Assault on battery
The specification of the 8Mp - or 6.37Mp if you shoot in 5:3 rather than 4:3 - camera is impressive but it flatters to deceive somewhat. Yes, you can record 720p/25fps video but only as 3GP not H.264 and the end results are no more than adequate.
Still images don't fare much better and are no real advance on many lesser 5Mp Android phones, though there are lots of handy shooting options and effects to jazz up your Facebook mobile uploads.
The HD's two LED lights are better than one when it comes to low-light photography - and make a handy torch - but a single Xenon flash would be better yet. And on a phone of this stature a front-facing video camera wouldn't have gone amiss either.
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COMMENTS
Weather App Broke??
I think the weather app on that thing is busted...there's no way it was 'Partly Sunny' in manchester
jason7
Why read a review about a smartphone and then comment on it if you don't even like smartphones? GTFO will you? Pffff.
80%
I assume it needs to be made by Apple to get that extra 20%...
Oh, and 3GP is a container, H.264 is a codec. Infact the Desire records H.264 in a 3GP container is clearly lost on you.
Can someone point me to a El-Reg review that's not epic fail?
where are you buying your phones?
it's not free on £40 per month , it can be quite easily found for free on £30 at carphone warehouse, or even free on £25 per month at mobiles.co.uk
Ermmm....
You mean like the Apple made iPhone 4 that received 75%, or the Apple made 3GS that scored 85%, or the Apple made 3G that scored 80%. Hardly the extra 20% you assumed.
Not so much an El-Reg review fail so much as a comment fail, sorry.... and I hate Apple.
