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2013年12月15日星期日

Samsung Galaxy S III US ad campaign kicks off as the smartphone goes on sale

Today is the day when the Galaxy S III finally arrives on US soil and to kick-start its sales, Samsung has launched a couple of new promo video spots for its flagship.

The first of those revolves around the Samsung Galaxy S III great connectivity and the plentiful content sharing options that the smartphone offers, while the other focuses on the Pop up play functionality. Expect more and more ads will follow those two, as Samsung is hoping the Galaxy S III US sales will be as strong as those in Europe. The flagship broke all of the company’s launch records and the Koreans would certainly want to see more of the same as availability extends.

And here go the two ads for you to enjoy.

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HTC One S

HTC One S, One X rooted before release

The HTC One S has joined the One X in the elite ranks of devices which have been rooted before actually being available for purchase on the market!

Both devices can be rooted fairly easily, save for one little caveat: they require an unlocked bootloader to do so. Thanks to the Superboot method implemented by Paul O’Brien over at MoDaCo, both devices were rooted thanks to unlocked developer devices he had access to.

Since most phone manufacturers typically do not ship devices with S-OFF enabled, it will be at the discretion of HTC of when, exactly, they allow users to have access to their bootloader.

Last year, after HTC faced some pretty severe backlash after deciding to lock the bootloaders on all its newly released devices, the Taiwanese-based company quickly reversed its stance, and has since become very developer-friendly.

Could these new pre-release roots cause HTC to once again restrict bootloader access, this time on their new One lineup?

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2013年12月13日星期五

HTC Radar put through our battery test

HTC Radar put through our battery test, makes it the first Windows Phone to do so [TEST]

So far we’ve put five smartphones through our new battery test, but the HTC Radar is the first to fight under the WP flag. The Mango-running smartphone will give us the first indication on how the Microsoft platform fares against its competitors in terms of power efficiency.

The HTC Radar comes with a 1520 mAh battery and a 3.8″ LCD screen, so it had a reasonable fighting chance. In fact it is one of the most favorable battery-to-screen-estate ratios we’ve seen so far in our test.

The HTC Radar didn’t start particularly impressively and ended up bottom in our first test after surviving for just 6 hours and 53 minutes of 3G voice calls. It’s not a great surprise though – screen size doesn’t play too big a part in this test and it’s all down to the sheer battery capacity.

We then came to the second trial – web browsing endurance. We use an automated script, which reloads a page every ten seconds. There are no flash elements on the web pages, so the playing field is even.

We set the display brightness to 50% and we use a Wireless N connection, with the router placed a few meters away from the tested phones, so we are getting full bars on every one of them.

This second test was where the HTC Radar impressed the most. The WP smartphone went on for the unbelievable 7 hours and 17 minutes before it depleted its fully charged battery and easily topped our charts.

The last individual challenge for the HTC Radar was video playback, but unfortunately it couldn’t do so well there. It took exactly 5:54 hours of SD video playback with the screen brightness set to 50% and all radios switched off to take its battery from full to 10% (this test ends at that point).

As you can see from the graph below, this barely sufficed to lift the HTC Radar off the bottom.

So, knowing the results from the individual tests, we didn’t really expect wonders from the HTC Radar in our overall usage test. The stand-by performance of the device was pretty poor too and at the end, it only got an endurance rating of 34h, which is the lowest score we have issued so far. This suggests that you’d need to charge this one every 34 hours if you do one hours of each of the three activities described above per day.

2013年12月6日星期五

LG Doubleplay for T-Mobile press images surface

LG Doubleplay for T-Mobile press images surface, show two screens and 4G connectivity

A press image of the yet unannounced LG Doubleplay for T-Mobile US (which we first saw under the assumed name ‘Flip II’) just appeared online and gave us a clearer view of what the upcoming droid will look like. The peculiar QWERTY slider will pack a couple of screens – a HVGA main one and a secondary display of unknown resolution on the QWERTY.

Other specs of the T-Mobile Doubleplay that we know include a 5 MP camera, GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. That logo on the screen also shows that there’s 4G connectivity, which in T-Mobile’s case couldn’t be anything but HSPA+.

The LG Doubleplay will reportedly launch on November 2, and it is said to cost $149.99 on a two-year contract. Now that seems a bit high of a price for a mid-range device like that (no matter the coolness factor that the second screen adds), so the rumors might not be spot on here.

