HTC Droid Eris Review
HTC Droid Eris is a rebrand of the older HTC Hero. HTC’s Touch devices must be familar with its style. The HTC Touch devices generally have rounded corners and are very smooth to handle. The HTC have construct and give a feel of sturdiness.If you like figures, HTC Droid Eris measures 4.45 inches x 2.19 x 0.51 and has a weight of 4.23 ounces – making it one of the most slim android phone available. The HTC Droid has a proximity sensor that will make the screen turn off when you’re taking up a phone call. This prevents any accidental dial while you are taking a call.
LCD screen of Droid Eris has 3.2-inch HVGA screen with capacitive touch screen. The screen has resolution of 320×480-pixel and the screen gives vivid color and brightness. The operating system is Android OS 1.5. If you are looking for the latest 1.6 or 2.0, you will be disappointed.
The HTC has accelerometer that allows screen to change its orientation from portrait to landscape and vice versa.This feature does ot work in all application works only in certain applications, such as photos, Web browser.
The accelrometer also has the onscreen keyboard change its orientation, depending upon phone’s position.
The use of capacitive touch screen makes it possible to use great feature including scrolling through lists, or browsing through the various hom screens.Droid Eris offers multitouch support made possible by its capcitive touch screen. It is possible to zoom by pinching your fingers and by double-clicking the screen.
There are four navigation buttons below just below the display : Home, Menu, Back, and Zoom. These navigation buttons are touch sensitive and are not physical buttons.
The Droid has a number of feature that makes it well placed compared to the other Android phones in the market. It has Bluetooth, voice dialing, a calculator, voice mail, a speakerphone, Wi-Fi, USB mass storage, and a voice recorder. It includes Google applications including Google Maps, Google Calendar,YouTube, Google search, and GT ( Google Talk) .
If we look into the internal hardware, the Droid has the 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7600 processor. The phone performs reasonably good on most application and the speed issue is not observable. However, the web browser loading sometimes seems to drag on. The rated batter life of Droid Eris is 3.5 hours of talk time. The standby time is about 15.5 days.
The phone is very well designed and for its price, deserves a look.
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