LG's Optimus 7 & Samsung's Focus Reviewed: A Tale of Two Windows Phones
by Anand Lal Shimpi on December 3, 2010 10:14 PM EST- Posted in
- Smartphones
- Samsung
- Windows Phone 7
- LG Optimus
- LG
- Samsung Focus
- Mobile
Camera - Video Performance
All Windows Phone 7 devices are capable of shooting video in either 640 x 480 at 30 fps or 720p at 24 fps. The latter is a limitation of the first generation Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC. HD video performance is a little frustrating as a result. Quality here is decent but nothing earth shattering. It’s again, enough for web use but not much more.
The Focus appears to have better video quality as well based on the samples below:
Unlike the Surround, I didn’t have any issues with my videos sounding like they were under water with either of these phones. Audio also sounds less compressed in the VGA streams compared to the HD streams.
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tonyfreak215 - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
You can pin a contact to the Main page. Just hold your finger on the contact and "Pin to start"EddyKilowatt - Monday, December 6, 2010 - link
During OLED's multi-year gestation, we saw lots of fetching display pics, though always with the text disclaimer "life of the organic emitters, however, remains a stumbling block".But now that products are on the shelves, the most penetrating journalism one can read about OLEDs amounts to, basically, "ohhhh... shiny!".
What is the backstory with OLED lifetime... was there a fundamental breakthrough that made it a non-problem, or was it merely increased "enough" that vendors think consumers will shrug and buy new toys when the old ones fade? Will today's eye-catching saturated colors look like old faded jeans at this time next year?
sviola - Monday, December 6, 2010 - link
Well, considering that people change cellphones in a 2-year schedule (usually when the plan is over), I don't think that the lifetime of the screen on a cellphone would matter much (2-year lifetime is around 17,5k hours if left on 24/7 - and I think Samsung AMOLED has a lifetime of 50k hours, which would translate to 5yr and 8mo of 24/7).xBabyJesus - Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - link
Anand, any chance you could do an update with read/write latency tests for a few flash cards? Apparently the sequential transfer speed (Class 2, 4, 6, etc) is pretty meaningless but the random read latency is make-or-break for Focus.