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- HTC One V Review – Midrange Smartphone With Android 4.0, Big Chin and Best 5MP Camera This Year (Video)
- Nokia 808 PureView Fantastic Zoom Capabilities Demoed (Video)
- Motorola Will Use Steve Jobs’ Anti Android Quotes in Court
- Samsung Galaxy S III for T-Mobile USA Gets Pictured in Press Shots
- Korean LG Optimus LTE Gets Android 4.0 Update, LG Nitro HD Could Get Same Treatment
| Posted: 03 Jun 2012 03:31 PM PDT
After the HTC One X and One S, we’ve had the opportunity to reveal the last member of the One trio here at GSMDome.com. I’m talking about the HTC One V, that was here for a week and was tested by us in all the aspects that matter. The handset sports a big chin, a tribute to the likes of the HTC Legend and it’s available for about $350 nowadays.
You’ll find the One V in black or Jupiter Rock, with the latter being the colour that we had the phone in. This model is pretty sturdy, thanks to a metallic case and unibody design. It uses a microSD card slot and SIM card slot hidden under a plastic shell at the lower back of the phone. That plastic area breaks the flow of the metal piece at the back and has an annoying space between the plastic and metal. Also, the chin and display glass piece come together in a rather unfortunate way, as if they weren’t meant to be combined. One V measures 9.2mm in thickness, weighs 115 grams, sports the Beats Audio logo at the back, next to the speaker on the inferior area. Also at the back we find the 5MP camera and moving on to the sides, this is where we find the microUSB port on one side and the volume buttons on the other. At the top there’s an On/OFF button and audio jack, while the front hosts the screen, 3 capacitive buttons and no secondary camera at all. On the hardware side, we have a 3.7 inch display with a 480 x 800 pixel resolution, 4GB of storage, 512MB of RAM and a microSD card slot.
The brain of this midrange phone is a Qualcomm MSM8255 processor (Snapdragon), a 1 GHz unit with Adreno 205 to make games look better. As far as connectivity goes, you have HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and microUSB 2.0. Finally, the last specs include AGPS, FM Radiom accelerometer, proximity sensor and the 5MP camera. The latter supports 720p video capture, HDR, simultaneous photo and video capture, plus face and smile detection and slow motion filming. HTC One V relies on a Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery, that gives the user about a day or a day and a half of functioning time. When it comes to benchmarks, HTC One V got 2762 points in AntuTu, a bit more than the HTC Desire S, for example, that scored 2627 in this test and also more than the HTC Desire C, also launched this year and getting a mere 2107 points in AnTuTu. In Quadrant, the One V didn’t do very well, with 1967 points, compared to the 4605 of the One X, but at least it beat the Desire C and its score of 1331. Moving to multimedia, the audio playback is great, volume is excellent and if you own a pair of Beats Audio headphones, the bass will be excellent. video playback looks decent and the screen was surprisingly bright and colours very vivid. The camera raised above my expectations, especially in the video capture area. It’s frankly the best 5 megapixel camera on a midrange phone you’ll ever see in shops at this time. You can also do photo capture when playing back video, in case you’re wondering. As far as software goes, you get Android 4.0 and HTC Sense 4.0, meaning that there’s the usual bunch of widgets you already saw on HTC One S and One X, plus that new camera UI, with new effects placement and more compact options.
The Play Store link is now in the applications area, the Settings are in the notification area, while the multitasking button triggers an app preview area where swiping makes the apps cease functioning. Dropbox is preinstalled on the phone, FriendStream takes care of social networking, while the browser offers a special option for reading text only on pages and an appealing system of tabs, with large previews. And finally, we give you a short tour of HTC Hub in the video below, in case you were curios to see it again. In the end here’s the verdict: this is a phone that gets an 8 out of 10 and its pros include the design, low price, great camera, fluid OS, resilient case, bright screen, while the cons include the CPU and RAM, that could have been better, the battery that could have also been a bit more powerful and the lower back lid that feels out of place. Don’t forget to also check out the video review below: Related posts:
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| Nokia 808 PureView Fantastic Zoom Capabilities Demoed (Video) Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:18 PM PDT
Everyone has been talking about the Nokia 808 PureView 41MP cameraphone ever since its unveiling at MWC 2012, where we were present to catch it in action. Now we have a video below, showing the very cool zooming in abilities of the device, even when filming in 1080p at 30 fps. I must inform you that we’re waiting for this model to arrive to us for testing purposes and we’re very excited about that.
