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here it is......................... Sitting here today, I can't help but wonder at how far we've come in the world of mobiles. Not too long ago, we were raving over what today constitutes 'budget' - 1GHz, half a gig of RAM and 480x800 resolution. At the top end today, we're spoiled with handheld devices which outlook, outperform and outclass some notebooks. The pace and drive for innovation in the mobile sector has invoked in me fond memories of - and striking similarities to - the 'PC race' of the 90s. I remember saying to my old man shortly after HD, and then Full HD televisions were made mainstream 'Won't be long mate, and you'll be able to hold that in your pocket'. Today, just over five years later, I hold in my hand what I personally consider the 'Holy Grail' of handset updates - what I have waited a few years now to see more than anything else - and the embodiment of my statement to my Dad. For those who aren't yet aware - I'm a pixel freak. The more, and the tighter packed - the better. I am so pedantic about pixels, I downsized our lounge room TV solely to improve the pitch. I have always been this way. When others were buying their 17- or 19-inch CRTs, I was saving for that NEC 1280x1024 15-incher. When I recently bought a laptop, instead of the 17-inch I bought an older 15-incher with 1600x1200 pixels. It really is that important to me. It's been a lot of fun (and very expensive) watching manufacturers squeeze more of my little darlings into tighter and tighter confines. My tablet now shares resolution with my desktop PC. My car GPS shares resolution with the majority of 10-inch tablets, and now my phone shares the resolution of my television. My life is complete. Meet the Droid DNA. The latest offspring of the relationship between Verizon Wireless and HTC. Verizon, for all their bloaty, bootloader-locking bastardry, seem to have a history of getting impressive hardware out of manufacturers in good time. It was only a couple of months ago that we read the first reports of LGs 5-inch, 1080p panel entering its testing phase, and yet here it is today in the flesh. Kudos to them for that, at least. The Droid DNA embodies the top-of-the-line for handsets today. Qualcomm's S4 Pro APQ8064 SoC, a quad-core beast clocked at 1.5GHz with the new and improved Adreno 320 looking after the pretty lights. 2GB of RAM. 16GB of internal storage. One of the best 8MP cameras on the market. And of course, the party trick - a 5-inch, 1920x1080 SuperLCD 3 panel. The same resolution as your lounge room telly in your pocket, and squeezed together to form a mind-boggling 440 pixels-per-inch (ppi). All this in a package as svelte and tidy as Catherine Bell from her JAG days. It packs all the usual additional bells and whistles such as GPS and GLONASS, Bluetooth 4.0, an MHL port, 802.11n WiFi, 1080p video recording and a nice big slab of Gorilla Glass 2 to keep the scratches at bay for a bit longer. There are a couple of downsides, of course. No single handset in the mobile world can ever be 100% rainbows and butterflies. So where were the corners cut? The internal storage isn't expandable. I'll take an extra 2mm on the waistline in exchange for a card slot anyday, thanks - your 'cloud' can go straight to the fiery depths. Secondly the battery, on paper at least, looks relatively timid at 2020mAh. In real-life this isn't proving to be a huge shortcoming, but be prepared to have an external battery or solar panel handy with you when you're out and about if you're in the habit of checking your phone every ten seconds, watching a lot of videos, or gaming. Finally Verizon, I know you're 'Big Red' and all, but your livery is the best way to ruin a good phone ever. Black and red may be fashionable with the fifteen-year-olds today, but it's time to cut back on the red a bit. Stay classy. And your damn logo! In the box, you'll find the handset, a SIM ejector pin, a typical HTC charging block and a microUSB cable, as well as a plethora of documentation. As an added bonus, the Droid DNA comes GSM unlocked out of the factory, ready for use on major worldwide carriers that don't use AWS (1700MHz - sorry T-Mobile guys). The box itself is the usual grey Verizon affair, with the big red eye and whatnot. Being a minimalist, I admire the hardware design of the DNA. The entire handset save for the glass front is finished in HTCs signature soft-touch paint. The top side is quite busy, hosting the 3.5mm headphone jack, the power button, active noise cancellation mic and microSIM tray. Three of them are tastefully subdued, while the power button is right smack-bang in the middle and lacks a little tactility. I'm never sure if I've got it or not until the screen comes on. A little frustrating. The left side is bare, the right side houses the volume rocker, which has a retro 'volume knob' finish. At the bottom, we have the microUSB connector. Somewhat of a rarity to see it hidden behind a little flap, but very welcome. This also doubles as an MHL port, allowing you to HDMI-out to your TV or monitor. The rear of the device follows the One X closely in design. Camera top-center in a slightly raised lens (although nowhere near as pronounced as the One X), LED flanking to the right and laser-drilled loudspeaker grille bottom center. Simple and stylish. A nice case, like the NillKin pictured, can relieve the stress of the hardware branding. The front of the device is a single glass slab with the customary three HTC capacitive buttons at the bottom (back, home, recent apps), a video call camera top-left and an earpiece top-center. The earpiece is long and narrow, and also hides the proximity and ambient light sensors, and a relatively weak (but still present!) notification LED. The 5-inch panel is an absolute beauty to behold. If