Q. Im not talking about 4g LTE, Im talking about multitasking and that. I understand a little about computers and know the duel-core processor is faster but i know the htcs single snapdragon processor is faster than than a single tengra processor but how much of a noticable difference is there with a duel core tengra compared to the snapdragon? Im taking the amount of RAM into consideration too. Thank You
Andrew Hawe
Andrew Hawe
A. HTC has more ram (768 vs 512), Motorola has way more powerful processor. In my opinion, 512 megs of ram are enough for an Android phone (at least for now). On the other hand, that powerful processor is a welcome addition. It will run everything more smoothly, if the implementation is good. There will also be the HDMI connectivity, which will allow you to play Full HD movies on your TV set. It will be a more powerful device. Harder to root though, and easier to break if tried. But that is not something most people care about.
What is the best phone on the android market?
Q. I want a phone were i can listen to music, play games, text easy, and have great service. I just don't know if I should go with the Droid X2 with 3G or to go 4G and pay the extra money.
A. The wait is finally over for Verizon Wireless's first 4G LTE smartphone! Say hello to the HTC Thunderbolt, which will be taking advantage of the company's new 4G LTE network. After reviewing AT&T's Inspire 4G, which is cut from nearly the same cloth, it was apparent that Verizon customers were the lucky ones based on the Thunderbolt's overall package. Not only does it connect to Verizon's new 4G LTE network, but the phone actually offered some significantly advanced features when compared to its AT&T cousin. Competing smartphones should be sweating copiously with the release of this phone, which offers 40GB of storage out of the box, a front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera with skype video chat on the rise, kickstand, and access to the burgeoning Android Market. It's not the most groundbreaking device on the planet, but we found it to rank amongst the top smartphones in its time. Join us on our hunt for the storm as we chase the HTC Thunderbolt (specs) throughout the InfoSync labs.
Design
From a head-on perspective, the Thunderbolt is almost identical to the HTC Inspire 4G. We're assaulted by a sizable 4.3-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen display and a panel of haptic feedback buttons: Home, Menu, Back, and Search. Just like the Inspire 4G, the phone's screen was highly sensitive and offered an impressive graphics spread. However, the Thunderbolt strays from the Inspire by embedding a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera next to the handset speaker. At some point, users will be able to take advantage of video calling via skype, but that wasn't available to us just yet. To compliment the front-facing camera, the phone is equipped with an 8-megapixel primary camera on the back with 720p HD video recording capability and a dual LED flash.
Aside from the front-facing camera, the phone is a memory machine compared to the Inspire 4G. Out of the box, we get a whopping 32GB MicroSD card and 8GB of internal storage, bringing the total to 40GB from the starting line! The HTC Inspire 4G has 4GB of internal space and an 8GB MicroSD card, offering a net of 12GB out of the box. For the multimedia junkie, the Thunderbolt packs in one of the largest storage capacities in its class. Unfortunately, accessing the MicroSD card means removing the battery�something we didn't have to accomplish on the Inspire 4G, thanks to its separate compartments. Therefore, we found it was best to connect the phone to a computer via the included USB cable for drag-and-drop action.Lastly, you'll notice that the phone has a kickstand for propping the phone up while watching movies and playing certain games. Not only that, but we truly dig the phone's style, flaunting a gunmetal gray and matte black color combination with stainless metal kickstand running across like a belt. It also offers the standard architectural fanfare, including a 3.5mm audio jack, volume control rocker, open USB terminal, and Power/Lock switch. Portability wise, the phone is slightly thicker than the Inspire 4G, but we prefer its looks over its AT&T cousin any day.
Software and Interface
The phone is equipped with a 1GHz Snapdragon MSM8655 chipset with the Adreno 205 GPU for improved graphics and video hardware acceleration, which is the same configuration found in the Inspire 4G. More common traits consist of the Thunderbolt's Android 2.2 OS with the latest iteration of HTC Sense. It's worth noting that the phone will receive an Android 2.3 upgrade within the near future, an OS tweak that we praised on the Nexus S. Let's just say the Thunderbolt was one of the faster smartphones we've tested, enabling us to fly through screens and pages effortlessly.
