So, I’ve been messing around with my Adam for a while now and have noticed some things, many people have already noticed these things; however I am new to tablets and all my Android devices are still stock non-rooted (can’t afford to replace them if I screw it up!), as a List, currently in my home are an HTC Evo, and HTC Evo Shift, a Samsung Moment, and my Notion Ink Adam.
Things I have noticed, some are specific to the Adam, I think…
- most apps are written for really tiny resolution screens! I cannot even imagine it! The Adam is not super high res to begin with! The two worst apps I have seen so far are Gem Miner and Fruit Ninja! Makes me wonder if people realize that there are cell phones with greater than 900×500 resolution! (see the Meizu M9 which has a 3.5″ 640×960 display) These apps seem to be written for 320×240 pixel displays
- I believe my Notion Ink Adam had a faulty OS install
- When trying to switch to the Pixel Qi mode, it does switch, but also locks the screen and immediately goes to sleep… If I figure out that I am doing it wrong, you may see me demonstrating the correct way on YouTube in the near future, but right now the only way I know how is to quickly press and release the power button and the display goes B&W and then locks and then shuts off, in about 2.5 seconds. I tried getting the Pixel Qi switch app, but I couldn’t figure out how to use it before I nuked the stock Rom! I did take my Adam out in the sun and I was able to see it just the same (very sunny and direct on the screen) as when I was standing in side just seconds before (yes it was still in color when outside), so the auto-brightness must help a lot! Ok, I am a retard, apparently the PQi change button is a long press on the search button (go figure! I swear Rohan did it with a touch to the power switch in the videos), it works great, cannot believe I was standing in direct bright sunlight without using the PQi and could see the screen fine! I’ll have to test that again…
- I was not able to utilize any widgets, or airplane mode
- Eden Leaves would close themselves if I entered a full screen app and then exited that app by pressing the home key, all the leaves would close, after installing another app that could work as a home screen (Android Mate), anytime I pressed the home key and selected the Eden home screen, all Leaves would be closed.
- I’ve installed the Clockwork Mod, quick, easy, painless. it was the first time I have messed with an Android device in any way other than installing apps! I made a backup of my installation and that was about it! About 36 hours later I nuked my data and cache off the device, then formatted my internal SD, as it still had stuff on it, and restored from the restore partition.
- I then went to install EdenX, and when I went to shutdown I noticed I had an option to use airplane mode! maybe that would have helped with the cell standby eating >73% of my battery… who knows, didn’t stick around long enough to figure it out. I did try to initiate a change to the Pixel Qi display, but no dice (this was before I figured out how to do it right).
- well, Now I am waiting on EdenX to install, not looking good… I verified that Clockwork was gone, copied the EdenX files to the internal SD, and have been sitting staring at the little 3D’ish android guy for at least 10 minutes if not 25, I think it only took 3 – 5 minutes to restore stock… ok I’ve waited an hour, still the same. Pressing home took me back to the menu where it said failed to mount sd, ok, so I am a dumbass, I have only used the Clockwork mod when in recovery mode before, so I did not realize I needed to use the power button to start the process… well actually I forgot, I did read that part of the instructions. Again it took about 3.5 minutes and there was an image of a box with an arrow coming out of it. I’ll try and get a pick next time.
- The pretty white border around the Adam (shown also in red online, but not available) appears to be a sticker, thinner than electrical tape. Or it has a clear “sticker” over it, as there appears to be a bubble on the corners (maybe it is a shipping protection cover, but I am not willing to try and remove it!)
- Good news, my Adam camera does “lock” there is a definitive click when it reaches the full front or rear position and it takes a minor amount of effort to move it again.
- There is a “back” button on the right hand side of the device (in landscape mode), not really sure why, but I think it may come in handy once I get the thing setup the way I want it!
