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Nokia Lumia 620 preview: First look</h1>
Nokia Lumia Specification and Review<br />
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Introduction</h3>
The Lumia 820 and Lumia 920 give Nokia all the presence they need in
the higher WP8 circles, but a smart maneuver has helped HTC emerge as a
serious threat in the lower midrange. The Finns, who are obviously
having none of that, responded swiftly to the Windows Phone 8S. After
all, when the future of the whole company is resting on a single
platform, you just can't leave anything to chance.<br />
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The Nokia Lumia 620 has obviously done its homework. Just like the
HTC WP 8S, it offers a downclocked dual-core Krait CPU, 512MB of RAM and
a styling that's clearly targeting youths. This kind of approach makes a
lot of sense - the WP8 definitely needs an awareness boost among
younger users and reasonable spenders, if it's going to seriously
challenge the dominating smartphone platforms.<br />
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Nokia Lumia 620 at a glance:</h3>
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<li><b>General:</b> GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 850/900/1900/2100 MHz; HSDPA 21 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76Mbps</li>
<li><b>Form factor:</b> Touchscreen bar </li>
<li><b>Dimensions:</b> 115.4 x 61.1 x 11 mm, 76 cc; 127 g</li>
<li><b>Display:</b> 3.8" 16M-color WVGA (480 x 800 pixels) ClearBlack TFT capacitive touchscreen</li>
<li><b>Chipset:</b> 1GHz dual-core Krait processor, Adreno 305 GPU, 512MB RAM</li>
<li><b>OS:</b> Windows Phone 8</li>
<li><b>Memory:</b> 8 GB of inbuilt storage, microSD card slot (up to 64 GB)</li>
<li><b>Camera:</b> 5 megapixel auto-focus, face and smile detection; 720p (1280 x 720) video recording at 30fps; VGA front-facing camera </li>
<li><b>Connectivity:</b> dual-band Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, stereo Bluetooth
3.0, standard microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS and GLONASS, 3.5mm
audio jack, NFC</li>
<li>Misc: built-in accelerometer, multi-touch input, proximity sensor</li>
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Specs-wise the Nokia Lumia 620 is virtually identical to the HTC
Windows Phone 8S. The two major differences are a smaller screen (just
0.2 inches, at the same resolution) and the 4GB of extra storage the
Nokia offers. Make no mistake though - the superior brand recognition,
and more importantly, the exclusive software make the Lumia 620 the
favorite in this fight. Free lifetime voice guided navigation is not a
bad thing to have and can make all the difference when two devices are
as closely matched as this.<br />
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<b>Nokia Lumia 620 studio shots</b><br />
On the other hand the HTC 8S has a two-month head start and a
seemingly superior build. Looks are important and HTC are always tough
opposition when it comes to design and build. So, has the Lumia 620 got
what it takes to be <i>the</i> WP8 smartphone to have in the early 2013?
And can it mount a serious challenge to the bunch of dual-core droids
that pretty much own the mid-range market? We hope to find out the
answers when we are done with the preview, so let's get started.<br />
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Introduction </h3>
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The Sony Xperia J is the smaller and cheaper brother to James Bond's <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/sony-xperia-t-%201093680/review">Xperia T</a>, but don't expect to find this handset mingling with scantily clad women - the Xperia J is far more reserved, less flamboyant, happier to stay out of the limelight and just get on with life without frenzied car chases through the French Riviera.<br />
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There's a less flamboyant price as well, with the Sony Xperia J setting you back a <a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>ageable £175 (around $275/AU$265) SIM-free, or you can have it for free on contracts starting at as little as £13 per month on a two year deal.<br />
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With that price the Xperia J is left fighting against the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-%20phones/orange-san-diego-1082925/review">Orange San Diego</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=htc&linkCode=ur2&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">HTC</a> Desire C, <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/blackberry-curve-%209320-1079719/review">BlackBerry Curve 9320</a> and the slightly cheaper <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/sony-xperia-miro-%201088799/review">Sony Xperia Miro</a>.<br />
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Looks wise the Sony Xperia J is very similar to the Xperia T, with both handsets taking design cues from the popular <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/sony-ericsson-xperia-arc-%20930891/review">Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc</a> and <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/sony-ericsson-xperia-arc-s-%201033402/review">Xperia Arc S</a>.<br />
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The iconic arched back of the Xperia J is the strongest nod to the past Sony Ericsson handsets, and provides a unique design which we found pleasing to the eye.<br />
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This also means that the Sony Xperia J sits nicely in the palm, and at 124g we reckon it's pretty spot on in terms of weight, with a perfect balance in the hand and its slender 124.3 x 61.2 x 9.2 mm chassis is certainly not overbearing.<br />
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It's a sturdy handset, with a good build quality, and while the rear plastic case is a little on the thin side, it's easy enough to remove, unlike the one found on the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=nokia&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128787&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Anokia&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">Nokia</a> Lumia 820.<br />
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On the front you're greeted by a 4-inch display which is relatively bright, but at 480x854 isn't too sharp, especially when you consider the San Diego has a 600x1024 offering.<br />
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That's not to say it's a poor screen and Android 4.0.4 <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-%20mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-1043150/review">Ice Cream Sandwich</a> looks perfectly acceptable, with a single-core 1GHz processor and 512MB running the show.<br />
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Below the display is a bezel housing back, home and menu keys, with Sony not opting for on-screen controls, nor replacing the menu button with the multi-tasking function <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> recommends.<br />
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There's also a front facing, VGA <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> above the display while on the left there's a microUSB port for charging and connecting the Xperia J to a computer.<br />
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It's not a location we're fond of, as a charging port at the base of a handset makes it much easier to use when plugged in.<br />
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On the right there's a power/lock key at the top, with a volume rocker switch below. We found the power/lock key too small and difficult to press, making it a chore to do the simple task of locking the Xperia J, or waking the screen.<br />
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Up top there's just a centralised 3.5mm jack, which according to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=nokia&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128787&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Anokia&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">Nokia</a> and its <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/nokia-lumia-920-%201094960/review">Lumia 920</a> makes it easier to slip a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> into your pocket when head<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>s are plugged in.<br />
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Round the back of the Xperia J, the curved rear cover sports a slightly rubberised finish, and while it's not quite as grippy as the Desire C, we didn't feel like we were prone to dropping the handset.<br />
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You get a 5MP rear <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> flanked by a single LED flash in the top left corner, while at the base there's a speaker grill.<br />
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Hit the power/lock key and a ambient light will radiate out from the silver strip of bezel on the base of the Xperia J – these lighting touches are popular with Sony (and previously Sony Ericsson), and we can trace them all the way back to the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/sony-ericsson-w850i-%2087716/review">w850i</a> with its pulsating orange menu button.<br />
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The Sony Xperia J is an attractive, solid and well appointed handset set at a reasonable price which is sure to tempt some.<br />
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Interface</h3>
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The Sony Xperia J runs Android 4.0.4 <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-0-ice-%20cream-sandwich-1043150/review">Ice Cream Sandwich</a>, and while this isn't the latest version of <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a>'s <a href="http://6022en7gdmclh1gj97x3qakeq9.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=MOBILE">mobile</a> operating system an upgrade to <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-1-jelly-%20bean-1087230/review">Android 4.1 Jelly Bean</a> is apparently on the cards.<br />
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As we mentioned in the introduction there's a 1GHz single-core processor and 512MB of RAM running the show, and if we're honest the Xperia J really struggles to deliver a smooth Ice Cream Sandwich experience.<br />
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Sony has sprinkled a light overlay onto Android for the Xperia J, but it keeps things pretty pure, giving you a solid, if sluggish, user interface.<br />
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Unlocking the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>, swiping through home screens and opening the app tray are trouble free (most of the time), lulling you into a full sense of security, but try and open an app and the Sony Xperia J's lack of internal grunt comes to the fore.<br />
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Click a simple application such as contacts or messaging and the Xperia J takes a couple of seconds to open, with more intensive apps taking even longer. <br />
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The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> is one of the big offenders here, as we were left wondering if we'd even clicked the icon as the Xperia J took a good three to four seconds to even give us a hint it was trying to open something.<br />
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The slow <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> load up is also painfully apparently when you try to quick launch if from the lock screen.<br />
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Swipe the opposite way as you would to unlock and the Xperia J jumps to your homescreen for a few seconds before launching the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> app – this confused us at first as we thought we'd unlocked the handset instead of opening the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a>.<br />
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We found if we tried to do anything too quickly the Xperia J couldn't keep up, leading it to freeze for a couple of seconds while it tried to process the fact we wanted to open the gallery straight from the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> app after just snapping a photo.<br />
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Screen responsiveness wasn't always great either, with us taking a couple of attempts at times to get our prods to register.<br />
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We'd advise you help the Xperia J out and keep the number of running apps down to a minimum – luckily this is easy enough to <a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>age by holding the home key below the screen to get the Android multi- tasking menu up.<br />
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You can then swipe horizontally across the apps you wish to close, and hopefully saving that processor from being overburdened.<br />
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The 4-inch display is relatively clear for a handset in this price range and while it's not going to win any awards it is at least serviceable and gives you more space than the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/sony-xperia-miro-%201088799/review">Sony Xperia Miro</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=htc&linkCode=ur2&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">HTC</a> Desire C.<br />
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You're given five homescreens to play with, with no option to add or remove spares, and alongside the stock Android widgets Sony has also thrown in some of its own including three Timescape social options.<br />
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Hold down on an empty space and you'll bring up a menu offering widgets, applications, folder, shortcuts, wallpapers and themes – allowing you to quickly customise the Xperia J to your liking.<br />
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It's probably best to steer clear of too <a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>y data-intensive widgets on the Xperia J, as it may slow you down even more.<br />
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The good old Android notification panel is present and correct; pull down from the top of the screen to view your latest alerts, plus there's a shortcut key to the settings menu.<br />
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Some may be disappointed to find there are no quick settings available in this panel, allowing you toggle things such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but a homescreen widget goes some way to solving this.<br />
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Everything it pretty intuitive, especially if you've used Android in the past, with no over-the-top overlays, something Sony Ericsson was guilty of on a few of its handsets.<br />
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As much as we like the way Ice Cream Sandwich has been implemented on the Sony Xperia J the poor perfor<a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>ce of the processor means it's a frustrating experience. It leaves us longing for the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/orange-san-%20diego-1082925/review">Orange San Diego</a> and its Intel 1.6GHz chip which <a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>ages to run Android (albeit Gingerbread) without issue.<br />
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<h3>
Contacts and calling</h3>
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Contacts</h3>
Contacts are dealt with adequately on the Sony Xperia J, with the option to sign into your <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a>, email and social media accounts and pull through your contacts into the main application.<br />
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The contacts app itself is pretty standard Android, with a list of all your friends and a picture next to each of their names.<br />
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We found the Xperia J to be pretty hit and miss when it came to automatically matching up our chums with their relevant Fac<a href="http://df7d4gxhiici4uivh820dap51c.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=EBOOK">ebook</a> profiles, and the ones it did <a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>ge to link up saw profile pictures not always pulled through.<br />
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This led to us having to go through <a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>ually to link the ones it missed and scratching our heads as to why it wasn't pulling through everyone's picture.<br />
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Click through onto a contact's details and you'll note that if you have linked them with their Fac<a href="http://df7d4gxhiici4uivh820dap51c.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=EBOOK">ebook</a> profile the Xperia J has also pulled through their birthday and relationship status onto the contact card – handy if you're rubbish with dates or lazily on the pull.<br />
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There's also a couple of additional tabs, photos and interests, which grabs more information from the social network, allowing you to find out even more about your new-found friend.<br />
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If you're a Twitter fan then you won't be happy to learn that the Sony Xperia J does not cater for the 140 -character social medium in its contacts app for linking accounts together - #fail.<br />
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Adding a new friend to your contacts list is the same simple Android routine – hit the icon next to the search bar and you're taken to a form, allowing you to fill out a huge range of data.<br />
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Calling</h3>
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The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> app appears as a separate icon on the Sony Xperia J, but in reality it's part of the same app as contacts – hitting <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> just opens up the application on a different tab.<br />
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You're greeted with a numerical keyboard which also has your latest calls displayed above it, allowing you to quickly perform a call back.<br />
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Start tapping out a number and you'll note the Xperia J comes equipped with smart dial – offering up contact suggestions matching the digits you're typing.<br />
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Obviously you can also call someone by opening up their contact card from your friend list and tap their number.<br />
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Once in a call we found the quality to be perfectly acceptable, with volume going loud enough to hear our friend even in noisy situations.<br />
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Audio wasn't crystal clear, but we didn't experience any major issues, and the Xperia J <a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>aged to hold signal well, meaning we didn't drop calls.<br />
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Messaging</h3>
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Even cheaper smart<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>s these days are expected to offer a whole range of messaging options and the Sony Xperia J is no exception.<br />
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Kicking us off are the dual email clients: the <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a>-built Gmail app which deals solely with the search giant's email offering, alongside the standard Email app which can host multiple accounts.<br />
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There's nothing different in the Gmail app, which offers the same experience you find on every Android handset these days – a simple and intuitive app which makes dealing with emails a breeze.<br />
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Over in the Email app you can have multiple email accounts feeding into one universal inbox, but if that all gets a bit too busy you can view each inbox individually as well.<br />
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Slightly annoyingly you can't zoom out fully on HTML emails to get an overview of them, leaving you panning around feverishly to consume all the wordy goodness.<br />
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Text messages are handled, unsurprisingly in the messaging app, which offers up the traditional Android experience, with a list of conversations with your various pals, and if there's a photo associated with a contact that's pulled through here too.<br />
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We found the text messaging app could be a bit slow to load at times, especially when a new message arrived - the Xperia J took a second or two to refresh the list to display the latest ramblings from our friend.<br />
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These functions are nothing without a means of tapping out replies, however the keyboard supplied on the Sony Xepria J isn't a particularly pleasing one.<br />
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The keyboard is cramped even on the 4-inch display, and the poorly placed "hide keyboard" and "settings" keys meant we were constantly hitting them instead of the symbols, comma and full stop buttons.<br />
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Turning the Xperia J 90 degrees offered little reprieve, as while the keys became better spaced, we still found it difficult to accurately tap out our missives.<br />
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We also found the board was slow to respond to our taps, which made tapping out messages a laborious and frustrating chore – needless to say we quickly sacked it off in favour of a third party option downloaded from <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> Play – SwiftKey 3 if you're asking.<br />
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As far a social networking is concerned Sony has helpfully pre-installed the official Fac<a href="http://df7d4gxhiici4uivh820dap51c.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=EBOOK">ebook</a> and Twitter apps on the Xperia J – something we'd like every <a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>ufacturer to do, along with the <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a>+ app which appears alongside the range of other <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> offerings.<br />
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There's no social media aggregator app on the Xperia J, with the Timescape app found on Sony Ericssons ditched in favour of three homescreen widgets, all bearing the Timescape brand.<br />
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You can choose from Feed, Friends and Share – all of which are pretty self explanatory, and all link into your Fac<a href="http://df7d4gxhiici4uivh820dap51c.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=EBOOK">ebook</a> and Twitter accounts to keep you up to date with all the latest going- ons.<br />
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There's also the option to download more links from <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> Play, including Foursquare, LinkedIn, <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a>+ and Flickr, if you really want to get on board.<br />
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Without a dedicated app it's all quite limiting and we found ourselves opting for the official apps over the widgets – but some may find them useful and it's a nice option to have.<br />
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Internet</h3>
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When it comes to surfing the web on the Sony Xperia J you're given the choice of two internet browsers out of the box.<br />
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There's the stock Android browser and the now more commonly used Chrome browser, both of which offer up a pretty similar web experience.<br />
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You can rock tabbed browsing, sync <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> bookmarks, save pages for offline reading and request desktop sites on both, with the early difference between the two appearing to be the colour – the Android browser sports a dark skin, while Chrome offers a lighter style.<br />
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<a href="http://6022en7gdmclh1gj97x3qakeq9.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=MOBILE">Mobile</a> sites loaded in good time over both Wi-Fi and 3G, with the Xperia J rendering the pages in around three seconds.<br />
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The same can't be said for full websites, with the added complexities of the desktop version of TechRadar taking at least 30 seconds to finish loading – although we were able to pan around after about 20 seconds.<br />
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This is some seriously disappointing perfor<a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>ce and leaves the Xperia J languishing behind the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=htc&linkCode=ur2&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">HTC</a> Desire C and <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/orange-san-diego-%201082925/review">Orange San Diego</a> in terms of browser speed.<br />
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As you may expect panning and zooming pages is equally as painful, with the Xperia J juddering as you move through magnification levels, and a less than smooth scroll action.<br />
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At least the 4-inch display shows you a decent chunk of website at a time, and the auto text-reflow feature makes reading articles much easier.<br />
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The Xperia J's resolution may not be mind blowing, but words and images appear sharp and crisp on the 480x854 display, which actually makes for a <a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>ageable reading experience once you get past those load times.<br />
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One advantage Chrome offers is its incognito function, allowing all your <a href="http://1c4d7jvobqhi5van3ry5masgnq.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=ONLINE">online</a> activities to go unrecorded, perfect if you want to, erm, shop for a present.<br />
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<h3>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">Camera</a></h3>
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The Sony Xperia J comes equipped with a rear facing 5MP <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> and single LED flash, plus a VGA snapper round the front.<br />
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While this is acceptable for the price bracket the Xperia J falls into, better can be had for your <a href="http://23eccn3nfscj5ueb0a6e7677xh.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=MONEY">money</a> in the form of the 8MP-toting <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/orange-san-diego-%201082925/review">Orange San Diego</a> – something you'll need to consider if image quality is a big factor for you.<br />
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As we mentioned in the interface section, the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> app takes it sweet time opening, with us having to wait several seconds before the Xperia J was ready to start taking pictures – no instant shots available here.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> app itself is a well designed, simple affair, with large menu keys making it easy to hit the options you want – far better than the offering on the San Diego and <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/blackberry-curve-9320-%201079719/review">BlackBerry Curve 9320</a>.<br />
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There's a limited range of options, including a panorama setting and five scene modes, while the flash can be toggled and a digital zoom is on board to get you closer to the action.<br />
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The zoom is controlled by the volume rocker key on the side of the Xperia J, but image quality is dramatically decreased the further you go in, so use it sparingly.<br />
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Auto-focus is in play on the Sony Xperia J, but at times it can take a second or two to sort itself out, which can be fustrating if you're trying to capture something quickly.<br />
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Tap to focus is also available, but this is disabled if you opt turn on the "touch screen to capture" function, if you don't fancy using the on-screen shutter key.<br />
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If you want to fine tune the settings a little more you can mess around with the exposure, white balance and metering levels, while geo-tagging will also pin the location of your photo to the image file.<br />
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Thanks to the auto-focus, the Xperia J does take a second or two to snap the image and return back to the shooting mode once you've hit the shutter key, which makes capturing shots in quick session almost impossible.<br />
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Image quality is acceptable at best, with the Sony Xperia J struggling to cope with multiple light sources and areas of light and shadow in the same image.<br />
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A lot of our shots looked grainy, and while we weren't expecting sparkling quality from the Xperia J, it has to be said we were disappointed with the results.<br />
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<h3>
Video</h3>
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The Sony Xperia J can record video, but sadly only at VGA quality, so you may want to think twice before hitting that red button.<br />
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While we realise the Xperia J is a budget handset, 720p video recording is becoming more common at the lower end of the market, and the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/orange-san-diego-%201082925/review">Orange San Diego</a> <a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>ages to produce full HD film.<br />
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The video recording function can be accessed through the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> app – there's no separate icon for it – which means you'll need to wait for the application to load up, then switch modes before you can start shooting.<br />
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Options are relatively limited, with four scene modes plus exposure, white balance and metering to play with.<br />
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You can toggle the LED on the back of the Xperia J, but you'll need to decide if you want it on or off before recording, as you can't change it when rolling.<br />
