[Off-topic] a.cid:
Re: [Gli Sviluppatori di banane Family] Silence! I keel you

Yup, they covered Delhi and Kolkata already, today was Mumbai.

Well, so I was invited to the unveiling of the new HTC One. Opinion is as honest as it could be.

HTC has nailed it with the design. Although the design kinda looks odd on the internet, it is absolutely marvelous in hand. It’s an entire unibody construction, and the phone has absolutely no minute “gaps” in it. Even the place where the camera lens meets the body is perfectly tight, enough to appear sealed. My G-Fit felt flimsy in front of it, so did the Galaxy Note 2. The speaker area/holes looked pretty big, but it isn’t that noticeable as it has been highlighted (though there’s a chance that dust may go in). The aluminium finish is surprisingly light to hold, and the phone is slimmer than the Note 2. HTC did kinda go through the whole Apple approach of "increasing height but not width" and it does seem to work in their favor.

The screen is absolutely gorgeous. Drop.Dead.Gorgeous.

The viewing angles are awesome, and the quality doesn't take noticable hits at normal angles (couldnt check/notice extremes).

Speakers - the speakers are huge and loud and surprisingly, clear.

The room was silent, but you could still feel those dedicated audio parts and the stereo speakers working. Couldn't check out earphone quality with stock HTC/otherwise.

Camera - This is the best piece, the highlight of the entire phone.

The low light photography beat Note 2, hands down. Interesting feature here, every photo capture takes a video starting from one second BEFORE the shutter button press and ends 4 secs later. So every photo is a video, which is then used for some rather fantastic/innovative uses; like face-frame swapping, face contour editing, skin color change, unneeded object removal. This is all incorporated by what HTC is calling "Zoey", which is a Gallery replacement app, atleast it appeared to be.

Its got some nifty features inside.

Another "feature" is in the form of a Flipboard-meets-Windows-phone8 style News and Updates widget (the name is different, I forgot)

Basically, it does what Flipboard does, but customizing and mashing up news and things from your social networks and interests.

They kinda advertised it as a "big thing", but honestly, its just a widget. I don't see the big deal here.

Sense 5 is much more focused on the user experience, and for a normal Android user, it'll hit the home run. But looking from a XDA flasher point of view, its not a big deal as this will obviously trickle down to older devices like the One X and X+.

Battery - I managed to get a sneak peek at the battery usage.

The phone has a 2300 mAh battery, and (un)surprisingly, Sense 5 had a usage of 35% of total drain :eek:. Couldn't check the time since last charge/screen on time, but the phone was switched on since 1 and half day.

All in all, if you plan to buy this for your electronically-challenged wife/husband/parent/kid, then it makes for a really good device.

For me, I'm sold on the design and the hardware (its really compact, to the extent it can't squeak even if it wanted). The software, meh. I like AOSP (I know, kinda biased)

I have a few pics with me, the rest were with my friend and my net is acting twitchy (I'll ask quasi if he can help).

Uploading the few in a while.

Comments?

Fingers crossed for you.