you liked the One X panel and thought it was sharp, you're going to die when you see this one. I'm particularly susceptible to seeing pixel patterns, and this one's got me completely because I just can't see them. The picture is so crisp, so tight - it's literally indescribable. I tried to grab a couple of shots on the dSLR to illustrate. It's hard to see anything particularly special from here, but the camera just doesn't do it justice. Here's a *full-size screen cap*<http://i.imgur.com/ETbX5.png>of the homescreen, unadulterated. Yep, it's really that good. Here's one of the App Drawer that gives you a slightly better look at what the resolution does. See any aliasing on those icons? It is, quite simply, the perfect picture. Right, onto the software. Guys, it's Sense. Not much else to say really, the refreshed Sense 4 lives on here (albeit with a 'plus' moniker) so if you've used a One-series handset - you've used the DNA. Typical array of lockscreens to choose from, same plethora of widgets to fill your homescreen, same pretty weather animations etc. It's honestly nothing too different. You now get the ability to hide apps from the App Drawer. I enjoy that ICS introduced per-app disabling, but I love that I can now just hide them instead, or both if one's being pesky (in short, no TiBu needed for my device to look 'clean'). This also comes in really handy for some of the monstrous amount of bloatware that Verizon loads onto this thing. Seriously, it has its own tab in the App Drawer, and the bloody thing is full. Well, on a stock one it does! There are other very minor revisions to Sense 4+, but the 'drawcard' one is of course Project Butter. I highlight 'drawcard' because at some points during use, it is evident that perhaps pushing 1080p is too much for the little APQ8064. Now this is a smooth handset, and you have to look hard to find it, but some lag is there. It's not enough to annoy, and most importantly - it's not consistent. It doesn't lag in the same place everytime. Liveable? Absolutely. This is the first of its kind. It will come into its element with the next SoC refresh but for now, performance is perfectly fine. Homescreens flip quickly, widgets have all the bling that comes with Sense, everything animates properly. I just can't help thinking that this thing would smoke without Sense on top. Removing a lot of the bloat and unnecessary services certainly helps, but you will notice it if you pick one up stock. So, audio quality. The earpiece is impressive, and I think this phone's noise-cancellation is just about bang-on. Callers are loud, clear and toned, while I got several remarks about the clarity of my line while calling others (especially Mum, she's good at picking up line noise!). The loudspeaker is a little underwhelming, but it makes up for lack of volume in audio quality, which is very good for a mono piece. Headset quality is good, with Beats helping along a little. Nothing like a Meizu MX or an iPod, but it does a more than serviceable job. Verizon phones seem to make good use of wideband AMR (WB-AMR or 'HD voice') on networks that support it, and Telstra has had this in place for a while now. Talking to my Mum on her DVP (no support), and my Fiancee on her i9100 (supported), the difference is a world apart. Probably not too high on the 'to-do' list for carriers I guess, considering how often we actually use these things to call nowadays. The camera though, is a winner. Given enough light, the sensor can produce * truly* <http://i.imgur.com/MayxV.jpg> *amazing*<http://i.imgur.com/fKe1Q.jpg>shots *inside* <http://i.imgur.com/hkEBC.jpg> and *out*<http://i.imgur.com/vDX9Y.jpg>. There's a slight bit of chromatic aberration around the edges, but otherwise they're impressive shots for a phone. Even in lower-light conditions and relying on the flash, photos are more than passable. GSMArena surprised me with their review and praise of the battery, but after using the device I have to say I agree. I'm having little issue having 40% left at the end of a day, with perhaps 30 minutes of calls, an hour of Tapatalk, 20 or so texts and pushing GMail and Facebook, all over HSPA. That's damn impressive, the One X got nowhere near that for me. I haven't even had to use the external battery yet, which is a bit disappointing seeing as I got a matching red one and all. Sigh. Even though it looks weak on paper, the cell itself seems very good. As an added bonus, the Droid DNA packs an inductive coil in the rear for Qi wireless charging. I can happily use my LG WCP-700 charger to charge overnight, without even taking the case off. Better still, I can now throw the phone across the room in the morning when the alarm goes off, without even worrying about ripping the charger cord from the socket! So that's the DNA in a nutshell. A slim, powerful device with an absolutely drool-worthy display and a better-than-anticipated battery, let down slightly by the presence of so much branding and so much bloat. Typical for Verizon, but they really need to cut down on crippling their devices so hard out of the factory. Remember, this device is the first of its kind. It is a terrific platform to introduce the beauty of mobile 1080p to the masses, and with an SoC refresh, devices built around these panels will keep pixelheads like me happy for a long, long time. Just make sure I can plug a memory card into the next one, hmm? -- ========== Download Aplikasi Kompas versi Digital dan Keren https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kompas.android.kec -------------------------- Download Aplikasi AR "MONSTAR" dari Indosat https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ar.monstarunity --------------------- Galaxy Note 2 Best Deal Rp. 6,499rb hanya di Multiply.com! Garansi resmi. 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