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Motorola Droid Bionic 4G

December 24th, 2011

The Motorola Droid Bionic 4G the latest phone from Verizon Wireless has a dual-core processor with both cores running at 1 GHz and includes 1 GB of powerful PC-grade RAM. The smartphone runs on the Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS and the 4G LTE network for Verizon Wireless which, is 10 times faster than 3G. The smartphone packs a powerful punch and is very quick for internet browsing (on Firefox browser) and multi-tasking on different apps. The Droid Bionic has a built in mobile hotspot wifi and supports up to five devices including, MP3 Player, Laptop and other phones which, is subject to an additional charge.

The smartphone features a scratch-resistant and glare reducing 4.3-inch qHD display with a 24-bit color depth and 960 x 540 px resolution. The screen is excellent for gaming which offers rich and clear images at console quality and can be attached via HDMI cable (sold seperately) to your HDTV for the full HD experience at 1080p. The Droid Bionic has a front facing VGA camera with a see what I see feature for sharing your experiences via a wireless connection or 4G. The rear facing  8 megapixel camera allows to to capture stunning photographs and video in high quality full HD in 1080p.

As well as the ultra fast 4G and dual-core processors there is ample storage space to match making this phone more than big enough to store all of your files, videos, photos and apps with 16 GB of onboard storage including an extra 16GB Micro SD card with an option to upgrade to a 32GB Micro SD card should you run out of space. There are also features to stream TV and video simultaneously and wirelessly stream stereo audio and video via compatable DNLA devices.

Other features of the Droid Bionic 4G include GPS satellite navigation with location based services, built in Google maps navigation with spoken word for word directions , bluetooth for hands free devices, and 10.8 hours of talktime with up to 200 hours standby time.

Motorola Droid Bionic 4G Specs

Weight – 5.6 ounces

Dimensions – 2.6 x 5 x 0.4 inches

Battery – 1735 mAh lithium-ion

Talk/Standy Time – 10.8 hours/200 hours

Network – Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network, EV-DO, Rev A 3G, CDMA 800/1900



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Huawei M835 (MetroPCS)

August 19th, 2011

Budget Android smartphones are turning out to be quite popular these days. The Huawei M835 is one example of this trend, but it’s not a good example. In fact, it’s bad enough to turn many people away from the smartphone idea altogether. Trust us: you can do much better on MetroPCS for nearly the same cash up front.

Huawei M835 (MetroPCS)

Design, Call Quality, and Apps
The Huawei M835 measures 4.1 by 2.2 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and weighs 3.9 ounces. It’s a tiny phone that looks and feels good, with its full glass front panel and soft touch battery cover. The flat, circular navigation rocker is a little fiddly, but I got used to it quickly. The 2.8-inch capacitive touch screen features just 240-by-320-pixel resolution. That’s fine on a feature phone or an older BlackBerry, but Android really needs at least 320-by-480 for its interface elements and scrolling menus to make sense. It also makes fonts look fuzzy, and many Android Market apps don’t show up in searches, because they’re not compatible. There’s just no getting around this screen issue, and it’s disappointing to keep seeing it pop up on brand new phones. The small 2.8-inch panel size is also a problem, but it’s not as serious. While the touch keyboard feels cramped, it’s not entirely unusable.

The M835 is a tri-band 2G 1xRTT (850/1700/1900 MHz) CDMA device with 802.11b/g Wi-Fi; the M835 connected to my WPA2-encrypted Wi-Fi network without issue. That’s helpful, as the 2G data radio means you’ll be waiting around a lot for Web pages to load. MetroPCS doesn’t have a 3G network; if you want fast connections with this carrier, you have to trade up to the 4G LTE Samsung Galaxy Indulge ($299, 4 stars). Voice quality was mixed; callers sounded a little bright and harsh through the earpiece, but there was plenty of gain available. Transmissions were choppy through the microphone, with plenty of hiss around my syllables, and a low-volume, background hiss audible throughout each call. Reception was below average; I live in a marginal MetroPCS coverage area, but handsets with better reception usually stay connected; this one dropped a few calls during testing.

Calls sounded clear through an Aliph Jawbone Era Bluetooth headset ($129, 4 stars). Voice dialing worked over Bluetooth, but it repeatedly missed digits no matter how slowly and clearly I spoke them; this is unusual for Android’s native voice dialer. The speakerphone went surprisingly loud, although I heard plenty of distortion at the top two volume settings. Battery life was short at just 3 hours and 53 minutes of talk time. With the phone turned off, it displays a percentage gauge as it charges, which is helpful.

