HTC Sensation death grip, part 2: a simple touch

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  • June 26, 2011 at 12:53 pm

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HTC Sensation 'death grip' simply by touching

Our initial tests showed that, by holding the HTC Sensation with both hands, Wi-Fi signal drops or can even be lost completely. Although holding it with both hands, as demonstrated, is very normal, our tests do not fully show the extend of the ‘death grip’ issue for HTC Sensation.

So we thought of doing another test, this time by simply touching the top side of the HTC Sensation, to show how easily Wi-Fi reception drops without even gripping the phone.
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Nokia N9 claims ‘fastest image-capturing phone’; we test: HTC Sensation faster still

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  • June 22, 2011 at 12:17 pm

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Camera latency comparison - HTC Sensation comes out first

As we’ve had some nightmarish experiences with phone cameras in the past we were very pleasantly surprised by the camera shooting speed of the HTC Sensation while we were testing it. So after reading the following today on Nokia’s official blog, pared with the graph above, regarding the new Nokia N9 camera we wanted run own comparison.

From Nokia’s blog:

Jens continues from here to explain the speed of the camera.
Jens Wilke: Once you press the on-screen camera key, the image is taken immediately. It’s the fastest image-capturing phone on the market. In order to take a photo, a series of events must occur: the camera is turned on, viewfinder is ready, focus on the subject and the image is captured. On the Nokia N9, this all happens in 2.6 seconds – much faster than our competitors. The HTC HD7 does all this in 8.3 seconds, the Samsung i5500 Galaxy 5 takes 5.8 seconds and the Apple iPhone 4 does this in 3 seconds. We’ve made sure the camera experience is as smooth and as fast as possible.

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HTC Sensation death grip: it’s real and it’s annoying

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  • June 19, 2011 at 5:23 pm

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HTC Sensation death grip

We’ve been reviewing the new HTC Sensation smartphone and spending quite some time with it over the last few weeks, and although it’s a fantastic device, we’ve run across a rather frustrating hardware issue.

While holding the phone in a specific, though common manner, Wi-Fi signal strength drops or can be lost completely. Said ‘death grip’ happens when you touch or cover the top side of the phone (close to the 8MP camera); i.e. where the Wi-Fi antenna is located.
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HTC Sensation out now, pre-orders starting to ship

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  • May 19, 2011 at 9:32 am

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HTC Sensation

HTC’s superhero, superphone, smartphone the HTC Sensation (a.k.a. Pyramid) is launching today in the UK as a Vodafone exclusive. Pre-orders have been going on for a while now with a promised ship day, today, the 19th of May; so some of you out there should be getting a big piece of new tech pretty soon. New Vodafone UK marketing material and ads have also been spotted with the HTC Sensation prominently taking the front row.
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HTC Pyramid Android smartphone emerges with purported awesome specs – WP7 Ignite and Prime also make a cameo

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  • March 15, 2011 at 1:27 pm

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HTC Pyramid Android smartphone

Renders of an upcoming Android smartphone from HTC, christened Pyramid, have emerged on a Chinese website. The list of specifications suggests this will be HTC’s flagship phone for the year.

The smartphone, which follows HTC’s design mantra, is claimed to feature a 4.3-inch Super-LCD 960 x 540 resolution display, 1.2 GHz processor, 768MB of RAM and front and back cameras. The website claims that the HTC Pyramid will be running Android 3.0; this however contrasts with what we’ve been hearing from Google that for now Honeycomb will only be used for tablets, so we’ll guess that it will most probably be running Android 2.x.

In addition, two Windows Phone 7 handsets have surfaced, named HTC Ignite and HTC Prime, both sporting a 3.7-inch 800 x 480 display while the latter opens up to reveal a physical landscape keyboard.

[xda.cn]

HTC Desire HD getting Android 2.3.2 Gingerbread in the form of a leaked ROM

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  • March 8, 2011 at 6:38 pm

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HTC Desire HD running Android Gingerbread beta

Nexus One and Nexus S owners are not the only ones getting some Gingerbread love. A leaked ROM has emerged for the HTC Desire HD which updates the device to Android Gingerbread (2.3.2) and also includes HTC’s proprietary Sense.

Be warned however that this is not a final release and it’s also not for the faint hearted. So if you can’t wait to try Gingerbread with HTC Sense on your Desire HD and don’t mind fighting a few bugs or risking your device’s health hit the two links below. Note that we would recommend the pre-rooted version over the stock ROM which would make things simpler.

[xda-developers leaked stock ROM, xda-developers pre-rooted ROM]

You can now directly edit Google Docs from your smartphone and tablet in 45 languages. Si que puedes escribir

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  • March 5, 2011 at 2:50 pm

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Google Docs editing on mobile devices now multilingual

El Goog has announced that you can now edit Google Docs from your smartphone/tablet in 44 languages in addition to English. Mobile editing is available for Android Froyo Devices and above (i.e. 2.2+) and iPhone and iPad devices with iOS 3.0 and above. Actually, as Google points out, editing could also work on earlier Android platforms such as Éclair but it’s not guaranteed; well ‘pruébalo’ and see.

To start editing enter docs.google.com in the address bar of your mobile browser and hit go; then select an existing document and press ‘Edit’ or hit the new button (marked as pen and paper) to start writing a new document.
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