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Android and Daily Commentary and Gadgets and HTC Evo11 Jun 2010 07:23 am

HTC EVO – First Impressions

I just picked one up last night and so far it’s a pretty decent device.
Likes:
- Love the screen size, it’s hard to look at the iPhone 3GS or any other phone after being exposed to the EVO
- Screen quality is beautiful, iPhone doesn’t even compare
- Notifications are amazingly efficient and unobtrusive
- I am loving the keyboard. I’ve read that some people hate it, but it’s so damn easy to type on this thing
- Speed! Speed! Speed! Lightning quick and very responsive
- I had a Touch Pro 2 and have been a big fan of HTC Sense
- Multitasking out of the box!
- Best phone camera I’ve seen so far
- Battery life (based on 1 night of use) is pretty decent. I bought the phone which had half a charge at 8PM. Played with it till 1 until the battery warning came out. I used the WiFI tethering for 20 minutes, did a lot of web surfing and downloading, played music, and used just about every feature. But we’ll see how it fares after a full charge and full day of use…
- Android is much more fun to use. iPhone OS 3.1.3 is getting old and lacks true customization even with Jailbreak
- Reliable Sprint Network
Dislikes
- No FULL Exchange Support, doesn’t Sync MS Exchange Folders without 3rd Party App! BIGGEST GRIPE!
- Clunky e-mail interface. Sorry, iPhone handles e-mail much better
- Apps are still growing and getting better everyday, still not at the level of iPhone yet. Missing quite a few apps I heavily use on iPhone such as Crunchy Roll, Stream to Me, and Fuze Meeting
- Apps and OS are much more refined on the iPhone
- iPhone still feels smother to use, but I believe a Froyo update will fix a lot of these things
These are my impressions so far! I will try out the EVO for 30 days, but will most likely get the iPhone 4 as well to compare.

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Android and Daily Commentary and Gadgets and Louie's Gear21 Mar 2010 02:30 pm

Archos 5 Internet Tablet Review

I had my HP Mini 110 Notebook for a few months and it was pretty nice to take on my trip to Dubai since it was so small. Unfortunately it’s usefulness pretty much ended there since I mostly use my Macbook Pro for everything. What I needed was a portable media device that was small enough to hold in one hand and at least do a decent job of surfing the internet. The netbook in a practical sense can do most of the basic functions of a notebook, and as Steve Jobs once said, it doesn’t do any of  those well. Watching HD videos on a netbook was very unsatisfactory especially in HD and it kills the experience. Then I stumbled on the Archos 5 Internet Tablet while walking around Best Buy so I bought it out of curiosity and have been very happy with it since.

The Archos Internet Tablet is an Android powered, feature packed portable media player that plays just about every popular multimedia format from AVIs (including Divx and Xvid), MPEG2/4, WMV, MKV, H.264, MP3, AAC, WMA, etc… and does so exceptionally WELL. In fact, it can manage HD media without any stuttering. There’s also a built in FM tuner and you can buy a DVR for this if you want to record and schedule your TV shows by connecting to your cable box with component or HDMI cable. There are so many features to list and so many things you can do on the device since it’s an Android player so I’m going to mainly focus on how well it does in real world every day use.


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