Multimedia
The camera has a resolution of 5 megapixels, it has autofocus, but unfortunately we’ll get no flash. It seems that HTC has started to catch up with larger manufacturers in this matter as well, at least that’s what the camera’s software tells. The process of taking a picture is as follows: we start the camera, tap on the display where we want to focus – this is shown by a small “crosshair” – and then we press the virtual shoot key, so the handset first focuses and then takes the picture. This is all shown by a white flash, which is very spectacular.
The highest available resolution is 2592 x 1944 or 2592 x 1552 pixels for photos, depending on what we choose: “widescreen”, or standard 4:3 photo. There are tons of settings, this time we can tamper with sensitivity as well (ISO 100 – ISO 800), we have increased dynamics range, but the list of light metering settings still doesn’t have spot. We have the other usual things as well (white balance, JPEG compression, etc.), we can take panorama photos, but only with manual joining. Silly things like smile focusing are missing, or at least technically, as I didn’t miss them. We can record videos only at 640 x 480 pixels, the format can be H.263, H.264 or MPEG4.
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Image quality has improved, but it’s still not great. Edge sharpness is great, noise level/noise filtering ratio is also good, the photos are quite rich in details, but a bit pale and the dynamics range is very low, which is usually seen on the white sky. This last one would be okay, but Diamond2 would need some bright colors to be competitive with other 5 megapixel phones.
We can listen to music only with the default handset (since there’s no standard headphone jack), which looks just like the one that came with the previous generation, it just has a more flexible cable, which is very positive. Sound quality is good, but the lack of jack output is still lame, we can use our own headset only with a converter that has to be purchased separately. If we have something wireless, then there are no problems, as the Bluetooth module supports stereo sound.
The music player is new as well, in the directory view we can use the keys on the bottom (just like on iPhone) to choose between artist/album/genre/composer filtering, the all tracks list and playlists. The currently played back track is seen on the TouchFLO interface (together with the album cover), somehow the phone didn’t display the cover for a couple of tracks. There is an equalizer, but it works only if the headset is plugged in – at least it’s a good one, we can create our own presets.
There is an FM radio as well, it looks good and it’s easy to use, it displays station names and reception quality is okay as well. Handsfree sound quality is medium, there is a powerful distortion at high volume levels.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