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The digital zoom is in play in video mode too, with the Sony Xperia J allowing you to zoom in and out while recording, although the quality deteriorates the more you magnify the shot.<br />
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Once again the app is simple to use, with intuitive buttons providing users with an easy way to navigate around the various features on offer.<br />
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Needless to say results are far from spectacular. Video is grainy and pixelated, while colours and movement are poorly represented – if video recording isn't a big issue for you, then you can overlook these flaws, but for anyone who wants to be able to capture half decent footage on their <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>, you'll need to look elsewhere.<br />
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<h3>
Media</h3>
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The Sony Xperia J makes a decent attempt at providing a multimedia experience at a reasonable price, with its 4-inch touchscreen and <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> innards providing solid foundations.<br />
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Sadly we found the Xperia J lacking when it came to internal storage, with Sony only sticking in 4GB, with just over 2GB of that actually available to use – the rest is filled by the firmware.<br />
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Luckily there is a microSD card slot behind the Xperia J's plastic rear cover, allowing you to expand the storage by another 32GB – which should be plenty for the majority of you out there.<br />
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You'll have to remove the battery to access it which is a bit of a pain, as it means switching the handset on and off if you want to swap the card out.<br />
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Getting media on and off the Sony Xperia J is easy enough: plug into your computer, allow the drivers to automatically install and you'll be dragging and dropping your content in no time.<br />
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There's also Sony's PC Companion desktop software which you can download and install on your machine, allowing you to sync content between <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> and computer, as well as back up and restore the Xperia J.<br />
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Music</h3>
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Music fans should feel at home with a Sony <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>, as the company pioneered the portable solution back in 80s with the original Walk<a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a> – technology has come on a long way from them, but we still expect Sony to deliver on one of its iconic traits.<br />
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The Japanese firm has dropped the Walk<a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a> brand which adorned <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>s such as the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-%20phones/sony-ericsson-w995-531991/review">W995</a> and Mix Walk<a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>, but the namesake app remains on the Xperia J.<br />
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Fire up the Walk<a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a> app and it's all pretty straightforward; there's a 'my music' panel allowing you view your tunes by tracks, album or artist, and there's a playlist function allowing you to group certain songs together.<br />
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The now playing tab provides you will all the typical music controls, play/pause, skip, and scrub, while repeat and shuffle are hidden away slightly in the menu panel – accessed by hitting the menu soft key below the screen.<br />
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You can access the graphic equaliser from the same menu, allowing you to fine-tune your listening experience to best suit your style of music, and with a decent set of head<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>s plugged in, the Xperia J provides pleasing playback.<br />
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Sony's xLoud technology has also been stuffed into the Xperia J, which boosts the volume of the internal speaker, without the same insufferable level of distortion we've become accustomed to.<br />
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There's a link to Sony's Music Unlimited app from within the Walk<a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a> application, and the app has its own icon in the app list as well.<br />
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Music Unlimited is Sony's answer to streaming services such as Pandora and Spotifty, charging you £9.99 a month for unlimited listening, with the option to save your tunes offline, so you're not without your favourite beats when away from the internet.<br />
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It's up to you whether you plump for Music Unlimited over the other services available, but it will sync nicely if you own a <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/gaming/games-consoles/sony-ps3-%201099856/review">PlayStation 3</a> or Sony Smart TV.<br />
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If you fancy purchasing and downloading music so you actually own a physical copy then <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> now was its own service, available through <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> Play.<br />
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Play Music is similar to the likes of iTunes and 7Digital, offering up a wide catalogue of songs, with singles setting you back between 79p and £1.29, while albums can cost anything from £3.99 to £12.99.<br />
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Prices are in keeping with rival music stores, and the Play Music store works in very much the same way as the rest of <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> Play, which means you'll easily be able to navigate around.<br />
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There's an FM radio app on board the Xperia J too, providing you with a simple way to listen to radio stations. You can favourite a station allowing you to jump straight to it.<br />
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A handy shortcut to the TrackID app also features, which will tell you the name of the song which is currently playing – rather useful if you ask us.<br />
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Video</h3>
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With that 4-inch display the Sony Xperia J is a portable media player contender and don't let the 480x854 resolution put you off.<br />
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Video playback is smooth, colours bright and lines pretty well defined. It's not as impressive as the HD displays we're treated to on the high-end <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>s these days, but you could happily watch a movie on the Xperia J.<br />
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The player itself is a very basic affair, offering you a play/pause button and scrub controls and that's about it – which at least makes it idiot proof.<br />
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While Sony claims the Xperia J will happily play MP4, WMV, H.263 and .264 formats, we were unable to get any of our clips to play from our microSD card.<br />
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The My Movies app gives you access to all the films stored on the handset which weren't recorded with the on board <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a>, which makes it a lot easier to find the video you want without having to trawl through the Album app.<br />
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If like us you can't get your files to play, you can always head over to <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> Play where you can rent and purchase movies, with rental prices ranging from £1.49 to £3.49.<br />
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If you want to rent an HD version then you'll need to add a quid on top of the price, and you'll need to shell out at least £7.99 if you want to purchase a film to keep.<br />
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Photos</h3>
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All your lovely photos are stored in the Album app, and Sony has implemented its own design within this application, doing away with the folders we're used to seeing in Android.<br />
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Instead the default view is a vertical list of image thumbnails in order of the date and time they were taken.<br />
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Using the pinch and zoom technique you can adjust the size of the thumbnails – and thus the number which appear on screen at any one time. There is a short delay while the Xperia J catches up with the new magnification level, but it's not a slow as some other areas of the handset.<br />
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There's a basic photo editor built into the album, which lets you crop, rotate, remove red eye and add various effects and corrections to your images.<br />
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It's not as fully featured as some third party offerings, but for the casual snapper it's an easy to use tool which can improve your pictures.<br />
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Battery life and connectivity</h3>
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Battery life</h3>
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The Sony Xperia J comes with a 1,750mAh battery which is pretty big for a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> in its price range – and it shows.<br />
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We got an impressive amount of life out of the Xperia J during our time using the handset, with it easily lasting a whole day, even with moderately heavy usage.<br />
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If you were a lot more conservative you could probably stretch battery life out to around three days between chargers, and it meant we were never left panicking about where the nearest source of power was.<br />
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Sony has included a power saver app on the Xperia J, which lets you <a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>age consumption even more, possibly allowing you to eke out a few more days usage.<br />
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From within the app you can set what functions you want it to throttle, such as screen brightness, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth and <a href="http://6022en7gdmclh1gj97x3qakeq9.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=MOBILE">mobile</a> data.<br />
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Connectivity</h3>
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The Sony Xperia J comes well equipped in the connectivity department with 3G and Wi-Fi b/g/n network options both on board, as well as the option to use the handset as a Wi-Fi hotspot and share its web connection with other devices.<br />
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The microUSB port on the left hand side allows you to easily link up the Xperia J to a computer, while Bluetooth 2.1 lets you pair the smart<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> with your car, wireless head<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>s or laptop.<br />
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A-GPS also makes an appearance, allowing you to locate yourself and find the way home at 2am after a long session down the pub.<br />
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The addition of a mircoSD card slot round the back really helps, especially as there's a poor internal offering in the Xperia J, but there's no <a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/what-is-nfc-and-why-is-it-in-%20your-phone-948410">NFC</a> technology present.<br />
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If you love to stream media you'll be pleased to learn the Sony Xperia J is DLNA enabled, meaning you can wireless link it up to other DLNA enabled devices such as TVs, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-video-games/zgbs/videogames/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&pf_rd_i=home&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=1286243402&pf_rd_r=1CVBRF2ZXSFQN6NG1BR3&pf_rd_s=center-6&pf_rd_t=2101&tag=freedown0f-20">game</a> consoles and Hi-Fi systems.<br />
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Maps and apps</h3>
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Maps</h3>
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The Sony Xperia J comes equipped with the excellent <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> Maps, the search giant's free mapping solution which not only lets you explore the world, but also provides you with directions, <a href="http://0b3a1m8edmjlbvfss4oalyll1o.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=TRAFFIC">traffic</a> updates and turn-by-turn navigation.<br />
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Viewing maps on the Xperia J is easy thanks to the 4-inch display, but the sluggish processor comes into play again, as it takes a few seconds to load the map – even longer if you have <a href="http://0b3a1m8edmjlbvfss4oalyll1o.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=TRAFFIC">traffic</a> updates turned on.<br />
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GPS lock wasn't particularly quick either, with the Xperia J taking at least five seconds to starting pin pointing our position, but once it got a lock, it <a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>aged to hold on it and track us relatively well.<br />
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We did experience a fair amount of juddering as we zoomed in and out of the maps and there was a couple of seconds delay as we panned around and waiting for new areas to load.<br />
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Apps</h3>
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We it comes to app selection you're spoilt for choice thanks to the Android operating system and the presence of <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> Play, giving you over 700,000 apps to choose from.<br />
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In terms of pre-installed applications Sony has furnished the Xperia J with a few, with the obvious inclusion of the <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> range all present and correct including Maps, Gmail, Navigation and <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a>+.<br />
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As we mentioned Fac<a href="http://df7d4gxhiici4uivh820dap51c.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=EBOOK">ebook</a> and Twitter have been helpfully loaded on, making it quick and easy to jump onto your favourite social networks from the word go.<br />
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The Connected Devices app allows you to stream content to and from the Sony Xperia J and other devices on the same wireless network, such as TVs and computers.<br />
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The app automatically searches for compatible devices and you can then select the one you want and push your media to it.<br />
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Music and Videos is a peculiar app. It's not your destination to download or stream your favourite tunes or films; oh no, it's actually a social aggregator of what your friends are listening to/watching.<br />
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You can share you favourite tracks or YouTube clips via the application, as well as gorge on what your friends like, but overall it all seemed pretty pointless and we couldn't see ourselves using it… ever.<br />
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OfficeSuite allows you to view various documents including Word, PDF, Excel and Powerpoint. You can't create or edit documents on the fly though – you'll need to spend £9.29 on the Pro version for that.<br />
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That said it's handy to have a viewer pre-installed on a device, especially if you download documents from the internet.<br />
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TrackID is Sony's music recognition app which works in a similar way to the likes of Shazam and SoundHound – play it a short clip of music and it will work out what you're listening to.<br />
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Perfect when you're out and hear a song but don't know what it is, and the integration with the FM radio app on the Xperia J is a nice, and useful touch.<br />
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Smart Connect lets you program the Xperia J to turn certain settings on or off when you connect the handset to a peripheral.<br />
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For example you can have the Xperia J turn on your alarm and set your ringtone to silent when you plug in the charger, or open up the Walk<a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a> app when you plug in a set of head<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>s.<br />
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There are three preset options, but you can easily edit these and create your own ones, with the ability to automatically post to Fac<a href="http://df7d4gxhiici4uivh820dap51c.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=EBOOK">ebook</a> or send a text as well as open apps and toggle settings.<br />
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<h3>
Hands on gallery</h3>
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<h3>
Official gallery</h3>
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<h3>
Verdict</h3>
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The Sony Xperia J is, as the firm itself declared during its launch at IFA 2012, a smart<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> which "combines great style with affordability."<br />
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It may not be a wizard on the inside, but overall it offers a respectable smart<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> experience at an attractive price point.<br />
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We liked</h3>
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We are fans of the design of the Sony Xperia J, bringing back the look from the old Sony Ericssons and updating it with a smooth, stylish finish that sits nicely in the hand.<br />
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Battery life is also impressive, as more and more smart<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>s struggle to get through a day the Xperia J will happily chug through at least two, if not more with careful use.<br />
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We disliked</h3>
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The Xperia J is laggy, very laggy. We felt like we were constantly waiting for the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> to catch up with what we wanted it to do and this serverly detracted from the user experience.<br />
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Typing out messages was also frustrating, with the poorly designed keyboard reducing us to mistake after mistake and leaving us sending messages which only half made sense.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> isn't great either, and while we're aware the Xperia J is more of a budget-centric handset, there is better on offer for the same <a href="http://23eccn3nfscj5ueb0a6e7677xh.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=MONEY">money</a>.<br />
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Verdict</h3>
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If we're honest, we were a little disappointed with the Sony Xperia J. Sure, it looks great and will last a few days on one charge, but the sluggishness of the Android operating system makes us feel like we've gone back a few years.<br />
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We wanted to love the Xperia J, but instead we were left frustrated with flaws which we feel could have been easily addressed by Sony during development.<br />
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If you're in the market for a sub-£200 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> then we'd recommend you shop around, as there's a lot of choice out there and at the end of the day your decision will come down to personal preference.<br />
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You should certainly consider the Sony Xperia J, as it has all the makings of a decent handset and you never know, if it gets treated to a Jelly Bean upgrade, it might make all the difference. Here's hoping.<br />
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Introduction, Design and Interface</h3>
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Sometimes the tech world <a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>ages to take several steps back, while attempting to take one step forward. Case in point is the ZTE Anthem 4G, which is ZTE's first 4G LTE offering. It might be built for the latest in network speeds, but the design is something of a throwback, and not in a stylish, retro kind of way.<br />
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With a build we'd describe as "overly solid" and Android 2.3: Gingerbread running on the inside, is it worth accepting a dated device in exchange for a low monthly rate from Metro PCS? Then there's the question of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>'s initial asking price, which, like the ZTE Anthem 4G itself, is surprisingly weighty.<br />
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Design</h3>
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The first thing you'll notice when picking up the ZTE Anthem 4G is the heft. It's a solid brick of a device with some thickness to it, with weight and size connote "old" rather than "techy" in this age of light, wafer thin devices. While it is thick, the back casing has a rubberized, gripped texture and a unique swivel pattern.<br />
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The front is fairly standard with a 4.3-inch 800 x 480 pixel screen taking up most of the front of the device, along with your standard four touch buttons at the bottom of the screen.<br />
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The bezel is a chromed plastic trim, with a volume rocker and a micro HDMI connecter on the left side, with a power button and mini USB port on the right. There's only a head<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> port on top, with a micro<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> pinhole and thumbnail slot to pop off the back cover at the bottom.<br />
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The back cover itself is textured plastic, with a notch for the 5-megapixel <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> and LED flash and a small, embedded speaker opening. Underneath that cover you'll find a large 1780 mAh removable battery, and a <i>Kung Fu Panda 2</i> 4 GB micro SD card, preloaded with the feature film. But the frills stop there with a power charger rounding out the bill and no included head<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>s.<br />
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Interface</h3>
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While the outside is fairly nondescript, things really get weird once you power the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> on and begin to actually use it. For starters, ZTE has introduced its first 4G LTE <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> by running the older and underperforming Android 2.3: Gingerbread system software.<br />
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While Gingerbread is still the most widely used Android OS right now, it has been showing its age since it was introduced in December 2010, and the second most current <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-1043150/review">Android 4.1: Ice Cream Sandwich</a> feels a lot peppier and offers more options. You would assume that when you're launching what should be one of your fastest, multimedia <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>s, you would want to do so with some updated software. But, that's not the case here.<br />
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Contacts and Calling</h3>
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Contacts</h3>
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Thanks to the large screen, the Anthem handles contacts very well, presenting them in white on a black screen. You can view them in landscape or portrait layout, and they basically look large and friendly.<br />
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Avatars will import for your friends, fetched from your <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> account, and you can easily add contacts, check a call log, create groups, or look at your most contacted. Although in our test run, the two "most contacted" were just people we happened to have emailed twice the day before.<br />
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Calling</h3>
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If this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> is built to do one thing very well, it's to make <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> calls. The Anthem 4G supports Bluetooth and the unit itself has two micro<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>s and supports noise cancellation, which in turn leads to superb calls.<br />
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While cell <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> call quality without a separate headset seems to have lessened in priority over the last few years, the Anthem does a great job of bringing it back to the forefront.<br />
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Messaging and Internet</h3>
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Messaging</h3>
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Standard SMS messaging is very straightforward on the Anthem 4G, with the ability to type or swype messages. You can easily attach photos, videos, slideshows, audio, contacts and more.<br />
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The built-in Messages app presents your conversations in a voice balloon style that might be too cute for some, but it handles the job just fine and was quick and responsive in all of our tests.<br />
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Internet</h3>
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The reason most people will be attracted to this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> is the 4G LTE connection, which gave us results of roughly 950 kbps downloading, and 200 kbps uploading, with a 172 ms ping.<br />
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In higher coverage areas with four bars of Metro PCS service, we still only got a 127 ms ping, with 2424 kbps and 4272 kbps.<br />
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Not exactly speedy, but the Metro PCS coverage is also fairly weak in our area, which didn't help matters much. When we hooked up to WiFi, the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> did get some blistering speeds, but the 4G LTE coverage disappointed us.<br />
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The back <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> on the Anthem runs up to 5-megapixels, although the front-facing <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> is a measly .3 megapixel VGA job that was barely adequate for video chat. The images we took here all appeared weak, especially when using the built-in flash.<br />
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<img alt="ZTE Anthem 4G review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/Anthem%204G/stop%20sign-420-90.jpg" title="Outdoor shots with strong lighting could come out well..." width="420" /><br />
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<img alt="ZTE Anthem 4G review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/Anthem%204G/Sierra%20point%20sign%20blue-420-90.jpg" title="...but also had the potential for color distortion" width="420" /><br />
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<img alt="ZTE Anthem 4G review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/Anthem%204G/trees%20blurry-420-90.jpg" title="Details can be lost in the mix" width="420" /><br />
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Everything somehow <a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>aged to look washed out, grainy, and with a tinge of greenish hue throughout. While five megapixels should be decent for a casual <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a>, they just don't do the trick here.<br />
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<img alt="ZTE Anthem 4G review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/Anthem%204G/still%20life%20light-420-90.jpg" title="Indoor lighting made for dull colors" width="420" /><br />
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<img alt="ZTE Anthem 4G review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/Anthem%204G/still%20life%20dark-420-90.jpg" title="The flash was strong enough to light up pitch darkness" width="420" /><br />
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Video</h3>
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Video is even worse than the photos, with the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> promising HD 1080p resolution, but delivering it with a lot of grain and stuttering framerates in <a href="http://dd05bd4hohhb4y95adydasq5ex.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AFFILIATE">man</a>y cases. It's not a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> you would want to use to record family events or keepsake moments. And it goes without mentioning that the front-facing <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> should only be used if you find yourself with your hand trapped under a boulder while hiking.<br />
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Media</h3>
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Music and Movies</h3>
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ZTE's Anthem includes multiple paths and venues for listening to music, including Play Music from <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a>, a Music Player built-in app, and a large advertisement for Rhapsody on your home screen.<br />
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While it depends on personal preference what you go with, the sound is relatively the same for all of them. Which means it comes down to how the music sounds on the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>. With a headset that we provided, the sound was strong and punchy, but with the onboard Dolby <a href="http://6022en7gdmclh1gj97x3qakeq9.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=MOBILE">Mobile</a> speaker, the sound was distorted at higher volumes.<br />
