Well I live in NewYork. So I was able to get my Hands one one of the 4 devices they had on demo.
Other than waiting forever for a large fellow that was sweating profusely looking at the phone dialer (who does that?) its a smart phone. not a phone.
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After the wait I spent about 5 minutes with it.
It was light, but didn't feel cheap. It seemed a little large, but I'm coming from a D1. Ran smooth and the colors popped. (as we all know)
I focused on checking the Browser and the camera mostly.
Web pages appeared fast and navigation, double clicking, opening and closing tabs was easy.
Google homepage (being white) appeared white. didn't really notice any color hues. Though the room was full of flashing TVs, pad devices, and displays made it hard to really get a good inspection.
Camera...so as we have all heard. Kinda weak. It appears to be true. yes there is no shutter lag. but just panning around taking a couple pics. they were all blurry. there were a lot of options for camera settings, timelapse, panorama, other filters and editing tools. programming is great but the functioning is a little off.
Lag between vertical and horizontal views are a concern to me. In the messaging screen and webpages there was a couple seconds before the transition effect even started. hopefully that can be fixed in an update.
As for ICS itself. It was very simple to use and had nice flow to it. I don't like that the setting button moves around depending on what application youre in. I wasn't able to see if you can add homescreens or make the dock scrollable for more icons. (though all that can be done through 3rd party launchers)
Once again this is from only 5 minutes of hands on time.
ohh and I ran a performance test on it came in at 16k downloading speed and 13k uploading. at 31ms or whatever.
There were a couple flaws that are hard to overlook (camera, landscape lag)
But It seems to be overall pretty sweet.
I'm excited to own one and customize the hell out of it.dancedroid
Other than waiting forever for a large fellow that was sweating profusely looking at the phone dialer (who does that?) its a smart phone. not a phone.
:icon_ poke:
After the wait I spent about 5 minutes with it.
It was light, but didn't feel cheap. It seemed a little large, but I'm coming from a D1. Ran smooth and the colors popped. (as we all know)
I focused on checking the Browser and the camera mostly.
Web pages appeared fast and navigation, double clicking, opening and closing tabs was easy.
Google homepage (being white) appeared white. didn't really notice any color hues. Though the room was full of flashing TVs, pad devices, and displays made it hard to really get a good inspection.
Camera...so as we have all heard. Kinda weak. It appears to be true. yes there is no shutter lag. but just panning around taking a couple pics. they were all blurry. there were a lot of options for camera settings, timelapse, panorama, other filters and editing tools. programming is great but the functioning is a little off.
Lag between vertical and horizontal views are a concern to me. In the messaging screen and webpages there was a couple seconds before the transition effect even started. hopefully that can be fixed in an update.
As for ICS itself. It was very simple to use and had nice flow to it. I don't like that the setting button moves around depending on what application youre in. I wasn't able to see if you can add homescreens or make the dock scrollable for more icons. (though all that can be done through 3rd party launchers)
Once again this is from only 5 minutes of hands on time.
ohh and I ran a performance test on it came in at 16k downloading speed and 13k uploading. at 31ms or whatever.
There were a couple flaws that are hard to overlook (camera, landscape lag)
But It seems to be overall pretty sweet.
I'm excited to own one and customize the hell out of it.dancedroid