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2013年12月3日星期二

A Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone combusts out of the blue and burns off while owner is asleep

Yet another incident with an exploding Galaxy S3 has occurred last night, but this time it hasn’t been provoked by microwaves. Reddit user vizionx1208 was last night woken to a loud sign and a ton of smoke coming out of his beloved Galaxy S3.

Alerted by the really bad smell, he jumped out of his bed just to witness his own phone beginning to catch fire. Here’s what he saw after pouring a glass of water over the phone.

The last three pictures are the cause or consequence of the phone catching fire. As you can see, it’s hardly recognizable as a battery anymore and vizionx1208 says it looked like a bag full of liquid around the time of the incident.

Happily and rather luckily, the owner of the Galaxy S3 is fine and has suffered only a minor burn on his finger from a piece of plastic that had shot out of the device and landed there.

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2013年11月28日星期四

Japanese operator KDDI wows with its 2010 summer collection of 10 waterproof phones

Summer is just around the corner, the guys over in Japan have already got the party started, thanks to the KDDI operator and its 2010 summer collection of 10 mobile phones. Despite being quite different, they have one thing in common, all 10 of them are waterproof.

Now, I’m not going to dig deep in details but each of those 10 phones deserves its brief moment in the limelight.

The 13-megapixel cameraphone

The Casio Exilim CA005 is a stunning 13-megapixel cameraphone equipped with a 3.2-inch LCD IPS screen of VGA resolution.

KDDI 2010 summer collection
Casio Exilim CA005

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Next up are 3 12-megapixel cameraphones. Both the Toshiba REGZA T004 and the Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot S003 come with VGA TFT displays measuring 3.2 inches. On top of that, the REGZA T004 is powered by a snappy 1GHz Snapdragon processor while the Cyber-shot S003 is said to be the first waterproof slider.

KDDI 2010 summer collection

Toshiba REGZA T004 ? Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot S003

As for the Sharp AQUOS SHOT SH008, it sports a huge 3.4-inch Sharp ASV screen of 480 x 854 resolution and support for Wi-Fi. Like the rest of the phones mentioned so far, the AQUOS SHOT SH008 also offers a TV tuner, microSD card slot, Bluetooth support and an IrDA port.

KDDI 2010 summer collection
Sharp AQUOS SHOT SH008

The battle of the 8MP cameraphones

All 4 of the following phones are capable of taking 8 megapixel images. The Sanyo SA002 features a 3-inch TFT display while the other three devices have 3,2-inch screens on board. Measuring only 112 x 49 x 14.8 mm, the SA002 turns out to be the slimmest waterproof slider ever announced (the Cyber-shot S003 measures 118 x 52 x17.6 mm).

KDDI 2010 summer collection
Sanyo SA002

The Sony Ericsson BRAVIA S004 impresses with its unusual form-factor which is quite reminiscent of the Nokia N92. Like the Toshiba REGZA T004, it is has a Snapdragon CPU inside.

KDDI 2010 summer collection
Sony Ericsson BRAVIA S004

The Sharp SOLAR PHONE SH007, like its name reveals, sports a solar panel. According to the manufacturer, 10 minutes of sunbath should be enough for a 2-minute phone call.

KDDI 2010 summer collection
Sharp SOLAR PHONE SH007

The last member of this group, Hitachi Beskey, has a user-replaceable keypad and you can choose from three different keypad designs.

KDDI 2010 summer collection
Hitachi beskey

The affordable ones

Finally, there is another couple of phones left. Like the rest so far, the Kyocera K005 and the Pantech PT001 are waterproof. The Kyocera has a 3-inch TFT display, a 3-megapixel snapper and a microSD card slot.

KDDI 2010 summer collection
Kyocera K005

The air-conditioner-remote-control-look-alike Pantech PT001 on the other hand has no screen (unlike most air conditioner remote controls) and is meant for elderly users.

KDDI 2010 summer collection
Pantech PT001

The 2010 summer collection of Japan’s second largest operator, KDDI, should become available by the end of the month.

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2013年11月27日星期三

Sharp unveils world's first mobile device camera module shooting 720p hi-def 3D videos

Sharp has just proudly presented a 3D camera module capable of taking 720p high-definition 3D videos. This is the first camera module of that kind that is made for mobile devices such as cameras, mobile phones, etc.

Of course, the module consists of two separate cameras which simultaneously capture images for the left and right eye. The thing also synchronizes color, brightness, timing and optical axis of image data output by the two cameras and then transfers it to the devices memory.

The mass production of the new 3D modules should start within 2010 but there is still no word on any particular devices that will have them on board.

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