Android 2.2 (Froyo) is on board; it’s not the latest version of Android, but it’s the most common one in the market today. Regardless, this is one sluggish phone, and even worse than usual for a low-end device. The M835 uses a 528Mhz Qualcomm processor which is even slower than the 600Mhz units we’ve seen in many low-end Android phones recently, and the software seems to be poorly optimized.

Bringing up the dialer often took several seconds. Menu scrolling was choppy enough that it would freeze for a moment halfway through. The stock WebKit browser even had trouble with WAP pages; choppy scrolling and blurry fonts made browsing unnecessarily difficult. The free Google Maps Navigation (rebranded MetroNavigator) offers voice-enabled, turn-by-turn GPS directions, and you can get your Web and Exchange e-mail, but the M835 offers a substandard Android experience no matter how you approach it.

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Dell unveils Android tablet, smartphone

July 4th, 2011

Dell unveiled the new phone, the Venue, and the tablet, the Streak 7, at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, which draws tens of thousands of buyers and sellers from around the globe to Las Vegas.

Dell launched a smartphone late last year with Microsoft, using the US software giant’s Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system, but it opted for Google’s free Android platform for the latest device.

Dell said the new Streak 7 tablet has a seven-inch (17.8-centimeter) screen, slightly larger than the display on the first Streak the company released last year.

Dell said the Streak 7 is designed for the faster Internet speeds of US wireless carrier T-Mobile’s 4G network.

“With its dual-core processor, seven-inch multi-touch screen and dual cameras, the new Dell Streak 7 tablet takes full advantage of the unrivaled power of T-Mobile’s 4G network,” said John Thode, vice president of Dell’s Mobility Product Group.

The Streak 7, which Dell said will be available in the coming weeks, is one of dozens of touchscreen tablet computers being launched at CES as electronics manufacturers seek to match Apple’s success with its iPad.

 

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Samsung Galaxy Prevail (Boost Mobile)

June 15th, 2011

Don’t let the name fool you: the Samsung Galaxy Prevail ($179.99) is not a high-end Samsung Galaxy S cell phone. It is, however, a wonderfully functional, inexpensive Android device for everyone who wants a budget smartphone. Just how inexpensive, you ask? Boost is charging $50 per month for unlimited talk, text, and data on Sprint’s nationwide 3G network. That price shrinks by $5 every 6 months you pay your bill on time, until you reach $35. It’s not like this is breaking news, but it’s a lot more relevant now that Boost finally has a device capable of taking full advantage of those rates. Sure, it may not have the same high-end specs as the latest and greatest Android gadgets, but it’s an excellent choice for anyone looking to get in on the Android action on the cheap. That makes it our Editors’ Choice for smartphones on Boost. It also makes the cut for our list of The Best Android Phones.

Design, Call Quality, and Pricing
The Samsung Galaxy Prevail measures 4.4 by 2.3 by .5 inches (HWD) and weighs 3.8 ounces. And while the phone is surprisingly light, it feels solid. It looks a bit like T-Mobile‘s Samsung Galaxy S 4G ($199.99, 4 stars), with curved edges and a silver border that runs along the outside of the phone’s face. The back is made of a soft-touch black plastic, which gives it a comfortable, luxurious feel in the hand. The 3.2-inch glass capacitive touch screen LCD has 320-by-480-pixel resolution, which is common on midrange Android phones. The display itself is a bit on the small side, but it was nicely bright and vibrant, and suitably responsive to touch. Typing on the on-screen keyboard felt predictably cramped, but still entirely doable. Four function keys sit below the screen on the face of the phone, and light up whenever the screen is touched.

he Prevail is a dual band EV-DO Rev. A (800/1900 MHz) device, with 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi. It connected to my WPA2-encrypted Wi-Fi network quickly and easily. Reception was average, and voice quality was good overall. Calls sounded bright and clear in the earpiece, if a bit thin. On the other end, calls made with the phone sounded fine, though voices were a touch muffled and fuzzy. The phone didn’t completely block out the sound of a passing city bus while I was making a call, but I was still able to hear my voice above it just fine. Calls were clear through an Aliph Jawbone Icon Bluetooth headset ($99, 4 stars), and voice dialing worked well. The speakerphone was also clear, but I couldn’t hear it outside on a slightly noisy city street. Battery life was good at 6 hours and 33 minutes of talk time.

