I am a Sprint Product Ambassador, and I thought I'd share my take on my current device, the HTC One E8...
The HTC One E8 device has been called mid-tier, but my findings show that this is only in price. After using this device for the past few weeks, I can happily report that tech-wise it stacks up there with high-end devices. The HTC One E8 is the kid brother to HTC’s current flagship device, the HTC One M8. However, don’t let the “kid brother” title fool you. This is one SOLID device that is worthy amongst the tech elite.
Let’s measure the specs side by side for the HTC One M8 versus the E8…
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As you can see, they match up almost identically spec-wise. Therefore, I cannot righteously call this device “mid-tier” based upon its specs and my personal experience with it.
Between the HTC One E8 and M8 devices, the few differing areas are...
Storage: The HTC One E8 has 16gb of on board storage, versus 32gb for the M8. However, HTC has an agreement with Google Drive that provides 100gb of cloud storage, and the E8 supports a microSD card (not included). With cloud storage and the microSD card, the 16gb of on board storage should not be a hindrance.
Camera: Both the E8 and M8 have 5mp front-facing cameras. Regarding the rear camera, the HTC One E8 has a 13MP rear camera. On the HTC One M8 there are two rear cameras – 4MP and 2.1MP which both use UltraPixel technology. With the 13MP rear-facing camera, the HTC One E8 captures gorgeous, high-definition images.
Housing: The Sprint HTC One E8 has a back plastic housing that comes in Polar White and Misty Gray, versus the aluminum housing on the M8. Even though the back housing is plastic, it looks great and has a nice, solid feel in your hands.
The above few changes enabled HTC to bring the SRP cost down by $200 from the M8 to the E8, making the HTC One E8 an affordable, solid, and worthy contender in the smart device arena.
After using this device for the past few weeks, I must say that really like it a lot. Why? Well, in short.. it is extremely responsive with its 2.3 GHz Quad-Core Processor and 2GB of RAM, has a 2600 mAh battery providing up to 30 hours of talk time, has a beautiful 5 inch display, takes hi-res images with the 13MP camera, and has Kit Kat with Sense 6 UI which is a joy to use.
My personal lesson learned: A less expensive device does not always mean less worthy and shouldn't be prejudged.
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Pantech Magnus
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Known mostly for budget-friendly phones with not very hot tech specs in the U.S., Pantech might be looking to upgrade its playing league. We haven’t yet heard anything clear about the recently teased Flex, but the Vega S5, Star Q 4G LTE and Marauder looked like much more than the modest gadgets we’ve been used to see from Pantech.
Now a new Pantech-made phone has been leaked, and, although it’s not exactly a contender for the Galaxy S3 or HTC One X, it might come with high-end-ish specs. The Magnus (which is Latin for “great”) seems to be on its way to AT&T and might enjoy a release by the end of September.
First spotted getting FCC approval at the beginning of August under the P9090 codename, the Magnus now stars in a leaked pic that can only mean one thing. Someone is trying to build hype around the handheld, so a launch is imminent.
The photo doesn’t reveal much about the “Great”, aside from the featuring of an 8MP rear-facing camera with flash and the inclusion of a front-facing webcam (most likely a 1.3MP one). Still, we can easily tell that the phone will be running ICS out of the box or maybe even Jelly Bean, having some juicy on-screen navigation buttons.
A few other tech specs have been rumored before, including the featuring of a dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon S4 processor, an Adreno 225 GPU, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of on-board memory and a 720p HD display. The screen will probably measure around 4.3 inches in diagonal, although it could go up to 4.5.
As for the design, this is actually quite intriguing. The front is not very original or unusual, looking kind of bland even, but the back is a whole different story. There are not only sexy curves there, but also quirky bumps, which makes this look a bit like HTC’s Incredibles. This is clearly one love or hate design point, and, while some will find it innovative, cool and special, others will most likely call it ugly or tacky. I for one kind of like it, because, even if it’s not the absolute most elegant phone ever, it’s not ordinary either.
