Author: raajmenon

I got the HTC Flyer in Taiwan on my Computex Trade Show trip and have been playing with it on and off on top of all the other gadgets I have. Finding the time is the hardest part. In any case after a couple of weeks of use, here are my thoughts and review of this little tablet.

The Hardware:

The HTC Flyer is a 7" Tablet using the Android 2.33 Gingerbread build. Many expected the Honeycomb build in it but it wasn't to be. The Flyer uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.5Ghz single core CPU and comes with 1GB of RAM. It also comes with 32GB of Storage. The storage will depend on where you buy the unit from. I also got a WiFi plus 3G version and paid roughly $700+ USD. It's a very expensive tablet comparing to others out there with bigger screens. It is also a bit heavy, weighing in about 421 or so grams. Dimensions around 195.4 x 122 x 13.2 mm. It is not a bad size and feels good holding it. The display is a LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors and resolutions to 1024X600 pixels. The display is quite good and crisp. The HTC Flyer also comes with a carrying pouch. The battery power is 4000 mAh, a decent power considering the size of the tablet. My unit also came with a Pen which can be used to scribble notes etc. It is available as an option in a lot of countries like the U.S. More on that later.
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I was in Taipei for the Computex 2011 IT Trade show and here is a brief about what I saw there. This years show was all about Tablets, Tablets and more tablets and Cloud computing was huge as well. To be honest I was quite sick and tired of seeing so many tablets. There was just too many of them and I cant understand how they they will be successful especially with Apple and a couple of big Android players like Samsung, HTC and Motorola. There was also a lot of NAS kind of products on show and of course a lot of Cloud computing stuff as well a ton of iPad accessories.

There were some new products from Acer, Intel, Gigabyte, Nvidia and a number of other big companies. This years Computex was bigger than last years according to Computrex. They said about 36,000 international visitors came to the show compared to about 32,000 last year. I have taken a few pics below. Read more

Since I travel a lot I decided to test how the Airplane Mode works on both of these phones. I’m sure most of you already know the frustrations of getting to an airport only to be waiting a looong time before you get any of the roaming mobile networks signal.

As soon as I landed in Kuala Lumpur I decided to turn the Airplane Mode off on both phones and the signal searching started. The iPhone 4 took close to 5 minutes.. Yes 5 blinking minutes before it found the Malaysian Mobile providers. In contrast the Samsung SGS2 found the signal in just over a minute and a half. Thats quite impressive although I would think it has more to do with the Android OS than the phone.

The iPhone 4 has one of the worst signal searching of any phone I know esp when you roam and even when it finds a signal it loses it quickly and starts the whole search for signal again.

Winner: Samsung Galaxy SII

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I’ve just come across a cool video chat, phone and IM app called ooVoo.

So what exactly does ooVoo do?

ooVoo offers the ability to video chat face-to-face with family and friends, anytime and anywhere. With ooVoo you can have free video chats one-to-one, or have a group video chat with up to 6 people at once!

I personally like this solution…

A great alternative to body scanners at airports. The Israelis are developing an airport security device that eliminates the privacy concerns that come with full-body scanners at the airports. It’s a self-contained booth you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on you. They see this as a win-win for everyone, with none of the whining about racial profiling. It also would eliminate the costs of long and expensive trials. Justice would be swift. Case closed!

You’re in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion.

Shortly thereafter an announcement comes over the PA system: “Attention standby passengers - we now have a seat available on flight number ____. “