Celluloco.com Presents: Omnia 2, Hd, Htc Pro iPhone 3gs, HTC Hero, Galaxy - Outdoor And Indoor display comparison

of the year, laying next to each other. The reason behind this unusual gathering is a display comparison review that an Italian blog has conducted. For some reason they've also thrown in the Samsung i900 Omnia in the battle even though it's obviously unfit for such a challenge.

So here goes the contest - all displays are set to maximum brigntness and have the same picture preloaded. The handsets are then captured on video in various conditions (indoors, outdoors and in pitch darkness) to check out how they perform. The 65K color limitation of some of the contestants is a bit of a disadvantage at times with the selected photos but considered that it also shows in real life usage at times we don't find this unfair.

The first two contestants are the WinMo powerhouses HTC Touch Pro2 and Samsung I8000 Omnia II. The Android OS is represented by its two best-geared devices - the Samsung I7500 Galaxy and the HTC Hero, while the Symbian world reputation lays in the hands of the Samsung i8910 Omnia HD. Finally we get the omnipresent Apple iPhone (in its 3GS variety), which is still a benchmark for display quality even though it's nearly identical to the now two-year-old original iPhone. The only thing missing is the Nokia N97 but the comparison is still extremely useful as it stands.

The contestants

From what we see on the video the AMOLED displays of the three Samsung handsets (Omnia HD, Omnia II and Galaxy) swim laps around their LCD opponents indoors making all of the tested photos look far more vibrant and eye-pleasing. From the rest the Apple iPhone seems to have a slight edge over the HTC Hero in terms of brightness with the HTC Touch Pro2 being second bottom of the league. It is of course still miles ahead of the original Samsung Omnia but that is hardly a great consolation.

When sunlight is involved however we have a totally new order with the iPhone 3GS easily trashing all its opponents. The Omnia HD, HTC Hero and the Samsung Galaxy share second place here, but their performance is nowhere near their Apple rival. The Windows Mobile handsets are a disappointment in such conditions, but only a brief look at the blindingly reflective surface of the Samsung i900 Omnia is enough to tell you they've at least made some progress.

Back indoors and in the dark it's all about the AMOLED technology and high resolution again. The interesting part here is the extremely poor performance of the iPhone 3GS in such conditions. We are guessing this has something to do with the shooting settings of the camera used for this comparison as we've hardly found any fault with the actual phone. Leaving that aside it's pretty clear that the LCD units cannot match the contrast of their AMOLED competitors but have a slight edge as far as maximum brightness is concerned.

Now just imagine if the iPhone sunlight legibility could be combined with some of that AMOLED goodness. Nice right? Well we guess we won't have to wait a too much longer for that to happen.

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Celluloco.com Nears its Release Date of HTC Hero (G2 Touch) as U.K. T-Mobile Unveils the mobile on its European shelves

So here it goes - the carrier customized version of the HTC Hero will be available in less than 24 hours to T-Mobile customers in the United Kingdom. In a message on Twitter the carrier team announced that the handset will appear in the online store from tomorrow with real stores following over the next few days.

The HTC Hero is best-equipped Android handset to date (until the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X3 shows up anyway) and will go by the name of T-Mobile G2 Touch.

Just as their direct competitor Orange (the other major carrier to offer the HTC Hero), T-Mobile UK will allow their users to get the G2 Touch for free. To qualify for that Andorid-lovers will have to sign an 18-month 40 pound-a-month contract.

Unfortunately for our American friends T-Mobile USA has no plans to follow suit and will not offer the G2 Touch anytime soon.

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Celluloco.com introduces you HTC Hero, the new Android O.S. smartphone poised to benchmark Android world

Quite as expected today HTC officially announced their third Android-running handset - HTC Hero. Sporting the most complete feature set of the three it is destined to battle it out with Samsung I7500 for the full-touch Android throne.

The new HTC Hero runs on the familiar Qualcomm's MSM7200A chipset, with a 528MHz CPU, 288MB of RAM and 512 MB of ROM. Just like the HTC Magic and the HTC Dream, the Hero sports a 3.2" TFT LCD touchscreen display of HVGA resolution (320 x 480 pixels). However this time it will use the capacitive technology and will support multi-touch as visible from the demo video published by HTC (embedded further down this article).

HTC Hero

Connectivity is perfectly covered with the HTC Hero as it will feature quad-band GSM and dual band UMTS (with HSPA) support as well as built-in GPS receiver and a Wi-Fi antenna. The mandatory USB and Bluetooth are present too.

The final attention-grabbing features of the HTC Hero are a 3.5mm standard audio jack, a microSD card slot and a built-in accelerometer.

HTC Sense

HTC Hero pioneers the new custom UI that HTC have prepared for the Android OS. HTC Sense is based on three basic principles dubbed as Make it Mine, Stay Close and Discover the Unexpected. Here are the three principles as HTC explain them.

Make It Mine

Make It Mine, is about feeling your HTC phone was created for and by you. To do this, HTC encourages you to dictate and organize how you want to access the people and content in your life in a way that fits best for you. For some, this means adding glance view widgets that push content like twitter feeds, weather and other content to the surface while others may want quick access to business-focused information like email, calendar and world-times. HTC is also introducing a new profile feature called Scenes that enables you to create different customized content profiles around specific functions or times in your life.

Stay Close

Today, staying in touch with the people in your life means managing a variety of communication channels and applications ranging from phone calls, emails, texts, photos, status updates and more. HTC Sense takes a different approach by integrating these communication channels and applications into one single view enabling you to stay closer to your important people. With HTC Sense, friends Facebook status updates and photos along with their Flickr photos are included along side their text messages, emails and call history in a single view.

Discover the Unexpected

Many of the most memorable moments in your life are experienced, not explained. HTC Sense is focused on providing a variety of these simple yet innovative experiences on your HTC phone that will sometimes bring you moments of joy and delight. It can be something as basic as turning the phone over to silence a ring or as simple as improving the smart dialler for making calls quicker. HTC Sense also includes perspectives, a new way for viewing your content such as email, photos, Twitter, music and more in different ways.

HTC Hero will be available in three color versions - White, Brown and Graphite (Orange exclusive), with the white one coming with fingerprint-resistant Teflon coating. It will hit the European shelves in July with Asia and North America following later this year.

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