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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Surrounding the Surround With Reviews!

Posted by Jon Westfall in "HTC Windows Phones" @ 07:30 PM

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/20/...urround-review/

"Of all the Windows Phone 7 launch devices, AT&T's HTC Surround is likely the most curious. It's a landscape slider built on the same basic internals as the rest of its platform siblings, but there's no keyboard under that screen -- the quarter-inch slide reveals an aluminum speaker bar and integrated kickstand, which combine to create a tiny little stereo system of sorts. Mix in Windows Phone 7's heavy Zune integration, add in a dash of Dolby Mobile and SRS Wow "virtual surround" audio processing, and top it all off with 16GB of internal memory, and you have what might be the ultimate phone for on-the-go media consumption. But does the Surround live up to all that promise? Read on to find out!"

News abounds on the HTC Surround, this cute little package that makes sound it's claim to fame. Engadget has it covered, so does PCMag, Phone Scoop, and Adam over at Pocketnow! So if you're interested in getting some serious audio enjoyment out of a device, take a look at any or all of these to get the first impressions of this unique Windows Phone 7 device!


Friday, August 1, 2008

pocketnow.com Video Overview of the Samsung Omnia i900

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Pocket PC Hardware" @ 09:33 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i8NfY_HXas

The Samsung Omnia is an impressive device, and this video shows that quite nicely - the screen animations are fluid, and the speed in moving from screen to screen looks snappy. I'm a bit less convinced that the constrained desktop space of a phone is the right place for widgets, although it could be because most of those widgets seemed somewhat "oversized" and not really designed with space-saving in mind. Still, it's a neat way to customize the device. The screen rotation animation is absolutely fantastic - it starts almost instantly, and gives the user something to watch while the device is rotating the screen in the background. It probably takes just as long to rotate as any other Windows Mobile device, but the perception is that it's always "doing something" - and that's really important. This is the first screen rotation solution I've seen that's nearly as good as the iPhone - I'd say this is about 90% there. Nicely done Samsung! I also like the work they've done in creating the custom icons - they put a lot of effort into the fit and finish on this device.


[click through to YouTube to watch it in higher quality]

My favourite part of the video is when Brandon is demonstrating the QWERTY keyboard and while trying to type "The quick brown fox" he gets "Tje quock btown focus" and he says "Ahh, it almost got it - close enough" then there's a cut in the video - maybe he burst out laughing like I did when he saw that it really wasn't close at all. ;-) I've had similar success with on-screen touch keyboards, though I found that I did get better with the keyboard on the HTC Touch Diamond after a few weeks. It still can't beat a hardware keyboard though!


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