Any navigation, page scrolling, or app launching still requires your fingers, which leads to a back-and-forth dance between fingers and pen. Put the pen down, and it rolls right off the table. Put the pen in your pocket, and its clipless design is likely to tumble to the floor if you reach down to pick something up. The interface is fast and responsive.
The HTC Sense interface puts an emphasis on connecting with your friends and social networks. The included multitouch keyboard is excellent and easy to type with using your thumbs in both landscape and portrait orientation.
Apps including the camera launch within seconds. The Web browser is lean and powerful, with an impressive selection of advanced settings that can be adjusted. All in all, it's everything you'd hope for from a first-class HTC smartphone. Unfortunately, we can't help but feel that the tablet-as-giant-smartphone concept already wore out its welcome in , with the launch of products like the Dell Streak and Samsung Galaxy Tab.
We'd also like to see the shenanigans of two-year contracts thrown out the window, considering that the iPad 2 offers customers inexpensive pay-as-go service. It's a given now that consumers already own a smartphone and expect a tablet to offer something different beyond a bigger screen. The closest the HTC Flyer comes to achieving this is the tie-in with the Scribe technology, but we're not convinced that's a feature most people are looking for, and as a selling point it's hampered by the fact that the pen is sold separately as an accessory.
The LCD panel quality is beautiful and offers excellent viewing angles and brightness. Image and video capture quality are adequate, though not exceptional. And if you've been looking for a tablet with sophisticated tools for note taking and document annotation, the Flyer's Scribe technology is the best game in town.
The brightness decreases towards the upper left corner, though. We measured a black value of 0. Thus, the measurement adds up to a maximum contrast ratio of 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, 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. 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. However, the picture doesn't invert or fade. The Snapdragon chip is also responsible for the tablet's graphics output. This means that the most important hardware components of a computer are united on one single chip.
The manufacturer states the system's processor core rate to be 1. As we have already noticed in other tablets, the Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM 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 MHz when only little computing performance is needed.
The clock rate is increased in graphics-heavy application and reaches its maximum at MHz. 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.
HTC's tablet left the other test candidates far behind in the Linpack Pro test and reached a new top rate with nearly MFlops. The HTC also presented itself from its best side in the program, Quandrant. It also reached the top here with points.
The device faltered a bit in Smartbench and only managed second place with productivity , respectively points game index. The HTC test device again placed itself among the better tablets in the Sunspider benchmark test run through — clearly in front of all 7 inch devices and slightly behind the 10 inch devices that were tested.
The 7 inch HTC Flyer seems to be the perfect travelling companion for rendering music, pictures and videos especially on the go. The device would also serve well as a game console. A variety of apps and games for the Android 2. As we have already noticed in other tablets , not all games run in full screen mode. This is particularly due to the fact that few games have been designed for smartphones. Also, there are hardly any games that have been specifically developed for tablets and their higher resolutions.
The game check shows that even the newest games don't inevitably fill out the screen. Even the addition "HD" is not a guarantee that the screen will be exploited in its entire height and width.
It doesn't exactly look good for your videos, either. The only remedy is to download an appropriate player. Our test videos were all recognized, with exception of the MOV file, and ran smoothly. Even Full HD movies H. However, we occasionally experienced a freeze screen for several seconds while the sound continued to play. You have direct access to a great number of trailers and blockbusters with the online video service "Watch" provided that you have a good Internet connection of course.
You can rent or even buy the available movies. The online video shop offers mostly classics that have recurrently been seen on TV. But the latest movies, such as "The Social Network", are also in offer. The movie rental fee is 3.
You have to dig deep into your pockets when you want to buy a movie: "Spiderman 2" costs around 9 euros, "The Social Network" 13 euros. Buying the DVD would be cheaper in most cases. The device works absolutely silently since it doesn't have a fan. The installed chip's power loss is dissipated over the flipside, which is made of aluminum to the largest part.
The temperature is well noticeable even in idle mode. The Flyer gets even a bit warmer during load. The measureable temperature on the entire flipside increases to over 30 degrees Celsius. Two speakers are installed into the Flyer for audio output. They are located on the flipside's lower area. The sound is rendered quite adequately in medium volume. However, the sound gets tinnier the louder it is set. The audio output is equally good in every volume setting via the headphone jack.
The volume is either controlled directly on the HTC with both controls, or within the operating system's settings. The main question of every portable device is: How long does the battery last?
We of course wanted to see the facts for the HTC Flyer. The lithium ion battery lasted minutes, so almost 11 hours , in idle mode. However, the battery is already drained after 5 hours and 11 minutes in the Reader's Test minimum brightness, turning pages via WiFi. It declines even faster when the Flyer is used for gaming. The battery was drained after almost 4 hours exactly hours in a load situation and the Flyer turns itself off.
The battery lasted for minutes in use as a video player with modified display brightness. The movie night that begins in the afternoon will thus not be a success.
A drained battery needs almost 3 hours until it is charged to percent. The power consumption while charging is minor and was assessed to be 5. The HTC Flyer looks like an oversized smartphone at first. We quickly found our way around in the menus due to the familiar HTC Sense interface. However, we were disappointed as we looked closer at the workmanship and the retail price. The retail price of euros is likely a joke — at least that was our first thought.
Well i bought this tablet on 24th of December. I have to say this is the best thing that i ever bought. It came with a white leather case with the pen holder. Impressive i must say. Then after i while i started tweaking a bit and i am now able to make calls from the tablet. Touch is smooth. Camera is good for video calls over skype and gtalk. Battery backup was a problem initially but after 10 days it dramatically increased.
I now use it for more than 24 hours without charging Abhijeet Kini Certified Buyer. I ordered here at flipkart and got the beuty in 3 days. Good job flipkart. Coming to the tablet as i used it,i loved it. Screen is great and u have flash support too. Browsing is fast and games are playing very well. Sound from the speakers is pretty decent and with a pair of headphone u can enjoy it well.
Occasional hiccups are occuring while multitasking. I also found palm rejection to be quite good, but oddly when I handed the tablet to Ross, the side of his wrist kept launching the keyboard and pen palette. It does seem to work with other N-Trig stylui, however. For instance, the one that comes with the HP Slate works.
The apps are lacking at the moment, however. No, really, other apps will not recognize the pen at an input device — try it and you will just end up with a screenshot in Scribble. The last piece of the equation: battery life.
Even better is the fact that the tablet can be charged via a Micro USB cable — none of these proprietary charging cables! The does come with a unique charging cable, but it does work with regular Micro USB cables and adapters. Its 7-inch display makes it more portable than the loads of new inch tablets hitting the market, its Sense UI gives it a bit more stability than the Honeycomb slates, and its pen unlocks a whole new dimension.
Ultimately, yes, the Flyer is a solid device with some really interesting features, I just wish HTC would differentiate on one particularly important point: price. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Flyer lead. Filed under: Google. Linkedin Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Viewing angles are superb and the display itself is extremely bright. Cameras Cameras This section of your average tablet review is starting to sound like a broken record. Software Software The Flyer is certainly a different sort of tablet and much of that has to do with its software stack.
Apps Apps HTC has done quite a bit to optimize its apps for tablets. Pen Pen experience Sketching with the stylus is silky smooth.
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