- The screen protector makes only a small difference in the glare, I don’t really think it is matte, not at all what was shown by Rohan on the notionink.wordpress.com blog. Oh and I recommend installing it sideways (landscape instead of portrait top down), as it will be easier to see if you are putting it on crooked! $10 to get another, just in case. ****update – Tactus has lowered their price to just $5 to get a replacement protector (although, since it is on Amazon.com shipping is $6.75)
I am loving EdenX, although it kept somethings from the Stock Rom I was not crazy about (some of the preinstalled apps, the crappy notification bar…), it runs much better, more responsive to touch, faster, allows widgets, multiple home screens, a real app launcher, and is much closer to what I was expecting out of the Box. I was even able to install my previously purchased Android Apps from the Android market, yes EdenX provides the Android market. Not sure when I’ll get around to trying another Rom, but for now, I am happy with EdenX! Only change I need to make is to disable the Cell Standby, that sucker is eating up >73% of my battery…
Ok, I went to the Radio Shack I purchased my phone from, they have had one return, for a very idiotic reason, the user reported that zero incoming calls ever rang through to the phone… I told the manager that I’d put $500 down that he accidentally setup Google Voice on his Evo, but never logged into the web and configured it, nor did he have a gmail account, nor did they set one up with the phone when he bought it. So, he has all of his incoming calls “blocked” by Google Voice and is not getting the voicemail notifications, because he did not setup his phone to receive gmail messages. HA! too funny… Also, none of the employees in the store have even heard of ANY of the issues that has been going on around the web with the HTC Evo (see links at the end of this post). I spent about 30 minutes at the store “educating” the employees about the problems plaguing the HTC Evo.
Afterwards I went to a nearby Sprint repair center, they have not had a single Evo returned, nor have they even heard of ANY of the issues that are being reported on the web. The sales person I talked to was fairly knowledgeable, although he admitted to only having seen 3 HTC Evo’s prior to mine, I was able to cover all of the issues within 15 minutes (they closed while I was doing this) and show him the light leak and the “moving glass” issue from my phone.
I’ve been using my Jabra Cruiser Car Speaker phone (BlueTooth and FM transmitter) with my Evo for 2.5 days now, and I must say it has been working very well. I love it, I had 1 issue where the Jabra connected, but only connected for phone audio, not music playback, but I just had to turn off the Jabra and turn it back on. Now, when I was driving home from Radio Shack and Sprint, I was listening to Pandora through my Evo and the Jabra, played out through my car Stereo Speakers. It sounded, well… good although I have a 200 Ford Mustang with the 6 speaker CD player audio package, and the passenger front speaker has a major tear in it and I believe at least one of the rear speakers has a small rip in the speaker fiber (not the original owner and I received the vehicle in that condition…) So I do not know if that is a good review of the sound quality.
Then I got home and had a lovely reboot issue, I turned off my BlueTooth Speakerphone, and the Evo locked up on my desktop/home screen with a message “BlueTooth Device Disconnected” in a pretty little grey bubble. it sat on that screen for 3 minutes, then the phone rebooted. But wait!!! it gets better… the phone got stuck on the 4G logo (after the video ended) and sat there for 10 more minutes, without dimming the screen, or shutting it off, then it rebooted again!!! I popped out the kickstand and sat the phone on the kitchen table and started to eat my dinner… You won’t believe me, but it rebooted while I was eating AND stuck on the 4G logo screen again! then after 2-4 minutes it rebooted itself (off the 4G logo screen) and made it back to my desktop/home screens. has not rebooted since and I did use my new headset to both listen to Pandora and to take 2 phone calls (about 80 minutes total).
Today I also received my Nuvelli stereo BlueTooth headset/headphones, they are a lot smaller than I originally thought ( a little smaller than a half dollar coin), sound pretty good for music and fairly good for voice, but not perfect; however my one severely audiophilic friend (one of the two people I have talked to so far, while using the headset) said it sound like I am underwater and have severe echo. I then talked to my wife, who is very picky, and she said that I “sound like shit” and should return the headset. I tried to sync it with my PC (Ubuntu 10.04) and the BlueTooth device manager said that my BlueTooth device does not support “input” (note, it also said this about my HTC Evo).
