Gadget Reviews

Technology has grown in leaps and bounds over the last decade. This is due largely to the explosion of the smart phone. The market has almost been monopolized by Apple, but competition is on the rise.

One of the these competitors is Acer. The computer that has played a very large row in PC distribution, and marketing continues now with the Acer Stream. If luck is on their side phones will be much more profitable than the Dell dominated PC market. So far phones invented by the company have failed to hit the mark with consumers. The Acer Stream, by far, has been the most promising of the Acer phone technology.

The market is filled with a heavy demand for multimedia and the Acer Stream attempts to appeal to this demand by promoting the device as media playback device. The Nemo media player is the application used for playback for video media files which include XVid and 720p video file formats. This is good for starters, but the Acer Stream loses ground by not supporting the MKV format for videos. This format has become very popular for condensed Blu-Ray files, and it will be extremely important for Acer Stream to get create an update for support of these files soon.

The Acer Stream has a standard memory size of 2GB. The device also comes with a 8GB memory card. The built-in memory is fairly sufficient for the videos and audio that may be watched and deleted. Consumers that want to build a library, however, will want to consider bigger memory cards. A 32GB memory card is currently the maximum size that the Acer Stream device can process. This is more than enough to build a portable library for video files.

The Acer Stream also has a port that allows you to view pictures and video from the phone on the television. The process, however, is limited by the software application that is utilized by the Acer Stream. The Nemo application is the only output for the phone to television view. Nothing can be viewed on the television screen that is not within the Nemo application.

The screen is bright and the casing is slim. These are features that consumers expect for the Android, and the Acer Stream has fulfilled these expectations. It is an apparent improvement on the design for Acer phones. The design of the Acer Stream is also enhanced with video and audio recording capabilities. Video recording from the phone is great because the phone has a large screen for viewing as you record. The large screen is also good for touch screen menu features that can be cumbersome to navigate on smaller phones.

Sadly one of the things that Acer did not consider in the making of the Acer Stream was creativity. It was very forward thinking to enter the cell phone industry since cell phones are almost the equivalent of portable computers. It was even an excellent strategy to enter the market with a stylish Android phone design. It was not smart, however, to manufacture a smart phone that does not do anything other than replicate what is already available on the market. The cell phones market is flooded. The Acer Stream will have to gain it’s own originality to push new consumers in their direction.

HTC has always been a company that has designed the most state of the art, technologically advanced mobile phones. Their new creation, the HTC Desire, is no different. HTC has taken their other phones, HTC Touch and HTC Touch Pro, and put them all in one phone. The HTC Desire was announced on February 16th, and will be released in North American on August 27th of this year. It is rumored that the HTC Desire will be released on the U.S Cellular network. The HTC Desire has already been released in Europe on carriers such as T-Mobile UK, Virgin Mobile UK, O2, Vodafone, Softbank and many more European carriers.

The HTC Desire has a 1GHZ Snapdragon processor, which helps when you are trying to surf the web and watch youtube videos, and also has the new 2.2 version of the Android operating system for mobile phones. Being the the Android system is on the HTC Desire, you can now get apps for Amazon.com, apps for games like Pac-Man and 70% of them will be free.

The Desire also has a 3.7 inch, AMOLED touchscreen and a 5 MP camera that has face detection technology and a feature called Geotagging. Geotagging is the process in which the user of the HTC Desire can add geographical information to photos, videos or websites. The face detection capabilities allow a blurry picture to be cleared up, as long as the camera detections the appearance of a face in the picture. The HTC Desire also has a 3-axis accelerometer, which makes the screen turn on it’s side in the same direction that you turn the phone, which makes e-mailing, texting and web surfing much easier on the HTC Desire.

Other features of the phone include GPS capabilities with Google turn-by-turn navigation, Facebook and Twitter social networking icons, MS Exchange, FM Radio and the phone is also bundled with Adobe Flash Lite 4. Adobe Flash Lite 4 is the application that lets Adobe Flash Player on mobile phones. Some websites require the application in order to go on their websites, and the HTC Desire comes with that application already.

The HTC Desire has been the big hype for HTC this year and the hype will continue up until the North American release date. The Desire has everything that you could want in a phone, and so many more features. This is a great phone for both business and pleasure.