Monday, September 30, 2013

HTC One - one month a year ...

And as you probably guessed it today, I 'll tell you about all the well-known , but not everyone's favorite smartphone HTC One!

I chose this smartphone dooolgo , believe me . I have revised and re-read a bunch of reviews, I went to one hundred times the store equipment and managed to get their views of consultants . Do you know why I could not dare to buy ? - Simple - I was the owner of SGS3 and SGS2. When you get used to something ( to the plastic , pop overloaded and Laga Touch Wiz) from that hard to give up , but I can " overcame " and bought the HTC One. But time is running out and that's been a month since I turned on my brand new HTC and now I 'll tell you what happened to him happened this month .

Corps.
I have the black model . Long chose between black and silver , but took the black because the assembly had significantly better. By the same white to me a little fed up . Now comes the good news : the body is resistant to scratches, but not to the rolls of asphalt. One friend I have him and he does not watch too much , but the situation is :

The feel of the mat body can not describe! No squeaks and no backlash . But there is one small , but the bad news - the inscription «Beats audio» almost worn off , and this applies only black models . The white I had ever met.

Display .

As you know , there are two deliveries HTC One. They differ in color. Models have serial number , which starts at the HT display goes to the warm colors (white color gives yellowness ), and models with serial, starting at FA displays go in cold colors (white color gives the blue ) . I first wanted to buy a smart phone with display, leaving in cool tones , but at the last moment changed his mind . In this adventure does not end there , in addition to color brightness of these displays are different , and much ! At the first delivery of the display has a brightness of ~ 440Kd/m2 , in the second ~ 520Kd/m2 ( about the same as that of the iPhone 5 ) , in the third 600Kd/m2 ~ ! For the latest model is hunting if you need a very distinct appearance of the sun. How do they differ I do not know, and especially on this subject and I steamed 400Kd/m2 for the eyes . With regard to personal feelings , the display is simply gorgeous . I confess that after the IPS can not look at Amoled! The magnificent viewing angles, true color , well, about the clarity I did not say anything.

Camera .

Perhaps the most controversial in this smartphone was the camera . 4Mp built on technology " ultrapiksel " , the idea being that the size of a pixel in the HTC One more than the standard matrices , but these huge pixels on the sensor could knead just 4Mp . In fact, lack definition , but only when viewed from the screen smartphone. I use the camera often , and indeed with the advent instagrama and similar mobile photography has become much more popular ! For these social networking sites , and just for the camera itself is more than enough . The best thing about this camera One color reproduction ! In my opinion it is the best of all the smartphones I've ever seen ! And thanks to the optical image stabilization gives less blur images. But because of it ( OIS ) on some images appear " zamylennye " edge . Here are some examples , see for yourself :

Highscreen Alpha GTX. Available bowl.

Offensive hybrid smartphones that combine the functions of a smartphone and tablet size can be called open! Another trend in today's market, where most of the cream removed the company Samsung, with the release of the first Galaxy Note, in full growth is gaining momentum , and the numerous announcements of such devices do not talk about the poor capacity of the market. Among such hybrids can be treated differently, and cherish for the big screen and hate for the monstrosity , but can not be ignored ! In the early and mid-2013 , only the lazy manufacturer has not announced such a thing in its lineup . And even those who studiously ignored these gadgets also resigned - to recall Sony Xperia Z ultra or HTC One Max. However, here as usual Samsung tries to jump himself, along with manufactured Galaxy Note 2 and the anticipated Galaxy Note 3 , providing a further 2 models - Galaxy Mega 5.8 and Galaxy Mega 6.3

Some call these things SmartPAd, but I really like the term , polivshiysya from the merger of Russian words tablet and smartphone , or simply " Cover ". So, what is it? I would refer to such " plafonds " all the gadgets with a touchscreen and simkarty with a diagonal of 5 to 7 inches. This is exactly the niche that until recently almost empty , because all that is less than usually attributed to smartphones , and anything more to the plates .

Today our guest is one of those " lampshades » Highscreen Alpha GTX. The device is equipped with a display diagonal of 5.7 inches with HD resolution of 1280x720 pixels. The screen is bright , and the viewing angles are acceptable. Apparently touchscreen and a matrix formed separately . This can be seen from the fact that the picture is subtly recessed, and, as it is below the glass. Because of this , and even a large capacity battery 3000Mah, the thickness of the gadget is nearly a centimeter, and weight of 234 grams. On a diagonal spoiled FHD displays a user definitely find something to complain about , but on the whole screen looks quite decent , I would say a solid four .

