Showing posts with label htc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label htc. Show all posts

Saturday, March 9, 2013

The HTC One

Introduction
What's not to love about it. The single sheet of aluminium built and the ultra pixel camera and the HTC boom sound. Is that it? There is more than that meets the eye. Its just 7.3 mm thick with a 4.7" display with super lcd3 display technology. Due to smaller screen size it was possible for the manufacturer to bring the pixel density or ppi (pixels per square inch) to 468 which is an amazing breakthrough super passing the retina display. It has beats audio backing it up on the sounds and music. HTC managed to being in dual speakers which are pretty wide and will hit you to your face when you take the phone on hand looking at. With 93db its quiet loud enough. The 4up (ultra pixel) sensor seemed to do what it has promised and on the whole the HTC one stands to its name.

Pros
With the Qualcomm snapdragon 600 ticking at 1.7 GHz it functions flawless and thanks to jellybean there are no break frames or glitches while processing anywhere. The adreno 320 serves best when it comes to graphics processing. On the whole the phone really is an wonderful multimedia masterpiece. With 2gb of ram it can have more standby apps or can process high definition programs, applications or games. Now that's one to do them all. On the software part the HTC one comes with the new sense 5 UI which is far simpler compared to the previous iterations. The blink feed is a boon for news lovers. Your news is one touch away to update you. Its never ending and one gets to customize what they want to see or what interests them to see on the blink feed. That's innovation. The app drawer looks more holo thus making look more polished.everything works super smooth on the HTC one. Am not a camera person so am not gonna talk about the Zoe but have to say you have many things you got to do with the HTC one.

Corns
To my disappointment the HTC one comes out of the box with 4.1.2 though 4.2.2 was available right from November. Though everything is amazing and blazing fast to the hardware and the premium built quality the part where HTC never satisfied android lovers is on the UI. HTC always makes a tip to toe customisation on the android versions by thus makes it looks a lot unpleasant. The apps are now customized according to Google's holo theme and when you run them on the HTC one they really do look awkward. It feels as if those apps are ported from another os to the HTC's. The whoe of sense is  a lot disappointing as you can see all the manufacturers are trying to get their custom skins close to Google's stack to give users a uniform experience but that's where Sony and HTC are lacking. In the sense there is no widget drawer. We get to add widgets only from the home screen. You can't move apps from the app drawer to the home screen by continuous hold on the icon as again if you want it in the home screen get it from the home screen. Multitasking look a lot similar to the Nokia's N9 meego running smart phone. I really didn't like the sense 5. That's one thing that's keeping me away from buying that phone as there is no android experience. It may not matter to many but to me when it comes to an os there should be some pure experience of it. Samsung's touch wiz offers a pure yet coloured Google experience which I love to use with the touch wiz nature ux. On to of all that the 2300mah batter can't give enough juice for heavy users. A super phone that need more juice might run out of power so make sure to carry your charger where ever you go.

Conclusion
HTC one is an amazing phone to have around. HTC lovers are up for a treat. For users who don't like the user experience do wait for the next best thing. Well I am waiting.. Are you?

Sunday, October 14, 2012

GMAIL app updates for android

An upcoming version 4.2 of the Gmail app has been spotted in the wild and has two new features, one of which was right on top of the most requested features for this app.http://youtu.be/00xUH86sJV0

Friday, June 22, 2012

Jelly Bean is 4.1

just some time before Google unintentionally mentioned at Google play store that the galaxy nexus enabling HSPA+ is available with 4.1 JELLY BEAN, Now this an early surprise that confirms the confusion over 4.1 or 5. The visual look and feel of the home screen has changed a bit. Thus comes to our notice that the jelly bean update will be just a minor tweak over the os and i guess updating all the current ICS running devices won't be tough to update their devices as much as the once with gingerbread to ice cream sandwich was.
i personally request Samsung, htc and all others who have custom skinned their ICS devices to give us a bit more of the a pure android experience over the jelly bean update. lets hope for the best. the Google i/p o/p event is going to happen on 27th of this month and we already have confirmed that the next iteration is going to be 4.1 JELLY BEAN. hope there are features that would really impress us. stay tuned

