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hi this is terry davis for pocketnow.com and this is part two of the video review for the palms the UK sim free version in this short video I just want to show you the media capabilities of this phone and a couple of features that it's got don't come built in first of all there's a program built into it called P tunes which is a media player and you can load your media onto your SD card on the side a micro SD card and you load up p tunes now this version over to other admit I've upgraded this to the full version but it comes with a really good version built in and I'll just play you a bit of Radiohead here so you can see the quality of the sound okay that's a really good sound quality that's just from a small speaker on the back now and use attached when you attach the spare pair of speakers at the bottom there it's really good sound quality listen to and again it's similar to other devices that use this format it's got a library selector here so you can choose the music that you want to play and the answer to your playlist and away you go now it also not out of the box but if you download a program called mm player and install it which is it's a play piece of software it's not free but you can actually also play videos on here and I converted a film earlier using a free downloaded converter and it plays mp4 format but I've actually got a copy of mm player here and now I've not figured out actually how to play things from mm player but if you do a search on your card which i will talk about the files program in a second if you go for your card and you look for it and then you can play the movie and you'll see this now yeah and you can fast forward your way through the movie this is the day after tomorrow one of my favorite films and you can see the quality of the video is really good really watchable it doesn't skip doesn't freeze it's really really good okay so you can you can play movies on here not out of the box but you can play movies so just shows you something capability this phone it's not just a chopped down version of a palm phone it is you still can do an awful lot with it okay just going through what I did want to tell you the things that are on here if okay if I can just take a second there's a thing called my centro and as i was talking about the help and support earlier if you go into my centro you can actually click on the support tab and you can see here you've got a full user guide all built into the phone you've got support knowledgebase and there's also some bonus software which comes so you got solitaire sodoku palm files which is the farm but the file browser that i was looking showing you earlier that i was using and Vox mobile which I haven't used but is it's a blogging service there you go vox blogging service anyway go back here and one of the things they've added into here as part of the software package the bundle i said it is google maps which is really useful really useful if you go that's a map of my hometown bognor regis in sunny england or rainy england is it is at the moment and you can see this there's a whole host of functions if i just press the menu key here you can see you can go okay i want to find a location well let's find a node by business so let's find I want pizzas so there you go you've got a list of all the things that you can choose so you use a touchscreen hey so you've got pieces flowers but I want to find a pizza so I go okay click on OK and it will using a GPRS connection it will find all the pizza places there we go first one domino's pizza and that's the one that I tend to use and now if I tap on there it says okay there's the details that's where it is there's the phone number and I can call them directly from Miss screen very very nice application very useful you can also get directions you can view the satellite just like you can on others and even those GPRS it's still a fairly quick download speed as you can see it's downloading their satellite photos of dominos pizza and it's its really fairly quick and that's not using 3g because this is not a 3g handset this is a GPRS phone so you can see it's still fairly responsive and the rest of the applications are the standard things you've got your calendar you've got contacts you've got documents there so you can do you can view your Excel spreadsheets your Word documents PowerPoint view a PDF viewer so it's got a full a full range there and that is pretty much everything that's extra on the palm centro and i would say that if you're looking to buy a new phone that's going to fit somewhere in between your existing non PDA phone and something that gets you for a good price gets you into a step up in towards the PDA and will then then this is a really good phone to go for so that is my video review of the sim free UK version of the palm centro and i'll sign off there and thanks for listening and watching