The handset relies on oversampling technology to combine up to 7 pixels into a true and pure pixel, eliminating the visual noise found on cameraphone shots. Users can also zoom in up to 3X when taking photos, without losing any details in the photo. Nokia also promised that there will be no artificially created pixels in the picture, as well. On the video side, you can do 1080p 30 fps recording with 4X lossless zoom, thanks to that big and powerful sensor, that may make it to a Nokia Windows Phone 8 device by the year end. When filming at 720p you can do 6X zoom and up to 12X lossless zoom when capturing nHD video. A bonus is the ability to record brilliant stereo audio content when filming, thanks to Nokia’s latest audio technologies. Apparently, those allow you to get CD-like audio quality even in a noisy area. Nokia 808 PureView also offers a powerful Xenon flash and LED video light, so the capture will be great even in low light. Now just enjoy the great zooming in abilities portrayed below: Related posts:
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| Motorola Will Use Steve Jobs’ Anti Android Quotes in Court Posted: 03 Jun 2012 11:40 AM PDT
Although Apple pressured judges not to allow this, Motorola now has the official permission to use Steve Jobs’ Android hate quotes in court. Later this month, Apple and Motorola will meet in court, with a case based on the usual smartphone patent infringements.
Judge Richard Posner will be presiding and he already made some preliminary rulings against the Cupertino giant. The judge ruled against Apple’s requirement that Motorola won’t use quotes from Steve Jobs. Moto’s attorneys will go on record using phrases from Jobs such as “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong”. He was referring to Android here, which he also discussed in this phrase: “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this”. The Judge presiding the case said on Thursday that Apple won’t be allowed to argue to the jury that it should be “predisposed to favor Apple over Motorola”, even if the jury admires Steve Jobs or Apple products. Apple will also ask a California court to stop Samsung from using the same quotes in yet another case that will go on trial next month. Related posts:
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| Samsung Galaxy S III for T-Mobile USA Gets Pictured in Press Shots Posted: 03 Jun 2012 02:59 AM PDT
Samsung Galaxy S III is certainly the most talked about phone of this year so far, with a powerful quad core CPU and brilliant 4.8 inch display. Now it appears that this model that already caused queues in the UK will be heading to T-Mobile USA, as confirmed by the press pictures below.
If you remember, the US versions of the Galaxy S and Galaxy S II had different designs and brandings compared to the international version. However, this time Samsung will keep its design and name in USA and adopt a single look all over the world. The best proof for that is the press shot here, of both the white and pebble blue model. The physical button is present here, unlike the previous Galaxy S iterations, that skipped the inclusion of this button in USA. The only change is the engraving of the T-Mobile logo at the back. Samsung is expected to release the 4.8 inch HD smartphone this month during the Galaxy S III World Tour that will have a stop in New York. I certainly look forward to seeing some prices on T-Mobile, hoping they will be reasonable and maybe bundle some of the nifty accessories announced in London last month. Now let’s see if T-Mobile will sell the Snapdragon-based S III or the Exynos one…
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| Korean LG Optimus LTE Gets Android 4.0 Update, LG Nitro HD Could Get Same Treatment Posted: 03 Jun 2012 02:40 AM PDT
LG has been taking its time with the Android 4.0 ICS update, since it wants to make sure it will work properly on its devices. Now, the Korean LG Optimus LTE got its share of Ice Cream Sandwich, via OTA, that brings the software up to version Android 4.0.4.
Also on board is the simple and unobtrusive Optimus UI 3.0. I can’t really say when the rest of the LG lineup will get the update, but hopefully soon enough. Devices such as the LG Optimus Vu would certainly need this update and also the famous LG Nitro HD, that’s basically an LG Optimus LTE for AT&T. Obviously, it depends on the speed of the carrier AT&T when working with the new software. Let’s hope that the likes of Motorola and Samsung see this updating spree and follow up on their promise to update their devices as soon as possible. With devices such as the HTC Desire C with 600 MHz CPU out there, it’s impossible to say that your new 2012 device isn’t good enough to run the OS, so no phone/tablet maker has any excuse anymore… Related posts:
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