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Dog fight: windows phone 8 vs ios6 vs android 4.x

As every one was excited about the windows phone 8 event held some time back i would like to say that they have bought some wonderful improvements to the next line up from this fall
           
Its something really great that they not only came up with a completely new level of how windows phones use to work but also bought more and powerful hardware support.
Now this is what we actually call ecosystem. The windows ecosystem is really amazing to see it evolve without disturbing the growth of the sub platforms of windows powered devices.
with windows phone 8 they open the eyes for all and for everything
*they have promised multi-core processors ( please not that the windows phone 8 could support on devices up to 64 cores. well i then guess windows 9 is far far away)  
        

*they have made native coding available from windows phone 8 and that's gonna bring all the new and most wanted as soon as possible or on the release for other platforms
*As we already know that the window phone market place climbed to a tremendous reach of 100,000+ apps in a very shot span of time and with native code enabled i assume in early 2013 they will be having more or less of what android play store or apple's app store would offer
* havok vision engine suit will integrated with the windows phone 8 os for  brilliant interfacing and graphic details over the games, Now that's real big step for the windows phone platform.
*the best of all they render with Direct X for all 3D graphics and with this the graphic experience created for the pc can be expressed with no change over the phones we will be using as they share the same rendering method with the directX and this will really gonna be awesome on the gaming part.
*when it comes to app development windows has made it look unique. Which i mean to say that the developer will have to develop the app only once for any one of the platform and they will be easily ported the others in the ecosystem
for example if i develop a game for the windows 8 system. they will and also can be used with the windows phone 8 and windows 7.5 and this all can be done without a change in it.
*with native coding available developers can easily port apps with the least changes to be made to make them run on the windows phone 8 and windows 8
*now this will lead to a very high market place gain. windows phone 8 doesn't need any kind of separate app development method. the one made for the 7.5 will support the 8 too so is for the 7.5. so by this am really happy to say that Microsoft had made a breakthrough over fragmentation over the devices and the OS
*from windows phone 8 all updates will be received OTA all over the world. now that's a big deal and the OS supports 25 more languages than what iOS6 promised
*on the multi-core processing Microsoft has made sure that all the manufacturers use qualcomm's chip-sets as they are all 22nm technology and offers drastic battery performance and better processing.
Now that's what i call planed processing, Powerful yet efficient
there are lot many exciting features about windows phone 8 but these some mentioned above amuses me the most
*windows phone 8 now delivers video calling on the devices even with applications like skype and so on. even the skype call's data will render in the background when multitasking and when we get a call i doesn't so it different than a normal network received call and when answered gets into the app.. All these new steps are mind blowing and tempting.
          
*When it comes to ios for the past 5 years we see the same UI and now with ios6 there aren't much too after watching what windows phone 8 has to offer. when it comes to UI i would say that android made sure there is something new to see and feel but that went well only with the nexus devices. the custom skins of the other manufacturers is really a turn off and spoils really what the android had to offer. that's where windows unit made clear that there will be no custom UI allowed. that's really a good step by Microsoft.
*the re-sizable home screen tiles they bring a lot more than a wigit, It can act as icon to the app and when expanded to the desired size gives information about what is going on with that application according to the size maximized or minimized. now that's something really innovative and really satisfies for the people who wanted wigits to be available for the windows phones.
*the new voice assistant makes you feel like you are talking to another person to do your tasks on your need
the phone responds and understands what you want to do like your friend. i would rather say it performs better than siri and samsung's s-voice. it was really impressive what Microsoft have bought in to this windows phone 8
*this voice assistant can possibly do everything with voice control on the phone what you do with your fingers to access and i would like to say that no other assistant does it other than audible on the windows phone 8
*the NFC on the windows phone 8 will and as far as i have seen makes the most of it. almost every app can be used with nfc on multi-player mode or transferring contacts or any information one would like to share but this works over every app including the 3rd party applications, but when it comes to the other os it works only with the native apps! this is big. and Microsoft has seeded it.
* the complete wallet experience which you wanna hold like your credit card payments made, credit card payment yet to be made and to who
*the coupons you get on offers. its a digital wallet that can hold everything your physical one can hold. now that's something new too compared to the google wallet.
* with nokia map integration on the windows phone 8 they get turn by turn navigation and we know nokia maps are the best when it comes to navigation
*the real-time multitasking is the best of its kind as it renders data in the background. and this is not just for the native apps but also for the 3rd party applications too which all os doesn't have access to
*with abolition over fragmentation am really glad to say that windows phone has a bright future as with windows phone 8 they bring satisfaction to the hardware manufacturers, consumers & developers
such innovation is yet to see in any of the mobile os.
*unlike the ios the windows phone 8 offers expandable memory slot like present in android and promises to perform really to its best. so we can expand the memory in the future without disturbing the present data. so can applications be moved to the expanded memory location. that's so cool what android offers and this works on all 3rd party applications.