Since I was completely unable to find any real information on this device online, I have happily created an absolutely horrible unboxing which you will find below, including a pdf file of the English section of the manual (If you are reading this and would really like the Spanish version, you might be able to bribe me to scan the pages written in Spanish too… maybe), that I made myself. You also will not find ANY of this information on the manufacturer’s website or even on Amazon.com.
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- The back of the Nuvelli box
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- The front of the Nuvelli box
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- The left side of the Nuvelli box
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- The right side of the Nuvelli box
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- The top of the Nuvelli box
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- The inside of the Nuvelli headset
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- The Nuvelli headset sitting on a Compact Disc with a Quarter
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- Nuvelli headset on CD, again… with Quarter
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- internal packaging
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- The USB charging adapter
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- A closeup of the USB charging adapter
This will be the last post of my first review on the HTC Evo, for now… not really a summary of things previously said, but more of a last couple of things I have noticed or wanted to mention in my post.
The phone feels light and good in my hands, I have had several people mention how light it feels, only to place the Evo in one hand and their phone in the other and then say “Oh my! it is actually heavier than my phone!” this of course has to do with density, a larger phone with the weight spread out will feel lighter, when you do not have a direct comparison, than it actually is.
The display is a super fingerprint magnet, if you touch it, there will be a finger print left behind. I have tried everything I can think of and I always leave a print. this makes the idea of a lock code for the phone to be a ridiculous time waster, if you turn your phone on to do something quick, like check the notifications, or a widget, then turn it off, leave it, and someone else picks it up, it would take a very stupid person to not be able to figure out your passcode.
I also have a problem with the apps that feel they have to autorun, or startup services in the background, for no reason, even worse are the ones I just installed and have never run that feel the need to start themselves. An example, I have a fitness app that shows exercises, has them categorized, and has video animations of how to perform them. This app loads its’ services all the time, no matter how many times I kill it (I even have an auto task killer that is set to nuke it as well, and when you connect via USB to a computer and select to mount the SD card, this service fails and you have to FC because it cannot access the SD card anymore. I have restarted my phone 6 or 7 times since the last time I ran that app and it still loads all the time. now let me clarify, the app is not running in the task list, the SERVICE is running in the background, the app does absolutely nothing, besides list a database of workout exercises and mini animations that show how to do them, that is it, no way to log what you do, nothing else. I wish Android would prevent apps from doing this, I am also really tired of seeing Sprint NFL or NASCAR, or TV running when I check my Advanced Task Killer, I have never and will never run those applications.
I would like to know if anyone has found out if they are called from a chron job? as that would be a darn good reason to root the phone…
Overall the HTC Evo 4G is a very quick and responsive device, except when the system available memory for running programs is less than 50megs. I know that unless I am installing apps (which means my lookout is scanning them for viruses/spyware and my phone will be running slow), that if my phone’s performance has dropped, that I need to go kill the Sprint apps and whatever else has decided to autorun/load in the background.
I can turn my phone on at any time and I will find the following (in)active apps:
voicemail
google voice
appbrain app market
voice dialer
market
apps organizer
layar
timeriffic
gesture search
voice search
gmail
camera
batterytime lite
lookout
messages
mp3 store
vlc remote
body fitness
people
sound manager
SWYPE
HTC DM
HTC IAQgent
HTC Message Uploader
HTC Sense
Internet
BlueTooth Share
my Uploads
Open Sense Plugin Manager
Settings
Startup auditor
Stats
com.smithmicro.dm (need to find out what this is)
any of the last 5 or 10 apps I have manually run
and of course ATK, as that is what I am using to view this… Although I always kill ATK when I am done. (just found out about and stareted using “system” and I love it, try this instead of ATK!)
giving available memory less than 45megs, this is not a good thing if I am going to run 2 or 3 apps as it takes the system a couple of seconds to kill enough apps to make room for whatever I am loading up
now when I load up Advanced Task Manager it shows me more…
I have 3 references for “maps”
slideIT keyboard is running (uninstalled, replaced by SWYPE)
HTC checkin service
updater
those are also running, the nice thing about ATM is that I can look at running services too, and system services on separate tabs.
