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- RIM and Motorola Submit Fresh Nano SIM Design, Apple Still Did Most of the Work
- HTC Desire C Review – Budget Phone With Android 4.0 and the Latest Sense UI, Very Little Lag Too (Video)
- LG Eclipse 4G LTE Gets Pictured, Has NFC and Removable Battery… Plus 2GB of RAM
- Samsung Galaxy S III Gets 9 Million Preorders on 100 Carriers
- Xiaomi MiOne Youth Edition, a Handset for Young Chinese Students
| RIM and Motorola Submit Fresh Nano SIM Design, Apple Still Did Most of the Work Posted: 18 May 2012 03:28 PM PDT
AS you know, the nano SIM standard is in the process of actually becoming a real thing on real devices, but before that big phone makers must agree on the standard technology. Apple, Nokia, RIM and Motorola have their own vision of how this new slot should look and only RIM and Motorola have found common ground so far. They’ve reached a compromise regarding the new design, that’s supposed to please all other companies involved. The revised design was submitted yesterday and it goes something like in the image above. A while ago Nokia complained that the Apple design would cause blocks, as it removes the plastic edges. SIM maker G&D revised the design and added small borders to avoid jams, but still the parties wouldn’t agree on this format either. Moto and RIM reached Apple and proposed a solution to combine designs into one, with Samsung’s support. Apple is open to the idea, but they’re not sure it can be done. Of course, the new design still carries a lot from Apple’s original blueprint, with only 20% of the extra work being done by RIM, Motorola and Nokia. It appears that the new SIM will act much like a microSD cad, having a notch on the side that allows it to be pushed and pulled from the slot. Related posts:
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| Posted: 18 May 2012 12:55 PM PDT
HTC Desire C was announced just days ago and now we give you its review, that you can see below, in video format. This is a budget phone with Android 4.0, a device that goes for 200 euros and it’s expected to launch this month in stores. Formerly known as HTC Golf and HTC Wildfire C, the HTC Desire C takes what it can from the One series and prepares some nifty surprises for people willing to buy a budget phone in 2012. First of all, it brings Beats Audio technology, as printed on its lower back. It also relies on a SIM card slot, not microSIM like the One X and One. It comes with a microSD card slot hidden under the hood and easily accessible by removing the back cover. The SIM slot is under the battery. The back cover has a texture that reminds me of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Active and it’s pretty easy to remove. At the back we have the 5MP camera with a red ring around the sensor, just like the One S model, plus a speaker near it. At the top there’s the On/OFF button, the audio jack, while on the sides we find a microUSB port and volume buttons. At the front there’s a 3.5 inch display and the classic Android 4.0 ICS capacitive buttons. The handset measures 12.3mm in thickness, weighs 100 grams and supports a 320 x 480 pixel resolution. Also on board there’s 4GB of storage, 512MB of RAM and availability for up to 32 GB via microSD. As far as connectivity goes, we have HSDPA at 7.2 Mbps, WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0. The CPU here is a Snapdragon 600 MHz unit, a stunning choice for an Android 4.0 device. The camera at the back is a 5MP shooter with autofocus, geotagging and without being accompanied by a front secondary camera. Completing the specs list there’s an accelerometer, proximity sensor and AGPS. On the power side, we have a Li-Ion 1230 mAh battery, that will give the user about a day of use. Keep in mind that this is the same battery as the one on the HTC Wildfire S, so if you’ve played with that model, you know what to expect. The HTC Desire C will be available in polar white, black and red, in case you want other flavours, different from our black unit. Moving to the multimedia aspect, the speaker at the back is pretty good for such a small phone and you also have those audio enhancements courtesy of Beats technology. Video playback looks great, although some formats and resolutions won’t be supported, so you have to be careful. You can take a picture during a video, lock the screen, set a fullscreen mode and also use sound enhancing on video playback. Finally, the camera is pretty mediocre, but that’s to be expected from a model that lacks a flash. Anyway, you get the same brand new interface from the One series, packaged with HTC Sense 4.0. Below you can see a sample photo taken with the camera on the Desire C and by clicking HERE you’ll reach a gallery of samples. There’s also a video sample below, quite a pleasant surprise to be frank, but considering there’s no flash here, you’ll probably avoid doing video capture when it’s not sunny outside: Sadly, the camera app doesn’t support video and photo capture at the same time and the options are pretty limited. At least we have a decent amount of effects to apply. As far as software goes, Android 4.0 is here, with multitasking via swiping to the right to remove apps, just like on the Galaxy Nexus. There’s no special preview area where you can remove apps separately like on the One X and One S. The settings can now be found in the notification bar and they include the connectivity sliders that we use so often. There’s a Play