The very same body reminded me most of all increased in size Samsung Galaxy S3. much like the back cover of glossy plastic texture "under the metal " and even almost identical to the influx of the main window and an 8- megapixel camera. Only here we have a single LED flash , applying the paint and lettering just below Highscreen dual lattice of the main speaker.

Claims for ergonomics gadget if any, of talking on these devices are, and they are located on the top button, to which it is not easy to reach with one hand , and the volume rocker , which for some reason is on the left , and pushed up, almost into the corner . As if it was assumed that the device will be more likely to lie in the left hand. Interestingly, the right and bottom board not doing anything at all , except for a lone microphone hole and micro USB connector for charging displayed on the upper end , by the power button and a headphone jack . Strange patterning on such , in general, not a small package .

On the front side of the noteworthy unusual touch-sensitive keys below the display. Moreover, they are not unusual in the sense load and how they are drawn . Here, the developers have shown a creative approach , depicting the button context menu and back in the form of small white squares , but the house was a small house . Maybe the idea would cost to put the squeeze through and portray the home button is also in the video point of the pyramid ?

But if the body and the screen is quite predictable , it 's filling Alpha GTX deserves a closer look . The fact that the machine is powered by a new budget Taiwanese 4- core processor, mediatek mt6589. This chip , which was announced earlier in the year , and to live dobravshisya gadgets in the spring - is the most affordable 4- nuclear alternative products from Samsung, Qualcomm and Huawei, and in fact the second mass product after Qualcomm Snapdragon, because neither Samsung Exynos, neither Huawei HiSilicon K3V2 practically the side not covered , remaining in their products.

So, what exactly is MTK6589 - 4 cores , frequency of 1.2 GHz and graphics from PowerVR SGX544MP. The RAM is 1 GB, but internal , as in most of these gadgets - 4 GB , expandable cards microSD. In general , according to the specifications, the device gets a good level of the flagships of the previous year. Let's look at what it sopsoben mtk6589 ?

Antutu test showed almost 12,000 parrots that in general the results are not far from Nvidia tegra 3 or Exynos 4412 . To tell the truth , and the interface moves flawlessly. The response to the launch of applications , browsing and downloading pages to go absolutely comfortable level , so that, for most applications the choice of processor can be called successful . At least , compared to the 2 -core mtk6577 previous generation the situation has become much better, especially against the background that the user gets out of the box very nimble version of Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. The only bottleneck in my opinion is the same 1 GB of RAM, not allowing the user to roam as follows ...

As cells , they are traditionally two . The front , 2-D and the main 8- megapixel , both with autofocus and face recognition WebBuilder . As for the photo , the main camera copes quite bearable. Its interface can be found and shoot panoramas and Auto HDR, balancing light and dark side of the picture. Works though he is not as cool as the current champions, but to save the situation and avoid overexposed shots still possible.

Another interesting feature is that the camera refused to take off, cycling internal memory . It was only after the installation of microSD cards start, so buy additional memory card in any case seems to come. Video , though written FHD, but the recording format is not the most progressive - 3Gp, and another unusual moment hidden in the menu. Here , the recording quality selected by one of the 4 points, low, medium , high and good .

That's it. First high , and then good . What is this? Lost in translation or creative approach is hard to say ... In general, the machine is suitable to be the most advanced tablet than a phone. Although the unit , as well as most of my classmates can boast support for 2- simok . There is also a GPS and an accelerometer and digital compass, and even an FM radio. In general set for all occasions . It seems to me that to keep the ear quarter pounds is not too comfortable, but maybe I 'm wrong ... But in the bag to have such gadget is the one! In the end, thanks to the powerful battery it lasted in my sleep mode for almost a week ! And when you consider that the retail price of Highscreen Alpha GTX at the beginning of July 2013 is about 12,000 rubles , the purchase of this gadget is quite justify the money spent on it . At least , I see such a purchase is much more meaningful than the same Samsung galaxy Mega 5.8, with its two - four cores , a small battery and the screen is much worse , and , besides, a lot of money ! However, many people , so many opinions . I just expressed my point of view ...

