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Will HTC Thunderbolt Survive Smartphone Battle Against Samsung Galaxy S2?

HTC Thunderbolt, which weighs 6.23 ounces and 14mm (0.56-inch) thick, is more weight on your pocket compared to Galaxy S2, which is super-thin merely measuring 8.5mm (0.33-inch) in thickness and weighs about 4 ounces.

But the ThunderBolt runs on Verizon's 4G network, which can manage download speeds up to 12 Mbps, and upload speeds up to 5 Mbps. Its 4G coverage includes 45 cities, and 60 airports in the U.S. By the end of 2011, Verizon claims that the 4G service will extend to 100 more locations.

The ThunderBolt is the first phone on Verizon's network that uses a physical SIM card, versus MEID or ESN, for device authentication.

Reviews of the Galaxy S2 have been positive. Engadget gave the device a 9/10, calling it "the best 2.2 Froyo OS. On the other hand, Galaxy S2 runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread which is the latest smartphone version of Android OS.

Though Froyo isn't quite as refined as Gingerbread, it has true multi-tasking support, Wi-Fi hotspot tethering and Adobe Flash support. But in Gingerbread, the user interface is refined, the soft keyboard and copy/paste features have been improved, and support for near field communication (NFC) has been added.

Camera: HTC Thunderbolt sports a rear-facing 8MP dual-LED flash camera with 720p HD video recording, and a front-facing camera has 1.3MP for video chat. Galaxy S2, on the other hand, has an 8MP single-LED flash camera with 1080p HD video recording at 30 frames per second and 2MP fixed front-facing camera for video chat.

Screen: HTC Thunderbolt sports a 4.3-inch WVGA TFT screen with 800x480 screen resolution, while Galaxy S2 sports a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED screen with 800x480 screen resolution.

Processor: Thunderbolt is powered by single-core 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 Snapdragon processor with 768MB RAM. This is much slower than Galaxy S2's dual-core 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 -400MP GPU Orion processor with 1GB RAM.

Size: Thunderbolt 4G is 122 x 66 x 13 mm and weighs 164 g, while Galaxy S2 has a 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5 mm and weighs 116 g.

Input: The input features found in HTC’s smartphone are: accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, proximity sensor for auto turn-off, HTC Sense 2.0 UI and multi-touch. Galaxy S2 has features like TouchWiz UI version 4.0, multi-touch input, accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, touch-sensitive controls, proximity sensor for auto turn-off, gyroscope sensor and Swype text input.

Samsung BD-P1400 1080p Blu-Ray Disc Player Review | Samsung Blu ...

I have a BD-P1400, a PS3, and an Xbox 360 + HD-DVD drive. In the month that I've had the Samsung it's done a terrific job on video and audio quality. I'm playing it on a 46" Samsung LN-T4665F connected through HDMI. That's the good news, and it's certainly good. I've never had any of the stutters or other audio/video glitches that others have mentioned. On the other hand, here are the quirks that I've run into: (1) The Samsung takes by far the longest of my three players to load movies, and simply responding to an eject/open request takes 30 seconds for some reason (even when there's no disc inside). There's no feedback to tell you what's happening during eject, so you wonder if it's hung or actively thinking about it. (2) The Blu-ray movie producers in their infinite wisdom keep changing their DRM formats as their latest ones get hacked, which is an unbelievably customer unfriendly decision. The BR players are all updatable so it's conceptually possible to play the latest movies. Unfortunantely, the Samsung has a VERY unintuitive failure mode and upgrade procedure, which likely makes this required operation out of reach for most people on this device. Here's my (very long) step by step experience, which I hope will help give you a tangible understanding of what it's like, as well as potentially out anyone else similarly stuck. I ran into this with the new Live Free or Die Hard DVD, which after the usual 45 second or so load process simply hung the player. It wouldn't respond to any input (play, stop, menu, etc), the counter read "0000", and the screen remained black. I had heard about the DRM format issue, so suspected that this could be the potential problem - unfortunately I had bought that DVD on its first day of release and tried to play it that night so no one else had posted about their problems with that config yet. Following the manual's instructions, I plugged in a enet cable and tried to pick up the latest update. For some reason it didn't successfully get a DHCP address on my network, so I manually entered the network info. It told me that there was a new update available, so I selected download. When the download process strated, again these was no way to tell whether it was hung or actively working, and no way to tell how much progress it had made and how much more it still needed. As a result, after about 30 or 45 minutes I cancelled and tried again.

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