We of course know nothing about the Magnus’ price or exact release date, but as soon as we’ll find out something we’ll let you know. For now, tell us if you’re at least intrigued about the phone’s design and rumored spec sheet.
Source: http://www.androidauthority.com/pantech-magnus-leaks-hit-att-s4-cpu-lte-720p-display-111614/
So what do you think? Will it be big? Personally i have the pantech burst and it's a very good phone but we have so few developers. So will this be on top? or a flop?
I think this is a great phone in todays market even including LTE capability, if price would be around usd. 250,-
Can this phone be purchased WITHOUT an ATT-plan ?
I would like to use it in Europe (Netherlands), so where to buy ?
Anyone...
interesting, I've never paid attention to them before but more variety and competition is a good thing.
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witch origine it is ?
If it is priced right (around 199) i think it would do well. If it is priced more than 200 i would just save up for the GS3 or OneX
Will it be released in indonesia ?
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it has AT&T branding.. seems like only America will get it? and its probably available so cheap because of subsidies.
Wonder how it compares with the pantech maurader, battery life on it was terrible. had some nice features for older people.
another korean phone...
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another korean phone...
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i have this phone and i love it battery life on this phone is very good about a day and a half with heavy usage the tech in it is amazing runs ICS hopefully a jb update coming out but it is more sturdy then any other pantech ive seen we need our own forum here for pantech
This is the first good Pantech phone I've seen in a while.
I open this thread to know if it's for you the M7 will be the new flagship of HTC.
Everybody knows that the big date of the mobile telephony is the Motive World Congress in Barcelona on February.
But HTC announced M7 in Las Vegas ... and new Sense 5.0 also....
...the HTC M7 is currently running on Android 4.1.2 (which may be updated before launch) and a new version of HTC Sense (most likely HTC Sense 5.0) with an updated “simple and clean” UI.
... our source has debunked the recent rumor that the HTC M7 will feature on-screen buttons.
Specs on the HTC M7 are said to include a quad-core processor (rumored to be a Qualcomm APQ8064), a 4.7-inch 1080 x 1920 display (that’s 468 ppi for those keeping count), 32GB of internal storage (no expandable storage slot was visible on the phone) and is currently being tested on Sprint’s LTE network.
from HTC SOURCE
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4.7-inch 1080p display
1.7GHz Quad-Core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor
2GB of RAM
16-64GB of Internal storage
13MP rear-facing camera; 2MP front-facing camera?
2300mAh battery
Android 4.1
About HTC Sense 5 go to Android Headlines - HTC Sense 5 Keyboard and Dialer Leak; Does HTC Have Something to Announce at CES?
Give us your impressions and what do you think about this new device ?
The big question.is : will it be dev friendly? Will they ease the port of aosp roms?
If yes then yes.
I personally don't see the advantage of this over any other 1080p phone which was actually announced at CES. It has a relatively small battery, weird button placement, no SD slot, Sense and generally looks a lot uglier than an Xperia ZL (at least in my opinion). The bezel is far too large and the camera seems to be placed a bit lower down than on most phones. I liked this general design for Windows Phone but I don't think it really works properly on Android devices.
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I personally don't see the advantage of this over any other 1080p phone which was actually announced at CES. It has a relatively small battery, weird button placement, no SD slot, Sense and generally looks a lot uglier than an Xperia ZL (at least in my opinion). The bezel is far too large and the camera seems to be placed a bit lower down than on most phones. I liked this general design for Windows Phone but I don't think it really works properly on Android devices.
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It should have the krait 600, more storage and android 4.2 out of the box, but I think that this wont be the flagship but just an high end device like the one s and the flagship will be a tegra4
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The main reason I've never bought an HTC phone is that they never make it clear which product is the flagship. I thought the One X was going to be the flagship until the One X+ came out half a year later.
And now the Droid DNA comes out, only have a slight improvement only a few months later?!