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The same goes for movies as well, and we thought it was a nice touch that <i>Kung Fu Panda 2</i> comes included on the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>. Although you do have to have a strong connection to "activate" the movie so it will begin playing.<br />
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Once it was going, it looked and sounded fine, with a couple of stutters along the way. A slight annoyance, seeing as how we were playing it all of the micro SD card, and not streaming it. The video looked fine on the 4.3-inch screen, although hitting the zoom button actually stretches the image larger, and doesn't simply zoom in.<br />
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Battery life, connectivity and apps</h3>
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Battery Life</h3>
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We're glad the Anthem's battery is replaceable, because the battery life was very low. We tended to get roughly three hours out of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> when using it for video and web browsing, and talk time ate into that number further.<br />
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It's obvious that the large battery included here adds to the weight of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>, but doesn't seem to do much for the longevity of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>. If you're a power user, or expecting to use this on a cross-country trip, pack an extra battery or two.<br />
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Connectivity</h3>
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The Anthem offers multiple ways to connect with the world of data, including Bluetooth, GPS, EV-DO, LTE, Wifi, USB, micro-HDMI, and more.<br />
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It also includes a 4G <a href="http://6022en7gdmclh1gj97x3qakeq9.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=MOBILE">Mobile</a> Hotspot app, although that requires a feature on your rate plan, and a strong 4G signal.<br />
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Apps</h3>
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The Anthem comes with a ton of pre-installed applications, the standard <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> suite of apps, but it also packs in a lot of additional, unnecessary apps like M Studio, Pocket Express, IntroNow, and others.<br />
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However, we quickly found that these were just shortcuts to download the actual apps, which makes them little more than foot-in-the-door opportunities for app creators. There is the AppStore app, but chances are that you'll turn to <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a> Play, which is included, for most of your app needs.<br />
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Verdict</h3>
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Are great call quality and solid construction what users really want in a 4G <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>? Will that be enough to overlook the lukewarm data speeds provided by Metro PCS? And should anyone be buying an Android 2.3: Gingerbread <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> in the year 2012?<br />
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We liked</h3>
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As far as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> calls go, the ZTE Anthem 4G offers up some of the strongest call connections we've heard in a long time, on both ends. The solid construction and noise cancelling micro<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>s work well here. It's also a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> that feels like a hefty piece of equipment, which sometime causes us to instill more trust in it.<br />
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The inclusion of <a href="http://94685f5cdufg2zdp7vt6jlii40.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE">Google</a>'s standard bevy of apps is always a nice touch, and the Anthem plays nice with all of them, including our favorite Navigation app that offers up turn-by-turn navigation easily. Including HDMI out and a micro SD card is also a nice feature, especially when it includes a feature film about a butt-kicking, kung fu panda.<br />
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We were really annoyed that the Anthem 4G doesn't include a more updated and robust OS. We're not asking for the latest, <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-1-jelly-bean-1087230/review">Android 4.1: Jelly Bean</a>, but budget devices like the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/lg-motion-4g-review-1108772/review">LG Motion 4G</a> are rocking <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-1043150/review">Android 4.0: Ice Cream Sandwich</a>.<br />
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By now, we've become more than accustomed to drop-down notification screens that give us real options, and the ability to view our home screens in landscape mode. The Anthem 4G may have a 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm, but with Gingerbread, that's like putting a V8 engine in an old Honda. That OS omission feels like it hobbles nearly every experience on the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>, from browsing the web to adjusting your personal settings.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a> was also a large disappointment in a time where capturing video and photos while <a href="http://6022en7gdmclh1gj97x3qakeq9.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=MOBILE">mobile</a> has become increasingly important and social. With both the older OS and the unflattering <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a>, the Anthem feels like it should have come out a few years ago, rather than rather new offering.<br />
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Final verdict</h3>
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It's hard to recommend ZTE's Anthem, despite the 4G connection and solid call quality. The main reason is the older software and the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=camera&linkCode=ur2&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acamera&tag=freedown0f-20&url=search-alias%3Delectronics">camera</a>, but the price also is an enormous factor. With a mail-in rebate coupon, the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> prices out at $219 plus tax. But Metro has long prided itself on affordable monthly plans, which could attract budget buyers who need to keep their plan costs down.<br />
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We would recommend looking at other <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a>s in a similar price range, because you can find cheaper (and more expensive) options that offer you a much more robust OS. If you're willing to settle for 2.3: Gingerbread, the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=samsung&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128888&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Asamsung&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">Samsung</a> Exhibit II 4G isn't a bad option. Even Metro PCS has plenty of options that can keep you within a budget, while getting a bit more cutting-edge. Even Metro PCS has said that this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&keywords=phone&linkCode=ur2&qid=1354128545&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aphone&sort=popularity-rank&tag=freedown0f-20">phone</a> will only be available for a limited time, which makes it sound more like it's headed for the bargain bin, not a collector's shelf.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04621456960716290962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7210727521489215696.post-58395674032199104512012-11-28T11:22:00.000-08:002012-11-28T11:22:59.705-08:00HTC Droid DNA<br />
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Earlier this morning, Verizon presented the latest in its Droid line-up. Joining them is the new smartphone's manufacturer, HTC, and together the two unveiled the Droid DNA.<br />
Given all the fancy new Android devices that have been thrown into the smartphone arena lately, it's clear that HTC is ready for a fight. It was also made clear that its primary competition is Samsung.<br />
TechRadar was able to get some hands-on time with the new device, and we are fairly impressed overall.<br />
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A 440 ppi display</h3>
The display was HTC's primary focus, and it shows. The 5-inch screen sports a whopping 440 pixels per inch (ppi), making it the highest resolution display for any smart phone on the market. Why 440 pixels? Because "it's what professional photographers demand" explained Jonah Becker, HTC's design director who spoke at the unveiling.<br />
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In addition to resolution, viewing angles were also an important consideration. The Droid DNA can lay claim to an impressive 90 percent viewing angle, according to representatives on hand. What's more, HTC was more than happy to point out that the Samsung's Galaxy S3 only has 30 percent.<br />
Samsung's flagship phone was also cited when addressing the phone's brightness, which is 50 percent brighter than the S3. It also has richer color, and has zero blurring when it comes to displaying fast motion.<br />
Hands-on time also revealed very bright and vibrant imagery. Another feature that was heavily touted was the f 2.0 lenses that are on both on the front and the back. The only difference is the rear facing optics have 8-megapixels and the front facing one has 2-megapixels.<br />
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The Droid DNA is able to capture 1080p video on both lenses. Footage captured with the rear camera was excellent, especially given the low lighting conditions that were available. Image quality for the front-facing camera was not quite as nice, but more than acceptable.<br />
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Droid DNA features new shooting modes</h3>
Various new shooting modes were also touted, and the one that proved the handiest was the 88-degree ultra-wide angle, which is triple the viewing angle of most other smartphones. <br />
This means, when you're doing a portrait shot with pals at a party, not everyone has to scrunch together.<br />
When touching the screen, a picture doesn't shoot automatically. Instead, a three second timer goes off, to make sure you or friends are in the right position. It's certainly convenient. <br />
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HTC proudly extolled the quick and easy access to the camera app, even when waking up the phone.<br />
It's hardly a brand new feature (countless other phones have had this feature for a very long time), but it's welcome nonetheless. HTC also pushed the phone's easy picture management, which is mostly just organizing and categorizing snapshots (which can also be shared with a variety of services, like Facebook and Flickr).<br />
Picture taking, video taking, and navigating the phone on the whole are all a snap. The Droid DNA is nice and responsive, thanks to the Qualcomm quad core Snapdragon CPU and 2 gigs of dedicated ram. The device sports <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-1-jelly-bean-1087230/review">Android 4.1: Jellybean</a>, with the latest iteration of HTC's custom UI layer, Sense 4+.<br />
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More of the same</h3>
Droid fans who prefer a stock Android experience will still feel the same, and during our admittedly limited time with the device, it honestly didn't seem altogether different from previous Sense UIs. More time is necessary to truly see if there are any additional tricks up the DNA's sleeves.<br />
Like all HTC handsets, Beats handles the audio, and the Droid DNA sports two dedicated amplifiers. Due to the location, we were not able to get a good assessment of the external speaker, but audio quality coming from the headphones provided was superb - nice and bass-heavy.<br />
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Otherwise, the design of the phone was quite nice, though the red accents are something only a card-carrying Droid fanboy is going to love. It was noted how the textured red grill was inspired by Lamborghini, and how the phone as a whole takes its design cues from super cars.<br />
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Early verdict</h3>
Despite the large screen, the Droid DNA fit in our hand quite snuggly. This was something HTC was quite proud off, especially when comparing its profile to that of the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-note-2-1093688/review">Samsung Note 2</a>. <br />
It's worth mentioning that this new handset is essentially the same shape and size of the HTC One X.<br />
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Overall, those looking for a replacement for their existing Droid will be happy with what Verizon and HTC has delivered. Look for an in-depth review very soon.<br />
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The Huawei Ascend G330 is a fairly uninspiring phone, but is designed to appeal to those that want to spend only a little on a smartphone. These people may want something more than a £70 effort from the bargain bin, but won't break the bank.<br />
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Which makes the G330 a little bit of an oddity, especially when compared to the barnstorming<a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/huawei-ascend-g300-1077239/review"> Ascend G300</a> predecessor, which rightly holds its place in our top mobile phones list.<br />
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When it was first announced the G330 was touted at being around 60% more than the G300 – although the specs have been given a boost to compensate - but the Chinese firm now expects it to land at around £100 SIM-free.<br />
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This means we're looking at a dual-core 1GHz processor, a 5MP camera and <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-1043150/review">Ice Cream Sandwich</a> on board as standard.<br />
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It's also rocking a nice 512MB of RAM to help out that meatier CPU, and also packs 4GB of internal storageand a 1,500mAh battery.<br />
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But enough of the internals – what's the phone actually like in the hand? The same 'uninspiring' term pops up again here, as it's got some fairly cheap (if acceptable) chassis effects. <br />
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The plastic shell feels OK in the hand, the top-placed power and lock button is easy enough to hit (although could do with a little more travel) and the three soft keys to control the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-1043150/review">Android 4.0</a> OS are pleasant enough to hit.<br />
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There's also a slight attempt at an overlay here, although it's not the fancy-pants Emotion UI that we're going to be getting on the more impressive Huawei handsets. <br />
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The Ascend G330 allows you to control some of the connectivity elements from the pull-down notification bar, which we're a big fan of as it's much easier to pop on Bluetooth or turn off mobile data this way.<br />
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We're not sure how we would recommend this phone. It reminds us of the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/zte-grand-x-1089430/review">ZTE Grand X</a>, which is a misplaced handset if ever we saw one.<br />
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It's going to be fighting with the likes of the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/htc-desire-c-1085663/review">HTC Desire C</a>, and that's not a fight you'd want to enter into with the might of the name and Sense UI on board.<br />
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Some people might like the fact most of the Ascend G330 is stock Android, as the Holo Theme is actually pretty cool. But for us, there's nothing to really write home about here – although we will be testing the gaming prowess Huawei is so proud of, thanks to the Adreno 200 GPU on offer.<br />
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Samsung has decided that it can milk more from the success of the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-s3-1078667/review">Samsung Galaxy S3</a> and has punted out a lower-power little brother.<br />
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Coming in without the quad-core power, the higher-spec battery or the huge screen with the impressive HD resolution, the Samsung Galaxy S3 mini is still a decent phone in its own right, with 1GB of RAM, a microSD card slot and the exact same styling as its predecessor, albeit in a much smaller form factor.<br />
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However, coupled with a £300 price tag, you can see that the lack of high end features is going to hurt a device like this, especially when it's got the likes of the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/google-nexus-4-1108999/review">Google Nexus 4</a> to contend with at that price bracket now.<br />
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The interface on the Samsung Galaxy S3 mini is impressive though, as it comes with Android 4.1.1 <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-1-jelly-bean-1087230/review">Jelly Bean</a> out of the box, bringing with it the likes of a renewed notification bar and improved smoothness under the finger.<br />
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It's clear that despite only running a dual-core CPU there's not much to really complain about, at least in our initial tests. We swiped, added and removed widgets and saw no hint of slowdown or something to say that the lack of grunt was going to hurt it.<br />
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Adding in 1GB of RAM is a decent choice, seeing as that takes it to the level of its bigger brother, and you could argue that the S3 mini is actually more powerful than the all-conquering Samsung Galaxy S2, which is still selling well.<br />
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And on top of that we've got the fact that the style is exactly a shrunken down version of the S3. While other 'mini' versions of handsets have come in and promised to cut down the experience for the benefit of the pocket, this is one of the first times we've seen a shell actually minimised almost to scale.<br />
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The result is a decent-size phone that sits happily in the hand and is much easier to operate than the Galaxy S3 proper. And both have a Super AMOLED screen to make colours fizz and pop, although the S3 mini is only able to come with WVGA resolution, which means you're not going to get a sharp experience.<br />
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Well, that's actually subjective, as it's only a year ago that we were calling WVGA a perfectly fine resolution to chuck in your smartphone - not everyone needs that much clarity, and if the result is a lower price, then all the better.<br />
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When holding the Samsung Galaxy S3 mini, everything from browsing the web to tapping out a message is so much easier. It's got a similar spec sheet to the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/iphone-5-1096004/review">iPhone 5</a>, as well as a similar sized screen, and as such the experience isn't that much different.<br />
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We were impressed when firing open different apps, and the range of widgets is also decent, matching the S3 for the most part. There were some notable omissions in the experience when it came to comparing the two devices though; for instance, the S3 mini inexplicably has no auto-brightness setting, despite there clearly being a light sensor on the top of the screen.<br />
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The camera is also a lower-spec version of the S3 proper, and doesn't bring the slew of high-end features you'd expect from a Samsung device. But that's simply because when holding the S3 mini you're convinced that it should be as good as the larger iteration, which obviously isn't the case.<br />
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Early verdict</h3>
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While we're all for the idea of cutting down the smartphone experience to make the cost a little bit more palatable, the Galaxy S3 mini is still too expensive to be considered an ideal choice if you don't want the heft of its larger brother. <br />
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Be it the lack of auto-brightness, the slightly less sharp screen or the fact it takes a normal-sized SIM (which will annoy those that have made the jump to microSIM already and want to move onto this budget option) there's definitely a feeling that £300 for a phone of this quality is a little high.<br />
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Scrub off £50 and we can see a Christmas hit on the cards - although given the branding afforded to it, there's a strong chance that will happen anyway - and we like to see consumers getting a fair deal, especially around the holiday season.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04621456960716290962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7210727521489215696.post-58306653974200995192012-11-28T07:42:00.000-08:002012-11-28T07:42:56.596-08:00Altigen iFusion AP300 SmartStation<img alt="Review: Altigen iFusion AP300 SmartStation" src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com//art/mobile_phone_accessories/ifusion/iFusion%20SmartStation%20White%20side-470-75.jpg" /><br />
The Altigen iFusion AP300 SmartStation is intended to turn your iPhone into a fully functioning desktop phone that looks stylish and fun. <br />
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The first thing you notice about the SmartStation is its size. It's actually quite large 200x224x56mm, so if you're working on a cramped desk then it may not be the best solution for you. Additionally the bright white plastic casing - there's a black version available - seems to make the SmartStation look twice as big as it actually is, and it dwarfs the iPhone when it's seated on the unit. <br />
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But lets' ignore the styling issues and get down to the nitty-gritty.<br />
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At the back of the device, hidden under a neat white removable panel are sockets for; the power supply (it powers the SmartStation and will recharge your iPhone), the handset connection, an 3.5mm audio out port to connect external speakers, and a micro USB for docking to a PC or Mac. <br />
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On the front there are five control buttons, two to adjust the volume, a speaker button to switch to hands-free mode, a microphone mute button, and a Bluetooth connection button. <br />
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Setting up is simple. Just plug in the power and then pair the phone and the device. To pair, switch on Bluetooth on the iPhone, press the Bluetooth button on the SmartStation and when the device appears on the iPhones' list of Bluetooth devices, select pairing and a second later it's paired and working. <br />
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The external handset was well designed and felt comfortable in the hand and even when grasped under the chin - the handset is a must for those long calls. The handset sound quality was clear and seemed to be as good as, and probably a little louder than the iPhone.<br />
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Once paired the iPhone and SmartStation work together. So when a call comes in the iPhone and the SmartStation both ring - the iPhone doesn't need to be on the dock for the SmartStation to ring just near enough for Bluetooth to connect. When a call comes in you have two options, you can choose to answer the call by touching the iPhone and the audio goes directly to the units' speaker, or you pick up the handset in which case it goes directly to the handset. <br />
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Sound quality on hands-free mode was good, and at a pinch the SmartStation could be used as a replacement for a conference system. However the audio quality when playing from your iTunes library was very tinny, if you want to play music then a set of external speakers would be recommended. <br />
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A nice touch was the auto mute for the external speakers on incoming calls, as the last thing you want' is to be listening to music and then to broadcast your incoming call to the rest of the office.<br />
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Once a call has been accepted it's possible to switch a call between the iPhone and the device, although it's not that straightforward to do. If the iPhone is docked, you need to remove it from the cradle, tap the iPhone <i>audio source</i> button and then select <i>iPhone</i>. To switch to the SmartStation while the IPhone is undocked, you need to tap the IPhone <i>audio source</i> button and select <i>iFusion</i>. You can then dock the phone or leave it undocked.<br />
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As well as just taking and making calls with the standard iPhone Phone app the iFusion will also work with Skype and FaceTime and most of the other major internet call services and is compatible with the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, and 4S.<br />
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Verdict</h3>
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The SmartStation worked well, and did everything that was expected of it. The only minor nags were the internal speaker quality when playing music from your phone, and the Bluetooth connection LED is quite bright and can be quite distracting. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04621456960716290962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7210727521489215696.post-89010668897065643642012-11-28T01:56:00.000-08:002012-11-28T01:57:06.593-08:00ZTE Kis<IMG alt="Review: ZTE Kis" src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com//art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Official%20Shots/Kis-Press-01-470-75.jpg"><br /><H3>Introduction</H3><br /><P>Coming out of network-branded obscurity is a path that many mobile phone manufacturers are taking. </P><br /><P>HTC are now a major player in the mobile industry, and now Chinese manufacturers Huawei and ZTE are hoping to follow suit.</P><br /><P>Entering into the extreme budget market, the ZTE Kis squares up against the <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/huawei-ascend-g300-1077239/review">Huawei Ascend G300</A>, as well as against phones from more experienced and well-known manufacturers such as the <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/sony-xperia-tipo-1088798/review">Sony Xperia Tipo</A>, <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/lg-optimus-l3-1080249/review">LG Optimus L3</A> and the <A href="http://www.techradar.com/search?searchTerm=Motorola+MOTOSMART">Motorola MotoSmart</A>. </P><br /><UL><br /><LI><A href="http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/20-best-mobile-phones-in-the-world-today-645440">20 best mobile phones in the world today</A></LI></UL><br /><P>The ZTE Kis comes locked to Virgin, but at a rather respectable price of £59.99 with 12 months' free data on PAYG, ZTE are looking to really challenge the big guns. </P><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Official%20Shots/zoom_front_506image-420-90.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P>It also means they are clearly targeting first-time smartphone buyers, as well as students. Our model was white, but the Kis also comes in black. So, what do you get for your money? </P><br /><P>Bundled in the box comes just about everything you would expect. Phone? Check. Charger? Check. USB Cable? Headphones? Check and check. There's even a 2GB microSD card to help you store all your pictures and music.</P><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20KIS%20HandsOn/20121109192955-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P>Looking at the ZTE Kis, you would have expected to pay a lot more. However, the specifications are more akin to the price tag. </P><br /><P>The 800MHz processor, HVGA screen and 3.2MP rear camera (no front-facing offering) are by no means mind blowing. But then we didn't expect them to be. The lack of 3G, though, is rather disappointing.</P><br /><P>As expected, ZTE have only opted for <A href="http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/gingerbread-still-top-of-the-android-pops-1101254">Android Gingerbread (2.3.6)</A>, with no upgrade on the cards. </P><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20KIS%20HandsOn/20121109193149-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P>Although lower cost, the ZTE Kis is immediately on the back foot against the <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/huawei-ascend-g300-1077239/review">Huawei Ascend G300</A> and the <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/htc-desire-c-1085663/review">HTC Desire C</A>. </P><br /><P>As we said, looking at the Kis you'd be forgiven for thinking you had paid a lot more - the <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/htc-salsa-930923/review">HTC Salsa </A>immediately comes to mind. </P><br /><P>Following an almost standard Android layout, the front is dominated by the screen, wrapped in a thick, black, glass front. </P><br /><P>At the bottom of the screen are the four capacitive soft keys; Menu, Home, Back and Search. Just below this in a similarly-large plastic chassis is the rather visible microphone.</P><br /><P>Also concealed behind the black wrapping is an LED light that flashes when you have a new notification, or when you are charging the Kis. It's not immediately visible, but it's just to the right of the speaker.</P><br /><P>The top of the ZTE Kis houses both the 3.5mm headphone port moulded into the body, and the power/lock button. The lock button doesn't stand out massively from the body, but is easy to locate and hit one handed.</P><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20KIS%20HandsOn/20121109193136-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P>On the left of the Kis is the volume rocker. It's a bit firm for our liking, and the way it curves up at the edges makes it a bit sharp when you slide your finger up and down the side. Being at the top, though, means you are unlikely to hit it accidentally.</P><br /><P>The opposite side houses an uncovered microUSB port. ZTE have left the back pretty sparse as well, with nothing but the camera, speaker and handset branding. The plastic chassis wraps around, and is the first visual clue to the price of the KIS. </P><br /><P>Thankfully, unlike some devices, including the high-end <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/htc-one-x-1069319/review">HTC One X</A> and the <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/iphone-5-1096004/review">iPhone 5</A>, the battery cover is removable.