I think Google needs to start monitoring apps that are put on the market place and providing some quality control, not content control, but make sure apps don’t have STICK FIGURES!!! also make sure all apps have a settings screen that allows the user to choose if they want it to be able to auto-load, or if the app can run in the background, or if it has to be suspended to disk (the way Apple manages it’s apps, when you leave an app it is suspended and the ram it was using is saved to a file so that when you launch it again it appears to be exactly the way you left it, or it completely exits). You should also be able to take any app and tell it “when I say quit, you quit, and don’t do anything again until I ask you to!”
I really like the “link” system in the HTC Sense UI (friends stream) that allows you to choose which services to link a friend to (other contacts, facebook, twitter, and flicker) you can also merge contacts without deleting them, for example I keep all of my wife’s information from before we were married in a contact listed under her maiden name. On my Evo, I have linked the two contacts to each other, and they show up as my wife (married name) in my contacts list, but if I select edit it asks me if I want to edit married or maiden (not like that, it actually shows her 2 contact names)
The proximity sensor actually works! and is very quick and accurate at determining if my face is against the phone when talking or not. My wife’s Samsung Moment fails on this test, it almost never turns the screen off when talking.
I am thinking about doing a live blog posting of my usage of the phone for a full charge, to give people an example of how much usage I get out of the phone, not sure about this, as I frequently vary the amount I use it by substantial amounts. Also, I do not have an exchange account anywhere to test that functionality, as much as I hate Lotus, it would be nice if someone would make an OS with built in Notes support… shoot, it would be nice if someone would make a Notes and Sametime compatible app for Android, the one notes app has poor ratings, and only connects you to the webpage for your iNotes and is not really an app, plus it did not work for me.
***Update*** a little update
I was just using my Evo to take some pics and record a couple of videos for these posts, and it would not let me change my wallpaper to one of the images I took, it crashed the service “com.htc.albums” I tried setting it directly from the file browser (both Linda and Android mate) and from the menu button used from the home screen (I tried gallery and Astro as well), I finally shutdown the phone, then restarted it, when it came back up it had the new background all ready set, but several changes I had made to some settings over the last 3 or 4 hours were undone and the last notifications I received were “marked” as uncleared again, so I had to reset those changes.
This issue has happened several times in one day, I had enabled GPS and wifi, turned the brightness setting to low from auto, then I turned on Wardrive as I was going to go walk around the neighborhood with my dog, Wardrive is supposed to keep the phone from going to sleep, but it turned off anyways. When I turned it back on, I was no longer able to unlock it again, nothing loaded except for the background and status bar at the top, which I cannot slide down to see the notifications. Nothing else works, none of the buttons do anything except for the screen on/off button, the bottom four touch buttons make the phone vibrate when I hit them, like they do when there is no action available to the button in an app. Holding in the power button does nothing either. I had to remove the battery, again, I left it out for about a minute. Powers on just fine after replacing the battery. The Evo maintained most of the settings I had before, but brought back the notifications I had before the problem happened the first time, 5+ hours ago. Starting to think I need to trade it in for a replacement.
ok, last thing for this series of posts… I LOVE MY HTC EVO 4G’s HUMONGUS SCREEN!!! I also have a little bit of Streak envy…
Later… ( promise to work on the formatting issue of the website this weekend, to make this easier to read)
The ocean at North Myrtle Beach, SC 41.90MB, 1280×720, 58 seconds, 23fps, 6.00000Mbps, type: video/3gpp video/MP4V-ES
Let’s talk about the Evo 4G camera…
the camera takes acceptable pictures, as has been mentioned online, it will NOT replace even a decent point and shoot, nor any quality of dedicated video camera. I have not yet tested the 720p video but should be able to today, so I will update this post with tha tinfo before uploading it to my blog. Right, here is my list of good and bad and somewhere in between things with the camera on the HTC Evo 4G:
