Evo 3D 4G Review: What the First 3D Mobile Phone
By Speedway
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
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The EVO 3D is a successor of the largely popular and perhaps the first 4G smartphone to be launched in the U.S., the EVO 4G. This is the latest release from the Google, HTC collaboration following the EVO 4G and the Nexus One, and offers first ever glasses free 3D technology. On the HTC Evo 3D, you cannot only view 3D content, but you can also create your own 3D photos and videos.
Hardware
The EVO 3D has many style elements merged into it and primarily takes inspiration from its parent, EVO 4G and the Incredible 2. However the subtle 2D to 3D mode switch and the missing silver gating from the earpiece help identify this phone from its predecessors. The gHD screen is almost 4.3 inches in size and is protected by a sheet of Gorilla glass to protect the capacitive touchscreen underneath.
The materials used in exude a build quality that most of the phones in this price bracket usually boast about.
The gHD display is probably the best in the market probably only rivaled by the Motorola Droid or even the Super AMOLED Plus screen of the Samsung phones, giving the HTC Evo 3D the ideal platform for watching movies, videos, playing games, and surfing the Web.
The battery life on the device is not one of its best features lasting a little under 15 hours after a reasonable number of phone calls, a little web browsing and a few 3D photographs. The battery drains by almost 60% for about 80 photos and a few videos shot in 3D. The 3D camera is therefore especially taxing on the device.
Multimedia
A major chunk of the back of the phone is occupied by the dual LED flash and the twin cameras both boasting 5 megapixel autofocus lenses. These lenses separated by around 3.25 cm enable the user to capture stereoscopic content which can be viewed glass free which is probably the first time it is available on a commercial mobile device.
You can also choose to take the images in conventional 2D format at full resolution of 2560 x 1920 pixels which is a little more than the resolution in 3D which captures at a wide screen format of 1920×1080 pixels from each of the two cameras on the HTC Evo 3D.
Video capture is smooth at 720p and 30fps and is encoded into the standard H264 format. Audio capture is in stereo both in the 3D and 2D modes. In 3D mode however the video is recorded by the two cameras and merged into one at 1280×720 in a method similar to anamorphic technique. The video shooting also comes with the autofocus and the touch to focus options for further clarity.
Being one of the first 3D phones to be commercially available on the market, this phone has a lot of promise. The display of the phone and the processing capabilities of the phone are a few other selling points of this phone.
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