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hey everyone it's jeff arena with pocketnow.com and recently you saw our unboxing of the sony ericsson xperia x10 android device well it's time to go ahead and take a look at some of these software that Sony has implemented on this device of course one of the great things about android is the manufacturers ability to customize the UI as they see fit so let's take a look alrighty we're back and we're going to dive right in and give you a look at the software that sony has incorporated into the sony ericsson xperia x10 android device as you can see here they have a custom lock screen that has actually a different swipe method instead you're going to swipe the unlock triangle actually in a semi-circle or a quarter circle motion as you just saw there now immediately we're greeted by your typical home screen layout with the Sony version you get you just three home screens you get one to the left one to the right and of course your Center home screen now what we have here is what's called Timescape and that is a widget that actually will use Twitter Facebook your email applications basically your social networking sites and incorporate them all into one theme as you see here you can actually scroll through these little tiles and actually see everything down here at the bottom we have our different icons for the corresponding social network so for example this is more or less all of them believe it or not we have the phone we have your text messaging emails music it actually will corporate everything but then you're also going to have your Twitter as well as your Facebook and you can just scroll through these as you see fit so this really incorporates a great experience into the device itself and it really brings Twitter and some of these social networking aspects to the forefront now as you just saw there when I press the home button and asked me if I want to default to a certain launch here instead of going to the default home screen that's only includes and I'll go into that a little bit later when I talk about some of the alternatives I'm not a huge fan of the Sony you I hear it's very different it's not like sense at all or any of the other Android skins for that matter you know TouchWiz from the Samsung as well as the vanilla this is very different in most cases it may not be the most efficient once again though it is all personal preference now as you see here we have the app drawer that just slides straight up we can go through all of our apps and of course this is android 1.6 so any app in the market that requires two point or higher will not be compatible here we've talked about this numerous times in the past with applications such as the official twitter application it seems that launcher pro which is an alternative to your home screen skin as well as just the overall skin of the device all requires two point oh so in this case we press the home button you'll see that we've instead decided to use ADW launcher and that's simply because of the fact that launcher pro will requires two point O in order to run now because this device is off on AT&T and it's locked down to the 18-team network by AT&T your of course going to have some 18c applications as you can see here we have the family manager as well as the ett hotspots 18 team map navigator and radio there's also a few other choices that you'll see as you go through such as the mobi TV etc that are included by AT&T there now this is something that is open to your own interpretation some people call these applications bloatware others think that they serve a purpose now the apt Navigator is definitely somewhat useful however the other ones may not be useful to you such as the family manager if you don't plan on giving this device to someone in your family or have a family for that matter that you want to use the device with that may not be usable to you so overall your mileage may vary in terms if you find a use for the ATT applications that are pre-installed on this device when it comes to posting simple updates on facebook and tweets on Twitter the device loads them extremely quickly just navigating through the device pulling up your email your text messages are very snappy however it almost seems like when you go into the browser at times it is a little slower than some of the devices in the next video the next software overview video will actually give you a comparison next to the Samsung Galaxy S and will test the speed of the browser on these two different devices here to show you which one actually comes up first right now will actually go ahead and will open up pocketnow com on the browser you can just give yourself a rough idea here by seeing this now you actually have to press the soft button here the soft menu button to bring up the ability to type in a web site let me go ahead and type in pocket now now we've already loaded it once before as you'll see here it cues up the site quickly however when it comes to actually loading the site it takes a little bit longer than most and it will actually hang on a very small percentage that is left now the Wi-Fi is very fast we do have a full signal with the Wi-Fi so it's nothing to do with that data rate there it just almost seems like the devices processing a page there's so much going on and again we will show you that in better detail when we compare it next to the galaxy s in our next video now with the stock browser that is included on the device by default you're not going to have the multi-touch support unfortunately you can't always of course download a third-party browser to get the support but right off the bat you will not have as you can see here we don't have the ability to pinch to zoom we can of course navigate with our finger and as you just saw there it was actually selecting some links but you're going to have to use these magnifying glass icons here in order to actually zoom in and zoom out on the desired text which is kind of a downfall of course you can always download a third party but a lot of times now these first party browsers that the manufacturers are including button on the device are capable of doing multi-touch so Sony definitely needs to make up some time or some slack on that end right there so as always thank you very much for watching everyone please give us a thumbs up and stay tuned for our next video in this series which would be our hardware review will give you a more in-depth look at the hardware of this device here as well as what is running under the hood to power such snappy program response