</P><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20KIS%20HandsOn/20121109193226-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P>Sliding a fingernail in the slight groove in the top right of the cover pops the cover off very easily. </P><br /><P>The plastic is thin and flexible; again more clues as to the price of the ZTE Kis. Behind the battery cover is the SIM-card slot, 1,400mAh battery and microSD card slot.</P><br /><P>The microSD card slot isn't easy to use, having to lay the card flat against the Kis and slide it in. </P><br /><P>We often found ourselves dropping the card on the sofa and losing it down the back, so a pop in/out slot would have been preferred. We were impressed with the device's size, as everything is easy to hit one handed. </P><br /><P>The 120g weight means that you notice it in your pocket, without feeling that it is weighing you down. It is also comfortable to use for long periods, and we don't envisage you dropping it (we didn't, and we're not exactly graceful).</P><br /><P>The 3.5 inch HVGA TFT screen will never win any prizes. On the plus side, its bright enough to use outdoors and the capacitive buttons are very responsive. The viewing angle is pretty poor; we certainly can't imagine watching full-length movies on the Kis.</P><br /><P>Overall, we can imagine you wanting to show the style of the ZTE Kis off to your friends, and making them guess how much you spent on it.</P><br /><H3>Interface</H3><br /><P>ZTE have put their own custom interface over the standard Android OS, although haven't given it a name like Samsung's TouchWiz, HTC's Sense or even the amazingly-named Huawei Android Platform 5.1 which, you guessed it, graces Huawei devices like the <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/huawei-ascend-g300-1077239/review">Huawei Ascend G300</A>.</P><br /><P><IMG class=lft alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Home%20Screen-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>What ZTE's customisation actually brings is very minimal. </P><br /><P>Icons throughout the Kis have a lozenge-shaped background that brings a smart uniform feel to the device, but otherwise the icons are the standard Android affair. </P><br /><P>As for widgets, we were more than a little bit shocked to find no digital clock.</P><br /><P>Every UI we have used in the past brings a smart digital clock; HTC are well renowned for theirs.</P><br /><P>We were also disappointed with the lack of custom widgets: again, just the standard Android offerings.</P><br /><P><IMG class=rght alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Widgets-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>ZTE have chosen to offer an initial seven home screens on the Kis. We love our widgets, so this is a blessing, but given the UI's lack of any real widget offering, this is slightly confusing. </P><br /><P>There is no option to choose which of the nine is to be your home screen, but long-pressing means you can move the screens around - handy for setting the phone up the way you want.</P><br /><P>Again, there are no custom animations to speak of, just the standard Android offerings, which can be turned off in the settings menu.</P><br /><P><IMG class=lft alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/9%20Home%20Screens-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>Apps don't load up instantaneously, and animations make the device feel slow. With animations off, the Kis is noticeably faster.</P><br /><P>The apps drawer is a smart affair, with the home screen dock being persistent in the drawer. </P><br /><P>Having an infinite loop on the drawer is a welcome feature too, with the drawer screen number displayed at the bottom of the screen.</P><br /><P>There is a tiny bit of customisation to the notification bar, with the ZTE KIS putting in quick settings on the notification bar. We've seen this on other phones, and we've admired it. </P><br /><P>Unfortunately, the tiny screen means you can only see four at a time, and there are nine to choose from. </P><br /><P>Selected items are illuminated from grey to white, which isn't always distinguishable, meaning that you can't always tell what's selected.</P><br /><P><IMG class=rght alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Notifications%20Bar-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>The lock screen is fairly simple to use, by long-pressing the icon in the middle. </P><br /><P>A little swirl appears around the icon, which probably made us smile a bit more than it meant to. </P><br /><P>It's a small feature, but something that, unlike other areas, hasn't been overlooked.</P><br /><P>Being based on Android means that anybody with any knowledge of the OS will be able to immediately navigate. </P><br /><P>The simple UI doesn't add a great deal to the OS, but it certainly doesn't detract from its simplicity, making it ideal as a first smartphone.</P><br /><P><IMG class=lft alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Lock%20Screen-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>Despite this, we were still a little disappointed that ZTE haven't fashioned a way of differentiating themselves in the same way that other manufacturers have. </P><br /><P>The mobile market is getting packed, especially at the budget end, as last year's high-end models - such as the <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-s2-930907/review">Samsung Galaxy S2</A> - suddenly become a lot more affordable.</P><br /><P>Every other major handset manufacturer, even ZTE's Chinese cousin Huawei, have managed to skin Android and still keep costs minimal. </P><br /><P>The uniform feel may be clean and pleasant to look at, but there is no real added functionality at all. In many ways, this smartphone feels a lot less "smart" because of it.</P><br /><H3>Contacts and calling</H3><br /><H3>Contacts</H3><br /><P>Continuing the lack of customisation throughout the device, the ZTE Kis has yet another basic Android phone book.</P><br /><P>Don't take this the wrong way though; Google's offering has some nifty features up its sleeve. </P><br /><P><IMG class=lft alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Account%20Screen-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>The biggest of these is that it can aggregate all your social account contacts, pulling in from Facebook, Twitter, and all the contacts associated with all your Google accounts.</P><br /><P>This begs a question, a very big question. Why doesn't the ZTE Kis do this? </P><br /><P>ZTE have elected to allow you to have your Google account, multiple Google accounts even, but there is no pre-bundled Facebook or Twitter account. </P><br /><P>Maybe it's a blessing, as no Facebook app means more internal storage space, but with no UI customisation, there is no option to bring in contacts like HTC Sense can.</P><br /><P><IMG class=rght alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Contacts-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>Again, the ZTE Kis is feeling less of a "smart" phone.</P><br /><P>Contacts are displayed in a list, with a tiny contact picture to the left, and a little green phone icon to the right. </P><br /><P>It's a nice feature to have the image - even though it was far too small to actually show anything - as tapping it brings up contact options, calling or texting. </P><br /><P>At the bottom of the screen are the 'Add Contact' and 'Contact Search' buttons. </P><br /><P>Having the search soft key directly beneath left us very confused as to its inclusion.</P><br /><P>Android's useful features still present on the ZTE Kis are the Favourites section and the Groups section, for those who have a well sorted list of contacts in their GMail accounts. </P><br /><P>Here you can send group messages, or long-press to put that group onto your home page.</P><br /><H3>Calling</H3><br /><P><IMG class=lft alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Dialer-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>The dialer app is easy to use, and even with our large fingers we still hit all the right buttons. </P><br /><P>The standard T9 layout also supports smart dialling. </P><br /><P>This is a useful feature if you know a part of the contact's number, or the contact's name. </P><br /><P>The call screen brings all the standard call features: Contact photo, Speaker, Bluetooth, Add Call and Dial pad. </P><br /><P>Backing off EE signal, the Virgin-locked ZTE Kis doesn't suffer from unreliable connections, although we found it noticeably slower to find a signal than our other EE-based devices.</P><br /><H3>Messaging</H3><br /><P>ZTE might not add customisation to a great deal of features on the Kis, but it does offer a secondary keyboard on top of the standard Gingerbread offering; TouchPal.</P><br /><P>We've seen a TouchPal offering before on the <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/huawei-ascend-g300-1077239/review">Huawei Ascend G300</A>, and we weren't impressed. This left us a little sceptical on the ZTE Kis, but we were pleasantly surprised. </P><br /><P>We were able to hit every key we wanted almost every time, and the screen size only aided us as we could type one handed.</P><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/TouchPal%20Curve.no.2-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P>There are a few customisation options built into TouchPal, such as predictive texting, corrections on common typing errors, as well as "Curve", TouchPal's answer to Swype. </P><br /><P><IMG class=rght alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/TouchPal1-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>TouchPal was also superb when it came to swyping instead of typing. We don't always tend to slide our fingers around the screen, generally preferring to type.</P><br /><P>Despite this, we found that the ZTE KIS somehow knew what we wanted more than 95% of the time.</P><br /><P>Predictive texting was also very easy to turn on and off, as the keyboard doubled up as a switch; sliding over it switched between the two. </P><br /><P>We can't say there is a whole lot to say about the SMS app, as it was unsurprisingly featureless. </P><br /><P><IMG class=lft alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/SMS-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>We weren't impressed with the colour scheme; the blues and whites seem a bit lifeless.</P><br /><P>Having Android as the OS, means there are two ways to handle email. </P><br /><P>Gmail will handle all your Google-based emails. </P><br /><P>It's a clean app, supports multiple Google accounts and covers just about everything that you get on the desktop version.</P><br /><P>For non-Google accounts, the standard Email covers POP3/IMAP email standards. It has pre-set configurations that makes it simple to set up all your accounts.</P><br /><P><IMG class=rght alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/GMail-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>It's as simple as ABC, 123... well, inputting username and password. </P><br /><P>It also combines multiple accounts, mail checking frequency and mail size limits.</P><br /><P>Connecting with friends in other forms, such as IM or Facebook messenger is entirely possible, if you download the app from the Play Store. </P><br /><P>Google+ and Messenger apps come pre-installed, but given the lack of any real Google+ user base, we don't see this becoming a major hit, and is only really taking up valuable internal storage space.</P><br /><H3>Internet</H3><br /><P>Despite being a dying format, Flash is one of the basics of an internet explorer. </P><br /><P>However, like many of its low-specced brethren, the ZTE Kis doesn't come with the necessary processing grunt for the Adobe app to be downloaded from the Play Store.</P><br /><P><IMG class=lft alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Browser%201-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>That doesn't mean that the mobile web is totally impossible to navigate though. The 800MHz processor does little to help anything. </P><br /><P>Loading full web pages over Wi-Fi was a little too much, and it struggled to load different websites quickly. </P><br /><P>The ZTE Kis did manage to load just about every site we threw at it, but if you're in a hurry, and have no access to Wi-Fi, things look pretty bleak. </P><br /><P>That said, the Kis unsurprisingly loaded dedicated mobile sites a lot better, if a little slower, than we'd have liked.</P><br /><P>As a browser, the stock Android option covers just about everything you could possibly want. </P><br /><P>Only having Android 2.3.6 on board means that there is no possibility of having Google Chrome as a browser, like the similarly-priced <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/sony-xperia-tipo-1088798/review">Sony Xperia Tipo</A>, or other budget devices like the <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/huawei-ascend-g300-1077239/review">Huawei Ascend G300</A> and the <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/htc-desire-c-1085663/review">HTC Desire C</A>.</P><br /><P><IMG class=rght alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/URL-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>So, what does the stock option provide? Tabbed browsing? No. URL sharing? Yes. Pinch-to-Zoom? Yes. Text reflow? No.</P><br /><P>URL sharing makes it easy to show others the site you are browsing. </P><br /><P>Long-pressing the URL bar brings up the sharing options, but with the lack of the basic Social media apps installed, this might be a bit pointless. </P><br /><P>The Bookmarks tab is right next to the URL bar, and whilst small, is relatively easy to hit.</P><br /><P>Pinch-to-zoom is a feature that we've grown accustomed to, but the lack of automatic text reflow is disappointing. </P><br /><P><IMG class=lft alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Text%20Zoom-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>When zoomed right in, the poor screen quality means you really start to notice the pixels, with text losing the crisp feel.</P><br /><P>One almost necessary feature, given the lack of processing power, is the ability to switch off image loading and disable plug ins. </P><br /><P>We thought this would be great for limited data allowances, but despite Virgin's offering of 12 months' free data, we'd recommend that you switch it off to speed up your connection. </P><br /><P>The screen size, as well as its lack of clarity, is also somewhat of a problem, as everything is a bit too tiny. </P><br /><P>Maybe we have grown a bit too fond of the larger screens found on the higher-end devices, but the 3.5 inch screen feels a bit small for any serious web browsing.</P><br /><H3>Camera</H3><br /><P>Unlike some of the other budget offerings, ZTE have only opted for a 3.2MP camera. </P><br /><P>This is highly disappointing, especially as some of the higher-end devices offer nearly the same level of picture clarity on their front-facing cameras.</P><br /><P>The camera is autofocus, meaning there is no option to touch the screen to focus anywhere other than the centre. </P><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Camera%20Settings2-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P>We have mixed feelings regarding autofocus, but this is one of the worst. The ZTE Kis takes a while to focus on what you want to snap, and you can't tap the screen to get it to focus on a particular object, with the Kis keeping focus centralised on screen.</P><br /><P>You can't even, as you can on some devices, focus what you want in the centre, then move the camera slightly as the camera then re-focuses. </P><br /><P>We've found this very frustrating in the past, and whilst we didn't expect much, sometimes it really is just the little things.</P><br /><P>The autofocus feature is also very slow when taking low-light pictures. We expected there to be some slow down, but you could expect the birthday candles to be blown out before the camera has focused. </P><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Camera%20Geo%20Location2-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P>There is also no onboard flash for the camera, meaning that photos you take at the party won't come out very clear. As for what the camera offers, you won't find much.</P><br /><P>We never expected much, but we've said that before. </P><br /><P>What you get in total is digital zoom up to 5x, geo-tagging, white balance, brightness toggle, exposure, picture size, picture quality, colour effects, ISO 100-800, anti banding, saturation, contrast, and sharpness.</P><br /><P>That's a pretty exhaustive list of the basics that you can get on a camera, but in all honesty they all seem a bit useless as the picture quality is so poor.</P><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Camera%20White%20Balance2-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P>The colour effects are a bit fun, but you are limited to sepia, mono chrome and negative, so not as much as other devices we have seen.</P><br /><P>Another disappointing, yet expected move, is the lack of a front-facing camera.</P><br /><P>It makes taking those profile pictures a bit more difficult, but that shouldn't be so much of a problem with no built-in Facebook or Twitter app. </P><br /><P><IMG title="Landscape: Very grainy picture, no real definition in foreground or background" alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20KIS%20Camera/2012-11-08%2015.02.50-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P><A href="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20KIS%20Camera/2012-11-08%2015.02.50.jpg">Click here to see the full resolution image</A></P><br /><P><IMG title="Normal: Focussed areas are clear and image is bright, but obvious lack of definition in areas of high detail" alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20KIS%20Camera/2012-11-08%2014.53.56-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P><A href="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20KIS%20Camera/2012-11-08%2014.53.56.jpg">Click here to see the full resolution image</A></P><br /><P><IMG title="Zoom: Image is very grainy, but contrast still high" alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20KIS%20Camera/2012-11-08%2014.57.48-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P><A href="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20KIS%20Camera/2012-11-08%2014.57.48.jpg">Click here to see the full resolution image</A></P><br /><P><IMG title="Low Light: Image very noisy. Contrast is a lot higher, with bright areas very bright, and dark areas very dark" alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20KIS%20Camera/2012-11-02%2017.30.53-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P><A href="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20KIS%20Camera/2012-11-02%2017.30.53.jpg">Click here to see the full resolution image</A></P><br /><P><IMG title="Colour Effects: A little bit fun - the negative effect inverts colours" alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20KIS%20Camera/2012-11-08%2015.30.49-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P><A href="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20KIS%20Camera/2012-11-08%2015.30.49.jpg">Click here to see the full resolution image</A></P><br /><H3>Video</H3><br /><P>The Video recorder app on the ZTE Kis is just as basic as the camera app, but then what did we expect. </P><br /><P>For the price point, we know that the majority of the money will have been spent on the things that matter more in a smartphone, even if we haven't been over struck on the offerings so far. </P><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Video%20Quality2-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P>Options wise, ZTE allow you to choose the Video quality, optimising the video for YouTube or MMS if you desire. We doubt you'd upload much to the social site as, again, picture quality is pretty poor.</P><br /><P>Elsewhere, you can change the white balance, colour effects, video resolution, video and audio encoding and video duration (30 seconds being the longest).</P><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Video%20Colour%20Effects2-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P>The video is pretty poor. The colours are reproduced well, and the movement between light and dark is quick enough, but the picture is very unclear and grainy. </P><br /><P>The picture works well on the phone's tiny screen, but on anything larger the video becomes almost unwatchable.</P><br /><P>If we were to recommend this for filming anything, it would be for those awkward 'Dad dances Gangnam Style' moments, but we say that only to save you the embarrassment at a later date.</P><MEDIAINSERT width="420" src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SWLlVawh0U" height="315" mediatype="YouTube" caption="Watch videos taken with the ZTE KIS here">YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SWLlVawh0U</MEDIAINSERT><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/youtube_insert-420-90.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><H3>Media</H3><br /><P>Up until now, the review of the ZTE Kis has hardly proven that it has the capabilities to either create or consume media. </P><br /><P>We wouldn't be doing our job, though, if we didn't give the Kis the full run through. The first thing we will have to mention, before we get into any real depth, is the severe lack of internal storage. </P><br /><P>We will cover this later on in our review in the apps section, but we must give it a brief nod, although a 2GB microSD card is provided.</P><br /><P>Bundled on all Android devices is a very basic music and video player. Putting media on the ZTE Kis is, thankfully, simple and intuitive. </P><br /><P>Plug the USB cable into the PC and Kis, turn on the USB storage mode on the device, and then drag and drop files in the same way that you would with any other USB device.</P><br /><H3>Music</H3><br /><P><IMG class=lft alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Music%20Player-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>The music player, like other aspects of the Kis, has no real customisation.</P><br /><P>It automatically sorts your music by Artist, Album, Song, as well as loading playlists and your favourite tracks.</P><br /><P>Unlike other music players we have seen, there is no landscape mode, meaning no ipod-esque album cover scrolling.</P><br /><P>The player comes with the standard play/pause and track-skip buttons, as well as the shuffle, repeat, favourite/star and now playing buttons. </P><br /><P>The latter buttons were all a little small, but easy to hit one handed due to the device's size. </P><br /><P><IMG class=rght alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Music%20Playing-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>It is also possible to share your music direct from the music player, via all the standard methods, even if these are a bit sparse due to the lack of social apps installed.</P><br /><P>As we mentioned earlier, the ZTE Kis does come with a distinct lack of pre-installed widgets available, so we were pleasantly surprised to find a music widget. </P><br /><P>Although a very basic affair, providing only a play/pause button and a next skip button, at least you don't have to fiddle around with loading the app. </P><br /><P>If you find that you get bored of your stored music, ZTE have also provided the KIS with an FM Radio. </P><br /><P><IMG class=lft alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/FM%20Radio-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>Like other phone-based radios, you need to connect the headset or other headphones, as they act as the aerial.</P><br /><P>We can't say a great deal about the FM radio, other than we found that the signal was relatively poor, and we found no way of manually tuning the radio. </P><br /><P>Auto-tuning the radio found some of the local radio stations, but not all the ones we expected, nor did it provide the names of the stations. </P><br /><P>All-in-all, a pretty down-heartening affair.</P><br /><H3>Video</H3><br /><P>Given our lack of praise of the ZTE Kis' screen until now, you won't be surprised that we have to mention it again here.</P><br /><P>To help us try and provide an accurate battery test across devices, we play a 90-minute HD movie, but we noticed that the KIS really struggled to play the movie. </P><br /><P>Audio was clear and un-stuttering, but the video playback was very juddery, if it played at all.</P><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Video%20Player2-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P>The video player is also devoid of features, with nothing but a pause button, and a tiny bar to manually select where in the movie you would like to watch. </P><br /><P>Video support is equally poor, playing MP4, H.263, H.264 and WMV files.</P><br /><P>The external speaker is probably the biggest media selling point of the ZTE Kis. It is very, very loud, if a tiny bit tinny. </P><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/YouTube2-420-100.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P>It is certainly loud enough to annoy a whole train carriage, or blast out tunes to all your friends. Being an Android device, the ZTE Kis comes with the pre-installed YouTube app. </P><br /><P>Loading videos over Wi-Fi was fairly fast, although the picture quality is pitiful. The lack of processing power and the less-than-perfect screen combine to make YouTube footage grainy, although the sound was well reproduced. </P><br /><H3>Gallery</H3><br /><P>As for viewing the media, you can navigate via the media's respective apps, such as the Music or Video Player, or the Gallery App.</P><br /><P>The ZTE Kis Gallery app is yet another Android standard, and has the ability to load all your Picasa web albums. ZTE have also put on an easy-to-use file manager, called Filer.</P><br /><P>It is very simple and intuitive to navigate, and one of the best file management systems we have used, with the folder pathways loading up on the left being a very useful feature.</P><br /><H3>Battery life and connectivity</H3><br /><H3>Battery life</H3><br /><P>We've always taken that a day's use is about what you can expect from a modern smartphone, with a nightly charge being the norm. </P><br /><P><IMG class=lft alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Battery-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG>Therefore, we were hesitant given the smaller, 1400mAh battery provided in the ZTE Kis.</P><br /><P>ZTE claim that this should be sufficient for 250 hours of standby time, and 280 minutes of call time, and we have found no reason to suggest that these are inaccurate. </P><br /><P>The smaller screen and the low processing power may prove to be a blessing in disguise for the battery, as both require less metaphorical juice.</P><br /><P>After using the phone, we are happy to report that the Kis will stand up to a normal day's use: just over eight hours' use, with screen set to the brightest level, running a couple of YouTube music videos, 30 minutes of web browsing and Wi-Fi on and off, and we've gotten the phone down to 44%.</P><br /><P>We have a standard test when it comes to battery testing, as we mentioned earlier. This is running our 90-minute HD NyanGareth movie on full brightness, with all sync settings on. </P><br /><P>Whilst the movie was very poor, we found that the battery diminished by 39%.</P><br /><H3>Connectivity</H3><br /><P><IMG class=rght alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Power%20Control-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>Connectivity wise, you obviously won't won't find 4G, but there is HSDPA and HSUPA, alongside GPS, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, and Bluetooth 2.1. </P><br /><P>These are all controllable either via the Power Control widget, or the quick settings in the notifications bar.</P><br /><P>We were a little surprised to find that the ZTE KIS can double up as a portable Wi-Fi hotspot if you search through the Wireless & networks settings page. </P><br /><P>Getting media onto the KIS is done via the microUSB cable provided, turning the phone into an external USB device, with no external software to speak of. </P><br /><P>Alternatively, you can download and buy/rent media off of the Google Play Store.</P><br /><H3>Maps and Apps</H3><br /><P>Based on Google's Android system, the ZTE Kis comes with the full range of Google Apps, from Maps and GMail to The Artist formerly known as Android Market (Play Store). </P><br /><P>There are also the standard YouTube, Google Plus and Google Talk apps.</P><br /><H3>Maps</H3><br /><P><IMG class=rght alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Maps1-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>After the Apple maps fiasco, mobile mapping systems have gained a lot of press recently, with Google and its partners keen to show off that it is better. </P><br /><P>Whilst this may be true (for now at least), the mapping systems do rely, somewhat, on the power behind it.</P><br /><P>Over a slow mobile connection, don't expect it to load fast. </P><br /><P>However, when it does load, Google's offering is superb, with detailed street maps and satellite imagery, information on local cafés and other amenities, even information on Public Transport routes.</P><br /><P><IMG class=lft alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Navigation-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>Google also offer a basic sat nav built into the mapping software, known as Navigation. </P><br /><P>Whilst you won't get the same level of features that you will on other paid-for apps, or a dedicated device, you can set whether you are driving, walking or cycling.</P><br /><P>We found that the GPS generally locked onto our position almost instantly, making it far quicker than the map, which was still loading. </P><br /><P>Even more surprising was that we found this also happened indoors. </P><br /><H3>Apps</H3><br /><P>Applications are generally managed via the Google Play store, which is very well populated. </P><br /><P><IMG class=rght alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Google%20Play-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG></P><br /><P>Despite the lower power and older operating system, ZTE claim there are over 450,000 apps to download. </P><br /><P>The Play Store is very easy to navigate, split into Apps, Games, Movies and Books, and can also be navigated via your PC web browser.</P><br /><P>We mentioned earlier, the ZTE Kis is severely limited in terms of storage capacity. </P><br /><P>After updating the apps that came preloaded on the KIS, we installed the mother of mobile gaming apps, <EM>Angry Birds</EM>. </P><br /><P><IMG class=lft alt="ZTE KIS review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Screen%20Grabs/Ltd%20Storage-210-100.jpg" width=210></IMG>Whilst this is a fairly large app (27.85MB), we expected to be able to install more.</P><br /><P>As of Android 2.2 Froyo, apps are able to be installed on the external microSD card. </P><br /><P>This will prove entirely necessary, as after installing <EM>Angry Birds</EM>, only 12MB of internal storage space was left. </P><br /><P>We found this to be a major stumbling block, as there is no way to automatically set to install on SD. </P><br /><P>This meant that every app we installed had to be manually checked for SD compatibility, or you could install an 'apps to SD' app, which in itself takes up space.</P><br /><P>The ZTE Kis is populated with a lot of other apps, from the standard Calculator, Calendar and Clock app, named 'Alarm', a Sound Recorder and Voice Search. </P><br /><P>There is very little to say about these apps; they do exactly what you expect them to in a basic and unstylish manner.