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hey guys it's brandon minimun front pocket now calm we just gave you a tour of Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 7 series through the emulator well we found some other things that we want to talk about starting actually going back into internet explorer we're going to show you how screen rotations work so I'm going to tap the screen rotation button here to go into landscape you can see the really cool screen animation that they created for windows phone 7 series and that goes to the other direction or the other orientation in landscape something else I want to show you is how the application bar expands when you're in landscape because in portrait let me try to get back in a portrait here we go in portrait quite simply you tap on those three dots and you get all the other information the more extended menu commands but in landscape how does that work well quite simply the way it works is that they just take up the left side of the screen so that's very simple very easy it makes a lot of sense how they did this so let's go back to the home screen you're going to see that you can't have the home screen I should call it a start screen in the horizontal orientation so we're going to go back to the vertical portrait orientation so that we can see it the right way now a few things to note here we can swipe to the right to get our full application list this isn't the full emulator so you don't get everything another way that you can get the full application list it's by tapping on this right-facing arrow now Microsoft isn't sure if they're keeping this visual design for the full application list they may have it in a grid or in some other sort of way but right now it's just a standard list so let's go into settings there are a few things that we can change in here we've been really hoping to see the settings of Windows Phone 7 series and really it's very very simple it brings through that Metro interface so we can swipe to the right and right now we can only access a couple of settings because again this isn't the full emulator so we can change the color scheme which is pretty cool so we can change the background color to be either light and this will work well for a backlit LED screen or dark which would work better for an AMOLED screen we can also change the accent color I'm going to go back to light for the rest of this demonstration when change the accent color to those four different colors that we've seen in screenshots of Windows Phone 7 series so let's go to say green and you can see the accent color change there and if I go back to the home screen the color surrounding this icon here is green so let's go back to the settings menu and go back in here and again we can change it several different times in different colors and now it's blue I think I like that better back to the start screen and yep there's blue that's kind of what we've seen is the default let's go back into settings one more time and see the other things that we can change here we can change the regional settings and this screen is obviously not complete it's very ugly right now and we can't do anything except swipe up and swipe down we can change the language only to English right now we can change the region to a variety of different places we can go to the left here again and change the date format very nice-looking interface super simple super clean we can change the first day of the weeks for your calendar settings it's interesting that the calendar settings are sort of outside of the calendar and in the main device settings we'll probably see a lot more of that and of course we can change the browser language and some other things let's go back one more here and we can change the date and the time some very simple toggle switches here and again he's probably aren't final because they're super ugly and I think we got everything there and again swiping to the right you don't get anything for applications so that was just a quick look at some other things that we found on the Windows Phone 7 series emulator again keep it to pocket now calm for the latest in Windows Phone 7 series videos or you can follow us on twitter twitter.com slash pocket now tweets that's it for now