1. The pictures are crisp, clear, and sharp, most of the time.
2. The pictures are almost always in focus and the camera can focus anywhere on the screen with just a touch from the user, else it auto focuses on the center most often (I believe if you are taking a full frame or closer shot of a person, it will focus on the face, as I have seen it detect faces, sometimes… the auto-focus is fairly quick, IF you let it focus before you hit the camera button (to take the picture), I have noticed it can focus in less than 2 seconds always, and less than 1 second most of the time, if you let it; however if you hit the shutter release button before the camera can focus it appears to go through a pre-programed focal distant test that follows the same pattern every time and basically starts at infinity and works it’s way closer, testing every setting in between. This process might take 1.5-4 seconds depending on how far you are from the subject in the center of the screen. again if you touch to focus before shooting, it is very quick to come into focus. still on the matter of focusing, it appears that there is also a 3-4 second time out set on the focusing script, if it cannot focus in that amount of time, it just gives up. So, if your subject is moving closer to, or farther away from you, or even back and forth, it might not be able to focus on it and will take a blurry picture (if you tell the camera to shoot the picture without picking a focal point or allowing it to come into focus first). my recommendation in this situation (ie with kids running around) is to pick a spot on the ground, touch that part of the screen, forcing focus there, and take your shot. one more comment on this part and I’ll move on… fast moving objects that are close to you are going to be blurry. my dog was walking and his legs are blurry, not running, not reacting to something, just walking along. maybe it was just a bad shot, I’ll keep trying of course…
3. Apparently the lens maximum opening is a wee bit larger then the sensor, this normally happens in a fixed lens system when the quality of the lens is subpar and it suffers from image degredation on the outer edges of the glass, as such a manufacturer would make the sensor smaller so that most if not all of the degredation would not be seen in the final image.
4. There also appears to be an issue with white balance/auto-adjust levels. I have an extremely white dog, when taking pictures of him with my Evo, he has this aura of pure white that creates a halo around his body, this appears to only happen when he is outside and in near direct sunlight. I do not have this issue with my 4 year old kodak 8.0mp point and shoot.
5. the digital zoom appears to be only 1.8x or maybe a full 2.0x. Definitely not enough to make anyone even think of replacing their digital camera, not when there are those two new sweet ass models from Olympus that have 30x optical zoom and 2x-5x digital!!
6. I have not been able to discover any way to manipulate the shutter speed or aperture in the default camera app, I will look later and see if someone else has made a camera app for Android that might be capable of doing this. But, you cannot use manual mode, there is no “active” mode for moving subjects, not night shot mode (although it does pretty good in loow light on auto!), no landscape mode, no portrait mode, no modes at all to be frank! (please don’t call me frank, I really don’t like that name…)
7. no option for taking panorama shots.
8. it does support ISO settings of auto, or 100, 200, 400, 800, 1250
9. quality settings of high, fine, and normal
10. resolution settings of small 640×384, 1mp 1280×768, 3mp 2048×1216, 5mp 2592×1552, or 8mp 3264×1952
11. widescreen 5:3 or normal 4:3 image ratio (most useful for video)
12. 2 or 10 seconds self-timer
13. the option to turn on or off geo-tagging; however it is always off unless you turn GPS on FIRST, then go into the camera settings and turn the geo-tagging on, as the geo-tagging reverts to “off” anytime the GPS is shut down on your phone. so you must do this everytime, or leave GPS on always (not a good idea for your battery)
14. the effects are interesting, none, greyscale, sepia, negative, solarize, posterize, and aqua (just turns everything smurfy) they work in less than .5 seconds on the current display. I will try later when I do some video tests to see if they effect the videos also.
14. there are manual brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness settings, but you will rarely need them. for some really weird reason the brightness setting has it’s own menu tab, and the other three are all together.
