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HTC Windows Phone 8X and 8S Hands-On

2012-09-19
ex gratia HTC very closely aligned with Microsoft about these devices okay so this is the Windows Phone v-necks on the right hand side comes in four different color skews this is probably my favorite this is the lime light yellow also comes in a flame red this is the windows phone 8 s my HTC size of the screen on the so you got a 4 inch screen on the 8's orange yeah and 4.3 on the 8x full 720p resolution on the 8x and then 480 x 800 on the 8's come some of the unique things about these devices hardware wise is external to the screen the 8x or it's grilled last two also the second-generation super LCD which is very exciting so nice vibrant display both of these devices the camera on these devices really nice so they mentioned it out there but you've got an 8 megapixel camera on the rear f20 aperture 28 millimeter wide angle lens but really where the magic happens is up in the front so the front facing camera we brought that same episode auto aperture to the front we also increased the angle of the lens now we're going out to 88 degrees can we take a look yeah so Raeleen Ranger so we're going to the iphone as a before hear of a narrow end alright the iphone yeah much better in terms of the wide angle you can see JV over here and you can't say in this case so that's that's a really wide angle so pretty exciting in 88 degrees on the back we besides just the hardware we've got some pretty cool new innovations across the device in general we've got in an amplifier so beats audio in both devices but in the Windows Phone 8x we've actually put dedicated amplifiers inside yeah so you've got one that powers the rear speaker and you've got one that actually powers the headset jack so 2.5 5 volt headset jack amplifier so that's just going to mean that everything you listen to is going to sound better with Beats Audio really really really amazing experience there and we hear the audio from the stamp lafai speaker oh yes it is kind of loud out there so really really great feeling in the can kind of this book it's hard to hear on camera but that's actually got a tiny little bit of his basement amazing sure fantastic and everything on the back was your thoughts right yeah so the cameras are flushed down here speaker grills you can actually feel camera buttons are almost flush with the edges all the way around yeah absolutely this is the yellow color yeah Center to limelight you know really great ours are hearing with people so inside it's built like a pyramid what's the purpose for that it is so it allows us to maintain this really cool shape so what they're actually done is taken the battery and put it back up behind the screen and then actually stack of the components on top side allowing us to keep it really thin so when you put in your hand because it feel then it feels like it's like you're too interesting because it's instance right around 10 millimeters yeah but it's hard to tell because these curved edges feels familiar it's amazing it feels like it's a seven millimeter if it does that's really nice and the same kind of shape and form factor on the 8's as well just in a smaller form the 8's always has the sort of dipped color look um it does yes there's four different color combinations one has two shades of blue the Domino black and white there's our there's a another red combination that is red and orange color at the bottom I'm so very excitingly got processors and so both have these half dry can s4 you've got a 1 gigahertz through the poor in this one and then a 1.5 gigahertz dual-core in this one full gig of ram here in 512 and the 8's you're going to get a creative fun audio thing I really exciting listening to these mini headphones come well to make my power to be island shower looks quite thank you Mary the iphone and you get really good one-handed good one-handed usability on the 8's oh yeah I find that I don't hunt for buttons on this one as well really crisp and clear screen you can get really close up on see the screen was wvga on the it is on the small when yes Rama has had these bats are protected yeah so Microsoft's got a bunch of really exciting features that will be announcing later on okay so there are more and more furious mean much more to come that's very interesting great thank you all got a clock on the front the big clock I don't see the big pocket my blog games aren't a real louder and it's drop resistant terribly this is the end that's a nice clock is every sizable it is resizable and that's one of the unique things about Windows Phone 8 is that the tiles can be resized the three different sizes you know nowadays information comes from everywhere it's constantly flowing so with the tiles you can resize them multiple daenerys and really design your home screen with all the information that's important to use you're constantly getting the updates in real time okay shoes he added any other software that you want to tell us about really the hub is one of the main things so you've got the light nice large HTC clock on the top and you're familiar with the hub that we've had on Windows Phone in the past you're going to have your weather stocks and news all inside of the hub pretty nice little experience that the most I think exciting thing for us is to have the large clock on front allows you to get to the impact that very quickly and also the weather and you've got some tempered glass here around the edges yeah so it is it's a girl last two and it does it kind of flows over the edges you can you really can't tell where the glass ends and the polycarbonate I get 1x kind of actually exactly as a nice design feature great yeah
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