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what's up everyone John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo a year from time to time like the check-in just say hi and let you know what's going on with me personally and what I'm carrying gear wise and what's sort of grace in my pocket I have the very distinct privilege and honour being able to play with pretty much every phone out there on the market you guys obviously know I love phones so I get a chance to try almost everything that comes across my plate I've been primarily an iPhone user since 2007 before that I used blackberries I had a couple and then before that just you know regular Nokia flip phones and intermittently I have used Android for a little while I had a brief fling with blackberry with the 9900 then ultimately I went back to the iPhone with the iPhone 4s I know I still forget the iPhone and iOS is a very elegant really easy to use and understand the bull operating system I think for a lot of people it's the best choice out there but for me it's still becoming very boring I think that probably has to do with some of the hardware stuff as well the iPhone 4s exactly the same as the iPhone 4 before that so yeah there's a little bit of speed improvement and better camera there's been some software improvements obviously with iOS 5 I ranted a little bit about the previous notification systems and iOS 4 and earlier and that's been fixed and there are some sort of cool things that iOS 5 has but for the most part I just become very bored with it the screen size has become a little bit too small for me seeing all these larger phones a little bit bigger screens something that I found that I was missing so when I got the HTC Titan in to review boys actually you guys check out the videos from way back I've always been a big fan of Windows Phone but I never really could use it as my daily driver it was missing a few things that I really needed previous tamango the first thing that I really needed was a unified inbox you know to have one inbox for all my email was really important for me to have and then some sort of multitasking it was just too hard to navigate an operating system without any multitasking you know I'm probably like you do a lot on my phone so when the Titan came in with its monster four point six five inch Greta Lucy by the way a french bulldog puppy I was really excited to give it a try and the more I use it the more I liked it actually something doesn't slide this up this is not very technical I'm not pushing the camera down just want to show you Windows Phone 7 so it's got a pretty low resolution 480 by 800 a lot of people get really caught up on specs and I'm probably one of them you know whether or not it's dual-core 1.2 or 1.4 if it's the Exynos chip set or whether not its Qualcomm feeling it's 512 gigabyte of RAM or a gig of ram for a lot of phones that matters and I think Android in particular specs really influenced the user experience because you can do a lot of customization with Android so you look at something that's maybe a bit more processor and RAM intensive like TouchWiz on Android you're gonna want a phone with better specs get that better user experience I look at something like Android that's really vertically controlled so Apple controls the operating system the hardware you're gonna get user experience that's tailored you know just for that particular device but you're a can get any choice with device or customization because that's very much controlled in the walled garden Microsoft has taken kind of that approach and so because this is a little bit of a lower resolution screen at 480 by 800 things just look big I took a bit of a tangent there I was talking about the resolution I like the lower resolution screen you can see the same amount of tiles here you can on pretty much every other Windows Phone device out there but they're gigantic which is awesome my eyesight from staring at monitors your phones whatever is getting worse and worse often times that I'm not filming I'm sitting here like this and I feel like my dad or my grandma or someone old looking it's definitely I gotta hold it out here like squinting to see it um I'm taking stops out on fuels I'm also getting gray hairs you can see I'm on the side okay that's angle kind of sucks not so good but I'm getting old and I'm also digressing I love the lower resolution giant screen here on the Titan I also really am liking the whole Windows Phone experience my biggest concern in thinking about switching to Windows Phone 7 was apps most of the apps I use actually are in the Windows Phone Marketplace or if they're not have an equivalent so this one's that I use all the time obviously Facebook has a really good app for Windows Phone Netflix is here Kindle is here there's a visual voicemail application I haven't tried yet called magic mail that was one thing I thought Windows Phone was missing was a visual voicemail option so hopefully that application will work so I've got Netflix pocket recorder you can see some of them here out of the camera angles reflecting it or not YouTube's whatsapp I use quite a bit for text messaging and that's here Twitter you know obviously you can see my live tiles that I got going on I do it it's funny there's a dedicated Google search application because the search built-in here is Bing I really like being all that much something able to have dedicated Google panel on here it's quite nice the live tiles are really handy and not all applications take advantage of them yet whatsapp which they only work on mango does take avenge you get a counter there that'll show you have any messages that you have I do love the People Hub as well which is something that I didn't think I was really gonna use so for example like my wife I go right into her tile I can look at it can see your posts I can flick through it I can reply to things right here I can send pictures right from Twitter Google Analytics application is really nice the camera on a Titans kind of blah battery life hasn't been as great as I initially thought that it was using it on a daily basis and sort of putting it through the grinds that I do generally I'm at like 12% by time I go to bed at night so it's lasting you know for a full day I'm really liking the keyboard there is voice in here that you can search for it works okay it's sort of an average but I'm really enjoying the user experience the live tiles here are great and actually everyone that I've shown this to said oh you know I could actually really use Windows Phone I think the biggest thing that it's got going against it is that right there that actually has windows in the title people have preconceived notions about Windows I know I did this sort of a random rant video but I know I did about using a Windows device and I was concerned that wasn't gonna be able to get any of my media on there I use Mac's I haven't had a PC laptop or desktop in a while so all my information is stored in iTunes that's one reason that iOS worked so well for me everything sort of sunk together but there are Windows Phone applications for Mac and PC obviously that you can sync all your pictures on you can sync all your music together there's something called SkyDrive which is sort of a cloud storage of Microsoft has it'll sync all your pictures and store them to the SkyDrive essentially store into the cloud so I've really found that I'm missing anything I'll make you see Titan in particular HTC puts something in here called HTC watch which is will let you download movies and stuff right on here I'm gonna go and open it up um so you can see it they have it on some of their Android devices so I haven't really missed you know all that much with it I think that the power and lock button here is incredibly reset it's a pain in the butt to hit but for the most part I really like this I don't have any intention of going back to iOS at least as long as the hardware is what it is as long as the iPhone 4s is the newest phone out there I've been really happy with Windows Phone I've tried obviously the Galaxy Nexus and I'll talk about that in another video but for me Windows Phone has been really good so if you're looking to get a phone you can see the video store here a lot of stuff try it just pick it up in the store and give it a shot I think a lot of people gloss over it whether or not they're looking for the new Android device for that's looking for an Apple device or even some of you might looking for a blackberry people don't look at Windows Phone very often and I just really liked it I'm not Microsoft there's no influence on me or the content I just I'm really enjoying using the phone I love the giant screen though it's a pretty thin device despite how big it is it's been great the browser is really solid no flash reports kind of annoying but you know I'm used to that obviously but things just work well on it and the applications are really coming along so give it a shot try it I think you guys might actually like Windows Phone 7 I definitely do and I have no intention of switching and I get a lot of question marks and people send me email responses I still have sent from Windows Phone as my signature I haven't changed it I get a lot of WTFs responses but I really like it so I'm a walking contradiction I'm a Mac guy using a Windows Phone I like what I like what do you guys think have you tried Windows Phone do you like it not like it I don't hear you guys have to say hopefully you sat around and watch this video no special effects going on it's just sort of a fun way to talk to you guys John right in your deck no buffer I'll see you next video bye bye you