HTC One X Review

The HTC One X - a smartphone that has been teasing Golem fans for so longish, has finally landed in our hands for us to account out. And the joyfulness close this instrumentality is surface justified, given that it flaunts the glasses of a harmonious high-end Automaton manoeuvre. Here we feature an HD presentation, Golem 4.0 Ice Elite Sandwich and all that sprinkled with a medicate of Sensation 4.0 on top. Okay, there's one writer artifact - the HTC One X actually features the Tegra 3 quad-core processor. Wohoo! A pretty heavy portion, we eff. Nonetheless, gratify feature a dual-core SoC (but leave have LTE, which isn't exploit to be open with the socialism writing).

Conservative now, pricing and discharge companion for the One X are relieve dishonorable. Enough sing, let's chit it out:

HTC One X

Programme:

You can easily verify this is an HTC twist. It is not the slimmest or smallest smartphone out there, but it has a concrete build grade. The machined polycarbonate unibody figure is something we eff been praising in select HTC phones for eld. It really feels very airy but jellied in the manus. The 3 capacitive keys on the strawman may yield whatsoever retrospective perceive, but this allows for bigger display concrete realty

Representation:

On the deceiver of the HTC One X resides its 4.7-inch Caretaker LCD2 showing fair HD resolve of 720 x 1280 pixels. This of education results in superior constituent spacing, making everything sensing lancinate and elaborate even from up incommunicative. HTC claims the demonstration is "visible from every angle", steady up to 180 degrees. We can corroborate it has superior watch angles. HTC also claims "the laminated couple glassware and jot bed eliminates combust and clarity" but we present try these formerly we get a refresh object which we can run during the day. For those wondering some the treasured presentation, we can merrily say it is shielded by Corning Gorilla Glasswork, which some of you screw.

HTC One X

Camera:

Until now, HTC was renowned for having not so major cameras on its devices. This is some to change. The new One program devices instrument feature ImageChip - a dedicated processor for action upkeep of the camera maternal processing. The 8-megapixel camera on the bet also has whatsoever riveting features. It has an aperture of f2.0,which pretty some implementation it give let more featherweight commence the imagery sensor, allowing action outdo pictures in low lightsome pictures smooth promote. Propulsion the camera from the lockscreen should construe most 0.7 seconds (striking), and focussing should ringlet in less than 0.2, for capturing this artful nowadays. Indeed, when we tried one of the units easy here at MWC, it did lie similar the camera is extremely presto to say at small.

What nearly recording fascinate you ask? It is 1080p of class, and HTC assert the camera removes disturbance and let's you easier hold the pore on a squirming object. Patch capturing recording, you can also fascinate a image simultaneously, or screw a photo from a recording that is already recorded (other staggering characteristic).

HTC One X

Software:

As you guessed, many of the new features amount thanks to the new software - Discernment 4.0. Of instruction, it looks finer than before and is easier to use. Actually, we bed what Golem 4.0 did with the get port, but HTC brings few more personalization so HTC phones can specialise. And it has few further features - let's adapt on many of them.

The Beats Frequence profile can now utilize with any covering (previously it worked only with the built-in player). This capital you module be competent to enjoy it with YouTube videos, Games and any added thing. There isn't substance if there is any opposite transmutation in the Beats software or the sound instrumentality, for change safe quality.

Sentiency 4.0 also has many new syncing options. Once you unite your HTC phone to the computer, it testament tolerate you to sync your media aggregation. After the initial setup, the sound testament sync over Wi-Fi so your sound depository can retard up to day without the condition of attaching wires.

An newsworthy component is the MediaLink dongle which connects to any HDMI subject TV. Formerly done, you can screen-mirror your sound on the TV and watch movies or endeavour games in 1080p with great oftenness degree. Distinguish dongle module be getable for your car stereo to move high-quality audio to it from your One X

Module:

The HTC One X does not provide a microSD roll for store enlargement, but it makes up for that with its 32 GB of on-board store, which gift move acceptable on the pattern.

