Gadgetory

hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and this is a look at the official xda-developers application that actually lets you plug into the XD developers forum when you're on the go you can respond to threads you can create new threads you can read threads you can also see your private messages it's pretty robust right now it's only available for Android that the word on the street is that there may be future versions for other platforms as well you can get it for free right now in the Android Market just search for XDA and you should see it pop right up so let's take a look at the XDA application so I'm going to zoom in on the screen a little bit alright and here it is XDA it's a very simple application but it works quite well so it automatically keeps you logged in if you if you put in your username and password which is quite nice there are four tabs along the top and the first view that you get is the recent post view so you can scroll down and see all of the recent posts you can filter it by things that you haven't read yet or for most people you go over to the forum view which will allow you to drill down by the different categories so let's say I'm curious as to what's happening in the HTC dream category and then I'm going to go into g1 general forum and Here I am in the g1 general forum I can click on any thread pull it up and start reading it and this one only has two posts let's go to one that has possibly more posts and when you do have more than one post you have a nice pagination at the top that allows you to you know jump to a specific page and I'll show you that in a minute there we go up here this one is 27 posts so you can jump to the previous page or the next page quite easily or you can actually respond to this thread so I'm going to hit menu and reply so I can actually type a response right from my phone without being at a computer which is nice or we can zoom back out to the forum view and we can make an entirely new thread so I press Menu new topic and I start a new thread again right from my phone very convenient another thing you can do is you can tap and hold on any thread and subscribe to it and when you subscribe to a thread it goes over to the favorites menu and I've already subscribed to a couple of threads over here and let's go into this one so I'm going to show you a feature here is poster rhodium screens and it's people posting what their home screens look like so I can tap on one of these images and it will actually blow it up full screen which is quite nice and then you get a little carousel on the bottom that lets you flip through to the other images that this person has posted so pretty cool functionality there let's zoom back out and the final tab over here the more tab lets you view your private messages it lets you look at your profile but I really haven't set any of this up and that is really the core of the application again you can get it at the Android Market just search for XDA it's free and it works pretty well it's simple but it works that's it for now