2011年7月17日星期日

HTC ChaCha review

If you are a heavy Facebook user, and you are looking for an affordable smartphone, the HTC has the answer for you. HTC ChaCha combines a full QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen with a dedicated Facebook button to enables easy integration with the world's most popular social network service. Even if your keyboard is winner and ChaCha is good value at this price, its small screen mock them keen Web browsing.

HTC ChaCha combines a full QWERTY keyboard along with a capacitive touch screen in 2.6. By ChaCha design is certainly a head turner and its form factor sets it apart from most other Android phones on the market. The highlight is a full QWERTY keyboard and a curved design that slopes to suit the side of your face. "Chin" design is perhaps not for all tastes, but we believe that it is both unique and practical, as the keyboard tilted toward you when you look directly on the screen.HTC ChaCha is a well built phone given its low-end market position. Used HTC's unibody aluminum design, usually found on higher-end smartphones that desire HD and feeling. We love particular feeling of power/lock button and side mounted volume controls and the phone appears to be constructed well without being too heavy or large. Battery cover is a bit difficult to figure, but not to crack or rattle when pressed.HTC ChaCha keyboard is simply fantastic for a phone in this price range. While it does not hold a candle to the famous Blackberry keyboard, ChaCha is comfortable and quick to write on. The keys are well-spaced and slightly raised and fluidity is excellent.Trade of this is a touchscreen that is just 2.6 inches in diameter. HTC has thankfully, tailored interfaces to suit smaller Chachas size screen. Angles are sufficient, and the quality of the screen is good given the price. However, there are times when it just feels too ChaCha screen is cramped.HTC ChaCha Facebook button is located below the keyboard on the bottom edge of the phone. It works text direction and lights up when you can share multimedia content or status updates via social networks.For example, after a photo is taken with HTC ChaCha camera, you can simply press the button Facebook to automatically upload the image (it also functions as the camera shutter key), while in the music app, you can press it to share the song you're listening in via Facebook. You can also press and hold the button automatically check in via the Facebook sites or simply press the arrow key once to update your Facebook status.In addition to the button Facebook has HTC ChaCha also Facebook integration built into the user interface. You can view a friend's latest Facebook statuses and photos of dialler when you make a call, and when you receive calls. ChaCha also has a special Facebook chat widget, which is a part of the user interface of HTC's sense.Although these features work well enough, but it's really very clinchers. Apart from the dedicated Facebook chat widget is most of these features on many other HTC Android Smartphone, the HTC ChaCha running the latest version of Android, 2.3 "Gingerbread," and also features HTC's sense UI in 3D view. What remains is similar to most other HTC Android phones, although the user interface (UI) sense has been a border region to fit the smaller screen ChaCha.Most of the menu buttons have been moved to the right of the screen instead of at the bottom, while home main screen has shortcuts to app mailbox and adapt, although these cannot be edited or deleted. Limited screen size: the text is small and there are times when the interface feels very cramped. But in view of the excellent physical keyboard, it is a compromise that many users will be happy to live with.The best feature of the HTC Sense on ChaCha is perhaps the new Lock screen, which have been borrowed directly from HTC Sensation. By ChaCha lock screen comes with four customizable shortcuts that can be dragged into the locking ring to unlock straight into an assigned app. Lock screen shows also missed calls, emails and SMS messages (and album art) when playing music.Annoyingly, you cannot lock directly up into these apps unless you have them set to lock the screen quickly. Unfortunately, the small screen have resulted in some cuts. The eight most recently launched programs and quick setting switches no longer Panel notifications.An 800 MHz processor and a respectable 512 MB RAM has HTC ChaCha very reasonable specifications for a phone in this price range. This also implies that a smooth user experience: the ChaCha speed does not impress you, but we are not experiencing any delay or weakening during everyday use.One aspect that doesn't blow you away is web browsing. The small screen by ChaCha makes this a painful and cramped experience. The arrow keys on the QWERTY keyboard makes moving around the page a little easier to handle, but if you're looking for a phone which gives a superb surf the Web, HTC ChaCha is definitely not for you.HTC ChaCha has a 5-megapixel camera with a single LED flash, and there is also a front-facing VGA camera for video calls. Rear camera also serves as a standard definition video camera. Flash works quite well in Dim lighting, although the video quality is lower than the average. We love the fact that you can use the external volume controls like Zoom keys, along with key Facebook double as a shutter button.HTC ChaCha has 512 MB of internal memory, but comes with a microSD card slot, and there is a 2 GB card in packaging.Battery life on HTC ChaCha is above average for an Android phone, lasts a whole day, and this can often stretch to almost two days according to use. On average, we managed to squeeze a day and a half of ChaCha with moderate usage. The smaller screen is the most likely reason for the extra battery time monitor on most Android phones is the main cause of battery drain.

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