15. there is a timeout of about 3 minutes where the camera will shut off and the phone will display a message telling yo uto touch the display to activate the camera, which is a nice feature, IF that actually saves you any battery life…
That is about it for the camera at this time, I will be posting images here every now and then, most likely I will be dropping lower rez versions on the blog, but will link to full rez images so you can click to see the whole thing for detail.
I have not yet been able to output HDMI video, nor have I been able to sync any BlueTooth devices to it yet; however I have a handsfree car speakerphone with FM transmitter in the mail on its way to me, and a stereo Bluetooth Headphones/Headset coming as well. So, I will have some more information on this soon. I will be ordering a new HDMI cable in another week and will post up how that goes then too, I actually ordered a cable before the phone launched, but apparently there is a special cable for the Evo, and the one I bought (a really nice HDMI 1.4 5 meter cable too) does not have the correct connector plug, so I will have to buy the special HTC Evo cable for $20 instead of the $4 cable I already bought…
Let’s talk about the Evo 4G camera…
While the camera does take some pretty acceptable pictures, as has been mentioned online, it will NOT replace even a $100 point and shoot, nor any quality of dedicated video camera. Here is my list of good and bad and somewhere in between things with the camera on the HTC Evo 4G:
1. The pictures are crisp, clear, and sharp, most of the time.
2. The pictures are almost always in focus and the camera can focus anywhere on the screen with just a touch from the user, else it auto focuses on the center most often (I believe if you are taking a full frame or closer shot of a person, it will focus on the face, as I have seen it detect faces, sometimes… the auto-focus is fairly quick, IF you let it focus before you hit the camera button (to take the picture), I have noticed it can focus in less than 2 seconds always, and less than 1 second most of the time, if you let it; however if you hit the shutter release button before the camera can focus it appears to go through a pre-programed focal distant test that follows the same pattern every time and basically starts at infinity and works it’s way closer, testing every setting in between. This process might take 1.5-4 seconds depending on how far you are from the subject in the center of the screen. again if you touch to focus before shooting, it is very quick to come into focus. still on the matter of focusing, it appears that there is also a 3-4 second time out set on the focusing script, if it cannot focus in that amount of time, it just gives up. So, if your subject is moving closer to, or farther away from you, or even back and forth, it might not be able to focus on it and will take a blurry picture (if you tell the camera to shoot the picture without picking a focal point or allowing it to come into focus first). my recommendation in this situation (ie with kids running around) is to pick a spot on the ground, touch that part of the screen, forcing focus there, and take your shot. one more comment on this part and I’ll move on… fast moving objects that are close to you are going to be blurry. my dog was walking and his legs are blurry, not running, not reacting to something, just walking along. maybe it was just a bad shot, I’ll keep trying of course…
2b. There is a setting in the camera for standard metering modes: center, average, and spot.
2c. Also white balance modes: auto, Incandescent, Fluorescent, Daylight, and Cloudy.
3. Apparently the lens maximum opening is a wee bit larger then the sensor, this normally happens in a fixed lens system when the quality of the lens is subpar and it suffers from image degredation on the outer edges of the glass, as such a manufacturer would make the sensor smaller so that most if not all of the degredation would not be seen in the final image.
4. There also appears to be an issue with white balance/auto-adjust levels. I have an extremely white dog, when taking pictures of him with my Evo, he has this aura of pure white that creates a halo around his body, this appears to only happen when he is outside and in near direct sunlight. I do not have this issue with my 4 year old Kodak 8.0mp point and shoot.
5. The digital zoom appears to be only 1.8x or maybe a full 2.0x. Definitely not enough to make anyone even think of replacing their digital camera, not when there is that new sweet ass model from Olympus with 30x optical zoom and 5x digital!!
