HTC

The HTC EVO 4G is one of the most anticipated smartphones this year and probably one of the best on the market right now.

The HTC EVO 4G runs with Android 2.1 operating system plus HTC Sense UI enhancements. Packed with a large cinematic 4.3 inches touchscreen display with 800 x 480 pixel resolution, which will definitely makes the HTC EVO 4G to be a great portable media player.

Under the hood, there’s a Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, makes this phone blazing fast. It’s a fact, the HTC EVO 4G process really fast on most anything.

Take a look at the specs below:

• Display: 4.3″ capacitive touchscreen display with multi-touch support. 480 x 800 pixel resolution, automatic viewing mode change (portrait – landscape), ambient-light sensor, proximity sensor, and more.
• Battery: Replaceable Lithium Ion 1500 mAh, rechargeable.
• CPU and Storage: Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon QSD8650 CPU, 400 MB internal storage and SDHC microSD card-slot (8 GB microSD card included).
• Dimension and Weight: 4.74 x 2.64 x 0.50 inches, 6.0 ounces.

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iPhone

We know all you guys iPhone 4 owners have been waiting for some official responses from Apple regarding your iPhone 4 reception issues. It seems that all of those news, blog posts, comments, and of course complaints regarding the iPhone 4′s problems irritates or maybe frustrates Apple.

And recently, Apple made an open letter to all iPhone 4 owners regarding the reception issues. You can read it below.

Anyway, their previous statements were sounded like they see the reception issue as nonexistent.

They even said that the actual problem was the way people hold their iPhones, that people are holding it wrong. And that clearly raised many controversy. Since Apple’s own advertisements are showing they’re holding it that way. And also, how come a phone loss signals when you’re holding it the way you’ve been holding any other phone… you know… standard and normal phone?

This time, in their open letter, Apple said the problem is just that the iPhones are showing the available signal in a wrong way. And they’re planning to fix this error with a software update which should make the signal representation more real.

Huh?

We seriously think that this is weird. Graphical error of the signal representation can cause dropped calls and reduced data rates?

However what we think about this is not important. But we’re interested in your opinion regarding this open letter from Apple and their so-called plan to fix the reception issues. Put some of your opinions at the comment section below.

And if you’re interested to read Apple’s open letter regarding iPhone 4′s reception issue, you can read it below after the break. (more…)

Reviews

If before we’ve put a post about DIY solutions for iPhone 4 signal loss problems, well this time we have a hands-on review video of the iPhone 4 bumper case.

The video in this post is for iPhone 4 users who wants to go with Apple’s recommended solution for iPhone 4 reception issue, to use the iPhone 4 bumper.

You’ll see how the bumper is actually look, how to use it with your iPhone 4, and how it would help the reception problem on your iPhone 4.

Though viewing this video or anything on this blog is free, you know that this iPhone 4 bumper isn’t free at all. Apple is not giving free iPhone 4 bumper for any of their customer. So using this bumper case means you will have to spent more money just to get a properly working iPhone 4 (in terms of signal reception). Just saying.

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Nokia

The recently leaked Nokia N9 which lately rumored to have a 3.5-inch screen, is actually will pack a way larger touchscreen display measures at 4-inch.

And in the following photos and video below, you’ll see that this unannounced Nokia N9 smartphone’s capacitive touchscreen with multi-touch support is considerably larger compared with iPhone 4‘s 3.5-inch touchscreen and just a bit smaller compared with HTC EVO 4G‘s 4-inch touchscreen display.

So, Nokia fans can expect this QWERTY-enabled smartphone Nokia N9 as the first Nokia phone to feature such a large screen!

Although there are still no specific news regarding the screen resolution, the Nokia N9‘s is said to be nHD at 360×640 pixel resolution which some gadget-geek would say it’s a rather low resolution for a 4-inch display.

So the known specs for Nokia N9 by far:
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iPhone

We’ve seen iPhone 4′s yellow spots on its screen.

We’ve also heard iPhone 4′s reception loss problem, along with Apple’s and Steve Jobs’ response to this problem.

And recently, we’ve got the leaked Apple’s intern procedures for their staff when dealing with iPhone 4 complaints.

But have you got a working solution for iPhone 4 reception loss problem? iPhone cases or bumpers surely costs you more money.

Below, we got you some (funny) solutions for that problem, which maybe you can make one for yourself without buying or.. well you just go and see it yourself.
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