HTC Sedna - whale security

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The camera is a 3 megapixel one, has autofocus and in poor light conditions there is the LED flash to help us. Highest available resolution is 2048 x 1536 pixels for photos and 320 x 240 for videos, which can be recorded in MPEG4 or H.263 format. Picture quality is far from perfect, photos are quite “digital”, noise filtering is powerful, but it’s not as “oil-painting-like” as in many Sony Ericsson phones. There are quite a lot of settings; we can alter light metering (spot/average), jpeg compression (in 4 steps) and white balance. We can also set exposure correction in a +/-2 EV range, in 1/2 steps. There is a delayed timer too, and we can add some spice to the pictures with frames.

Taking pictures wasn’t a completely smooth process, the software seemed buggy. Sedna wanted to save the pictures on the 1 GB storage by default, the process itself took a few seconds, which is no wonder, as some pictures are more than 1 MB large. The problem is, that during saving, the PDA hung many times (in about 50% of the cases) and only soft-reset proved to be helpful. Focusing is fast, but it’s quite interesting, because if we press the exposure button during saving, than after a successful save the phone took another picture, no matter that ~5 seconds have elapsed since I pressed the button. EXIF information is problematic too, as shutter speed has always been 1/2 sec., at least according to the phone.

Our music tracks are played back by the well known Audio Manager, which is a much better software than the factory default Media Player, but it’s not complete from the point of view of functionality as the equalizer and bass boost are missing. We can filter tracks by artist/album/genre/composer, we can use playlists, we can set the tracks as ringtones and we can also edit them if we want to. The included headset is of medium quality, but the loudspeaker is something I have never heard before. Since I like giving awards, I’d like to give Sedna the Worst speaker of all time award. Sound quality is so brutally awful, that I can’t describe it in words, it might be something like a usual quartz game’s speaker, but I’m not sure even about that.

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