Gizmodo Review: HTC Legend
Legend's slightly more powerful 600MHz processor behaved—well, like a legend. The 3.2-inch screen has the same amount of pixels as the Hero, but swaps the HVGA for a more superior AMOLED. The 5.0-megapixel camera is still the same quality, but has the much-welcomed addition of a flash. You get the picture—the Legend is building on the Hero's quality in incremental upgrades, but every change, however minor, radicalizes the experience of using the Legend.
The bottom and top of the back is actually made from rubberized plastic though, so there are no issues with wireless signals—unlike the first generation of the iPhone. Removing part of the case reveals a very thin battery and a touch-sensitive catch which keeps the SIM and microSD cards encased. It's a small point, but it's also the most polished example of a phone's innards that I've ever seen.
You're gonna love this feature: the trackball is an optical trackball, so no worries about that little rubber ball getting dirty and stuck. The buttons are also minimal, having only 8: The on/off button up top, the two volume controls on the top left, and then on the lower face, home, menu, back and search.
In my opinion, that's one great photo from a cell cam. For those who loves to take pictures without lugging around the Nikon, this phone seems to have a nice camera feature. It's only 5MP, so you may not want to choose the phone cam over the good one, but it's a great option when you want to travel light.
It works much like Mac OS X's Exposé function, bringing all seven homescreens up as thumbnails. The feature is very useful, particularly if you just can't remember which screen your mail, or the weather widget, is listed on. The pinch command takes some getting used to, but once you've got the gesture down-pat, it's a godsend.
HTC Desire ROM on Google’s Nexus One.
Want HTC Sense and Flash 10.1 on your Nexus One? Well here you go.
Instructions on how to do this can be found here: Redmond Pie
Nexus One: Manufacturing
Google takes us through the manufacturing process of their flagship device. Excellent video.
Nexus One: Testing
Testing. Looks like HTC and Google are making sure that they don't have the same issues Apple did during the release of the original iPhones.
Nexus One by Google
Google has finally done it... an open sourced phone more powerful than the iPhone and just as pretty. Nexus One by Google and HTC. This phone is just too sick!
Powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm QSD 8250 processor, the Nexus One, which runs the Android 2.1 (Éclair) OS, sports a 3.7” WVGA (800 x 480) widescreen AMOLED touchscreen display (which, alas, does not support mulittouch), a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash offering 2x digital zoom with geotagging functionality courtesy of the Nexus One’s integrated AGPS capabilities, an accelerometer, digital compass, 512MB Flash and 512MB RAM – with the latter being expandable thanks to an in-built microSD card slot (up to 32GB – a 4GB card being bundled). You can also factor in Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and WiFi b/g/n wireless connectivity. There’s also animated wallpapers, of course, which respond to user taps and the full level of integration with Google apps that you’d expect including Google Earth whilst will allow users to navigate to well known landmarks via voice command.
In terms of dimensions, the Google Nexus One measures in at 119mm (H) x 59.8mm (W) x 11.5mm (D) whilst weighing in at 130 grams inclusive of battery whilst, as far as battery life is concerned you’re looking at up to 7hrs (3G) or 10hrs (2G) talktime, up to 250hrs (3G) or 290hrs (2G) standby.
Via: TFTS
Goodbye 2009…
Well at the end or 2009 Apples iPhone 3GS is the definite winner. Still months ahead of the competition... I honestly thought RIM, Nokia or HTC would step up. Come one HTC... I know you can do way better than what you're putting out.
2010... wow! That's crazy. I'm really looking forward to seeing what Apple puts out next. Lets see that everyone has ready to pump out for the new year.
So everyone have a Happy and Safe New Year Everyone!