Store link to be found in the applications list and the widgets area has that new look that HTC Sense 4.0 brought to the One series. The Friendstream socializing app strangely only supports Facebook on this phone, without being able to show Twitter updates. It may just be a bug on our unit… Performance-wise we’re pretty impressed, as the model scores better in AnTuTu benchmark than the Wildfire S for example. Our unit scored 2107 in AntuTu, while the Wildfire S scored 1522. In Quadrant we scored 1331, a pretty poor result, especially when compared to the 5103 points on the One S. Meanwhile, the Desire S is not that far from the Desire C, at least in AnTuTu, where it scores 2627 points. Call quality is good and overall the use experience is fluid, especially if you clean up the memory with the task manager every once in a while. And now it’s time for the verdict! On the plus side, the HTC Desire C has the great price, the fact that it runs Android 4.0 without flaws, it has a microSD card slot, good speaker, nice design, Beats Audio technology and pretty good battery. If you want defects and flaws, well, maybe the poor resolution is one, also the lack of flash, the underpowered CPU and maybe the bulky design. We give the HTC Desire C an 8 out of 10 for design, 8 out of 10 for software and 8 for hardware, for a total of 8.                                               Related posts:
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| LG Eclipse 4G LTE Gets Pictured, Has NFC and Removable Battery… Plus 2GB of RAM Posted: 18 May 2012 07:51 AM PDT
The list of 2GB RAM phones is certainly increasing this year, so after the LG Optimus LTE 2 and the Samsung Galaxy S III 2GB RAM version, here comes another one. I’m talking about LG Eclipse 4G LTE, that was recently pictured by the guys of BriefMobile, who got hold of a picture of the handset. We’re dealing with a phone headed to Sprint and a potential modified version of the LG Optimus LTE 2. It does have many things in common with the LTE 2. For example, it has 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, the exact same 2,100 mAh battery and a 4.67 inch display. LG Optimus LTE 2 has a 4.7 inch HD display, so it’s pretty close. The two are separated by the 13 megapixel camera present on the LG Eclipse 4G LTE, compared to the 8 megapixel camera on the LG Optimus LTE 2. There’s also NFC on the Eclipse 4G LTE and we all know that Sprint is one of the partners of the Google Wallet initiative, so it will be put to good use. There’s a removable battery on board, which has become a pretty unique thing nowadays, since models like the HTC One X and One S for example don’t have removable batteries. Related posts:
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| Samsung Galaxy S III Gets 9 Million Preorders on 100 Carriers Posted: 18 May 2012 04:02 AM PDT
Korea Economic Daily has a piece reporting on the huge success that the Galaxy S III is, ahead of its debut in stores. Apparently, the device has already received 9 million pre-orders from 100 carriers all over the world. The info comes from a Samsung official who remained anonymous. The figure is very impressive, especially if you consider that the Galaxy S II took 10 months to ship 20 million units, while the new Galaxy S took a mere 2 weeks to reach almost half of that number. Also, the preorders are better than shipments, since they’re almost as good as sales. It looks like Samsung has hit gold once again with this model and Apple really has something to fear this time, or better said HTC and LG do, since Apple’s preorders for the iPhone 4S were much bigger and I’m sure the iPhone 5 will break records. What’s interesting to mention is that those 9 million don’t even include the United States, so expect even more impressive numbers to add up when the model debuts over there. If the Galaxy Note 2 comes in the next months and a quad core tablet, too, Samsung may just have its best year yet. Related posts:
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| Xiaomi MiOne Youth Edition, a Handset for Young Chinese Students Posted: 18 May 2012 03:19 AM PDT
MIUI is famous not only for being a kickass Android custom ROM, but also for being available preinstalled on the Xiaomi handsets. Now, there will be a youth-oriented edition of the phone for China only. The handset will be called the MiOne Xiaomi Phone and it looks like this, will all those coloured cases. The Youth Edition packs a 4 inch 480 x 854 pixel display, an 8 megapixel f/2.4 camera, a 1.2 GHz dual core processor and 768 MB of RAM. The battery is a 1930 mAh unit and buyers will also get 4GB of internal memory, plus a microSD card slot for extra storage. The price tag here is around $237, pretty OK for this handset. It’s actually 25% cheaper than the previous Xiaomi MIUI phone, that offers a 1.5 GHz CPU and 1GB of RAM. The youthful device offers MIUI 4, based on Android 4.0. However, just like the original MiOne model, this handset will allow you to apply any Android build you want on it. Xiaomi also published some benchmark results for this model: 5043 points on AnTuTu, 1375 on Vellamo and 3.269 on Quadrant. They’re pretty reasonable, if you ask me. Initially Xiaomi will have a product run of 150k devices and preregistration for them ends today. It’s important to know that Xiaomi sold over 300k MiOnes on preorder alone, so I expect the Youth Edition to sell out fast. Related posts:
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