Well, it's been an interesting CES, and as an Evo owner, I've handled all the new phones. Even have some picture comparisons with my Evo for those curious about size comparisons...
First, the Verizon Thunderbolt appears to be nearly the same phone as the Evo. The kickstand is there (with a speaker behind, which is strange to me) and a shiny bezel, which I'm not sure I like as much as the plain Evo surface.
Most importantly, no HDMI... which IMO is a huge loss. The Verizon folks talk about DLNA that will work with the dock, but I've been in my room at the Mirage watching video podcasts and ripped movies on the 42-inch monitor using only a cheap cable from my Evo.
Here's the size comparison of the two phones side-by-side. Note, I'm running Launcher Pro and have Myn's custom ROM installed on my Evo:
Backside comparison with the Evo. Not sure about the new kickstand, which is now pretty large and prominent:
Next is another impressive phone from LG, the Revolution, which I saw announced. It does have HDMI out, but not a total mirror of the screen, from what I'm told. Felt nice and snappy, but is a little larger. Didn't feel like it had the polish of the Thunderbolt, and I'm not sure I like the LG skin on Android. It certainly is worse than Sense.
Here's a size comparison of the two phones side-by-side:
Finally, the most impressive phone of the show, in my opinion, and it isn't even available in the US (only in Korea, I was told?)... the LG Optimus 2x, which uses the Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor. I tried it out and it's FAST. The camera claims to shoot 1080p video, and I believe it in the tests I did. Easily the best camera on a phone I've ever experienced.
A wonderful feature of this phone is HDMI with full mirroring of the display. Will this feature make it to the US? It also does Divx VOD, which will allow folks to play their torrent files unconverted and display them on big screens via hdmi. Wow.
Here's a shot of the phone, followed by a size comparison with the Evo (the Optimus is slightly larger, but also slightly thinner and about the same in weight). It's just an LCD screen similar to the Evo in size and resolution, but a flame-thrower in brightness:
OK, so I wasn't impressed with the HTC Thunderbolt until I found another booth that had one running full LTE and had Quadrant installed. First, the LTE feels almost like wifi on my Evo and had a solid signal. Some say that Verizon has boosted the signal of LTE in the hall which had something to do with that.
But then I decided to run a Quadrant comparison with my Evo which is running the latest HTC kernel on a speedy custom ROM. Here's the result (Evo on the left, obviously smoked by the Thunderbolt):
I ran Quadrant on the Optimus 2x, and surprisingly, it was running about the same speed as my current Evo... though the phone isn't in final form and didn't give me a screen showing the final Quadrant score (almost like it was being blocked from displaying the end or something).
In addition, today, LG added yet another newly announced phone in the Evo size, called the Optimus Black. This one has a 5mp rear camera and a 2mp front facing camera. It's significantly lighter than the Evo and thinner, too. Here's a shot of two of the Optimus Black cameras... impressive, bright, and quick:
In conclusion, the Evo holds up pretty well with the new competition after all these months when it comes to feature comparisons, but underneath, there's some real horsepower coming. Can't wait to see what Sprint has to offer to replace the Evo when my year is up. If it's anything like the new LG Optimus 2x, we'll all be happy campers. And with some impressive offerings, we now see that LG is a MAJOR player in the premium cellphone game!
First, the Verizon Thunderbolt appears to be nearly the same phone as the Evo. The kickstand is there (with a speaker behind, which is strange to me) and a shiny bezel, which I'm not sure I like as much as the plain Evo surface.
Most importantly, no HDMI... which IMO is a huge loss. The Verizon folks talk about DLNA that will work with the dock, but I've been in my room at the Mirage watching video podcasts and ripped movies on the 42-inch monitor using only a cheap cable from my Evo.
Here's the size comparison of the two phones side-by-side. Note, I'm running Launcher Pro and have Myn's custom ROM installed on my Evo:
Backside comparison with the Evo. Not sure about the new kickstand, which is now pretty large and prominent:
Next is another impressive phone from LG, the Revolution, which I saw announced. It does have HDMI out, but not a total mirror of the screen, from what I'm told. Felt nice and snappy, but is a little larger. Didn't feel like it had the polish of the Thunderbolt, and I'm not sure I like the LG skin on Android. It certainly is worse than Sense.
Here's a size comparison of the two phones side-by-side:
Finally, the most impressive phone of the show, in my opinion, and it isn't even available in the US (only in Korea, I was told?)... the LG Optimus 2x, which uses the Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor. I tried it out and it's FAST. The camera claims to shoot 1080p video, and I believe it in the tests I did. Easily the best camera on a phone I've ever experienced.
A wonderful feature of this phone is HDMI with full mirroring of the display. Will this feature make it to the US? It also does Divx VOD, which will allow folks to play their torrent files unconverted and display them on big screens via hdmi. Wow.
Here's a shot of the phone, followed by a size comparison with the Evo (the Optimus is slightly larger, but also slightly thinner and about the same in weight). It's just an LCD screen similar to the Evo in size and resolution, but a flame-thrower in brightness:
OK, so I wasn't impressed with the HTC Thunderbolt until I found another booth that had one running full LTE and had Quadrant installed. First, the LTE feels almost like wifi on my Evo and had a solid signal. Some say that Verizon has boosted the signal of LTE in the hall which had something to do with that.
But then I decided to run a Quadrant comparison with my Evo which is running the latest HTC kernel on a speedy custom ROM. Here's the result (Evo on the left, obviously smoked by the Thunderbolt):
I ran Quadrant on the Optimus 2x, and surprisingly, it was running about the same speed as my current Evo... though the phone isn't in final form and didn't give me a screen showing the final Quadrant score (almost like it was being blocked from displaying the end or something).
In addition, today, LG added yet another newly announced phone in the Evo size, called the Optimus Black. This one has a 5mp rear camera and a 2mp front facing camera. It's significantly lighter than the Evo and thinner, too. Here's a shot of two of the Optimus Black cameras... impressive, bright, and quick:
In conclusion, the Evo holds up pretty well with the new competition after all these months when it comes to feature comparisons, but underneath, there's some real horsepower coming. Can't wait to see what Sprint has to offer to replace the Evo when my year is up. If it's anything like the new LG Optimus 2x, we'll all be happy campers. And with some impressive offerings, we now see that LG is a MAJOR player in the premium cellphone game!
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