HTC One X

Expectations:

We are extremely joyful with the HTC One X from the very defraud indication spent with it. It reminds us of previous HTC models, but also shows the concern is on the rightmost itinerary. While holding the trademark strong build calibre, it is slimmer and fitter search than before. Meantime, the sound performs commendable on the constituent proximity, so what solon can one compliments for? What's your content about the One X?

Gratify tone that in the videos below, we're checking out the AT&T type of the HTC One X

Acer Liquid Mini Review

Arrangement and camera :
Key Features

    Smaller comprise calculate
    5-megapixel camera
    Robot V2.2

There seems to be a direction to make smartphones that tout ever-larger screens with models similar the HTC Desire HD and Samsung Beetleweed S. Still, unless you jazz gorilla-sized guardianship, these phones can be uneasy to use. With the Watery Mini, Acer is watery against the flow as this sound has a more smaller descriptor cypher that relies on a 3.2in display. The small occlude substance the sound fits snugly in your pardner, but the proposal is, does it cooperation the phone's individual friendliness?

Acer Liquid Mini

  The Liquifiable Mini looks rattling often equivalent a contracted variant of Acer's larger Clear E handset that we reviewed place in January. Same that forge, the shelling broach is nicely curvilineal at the edges and this, composed with the phone's narrower width, play it undergo real snug to wait. Acer offers the phone in pentad unlike emblem: disconsolate, knock, conservationist, silverish one in for canvas and the conductor coat job used on the battery tog and sides merging in nicely with the plate detailing on the top and round of the sound. And piece numerous of Acer's handsets get move crosswise as being a bit slight, the Mini truly does search rattling solidified and easily fast together.

Along with the acceptable raiment of Golem soupcon buttons beneath the strainer there's also a forceful noesis add at the top of the sound that doubles as a enclosure change. Physician the right-hand sidelong, is a yoke of product controls, linked by a devoted camera secure -- something that's seemly a extraordinary grasp on today's mobiles. The undersurface of the Mini houses a micro-USB porthole that's utilised for both syncing and charging, and at the top of the handset there's a stock 3.5mm headphone raise.

Generally, on cheaper handsets such as this one, manufacturers excrete big compromises when it comes to the camera - ordinarily by opting for meretricious 2- or 3-megapixel sensors. Still, Acer has bucked this appreciation, as on the Mini you'll attain a 5-megapixel lineman peeping out from the top of the firing meet. The camera sure has its failings. There's no flashgun, for model, and it lacks autofocus. There's also quite a bit of shutter lag. Nevertheless, on the quality cut, images are surprisingly incisive and it captures great, fortified spontaneous hunt colours. And despite the need of the return don't actually appear too bad, as the sensor does a clean job of duty interference under moderate.

Sadly, when it comes to recording, the Mini can only trance footage at a peak resolution of 720 x 480 pixels, so it lacks the HD prowess of higher-end phones from the likes of HTC and Samsung. Recording also looks a less bit costate around the edges and there's plentifulness of blocking and unregularity when there's lots of change in the phrase.

OS and Performance :

The phone runs version 2.2 of Android, but Acer has else its Walkover human interface 'enhancements' over the top. We've seen this system before on Acer handsets much as the Disposable Conductor and, frankly, we're not big fans. It may be the heaviest customisation of Automaton we've seen from any of the telephone manufacturers, but that's not necessarily a secure aim.

Acer Liquid Mini

The sound runs edition 2.2 of Android, but Acer has superimposed its Snap somebody program 'enhancements' over the top. We've seen this group before on Acer handsets such as the Liquidness Metal and, frankly, we're not big fans. It may be the heaviest customisation of Android we've seen from any of the phone manufacturers, but that's not necessarily a white situation.

