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hi this is Adam Lane for pocketnow.com and you're watching a Windows Phone mango preview so here we are and we're gonna start with the Start menu and here it is it looks pretty much the same as Windows Phone 7 the mango version has some new live tiles though we'll go through all those right here you see group you see the people tile has changed should be some different animations there there we go so they got more contact photos come in sometimes they come in big sometimes they come in little little thumbnails there there's a big one coming in and we have our picture sub is now animated which is awesome the live tile there Xbox Live has changed a little bit and you can pin more stuff to the Start menu which is great so this is where you're gonna put all your important stuff for you know the day or every day you know whatever you want you can put it here and over here the programs menu this has changed a lot previously it was just one big long list but now we have alphabetical jump lists menu and you notice as you scroll the letter stays there so if you have a really really long list you can easily get back to the alphabetical list so that's pretty awesome now if I let's see if I can remove some of these these letters only appear if you have a significant number of apps installed well you've also have a search button here now there's one thing to note the hardware search button always goes to thing now it's no longer context-sensitive so you have to have little search buttons for the context-sensitive searches now here I can do really nice quick searches of my apps and if you know I can also search for marketplace apps right from here so let's do theirs eBay and I can search marketplace for more some related eBay apps now let's look at settings real quick a lot of things have changed in the settings looks pretty similar here go to packing.com for our full preview to see all the details about what has changed in the settings for now I'm gonna show you a couple of favorites here's the battery saver this is really nice so when the battery is low it'll turn on the battery saver mode and it'll shut off things like push email background apps all that kind of thing you'll still be able to do everything manually but it'll be saving battery in the background so here's it also shows you estimated time remaining and how long it's been since the last charge so that's really nice to have this is another great feature turn on battery saver now until next charge so say you're out and about and you want to save some battery because you don't think you'll be able to get back to charger breeze you know very soon turn that on and when you plug in it'll go back to a full power mode so that's really great you know I have to remember to turn battery saver mode off not the big thing in the settings here's background tasks now this is gonna list all the apps that have background processes I don't have any because this is a preview and I don't think any exist maybe some in development but that's we're gonna show and they'll probably have on/off switches so that you can decide which ones can perform tasks in the background I almost forgot to show you the big task switching feature so here we go just hold down the back button here zooms out and now I got some thumbnails and we can really easily choose to switch to a different program right there now you see I only have what four here for some reason it doesn't keep track of that many I think it's because of memory limitations since I've seen it demoed with a lot more so it's really gonna only show us the most recent ones that's pretty nice pretty easy to switch programs let's try with a third-party app now I can't really demonstrate instant resume with the task manager here because third-party apps need to be updated in order to support it so if I go here and then I go back to that it's really guys a restart so there you go hopefully we'll see some updated apps for that but we have some time so that's our quick look at the Start menu programs list and settings on Windows Phone mango feel free to go to pocketnow.com and find our full preview with lots of texts more pictures and more videos that's it for now