But the star of the show was HTC Sense. The latest version of the highly acclaimed interface offered more versatility in the appearance department via the Personalize feature. Here we could choose from various Scenes, which acted like profiles that were tailored to a particular user's interests. Social, Work, Play, and Travel were some options offered by HTC, and we could also apply Skins (Themes) that customized the entire look of the phone. In fact, when we tap and hold on one of the Thunderbolt's 7 home screens, the Personalize screen pops up, offering Widgets, Applications, Shortcuts, Folders, and even Sound Settings.
We got Leap, which allowed us to pinch and zoom a home screen to display all home screens minimized at once, and HTC Sense offered its famous Weather widget with live weather updates and animation. We really liked the fact that the dropdown menu displayed our most recently opened applications, and Androids Manage Applications program enabled us to kill programs that were hanging around and chomping memory and battery life. Overall, the HTC Sense experience was seamless and refined�certainly an example of premiere phone software.
Design
From a head-on perspective, the Thunderbolt is almost identical to the HTC Inspire 4G. We're assaulted by a sizable 4.3-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen display and a panel of haptic feedback buttons: Home, Menu, Back, and Search. Just like the Inspire 4G, the phone's screen was highly sensitive and offered an impressive graphics spread. However, the Thunderbolt strays from the Inspire by embedding a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera next to the handset speaker. At some point, users will be able to take advantage of video calling via skype, but that wasn't available to us just yet. To compliment the front-facing camera, the phone is equipped with an 8-megapixel primary camera on the back with 720p HD video recording capability and a dual LED flash.
Aside from the front-facing camera, the phone is a memory machine compared to the Inspire 4G. Out of the box, we get a whopping 32GB MicroSD card and 8GB of internal storage, bringing the total to 40GB from the starting line! The HTC Inspire 4G has 4GB of internal space and an 8GB MicroSD card, offering a net of 12GB out of the box. For the multimedia junkie, the Thunderbolt packs in one of the largest storage capacities in its class. Unfortunately, accessing the MicroSD card means removing the battery�something we didn't have to accomplish on the Inspire 4G, thanks to its separate compartments. Therefore, we found it was best to connect the phone to a computer via the included USB cable for drag-and-drop action.Lastly, you'll notice that the phone has a kickstand for propping the phone up while watching movies and playing certain games. Not only that, but we truly dig the phone's style, flaunting a gunmetal gray and matte black color combination with stainless metal kickstand running across like a belt. It also offers the standard architectural fanfare, including a 3.5mm audio jack, volume control rocker, open USB terminal, and Power/Lock switch. Portability wise, the phone is slightly thicker than the Inspire 4G, but we prefer its looks over its AT&T cousin any day.
Software and Interface
The phone is equipped with a 1GHz Snapdragon MSM8655 chipset with the Adreno 205 GPU for improved graphics and video hardware acceleration, which is the same configuration found in the Inspire 4G. More common traits consist of the Thunderbolt's Android 2.2 OS with the latest iteration of HTC Sense. It's worth noting that the phone will receive an Android 2.3 upgrade within the near future, an OS tweak that we praised on the Nexus S. Let's just say the Thunderbolt was one of the faster smartphones we've tested, enabling us to fly through screens and pages effortlessly.
But the star of the show was HTC Sense. The latest version of the highly acclaimed interface offered more versatility in the appearance department via the Personalize feature. Here we could choose from various Scenes, which acted like profiles that were tailored to a particular user's interests. Social, Work, Play, and Travel were some options offered by HTC, and we could also apply Skins (Themes) that customized the entire look of the phone. In fact, when we tap and hold on one of the Thunderbolt's 7 home screens, the Personalize screen pops up, offering Widgets, Applications, Shortcuts, Folders, and even Sound Settings.
We got Leap, which allowed us to pinch and zoom a home screen to display all home screens minimized at once, and HTC Sense offered its famous Weather widget with live weather updates and animation. We really liked the fact that the dropdown menu displayed our most recently opened applications, and Androids Manage Applications program enabled us to kill programs that were hanging around and chomping memory and battery life. Overall, the HTC Sense experience was seamless and refined�certainly an example of premiere phone software.
How do you get your status to say; via facebook for android on my droid 2 global?
Q. I have the app downloaded, when i use it it says via DOID. Then sometimes via mobile?
A. It will say Via DROID if you have a Droid branded phone. If the app is running on a typical Android smartphone, like my HTC Thunderbolt, it will say Via Android
Should I wait and get the new BB Bold 9300 or get an Android phone? If Android, then which one should I get?