Overview of the shell Sense 5 on the example flagship HTC One

A little disappointed in sales last year , HTC decided to change the direction of development of design in the hope that it change the alignment for the better. If earlier in the design of buildings dominated by rounded shapes , the edges are now more than chopped, and in the case became more metal , and in general , in the general design of the current and last year's flagship One X One is not much, if it is "common " in general is.
Approximately in the same direction and the shell changed . From the colorful riot of weather and animations we have come to the absolute minimalism with an imaginary focus on features that I honestly was not impressed . Most of the innovations I personally have been greatly overrated, and in practice were competing for the title unless the chips, but no more than that ... why I believe so , and that the envelope of good - see the video .
P.S. Once again I remind you that the claim regarding BlinkFeed I had an exclusively as the resident of Ukraine , who also would like to read their news, but can not. Residents of other CIS countries certainly have that opportunity , and we - no . VKontakte , by the way , could also add to the list of supported social networks, but for some reason our interests are not respected, and they want us to buy their smartphones ... sorry ...

Two sim - survivor or Nokia Asha 501

Greetings, dear!
Then I got up the phone from Nokia. Do not top-end smartphone, no! Youngest of a family of Asha.
Many have said that Nokia, they say, all that we expect from it can not be anything decent, but ... When I picked it up, and then popolzovalsya week, I realized that I really want to make it your second phone, replacing available. Yes, it is quite simple screen (though, to expect anything for a price below 4k enough), yes, there camera without AF, but he lives 48 days of standby time and a very holistic (probably the most accurate word). That's happened with Nokia's gain my attention. Well done.

Orange Brick News- Nokia Amber

New issue of Orange Brick News for you !

I hope you like it!

Text version . For those who loves to read.

Today Nokia officially announced the launch of a large-scale renovation Lumia Amber.

This update improves the image processing algorithms , including better noise reduction, color reproduction and almost complete control over exposure and auto focus.

In the model, Lumia 920 have the opportunity to customize ISO 800 to 3200. Also, after you install the update to your smartphone will have three new programs : Nokia Smart Camera, Nokia Video Trimmer and Nokia Glance. All of these programs will be available on all Nokia Lumia with WP 8. Only the latter program will not be available on Nokia Lumia 520 and 625.

Amber update will make it possible to mute an incoming call turn the phone 180 degrees , and you can unlock your device by double tapom screen. Owners of Nokia lumia 920 , 925 , 928 , after you have removed the video, you can edit it using the Nokia Video Trimmer and upload to YouTube.

The exact dates to patch yet. In various countries and regions , it will be distributed gradually.

Thank you for your attention!

Supra M943, and M127G. 10 inches each.

If we look at the modern market of Android tablets, you can see that it is almost close to saturation. A variety of devices , large and small screens with diagonals 7, 8 and 10 inches for every taste and every budget await us in the stores , but this variety to choose from sometimes it is not easy . So , if we talk about the biggest 10 -inch Android tablets, then you can select two popular types of machines . With the wide- stretched matrix aspect ratio of 16 to 10 and almost square screen 4 to 3 , as in the tablets from Apple, and the fans there are one and the second solution .

And in order to be noticeable in a series of generally dissimilar devices , different manufacturers are trying to stand out or the design or materials of the shell , or the price or specification. Two, that I would like to talk today apply to one and the second type of gadgets and released by Supra, whose products are still like that eluded our attention to you . This model M943 , and M127G, relating to the plates of average price level , cost about 10,000 rubles.

The devices vary a lot and the form factor and the filling material , and even housing. For example, M943, at a cost of less than 9000 rubles is made of aluminum. It made the entire back wall of the unit , except for the lateral ends , which are the keys and connectors . To be precise , all the controls are focused on the right.

Here are the power button, lock the screen rotation and a hole for soft reset, if the tablet will hang. Further, under the long and curved lid there are card slot microSD, up to 32 GB which can be expanded 16 GB available to the device itself. Next is a mini HDMI port , and, according to the specifications , it supports video output up to the new format of the Ultra HD 4096P.

Below is a micro USB slot , intended for connection of the device to a computer or any external drives or 3G modem to the plate , using the bundled OTG cable. It is worth noting that by using micro USB device from the computer , though charging, but it makes it a long and sad, or need to use the AC adapter with an output current of not less than amps.