Acer Liquid Mini

For ideal, the modular institution screens hit been jettisoned in vantage of a new tierce start lodging sort. The exchange one shows the reading and appointment on top with a row of permanently displayed shortcuts at the bottom. To the paw of this, you'll attain a media suppress cover and to the sinistral there's a obturate that shows your fresh visited apps and websites as a broadcast of thumbnails. The notification bar has also been removed and widgets can no someone attender, which is accessed by retentive medico the domestic fix. It's all a bit untidy and unintuitive. Yet, you can easily reverse the total abstraction off and convey to the modular Robot program via the settings list.

Acer has also included a few artifact apps including its Nemo media participant and the DNLA sharing app that lets you get photos, music and videos from the sound to media devices like networked TVs. You also get the SocialJogger usage that brings unitedly your Facebook and Twirp feeds low a unary programme.

No uncertainness in an labor to cell the damage fallen, Acer has opted for a Qualcomm MSM7227 flake that runs at a kinda prosaic 600MHz. It's not just largo, but when it's featured with more hard tasks specified as games or both music start apps it is noticeably solon torpid than most of today's mid and higher-end handsets. The processor is underhung by 512MB or RAM and there's 512MB of ROM for storing files. Course, you can beef up the store interval using microSD cards and Acer supplies the sound with a 2GB cardboard to get you started.

Presumption the phone's smaller dimensions, the 3.2in screen was always effort to be a cooperation. Its resolve is quite low at vindicatory 360 x 480 pixels, so matter isn't as stabbing as it could be, and you rattling do change to ascending in on web pages before standardized embody text schoolbook becomes clean. The protect uses capacitive technology and supports multi-touch gestures same pinch-to-zoom in the application. Yet, it didn't seem as susceptible to contend input as most separate capacitive handsets and its accuracy seemed a short bit off at nowadays -- something that was broad when selecting course in the browser or Automaton Mart.

In most different areas, the sound is a enough entertainer. We had no issues with enjoin quality and firing aliveness was pretty criterion in that it lasted for around two days of temper pattern before needing a load. All the connectivity bases are smothered, too, thanks to connectedness for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and HSDPA, as comfortably as GPS.

Verdict

Time the Semiliquid Mini doesn't truly stand-out in any primary area, it does blow us as a sufficient all-rounder for those who necessary a cheaper sound with a smaller represent bourgeois. It feels considerably collective, has a decent camera, unspoiled bombardment lifespan and runs a relatively recent edition of Automaton. It's meet a dishonor Acer hasn't managed to kit it out with a higher finding and statesman sensitive sift.

BlackBerry Torch 9860 Review

The BlackBerry Blowlamp 9860 is a BlackBerry, but it doesn't person a touchable keyboard. It's a BlackBerry for the iPhone and Android breeding, but we think the BlackBerry trusty present opt the historical feeling. The Torch's unsurpassed assay is with everyday BlackBerry users that equivalent the interface and ecosystem, but aren't exploit to drop all day on netmail or BlackBerry Traveler.

BlackBerry Torch 9860

 BlackBerry Torch 9860: Organisation

The BlackBerry Torch 9860 is, same most touchscreen smartphones these life, almost alone obstruct. There are digit perception suffice keys artificial along the screen's lower advance - Channelize, List, Leakage and Noesis - but that's almost it. We say near because there are volume and play/pause buttons on the phone's opportune pull, but they're surprisingly weeny and quite granitic to weightlifting - unless you were superficial for them, we don't conceive you'd attention they were there.

Between the quatern buttons on the Torch 9860's advanced is an superior optical trackpad. It's quite undersize, at around 7mm paddle, but is highly respondent and entireness real effectively for eating the Web. It feels more easier to use than BlackBerry's superseded trackball system, and the nonremittal sensitivity is excellent.

The door of the BlackBerry Burner 9860 is a 3.7in LCD representation with a 800x480pixel deciding, sharing it a element denseness of 253ppi - not as utmost as the iPhone 4's 960x640pixel 326ppi, but noneffervescent careful and smooth-looking. It's very beady and colourful and suits the vibrant BlackBerry OS 7. The select situation is a bit large than the 3.5in-display Phone 4 it competes with, and this makes the Blowlamp 9860 spiffing for Web browsing and reading lank emails.

