Android Cafe : Android Phones
LG Optimus 3D At just 11.9mm thick, the Optimus 3D is only a couple of milimetres
fatter than the anorexic-skinny Samsung Galaxy S2. It's by no means a
small phone, however, keeping in current smartphone vogue by offering up
a super-sized 4.3-inch display. When we played with it at MWC, however,
it felt somehow less solid to us than its rivals, despite its slightly
greater 168 gram weight. The handset packs a 4.3-inch LCD touchscreen, with an 800x480
resolution. Of course, the big draw on this latest of LG handsets is its
3D screen. |
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LG Optimus 2X As the first dual-core processor equipped smartphone on the market, the
LG Optimus 2X was sure to garner a lot of attention no matter how good
or bad it turned out to be. Thankfully, the phone is quite good, though
that might have little to do with its processor. The 2X features some very nice user interface updates and comes equipped
with 3 fun, and presumably processor hungry, games that are sure to
keep Optimus 2X owners pre-occupied. It also includes an 8 megapixel
camera that can record 1080p HD video, but it falls a bit short of the
mark there. |
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HTC Sensation The long-rumoured HTC Pyramid has finally been unmasked as the HTC Sensation, and takes over from the Desire HD as the company's Android flagship. The HTC Sensation is a multimedia superphone with a 4.3 inch qHD display. It uses Android with HTC Sense platform and has a 1.2 GHz dual core CPU. There is an 8 megapixel camera with auto focus and dual LED flash. Running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), the HTC Sensation is the first of smartphone to arrive wearing HTC Sense 3.0, making it stand out from the likes of the Desire S and Desire HD. |
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HTC Inspire 4G The HTC Inspire 4G's massive 800 x 480-pixel 4.3-inch WVGA screen
engulfs a majority of real estate up front, assaulting the user with
ample capacitive goodness. The Inspire 4G's screen is so sleek that we
felt as if we were swiping on fresh silk. Four haptic feedback buttons
(Home, Menu, Back, and Search) reside along a minute strip on the bottom
of the screen in order to preserve maximum viewing space. It became
obvious early on that it was bred for high quality entertainment. |
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Motorola Droid X A phone that packs so much power is not hard to come by these days, but the Motorola Droid X offers more than the average bear. It's a lightning quick phone, thanks to one of the best processors on the market, offers great coverage, has a seemingly endless supply of applications, and a giant 4.3-inch screen. It's big and gawky. Don't expect the slim, refined chassis of a Samsung Captivate or beautiful architecture of an iPhone 4. The Motorola Droid X is tall and features a lip along its backside that leads to a protruding ledge ... |
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HTC EVO 4G Even with all of the new phones that hit the market after the HTC EVO
4G, this phone still has one of the best designs, if not the best. It's
one of the few phones to feature a kickstand in back in order to prop it
up horizontally for video screenings. The HTC EVO 4G also has a mini
HDMI terminal located on the bottom of the phone next to the USB jack.
In back, the HTC EVO 4G features an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED
flash to its left and playback speaker to its right. But the digital
imaging doesn't stop there ... |
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Motorola Defy The Motorola Defy is all screen—a 3.7-inch capacitive, scratch proof
screen, that is. The phone's screen has a WVGA resolution, which was
very crisp, offering excellent web and gallery browsing, and video
playback. How scratch proof is the Defy's Corning Gorilla Glass Display?
We took the end of a paper clip, pressed it on the screen as hard as we
could, and proceeded to grind it as hard as we could, only to find a
flawlessly smooth screen with not even a nick. The phone has an 800MHz OMAP 3610 processor with 512MB of RAM. |
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LG Optimus One LG's latest Android handset, the Optimus One, follows on from the original Optimus GT540, which at the time of review was far too expensive and ran an out-of-date version of Android. The Optimus One runs Android 2.2 and is available for half the price of the GT540, but otherwise has a similar specification - a 3.2in, 320x480-pixel screen and a 3-megapixel camera. The screen is small by today's standards, but despite the low resolution we found it sharper than other budget handsets’ displays, such as the HTC Wildfire or Motorola Flipout’s. |
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HTC Wildfire The HTC Wildfire is a budget Android smartphone with more than a passing
resemblance to its larger cousin, the HTC Desire. Its rounded edges and
rubberised, brown-grey finish are identical, and underneath the screen
you'll find the Desire's optical trackpad. Here it’s paired with
touch-sensitive buttons, though, while we prefer the feedback of real
ones. The key cost-cutting element is the screen. Its 3.2in display is a
reasonable size, but it has a much lower 320x240 resolution, and is
noticeably more pixelated as a result. |
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Google Nexus S The Google Nexus S, like the original Nexus One, isn't intended to awe the tech community with late-breaking technology and huge leaps in, well, anything. Instead, it's intended to represent the best possible experience for the Android operating system at this given moment in time. It's not weighed down by the often heavy interfaces that HTC, Motorola, and Samsung like to use on their Android devices, and so what you're left with is a light installation of Android backed by some pretty compelling hardware. |
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