And why names like DNA and M7? That just confuses customers. Something like Two X or One X2 would make much more sense as names for the next flagship. This is part of the reason why Apple and Samsung are so successful, they create a single product that goes through iterations of improvements (iPhone # and Galaxy S#). It keeps customers following the series.
when can HTC Corp learn from its past product mistakes?
They can just release a 5 inches SLCD 3 and imitate the cool design of HTC J butterfly with 13 MP camera and a SD card slot and an increase of battery power like the htc one x+
I can not understand why HTC really has poor strategy in catching the consumer's hype for a cool tech design and need for extra storage and battery life boost.
What I think is that they need to lower their sights. Samsung and Apple are getting all the glory so if they lower the amount of flagships in a year to one and lower the price to round about £300 so they undercut their rivals and get more customers. They won't do this but it nice to dream
The HTC M7 is anyway going to be an interesting device. But there are two points which are important for me (that doesn't means that they are important for everybody):
1. A huge battery capacity (3000 mAH +)
2. Dev - friendly device (unlocked bootloader, ...)
One thing I like about Android is the huge community. I like to test new stuff (ROMs, MODs etc). and it would be really annoying if you would have to stuck with the Sense UI. It's not that I don't like Sense at all (my first Android device was the T - Mobile G2 aka HTC Hero), but as I said, I like to test new stuff and Android lives by its huge community as well.
I could imagine that it comes with Tegra 4 instead of Snapdragon S4. Hopefully they already launch it with Android 4.2 and not with 4.1. If not, it would be nice if they provide 4.2 quickly after the release. But first of all I'll wait for the HTC M7 to be introduced and than I can rather say if I'm going to buy it.
And I hope that the design will be similar to the one of HTC Butterfly or HTC One X
Although there hasn't been any official announcement of the HTC One Mini, we all know that it is coming, and we know a fair bit about the device. Although, there really isn't a whole lot to know. The device is going to be an HTC One... mini. Still, we've got some leaked pics of the AT&T version of the device, and surprise surprise, it looks like a smaller HTC One.
Luckily, whoever has their hands on the device knew enough to take pics of info screens, so we know that the device has a dual-core QualcommCPU with an Adreno 305 GPU (aka a Snapdragon 400), 1GB of RAM (although previous pics have said 2GB), 16GB of internal storage (with about 11GB free), Android 4.2 with Sense 5, and LTE. We've learned before that the HTC One Mini will have a 4.3" 720p display, although that's not listed in the images here.
We already knew that the HTC One Mini is coming to AT&T, and that's the branding on these pics.
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It looks like a knock-off One
Storage size is really pushing it. But that is a fun looking mid-ranger. Give it a solid kernel with s2w and l2m, I wouldn't mind it as a backup phone.
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surprise surprise, it looks like a smaller HTC One.
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Kind of like the BMW 1-series looks like a smaller 5-series. The One's a beautifully crafted phone made with high-end materials. The Mini's a "phone." I can see the design of the One swaying people toward HTC, not so much with the Mini. Its design isn't special but it’s unique because of the dual frontal speakers and UltraPixels. We'll see how it does. The SGS3 Mini has been out for eight months and you hardly ever hear it mentioned anywhere. Its general forum has 143 threads; this one after just four months has 1,091. At least on XDA, mini phones with mini specs don't create a lot of buzz.
233 MB available ram??? WTF, is this really true for every one mini?
I don't biting!!! Waiting info related to the ram, thanks!
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I don't biting!!! Waiting info related to the ram, thanks!
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Only about 200mb ram free but it's quite smooth although i have full 9 tabs
Now i got the other smartphone from my Chinese partner, it's Catee CT550, This smartphone is not the high-end one for me. But i still would like to have a good test of it. In order to let you know more real feelings about this smartphone and let you purchase right, i will introduce this smartphone from the following parts.
Pros:
5.5 Inch 960* 540 Pixel QHD IPS Screen
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In this large-screen smartphone times, many smartphone manufacturers have created more phones with giant screen to attract more attention from the users, and this one is also in large screen. It sports by 5.5inch QHD IPS screen with 960* 540 Pixel screen resolution, although it's not HD or FHD smartphone, it's proper for me to watch videos in nice screen quality. So this is the one feature i should compliment.