</P><br /><P>There is also an app named Backup and Restore, which aims to save your data (Contacts, SMS, MMS and Calendar), should you accidentally delete them. Throughout the App drawer, however, you will find different links to Virgin-powered sites. We found no use for them, and no way of getting rid of them.</P><br /><H3>Official gallery</H3><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE Kis review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Official%20Shots/Kis-Press-01-420-90.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE Kis review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Official%20Shots/zoom_front_506image-420-90.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><P><IMG alt="ZTE Kis review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/ZTE/ZTE%20KIS%20images/ZTE%20Official%20Shots/ZTE%20KIS%201_506%20image-420-90.jpg" width=420></IMG></P><br /><H3>Verdict </H3><br /><P>What can we say about the ZTE KIS? </P><br /><P>We got the phone out of the box and were immediately impressed with the device's looks, and here at the end of the review, we still are. </P><br /><P>For a phone that doesn't blow your wallet to pieces you'll be surprised at what you hold in your hands.</P><br /><P>Compromises had to be made though, and the 800MHz processor and the low-resolution screen are to name a few.</P><br /><H3>We liked</H3><br /><P>We could keep going on about the looks of the ZTE KIS, but you really do need to hold one in your hands to fully appreciate what we mean. </P><br /><P>Every time we look at it, we struggle to associate the looks with the price. The capacitive screen was very responsive, as were the four buttons underneath. </P><br /><P>Given that this is one of the basics that you can expect from a phone, we were glad to see it done well. The loud speaker was also, well, loud. What more can you ask for?</P><br /><P>We were also impressed by the keyboard, as keyboards we have tried on other budget devices have seemed cramped. It was easy to use, and had a good text-prediction feature, as well as a Swype-like text input feature should you want it.</P><br /><H3>We disliked</H3><br /><P>We've mentioned it a few times throughout our review, the screen is really poor. </P><br /><P>The resolution is low, and the viewing angle is abominable; anything less than head-on is almost unwatchable. Zoomed in, text loses the crisp edges and videos don't play well.</P><br /><P>The lack of Facebook or Twitter in today's world is also almost unforgiveable. Yes, you can install these from the Play Store, but this is added hassle that you don't want when you initially set up your phone. </P><br /><P>It also means more apps taking up the abysmal interior storage space. </P><br /><P>Whilst it's possible to install apps on an external SD card, not every app can be, and Google have yet to build an 'Install to SD' feature into the Play Store, meaning not every app can be downloaded in the first place.</P><br /><H3>Verdict</H3><br /><P>The ZTE KIS was clearly designed to be a budget phone. The low-powered internal components really leave a lot to be desired, as do the external components, namely the screen.</P><br /><P>Were we able to trade any of these features off against the price tag though? In short, no. </P><br /><P>The price tag may be low, at £59.99, but there are other phones on the market with similar price tags that do a lot more.</P><br /><P>ZTE has entered a fierce budget market, facing off against older competition such as the <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-ace-930912/review">Samsung Galaxy Ace</A>, as well as budget rivals such as the <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/sony-xperia-tipo-1088798/review">Sony Xperia Tipo</A>, <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/lg-optimus-l3-1080249/review">LG Optimus L3</A> and <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/huawei-ascend-g300-1077239/review">Huawei Ascend G300</A>. </P><br /><P>Leaving the Kis with an almost un-skinned Android 2.3, when other rivals are already releasing <A href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-1043150/review">Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich</A> devices, means the Kis is really starting on the back foot. </P><br /><P>A poor camera, slow processor and dodgy screen don't win back any points.</P><br /><P>This may be the cheapest smartphone on the market today, but the longer we use the ZTE Kis, the more we wish that ZTE had put in a few more features, as, at that price, we would be willing to pay a little more. </P><IMG border=0 src="http://techradar.feedsportal.com/c/34832/f/641929/s/25a00300/mf.gif" width=1 height=1>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04621456960716290962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7210727521489215696.post-58666125423866907712012-11-27T11:59:00.000-08:002012-11-27T11:59:01.942-08:00Motorola Razr M<img alt="Review: Motorola Razr M" src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com//art/mobile_phones/Motorola/Droid%20Razr%20M/Droid%20Razr%20M%20PR%20hero-470-75.jpg" /> <br />
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Introduction and Design</h3>
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If the M in the Motorola Razr M stands for anything, it must be mobile. It's the lightest, thinnest phone in the refreshed lineup of Razrs exclusive to Telstra. It's sleek and compact, but hasn't sacrificed anything in performance. It sports the same 1.5 GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM found in its bigger sibling the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/motorola-droid-razr-hd-1095289/review">Razr HD</a>. Instead, the phone is sized down in the screen, battery and storage departments to make for a compact and affordable little handset.<br />
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Really though, it's not that little. It's telling that this "light" model of the new Razr lineup packs a 4.3-inch screen. Surely the time of the sub 4-inch screen has passed, especially now that the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/iphone-5-1096004/review">iPhone 5</a> has hit 4 inches? The Razr M has been designed to strike a balance. It's a phone with a screen big enough for gaming and enjoying videos, but thanks to a compact design, it won't feel like a brick in your pocket.<br />
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Weighing in at 126 grams and going for $0 up front on a $60 24 month contract, the Razr M is easy on the pocket and the pocketbook. Just like the Razr HD, it runs <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-1043150/review">Android 4.0: Ice Cream Sandwich</a>. Some might wonder why Google-owned Motorola couldn't get <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-1-jelly-bean-1087230/review">Android 4.1: Jelly Bean</a>, the latest Android OS, to ship on its phone. While an update to Jelly Bean has been promised within the year, ICS is still very sweet, especially on this snappy little handset. In white, the two-tone look is reminiscent of the titular dessert.<br />
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Design</h3>
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When it was first unveiled, not everyone was in love with the Razr M's two-tone design, sloped bezel and kevlar backing. In either black or white, it couldn't please everyone.<br />
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At first we weren't sure what to make of the phone's unique aesthetic, but we grew to appreciate its striking look and sleek build. The slim bezel makes for minimal bordering around the 4.3-inch screen. <br />
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Since the Razr M uses only virtual Android buttons, the screen gets to take up the maximum amount of real estate possible on the phone's face.<br />
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The Razr M's back has Motorola's signature kevlar backing pattern. The rear bezel slopes inward, providing a thinning, diagonal design that gives the impression of looking at an optical illusion.<br />
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It's a weird phone to behold, but not unpleasant to the eye, at least in our opinion. However, we doubt anyone would argue that it doesn't feel great to hold.<br />
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At only only 126 grams, the Razr M might have found the perfect weight. It's light enough that you may forget it's in your pocket, but has just enough heft to achieve a premium feel. While the most desirable weight for a smartphone may be shrinking since the iPhone 5 is only 112 g, we know some consumers prefer a phone with a little more weight to it.<br />
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Not unlike an iPhone, the Razr M is constructed with aluminum that feels smooth and strong in the hand. Luckily, it doesn't seem as prone to scratches and scuffs as Apple's new phone. We kept the phone in our pocket among keys and coins while walking around town and haven't found any marks on the handset. <br />
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The phone's display is Gorilla Glass and thanks to that thin bezel, the screen is nearly edge to edge. Adding to the sleek design is the fact that the Razr M only has physical buttons on its side. On the right side of the handset there's a volume rocker and power button. On the left there's a hidden panel that pops open, allowing you easy access to the SIM card and microSD slot.<br />
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This pop-up panel is a nice touch, though it felt flimsy, like it could be ripped off if we weren't careful. Also, we wish the phone's battery was this accessible. The Razr M features a non-removable battery, sadly.<br />
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With a 122.5mm body and a 4.3 inch screen, the Razr M is a great size for one-handed use. It's bigger brother the Razr HD broke the 5-inch mark, giving it a nice screen size for media consumption, but the potential to be awkward in the hand. The Razr M avoids this, keeping a body size that remains highly functional but not bad for movies and games.<br />
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<h3>
Display and Interface</h3>
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Display</h3>
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The Razr M's screen is very impressive despite some relatively low stats. Given that it only has 256 ppi and a resolution of 540x960, it's insane how vibrant the display is. Colours pop and games shine thanks to the AMOLED screen.<br />
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The handset also boasts fantastic viewing angles. We needed to turn the phone until it was almost in profile in order to distort visuals.<br />
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While someone who is obsessed with video watching might want to wait for the 720x1280 resolution <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/motorola-droid-razr-hd-1095289/review">Razr HD</a>, the Razr M's 4.3 inch screen is nice balance between size and portability, and it's surprisingly vibrant.<br />
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However, streaming high-quality videos can be disappointing, especially since this is a 4G capable phone. You'll get the kind of high-data speeds needed for HD video, but the phone's 540x960 won't do them justice. Watching the trailer for "The Avengers," Thor and friends looked rather blocky.<br />
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Still, this isn't a phone that's meant for high-end media consumption, and Motorola has offered a good trade off with the Razr M's compact design and affordable price. And while the phone isn't HD, we can't underplay the vibrancy of the colours when playing games or just staring hypnotically at an animated wallpaper.<br />
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The 4.3-inch screen, which can remove those virtual Android buttons whenever they're not needed, provides plenty of real estate for touch screen gaming. Playing <i>Plants vs. Zombies</i>, <i>Cut the Rope</i> and <i>Bad Piggies</i>, our fingers never felt cramped and touches always registered precisely.<br />
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<h3>
Interface</h3>
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The Razr M runs <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-1043150/review">Android 4.0: Ice Cream Sandwich</a>, version 4.0.4. You're right, that's not the latest version of Google's OS, which would be <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-1-jelly-bean-1087230/review">Android 4.1: Jelly Bean</a>. However, it's running the most updated version of ICS you can find on any Android handset. <br />
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On the Razr M it's slick, responsive and extremely functional, thanks to Motorola's own UI that's been laid over the stock Android software, and that 1GB of RAM.<br />
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Motorola has promised to provide a Jelly Bean update before the year ends, but early adopters won't live in anticipation of it. The UI on the Razr M is useful right from the lock screen, providing quick access to the phone, text messaging or camera depending on which way you slide the unlock key. There's also an easy mute toggle in the upper right corner.<br />
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Users are allowed up to seven home screens, which they can fill to their heart's content with widgets, applications and shortcuts. Even when filled to the brim, you can flip across these home screens at a satisfying speed.<br />
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We must say, Motorola's Circles widget is about the most attractive way we've ever seen text messages, weather, time and battery life displayed. Other widgets include Smartdrive, which is meant to help drivers keep their eyes on the road. It will automatically reply to incoming calls and messages with a custom "I'm driving" text message.<br />
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From the primary home screen, users can swipe to the right to access more other home screens, or swipe the left to access a Quick Settings menu. From there you can control your ringer mode, toggle WiFi, bluetooth and GPS service or go into airplane mode.<br />
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The Razr M also has a drop down menu that can be accessed from any home screen and most apps. From there you can see alerts relating to emails, text messages, Facebook and Twitter, or any updates available for your apps.<br />
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There's also support for folders, which allows you to quickly group together apps without having them clutter up a home screen. By default, the primary home screen features a Tools folder, which provides a good example by collecting Calculator, Calendar Gallery in one place. <br />
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One of our favorite little tweaks on the Razr M had to do with those virtual Android buttons. Not only do they disappear when not needed, freeing up more screen space, they actually turn depending on how you hold the phone. Hold the phone in landscape mode and the buttons go horizontal.<br />
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We also love the way the phone displays recent apps as visual previews. It makes it easy to multitask, and it's just pleasing to look at. Of course, running too many games or videos at once will hurt performance, but it's easy to dump applications right from this menu. Just give it a long press and select "remove from this list."<br />
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<h3>
4G, calling and contacts</h3>
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4G</h3>
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Sure, the Razr M has plenty of fancy features, but how does it perform as a phone? Pretty well, we'd say, thanks in no small part to Telstra's 4G LTE network. Telstra is the exclusive carrier for Motorola's Razr lineup, and the fact that they have the largest 4G network in Australia makes them a solid choice pretty much anywhere in the country.<br />
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Throughout Sydney and North Sydney, we experienced blazing fast speeds on Telstra's 4G LTE network, averaging just shy of 20 Mbps. A couple of occasions even managed to smash through the 35 Mbps, making our home ADSL connection look positively archaic.<br />
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More impressive were the upload speeds which regularly hit above the 20 Mbps mark themselves when testing around Sydney.<br />
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Telstra doesn't charge any extra for accessing its 4G network, but it's important to note that there's only a limited amount of data bundled with each plan the RAZR M is available on. <br />
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Because download speeds are so fast, you will almost definitely find yourself chewing through more data using the RAZR M than any other Next G handset, so make sure you factor that in when deciding what plan you want to be on.<br />
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<h3>
Calling</h3>
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Throughout our testing call connections were excellent. We never had a single dropped call or interference over the line.<br />
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As far as the Razr M's speaker goes, we found it a little on the quiet side. This was easily remedied by turning up the volume, but the level we found comfortable seemed rather high. On the other end users reported our voice quality as average to good.<br />
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Speakerphone quality was reliable, enough to capture a few voices in a medium-sized room.<br />
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Punching in a number on the Razr M is very fast, thanks to predictive dialing on <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-1043150/review">Android 4.0: Ice Cream Sandwich</a>. As you dial, suggested numbers and recent contacts pop up for fast access. Also, there's are tabs for Favorite contacts and Recent numbers right at the top.<br />
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It's just as fast and easy to dial a specific contact. You can jump right into the Phone function from the unlock screen, or just start typing the name of a contact into the Google search bar found at the top of each home screen.<br />
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<h3>
Contacts</h3>
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Your contacts are found in the People application, which does a pretty good job of sorting all the folks you may or may not actually know. Contacts can be imported from a variety of sources, including a Gmail account, Facebook, Skype and Exchange.<br />
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On social media, we all have "friends" we never actually talk to. Thankfully, on Ice Cream Sandwich it's easy to select which contacts you want the phone to display, or browse by individual contact sources.<br />
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One slightly confusing aspect of People is how it handles Facebook contacts. Since they're synced from friend's Facebook pages, they cannot be edited. This means if you have a Facebook friend who doesn't share his number, you won't be able to just add it to the contact you imported from that social network. You'll need to create a new contact with an identical name, and the phone will quickly combine the two. It's a fine workaround, it just might takes a second to discover it.<br />
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<h3>
Messaging and Internet</h3>
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Messaging</h3>
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Text messaging is simple on the Razr M, thanks to the keyboard with haptic feedback and the nicely sorted contacts in the People app.<br />
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Incoming text messages are not displayed on the lock screen. Instead, you get a little icon in the notification bar and the text is then displayed on Motorola's Circle widget on the home screen. While this does make for extra privacy, we found it easy to miss a text message, especially when the phone is on silent. <br />
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In the Text app itself, messages are displayed in the order they were received. Each one is displayed with a contact's photo icon, giving it the appearance of an instant messenger conversation.<br />
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Ice Cream Sandwich also supports Google's Talk app, which lets you IM your Gmail and Google Plus contacts, and a separate Facebook chat application. As you would guess with a Google product on Google's OS, it's extremely well integrated.<br />
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<h3>
Internet</h3>
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Browsing the web on the Razr M is a bright, snappy experience thanks to the phone's able processor and Telstra's 4G network.<br />
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On or off of WiFi, websites loaded quickly and the page didn't jump around as text and images rendered.<br />
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As we mentioned, Telstra's 4G LTE network didn't disappoint. Videos and music loaded quickly and streamed smoothly. Using the Speedtest.net app, we recorded average speeds of just under 20 Mbps. In less crowded areas of North Sydney, speeds were sometimes in excess of 30 Mbps.<br />
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<h3>
Google Chrome</h3>
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In addition to Chrome, <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-1043150/review">Ice Cream Sandwich</a> and the Razr M supports several browsers, including Mozilla Firefox and Opera. But, we prefered Google's own mobile browser.<br />
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We really liked the way Chrome handles multiple tabs, displaying them like folders in a filing system. Also, each new tab that's opened starts with icons for your most visited sites.<br />
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Chrome also has a great Widget, which shows your browser bookmarks on a home page for quick, easy access.<br />
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Of course, there's no flash support for Chrome or any other Android browser, which is standard most mobile devices these days.<br />
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Camera and Video</h3>
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The Razr M has a camera that's merely acceptable. Although it sports 8 megapixel quality with an LED flash, just like what you'd find on premium smartphones like the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-s3-1078667/review">Samsung Galaxy S3</a> or the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/iphone-5-1096004/review">iPhone 5</a>, the pictures it takes would never be mistaken for anything but mobile phone snaps.<br />
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The camera is speedy and can be accessed quickly from the home screen, so if you're quick on the draw you won't miss that perfect moment. It also has all the right features, like multi shot, panorama, manual exposure adjustment and high-contrast HDR shots. HDR consistently produced better quality images, but it shoots a little slower and makes image files that take up more space.<br />
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In optimal outdoor sunlight, the camera produced good, colorful shots. Inside, results were not as detailed, and HDR was necessary to produce a decent picture.<br />
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The Razr M has a 1080p camera that shoots decent quality videos. It was fun to play around with, and did its best work in strong outdoor lighting. The handset also features a front-facing 0.3 megapixel chat cam. It was functional, but if you're a real video chat enthusiast, this quality won't cut it.<br />
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Media and Maps</h3>
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Media</h3>
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The Razr M is supported the Google Play Store, which has enough games, books, movies and apps to rival the iTunes store (although lacks music in Australia). Browsing the store is simple, and the phone can easily sync any of your past media and app purchases if you're upgrading from another Android phone.<br />
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Video and music playback quality is good, just what a media savvy customer should expect from a smartphone. We particularly liked Play Books. Perusing a sample of J.K. Rowling's "The Casual Vacancy," the page turns were fast and animated, like on an <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/pc-mac/tablets/new-ipad-3-1071369/review">iPad</a> or <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/pc-mac/tablets/amazon-kindle-fire-1041946/review">Kindle Fire</a>.<br />
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Through the Play Store, there's support for Amazon's Kindle ecosystem, as well as a Widget for streaming from your Amazon MP3 collection. You can also download albums you own when you don't feel like streaming them.<br />
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Overall, it's a diverse, reliable set of media features. Also, since Google Play recently hit <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/google-play-hits-25-billion-downloads-offers-discounts-galore-1099919">25 billion downloads</a>, its confirmed its place as a serious player in the smartphone app and media game.<br />
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Maps</h3>
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Like any good Android phone, the Razr M uses Google Maps to help get you around town. It provides accurate data, and combined with Telstra's 4G service, we never lost our way when using it.<br />
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It's buoyed by Google Navigation, which provides turn by turn voice direction to to guide you around town and keep your eyes on the road.<br />
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Apps and Battery</h3>
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Apps</h3>
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There's a decent amount of preloaded applications on the Razr M, some of which are useful and some of which are undeletable bloatware.<br />
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Smart Actions was one app we actually wanted to use, though in a limited fashion. It's Razr's answer to location-based reminders on <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/ios-6-1096515/review">iOS</a>. You can have the phone automatically send text message replies while you're driving, trigger a playlist to begin when you plug in headphones, or even turn off social media functions when you arrive at work.<br />
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It's probably more automation than the average user would want to get into, but efficiency fanatics will enjoy playing with it. We didn't want to trust it with too much of our life, but setting the ringer to automatically mute between 11 pm and 7 am seemed reasonable, and proved reliable.<br />
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Gaming on the \ Razr M was great, thanks to its beefy processor and RAM. Games like <i>Plants vs Zombies</i> and <i>Air Attack HD</i> loaded quickly and came to life on the phone's big, colorful screen.<br />
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<h3>
Battery</h3>
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The Razr M packs a 2000 mAh lithium-ion battery. That's a decent sized cell, but we wish it were removeable. The M's combination of 4G LTE service and a big bright screen are a decent power drain.<br />
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With our testing, the Razr M could just barely make it through a day of moderate use. Browsing, calling, streaming video and other basic functions left it on empty by nighttime. <br />
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The phone's Settings menu provides a breakdown of power usage, and allows you to quit certain application in order to prolong battery life. Motorola's Smartactions can also be used to make your phone more battery efficient, such as having it automatically disable WiFi when you're on the go.<br />
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<h3>
Verdict</h3>
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The Razr M is a light, snappy little phone. It's a pleasure to whip across its multiple home screens, and those Circle widgets are just plain adorable. However, there's a lot of competition from other 4G ready handsets, even from within Motorola. Should consumers be opting for the<a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/motorola-droid-razr-hd-1095289/review"> Razr HD</a> or should they dive into the M?<br />
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We liked</h3>
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If there's one thing we love about the Razr M (and there's certainly more than one), it's the satisfying agility of this phone. Small enough to be carried comfortably, yet it packs a screen that's colourful and plenty big. Still, it's not too large that its cumbersome in the hand. Its 1.5 Ghz processor and 1GB of RAM provide snappy performance, even if you go crazy with the Widgets and app icons. It runs <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-1043150/review">Android 4.0: Ice Cream Sandwich</a> beautifully, and we're looking forward to seeing what it can do with <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/android-4-1-jelly-bean-1087230/review">Android 4.1: Jelly Bean</a>.<br />
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Call us tacky, but we grew to like the handset's unusual two-tone appearance. You have to stand out from the sea of iPhones somehow. Finally, Telstra's 4G LTE network did not disappoint, which is essential since it's the exclusive carrier for the Razr M and its bigger sibling.<br />
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We disliked</h3>
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The fidelity of the camera and screen's resolution were disappointing. High-quality streaming videos were blurrier than we would have liked, and the indoor pictures taken by the Razr M were nothing to write home about. Finally, since the battery just barely makes it through the day, the option to swap in a fresh cell would have been really nice.<br />
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<h3>
Verdict</h3>
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The Razr M is a jack-of-all-trades kind of phone. It's overall performance and premium make it a winner; it's just surprisingly snappy and sturdy for how affordable it is. The combination of ICS and Motorola's own UI is both functional and attractive.<br />
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We'd recommend the Razr M to consumers who want a balanced, affordable 4G phone with a premium feel. You might forget that it's in your pocket, but keep an eye on that data use. Those overage fees add up.<br />