Q. My BlackBerry recently broke and at first i wanted to get another one. My brother then introduced me to Androids, and now I am thinking about getting one. The only problem is, is that there are so many Androids, and there are always new ones coming out.
A. I switched to Android this past April after being a loyal Blackberry lover and user for 5 years. I had several models, my last being the Bold 9700 with OS 6.
I buy/sell/trade Blackberry devices and I ran across someone who wanted to trade me a Storm 2 9550 for an HTC Mytouch 4G Android phone. At the time the Mytouch 4G was selling for about $400 compared to the $200 of the Storm 2. Of course I took the deal. What ensued was not what I expected. I decided to play around with the Mytouch 4G for a few days. After 2 days I decided to take it to the T-Mobile store and have all of the information transferred from the Blackberry to the Mytouch 4G so I could just "play around" for a few days with all of the features. By the end of the week I had sold my beloved Blackberry and was hooked.
I have since also had a Samsung Galaxy S 4G, a Sidekick 4G, a G2x and now I have and love my HTC Sensation 4G.
I have seen and kept myself up to speed on the new OS 7 devices RIM is launching, including the Bold. Personally, I am not going to waste my time on any of the OS 7 devices simply because RIM has already promised a QNX based device by next year. QNX is the operating system on the Blackberry tablet. The QNX OS is the next generation for RIM/Blackberry, as it is infinitely more like Android and iPhone than it is today.
I anticipate wanting to have a QNX based Blackberry when they come out. Until then, I recommend staying with an Android device.
Which one? I recommend something from HTC. HTC is currently the most trust manufacturer of Android devices. Their UI ("user interface") overlay to the Android OS is called "Sense UI" and it is an interface that is very customizable and makes having an Android device more simple and more "sexy/fun" at the same time.
Here are some from each carrier:
At&t:
* HTC Inspire 4G
* HTC Status (the new "Facebook phone")
T-Mobile:
* HTC Mytouch 4G
* NEW HTC Mytouch 4G SLIDE
* HTC Sensation 4G
Verizon:
* HTC Thunderbolt 4G LTE
* HTC Droid Incredible 2
Sprint:
* HTC EVO 4G
* HTC EVO Shift
* HTC EVO 3D
Hope that helps - Ben.
I buy/sell/trade Blackberry devices and I ran across someone who wanted to trade me a Storm 2 9550 for an HTC Mytouch 4G Android phone. At the time the Mytouch 4G was selling for about $400 compared to the $200 of the Storm 2. Of course I took the deal. What ensued was not what I expected. I decided to play around with the Mytouch 4G for a few days. After 2 days I decided to take it to the T-Mobile store and have all of the information transferred from the Blackberry to the Mytouch 4G so I could just "play around" for a few days with all of the features. By the end of the week I had sold my beloved Blackberry and was hooked.
I have since also had a Samsung Galaxy S 4G, a Sidekick 4G, a G2x and now I have and love my HTC Sensation 4G.
I have seen and kept myself up to speed on the new OS 7 devices RIM is launching, including the Bold. Personally, I am not going to waste my time on any of the OS 7 devices simply because RIM has already promised a QNX based device by next year. QNX is the operating system on the Blackberry tablet. The QNX OS is the next generation for RIM/Blackberry, as it is infinitely more like Android and iPhone than it is today.
I anticipate wanting to have a QNX based Blackberry when they come out. Until then, I recommend staying with an Android device.
Which one? I recommend something from HTC. HTC is currently the most trust manufacturer of Android devices. Their UI ("user interface") overlay to the Android OS is called "Sense UI" and it is an interface that is very customizable and makes having an Android device more simple and more "sexy/fun" at the same time.
Here are some from each carrier:
At&t:
* HTC Inspire 4G
* HTC Status (the new "Facebook phone")
T-Mobile:
* HTC Mytouch 4G
* NEW HTC Mytouch 4G SLIDE
* HTC Sensation 4G
Verizon:
* HTC Thunderbolt 4G LTE
* HTC Droid Incredible 2
Sprint:
* HTC EVO 4G
* HTC EVO Shift
* HTC EVO 3D
Hope that helps - Ben.
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