Multimedia
The camera’s resolution is 5 megapixels and it has autofocus. I have been very curious about this, as this is the first HTC handset to have such a high-resolution image sensor. Taking pictures is a rather strange process, as there are only two buttons on the huge display besides the picture: the larger one is for taking the picture and the smaller one brings up the settings. We could say again that it’s similar to the iPhone, but it’s still more, as we can set things. Still, this is not the only difference: Touch HD uses the same focusing method as Sony Ericsson G900, so the camera focuses where we tap the screen. This means there is no dedicated macro mode, we just have to put the PDA close enough to an object and then tap on it on the screen. The process itself is rather slow and I have a feeling that the system misses in about 10 percent of the cases, but this is not such a big deal as exposure is not immediate after focusing, we first have to press the previously mentioned softkey. So, on the whole things are pretty good.
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Resolution is an interesting thing, as the handset can take pictures at the maximum resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels, but we can enable “wide mode”, which means pictures according to the screen’s aspect ratio, the resolution is 2592 x 1552 pixels in this case. In spite of the high-resolution image sensor we can record videos only at 320 x 240 pixels, speed is 30 frames per second. There are quite a lot of other settings, we can tamper with white balance, JPEG compression, light metering (average and center-weighted), we can set exposure correction (+/- 2 EV), we can turn off camera sounds, so we can practically change everything besides sensitivity (ISO value). Picture quality, however, is not the best, the new Touch is no match to the cameras of the same resolution on cell phones. There is not much color on the picture, noise level is pretty high, but the pictures aren’t very rich in details, which is mostly due to poor edge sharpness. This sounds very bad, but the pictures are not ugly, and to tell the truth we can take some nice pictures with HD, but it’s still not the crème de la crème of 5 megapixel camera-phones. The greatest problem is evidently the lack of a flash, pictures get inevitably blurred in poor lighting conditions. I am sorry for the small amount of test pictures, but the test period has been short and we had no good weather either, we’ll try to supplement the pictures later on.
Thanks to the 3.5 mm jack output the new PDA is much better for music playback than any of its predecessors. Not because the stock headset is so great, what more I might even say with a bit of exaggeration that it’s useless. Sound quality is mediocre, it has some boominess, treble is much more powerful than it should be and there is not much bass. The greatest problem is the shape of the headset: it has a Diamond-like design, you can see it on the picture, but this affects usability negatively. There are two sharp edges on the bottom, which terribly hurt the skin under our ears. Sound quality is perfect with a normal headset, I didn’t feel any difference between my iPod and Touch HD when using my Sennheiser headset. The music player has no new features, it’s still okay: it can filter tracks by ID3 tags, it can display album covers, it can seek, it can run in the background (in this case we can control it via TouchFLO), it has an equalizer, which runs only if there’s a headset plugged in. There is an FM radio as well, it has RDS support and works fine. We can theoretically watch movies, but it’s recommended to install TCPMP in order to do so. It’s sure that the hardware is powerful enough to play PC-optimized DivX/XviD movies without problems.
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