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LG Optimus 2X. Test of the dual-core smartphone LG Optimus 2X

Kristy — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:10:22 +0000

Smartphone LG Optimus 2X with an index of P990 makes a very good impression as a whole, and under the watchful eye on its individual parts. Describe the smartphone can perhaps the word “stylish.”

The front side looks very stylish, but offers nothing original.
But the rear is not just stylish, but we can say that proudly. Pride is a wide metallic strip in the center, on which is written «with Google».

It is worth noting a very high build quality and materials of the shell

The color scheme is ambiguous smartphone – a black front panel, sides – steel-blue, and the back cover – brown. This certainly highlights smartphone competitors.

Filling in the smartphone unexpectedly powerful – but totally unbalanced. Before us is another machine on dual-core processor GHz nVidia Tegra 2 (based on the ARM Cortex A9), but with only 512 MB of RAM.
And this imbalance is bewildering.
A powerful CPU’s easy to look “serious” video – but a small amount of RAM affects the maximum number of simultaneously running applications. And even the work of serious and intense graphics toy is rare, but noticeable eye freezes. At the time of its launch smart phone may have been one of the most powerful, but today it is simply powerful “toy”.
However, such a powerful processor gives the opportunity to watch without any problems even FullHD-video.

Block of the front camera is stick out over the rest of the body

The phone has 8GB of internal memory + can be installed up to 32 GB through micro-SD/SDHC cards.

HDMI connector allows you to connect your TV and see on the big screen any content

Pleasantly surprised by the high speed data exchange smartphone with your computer. It is about 10 MB / sec when copying data to the device, and a half times more – in the reverse process.

Now that LG is seeking to settle in the premium segment of smartphones, then compare LG Optimus 2X should be direct competitors. At this time, take a look at the screen. In Optimus 2X is not AMOLED and not Super LCD, as the competition, but only a TFT without any noticeable improve the lives of technology. Brightness and color display apparatus loses by HTC and Samsung.

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In the pros you can write the sensitivity of the screen on a high level, no problems or false positives were found. Multi-touch works well without any complaints.

It is sad, but LG Optimus 2X offers its customers a morally outdated firmware for almost a year, based on the Android 2.2. In this issue of Update 2.3 promises to “no earlier than September.” So we have to be content with this outdated operating system with all its shortcomings.
Instead of the standard main window Android, LG Optimus 2X offers its own, a modified membrane.

The smartphone used standard LED flash

Another plus is the interface – a clear separation between the pre-installed applications and adding a user, the second highlighted a separate area in the last part of the overall list. Suddenly, this “trick” was very comfortable.
Upset neprorabotanny interface to connect to a computer Optimus 2X. Here we are dealing with a standard window Android «Enable / disable the USB-drive,” in the settings you can disable the appearance of the window, and then connect your smartphone will be in sync.

Speakers and a connector for charging / synchronization located on the bottom

Latest firmware minus – an archaic keyboard typing, a popular program Swype is also absent.

One of the most interesting “chips” gadget is an accelerometer. The smartphone LG Optimus 2X introduced a system of gestures, which allows you to manage various elements by moving the gadget space, or just banging on it with your finger. For example, to mute an incoming call, simply turn the device, and to scroll through pictures in the gallery or go to the next track to knock on one end.

Thanks to the smooth hull smartphone perfectly in the hand

Camera – it’s the little bit of what this unit can not scold, but only slightly grumble. The camera interface is again only slightly different from the standard Android. But if you poke your finger into the screen, left, an additional and quite an extensive menu that allows you to choose from a number of parameters, among which Optimus 2X is not inferior to their competitors. In the presence of a complete set – Select the image size of 320×240 to 3264h2448 (8 MP), flash mode, ISO, effects, shooting, etc. There is also exposure compensation, image stabilization, a number of “scene modes” and the ability to install geotags.

Video smartphone allows you to shoot in a mode of Full HD (1920 x 1080) at 24 frames per second. Image quality – not bad. Color rendering correctly, the survey is very fast, and the viewfinder is delayed only in low light conditions.

The photo quality is quite high.

The device has left a contradictory impression. It is obvious that LG is new to the production of high-end segment tachfonov, so Optimus 2X has some annoying flaws. Chief among them – is, of course, the lack of flash on Android 2.3.
On the other hand, the device can be written pluses: very nice and high quality housing, the original control system of gestures, as well as a good camera and something interesting interface-add from LG.
p.s. Incidentally, the battery of 1500 mAh at this smartphone also can be commended – three days of holding the phone in standby mode and less than one – in active use. This index can be described as a very good thing.

