the screen there doesn't look like that is working so let's go to the back button and we can click on here to manage calendars where we can set the color for different types of calendars so if you have a facebook calendar and exchange calendar and a calendar right on your device can specify color for all of these things so you don't get them mixed up so that was a look at some of the pim functions on windows phone 7 series I've got a lot more coverage coming up a lot more video walkthroughs of this new image that we have running in our emulator so be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel on youtube.com slash pocket nail video to find out when the next one hits that's it for now