There are various controls on the device. ( Sony VGP-BPS13A/S Battery ) One lets you turn on the HTC tablet and another is for volume control. These buttons are found on the device's upper left. HTC has cleverly solved the three control fields for Home, Back and Options. They are implemented twice on the unit and useable depending on the tablets position.
These three control fields are located at the screen's bottom in the landscape mode and have a backlight. ( VGP-BPS13A/S battery ) They "move" when the device is turned around into the portrait mode and are then at the tablet's bottom. The other three control fields, which are now at the screen's side, are disabled in this position, just like their backlight.
There are a total of seven sensors in the HTC Flyer, ( battery Vostro 1310 ) which can be used in relation to the application. The accelerometer, for example, responds to the tablet's position and detects all three axes. These positions are used especially within games. The sensors can also be used in other applications, such as a water level.
The lighting conditions are determined by the webcam. This sensor makes it possible to adjust the brightness automatically. ( vostro 1400 battery ) Other sensors determine the Earth's gravity field (compass), serve localization or give battery state information (Latitude D620 Battery ) (charge status, temperature). Noise levels can be determined via the microphone.
A digital stylus is included for the Flyer as another input device. ( Battery Aspire 4710 battery ) You can write notes, draw pictures or highlight text in color with it. Sketching proves to work very smoothly with the pen. Many various brushes, colors and patterns can also be chosen in the menu. The stylus and its "artistic function" can be used in almost every application.Alike Nintendo's game console, you can edit, manipulate or comment your pictures.( Acer Aspire One battery ) Notes via stylus can even be written within websites, menus or emails. ( Dell Laptop Battery ) The pen can also be used as a marker within text sections.
Alternative main screenThe LC display has a screen diagonal of 7 inches ( Vostro 1320 Battery ) (17.78 cm) and a resolution of 1024x600. The touchscreen can reproduce 16.7 million colors at a dot density of 170 dpi.
The capacitive screen allows you to play games or write emails on the HTC Flyer and control it. ( dell Inspiron 1720 Battery ) The screen supports multi-touch inputs, such as rotate, zoom in or out of websites or pictures, with the usual gestures.
The screen content adjusts to the device's position and rotates from landscape mode to the portrait mode when the HTC is turned. Screen content rotation can also be disabled in the settings.
The reproduced colors on the Flyer make a very saturated impression. ( inspiron 1520 battery ) Our measurements resulted in a maximum brightness rate of 352 cd/m2. The brightness decreases towards the upper left corner, though. The illumination is 87%. The average of this display is good 327:1 cd/m2.
The HTC Flyer's glossy screen mirrors a lot of the environment in outdoor use. Aside from the usual self portrayal, direct sunlight is lethal for the display content. Watching videos or simply reading emails is particularly agonizing. Moreover,( Dell Inspiron 1420 battery ) the contrast and colors suffer. They fade faster than during indoor use. A shady place, for example in the beer garden, only remedies this to an extent.
The SLCD screen's content is well-legible from almost every viewing angle on the Flyer. ( Dell Inspiron 1525 battery ) There wasn't anything to complain about in the standard test angle of 45 degrees. All details and colors were well visible in this angle – even when the tablet was tilted further towards the back or front. All screen contents are still well-readable at 85 degrees. The content becomes illegible when the reflections on the display multiply themselves.( battery vostro 1510 ) However, the picture doesn't invert or fade.
System informationAn ARM v7 CPU, model Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 with a maximum clock rate of 1.5 GHz, ( Sony VGP-BPS13/B battery ) works inside the HTC Flyer. The Snapdragon chip is also responsible for the tablet's graphics output.
The ( VGP-BPS13B/B battery ) Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 is a so-called "system on one chip" solution. This means that the most important hardware components of a computer are united on one single chip. A single core processor, a graphics chip and the GSM and UMTS modules are on this one chip solution. Until now, ( battery dell Vostro 1520 ) the Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 was favored for use in modern smartphones.
The CPU almost always works with 216 MHz ( Dell inspiron 6400 battery ) (during a test day)The manufacturer states the system's processor core rate to be 1.5 GHz. As we have already noticed in other tablets, the Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 works with a low clock depending on the requirements. This means the clock rate orientates itself autonomously on the requirements of active programs. The processor clocks down to 266 MHz when only little computing performance is needed.( HP compaq 8510w battery ) The clock rate is increased in graphics-heavy application and reaches its maximum at 1500 MHz. The Qualcomm processor has a RAM of 1 GB available.
In the executed benchmarks, the HTC Flyer is almost on a par with the 10 inch tablets that we were allowed to review over the past weeks. ( battery VGP-BPS9/B ) The HTC Flyer clearly surpasses the 7 inch devices from Dell or Creative in Browsermark. However, ( Aspire 4520 battery ) the HTC device didn't quite reach the rates of Asus' Eee Tab Transformer.