The GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

[Stephon.]

[M_2NR]

^and battery life. Remember the N4 has a 2100mAh battery on stock android and has woeful battery life. This has 500mAh more with all those extra hogs...

[RASC]

Much crisper and mature looking than the S3...I like it!

[stev]

Great for none S3 owners..."alright" for S3 owners.
The real test is coming now...performance-what does it do on the bench marks, what does it do in the real world activities plus those gimmicky swipe actions, do they work?

well said.....


...swipe actions seems nice...Android programmers gonna have fun with it

[Stephon.]

^and battery life. Remember the N4 has a 2100mAh battery on stock android and has woeful battery life. This has 500mAh more with all those extra hogs...

It's actually 2600 lol but I just remembered that it has a 4 hundred and something ppi with a 5 inch screen so it may have the same or slightly better (or worse) battery life than the S3..

[RASC]

...allyuh going with HTC and their foolish "ultrapixel" stuff...where the pictures where just "aight" according to many reviews. I'm heavy on pics and videos...and sorry HTC has never cut it.

That being said 32GB is enough for yall in the base HTC ONE?
Games are easily 2gb plus now, plus one vacation and 3000 Pics and Vids later you wish you had more space.

[RASC]

^and battery life. Remember the N4 has a 2100mAh battery on stock android and has woeful battery life. This has 500mAh more with all those extra hogs...

It's actually 2600 lol but I just remembered that it has a 4 hundred and something ppi with a 5 inch screen so it may have the same or slightly better (or worse) battery life than the S3..

You had horrible S3 battery life to begin with?

[M_2NR]

^and battery life. Remember the N4 has a 2100mAh battery on stock android and has woeful battery life. This has 500mAh more with all those extra hogs...

It's actually 2600 lol but I just remembered that it has a 4 hundred and something ppi with a 5 inch screen so it may have the same or slightly better (or worse) battery life than the S3..

2100+500 =?

my comment was for RASC and basically yup. I'm surprised you're not in praise of it

IF i were to buy an android phone right now, I'd certainly pick up the HTC One. It simply looks stunning.

[wheelbarrow]

[Infamous]

I would definitely like to see how these two devices stack up with each other. What have you seen so far M_2NR that makes this such an easy decision for you?

[ZeroOne]

^^^^funtion over form.....gonna get the S4

similar to the note 2 though.

Love the 13mp camera and the 4.99" screen

[RASC]

Reviwers already saying the smart scrolling features work excellently well-and they're all surprised it does to be honest...LOL
I thought it was gimmicky, but I can see where it can come in handy, especially on long trips or extended viewing while in bed etc

[RASC]

Gorgeous!

[ZeroOne]

^^^x2

[RASC]

So basically it's SG4 vs HTCONE

Let the flame wars begin!

[trinitachi]

So.... xperia z cyar make de grade? :-\

[ZeroOne]

HTC NONE lost my favor with the 4MP camera......

[Stephon.]

S4 > Xperia Z > HTC FLoP

And no @RASC the battery life on the S3 is amazing
@M_2NR my maths took a vacation dey

[stev]

S4 > Xperia Z > HTC FLoP

And no @RASC the battery life on the S3 is amazing
@M_2NR my maths took a vacation dey

hoss u rel brutal yuh kno.

HTC one is impressive but i hatin on the 4mp camera.


comparing them so far:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-6452_7-575 ... berry-z10/

[Stephon.]

Samsung Galaxy S4 VS iPhone5
NEW FEATURES ONLY

SGS4

• Dual shot – This new camera feature makes for some interesting stories, mainly because it compiles videos by recording content with the front and rear cameras. It’s neat because you can tell a story about what you’re trying to shoot in the video. In another scenario, just like how we perform hands-on videos at tradeshows, the dual shot feature comes in hand for allowing us to shoot video on a device – while keeping our face in the frame of the recording as we speak.
  
• Sound & Shot – This is simple, it just allows us to record up to 9 seconds of audio when we snap a photo. Therefore, when we preview it in the gallery, it’ll play the recording when we look at it.
  
• Drama Shot – Always wondered how professional photographers snap those cool photos of someone diving into a pool? You know, the ones where it shows in the photo the step-by-step moment? Well, the drama shot feature relies on multi burst to take various photos of something in motion, and then complies them together in a single shot.
  
• Cinema Photo – Now this one is really cool, it’s like having a photo that you can honestly say you’re “feeling the moment.” Basically, it’s like making a gif image on the smartphone. As the handset is capturing images, we can select what elements to animate and what others we want to keep stationary.
  
• Story Album – The name says it all! It’s a feature that lets us stitch together a story album using pictures, time, place, weather, and more.