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<h3>
Introduction </h3>
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The Nokia Lumia 820 isn't meant as the Finnish firm's flagship handset - that accolade belongs to the Lumia 920 - but this colourful Windows Phone 8 smartphone is impressive nonetheless. <br />
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The Nokia Lumia 820 carries plenty of unique features and costs less than the Lumia 920, making it a tempting offer for anyone considering making the move to Microsoft's OS.<br />
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It goes without saying Nokia is pinning a lot of hope on this phone. Apple's <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/iphone-5-1096004/review">iPhone 5</a> and Samsung's <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-s3-1078667/review">Galaxy S3</a> are kicking up dust both in terms of sales and as standard bearers for their respective operating systems. <br />
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You can pick the Lumia 820 up free from £25 per month on Vodafone, albeit with only 300 minutes and 250MB of data, on a 24 month contract. Alternatively the SIM-free version of the phone will set you back an entirely reasonable £380.<br />
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There's a reasonable amount of power on offer at that price thanks to the dual core 1.5Ghz Snapdragon processor and Adreno 225 GPU. Windows OS is a typically smooth operating system the Lumia 820 runs off 1GB of RAM which keeps things nice and slick. <br />
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<img alt="Nokia Lumia 820 review" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/mobile_phones/Nokia/Lumia820/HandsOn2/Lumia820-HandsOn-15-420-100.JPG" width="420" /><br />
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Outwardly though, this is a different-looking phone from the Lumia 920. The unibody is gone, replaced with a removable plastic back that lets you change the colour of the handset. Our review model came with a bright yellow rear cover, although red, black, magenta, blue, white and grey are also available. <br />
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Hopefully over time third-party designs will become available allowing you to customise your handset just like the Nokia's of old.<br />
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Unfortunately, the back cover is also where we run into our first problem with the Lumia 820. Basically you'll need fingernails like Wolverine to claw the cover back from the body of the phone. It took the TechRadar team several amusing minutes trying to remove the casing in order to insert our SIM to begin using the phone.<br />
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Once you're happy with the casing, and you've spent the required ten minutes struggling to get your Micro SIM installed, you'll be able to sit back and notice that at 160g, the Lumia 820 isn't as heavy as its bigger brother. <br />
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It's also got slightly smaller dimensions - but at 124 x 69 x 10mm with a 4.3-inch AMOLED screen we wouldn't go so far as to call it tiny.<br />
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The curved sides and rounded corners of the handset make it comfortable to hold and certainly give it a friendly appearance. We could easily wrap our hand around the Lumia 820 and access the physical buttons, which are all located along the right hand side of the phone.<br />
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You get a volume rocker at the top, followed by the power on/off button in the centre and then a physical camera shutter button - something we're always happy to see on a smartphone. All the buttons can be easily flicked with either the thumb of your right hand or the fingers of your left, depending on which you use to hold the phone.<br />
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One point though, the plastic backing on the Lumia 820 is completely smooth which looks nice but doesn't offer any great amount of grip.<br />
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The front of the phone is minimal in terms of design, with just the Nokia lettering at the top and the three standard Windows phone soft touch keys at the bottom. While the 4.3-inch AMOLED, 800 x 480 screen is up to Nokia's usual high standard, there's definitely a noticeable black bezel around the display. <br />
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Usually this doesn't cause too much concern, but given the near edge-to-edge displays of handsets like the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/motorola-razr-i-1098183/review">Motorola Razr i</a> and the iPhone 5, it's becoming more of an issue.<br />
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The display isn't as large as other smartphones out there. It won't compete with the 4.7-inch <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/htc-one-x-1101086/review">HTC One X+</a>, the 4.8-inch Galaxy S3 or the 4.5-inch Lumia 920, for screen real estate but compromises with portability.<br />
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Screen size itself is becoming far more of a subjective issue anyway with a device on offer at pretty much every stage from pocket-friendly smartphone to sofa-surfing tablet.<br />
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The top and bottom of the Lumia 820 are given over to the 3.5mm headphone jack and the micro-USB charging and connection port respectively. There's also a small speaker to the right of the micro-USB port which we felt didn't look as nicely uniform as the dual speaker vents on the Lumia 920.<br />
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Overall build quality is as good as you would expect given Nokia's long history of mobile phone craftsmanship. While we would expect the casing to scratch fairly easily if this phone took a tumble, there's a reassuring heft to the handset that suggests the internal workings would stay protected.<br />
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Importantly then, first impressions are quite good. It's a good looking, feature-packed phone from a pair of companies that really have something to prove this time around. So, how does it fare when we dip below the surface?<br />
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<h3>
Interface</h3>
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It's probably fair to say the bright, blocky live tiles of Windows Phone have become as recognisable as either an iOS or an Android homescreen. Of course, recognition doesn't always translate to acceptance, so Microsoft has tweaked and fine-tuned in an effort to bring Windows Phone 8 up to speed. <br />
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If you've been using WP7 or 7.5, you'll immediately understand the new OS. In fact, it's fair to say this is more an incremental change than a full-blown reimagining.<br />
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The basic look and feel is carried over from WP7. You have a home screen full of live tiles and a separate, vertical-scrolling menu of all your apps. You can pin your most-used apps to the home screen and also drag and reposition the tiles in an order of your choice.<br />
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The beauty of using the Windows mobile operating system is that it takes very little time to get used to it. The inevitable downside is that, although you can change your basic colour theme, there's no option to add wallpapers or widgets à la Android.<br />
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At the beginning, you're met with the lock screen, which you can customise with a picture of your own. Unlike Android or iOS, there's no way to access any apps from the lock screen, save hitting the camera shutter button to launch the camera app. <br />
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The lock screen does however show relevant information like your next synced calendar appointment and whether you have any messages or emails. You can also set certain apps, such as Facebook, to display your latest status update on the lock screen.<br />
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Once past the lock screen you're into the Windows interface proper. Windows Phone 8 has included smaller live tiles than Windows Phone 7 and pulled the interface across slightly, so its more centrally placed than WP7 or 7.5 which left you with a small arrow and blank space guiding you across to the app screen. <br />
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Live tiles can be moved around and resized according to preference. Full size spans the entire home screen, with half size and quarter size options also available - allowing you to efficiently divide up your screen real estate. It doesn't work quite as well as folders on iOS or Android for compartmentalising services, but does allow for a degree of customisation.<br />
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The live tiles have been given that name for a reason - most will update with new information, such as a tweet, picture or news headline, automatically. This means you can glance over your home screen and get snapshot updates on what's going on. <br />
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Third-party apps often have their own live tile design so although for the most part you'll see a block colour of your chosen theme, this is interspersed with headlines and logos. <br />
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Swiping left takes you to the vertical list of apps on the Lumia 820. This is a quick and clear way of displaying apps but (and we pointed this out with the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/nokia-lumia-920-1094960/review">Lumia 920</a>) if you're particularly app-happy then you're going to very quickly accumulate a long list and a lot of scrolling time.<br />
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Once you're familiar with the layout of the interface, you'll find yourself moving about it at some speed. The three soft-touch keys at the bottom of the phone let you either jump back a screen, go straight back to the top of the home screen or fire up Bing search for a quick internet query.<br />
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The 4.3-inch screen is particularly sensitive and responds very quickly to pinching and swiping. The increased sensitivity of the screen also means you can use the Lumia 820 with gloves on - a feature no doubt as useful in London as it is in Helsinki.<br />
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Holding down the back key brings up a thumbnail slideshow of your recently used applications and lets you quickly skip back and forth. Microsoft calls this multitasking, which is a little misleading as you can't actually close apps this way.<br />
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We've given our thoughts on Microsoft's interface before on reviews of other Windows devices, such as the Lumia 920 or the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/htc-windows-phone-8x-1098439/review">HTC 8X</a>. It's a clean and simple interface that works, and easy enough to get to grips with.<br />
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It looks noticeably different from the horizontal, icon-focused iOS and Android systems and as such, won't appeal to everyone but there is a fair amount to discover and it works well once you start using it properly.<br />
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<h3>
Contacts and calling</h3>
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Contacts</h3>
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One of the Nokia Lumia 820's strengths is undoubtedly the social-media integration that makes up the backbone of its contact-focused "people" app. <br />
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When you set up the phone, you'll be prompted to add in your various email and social network information - and given the option to sync all the relevant contacts and information with the Lumia 820.<br />
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All of the information is then fed into the people app which forms your one-stop-shop of social interaction.<br />
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The vertical contact list looks similar to the app list and the Lumia 820 will pull in each contact's social network profile picture as a handy illustration. These profile pictures also appear in random patterns on the People homescreen live tile.<br />
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The alphabetical contact list can be quickly navigated by tapping one of the letter dividers, which in turn brings up a thumbnail menu letting you jump straight to a letter and all the relevant contacts. <br />
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Once you've selected your contact, you can see general information such as number and email, as well as social data such as birthday and address - if that contact has shared it on his or her Facebook page. You're given the option to either call that contact, or write them an email or tweet them something, all from within the application.<br />
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Swiping horizontally through a contact card lets you see what new information that person has posted, including status updates and photos, as well as check your recent interaction history. So if you sent a message, then commented on a Facebook post, it's all collected into one place.<br />
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The same approach works for the application as a whole. Swipe left and you get a constantly updated news feed for everyone in your address book. Swipe again and you get the most recent contact cards you've viewed. You can also pin any contact card directly to the homescreen for even faster access.<br />
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The usual contact options, from creating groups to adding in multiple numbers and email addresses, are all included as well. The small plus icon lets you quickly add a new contact to your exisiting ones.<br />
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<h3>
Calling</h3>
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Sitting pretty at the very top of the homescreen is the phone tile - a quick tap and you're presented with you call history and four options along the bottom of the screen. Usually we would expect icons to appear at the top or in the centre of the screen but in <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/windows-phone-8-1086692/review">Windows Phone 8</a>; you'll always find icons anchored to the bottom of the display. <br />
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From here you can jump to either voicemail, your dial pad, contact book or call history.<br />
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The dial pad is big and chunky - meaning that, gloves or not, you're unlikely to hit the wrong number when dialling. It's not the most attractive dial pad we've ever seen, but that's getting a little too nitpicky. Once you've put in your number you can call straight away or save to your contact book.<br />
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There isn't any window dressing in the form of video call options or speed dial here. You get your dial pad, and that's it.<br />
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Good news is, when you're actually on the phone the volume and clarity of the call are both perfectly acceptable. We could clearly hear the other person on the end of the line and likewise didn't experience any problems speaking to them.<br />
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This isn't exactly surprising as Nokia has been making phones for long enough now to get the basics right. More importantly, we didn't have any trouble with dropped calls or flaky signal. If you're on the EE network, then you'll be able to pick the Nokia Lumia 820 up on 4G, for the rest of us though, it's still plain old 3G. <br />
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Messaging</h3>
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You're not going to be at a loss for ways to send messages to friends and family with the Nokia Lumia 820. <br />
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There's plenty of options for emailing, texting, posting or chatting to your contacts, the bread-and-butter is still the SMS texting app that keeps things simple and clearly structured.<br />
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Messages are divided into "threads" - essentially conversations with each contact. This is a common layout for messaging these days and most people will find it very easy to use. Each message is displayed in a text bubble, with different colour shading of the sent and received messages. <br />
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On the main message screen, the most recent message from each contact is displayed in a vertical list, along with the time of each message and a short preview of the text sent.<br />
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You can open each thread up and scroll back through the discussion. At the bottom of the conversation is a text box where you type out a reply/new message. There's a small paperclip icon that lets you add an attachment to the message.<br />
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But the Lumia 820 doesn't stop there. Facebook is integrated into the messaging app as it is with the people app. Swipe horizontally from your message inbox to "online" and you'll be given a list of which Facebook friends are currently online with Facebook Chat and allow you to message them.<br />
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You can activate delivery reports for both SMS and MMS messages in the settings tab, accessible by tapping the three dots in the bottom right corner of the screen.<br />
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Composing a message is easy thanks to the Lumia 820's decent on-screen keyboard. While it's not the largest keyboard we've seen on a smartphone, it does a great job of recognising where you're tapping. We rarely had mis-hits and for the most part the auto-correct was bang on. <br />
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You get the same bar across the top of the keyboard displaying the word you're typing as you do with other phones. In most cases it will jump ahead accurately to the word you're typing.<br />
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If you need a bit more space, you can turn the Lumia 820 landscape and the resulting keyboard is larger and easier to hit. The trade-off is less screen space to view your message.<br />
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During the initial set-up, you'll be asked to add in your email accounts. All the major options are supported, so whether you want to fire off an email from a Yahoo, Google or Hotmail address, you'll find it fully integrated and ready to go.<br />
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Initially, each inbox is separated into its own app, although there is the option of combining two to save on space.<br />
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Emails are displayed in a similar way to SMS, with the most recent communication at the top and supplied with a name, date the email was sent and the first two lines of text for guidance. By swiping sideways, you can quickly access unread emails and those flagged up for importance. <br />
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The interface, like messaging, is very simple to work around and it's clearly laid out. It's a text-heavy way of displaying information and the blank background really highlights this. If you're used to the design-heavy third-party email apps found on the Android OS then this is going to take some getting used to. There is always the option of downloading different email apps from the Windows Phone store, but we prefer to sync all the content together in one place.<br />
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Internet</h3>
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If you're an EE customer, then you'll be able to get hold of the Nokia Lumia 820 on a 4G data plan, giving you access to much faster browsing speeds. Otherwise, you're going to be relying on the regular 3G to accompany standard b/g/n Wi-Fi that is also available.<br />
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In terms of browser selection, you're a little bit limited with <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/windows-phone-8-1086692/review">Windows Phone 8</a>. It comes, rather unsurprisingly, packed with Internet Explorer and, as yet, other big-hitters like Safari and Chrome haven't put in an appearance on Microsoft's Windows Phone store.<br />
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That said, you do have the very latest in browsing tech in the form of IE 10 and Microsoft is pretty confident in proclaiming it the fastest browser currently available. While we found that even graphic-heavy sites loaded up quickly over a Wi-Fi connection, the same can't really be said for 3G. <br />
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Perhaps we're feeling spoiled by the 4G we've already witnessed on other handsets, but we found the Lumia 820 took a good fifteen to twenty seconds to load up a web page over a 3G connection. Longer still when we tried firing up a YouTube video within the browser.<br />
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It manages to claw some credibility back when it comes to search. Again, unsurprisingly from Microsoft, Bing is built into the Nokia 820 in a big way. You can access the search engine from anywhere in the operating system and it pretty much handled everything we threw at it.<br />
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Bing probably doesn't get enough credit as a search engine but in recent years Microsoft has thrown a considerable amount of money at refining and perfecting the service. <br />
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It's hardly about to steal a march on Google, but we'd gently suggest giving it a try before completely writing off its ability to direct you around the internet. If you really don't like it, there's an option within IE to make Google the default search engine.<br />
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While you're mid-browse, you can tap the three dots at the bottom of the screen to bring up IE's options. Tabbed browsing is present and accounted for, although we didn't really appreciate having to go into the options list to do this. We'd rather Microsoft took notice of Chrome which has the option of a new tab right there on the screen as a standalone function.<br />
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Other options are also listed, including the ability to add favourites and quickly share pages over email, Facebook, Twitter or your preferred social network.<br />
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You can also pin a specific web page - the Barclay's Premier League table for instance - straight to the home page for quick reference.<br />
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Websites themselves look great on the HD 4.3-inch screen and we found both zooming and scrolling to be quick and responsive. In fact, the only aspect of browsing that wasn't buttery smooth was the transition from portrait to landscape. <br />
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The accelerometer seemed to take an extra second to process the action before we saw the result on the screen.<br />
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Internet Explorer 10 subsists on a diet of nutritious HTML 5, which means that Flash is not supported. It's a minor irritation, as plenty of sites still use Flash - although even Adobe has confirmed the ageing software format is on its way out.<br />
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Camera</h3>
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Probably the most constant feature we can point to when it comes to Nokia phones over the years is the camera. Stretching back to the early N Series of Nokia phones, the Finnish firm has employed Carl Zeiss lenses and the latest in phone camera technology. <br />
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The Lumia 820 continues the tradition, with Carl Zeiss proudly etched on the back and a couple of excellent features that help stack this handset against snap happy rivals like the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/iphone-5-1096004/review">iPhone 5</a>, <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/sony-xperia-t-1093680/review">Sony Xperia T</a> and <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/htc-one-x-1101086/review">HTC One X+</a>.<br />
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The primary camera on board features a rear-facing 8MP sensor with F2.2 aperture Carl Zeiss Tessar lens. It's capable of shooting stills at up to 3264x2448 pixels and video at full HD 1080p resolution.<br />
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You can shoot in either a 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio and there's also a front-facing secondary VGA camera for video calling.<br />
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We didn't feel the camera on the Lumia 820 was quite as capable as the snapper tucked inside its big brother, the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/nokia-lumia-920-1094960/review">Lumia 920</a> - but it's still decent enough in its own right and will substitute for a traditional point-and-shoot in most situations.<br />
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You're given the usual options to tinker with, including asjusting the ISO, exposure value and the white balance. Seasoned photographers will find these rather limited compared to most digital cameras, but for the enthusiastic amateur there's enough here to get your photographical feet wet.<br />
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Perhaps more interesting are the extra features Nokia has introduced in the form of "lenses". These are programs developed for the Lumia series and downloadable from the Windows Phone store that add extra features to your traditional camera.<br />
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There are two that come pre-loaded. The first, Bing Vision, is a traditional barcode scanner that looks up the product and gives you a Bing search on similar products. It works a lot like Google Goggles on Android and when we tested it on some everyday products it came up with the required information. <br />
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The second is called Smart Shoot and lets you pick a spot on the screen - you select it with a tap on the display - that will then be removed from the resulting picture. The camera shoots five individual pictures, letting you select the best one from the results.<br />
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More lenses are avialble to download from the Windows Phone store, including a Nokia-developed Panorama feature.<br />
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This is feature already present on a great deal of other phones, the iPhone 5 and Sony Xperia T for example, and lets you sweep the camera across to stitch together a grand Panoramic vista.<br />
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The really exciting thing about lenses is that Nokia has opened the concept up to third-party developers to create their own. Hopefully over time we'll see more entering the marketplace and giving you even more options to experiment with photo taking on the Lumia 820.<br />
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It might seem like a small point, but its also worth pointing out the benefit of having a physical shutter button included on the handset. <br />
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This acts as a quick-launch option for the camera app itself and also feels much more comfortable than jabbing at the screen each time you want to take a pic.<br />
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Although, because the entire screen is itself the shutter as well, you'll almost certainly end up accidentally taking a photo when your fingers brush the screen. Rather annoyingly, there's also no way of turning this off in the settings menu.<br />
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The Nokia Lumia 820 is also admirable when it comes to shooting in low-light. Aside from manually adjusting the ISO level, you can also utilise the dual LED flash to light up a particularly dark scene.<br />
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You can choose to have your Lumia 820 synced to Microsoft's Skydrive cloud storage service which will automatically upload any shots you capture to your Skydrive folder.<br />
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This can be turned on and off in the camera' options menu and is a useful backup device that means even if you lose or damage the handset, you'll still have access to all the pictures and videos you took.<br />
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Have a look at the pictures below to see how the Nokia Lumia 820 performed in our photographic tests.<br />
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Video</h3>
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You're not given much by way of settings when it comes to shooting video on the Nokia Lumia 820, but this handset is still capable of shooting Full HD 1080p footage. <br />
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You can adjust the white balance by choosing one of five different options: Cloudy, Daylight, Flourescent, Incandescant and Auto. It's unlikely you'll be using this regularly and the difference is negligible anyway but frequent video-shooters will appreciate the inclusion. <br />
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You can also choose to switch the continuous focus on or off and pick whether you want to shoot in 720p or 1080p resolution. <br />
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Although you can set the zoom level and dual-LED light before you begin recording, both are locked as soon as the camera is rolling.<br />
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Image stabilisation is reassuring when shooting video, as is the audio quality of the microphone. One small annoyance is that the same problem with accidentally taking pictures through brushing the screen is repeated here.<br />
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Media</h3>
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As a multimedia device, the Nokia Lumia 820 starts off with one massive handicap - you only get 8GB of on board storage. That's tempered somewhat by the fact you can expand the storage by up to 64GB with a microSD card but c'mon Nokia, would 16GB really be too much to ask for?<br />
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Once you're sorted with a bit of extra memory, its really easy to get music and videos onto the handset. The Lumia 820 opens up in any Windows machine just like an Android handset, allowing you to drag and drop your files straight across.<br />
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Mac users will need to install the desktop Windows Phone program that lets you manage your content.<br />
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The Lumia 820 uses a Micro-USB connection to attach to your computer. Although you'll find one included in the box, it'll also work with any regular Micro-USB cable you have around the house.<br />
