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HTC: customers prefer thin phones to better battery life | The Verge
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“At an event today, HTC’s vice president of product strategy Bjorn Kilburn noted that the company had conducted research last year to find out whether customers preferred thin smartphones to those which compromised thickness for better battery life. The answer, interestingly, was that they generally preferred thinness, at which point its plans for 3,000mAh-plus devices were removed from the roadmap.”
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Yes, most of the customers preffer thin design against battery performance thickness, but that’s just because they aren’t professional or power users, so maybe one charge will get them through the day. What about the others? No 3000 mAh batteries on HTC?
How about manufacturing extended batteries with replacement backplates? HTC should learn a thing or two from Samsung!
http://mobile.theverge.com/2012/4/19/2960922/htc-customers-prefer-thin-phones-to-better-battery-life
Mobile World Congress has started today
085 days
#MWC is the most important mobile show in Europe, a “must” follow-up of the C.E.S in the U.S.
You can find a list of the hottest items for today, the 1st day of the event.
Pretty exciting stuff, I tell ya!
- Asus Padfone. Here, too!
- ZTE smartphones, a full line-up!
- Nokia line-up: Nokia Lumia 610, Nokia Lumia 900 and the flagship of the flagships, the 808 PureView, 41 MP camera!!
- HTC at MWC 2012.
- Samsung launches Galaxy Beam and Galaxy Note 10.1.
- Panasonic Eluga Power.
- Fujitsu quad-core.
- Sony Xperia series.
- ViewSonic ViewPhone 4S and 4E.
- Huawei line-up.
- Android is present there.
And last but not least, our own @andreigarbea, with J&M Gadgets: you can find his channel here, give it a try, they make great video reviews!
Got a lot o’ readin’ to do tonite!
New Live wallpaper for any Android phone
0239 days
Just a quick update on a great Live wallpaper I stumbled across Friday.
It’s called Verizon Wave Live Wallpaper and it was taken from a file – dump of the leaked upcoming HTC Vigor Android smartphone on Verizon U.S.A. Among other files like regular wallpapers and ringtones was this file. The only thing I wanna write about is that it doesn’t consume more energy than a regular wallpaper. It does not appear in the battery consumption log which means it takes less than 1% of the weak 1230 mAh equipping my Desire HD.
Oh, yes, some of the users report it causes motion sickness, so be aware!:)
A demo here from bmmahfood user on YouTube.
You can get it here.
My HTC Desire HD received the Gingerbread update!
0382 days
So, yes, the update is here! The 2.3 version a.k.a Gingerbread is pushed to HTC Desire HD as promised. My version is 2.3.3 with 2.1 HTC Sense still on it. You can find it in Settings/ About Phone/ Software Updates. It’s 100 MB and it takes 2 minutes to download it over Wi-Fi. All the previous settings, applications, even application’s settings are kept.
I have to say I was a little worried about the whole update business, as there are so many ways in which you can brick your phone. Or you need to spend another 2 hours afterwards restoring everything because something went wrong? Who can you blame?
The main (aesthetics) improvements I spotted while browsing the phone were:
- the Notifications bar got a 2-tab line: first tab holds the usual notifications tab and the second is “Quick Settings”, which allows you to access Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, the Wi-Fi hotspot, G.P.S, Mobile Network and all phone settings. I can think of at least 3 or 4 widget applications becoming obsolete.
- unlock the screen on the Weather/Clock widget and you’ll be presented with the usual animation (the wipers if it’s raining) but ALSO sound: the sound of rain and the sound of the wiper’s motor – quite neat! Also the clock movement is a bit laggy!
- the bottom bar containing the “Menu” button, the Phone button and the “Personalize” button is thinner and the whole design is crisper.
- inside the menu there’s a new bottom bar holding also “Favorite” and “Downloaded” applications tab. It’s a very good idea if you wanna have a faster access to the most important applications for you.
Of course, there are many more important updates coming with Gingerbread, but that should require more than a peek. You can find a complete list with the improvements here.
Looking forward to the power-saving improvements!
Picture courtesy of Christmas-Clip Art.
I chose to choose the worse – yet another iPhone4 vs HTC Desire comparison
1643 days
I keep on playing with an iPhone 4 for a few days now. Why? I have one of the best smartphones on the market at the moment, namely the HTC Desire. It’s got one of the best OS’ in existence at the moment: Android by Google. It does almost everything I need it to do and shines-on except for a few small “unimportant” details, like battery life and the lack of pushed-email (Vodafone’s fault on this one!). Then why looking over the fence where everybody says the grass is greener?
Well, curiosity. Inquisitive curiosity. And hype. A job at which Apple’s always ace.
While I’ve only used it seldom, I’ve been able to go thru quite a few situations of an everyday smartphone user: I browsed the net, posted to Twitter, used various applications, downloaded a free application from the App Store and…fell-out of love with the iPhone 4. You take a picture. You wanna share it with friends. You can’t beam it thru Bluetooth, there is no option to do it. You can’t send it on TwitPic by uploading it on the site – the “browse files” button was greyed-out (no, it wasn’t a Flash button, works like a charm on my Desire) due to the fact that the iPhone has a security procedure in place (enforced by a password) of not allowing anything in a browser to read the files in the phone. Plain stupid? Yes, if you ask me. You can’t email it to Posterous or to other emails because for example, you have a problem with your SMTP server, like I did.
And why is this all happening? Just because Steve decided to “protect” the consumer. Who asked for this? Not the king, the customer himself. Of course, I can understand the logic and the logistics behind this great, great progressive undertaking but I’m not sure it was done in our best interest.
Looking over the fence again, I see a regulated but self propelled market of innovative, useful and mostly free apps that can be installed at user’s free will. Are the Android users less protected? No, I don’t think so. The system is different. There will always be hackers to combat and holes to plug.
But you know what they say: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”.
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