Here, the developers decided to use a separate power connector , located next to the headphone jack . Finally, at the bottom right end of the microphone is located . The left end of the device , although it follows the opposite one , in fact is only a decorative plate . Unfortunately slots for SIM cards , and thus embedded 3G module unit has . Also curious is that with such an abundance of buttons tablet devoid of buttons control the sound , and add or subtract the volume can only be from the screen, which is not always convenient. As for the case, it is not too thin and very uveststy . With a thickness of about 1 inch gadget weighs 625 grams including the battery because of the powerful 7800 Mah, according to developers providing up to 10 hours of battery life.

The screen , though a compromise in terms of resolution - is familiar to many of 1024 by 768 pixels, stands a very good quality of the picture itself . This IPS matrix with great reserve of brightness and very good viewing angles . In fact, this means that the image remains substantially unchanged at any even almost horizontal angle. This fact makes almost come to terms with not too high detail , however, would be standing here twice the resolution of the display , and the unit price immediately jumped up to 25-30 percent on ... I know that many are not willing to pay for such a picture , so that the selection screen generally quite justified.

The tablet has two cameras - a main 5- megapixel and front , with a resolution of 1.3 megapixels. The camera application is quite significantly different from the standard on Android 4.1, and for the better . For example here adds the ability to high-speed burst shooting , including an interval of 10 frames in 1 second. A rather unusual - one press of the shutter button fires a series , which is then displayed on the screen . Then you can save all or selected pictures. Another chip cameras are 10 preset filters , a la Instagram, capable of on the fly to make fun of shooting modes . It is sometimes convenient , sorry only that the very quality images at a very average level. In the video recording camera capable of recording 720p, and at the same time do a full-sized 5- megapixel photos . Also a very rare feature , which do not always meet even the flagship devices , it is clear that on these items in the Supra worked very thoroughly . As for the interface of the device , here the developers almost did not intervene in the clean Android 4.1.1 with updates on - air. If you do it will seem boring , Operating System from Google as nor any other can be screwed into the shell of everything your heart desires ...

We turn to the hardware stuffing , and here we find a very rare visitor . The fact that the 943 model is based on the 4 - core CPU Allwinner A31 Cortex A7, operating at a frequency of 1 gigahertz . This chipset is unusual for the fact that works in conjunction with a powerful 2 -core graphics co-processor Power VR SGX 544mp2 from Imagination Technologies

But before we turn to the tests , I 'd like to talk about the second gadget , it's Supra M127G. The device is also equipped with 10- inch matrix , but with proportions , just a characteristic of the Android tablets. Here, the case is completely made ​​of plastic, but not without some raisins, and even some design pieces . The fact that the profile has a teardrop-shaped unit , first applied to the tablet Sony Tablet S, but if there is an influx started at the upper edge around the floor dropped off the road , there is the body flows smoothly from the large to the small faces .

With this tablet is very comfortable to hold , volume keys fall exactly under the fingers of his right hand , and the main window 5- megapixel camera will never rub on the table , as between it and the surface is always about 2 millimeters.

Power button and headphone jack are spaced perfectly logical at the ends , and the upper end of a given lattice stereo speaker connector for syncing and charging and micro USB slot for a SIM card. In contrast to the 943 model unit looks much more massive , still affects slightly more diagonal and the other body , and can be recharged from the USB port and is equipped with a high-quality built-in 3G module from Huawei. On the other hand there is no HDMI output and slot microSD, so that 16 gigabytes of internal memory will have to extend only through the cloud of virtual drives.

The screen has a diagonal of a standard for such a resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels and it looks like the same type of IPS panels , because the picture looks no less great. Here's the solution does not bother so much , yet the density of points in the 149 vs. 131 pixels per inch looks nicer , although I know a few people who do not see any difference in the resolution and comparing the image on the iPAD 2 and 4 could not even clearly say which screen is better , so that the perception of each person - very individual thing ... Ok , let's move on . 127 model is also equipped with two cameras on the E - 5 and 2 megapixels, the only application to take pictures here quite ordinary - something that puts the default Google, so you can shoot and choice of subjects shooting apparatus deprived. Why ? For me it is a mystery.

As for filling the hardware is in contrast to the 4- nuclear allwinner on 943 models , and features a 2 -core boxchip RK3066, operating at a higher frequency in the 1.6 gigahertz. Plus, the graphics subsystem is used as a time-tested mali 400 , and I can not wait to see what ligaments will show the best results.

So , we start the synthetic test Antutu - 943 finishes with 11270 parrots , while the 127G shows the result of 10382 . With a small margin of almost 900 points wins Allwinner, and how are things in games ? Let's try to Epic Citadel with maximum performance settings . Run Benchmark on both plates.

