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Although the Flyer has approximately the same thickness and dimensions as the Galaxy Tab, I found this tablet more comfortable to hold. That's because the edges are curved and gently taper, as compared with the Galaxy Tab's dated-looking, boxy design. Also, the tablet gently curves upward at the top/bottom (or left/right if you're holding it in the landscape position); the curve gives the tablet a place for your thumbs to rest.
I was surprised that I preferred holding the Flyer considering it weighs slightly more than the Tab. The Tab weighs 0.84 pounds, while the HTC Flyer weighs 0.92 pounds, but in-hand, I didn't notice the difference.
I do like the 7-inch form. It's very friendly for one-handed operation. For that matter, I also like the T-Mobile G-Slate, which has an 8.9-inch screen. By comparison, Apple's iPad 2 (9.7-inch screen) and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (with a 10.1-inch screen, natch) are too unwieldly to hold for any length of time in one hand.
The HTC Flyer is unique for the moment:
it's the first tablet running Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread. Samsung recently announced plans to migrate the Galaxy Tab to 2.3.3 as well, but that roll-out started mid-month in the United Kingdom before beginning moving to other European markets and hasn't yet come across the Atlantic.
I was disappointed that HTC decided to ship the Flyer running Google's phone OS, and not Android 3.x. The layout and organization of Android 3.x is far better suited to tablets, and, more critically, the Web experience is far better in Honeycomb than on either 2.2 or 2.3.3. On the Flyer, just as on the Tab, most Web pages present detect the browser as a mobile browser. But I really want the full Web page experience on the tablet, even if I have to enlarge areas to read them fully.
Along with the inclusion of the pen, HTC brings something extra with its HTC Sense overlay. This version of Sense has clearly been optimized for the larger screen of the tablet, and brings a pleasing visual interactivity that Android 2.3.3 lacks otherwise. Unfortunately, as much as I liked Sense on the Flyer, I found myself more looking forward to what HTC will do with its Sense interface on Honeycomb than I did appreciating what it added in the here and now.
The good news is that HTC says the Flyer is upgradable to Honeycomb, and that a Honeycomb update will come. The bad news is the company wouldn't say when. At least HTC has a relatively solid reputation of issuing updates for its phones, so hopefully that efficiency will translate to its tablet, too.
Stay tuned for more hands-on with the HTC Flyer.
HTC’s latest smartphone, HTC Sensation, unveiled last week in London, will hit the Indian shore in the second quarter of 2011.
HTC Sensation incorporates a 4.3-inch S-LCD (gorilla glass encased) capacitive touchscreen with a 960 x 540 pixel resolution. It has 768MB of RAM and a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core processor with an Adreno 220 GPU making it the most powerful HTC smartphone till date.
It works on the v.2.3 Android Gingerbread OS and has the latest HTC Sense 3.0 user interface. The internal memory is 1GB which can be extended up to 32GB and the dimensions of the device are 126.1 x 65.4 x 11.3 mm and it weighs at 148 grams.
HTC Sensation has an 8.1 mega pixels camera with dual LED flash and touch focus; it can record 1080p HD videos at 30 fps and has a front facing VGA camera for video calling. HTC has introduced a new feature in this device called instant capture. What instant capture does is capture a photo the moment you click the button, unlike older devices where there was a time gap of a few seconds between clicking the camera button and the picture being taken. So you will never miss that priceless moment again.
Another handy tool is the video trimmer which helps you reduce the size of the video so it is easier to share on social networking sites.
The Taiwan based HTC has also introduced Watch – an application and service that puts an entire library of the latest, premium movies and TV shows right at your fingertips, letting people discover the latest video content in an easy and visually engaging way. HTC Watch uses progressive download technology that makes it possible to watch videos without waiting for a huge file to finish downloading. HTC Watch offers the choice of renting or buying videos, and if purchased, lets you watch them on up to five different HTC devices.
Another cool feature in HTC Sensation is its lock screen; you can get info about the weather, stocks updates and social updates directly without unlocking the mobile screen. It also gives you an option of placing widgets like camera, phonebook and messages etc on the lock screen which can then be accessed directly from there.
The major difference between HTC Sensation and its predecessors like HTC Desire, Desire Z, Desire HD and HTC HD 7 is in its processor (it’s stronger in HTC Sensation) and the fact that the HTC sense 3.0 UI will not work on older versions of HTC Mobile phones.
HTC Sensation is definitely the superhero of HTC smartphones.
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