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HTC Sensation. Review communicator HTC Sensation: “Superphone” with children’s sores

Kristy — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:57:42 +0000

If you believe datas of mobile operators, HTC Sensation is in the top 5 selling smartphones in the U.S.. That’s why we want to give an overview of HTC Sensation.

Filling in HTC Sensation rich, and that he has little equal. Availability – color touchscreen capacitive Super LCD display with 16.7 million colors and support for multitouch, and 4.3-inch diagonal and a resolution 960h540 pixels. There is Auto-rotate allowing to read the page, lying on his side. Dual-core processor Qualcomm MSM8260 with a frequency of 1.2 GHz and the graphics chip Adreno 220, RAM 768 MB of internal memory and a gigabyte. There is an 8-megapixel camera that supports Full HD and dual LED flash.
Lithium-ion battery with a capacity of 1520 mAh should keep for a long time. Ambient light sensors, proximity, and the gyro compass – for granted. Dimensions HTC Sensation – 126h65h11 mm, weight – 148 grams.

HTC Sensation – is Sensation?

That’s the case I want to say about itself, and not even just to say, but to praise. Housing comfortable in the hand does not slide a piece of soap is not like, and does not want to slip out – mainly due to the back cover, which used matte plastic and metal. Due to the materials phone firmly on the table and in his hand. And you can open it with two hands without the help of outsiders.
Beneath the screen are 4 touch-sensitive backlit buttons – this is “home” context-sensitive menu, “Return” and “Search”. Perched on the left side volume control wheel and plug micro-USB, a virgin right is empty, the bottom is the microphone, and on top – all the rest, that is a connector for a headset or headphone mini-Jack and the power button.

The frame body HTC Sensation

The rear panel is of particular interest because it generously bristling with holes. Because of them, and in no way closed the camera lens into the body very quickly packed dirt and dust, and at least once a week to open the smart and clean.
Shell
In HTC Sensation uses a proprietary shell HTC Sense 3.0. This add-on Android 2.3, which makes communication with this and so a good operating system even more convenient. For example, the Sensation is waiting for us as much as seven desktops preinstalled Windows Task Manager, and various widgets.

Proprietary shell HTC Sense 3.0 in all its glory

However, on the phone with Sense creeps mass deficiencies, and one of them – the very many “sitting” in memory of branded services – from weather and ending HTC Hub. Their main drawback – they are very fond of constantly updated. Just disable real-time synchronization is impossible, you can only make it less frequent.

Wi-Fi, GPS and mobile internet
Wi-Fi is caught well on and tuned to a certain point within ten seconds. Sensitivity at the receiver is quite on the level. Network for two weeks of the gadget has never lost, and new connected very quickly. That’s what this device can honestly praise. But a GPS of Sensation frankly weak.

Samsung Galaxy S II and HTC Sensation: Goliath and Goliath battle

The room is no longer caught the last satellite has a meter away from windows, and even in the car for some reason he sometimes prevents roof. When using the card periodically stops and sometimes begins to fail compass, turning on its axis. Since it was observed on two devices, it is likely that the matter again in the firmware.
Total: GPS to actually use a pedestrian unless, well, or find a car that will appeal to gadget.

Communicator perfectly in the hand, despite its size

Camera in HTC Sensation can be estimated except for three or less – to smartphones this level the current level of quality is completely unacceptable. In considering the detail photos are immediately visible to serious artifacts. You do not even have to turn up a photo – just look at it in a 1:1 ratio. And it’s extremely sad, because the ability to capture the smartphone is very good. Anterior chamber at 0.3 MP seen as something even ashamed.

In the smartphone is a very serious relationship – from the charger. And it is so serious that the apparatus and one day can not live, so do not nourished from the outlet. And if you watch movies or play hard toy, then this figure is rapidly reduced to 4-5 hours – at best. Sensation is powered long and detailed – an average of three hours spent on a full charge from the wall.

Large, bright screen coupled with the processor quickly drains the battery

This fact is extremely frustrating. In fact, reviews of many users, this situation is not the norm, and the problem of leakage of the charge already struggling – available methods.

The second major flaw – it is really hot. And, judging by the internal sensor, the temperature can reach right up to 47-48 degrees, Sensation in 20 minutes can overheat so that it will be painful to hold. And no – it’s not a glitch of a specific sample, this behavior was typical of both the gadgets that we had on the test.

