Watch Out! iPhone HTC's New Android Smartphone has a Killer Feature:3-D

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HTC EVO 3D 4G Android Phone (Sprint)  

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Getting bored with your BlackBerry? Perhaps it’s time to check out the HTC EVO 3D 4G Android Phone (Sprint), the latest smartphone from Taiwanese mobile phone producer HTC.

Officially released in Indonesia two weeks ago, the Evo 3D is an upgrade of the popular HTC EVO 4G. The new version runs on the latest Android operating system, the Android Gingerbread, and with all of its features, it seems like a serious competitor to Apple’s iPhone.

Although many Indonesians are not familiar with the brand, HTC has made a name for itself in the past few years with its competitive mobile phones.

The company is a member of the Open Handset Alliance, a group of phone manufacturers dedicated to the development of Android mobile device platforms, and its HTC Dream smartphone, released in 2008, was the first phone in the market to run on Android.

Agus Sugiharto, the country manager of HTC Indonesia, said the Evo 3D was the answer to a growing demand for sophisticated smartphones, offering an attractive design and the latest, most advanced features.

“Evo 3D can do it all,” he said.

At first glance, Evo 3D looks like any other smartphone in the market. With an easy-to-grip, textured pattern, it weighs about 170 grams and includes an 11-centimeter qHD touchscreen. Its main buttons (home, menu, back and search) are protected by Gorilla Glass, a thin, sheet-glass material that is scratch-resistant and extremely durable.

But the Evo 3D also brings something new to the table: 3-D technology that essentially works like 3-D television. HTC claims the smartphone’s five-megapixel camera is able to record and play both 2-D and 3-D movies, as well as 2-D and 3-D photographs. Better still, smartphone users can enjoy this 3-D experience without wearing special glasses.

Agus said the phone’s 3-D features can help people in everyday life. For example, real estate agents can easily create a 3-D virtual tour for their clients.

In addition to its 3-D camera, the Evo 3D is equipped with another 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, which was designed for video chat.
According to Agus, the Evo 3D is more advanced than other devices in the market.

“We broke the innovation boundaries with this smartphone,” he said.

HTC says Evo 3D users can easily share their high-quality photographs and videos on Facebook or YouTube. The phone is able to interface with other devices such as digital cameras, printers and televisions.

The smartphone also promises an efficient multitasking experience with its dual-core processor, the 1.2-gigahertz Qualcomm Snapdragon. Since it has an Android operating system, users can access more than 200,000 mobile applications in the Android Market.

But the Evo 3D has its drawbacks. Even with an its improved qHD screen, tech reviewers say the phone’s display performance lags behind that of its competitors.

Its battery also loses power in less than 14 hours, even without heavy usage; the 3-D photography feature seems to be the biggest cause of the drain.

According to ABI Research, a US technology market research company, the Evo 3D will be a trendsetter in the mobile phone industry with its 3-D user content, viewing capabilities and games.

The Evo 3D comes with some exciting new features and its 3-D technology may set some trends, but it’s still too soon to say whether HTC’s new product can defeat the iPhone and other popular mobile devices in the market.

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Is Motorola Xoom Android Google Tablet will be the iPad 2 Killer?

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Introducing the first Android touch tablet from Motorola. With a brilliant 10.1-inch display optimized for high definition video in true 16:9 widescreen format, Motorola XOOM provides a whole new media experience for mobile uses. With a dual core chipset, everything moves faster: web browsing, video playback, gaming. Native support for both front and rear cameras provides easy access to either one. The addition of a gyroscope, along with a powerful graphics engine and built-in hardware acceleration, elevates game design to a whole new level. Motorola XOOM pushes the boundaries and opens a whole new world of what’s possible.

Motorola Xoom Android tablet comes with a 5 MP camera and a 2 MP web-cam with 720p video playback. The screen size is 10.1 inches, weighs 730 grams and supports up to 320 GB of memory. As compared to Apple's iPad, this Android tablet is said to have a more flexible interface with a feature that allows you to return back to the home page with all the open applications presented vertically on the screen of the Google tablet as a scrollable slide preview.

The notifications for emails, downloads and IMs are easy to view as they are presented horizontally on the screen along with the signal and battery indicator. Motorola Xoom also has the attractive feature of resizing the desktop widgets; this was made possible with the upgrade of the OS from Android 3.0 to 3.1. The FaceTime of this Android tablet compared with Apple iPad is also observed to be better as it provides a wider user base. One of the most attractive features of Motorola Xoom is the battery life. It has a stand-by time of approximately 14 days, MP3 playback of 3.3 days and video playback time of 10 hours. However, there is a drawback of the Android tablet having no SD card slot for additional memory and there is still lack of application selection.

Regardless, Motorola Xoom Android Tablet has impressive display quality and is better for individuals who love multi-tasking, as this allows for faster and easier multi-tasking compared to Apple's iPad. The camera application of the Android Tablet is better than Apple's as there are more features packed in the application. Most importantly, the easy availability of applications for not only Motorola Xoom but all Google Tablets is another major advantage over Apple Tablets whose applications need to be purchased just via iTunes App Store. Conclusively, Apple's Tablet PCs might be on the top and preferred by most, but there are various Android tablets which directly compete with Apple's products and are worth looking into for purchase consideration.

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