AstrO wrote:You know I was just talking about the difference between the size of a SO-DIMM (package) vs the actual memory chips used on them.
I doubt they use anything as complex as DDRII ram (or that chip package size) on a mobile device.
Yeah I do realise that, you have to understand that since in a mobile phone is extremely limited, for example the HTC HD2 is only 11mm thick! not to mention the power requirements on these phones
anyway I got my HTC HD2 on friday and had a chance to play with it ($816 dilivered to my door by blueflymobile) and I'll write a quick review.
First thing you notice with this phone is the Screen, I mean it's huge! I personally didn't think it was going to be a big upgrade over my old phone (original HTC HD with 3.8") but the 4.3" of the hd2 monsters over the 3.8" of the HD and makes the iphone 3.5" look tiny! The second thing that your going to notice is how crisp the image is with a resolution of 800x480 compared to the iphone's 320x480.
The next thing you will notice is the new 1ghz snapdraggon processor, the HD2 is super smooth almost as smooth as the iphone 3gs except for a couple of minor slow down moments. The new CPU is definitly a BIG step up from older winmo devices running 528mhz quancomm processor. The new UI by HTC called touch flow 3d is absolutely brilliant it's a nice evolution of the earlier version in the first Touch HD and much MUCH better than iphone's basic homepage. Touch Flow 3d's homescreen allows for the weather, calendar appointments for the day, app/contact shortcuts and time all on screen (also animated wallpaper in the back ground). Apart from the home screen with just a swipe on the lower bar of icons reveals contact pages (more on this later), sms, emails, opera browser, full calendar, stocks, photo/video's, music, full weather, geo tags, twitter app and settings.
One thing that I have to really give a thumbs up to HTC for is the integration with social networking like facebook and twitter, for example Touch Flow 3d allows you to fully integrate your contacts with your facebook contacts, meaning that when you associate a contact with there facebook profile Touch Flow 3d automatically downloads there contact photo, there birthday etc right onto your phone! and when ever that contact might changed there details on facebook when your phone next updates (eg every 2 hours) the changes are instantly updated on your phone weather that be there profile photo or there email address etc. Another innovative feature of touch flow 3d is instead of having a huge list of contacts (and having to search for people you call regularly) the contacts tab on touch flow 3d has a 5x3 grid allowing you to place your favourite contacts in there (just there Photo and name underneath) which is really nice and saves you from having to dig through your contact list for people you call on a regular basis.
One of the big developments with this phone is that it uses a capacitive touch screen instead of a resistive touchscreen, this means the HD2 has the ability to multi touch like a iphone with things like pinch to zoom, the only problem with capacitive touch screens is that a stylus can not be used mean that high accuracy can not be achieved. This is not so much a problem when the OS is designed around this like the iphone however the HD2 runs winmo and this is the first capacitive touch screen winmo phone on the market. Now HTC have done an absolutely brilliant job of hiding the clunky winmo interface but it's still there under maybe 3-4 layers of touch flow 3d and honestly you really have to go searching for it to find it, but when you do you soon realise that the lack of accuracy with a capacitive touch screen can make it a bit hard to operate.
One thing I need to mention is App's everyone knows that the Iphone has a great app store (though it is rulled with an iron fist aka at&t vs google) as well as Androids great app store, winmo's app store is a bit of a disinterment in comparison with the number of app's available and the prices involved, this is due in my opinion that the winmo's app store has only been around for 3 months so I expect it to mature in the future. Also the Windows Live intigration/syncronisation is an absolutly brilliant feature alowwing you to sync your phone to an off site server backing up sms's, contacts, photo's, videos etc and allowing you to locate your lost phone or make it ring & display a message even if its in silent and even lock the phone which is pretty nifty feature.
wrapping it up this phone is an excellent package weather it beat's an iphone is I guess up to personal needs, yes it run's winmo if you can get past that this phone is brilliant it offers the biggest screen, in a package size only slightly bigger than the iphone or other conventional phones on the market it offers a super smooth with little slow down UI experience and in my opinion a UI that is FAR better than the iphones, the App store is a little poor but there are plenty of 3rd party places to get app's if needed the Camera/Video is pretty good (far better than the iphone's or the orginal touch HD) and the build quality is top notch (brushed steel battery cover etc) for $~800 bucks it's an absolute bargain of a phone!
and while ARM based processors are not as complex when they have specific code run on them they are equally as fast or even faster (google Nvidia Tegra platform) which can play 720p video completely smoothly which nearly all Atom based netbooks will struggle with.
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