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Music</h3>
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The <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/windows-phone-8-1086692/review">Windows Phone 8</a> music player is minimalist in both appearance and settings. Tapping the music option within the Music and Videos app takes you to an artist list separated by the same letter dividers used in the people app. <br />
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You can swipe left or right to view your tunes listed either by artist, album, track, playlist or genre and, similar to your contacts list, you can tap the letter divider to bring up a thumbnail alphabet that lets you quickly skip ahead to any a letter. <br />
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Once you've selected a song, tap it and it will begin playing in the player. There is very little here beyond the basic functions of pausing, skipping, repeating and shuffling. If you tap the three dots at the bottom of the screen, you're able to either share the song, or save it to a playlist.<br />
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The Lumia 820 comes with a pair of headphones in the box, and playback is pretty decent in terms of audio quality. You'll be able to get a fair amount of volume from this handset as well.<br />
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In fact, the first time you push the volume right up, the Lumia 820 will gently remind you that listening at high volume is bad for you.<br />
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Take the headphones out and you'll start to notice the distortion that occurs when you try and play top volume through the Lumia 820's little speaker. It's acceptable if you're the only one listening, but not really powerful enough for an extended audience.<br />
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There's no option to fiddle with the equalizer in the music app itself. For that you'll need to go into the audio options in the settings menu. From there you can adjust treble and bass, as well as engage the Dolby Headphone setting. <br />
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The Dolby Headphone setting adds a tiny layer of richness to the sound and dials up the bass a fraction, giving you more of a surround sound experience when using headphones. It won't be immediately noticeable on most tracks, but we could certainly tell the difference when listening to a few Daft Punk favourites.<br />
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While the basic music player is a little on the boring side to look at, you can spruce it up a bit (and find a couple of extra features) by using the Nokia Music app. This provides you with a much more interesting wallpaper and a quicker route to the equaliser and Dolby Headphone setting.<br />
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The extra features bundled into Nokia Music start off with Mix Radio, an app that lets you stream a mix of music free of charge. If you decide to create an account it will scan your on-board music and curate a mix of music it thinks you'll enjoy. <br />
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There's also the option to download some music and listen to it away from a Wi-Fi signal which is pretty damn generous considering it's all free.<br />
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Alongside Mix Radio are the Music Store and Gig options. Music Store lets you buy your favourite tracks directly from Nokia, at prices that are pretty much in line with the other virtual music stores avaialble on other platforms. <br />
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Lastly, the Gigs app accesses your location and hunts around for live music being played in your local area. <br />
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Microsoft does of course have its own music store courtesy of Xbox music. While the prices are pretty identical to Nokia's, it does have the added bonus of offering a Spotify-like unlimited subscription that you can also use on your Xbox console.<br />
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A nice feature on the Lumia 820 - and one that we would really expect all smartphones to have now - is the ability to control music from the lock screen. If you're out and about with music playing you can pause or skip backwards and forwards directly from the lock screen which acts as a real time saver.<br />
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We had one isolated issue where using the camera app while listening to music caused the audio to disappear. We solved this by simply switching the Lumia 820 off and then on again and despite several attempts, the problem hasn't reappeared.<br />
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Video</h3>
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The video option on the Lumia 820 is found in the Xbox Music and Video app next to music playback and tapping into it throws up a thumbnail-accompanied list of your video files.<br />
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As you would expect from the AMOLED HD screen, playback looks great. We can't even quibble over the extra couple of inches missing compared to other smartphones like the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-s3-1078667/review">Samsung Galaxy S3</a>.<br />
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While the Nokia Lumia 820 was able to cope with common video formats like MP4, WMV and AVI, it struggled when we subjected it to some of the rarer video formats. Neither MKV nor MTS would play on the handset.<br />
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Also, unlike both iOS and Android, you're not able to rent or buy videos from the Windows Phone store. So if you want to add video content to the Lumia 820, you're going to need to connect it to your computer first.<br />
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Thankfully though, once we had a couple of videos loaded up and playing, we didn't have any trouble with crashing or freezing mid-play.<br />
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Photos</h3>
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The Photos app is subdivided into different albums - those you've snapped yourself with the rear-facing 8MP camera, standard pictures you've loaded onto the camera and screengrabs you've taken of the screen.<br />
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The Lumia 820 also pulls in photos from Facebook and Skydrive for you to view, and the whole package is nicely presented thanks to a tiled thumbnail effect.<br />
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We've highlighted the social network interaction throughout this review and it appears again in the Photos app. If you swipe left while perusing photos, you'll arrive at the "What's new" screen. This collates the most recent pictures posted to Facebook, Twitter and any other social networks you're synced to and gives you the caption and date it was posted.<br />
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You can choose to view your pictures either by album, date or person - the last option presents you with a Facebook contact list and lets you browse their pictures. You can also add photos to a favourites list for a compilation of your best shots.<br />
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If you want to change your pictures, you can access some rudimentary editing tools by selecting the offending photo and tapping the three dots. You'll be given the option to crop, rotate or brighten the pictures as well as share them over Facebook or set as your lock screen image.<br />
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Battery life, wireless charging and connectivity</h3>
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Battery life</h3>
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The Nokia Lumia 820 is equipped with a modest 1,620 mAh battery that will, even with 3G fully enabled, give you enough juice for a typical 8-hour working day with moderate usage. Beyond that though, you start running into trouble.<br />
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Batteries are Catch-22 of the smartphone world. We all want bigger, longer-lasting batteries but smaller, thinner, lighter phones. In the word's of the inimitable John Butler Trio: something's gotta give.<br />
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The good news for the Lumia 820 is that the battery is removable. If you're able to successfully prise the back of the phone off, then it'll all but land in your palm.<br />
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Therefore, there's nothing to stop you picking up a replacement and carrying it around with you if you know you're going to be stuck for a while between plug sockets.<br />
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With very careful usage, you should be able to manage a full days usage from the Lumia 820, and there are a couple of tools to help you drain the most from the phone. <br />
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Nokia's battery saver mode will switch off certain services during stand by to try and maximise charge. It halts the push notifications of email and disables some apps until you open them manually.<br />
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There's also the option to engage the automatic brightness. This will regulate the screen brightness (typically the biggest drain on battery power) by sensing the ambient light and reacting accordingly. <br />
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Needless to say that intensive tasks like Nokia Drive's turn-by-turn GPS navigation or hardcore video watching will empty the battery in a matter of hours.<br />
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You're not given any kind of detailed breakdown of exactly what applications are using the most power so you'll have to keep on top of which applications are running. That said, we do feel that overall the Lumia 820 offers reasonable battery performance compared the other phones out there.<br />
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Wireless charging</h3>
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And as luck would have it, the battery fun doesn't stop there. Nokia has incorporated wireless charging technology into the Lumia 820, meaning all you need to do to charge it up is touch the body to a compatible charging plate.<br />
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The format Nokia employs for wireless charging is the universal Qi standard - meaning it will work with any third party device and not force you into spending £45 for Nokia's own branded version.<br />
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In all honesty, wireless charging is a bit of a gimmick at the moment. The plate needs to be plugged in anyway, so it's not much of a stretch to just use a wire instead. However, as with any new technology, the excitement lies in future development. For example, imagine being able to charge your phone whilst driving by just resting it on the dashboard. <br />
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At the moment though, it's kind of a neat party trick but there's little reason to choose it over plugging in a wire.<br />
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Connectivity</h3>
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In terms of connectivity, Nokia has got pretty much all the bases covered with the Lumia 820. <br />
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You sole wired connection port is the Micro-USB slot on the bottom of the phone, which is used for both charging and connecting the Lumia to a PC for swapping over content.<br />
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Most connectivity these days is of the wireless variety and the Lumia 820 is no slouch here either. You're given standard Wi-Fi a/b/g/n as well as Bluetooth v3.1 for connecting accessories such as portable speakers, wireless headphones and game controllers.<br />
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There's A-GPS tucked away inside the Lumia 820 for location-based services and map apps like Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive. <br />
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<a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/what-is-nfc-and-why-is-it-in-your-phone-948410">NFC</a> (Near Field Communication) is also on the roster and lets you swap photos, documents or music with another NFC-enabled phone simply by touching the two together. <br />
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This contactless technology (the same is found in London's Oyster cards) is still relatively new on the smartphone scene and isn't yet included in all handsets. That being said, you'll find that most of the leading class handsets like the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/nokia-lumia-920-1094960/review">Lumia 920</a> or the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-s3-1078667/review">Samsung Galaxy S3</a> will come with NFC on board.<br />
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One other Microsoft-exclusive connectivity feature is Xbox Smartglass, which will connect your Lumia 820 handset to your Xbox 360 console over your home network. The app then lets you use the handset as either a remote control for the Xbox dashboard or as a streaming device to your TV.<br />
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So, if you've got a range of films stored on the Lumia 820 (unlikely, unless you've got a microSD in there) then you can use the Xbox Smartglass app to play the film on your big screen TV. <br />
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The app itself is a relatively new addition to the Microsoft stable but we're sure the team from Redmond has got grand plans for future implementations.<br />
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Maps and apps</h3>
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Maps</h3>
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When it comes to map applications on the Nokia Lumia 820, you'll find the usual fan favourite, Google Maps, is way down the pecking order. So much so that not only is it not installed - it's also absent (in any official capacity) from the Microsoft store. <br />
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The good news is that Nokia has done its level best to give us a solid mapping experience of its very own. To be fair, it's had plenty of time to practice as Nokia Maps dates back to the old Symbian devices.<br />
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Nokia Maps does look attractive, both using the standard layer and the satellite overlay. There's also a very handy transit layer that shows the Underground lines superimposed on top of the map display.<br />
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This is more useful for Londoners obviously, but there are public transport lines shown for other big cities such as Leeds and Manchester.<br />
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We found the app picked up our location quickly and accurately and panning and zooming around the British Isles was a quick and easy.<br />
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There's the option to download sections of the map for viewing offline - something that Google also offers and that is particularly useful if you're heading off on a long road trip and might not be able to count on Wi-Fi or 3G.<br />
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You can search for places by tapping the looking glass icon, or use Nokia Places to explore local restaurants, museums and other attractions near your location. Once you've settled on a location you like, or are planning to visit, you can save it to your favourites list to be easily called up at any point.<br />
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When it comes to navigation, Nokia has loaded the Lumia 820 with Nokia Drive (another graduate from the Symbian class) which gives you turn-by-turn navigation and plots your course on the map.<br />
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The really useful thing about Drive is that it downloads all the route guidance before you set off so that you don't have to worry about a data connection while you're on your way.<br />
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As far as mapping software goes, Nokia Maps is definitely a solid piece of software and after getting used to it, we dare say you'll be happy enough without Google Maps on board.<br />
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Apps</h3>
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App availability has always been the death knell which has sounded the death of Windows Phone in the opinion of many.<br />
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In some ways, that's still the case - the app selection on the Windows Phone store can't touch the Apple App Store or <a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/what-is-google-play-1073348">Google Play</a> for either variety or sheer numbers. But, it is getting better and has been for some time.<br />
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Nearly all the big name apps are available to download, whether it's games like Star Wars Angry Birds, entertainment apps like Flixster or sports apps like Endomondo.<br />
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You can get YouTube, iPlayer and Wikipedia all here the same as you can on an iPhone or Android device. The difference is that fostering new developers is still a trick Microsoft has yet to learn.<br />
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Chances are that corporations and big companies will simultaneously release for WP8 as well as iOS and Android. But the danger is that the underground hits that go on to become cult favourites are still in danger of missing out Windows Phone altogether.<br />
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Riding into the breach, like some heroic knight is Nokia itself, and the Finnish firm should really be commended for recognising the lack of apps and putting in the work.<br />
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The<a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/htc-windows-phone-8x-1098439/review"> HTC Windows Phone 8X</a> might be the signature phone for the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/windows-phone-8-1086692/review">Windows Phone 8</a> OS, but we reckon that when it comes to first-party apps, Nokia has HTC well and truly beat.<br />
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We've already covered the Nokia Lenses apps for the camera, Nokia Music app for tunes and the Nokia Drive app for navigation, but there are a couple of others that deserve a mention.<br />
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Firstly, Nokia City lens uses the GPS, mapping and camera to provide you with a real-time augmented reality display of your city showing local shops, services and points of interest right in front of you on the screen.<br />
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It's a really interesting piece of software and well worth trying out if the shop assistant will let you take the display model for a little spin before buying.<br />
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Next, Nokia Care is a preinstalled guide to using your Lumia 820. Less of an app and more of an interactive instruction manual, it's nevertheless pretty useful for getting to grips with the operating system.<br />
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Of course, the other ace up Microsoft's sleeve when it comes to apps is the first-party Office software it bundles with each device. This will be a big draw for many given how frequently we use Microsoft Office in our day-to-day lives.<br />
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You get access to Word, Powerpoint and Excel on the Nokia Lumia 820 and each document, graph or sprreadsheet is fully displayed and available to edit and tweak on the move.<br />
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When you're finished, the result is saved to the cloud via Skydrive and ready for you to use when you sit back down at your desk.<br />
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There's also Microsoft OneNote Mobile preinstalled on the Lumia, which lets you jot down lists and notes and share it with your other Windows devices via the cloud.<br />
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Admittedly there are now ways to do this with both Google and Apple products, but we see the integration between Microsoft devices as a big plus point and something the American company should build on in the future.<br />
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Hands on gallery</h3>
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Verdict</h3>
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The Nokia Lumia 820 sits nicely at the crossroads between value and power. While it doesn't have the processor, camera or larger screen of its big brother the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/nokia-lumia-920-1094960/review">Lumia 920</a>, it does have microSD storage, removable covers and a more attractive price tag.<br />
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The Nokia Lumia 820 isn't meant to be the flagship phone of either Nokia or the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/windows-phone-8-1086692/review">Windows Phone 8 </a>operating system. That relieves it of a certain amount of pressure and what you're left with is a very competent handset for those that want a simple, fluid experience.<br />
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The app selection still handicaps Windows Phone 8 devices. But if you're less of a heavy app user and more interested in using your phone to play music, read documents or take pictures then Nokia has laid on a tidy little handset that won't cost the earth during your contract. <br />
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Is it going to sway a lifelong Android or Apple user? No. But if you wanted evidence that Windows Phone 8, and more importantly Nokia, are taking steps in the right direction then this is it.<br />
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We liked</h3>
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The weight and dimensions of the Nokia Lumia 820 are among its core strengths. It feels heavy enough to take a knock or three, but light enough that you don't notice it in your pocket.<br />
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Likewise, if you're one of the people that think phones are getting a little too big these days, you'll appreciate the smaller 4.3-inch AMOLED screen.<br />
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The camera, as ever, is a highlight of this Nokia handset. You're not given as many options from the get-go as you are on other phones but the addition of Nokia's Lenses is intriguing. Ideally, the camera will get more versatile as different lenses are released.<br />
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Last, but by no means least, the 4.3-inch AMOLED 800 x 480 screen is really pretty bloody good. You won't miss the extra inches because this is a crisp, clear display that makes watching video on the move a real pleasure.<br />
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We disliked</h3>
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While there aren't any giant, crushing flaws with the Nokia Lumia 820, there are a couple of minor irritations that get in the way of everyday usage.<br />
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For example, there's no notification light on the front to tell you you've got a Facebook comment, text message or email. You'll have to routinely open the phone and check the lock screen to be sure. <br />
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Another irritation was removing the Lumia 820's swappable back cover. It really shouldn't be this hard to remove a phone's casing, should it? Well according to Nokia at least, it should be. So good luck with that.<br />
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You're also going to have to make peace with a relatively short battery life (price of a good screen, eh?) and the non-existence of apps on the Windows Phone store. Nokia does a commendable job trying to plug the gaps, but these issues are still noticeable when compared to rival handsets.<br />
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Verdict</h3>
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Nokia is building a solid line-up of smooth, competent Windows handsets that started with the original Lumia line-up last year and continues through to the Windows Phone 8 era. We feel the Lumia 820 is a building block for that line-up rather than its superstar focus. <br />
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Despite some definite plus points (microSD anyone?) this doesn't take the Windows Phone 8 crown from the likes of the Nokia Lumia 920 or the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/htc-windows-phone-8x-1098439/review">HTC Windows Phone 8X</a>. Likewise we don't believe that <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/iphone-5-1096004/review">iPhone 5</a> or <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-s3-1078667/review">Samsung Galaxy S3</a> users will feel they're missing out when this hits the shelves.<br />
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But sidelining it commercially is doing both the Lumia 820, and Nokia itself, a disservice. This is a well constructed, colourful handset with some excellent technological features.<br />
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The Windows Phone OS is maturing nicely and offers a realistic alternative to other phones on the market. Throw in some competitive pricing and you've got plenty of reasons to consider this phone.<br />
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<h2>
Technical Details</h2>
<ul style="list-style: disc; margin-left: 25px;">
<li>This unlocked cell phone is compatible with GSM carriers like
AT&T and T-Mobile. Not all carrier features may be supported. It
will not work with CDMA carriers like Verizon Wireless, Alltel and
Sprint</li>
<li>Next-generation messaging powerhouse with 3.2-inch touchscreen, slide-down QWERTY keyboard, and BlackBerry 6 OS</li>
<li>Compatible with AT&T Video Share, Navigator GPS turn-by-turn
directions, and access to over 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots nationwide<a name='more'></a></li>
<li>Wireless-N Wi-Fi; 5-megapixel camera/camcorder; 4 GB internal memory; microSD expansion; Bluetooth stereo music</li>
<li>Up to 5.8 hours of talk time, up to 432 hours (18 days) of standby time; released in August, 2010</li>
<li>5 MP Camera, 2592?1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash; Geo-tagging,
continuous auto-focus, image stabilization; Video Recording @24fps</li>
<li>All new BlackBerry OS 6.0; Social feeds; BlackBerry maps; Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)</li>
<li>Talk time up to 5.5 hours - Standby up to 430 hs.</li>
<li>This unlocked cell phone will work on GSM carries like AT&T and T-Mobile. Not all carrier features may be supported.</li>
<li>Unlocked Quad-Band GSM cell phone compatible with
850/900/1800/1900MHz frequencies and 3G HSDPA 850/1900/2100/800 plus
GPRS/EDGE data capabilities.</li>
</ul>
<h2>
Product Description</h2>
The new Blackberry Torch Bring your sources of inspiration
together. Gather and filter all your social network and RSS feeds in one
view. Or spread your own inspiration - update multiple social networks
with a single postWith a 5 MP camera with flash, continuous auto-focus
and image stabilization, plus 11 photo modes and video recording, it's
easy to capture those spontaneous moments. With a 5 MP camera with
flash, continuous auto-focus and image stabilization, plus 11 photo
modes and video recording, it's easy to capture those spontaneous
moments. Manage multiple open websites with tabbed browsing. Bookmark
your favorite sites with branded icons and customizable names, and
access them right from the home screen. With 4 GB of memory, expandable
up to 32 GB with a microSD card, feel free to immerse yourself in all
that inspires you. Thanks to BlackBerry® 6 and a large screen, you can
experience a full-featured music player that allows you to see full
album art and track listings in portrait or landscape. Use your fingers
to pinch a screen for a zoomed out effect and expand two fingers to zoom
in.
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<li>Wireless N Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n); Bluetooth 3.0</li>
<li>1GHz Dual-Core Processor; 1GB RAM</li>
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<tr><td class="label">Screen Size</td><td class="value">7 inches</td></tr>
<tr><td class="label">Processor</td><td class="value">1 GHz</td></tr>
<tr><td class="label">RAM</td><td class="value">1 GB DDR2 </td></tr>
<tr><td class="label">Hard Drive</td><td class="value">8.00 GB</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="label">Brand Name</td><td class="value">Samsung</td></tr>
<tr class="item-model-number"><td class="label">Item model number</td><td class="value">GT-P3113TSYXAR</td></tr>
<tr><td class="label">Hardware Platform</td><td class="value">PC</td></tr>
<tr><td class="label">Operating System</td><td class="value">Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)</td></tr>
<tr class="size-weight"><td class="label">Item Weight: </td><td class="value">12.2 ounces</td></tr>
<tr><td class="label">Item Dimensions L x W x H</td><td class="value">4.80 x 0.41 x 7.60 inches</td></tr>
<tr><td class="label">Color
</td><td class="value">dark grey</td></tr>
<tr><td class="label">Rear Webcam Resolution
</td><td class="value">3 MP </td></tr>
<tr><td class="label">Processor Count</td><td class="value">2</td></tr>
<tr><td class="label">Computer Memory Type</td><td class="value">DDR2 SDRAM</td></tr>
<tr><td class="label">Flash Memory Size</td><td class="value">8</td></tr>
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<li><b>Network Compatibility:</b> LTE</li>
<li><b>Minimum Rated Talk Time:</b> 480 minutes</li>
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Nokia Lumia 920<br />At a Glance:</h5>
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<li>4G LTE (limited service areas) or HSPA+ connectivity<br /></li>
<li>Windows Phone 8 OS<br /></li>
<li>1.5 GHz Qualcomm dual-core processor<br /></li>
<li>4.5-inch PureMotion HD and ClearBlack OLED display<br /></li>
<li>32 GB internal memory<br /></li>
<li>Eight-MP camera + HD 1080p video<br /></li>
<li>GPS navigation<br /></li>
<li>Wireless-N Wi-Fi<br /></li>
<li>Bluetooth 3.0<br /></li>
<li>Personal/corporate e-mail</li>
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4G LTE <b>Nokia Lumia 920</b>
with Windows Phone 8 was built for amazing clarity, power and speed
that lets you capture, share and relive moments as if you were still
there. You’ll enjoy a rich user-experience in almost any conditions with
the stunning 4.5-inch PureMotion HD and ClearBlack display that blocks
incoming light reflections through a polarized layer to improve screen
visibility under direct sunlight. The 332 ppi sculpted 2.5 D Corning
Gorilla Glass 2.0, with color-boosting technology, Sunlight Readability
Enhancement, High Brightness Mode, and a power-efficient LCD paired with
4G/LTE and Internet Explorer 10 make for faster, clearer web browsing.
