One S – Middle Child in ONE Family

The HTC One S (codenamed Ville) is a smartphone designed and manufactured by HTC as part of the HTC One series which runs the Android mobile operating system with HTC Sense. It was Officially announced by HTC on 26 February 2012.

The One S is HTC’s thinnest phone to date, at 0.31 inches (7.87 mm) at its thinnest point. The phone uses an aluminum unibody shell, with two finishes available – a black micro arc oxidized finish, and a light-blue to dark-blue gradient anodized finish (currently the only finish available through T-Mobile USA). HTC states that the micro arc oxidized finish makes the body five times stronger than the bare aluminum, although some users claim that the finish chips easily.The phone has a power/lock button and a 3.5 mm headphone jack at the top, a volume rocker on the upper right side, and a MHL/Micro USB port on the upper left. Three capacitive buttons (back, home, and task switcher) are located on the front of the phone, below the display. There are two speakers, one on the front (serving as the earpiece) and one on the back. A two-color (amber and green) notification LED sits under the earpiece grille.

Key features

• Stunningly thin at 7.8mm, ceramic or anodized aluminum finish
• Quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G support
• 4.3″ 16M-color capacitive Super AMOLED touchscreen of qHD resolution (540 x 960 pixels); Gorilla glass
• Android OS v4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with HTC Sense 4.0
• 1.5 GHz dual core Krait CPU, Adreno 225 GPU, Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260A chipset
• 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of storage
• Beats audio enhancement
• 8 MP autofocus camera with LED flash; face detection, geotagging and continuous shooting
• 1080p video recording @ 30fps; Snapping photos while recording video
• Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA
• GPS with A-GPS
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• Accelerometer, gyroscope, proximity and ambient light sensors
• Front facing camera with video calls
• Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v4.0
• MHL TV-out (requires a MHL-to-HDMI adapter)
• Smart dialing, voice dialing
• DivX/XviD video support
• HTC Locations app
• HTCSense.com integration
• HTC Portable Hotspot
• Splendid audio quality
• Office document editor
• 1650mAh battery
• 25GB of free Dropbox storage for the first two years

For now unfortunately, HTC is shipping the Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 Scorpion-equipped HTC One S to India, with a less power-efficient 1.7GHz dual-core processor, instead of the current-gen dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Krait processor. This is due to the shortage of Snapdragon S4 Krait processors, for which Qualcomm is facing high demand. The situation will reportedly resolve itself soon however.

Source : GSMArena, Thinkdigit.

Galaxy Nexus

The Galaxy Nexus is a touchscreen slate Android smartphone developed by a partnership between Samsung and Google.The phone and operating system were developed collaboratively by engineers from both companies. It is the third generation successor to Google’s previous flagship phones, the Nexus One and Nexus S. It has a curved HD (1280×720 pixels) Super AMOLED display, an improved camera system, and Google’s new version of its Android operating system, version 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. The name is the result of co-branding between the Samsung Galaxy and Google Nexus brands of Android smartphones.

The Galaxy Nexus was unveiled at Google and Samsung’s Ice Cream Sandwich event on 19 October 2011 in Hong Kong. It was released in Europe on November 17, 2011, and made its debut in the United States on December 15, 2011. Expected to be released by the end of January 2012 in India.

Features:

• General: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100, LTE (region specific)
• Form factor: Touchscreen bar phone
• Dimensions: 135.5 x 67.9 x 8.9 mm
• Weight: 135 g
• Display: 4.65″ 16M-color HD (1280 x 720 pixels) Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 0.01ms response time; oleophobic surface, curved display, multi-touch input
• Chipset:Dual-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A9 CPU, TI OMAP 4460 chipset
• RAM: 1GB
• OS: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
• Memory: 16/32GB storage
• Camera: 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with face detection, touch focus and geotagging; Full HD (1080p) video recording at 30fps, LED flash, front facing camera, video-calls, touch-to-zoom while recording
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth 3.0, standard microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS, 3.5mm audio jack, NFC
• Misc: Hyper Skin material for increased grip, built-in accelerometer, proximity sensor, barometer sensor, notification LED area.

HTC Edge: First Quad-Core Phone Revealed

Meet the HTC Edge: reportedly the company’s first — and probably one of the world’s first — cellphone powered by a quad-core processor. Information from a reliable source paints Edge as a premium handset incorporating the latest mobile technologies — for the most part.

The 4.7-inch Edge will allegedly be slightly over ten millimeters thick, and appears to be very much the successor to the just-unveiled Rezound/Vigor, as it should feature the same 720p resolution, 1GB of RAM, and backlit eight-megapixel camera with 28-millimeter, f/2.2 lens. The major improvement, then, would be Edge’s supposed AP30 Tegra 3 CPU from Nvidia, which offers four 1.5GHz cores to Rezound’s two. Internal storage will likely be bumped to 32GB, while the Bluetooth radio should hit version 4.0. Naturally, Beats Audio enhancements would be part of the package.

Edge may also see the rollout of new or improved HTC content services, such as the previously tipped HTC Listen music store, HTC Read bookstore, and HTC Play gaming hub; the HTC Watch movie portal will reportedly begin to offer HD fare. Additionally, Edge could be one of the first Sense 4.0 devices.

One thing that wasn’t mentioned was LTE capability, with Edge only said to support 21Mbps HSDPA; it’s possible that carrier-specific variants will still offer this highly-desired functionality. Also absent was mention of a specific version of Android, although if it doesn’t ship with Ice Cream Sandwich (fairly unlikely), an upgrade would surely be deployed in short order.

We’re expecting Edge to arrive in late Q1/early Q2 of next year.

By Evan Blass From PocketNow.

Google Nexus 4G detailed

Some details on Google’s upcoming smartphone were released by Boy Genius Report. With the working title Google Nexus 4G, the phone looks like a monster, and will have among its trappings the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, a 720p screen, 1080p video capture, and a 4G LTE radio.

Google’s last two phones, the Nexus One and the Nexus S, were not wanting for top-of-the-line hardware, but they failed to win the hearts of carriers. By many of its specs, the Nexus 4G sounds as if it’s set to burn even the latest crop of phones by a big margin.

The Nexus 4G will have either a 1.2 or 1.5GHz dual-core processor that BGR speculates will be a Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 or a low-power Krait-based Snapdragon model. The phone may also have 1GB of RAM and a 720p “monster-sized” screen—we’re not sure if that means the phone will transcend the 4-inch diagonal size barrier.

Cameras will also be a big emphasis for the Nexus 4G, as the 5-megapixel rear camera will have a superior sensor for better image quality and low-light shots, and will also record video in 1080p. A less-impressive one-megapixel camera will be on the front.

One of the most interesting changes is the handset’s apparent lack of the four standard physical Android buttons, previously required by the OS on all phone models. The button’s functionalities will be moved to software-based interactions.

BGR speculates that the Nexus 4G will debut on AT&T and will be the flagship device for this major Android revision, as the Motorola Droid was for Android 2.0 and the Motorola Xoom was for 3.0. While the phone sounds beastly by today’s standards, Google isn’t planning on releasing it until Thanksgiving. The Nexus 4G is one of the first phones announced for that timeframe, so the competition still has some time to catch up.