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On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Yansen <[email protected]> wrote: > review dari salah satu pengguna droid DNA di forum CTO, bikin makin ga > sabar nunggu droid DNA datang... > > 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. 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