The Fall Smartphone Frenzy!

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This fall has been a crazy one so far because of all those product announcements we're getting. It's like they're trying to drain our wallets even before we acquired the money! I wanna know what you, the readers, are planning to get for the Christmas season. Participate in the polls below and argue in the comments! Haha.

What smartphone are you planning to get?
	Moto X
	Xperia Z1
	Xperia Z Ultra
	Galaxy Note 3
	iPhone 5S
	iPhone 5C
	Lumia 1020
	LG G2
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Salivating over the HTC One Mini...

I've heard so many rumors about HTC coming out with a competitor to that annoying Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. At first I was hesitant, thinking that it may be too underpowered to be a flagship-caliber mini smartphone since the Galaxy S III Mini was really underpowered. Thankfully, HTC wanted to dispel some myths about that when they announced the HTC One Mini.

The One Mini pretty much kept the older sibling's core experiences: the all-metal design, those dual frontal speakers with BoomSound, the social news aggregator BlinkFeed, and the UltraPixel camera. Despite that, there are shortcomings due to its mini size. It has a 1.4 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor unlike the 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor found on the One, a 4.3" screen, 16GB storage, and an 1800mAh battery. The One Mini also doesn't have the NFC antenna and the IR blaster that was found on the One.

Despite the shortcomings, I'm glad HTC did this. I wanted to try an Android phone but I didn't like the huge screens I'm seeing with the One and the S4 because I wanted a phone that would be more pocketable. I wanna try to be more open to what mobile OS I use (I went through a test drive of the Lumia 720 and it ran Windows Phone).  I've already known why Android's very popular but I wanna experience it for myself. Even though HTC is really hanging in the balance, I love how they work hard to regain the mindshare from people. So far, the One's doing a pretty good job and the One mini's gonna do great as well.

Anyone from HTC, if ever you're reading this, I really wanna try one. I would do ANYTHING just to try one and eventually own one. Like I said in the title, I'm really salivating over this. -_-

1 Ex? NO, It's the One X!

I've heard of HTC for a long time, ever since I saw early Android phones made by them. I never really thought of them as a major player, it has always been held by Samsung because it's more notable and CAN compete with Apple due to the plethora of devices they release every year. HTC has FINALLY nailed it. 


Enter the One X, an HTC Android device that I feel is completely thought out. It's like HTC went back to the drawing board and said, "What are we good at that others aren't?" That, my friend, is INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. When I saw it at the mall last Saturday, it looks very nice! :D I wanna say it again, HTC has FINALLY nailed this thing!


About the specs:

• 4.7" Super LCD 2 display w/ 1280x720 HD resolution
• 1GB RAM, 32GB internal storage
• NVidia Tegra 3 Quad-core chip
• 8-megapixel camera with HTC's ImageSense technology

I personally believe that this is THE Android phone that could possibly sway users of other smartphones, including the iPhone. I hope this can push Apple to do what they do best, or I may just jump ship. That Nokia Lumia 900 looks promising to me. Will be posting about that tomorrow. Later.