Samsung Corby is already doing pretty well in terms of sales in India and now those users who miss the keyboard on the Corby might have some good news. I spotted this handset in UK and its called the Samsung
Genio QWERTY in Britain . This handset will be called the CorbyTXT in other part of the world including India. It carries the model number B3210 and features a full QWERTY keyboard
The dragon in the HTC camp has awoken, ladies and gentlemen, and it's time it shows what it's capable of. Be it a dragon, or a lion, the HTC HD2, codenamed HTC Leo, is truly a spectacular device. It seems to have all modern mobile technologies in its pocket, bridging the gap between phones and tablets.
HTC are pushing the boundaries of the impossible by fitting the 4.3-inch screen in a phone smaller than the Toshiba TG01, which was the first Snapdragon-based device ever to be released. HD2 is certainly a feat of engineering and something to really look up to.
Now that it has just hit the market, the HD2 is bound to make some serious waves in the high-end smartphones pool and we guess many of you would probably be checking it out this holiday season. And you would be right to do so. Let's go over its impeccable specs sheet one more time:
The HTC HD2 most certainly feels great in hand - the quality of the used materials is nice and the slim bezel around the screen is almost as spectacular as the slim profile. For the fist five minutes you can't help but simply sit there and just stare at the amazing screen.
But with touch smartphones getting screens that large sooner or later ergonomics had to be sacrificed. We somehow thought that the original Touch HD had almost crossed the line, but the HD2 has definitely crossed over. Reaching your thumb to the opposite angle of the screen is quite a task and it's not really comfortable to use the phone single-handedly. But we guess many of you would find the compromise with ergonomics quite worth it. The HD2 is impressive
Join us on the next page where we'll get into some unboxing action, and as part of this brief preview article we'll get into the ins and outs of HTC HD2 design and construction.
Check the adobe flash version if it's the updated version. - It's still the same 3.0 version but I expect a FW update to introduce the 3.1 version.
Try to open many apps at the same time and see how much it can manage simultaneously. I've tried opening 24 applications and RAM was down to 5MB or so. It does pretty good although at start-up it didn't have as much free RAM as Nokia claims it should or as much as the E71 has. Feature Pack 2 allows you to organize access points and prioritize them. Also, it can allow you to add different access points and divide them by destinations (Internet, Multimedia, WAP...) so it's pretty handy because you can then choose the default connection to be, say, "Internet" and the device will automatically detect which access points should be used.
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he Nokia Messaging app is the same as the one on the E75. It works very well once it is set up correctly. Currently, I cannot set multiple inboxes simply because the phone is not supported. I cannot even update my FW because the phone is not supported either. My Gmail worked great on it, but nothing else seems to work. I’m not even getting an error like it sometimes happens with NM. I set up my mailbox but it never appears. The only thing that worked was Gmail. It supports HTML and seamless attachment download, I’m sure, check the pictures for that. Back when I had the E75 on test, I had 7 inboxes set up on it and it was working flawlessly (Ovi, Gmail, Hotmail x2, Yahoo, GMX x2).
Its camera quality in night & day
Navigation:
As you might have all noticed, the majority of the requests had something to do with GPS and navigation, so I’ve tried my best to carry out some tests in order to see how the E72 behaves when used as a GPS unit.There are, however, a couple of things you should keep in mind: - What I always repeat in all my reviews: the unit I have is a prototype and sometimes it behaves awkwardly. Both hardware and software on this device might not be final, so I will be waiting for a retail package to be able to judge it.
- My country – Lebanon – does not have detailed maps from Nokia, yet. I hope we get them sometime soon so I cannot tell you how Nokia Maps behaves when turn-by-turn voice guidance is activated or Walk option is turned on. You have to bear with me until we get a decent set of maps.
Navigating with the E71 was never a hard task for me. Although I’ve read and heard complaints about how hard it was for the E71 to get a lock on the GPS satellites, I’ve tried it both in Europe and the rest of the Middle East (by rest I mean excluding my own country) and it never took more than 4 minutes to lock. I understand that’s a long time to wait but 4 minutes was the worst case while I had some good times like a minute or two in the UK. I’ve tried Garmin and Nokia Maps on it and they both worked fine.
On to the E72; The experience is a bit weird but I relate it to the fact that what I’m using is nothing but an early handset, one which has been over half the globe and through rough testing before it got into my hands. I’m saying that because while at times the E72’s behavior was amazing, at other times it failed to connect, trailing behind the E71 which showed great results.
I’ve been carrying out some tests for the past week and came to realize the following:
- At a given spot, when the E72 WANTS to act normal and connect, it does it in less than a minute, which amazed me.
- The magnetometer works great, as per the shots below, and takes between zero to 4 seconds to shift from one direction to another depending on your status: if you’re standing still and messing around with the phone, it will not detect your moves that quickly. But when driving and you make a turn, the switch is almost immediate.
- I don’t have detailed maps but I do get the positioning, the trip distance, the speed and everything else. And I do get the country’s name (thankfully) so it’s not that bad after all. So it locks and shows me my position on the map but no details around me whatsoever. Just barren land and a blinking red dot. - When the E72 refuses to connect – for some reason which I ignore – the E71 succeeds after a while, leaving the E72 with the message “GPS works poorly indoor and in closed areas”
- While in “Satellite Status” mode, you can choose to change the view and visualize the satellites as squares on a radar-like map instead of the usual displayed bars.
- You can turn off the compass. - I never used any Internet connection to aid the phone when trying to get a lock.
- While inside the car, it took almost double the time to lock (compared to when walking outside), which was roughly around 2 minutes.
Overall it was not a bad experience, but I believe the sensitivity can be much improved, just like it’s promised to happen with the N97 in the upcoming FW.Another weird thing was the Garmin XT was never able to get a lock; the signal was always too weak even when I was navigating on foot. It would have been great for me to able to get a lock with Garmin since I have the maps installed, but even though I had linked it to the internal GPS, it always failed to lock onto more than 3 satellites.
As a short conclusion, I cannot assume that navigation will be way better than the E71, but I cannot deny the improvement. When the E72 worked normally, it was great, and yes, better than the E71. But when it didn’t, it made me realize that nothing had changed, and that this aspect of the phone hasn’t been taken to the next level. Only time can tell. Hopefully, the next test I carry out will be on a retail unit with the final hardware/software.
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