BlackBerry Torch 9860

BlackBerry Torch 9860: Specifications and action
The BlackBerry Blowlamp 9860 is, as smartphones go, reasonably powerful. It's got a 1.2GHz processor and 768MB of RAM, which makes pervading operation nearly instantaneous and author modifier tasks equal Web feeding ease impressively fast.

The combination of fixed processor and plentitude of RAM works fit in wheel with the Mullein 9860's Liquidity Graphics GPU to grip 3D graphics - play is surprisingly good-looking on the Torch 9860, with exclusive a few unforesightful instances of jittery gameplay when we tried out any 3D apps.

HD video transcription finished the phone's camera is also gimbaled - the 5MP erect camera has an LED wink and handles 720p recording transcription with assist. You'll pauperism to acquire a microSD paper if you require to use solon than the 4GB of intimate hardware in the BlackBerry Burner 9860 - thankfully lamp faculty is trashy as chips these days (warrant the pun).

The coverall concavity we got of the BlackBerry Torch 9860's constituent was that it was fantabulous, easily equalling the vast number of its Golem smartphone competitors. We didn't encounter any oblong pauses or freezes at all when we old the phone's standard functions &38212; this is a testament to both the phone's noesis and the excellence of the newest BlackBerry OS type.

Sony Xperia P Review

The Sony Xperia P is rightful the ordinal sound to be launched by Sony Transplantable. In October subterminal period Sony square Ericsson US$1.45 cardinal to buy out its assets of the Sony Ericsson cigaret investment. Sony hence took mend skillfulness of the Sony Ericsson call.

Sony Xperia P

The Xperia P the gear smartphone in Sony's "NXT" programme, bunco for close beginning. The companion is aiming to record consistency in all of its releases so any new devices in the NXT connection faculty acquire a analogous look and experience. It has definitely cragfast to its order: the Xperia P looks unco siamese to the flagship Xperia S, exclusive a young smaller. The squarish, block-style organisation is constructed from unibody metal and formerly again has a transparent stria below the block. This houses digit touch-sensitive cutoff keys, with an assistant with a 4in Actuality Showing and Sony's City Bravia engine that promises to enhance shape, contrast and embellish saturation of photos and videos piece also minimising digital individual dissonance. A new property on the Xperia P is Architect Performance" study, which claims to use foursome subpixels for apiece constituent rather than the common triplet. The fourth subpixel utilised is mortal, which Sony says makes for a often brighter someone. It also claims enhanced saliency in sunlight.

Sony Xperia P

The Xperia P's 4in strain has a qHD breakdown of 960x540. With a pel density of 275 ppi, this should be a great covert for displaying kinky matter and an excellent rank of component. As a examination, the iPhone 4S's "retina" pass has a ppi of 326, piece the Samsung Herb Nexus has a ppi of 316, but these are both flagship to-end models: the Xperia P is credible to sit in the mid-range.

The Xperia P has an 8-megapixel camera that uses Sony's Exmor R representation sensor. This claims to tender higher sensitivity and lower somebody noise in low casual areas than tralatitious motile phone cameras. The Xperia P also has a VGA figurehead grappling camera for recording line and a micro-HDMI left that allows users to implement the phone direct up to a telecasting.

Sony Xperia P

The Sony Xperia P is supercharged by a dual-core 1GHz processor, has 1GB of RAM and 16GB of intimate storage, though there is no microSD paper slot for unneeded store. NFC (Nearer Champaign Connectedness) is built-in and the Xperia P is a quad-band HSDPA instrumentation, so it gift wreak on all digit subject Indweller networks - Telstra (850MHz) and Optus/Vodafone (900MHz/2100MHz).

Disappointingly, the Xperia P present originally board with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Sony says the sound instrument be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Withdraw Sandwich in the reaching months.

The Sony Xperia P is supposed to propulsion in Australia, though no pricing or practical topical availability has been declared.