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Windows Phone 7 Start and Programs Screen

2010-10-18
hey guys this is Adam Lane with packing.com next up we're gonna look at the lockscreen the Start screen and the programs menu on Windows Phone 7 so here's lockscreen and it shows a nice big clock and the day and your next appointment as well as some new messages down here those little icons represent different email accounts or text messaging or missed calls so those show up right there and that's really useful because all I have to do is turn your phone on to see this type of information okay if you tap it it gives you a little animation indicating that you can slide this up in order to unlock it also happens if you press the start key see bounces so that's your indication that you guys slide this and here we are with the Start screen you probably already know all these tiles you can move them around you can customize them so I'll have to do is tap and hold and then you can drag them okay if you don't want to unpin it you just hit this one right there so the Tabet hold there we go okay and then you tap off to the side to apply that so you can rearrange all this according to what you like what you want most of the top and now over here you got your programs menu as you can see you can slide it just like that or you can tap this arrow and this is where all your programs live except for the games which live in the game's hub and you can see it's really smooth scrolling there and let's go into settings so this is where you can change I'll sort the source of things there's a ringtones unfortunately you can't add custom ringtones there's no it's just what's been pre-populated it seems ATT has been able to add something but we don't know how to do it manually yet so you got all these options new text message new voicemail new email play sound lock and unlock let's shut that off now shut off the key press to theme you can change your colors dark light happens right there accent color happens right there airplane mode will turn off all your radios Wi-Fi Bluetooth here you can set up your email accounts see your lock and wallpaper so we can change our wallpaper let's go with that one all right location services on sure automatic brightness you can change your keyboard leap language there we go I don't have English though it was your region information speech options phone update no updates um found find my phone I'm going to say yes share the location for better mapping here's about informations it's the HTC surround and feedback if you swipe to the side you get application settings so these are the same settings you might get to from those applications okay you can change your office username I press that all right we don't have any games out of the Burtka Connect Express hilarious not a whole lot of options for each application here's a good one people this is new you can show all Facebook friends or only add Facebook info to existing contacts there's your picture options auto upload the sky drives on attach location info to upload pictures and here you can change your quick upload account so if you want it to automatically up to upload Facebook instead you just let that and then whenever you take a picture it's going to go up on Facebook so be careful with that there's your radio options and search use location yes so that's it for the settings next we will take a look at some of the hubs and what happened that's a frappe
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