First finish M943 with the rate of 47.6 frames per second , followed by the results of divided M127G with an index of 40.5 frames per second.

Yeah, looks like a bunch of AllWinner and Power VR copes still slightly better, although , in fairness, it should be noted , detailed render a virtual lock was moving fairly smoothly on both devices.

Well, in my opinion, for gaming M943 is a better choice in part because of the availability of HDMI output to the TV , and the camera had more interesting . However, to use the tablet out , and watching movies too, I would choose 127G, and because of the convenient and body - and for extended display, but most importantly, because of the built-in 3G capabilities and access to the Internet through the SIM card. Let it costs about 2,000 rubles and more inferior in synthetic tests , to travel over the Internet and use e-mail are important very different reasons. In the end , everyone chooses what is more to their liking, the main thing that was plenty to choose from , and a new gadget please you with trouble-free operation ...

HTC Zara mystery with a female name. The first render.

Following the release of HTC One , HTC has introduced several new smartphones that were first rumored , and then were put into practice . Namely 600 HTC Desire , Desire 500 , reduced the flagship One Mini. Soon to provide increased flagship One Max.

Directly to the most news online has consistently there are rumors about a mysterious smartphone HTC Zara, which until now was unknown .

Today Twitter Account «@ urbanstrata» ( reliable source , like «@ evleaks») published the first render of the HTC Zara and some information about him , I 'll tell you right now .

According to the «@ urbanstrata» a smartphone will be equipped with : a dual-core chip with a clock speed of 1.2 GHz , namely Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 , it follows that in the Merchant Adreno 305 graphics core supports . RAM 1 GB smartphone , and 8 will be built-in and slot microSD. Display gadget such as Desire and 600 of 4.5 inches with a resolution 960h540 pixels . Two cameras , the main on the 8MP , the resolution of the front is not yet known . The battery capacity will be 2100 mAh.
As the Android 4.3 operating system is used with proprietary shell HTC Sense.
It mentions no HTC Sense 5 , and HTC Sense 5.5, which up to this , as well as on the smartphone , no one knew .
I hope it will be possible to remove BlinkFeed and exhibit the EQ settings .

The device design is familiar to HTC devices in 2013 . But unlike HTC One housing at least its rear part is made of plastic. In the same way one can argue about the presence of stereo speakers on the front of the gadget.

Nokia 515 - Икона стиля

Yesterday, the Finnish company held in Moscow a very interesting presentation by presenting her a new Nokia 515 with a number of much -critical functions. The design is one of the features of the device. Nokia claims that the 515 model - it is a style icon . The housing is made of aluminum , glass is protected by Gorilla Glass 2 with polarization filter and the keyboard is made of hardened polycarbonate polymer .

The second major aspect is the camera that has a 5MP unit with LED flash . But the camera is not simple, but with a number of important functions .

• « Panorama" - to create a wide-angle photographs , including group and the landscape ;
• « Burst " - shooting up to five frames in a row followed by selection of the best photographs;
• « Self Portrait" - a mode with built-in voice prompts for a perfect alignment of self-portraits , even without front camera .

Nokia also unveiled an exclusive service Slam for sharing photos via Bluetooth, the 515- member model 2 pressed without additional interface between the models . 515 allows you to publish the pictures taken at once to social networks directly from the gallery .

The device consists of a piece with rounded edges made ​​of aluminum , which has two colors : black and white. The other characteristics are the same :

image2 ,4- inch display with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels ;
image64 MB RAM and 256 MB internal memory + microSD slot up to 32GB ;
image5- megapixel camera module with LED flash ;
image3G + Bluetooth 3.0 + module HSDPA 3,5 G;
imageAkkumulyator 1200 mAh;
imageRazmery Nokia 515 are 114 × 48 × 11 mm , weight - 103 g ;
imageApparatnaya Platform : Series 40;

Nokia said that it was possible to increase the effective web browsing by 90 %. The device has been pre-installed applications Facebook, Twitter, Nimbuzz, Mail for Exchange. The phone has the ability to work as a modem for your PC or laptop.


The gadget will be priced from $ 150 to $ 210 , in Russia at the cost device will be 6990 rubles. On the shelves unit appears at the end of September. On sale will be two versions of the device: 1 and 2 -Sim -Sim. The format of SIM- card Nokia 515 - microSIM.