When you discover all that the Nokia Lumia 920 has to offer – including
premium design and powerful dual-core 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon
Processor- nothing less will do. <br />
<h4>
High-Quality Camera</h4>
The
advanced, eight-megapixel camera has autofocus, a dual-LED flash and an
image processing chip. There is also a front-facing 1.2 megapixel
camera with f2.0 aperture and a 26 millimeter lens for easy
self-portraits. Video play and capture is available with Carl Zeiss
optics and HD 1080p. With up to 32 GB of internal memory and SkyDrive
cloud storage available, there’s enough memory to keep all your photos
and video. <br />
<h4>
Smartphone Features and Applications</h4>
The
Lumia is equipped with convenient, free apps like Facebook, Twitter and
voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation. Even make your phone your own with
a variety of personalization options. Other features include NFC
technology, integrated wireless charging, optical image stabilization
and three microphones. <br />
<h4>
Faster Network</h4>
With AT&T's
4G HSPA+ network, you'll enjoy mobile broadband speeds up to four times
faster than AT&T's already fast mobile broadband network. You also
get the AT&T Mobile Hotspot service built right into the
smartphone--enabling you to connect additional Wi-Fi-enabled devices to
the phone's mobile broadband signal (requires appropriate data plan). <br />
<h4>
Vital Statistics</h4>
The Nokia Lumia measures 5.13 x 2.79 x .42 inches and weighs 6.5 ounces.<br />
<h4>
What's in the Box</h4>
Nokia Lumia; Battery; Nokia fast USB charger; Connectivity cable; Quick start<br />
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<h5>
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4G
is a wireless technology term meaning "Fourth Generation." 4G follows
3G as the latest addition to AT&T's mobile broadband network. When
combined with enhanced backhaul, 4G means faster speeds, where data
transfers take less time to complete.<br />
AT&T has upgraded the
software of its nationwide mobile broadband network with HSPA+ which,
with enhanced backhaul, enables speeds up to 4x faster than AT&T's
already fast mobile broadband speeds. And now, AT&T is evolving to
even faster 4G speeds with the launch of AT&T's 4G LTE technology in
select markets.<br />
Backhaul is one of the major pieces of a
telecommunications network. Think of it as the limbs connecting
AT&T's cell towers with AT&T's backbone network that provides
access to the Internet.<br />
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How does AT&T 4G differ from other 4G networks?</h5>
AT&T
is the only network offering two layers of 4G technology: HSPA+ with
enhanced backhaul and LTE, both capable of delivering 4G speeds.
Customers will have access to fast speeds as they move in and out of 4G
LTE areas. Customers of competitors who do not have HSPA+ with enhanced
backhaul are likely to see a steep drop-off in speeds when they move out
of LTE areas.<br />
In areas where either AT&T's 3G or 4G network
is not available, you'll continue to receive service on the AT&T
EDGE network, which offers availability in more than 13,000 US cities
and along some 40,000 miles of major highways.<br />
<h2>
Optional AT&T Services</h2>
<strong>AT&T Navigator:</strong>
This premium GPS navigation application includes audible turn-by-turn
directions, real-time traffic updates and re-routing options, and 3D
moving maps (additional charges applicable). AT&T Navigator offers
several other features to make your commute more enjoyable and reliable,
including mobile access to Yellowpages.com. You'll be able to find the
closes ATM, restaurant, gas station, Wi-Fi hotspot and more with over 10
million business listings.<br />
<strong>AT&T FamilyMap:</strong>
Locate any phone indoors or outdoors on the AT&T Network. FamilyMap
provides peace of mind by being able to conveniently locate a family
member from your wireless phone or PC and know that your family's
information is secure and private. Want to verify that your child
arrives home from school each day? Set up a Schedule Check to
automatically get location information sent to you via text message or
e-mail.<br />
<br /><hr />
<br /> <h4>
Windows Phone 8</h4>
<b>Meet the first phone powered by you.</b><br />
In
a world full of smartphones, Windows Phone is different because it’s
powered by you with the people and things you care about. It's as
personal and unique as you are, because of Live Tiles – amazing little
tiles that you can pin to your Start screen and arrange your way, and
they deliver what’s happening with the people and apps you love right to
your Start screen. Plus it’s built for peace of mind because every
single app is tested for malware before you download it. It also works
with Windows so you can access your documents and pictures from
virtually anywhere with SkyDrive. Come meet your Windows Phone, and see
why the phone you bring to life is as unique as you are.<br />
<h5>
Live Tiles and Live Apps</h5>
Your stuff at a glance. Only Windows Phone has Live Tiles and Live Apps
that give you real-time updates on everything you care about right on
your Start screen.<br />
<small> Apps from the Windows Phone Store. Wi-Fi access or data connection required; carrier fees apply</small><br />
<h5>
People Hub and Rooms</h5>
Bring
your contacts to life. Now your Facebook, Outlook, LinkedIn, Twitter,
Skype and other contacts are accessible in People Hub. Instantly call,
text, email or contact them using Skype all from the same place.<br />
<h5>
Kid’s Corner</h5>
Go
ahead, let the kids play. Children love playing with your phone.
Sometimes it's games. Sometimes it's the phone settings. Sometimes it's
emails to your boss. Kid's Corner gives kids access to only the apps and
features you choose. So you can be sure they're playing Angry Birds and
not emailing your angry boss.<br />
<h5>
SkyDrive</h5>
Your stuff goes
wherever you go. With SkyDrive all your photos, Word docs, Excel spread
sheets and PowerPoint presentations are backed up and accessible
virtually everywhere including Windows Phone. SkyDrive comes with 7 GB
of free storage space.<br />
<small> Wi-Fi access or data connection required; carrier fees apply.</small><br />
<h5>
Xbox Music</h5>
Your
music the moment you want it. With an Xbox Music Pass, your songs,
albums and even your playlists are instantly accessible across your
devices. No matter which one you downloaded the music to.<br />
<small>Compatible
devices and internet access required; carrier fees apply. Xbox Music
Pass sold separately. On Xbox 360, content is streaming only and also
requires an Xbox LIVE Gold membership (sold separately). See
xbox.com/music.</small><br />
<h5>
Camera and Lenses</h5>
Point, shoot
and share in an instant. Your Windows Phone lets you take and share
pictures faster than ever to your friends and social sites like
Facebook. Moving from standby to shooting and sharing take seconds, so
you never miss a moment. Add personal creativity to your shots with
Lenses, directly within your camera, no app needed.<br />
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<li><strong>Ultra-fast 4G LTE connectivity</strong> via AT&T's HSPA+ network </li>
<li><strong>Wireless-N Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g/n)</strong> for accessing home and corporate networks as well as hotspots while on the go. </li>
<li><strong>AT&T Mobile Hotspot capable</strong> enabling you to connect multiple devices--from tablets to gaming devices--to the phone's 3G/4G cellular connection via Wi-Fi. </li>
<li><strong>Onboard GPS</strong> for navigation and location services </li>
<li><strong>Optional AT&T Navigator service</strong> includes audible turn-by-turn directions, real-time traffic updates, and re-routing options </li>
<li><strong>Bluetooth connectivity (version 3.0)</strong> includes profiles for communication headset, hands-free car kits, and the A2DP audio streaming Bluetooth profiles </li>
</ul>
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Hardware</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>1.5 GHz Qualcomm dual-core processor</strong> speeds up everything--from playing games to watching shows to opening files from work </li>
<li><strong>4.5-inch ClearBlack OLED capacitive touchscreen with PureMotion HD</strong> </li>
</ul>
<h2>
Communications & Internet</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>HTML 5 web browser</strong> for accessing real web sites. </li>
<li><strong>Text (SMS) and picture/video (MMS) messaging</strong> </li>
<li><strong>Access to popular instant messaging services</strong> </li>
<li><strong>Personal and work e-mail</strong> </li>
</ul>
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Camera</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Rear-facing camera</strong> Eight megapixels with autofocus, image processing chip and dual LED flash </li>
<li><strong>HD 1080p video recording</strong> with Carl Zeiss optics</li>
<li><strong>1.2-Megapixel front camera</strong> for video chats and self portraits. </li>
</ul>
<h2>
Multimedia</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Facebook and Twitter integration</strong> so you can always stay connected </li>
<li><strong>Camera tools</strong> let you easily share photos</li>
</ul>
<h2>
Memory</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>32 GB internal memory</strong> and available SkyDrive cloud storage </li>
</ul>
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<li style="padding: 0pt 0pt 7px;"><strong>16x optical zoom<br /> </strong></li>
<li style="padding: 0pt 0pt 7px;"><strong>Capture your videos in 720p HD Movie mode</strong></li>
<li style="padding: 0pt 0pt 7px;"><strong>Take stunning images in Sweep Panorama mode-up to 360°</strong></li>
<li style="padding: 0pt 0pt 7px;"><strong>16.1 MP plus a 3.0-inch Clear Photo LCD<br /> </strong></li>
<li style="padding: 0pt 0pt 7px;"><strong>Optical SteadyShot image stabilization reduces blur<br /> </strong></li>
<li style="padding: 0pt 0pt 7px;"><strong>Picture Effect for more expressive photos</strong></li>
<li style="padding: 0pt 0pt 7px;"><strong>iAuto mode automatically optimizes camera settings</strong></li>
<li style="padding: 0pt 0pt 7px;"><strong>Face Detection and Smile Shutter technologies<br /> </strong></li>
<li style="padding: 0pt 0pt 7px;"><strong>Anti-Blink, Face Priority and Red Eye Reduction functions</strong></li>
<li style="padding: 0pt 0pt 7px;"><strong>Soft Skin mode reduces visible blemishes and wrinkles</strong></li>
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Get
up close with your shots with the Sony DSC-H90's stabilized 16X optical
zoom. Its 16.1MP sensor records crisp photos plus HD 720p video. View
images and menus on the bright 3.0-inch LCD, and enjoy features that
enhance creativity with built-in Picture Effect, and Sweep Panorama
modes.<br />
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Key Features</h4>
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16x optical zoom</h4>
The
Sony 16x optical zoom G lens brings distant subjects super close for
great outdoors, sports, and travel photos. The compact size makes it
easy to take with you in a pocket, purse, or backpack.<br />
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720p MP4 HD Movie Mode</h4>
In
720p MP4 movie mode, the DSC-H90 shoots 1280 x 720 high definition
movies at 30 fps, a standard format when working with a PC. Users will
create high quality movies with full use of optical zoom in files small
enough to transfer to compatible PC or Mac computer.<sup>1</sup> Once
transferred to your computer and connected to the internet, you can
effortlessly upload your media to popular photo and video-sharing
websites such as Photobucket and YouTube.<br />
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Sweep Panorama mode-up to 360°</h4>
Reach
beyond the traditional wide angle lens, and capture more breathtaking
shots with Sweep Panorama mode. Simply press the shutter button and
sweep the camera in the desired direction and the camera continuously
shoots at a high speed, then seamlessly stitches the images together
with automatic position adjustment to create one stunning panoramic
image. Available in wide and up to 360° full circle, the DSC-H90 can
take a variety of panoramic shots. Now capturing wide landscapes is as
easy as press and sweep.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br />
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16.1 Megapixel Image Sensor</h4>
A powerful 16.1 megapixel Super HAD CCD image sensor helps you capture
gorgeous images with superb contrast and clarity down to the finest
detail. With 16.1 megapixels, you can create stunning, photo-quality
prints up to A3+ (13x19 inch) size, or crop your images and still come
away with high resolution shots.<br /> <br /> <h4 style="color: #3bb9ff; font-size: 13px;">
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Optical SteadyShot image stabilization</h4>
Optical SteadyShot image stabilization uses a built-in gyro sensor to
detect camera shake and automatically shifts the lens to help prevent
blur without sacrificing image quality.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> </span><br /> <br /> <h4 style="color: #3bb9ff; font-size: 13px;">
Intelligent Auto Mode</h4>
Unlike traditional auto mode, Intelligent Auto (iAuto) mode thinks for
you, recognizing scenes, lighting conditions, faces, and adjusts
settings resulting in clear images, faces with natural skin tone and
less blur. Take advantage of all the technology without leaving Auto
mode. Kids on the playground, landscape shots, a beautiful flower or an
indoor birthday party; all result in clear images without leaving auto
mode.<br /> <h4 style="color: #3bb9ff; font-size: 13px;">
Picture Effect for more expressive photos </h4>
Picture Effect adds a new level of expression to photos, making
ordinary landscapes and portraits come to life by heightening mood and
emphasizing certain attributes. Select camera models have up to nine
different effects. <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /> <h4 style="color: #3bb9ff; font-size: 13px;">
Photo Creativity</h4>
Photo Creativity allows you to fine-tune your exposure settings, such
as brightness, color, and vividness, and quickly choose the right
enhancement for your subject. Now you can view Picture Effects and Photo
Creativity effects in real time on the camera’s monitor or in the
viewfinder before shooting.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> </span> <h4 style="color: #3bb9ff; font-size: 13px;">
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Face Detection technology </h4>
Face Detection technology detects up to eight individual faces and
adjusts focus, exposure, and white balance to help deliver crisp,
properly lit images of family and friends.<br /> <h4 style="color: #3bb9ff; font-size: 13px;">
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Smile Shutter technology </h4>
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Smile Shutter technology captures a smile the moment it happens. Simply
press the Smile Shutter button and the camera does the rest. You can
also select adult and child priority andindicate the degree of Smile
Detection sensitivity. Intelligent Scene Recognition can now be used
together with Smile Shutter mode when the Intelligent Auto mode is on.
This means that beautiful smiles can be captured with settings optimized
for the particular scene, even in difficult conditions such as twilight
and backlighting. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <h4 style="color: #3bb9ff; font-size: 13px;">
Anti-blink Function </h4>
It’s frustrating to capture the perfect shot, only to review it later
and discover subjects blinked during the photo. The Anti-blink function
works to help counter blinking and squinting. When the camera is set to
Soft Snap, the Anti-blink function captures two images, recording only
the photo with less squinting. If a blink is detected in other shooting
modes, a warning will be displayed after you take the shot.<br /> <h4 style="color: #3bb9ff; font-size: 13px;">
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Soft Skin mode</h4>
Portrait subjects will love the results. Soft Skin mode recognizes skin
tones and reduces the appearance of blemishes and wrinkles without
affecting the rest of the shot.<br /> <h4 style="color: #3bb9ff; font-size: 13px;">
Intelligent Scene Recognition (iSCN) Mode</h4>
Intelligent Scene Recognition (iSCN) Mode automatically detects 33
different types of scenes and selects the appropriate camera settings.
In Auto Mode, the camera takes a single shot using the optimal settings.
In Advanced Mode, the camera takes a photo with the optimal settings
and, if in difficult lighting (low light or back light) immediately
takes a second photo with another optimized setting so you can choose
which to keep.<br /> <h4 style="color: #3bb9ff; font-size: 13px;">
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Natural Flash</h4>
Conventional point-and-shoot camera flash shots just don't capture
colors the way the eye sees them. Natural Flash mode takes a reference
shot without flash and then uses that reference to correct the color,
for far more lifelike images.<br /> <h4 style="color: #3bb9ff; font-size: 13px;">
Motion Detection</h4>
Motion Detection, along with Face Motion Detection adjusts ISO
sensitivity and increases the shutter speed when movement is detected,
reducing blur in moving subjects and faces.<br /> <br /> </div>
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Boost Mobile’s 2nd 4G WiMAX device on the Sprint 4G Network, the <b>Samsung Galaxy S II</b>
is perfect for the high-end, data centric customer. The Galaxy S II is a
premium Android smartphone that delivers a post-paid experience and
unmatched entertainment experience, all without a contract. With a
ultra-thin form factor, the Galaxy S II is loaded with a crisp,
oversized 4.52 inch screen, dual cameras, a speedy processor and
optional Mobile Hotspot. With the rich color display, the customer can
snap bright photos or full HD video on the go, browse the web at blazing
fast 4G speeds, or even access the 300,000+ apps in the Google Play
Store. This portable entertainment powerhouse is perfect for the
speed/multimedia enthusiast on the go.<br />
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Android Ice Cream Sandwich Operating System</h5>
The
Samsung Galaxy S II runs the Android 4.0 operating system (dubbed Ice
Cream Sandwich), which adds powerful new ways of communicating and
sharing while improving on the best Android features: easy multitasking,
rich notifications, customizable home screens, resizable widgets, and
more. The updated Ice Cream Sandwich interface features an onscreen
navigation bar that replaces the hardware buttons for Back, Home, and
Menu found with older Android-powered phones. <br />
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Key Features</h4>
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<li>Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich</li>
<li>Get Android Apps on Google Play</li>
<li>Dual Mode 3G/4G</li>
<li>4.52 inch Super AMOLED Plus Touchscreen</li>
<li>8MP Camera (2MP Front Facing) wtih 1080P Full HD Video</li>
<li>Dual Core 1.2GHZ Processor </li>
<li>16 GB Internal Memory</li>
<li>8.7 Hours Talk Time</li>
<li>Wi-Fi/Mobile Hotspot Capability*</li>
<li>Dual Mode: CDMA 3G EVDO Rev A/4G WiMAX </li>
<li>Processor: 1200 MHz processor</li>
<li>Memory: 16GB (ROM)/1GB (RAM)</li>
<li>External memory card supported up to 32GB</li>
<li>Bluetooth: Yes (3.0)</li>
<li>Headsets: 3.5 mm</li>
<li>Speakerphone</li>
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<small>*Additional service required</small><br />
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Vital Statistics</h4>
The
Samsung Galaxy S II weighs 4.6 ounces and measures 2.7 x 5.1 x .38
inches. Its 1800 mAh li-ion battery allows for talk time up to 8.7
hours.<br />
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What's in the Box</h5>
Samsung Galaxy S II handset, li-ion battery, charger, USB data cable, and getting started guide.<br />
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<tr><td><b>$2 Daily Unlimited</b>
provides all the value of Monthly Unlimited and nationwide coverage at a
low daily rate. The $2 subscription charge is automatically deducted
from your Boost account each day after midnight, regardless of usage,
unless the you cancel the subscription. Recharge at least once every 90
days to keep your account active (after 90 days any credit balance
will expire).<br />
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<b>International Connect</b>
provides unlimited international talk and text with family and friends
around the world. It can be added to Monthly Unlimited and Android
Monthly Unlimited plans for an additional $5 per month, and added to the
BlackBerry Monthly Unlimited plan for $10 per month.<br />
<h4>
Boost Shrinkage</h4>
All
Monthly Unlimited plans include Shrinkage and unlimited nationwide
talk, text, web, e-mail, and 411. Shrinkage reduces your payment by
$5/month for every six on-time payments, up to $15/month in total.
Android Monthly Unlimited to as low as $40/month.<br />
<h5>
On-Time Payments</h5>
On-time
payments are made on or before the monthly payment date. Your monthly
payment date remains the same every month as long as you successfully
make your monthly payment. However, if you make a late payment, your
payment date will be reset to the day of the month before the date your
service is restored (e.g., if your service is restored on February
15th, your monthly payment date will be reset to March 14th).<br />
<h5>
Missed Payment</h5>
While
it's best to make regular on-time payments each month, payments do not
have to be consecutive. If you miss a payment you don't have to start
over. The on-time payments made to the account will still be available
as well as any savings milestone achieved.<br />
<h4>
4G Android Monthly Unlimited Plan Add-on</h4>
Sharing
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4G internet connection for your laptop, game station or any Wi-Fi
device. Your personal mobile hotspot for only $10/month, connect just
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<li>2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900</li>
<li>3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100</li>
<li>CPU Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A9 Chipset Exynos 4412 Quad</li>
<li>OS Android OS, v4.1.1 (Jelly Bean)</li>
<li>16 GB Storage International Model<a name='more'></a></li>
</ul>
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Product Description</h2>
Samsung Galaxy Note II N7100. Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A9 Chipset Exynos 4412 Quad
Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 720 x 1280 pixels, 5.5 inches (~267 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 2
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<li>3.2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth stereo music; MicroSD
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<li>Up to 6 hours of talk time, up to 360 hours (15 days) of standby time</li>
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<li>Multi Input Full touch + S Pen (Advanced smart pen)</li>
<li>AndroidTM 2.3(Gingerbread)</li>
<li>3G/4G: 850/900/1900/2100 EDGE: 850/900/1800/2100<a name='more'></a></li>
<li>5.3" WXGA (1280 x 800, 285 PPI) screen* HD Super AMOLED</li>
<li>Camera Main(Rear) : 8 MP with LED Flash / Front : 2 MP Action Shot, Beauty, Panorama Shot, Smile Shot</li>
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<li>OS Android OS, v4.1.1 (Jelly Bean)</li>
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<tr><td class="label">RAM</td><td class="value">1 GB</td></tr>
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<tr class="size-weight"><td class="label">Item Weight: </td><td class="value">12 ounces</td></tr>
<tr><td class="label">Item Dimensions L x W x H</td><td class="value">4.72 x 0.41 x 7.81 inches</td></tr>
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<b>Amazon.com Return Policy:</b> You may return any new
computer purchased from Amazon.com that is "dead on arrival," arrives in
damaged condition, or is still in unopened boxes, for a full refund
within 30 days of purchase. Amazon.com reserves the right to test "dead
on arrival" returns and impose a customer fee equal to 15 percent of the
product sales price if the customer misrepresents the condition of the
product. Any returned computer that is damaged through customer misuse,
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