The third serious shortcoming As for the phone functions, which are sometimes still used. You can praise the beautiful melodies, but the volume of calls as well as the dynamics is poor. Microphone does not know how to deal with the noise and hear the next half a meter (if using speakerphone).

HTC Sensation – if not “sun” of the market of smartphones, then certainly “star”

Conclusions.
About HTC Sensation is very difficult to judge. Because there are lots of bugs, humidity firmware (for example, large-scale widgets periodically covered by horizontal stripes, which disappear only after the removal of widgets), weak GPS and a bad camera – it can be argued that the sensation of HTC Sensation did not work.

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HTC Evo 3D. First look at HTC Evo 3D: three-dimensional revolution

Kristy — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:55:29 +0000

Background
Mobile 3D-device – is the trend of the market gadgets. The start of production of such devices is actively talking with the summer of 2010, when a number of Japanese companies have promised to show real working prototypes 3D-screens without glasses already in winter 2010/2011 year.
Development of 3D-displays for mobile devices is the company DoCoMo and Sharp.

LG Optimus 3D was presented before his opponent

It is clear that the quality of work will require high performance hardware device. Just at the end of 2010 to market the first commercial 3D-models of smartphones from LG and the announcements of the release of such devices from other vendors, including HTC. Taiwanese smartphone later showed his rivals from South Korea – at CTIA Wireless 2011, but it has already managed to conclude an agreement on sales of its largest mobile operator in the U.S. Sprint. The choice of the market for output of the device due to the fact that this model is “googlephone”, and the operating system from Google is very serious and strong positions in North America.

HTC Evo 3D: a revolutionary in the strict black suit

Appearance
By HTC last time based on the Android OS is very similar to each other. A candy bar with large screen diagonals in a fairly thin shell and touch-button control.
As the name implies, it supports playback of stereo images on a large LCD-matrix with diagonal 4.3 inches. Resolution used here, the screen is a capacitive qHD (960 * 540 pixels) instead of WVGA (800 x 480 pixels), like LG Optimus 3D, which seriously improves the picture quality – the grain becomes smaller, less stretched and the fonts generally look at a screen can be easily voltage.

3D-camera – an essential attribute of the 3D-smartphone

The screen supports the display of 3D video as well as for photo content. You can see a stereo image without special glasses, because its surface is covered with a polarizing layer. In general, the 3D-image quality is quite bearable.

Above the screen is a front camera for video calls. It has a resolution of 1.3 megapixels (VGA against the majority of devices). Beneath the screen are touch-sensitive buttons. Under the battery cover you can find the battery with a capacity of 1730 mAh – it lasts for 2 days of intensive operation.

3D-image by an order of two-dimensional analogue of the more realistic

Software and hardware
Smartphone HTC Evo 3D is running the latest version today from the Google mobile operating system for smartphones and communicators Android OS 2.3 Gingerbread (updated to 2.3.3). It is complemented by a special user’s shell HTC Sense, which is updated to the new version. The shell now supports nine home screens in the form of three-dimensional carousel-style HTC TouchFLO 3D, as well as several new widgets. Note that the shell itself has 3D-menu launcher application.
Notable pre-installed applications can note the presence of the client Blockbuster on Demand – American film distribution service that provides movies on demand. Thus the apparatus can load 3D-movies.

Serial copy HTC Evo 3D for the U.S. market

The smartphone is based on dual-core processor Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8660 clocked each core at 1.2 GHz. It is also a separate video card Adreno 220. Memory in the device is allocated 1 GB of constant flash memory – 4 GB. It can be expanded using a memory card microSDHC – here supported hard drives up to 32GB.

As the communication interface modules are present at the device Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. The phone can act as a point of Internet access for up to 8 wireless devices. It also features a HDMI-port and DLNA media content for broadcast between other devices in the multimedia environment of the owner.

The design is typical for a smartphone HTC: a minimum of decorative details, maximum usability

HTC Evo 3D in the original was submitted to the U.S. network Sprint, to market services to WiMAX (4G). Nevertheless, HTC has created a GSM-version of this unit for the European market.
In addition to the 3D-screen smartphone and there is a camera that can shoot 3D-pictures and video. It consists of two 5-megapixel sensor with separate lenses arranged on the back of the device closer to the left. Videos in 3D-as recorded in HD-quality picture with a width of 720 pixels, and if the disable 3D – in Full HD-resolution. Photos in 3D obtained in normal resolution and it is qualitatively look at the screen.