6. I have not been able to discover any way to manipulate the shutter speed or aperture in the default camera app, I will look later and see if someone else has made a camera app for Android (there is one I saw “advertised” on AppBrain, haven’t tried it yet) that might be capable of doing this. But, you cannot use manual mode, there is no “active” mode for moving subjects, no night shot mode (although it does pretty good in low light on auto! see the fountain shot on part 2!), no landscape mode, no portrait mode, no modes at all to be frank! (please don’t call me frank, I really don’t like that name…)
7. No option for taking panorama shots.
8. It does support ISO settings of auto, or 100, 200, 400, 800, 1250
9. Quality settings are fairly standard: high, fine, and normal.
10. Available resolution settings of small 640×384, 1mp 1280×768, 3mp 2048×1216, 5mp 2592×1552, or 8mp 3264×1952
11. Widescreen 5:3 or normal 4:3 image ratio (most useful for video but not available when shooting video)
12. 2 or 10 seconds self-timer
13. There is the option to turn on or off geo-tagging; however it is always off unless you turn GPS on FIRST, then go into the camera settings and turn the geo-tagging on, as the geo-tagging reverts to “off” anytime the GPS is shut down on your phone. so you must do this everytime, or leave GPS on always (not a good idea for your battery)
14. Special effects, which are interesting to play with: none, greyscale, sepia, negative, solarize, posterize, and aqua (just turns everything smurfy) they work in less than .5 seconds on the current display. I will try later when I do some video tests to see if they effect the videos also.
15. Additional settings are available, including: manual brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness settings, but you will rarely need them. for some really weird reason the brightness setting has it’s own menu tab, and the other three are all together on one.
16. The Evo does have a sleep timer of about 3 minutes where the camera will shut off and the phone will display a message telling yo uto touch the display to activate the camera, which is a nice feature, IF that actually saves you any battery life…
Some video settings include:
1. Switch camera front/rear.
2. The same white balance options of the camera.
3. The same brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness settings screens.
4. The same effect screens.
5. Resolutions: 720p (1280×720), WVGA (800×480), VGA (640×480), CIF (352×288), QVGA (320×240).
6. Encoding options: H.263 and MPEG4.
7. Defined recording length: 1MB, 2MB, 10 secs, 30 secs, 1 mins (yes mins), 3 mins, or unlimited.
8. Record with or without audio.
9. The same metering modes as the camera.
10. Review durations: no review, 5 seconds, 10 seconds, no limit (seconds is spelled out on this screen, but not on the recording length screen).
11. Flicker Adjustment: auto, 50 Hz, 60Hz.
12. Auto Focus: on/off
13. Face Detection: on/off
14. Shutter Sound: on/off
It seems as though they left the setting there from the camera and just made changes for the options that needed to be different.
That is about it for the camera at this time, I will be posting images here every now and then, most likely I will be dropping lower rez versions on the blog, but will link to full rez images so you can click to see the whole thing for detail.
I have not yet been able to output HDMI video, I did get to sync my Hands-Free Bluetooth car speakerphone with FM transmitter to it and I have been using that quite happily for 2 days now with only one issue, it appears that the BT speakerphone goes into sleep mode after 10 minutes if you don’t hit a button, as it did to me this morning while listening to music pushed out to my car speakers via the built-in FM transmitter, even though I did receive a 5 minute call in the middle of that 10 minutes. I also have a stereo Bluetooth Headphones/Headset coming in the mail that I will let you know about too.. So, I will have some more information on this soon. I will be ordering a new HDMI cable in another week and will post up how that goes then too, I actually ordered an HDMI cable before the phone launched, but apparently there is a special cable for the Evo, and the one I bought (a really nice HDMI 1.4 5 meter cable too) does not have the correct connector plug (and I cannot find any adapters…), so I will have to buy the special HTC Evo cable for $20 instead of the $4 cable I already bought…
10 seconds of the ending credits of a movie taken on my Evo in 720p – details: 3.97MB, 1280×720, 12 seconds, 9fps, 6.00000 Mbps, type:video/4gpp video MP4V-ES
a video out the front window of my vehicle while someone else was driving taken on my Evo in QVGA (the lowest quality setting) details: 0.97MB, 320×240, 9 seconds, 29fps, 800Kbps, type:video/3gpp video MP4V-ES
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