MTK6572 Dual Core 1.3Ghz
Dual core smartphone didn't prevail now, but for those who such as elderly people are not used to quad core or octa core smartphone, this one is enough for them to use. So this smartphone has the clear customers' position. And i have tested the speed, it's not so bad, playing games or searching the Internet is good, but if you don't need your smartphone to play large 3D games, this one is so far , so good.
5.0MP Rear Camera
I am the one who like to take pictures by smartphone, not the digital camera, although digital camera has better picture quality and larger storage. But i am really satisfactory to use my phone to take photos, this one has 5mp back camera, which i think it can meet my needs to take pictures.
Support 3G Network, multilanguage, GPS and other practical application
As a good smartphone, the hardware is very important, but also the well-performed apps, now this one can support dual sim card, dual standby, and i can use freely about 3G network. Meanwhile, GPS is also my nice partner to guide the road for me. and i can also set up the mother tongue by this smartphone which can support multi-language.
2200mAh Battery
I use it for watching videos for about 3 hours, the battery has used 40%, i think it makes me feel good. I don't have to charge my phone every 4 hours, because i bought a samsung smartphone, the battery makes me really sad.
Very competitve price
You may be interested in the price, and i tell you it only costs $82.99 from China for free shipping. It has a very sound price for me. So other features seem not to be important now!
Cons:
RAM 512MB and ROM 4GB
This one only has RAM 512MB and ROM 4GB, if it were larger, i would like it more. I really recommend it can update to a larger storage.
0.3MP Front Camera
This one supports 0.3MP front camera, i think it should be improved, if i take pictures myself, it's not so clear.
In all, this one is a dual core smartphone which is full of competition in price and looks. I feel good. How about you?
One of my friends asked me how about Honor View20, what is the 48MP+25MP, Is it worth buying? What's your opinion?
Ofcourse if he can afford it. Its real 48 MP and front cam is amazing too
There's a video review from Ben's Gadget Review, and the photos look really impressive, especially low-light photos when using "pixel binning".
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I found a video about the World's first 48MP Camera of Honor View20, the link is as below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYfeqF-DK4
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I found a video about the World's first 48MP Camera of Honor View20, the link is as below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYfeqF-DK4
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Used this phone during Honor 10 lite launch on 15th. Camera is amazing
Been using the phone for 2 days now, given the price, it is absolutely mind blowing. It is easily at the same level of phones several hundred pounds more expensive.
The camera quality is amazing, and the AI focus/item recognition is great. The only thing I don't like about this phone is the lack of a baked in dark mode, but there are plenty of themes that fix that problem with a few taps.
The processor the phone comes with is currently the fastest on the market until snapdragon release a new chip I believe, and it really shows. I haven't hard closed a single app since turning the phone on for the first time (just keep them in the background) and it's not impacted it at all.
Magic UI can take some getting used to, but the non-Chinese versions of the phone allow launcher changes with no hassle if you want to use something else.
The phone doesn't have built in contactless charging, but at the asking price, there has so be some sort of downside (if contactless charging is an advantage, it never works well for me)
So far there's absolutely nothing bad I can say about this phone other than I wish it supported standardised expandable memory, but I got the 256GB model, so it's not a big issue for me. There are rumours that the phone might support Huawei's proprietary SD card, but no confirmation.
It's got a beautiful design (I'm sticking with the clear case that comes in the box), it's amazingly fast, it has one of the best camera sensors available on the smartphone market and the battery life is fantastic (4,000 mA). If you aren't a brand loyalist and are looking for a phone upgrade, there's no reason to not buy this phone unless it's out of your price range (buy on contract!!)
It's balanced smartphone, it check lists every users needs & fulfilled the demands without spending too much money! It's a win-win for Manufacturers as well as for the Consumers. Honor View20 is one step ahead in Camera, Performance, Design.