• S Translator – You guessed it folks, the Galaxy S IV makes it super convenient to translate stuff on the fly. Incorporated into a variety of apps, like ChatON, messaging, S Translator app, and email, language barriers will be a thing of the past with this new S Translator feature.
  
• Group Play – There are to aspects of Group Play. First, there’s the ability to allow the smartphone to pair with other Galaxy S IVs so they can conjure up a powerful sound system with its new Share Music feature. Come to think about it, the entire thing kind of reminds us of daisy chaining. Lastly, the Galaxy S IV allow for more social engagement when it comes to playing games. Specifically, optimized versions of Asphalt 7 and Gun Bros 2 allow multiple Samsung Galaxy S IV smartphone to play collaboratively.
  
  
  
• Air View – Yup, the Note’s Air View feature has somehow magically arrived on the Galaxy S IV – and boy does it impress on many levels. We’ve already talked about its usefulness and the display’s accuracy, but Sammy has an optimized version of Flipboard that allows us to hover our finger over its tiles to get a preview. Of course, the feature works in many other places – like previewing email and calendar appointments.
  
• Air Gesture – Holy smokes! So what’s Air Gesture? Simply, it’s a basic version of Kinect for the Microsoft XBOX 360, but for smartphones (SGSIV in this case obviously). At its core, Air Gesture is touchless commands for the Galaxy S IV and breaks down to three commands – Air Browse, Air Jump, and Air Call Accept. In the browser and email apps, we can wave our hand in a downward/upward motion to tell the phone to scroll up/down. Likewise, we can “swipe” through photos in the gallery by waving our hand over the display in the appropriate direction. Yeah, it’s super neat, but not all apps support it. Instead, most of Sammy’s set offer it, but not others like Chrome or Gmail. Unfortunately though, there’s no air gesture for “pinch zooming.”
  
• Smart Pause – It’s hard enough remembering a storyline when watching a movie on a phone, especially when we decide to do something else aside from watching it. Well, with Smart Pause, the handset knows when we’re not looking. Therefore, it’ll automatically pause the moment our eyes are no longer affixed to the display, but it’ll resume once we look back at it.
  
• Smart Scroll – Using a combination of looking with our eyes and some tilting action, we can scroll through various content in the web browser and email app.
• Samsung Optical Reader – No one likes having to manually input business card information into their phones, so that’s why we’re given the Samsung Optical Reader. Snap a business card, it’ll automatically retrieve the pertinent content and convert it digitally for us. Also, it works to decipher QR codes.
  
• WatchON – Seeing that the handset is now sporting an IR blaster, WatchON is the one stop hub for all our television program needs. Not only can we control, select, and viewing programming, it also has a cool video on demand feature.
  
  
  
• S Health – Fitness junkies will surely appreciate S Health the most, since it tracks and measures various physical activities – eventually giving us detailed statistics about our fitness regimen. From counting the steps we’ve take to the amount of calories we’ve consumed for the day, S Health is the central spot where we can monitor our healthy lifestyle. Heck, it can even tell us if the temperature and weather conditions are conducive to our health. Oh yeah, did we mention it can also monitor sleeping patterns?
  
• Samsung Adapt Sound – In its attempt to be self-aware, the Samsung Adapt Sound will automatically adjust some of the handset’s settings based on what we’re doing. For example, if we’re reading a book in the dark, it’ll adjust the contrast and brightness to make it easier on our eyes. Another scenario pumps up the two so that it provides for an enticing video watching experience. Rather than doing it ourselves manually, it’s nice to see the handset doing it automatically for us.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-Galaxy-S-4-hands-on_id40834/page/2


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i5

4G LTE
Another Row Of Icons

[pete]

Oh gorm

[mero]

Lumia 920 won

[stev]

not bashing any phone here

does the BB10 have any features to compete?

what about the new line of Windows phone 8?

[original_lollybob]

Bb I can't discuss

But super sensitive screen yea...
Cinema photo yea

Still rather a lumia over this tho... What's the big deal with this?

Weird that Samsung mentioned android once in the whole show eh

[slickrick777]

htc one for me...

[stev]

i really like the metal trim

cant embed the pics

http://reviews.cnet.com/2300-6452_7-10016132-1.html

[ryan99tt]

Another premium price for ah handful of plastic...come on samsung, everyone else already learned...

[slickrick777]

looks like I will be going for the HTC One

good choice!

[sharkman121]

nobody else seems to have a problem with the plastic

having said that, im still semi disappointed @ the galaxy 3.1

[Kronik]

my nokia 6230 as well as all the phones that were solid as a rock were made of plastic, so i dont see the problem with plastic.

waiting to see the price when it's released. S3 was like $600 when it was released