there was a question asked whether people would go for the windows phone ditching their android/ios devices

my answer and why
yes i would ditch my android/ios device for a windows phone 8 

why?
*pure windows phone experience which can't be felt with android because of the manufacturer's custom skin which really is not appreciable
                
*with ios am bored of see the same stuff for the past 5 years as with each update there are few noticeable changes and nothing new.
* there is no fragmentation in the windows phone os but with apple and android they are  suffering so
*the seem to be having a promising os support which android doesn't deliver.
*windows phones are smoother and will perform better with the windows phone 8.


conclusion:
i really feel that windows phone 8 is tempting compared to any other os so far.
ios6 is not really that impressive and waiting to see what google's got to deliver at this month's fall.
for all i have seen windows phone 8 will be my choice of OS from now on than hanging on and suffering with boring ios and fragmented android with custom skins.
windows phone 8 will do all your pc can do because the windows phone as well as the desktops works with the  same rendering engines and architecture so one can say that as powerful hardware your windows phone 8 is that much pc experience in the form of 
*performance
*graphics
*uniform availability of apps for all windows 8, windows phone 8 & windows phone 7.5-7.8 with just developing it once and porting apps with native coding
thus with windows phone 8 i personally guarantee that one can perform all which is done on a windows operated desktop.
now that's cool and obviously go for such a powerful os than for ios6 or the upcoming android

the sad part is that the current windows phones running the 7.5 won't be getting updated to 8 as windows phone 8 is made keeping in mind for multi-cores, performance, gaming and so on. so Microsoft has promised a 7.8 update that bring the home screen of the the windows phone 8 and the navigation related stuffs delivered by nokia, they also port the camera application with most of the windows phone 8 capabilities and so many more.
so can't say widow's 7.5 users are left aloof.
Microsoft has promised that they will give software updates for their devices for at least a minimum span of 18 months from the day of the device released to the market.
can't wait for windows phone 8 coming this fall.
just waiting to get one and let go of my galaxy s2   


Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Instagram for Android updated with bug fixes, support for HTC One X


Instagram’s still-new Android app, which has already attracted more than 5 million downloads, has been updated with some key bug fixes and support for the HTC One X smartphone.
It’s been an incredible past few weeks for Instagram. Facebook acquired the company for $1 billion cash and stock on Monday, just days after it launched the Android app. Facebook, spurred by a high level of mobile risk, likely sees Instagram as another way it can put its stamp on iOS, Android, and potentially other platforms.
The Android app had a few noticeable bugs when it launched, including some photos not appearing in the device’s gallery as well as location not being updated. It also didn’t work on Tegra-3-equipped devices like the HTC One X, even though that phone was featured in some of its marketing materials.
Here’s a full list of what’s been changed in the Android app:
• Bug fixes for tablet users
• Location for photo geotag is updated more often
• Fixed Instagram photos not appearing in gallery
• Better support for Nvidia Tegra 3 handsets/tablets
• Increased device support for Instagram built-in camera and filters (including the HTC One X)