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by Michael Fisher | May 9, 2013 8:01 AMRead OnAbout this time last year, we shot a video called How To Take Great Photos with the Samsung Galaxy S III. It's very much an artifact of yesteryear, with a fifty-second intro, hazy interlacing, and one the worst haircuts in my personal history, but people seemed to enjoy it. So much so that when the Galaxy S III's successor dropped just a few weeks back, we followed up our full review with a similar tutorial on its 13-MP camera titled Galaxy S 4 Camera: Everything You Need To Know. The comments on the latter video convinced us that, even though we're now quite a few weeks past its review ...
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by Michael Fisher | March 14, 2013 6:00 AMRead OnThe HTC Droid DNA bears a confused and somewhat tragic legacy. Born of Verizon's desire for an "ultimate Droid," the device represented far more than a retooled HTC Butterfly when it was announced at a New York City event last November. Back then, the Droid DNA was the first -and the only- 1080p smartphone to hit the United States, and the first device to adopt a five-inch display while rejecting the burdensome "phablet" moniker. The Droid DNA could have been a superstar, but -as we discussed at length in our After The Buzz episode covering the device- carrier exclusivity and other factors ...
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by Michael Fisher | March 13, 2013 5:15 PMRead OnThe HTC One, as we mentioned in yesterday's unboxing and hardware tour, is a crucial device for the Taiwanese smartphone maker. The company's brand has suffered a steady decline since its heyday of the last decade, and HTC is -for the second year in a row- banking on a device titled the "One" to save it from the increasing pressure of the competition. The One of 2013 is similar to last year's One X in several respects, not least of which is the focus HTC has chosen to put on its camera. Last year, the company's marketing materials drilled home the message that the One X included an ...
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by Michael Fisher | March 13, 2013 3:13 PM
Read OnUpdate: In response to commenter suggestions, we've added some more daylight photos to broaden thescope of this comparison. You can find a side-by-side example above, and the raw shots in two new, smaller galleries at the bottom. Thanks for your feedback! ___ The HTC One, as we mentioned in yesterday's unboxing and hardware tour, is a crucial device for the Taiwanese smartphone maker. Its brand has suffered a steady decline since its heyday of the last decade, and HTC is -for the second year in a row- banking on a device called the "One" to save it from the crippling pressure of the ...
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by Taylor Martin | March 1, 2013 3:25 PMRead OnI can't begin to count the number of times I have taken a picture with my smartphone and thought, "Man that looks great!" Only a handful of times, however, has the quality of a photo taken with a phone's camera served as passable when viewed at full size. To date, I can recall no more than a dozen pictures that are really worth keeping, based on quality (not sentimental value). By that, I mean only an extremely small percentage of the pictures I take with my smartphones end up as wallpapers on my laptop or get more use than sharing once and discarding. But that doesn't mean I won't keep ...
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by Taylor Martin | February 14, 2013 7:00 AMRead OnCamera quality is just one of the many metrics we use to gauge the overall capacity of a smartphone. Alongside performance, battery life, display quality, storage capacity, memory and a host of connectivity and sensors, the camera is one of the more important qualities of a smartphone. Specifications and performance are quickly approaching a threshold where reasonable and modest have been replaced with exceptional and excessive … in a good way. Only two areas are in dire need of improvement: battery life and image sensing. Battery life has met its fair share of hurdles over the years. ...
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