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what's up everybody jon rettinger from technobuffalo here and welcome to part two of the android smartphone smackdown in round one week covered screen call quality and speaker battery text entry browser speed and operating system in this round we are going to cover the camera qualities both still in video the designs of the phone themselves multimedia and miscellaneous specs so sit back relax and let's see who's the king of Android alright let's go ahead and jump into camera both of these sort of sport very high-tech cameras both have 8 megapixel sensors with dual LED flashes so you can see there's a megapixel sensor on the EVO and there it is on the droid x you can see the LED flashes on each go ahead and jump out of that so one thing that i should mention too is going to color come into play is the evo has a front facing 1.3 megapixel camera so i'm gonna go ahead and put up some sample video of pictures of beating you guys can beat a judge what you think looks a better picture and video quality you All Right see the both thing recorded exactly the same time pretty normal light conditions you can see sort of what you look like you All Right see the both being recorded exactly the same time pre normal light conditions you can see sort of what each look like okay so picture and video quality using the 8 megapixel sensor is pretty darn close they both look very very similar one of the big differences here and I mentioned just a few minutes ago is addition to the front facing camera on the EVO 4G it is a 1.3 megapixel camera so it's a pretty capable camera but taking the whole ability to video chat out of it the fact you can sort of take your self portraits of a bit more accuracy or take a video with a bit more accuracy and sort of seeing yourself or see what you want to show definitely gives the edge to the evo certainly considering that camera to video quality it looks to be very close but that's not the only determining factor here let's talk about the camera interfaces since motorola and HTC sort of put their own take on how you interact with the camera then go and show you what that looks like so we'll jump into camera here it's the same thing for a video as well so you get a sort of a few options i'll go ahead and put say my keys in here so we have sort of a subject to focus on and if i look at then you can sort of see what the choices are going to be can turn the flash on or off it certainly zoom in if you'd like you can jump into photo or video are you get some complex options here so you have you've got brightness you've got your contrast saturation or sharpness you can pick some effects if you like and you can see ur jump at the settings widescreen you can pick the resolution even some ISO settings there as well oh it's just pretty huh pretty advanced for a camera phone so we'll go ahead and jump out of this let's take a look at how Motorola's implemented their camera so i'll go ahead and do the same thing jump into camera and see what we have here it's a very sort of different take on the same thing so they've got something called scenes i wanted to sort of pick how you want to look at things so auto portrait landscape we'll go ahead and jump back and see what sort of differences for each get some effects as well so normal black and white turn the flash on or off or switch to both have really good at focusing mechanisms in the picture quality like we saw is very close the joint excerpt gives you more general options i'd say for novices whereas if you're a sort of a serious photographer and you left your DSLR oh and you have to use your camera or use your phone are you going to get a bit more options ISO settings contrast ratio of you know white levels and balances so if therefore you have the options to do i think the evo has got to take the camera round because the interface and the front-facing camera so we'll go ahead and jump on to the next category which is going to be design how are things going to look when you woke them out of your pocket so let's go ahead and talk about size of these 4.3 inch devices are very very big and if you look at these next to each other almost makes the evo 4g look small and how can that be when they both have the same screen size well look at them next to each other I sort of line up the bottoms and you can see that there is a difference here with the droid x definitely is a bit larger and if I hold them next to each other in side-by-side you can really see that difference you can see that there is also that hump from a thinnest standpoint they're both very close but that hump whether love it or hate it is definitely an aesthetic difference and is going to make the droid x be actually bigger in it for a 4.3 inch phone that's already going to be quite incredible Jin your pocket you could have even a larger one with the droid x so there are some other differences as well you've got capacitive buttons across the bottom do your controls we actually a physical buttons here on the droid x now generally I have not been a big fan of the passive bug Fred sins on the nexus one they weren't very responsive now should have found that on most devices they're not very responsive however on the EVO 4G they work great I haven't had any issues with them whatsoever turn the physical buttons work just as well both tabs are dedicated some camera functionality the evo 4g also sports a kick sand in case you want to watch the multimedia i'll just quite nice on the screen that big you're not going to sort of get that same thing with the droid x now that hump maybe to sort of make it look a little bit flat on a surface and less sort of moving around as we see another device it does sit very well and the camera sort of jutting out you gets her that classic droid look on the back without the initial droid the back is not metals from a soft touch plastic but from a design standpoint which one looks better certainly I think that has to go to the evo 4g the phones both phones look great but if i'm going to use something that's got a 4.3 inch we don't want it to be as small as possible from a small miss standpoint the evo 4g is definitely going to take that all right so let's talk about multimedia here both support hdmi out for connection to TV or your computers which is really nice kids you want to watch a movie or something or a video clip that you made you can go ahead and watch it right on your TV however the droid x supports DLNA which is a digital living network of lion allows you to watch media on other DN la devices such as TVs or laptops so it's really a nice plus it also has blockbuster built in they've actually download movie is right from Harry can see Blockbuster right there we saw that I believe on the hd2 as well to get sort of another way to view content on here in addition so we talked about earlier a little bit of a nicer spring makes multimedia viewing on the droid x a little bit of a better experience so let's talk about Spectras real quickly these things are very close but i couldn't in a good conscience talk about both these devices without mentioning that the evo 4g is called 4g for a reason does support 4th generation of wireless networks which are noticeably faster so about talking about megabits per second and getting to the actual sort of nitty-gritty just know that 4g can be up to 10 times faster than 3G networks so you have the option of being on a 4G network if you're have service where those aren't Spence rolling out more and more with the droid x you're sort of limited to just the 3g which is great for most people but it's nice to have the option so if we're talking about some respects and you sort of miscellaneous intangibles I have to give around to the evo 4g just for having 4th generation wireless technology and having me out computer views it or not use it so for everybody keeping track here's how the rounds broke down the droid x came out strong it took screen call quality and speaker battery life and text entry the evo 4g swung a ride back taking browser speed i'll be tied in the operating system the evo took the still camera i took the video camera took the design the droid came back with multimedia and that miscellaneous specs the addition of the 4g is what gave the droid are getting the evo 4g rather the edge in the end for the final total of droid x 5 evo 4g six and one round is a time so we still have the reigning king as the evo 4g now that does not mean by any stretch of the imagination that the droid x is a inferior phone just sir there are some intangibles that give the evo 4g a bit of an edge if you want to pick up a droid x you're going to get a fantastic very capable device on a really reliable network so really there are no losers here if you have to pick one of these phones it's like picking between chocolate or ice cream both are going to taste delicious and you're going to end up with a delicious treat on no matter which one you go for so anyway guys I am jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo sure to check out the website Friday tech news interactive users and are built and social network even make your own sub blog with full wordpress content management and putting your own ad cone even make a buck or two for exclusive content checking out of twitter twitter.com / john for leaguers I am jon rettinger and i will see you in the next video bye-bye you