3D-heavyweight (in all senses) of the camp LG

Comparison with the LG Optimus 3D
As described above, competition Evo 3D to date can only make LG Optimus 3D. The intrigue of the situation is not only to support the 3D-image both devices, but also very similar characteristics.

Summing up over these devices and in general the prospects for HTC Evo 3D, we say that all is not as straightforward as it seems at first glance. LG Optimus 3D was presented before a competitor and has already gained good positions. It does not have obvious shortcomings, in addition, in contrast to the HTC, LG will provide support for the device brand of TV content, namely the prevalence of weak 3D-content now prevents the promotion of such devices.

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Galaxy Note and Omnia W. The most expected smartphones from Samsung in autumn 2011

Kristy — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:54:47 +0000

The leader of the smartphone market, Samsung, against the background of patent oppositions, does not abandon plans to expand its flagship line of Galaxy.

Galaxy Note.
Recently, manufacturers introduced a smartphone Galaxy Note, the dimensions of which allow you to take it as a class of small plates with a diagonal screen with 1280 * 800 pixels. It’s about the fact that it was 5.3 inches, which is greater than all existing devices on the market by nearly 1 inch. The display is made of technology Super AMOLED. The unit runs on Android 2.3-based dual-core processor at 1.4 GHz. The technical specifications indicate that the unit has double-system chip, which allows working two navigation systems – GPS and GLONASS. The smartphone has an 8-megapixel camera and a 2-megapixel front camera. Galaxy Note will be bundled with a stylus.

Samsung Galaxy Note

Superfon Omnia W
On the platform of Windows Phone Samsung prepares Superfon Omnia W. The device will be made in the metal housing and receive 3.7-inch Super AMOLED-display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. Smartphone Omnia W is equipped with single-core processor at 1.4 GHz, 5-megapixel camera and front camera for video calls, VGA-resolution.
The device will operate on baze Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.

Samsung Omnia W: Windows Phone 7 welcomes you, earthlings

Nexus Prime
Samsung will be responsible for the third “guglfon» – Nexus Prime, which will install a new version of the Android OS 2.4 Ice Cream Sandwich. He is expected to receive increased Super AMOLED display with a diagonal of 4.6 inches with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, as well as dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP c 1.5 GHz and with an integrated video accelerator PowerVR SGX540.

Samsung Nexus Prime: image first

The amount of RAM 1GB of new items. The unit is 8-megapixel camera and a 2-megapixel front, support for HDMI and NFC technology for contactless payment service through Google Wallet. While it is known that the model will be available in the U.S. operator Verizon, but is likely and release 3G-version of the international market.

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Xperia arc S and Xperia neo V. The most expected smartphones from Sony Ericsson in autumn 2011

Kristy — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:53:29 +0000

Although the list of major players in the market is not Sony Ericsson, this maker of smartphones is quite a strong position in the segment of fashion models, Android-devices. In the 4th quarter of 2011, the vendor is preparing to appear in the sale of three new phones on the platform.

Xperia arc S
The first of these should be the Xperia arc S, established on the basis of the Xperia arc. Of the differences from its predecessor can be identified more efficient processor with a frequency of 1.4 GHz, and support 3D-panoramic photography from Sony. The smartphone will take three-dimensional panoramas, then to watch them on 3D-TV’s Sony, connecting the phone via the HDMI-port. In addition, the “heir» Xperia arc equipped with 4.2-inch screen with Reality Display Technology Mobile BRAVIA Engine, which makes photo and video playback on the display close to the quality of an expensive LCD TV’s brightness and clarity.

Sony Ericsson Xperia arc S: Reincarnation hit in 2011

Xperia neo V
The second novelty – it’s Xperia neo V-based Android OS 2.3.4. It is, as its name implies, continues to turn, the development of Xperia neo. The smartphone supports modern mediafunctions, in particular, video chat in Google Talk and a panoramic shot in 3D, but also has better integration of Facebook inside Xperia. It is equipped with a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and face recognition, has a 3.7-inch screen Reality Display with the already mentioned technology Mobile BRAVIA Engine.

Sony Ericsson Xperia neo V focuses on the premium segment

Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman.
Continuing development of the direction muzikfon Swedish-Japanese company brought to market the device Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman. It runs on Android OS 2.3.4 and features a special key Walkman for quick access to your music library.

Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman – the development of the famous musical line phones

The handset Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman uses mineral glass display diagonal of 3.2 inches and a powerful 1 GHz processor. The front camera allows you to communicate via Skype, a 5-megapixel autofocus camera to record HD-video as 720p. The handset technology xLOUD, which improves sound quality.