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Motorola Bionic on Verizon

June 3rd, 2011

Motorola announced a new phone at CES last week, the Bionic. It will run on Verizon’s new 4G LTE network and will be very fast. It will also feature a dual core 1GHz processor and a new qHD screen with higher resolution.

It will be running Android 2.3 and feature a 4.3-inch qHD display along with 512MB of RAM and 2 cameras (VGA on front and 8MP on back).

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Motorola Atrix 4G Lapdock and HD Multimedia Dock Review

May 3rd, 2011

 

Motorola Atrix 4G Lapdock and HD Multimedia Dock Review

Motorola Atrix 4G Lapdock and HD Multimedia Dock

Along with the introduction of the Motorola Atrix 4G came the debut of the Lapdock, a docking station that promises to turn your smartphone into a fully-featured laptop. The company is also offering the HD Multimedia Dock, which turns your Atrix 4G into a desktop computer.

BUILD & DESIGN

First and foremost, it cannot be denied that Motorola knows how to build attractive hardware.  A few years ago it built the RAZR, a super-slim phone whose popularity has yet to be matched by the iPhone; after an extended period of irrelevance, it came back to launch one of the best-selling Android smartphones, the Droid.

Motorola Atrix 4G Lapdock and HD Multimedia Dock ReviewLaptop Dock
The Lapdock is no different, and as a design philosophy, is both more daring and more striking than its partner, the Atrix 4G. Compared to traditional laptops, the Motorola Lapdock is extremely thin — we’re talking closer to the Macbook Air in size, not the netbrick one might expect. In addition to being sleek, the device is well-built, too — the exterior of the Lapdock is clad in a matte charcoal grey metal. It’s cool to the touch and, since there is no actual processor inside of the docking station, it stays that way.

Since the Lapdock is so thin, there is insufficient room for the USB ports or the dock mechanism on the sides. Motorola stuck these onto the rear of the machine and covered it all in a black rubbery plastic. It feels a lot like the soft finish on the back of the HTC EVO 4G.

The docking station itself was a contentious design choice. Rather than bolting on a slide-in dock to the back of the display, Motorola chose to go with a flip-out bay that easily pops up. On the up side, it provides for a slimmer device overall, as putting the dock on the display would have required Motorola to add thicker supports. On the down side, it makes the Lapdock substantially longer than it might have been otherwise. It’s not really a good or bad decision, just different.

The phone slides into the dock easily, but take care — it’s very easy to scratch the side of the phone trying to slot the phone into the sculpted insert. Next to the swivelling dock area are two USB ports, suitable for connecting either USB flash drives, or an external mouse and keyboard when using the webtop application. There’s also an input for the AC adapter.

Opening the Lapdock presents you with a big keyboard as well as a huge trackpad. Two physical buttons sit below the trackpad, and an LED in the pad’s upper left corner shows its status — lit means the trackpad is turned on, off means that it isn’t.  A quick double-tap switches it on and off. Astonishingly, despite the size and apparent quality, the trackpad is merely single touch.  It’s 2011, and this was a terrible decision. Scrolling with a single-touch trackpad is difficult, a difficulty compounded by the fact that there isn’t an option to use the side of the trackpad as a scrolling mechanism.  Still, at least it’s responsive.

On the surface, the keyboard is very good.  The chiclet-style layout is generally easy to type on, and there is little flex. While the width of the keyboard is almost full-size, the height of the keyboard isn’t — it’s a little bit squished.  This is apparent after typing for just a few minutes, and the decision is a little mind-boggling: given the leftover size of the device, there’s really no reason for it.

The screen is clear and bright. The 11.6-inch display is glossy (very glossy), with a resolution of 1366 x 768. Like most TN panels these days, viewing the screen head-on is a solid experience: the horizontal viewing angles are decent, though the vertical viewing angles are lacking.

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T-Mobile Sidekick 4G

May 3rd, 2011
T-Mobile Sidekick 4G

T-Mobile Sidekick 4G

On the surface, the T-Mobile Sidekick 4G looks a lot like the older Sidekick models that T-Mobile used to sell. It has the same basic design — a large, slide-up screen as the centerpiece to a symmetrical layout intended primarily for messaging, but looks can be deceiving. Danger, the company which made the original Sidekick line was bought out by Microsoft several years ago, leading to the end of the “old” devices and a long hiatus in new releases. T-Mobile still owns the Sidekick brand, which it’s now attempting to relaunch starting with a device manufacture by their partner company Samsung.

Even more importantly, the old proprietary “Danger OS” is now gone, replaced by an open and fully-functional smartphone platform, in the personage of Google’s Android OS. With a suggested retail price of $100 with new service, and after a $50 rebate, T-Mobile is targeting the new and improved Sidekick at much the same market as the old device served, namely the entry-level messaging crowd. But with respectable hardware behind it, and a full smartphone platform, the Sidekick has the potential to appeal to more than just texting teenagers.

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Motorola Bionic on Verizon

February 7th, 2011

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Motorola announced a new phone at CES last week, the Bionic. It will run on Verizon’s new 4G LTE network and will be very fast. It will also feature a dual core 1GHz processor and a new qHD screen with higher resolution.

It will be running Android 2.3 and feature a 4.3-inch qHD display along with 512MB of RAM and 2 cameras (VGA on front and 8MP on

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Sanyo Zio

October 18th, 2010

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For years there had been rumors on Sprint forums about a Sanyo smartphone; at first it was going to kill the Treo, then the BlackBerry.  These were back in Sanyo’s heydays when the manufacturer was winning customer satisfaction awards left and right.  That mythical smartphone never appeared, and Sanyo has fallen into the ranks of also-rans since then.  Sure, there have been some decent phones, but they have yet to venture out of the featurephone market, often content to stick with entry-level devices.  But now we have the Zio, the first smartphone from Sanyo to run Google’s Android platform.  The Sanyo Zio is a bit of a mixed bag, offering at the same time higher-end features such as a WVGA display and low end elements like a bit of a cheap feeling.  Like we said, it’s a mixed bag.  Included with the Zio you’ll find a 2GB microSD card, microUSB cable and AC adapter.

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Design:

The Sanyo Zio is a black slab device, except that it’s got some significant silver on it.  The 3.5” 480×800 capacitive display dominates the phone and is quite a nice screen.  With 262K colors the TFT panel looks very good, especially with a high resolution and smaller screen size (the 4” Epic 4G and 4.3” EVO 4G also have WVGA resolutions) the pixel density is very good. The colors, however, are a bit off and in sunlight the display was washed out almost entirely.  When placed next to the Samsung Transform and HTC EVO 4G you could tell that the colors were over saturated, and in the same lighting conditions we could still use the Transform whereas the Zio needed to be shaded to be used.  The display also has responsiveness issues.  We often found ourselves having to select something multiple times before our input was registered, much like you would have to do on resistive touchscreens.  Another drawback is that it does not support multitouch, a feature we have grown accustomed to even in entry level smartphones.

At just 3.7 oz the Sanyo Zio feels incredibly light in the hand.  This is nice because the device easily slips into your pocket without being noticed, but at the same time makes it feel cheap.  The lightness is likely due to the heavy use of plastic- in fact the total use of plastics.  It is nearly an ounce lighter than Sprint’s HTC Hero, a similarly sized device with a smaller display.

The Sanyo Zio feels incredibly light in the hand


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Samsung GALAXY S I9000

October 14th, 2010

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This is a global GSM phone. It can be used with AT&T’s 1900MHz 3G band, and with T-Mobile USA without 3G.

Variants of the Samsung Galaxy S I9000 have been announced by all four major U.S. carriers and will be released as the Captivate by AT&T, Vibrant by T-Mobile USA, Fascinate by Verizon and Epic 4G by Sprint.

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Samsung must have been pretty confident in the GALAXY S’s virtues to designate it for a simultaneous launch in 110 countries. Therefore it’s not surprising that the South Korean manufacturer has a wow factor built-in from the start. The Samsung GALAXY S comes with a huge 4” Super AMOLED display, significantly larger than the only other such screen on the market – the 3.3” one of the Samsung Wave. This gorgeous window to the phone’s soul is hinged to another novelty from Samsung – the 1GHz Hummingbird heart of the device. It is Samsung’s answer to the Snapdragon cores found in the current cream-of-the-crop handsets.

Working in tandem with the newest edition of the TouchWiz UI, these unique features of the Samsung GALAXY S should ring in what the company names Smart Life into your existence – a sophisticated companion from dusk till dawn. Will the phone live up to the hype, or will it be just another victim of stretched marketing imagination? Now the only smart thing left to do on our part, is to review the GALAXY S where the rubber meets the road.

Box content:

  • Samsung GALAXY S handset
  • Li-Ion battery 1500mAh
  • Headset with microphone
  • User manual
  • Get to know booklet
  • Travel adapter
  • microUSB cable
  • Screen protector

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