HTC Aria DiGi Final Review -Entertainment

Hehehe, I love phones which is able to kill my boredom and I am certain that most of us do too... HTC Aria offers just that, my dear friends... You can equipped it with high class entertainment for sure, thanks to the Android Market. You might think that since Android is still new, they do not have many free applications... EEEKKKK (Buzzer sound), you are so wrong!!!... Android has so so so so many free applications in the Android Market. I was freaking surprised when I saw the amount of cool applications that they have... and the best part is, it's free... They have almost all the applications that I wanted in my phone... As I mentioned before, HTC Aria can be perfect Personal Assistance for you, wait... wait... I can hear you asking my why is that so??? I've listed down why I think it is a perfect PA, and after reading my entry, I am sure you'll be grabbing your wallet and head to the nearest digi store to get the Aria with the smart plan for yourself.

 1. Music - you can listen to your favourite music when you are commuting in a public transport. No need to bring a mp3 player

 2. When you want some fun, you can play games

Jewel



Frog

Pacman is back rocking in Aria

3.To work out your rusty brain, try IQ Tester

4. Going shopping, tag Aria along with you, list down all your necessities and key in the price, as you buy them, all you need to do is tick it off your list. Now, you have a great reason to go shopping



Shopulator

6. Would like to track your money, use EEBA



Budget your expenses and record your daily transaction

So, now do you agree with me??? It's an awesome company right... This is my last review and I will be returning this beauty to Nuffnang... I am so sad to depart HTC Aria as I am getting really fond of it... I am not going to be able to play my favourite game 'Frog' and buy groceries, I've got to go back to plain paper. I am really looking forward for the day to be reunited with Aria.

Anyway, readers, if you are looking for a good phone which you expect to be a great companion which does finance, play games, help you to shop or connect you to the world, and at a good price, get Aria at DiGi as cheap as RM799 (RP - RM1799) with plan as low as RM68.



HTC Aria Part3 - Communication

HTC Aria is a great device to be utilised as a social device. Youngsters would definitely love this device. With Digi Smart Plan, it's not necessary to communicate with your friends using voice plan but simply log on to Google Talk, Twitter, Facebook, Pluckr and Flickr.

I personally prefer to use google talk and Facebook to reach to my friends. I can see my friends updates where ever and when ever I want. Next, HTC Aria is integrated with HTC Sense, which means all your communications are organised by people and not by application.

To view the messages, you can view it in the conversation mode, that means you no longer need to find your reply in the phone, You can view the the entire conversation with your friend just by selecting the person. I love this feature the most in HTC.

Other than that, with Friends Stream, you can see your friends updates ono FB, Tweets and Flickr automatically. You too can update it at one go. You can sync your contact via FBtoo, in fact, Aria has actually listed my FB friends contact details into the phone automatically, I don't even have to bluetooth my contact card to Aria. Pretty cool huh... that means, now I don't have to crack my head figuring how to trasfer all my contacts to Aria (I know, you can bluetooth the contacts but trasferring data from smartphone such as Nokia to HTC Device can be tedious).  

As for business users, Aria is designed with enhance features such as password protection and remote data swipe. You can access your business email, address book and calendar on the go. You can even set the Out of Office statement right from your phone. 

Internet access also is a breeze in Aria. Professionals and business persons will find this most useful as they can do mobile check-in on the go. Aria allows tethering which means if you have your laptop/netbook, you can use Aria as broadband to get online. Hence, a modem is no longer necessary and you can pack light when you are on the move.

Access news on the go too, just click the news icon...

Check and delete your emails at breeze... when you receive your email, there'll be notification on the uppler left corner, just slide and access your email. to delete it, just tick them and click delete... It is that simple...

 

For a slim and small phone, it is certainly packed with good features which covers almost everything... get Aria at Digi Online Shop

HTC Aria 2nd Part Review- Productivity

Android, I wonder how they come up with the name… but it sounds cool though… and I love the Icon for android… looks like the robot from Star Wars, the only thing is it's green and white… hahaha…


Well, I am not sure how many of you out there who is well versed in the Android, I am certainly not one of the group. I’ve been using Windows all this while. Previously, I own HTC Touch and now HTC HD2. When I got this phone, Digi staff was telling me that HD2 is definitely more high tech than Aria and I might think that it is not as good as HD2… I beg to differ…

As you can see, I slide the screen horizontally to access other interface

Speed HTC Aria runs Google’s Android OS 2.1 and it didn’t take me long to master it. I was amazed because I find the touch screen responds faster than my HD2… I gave the phone to a colleague of mine (who uses iPhone) to get his feedback, he also responded that the touch screen is a lot smoother and very fast. My colleague was quite impressive when I said that Aria at DiGi is RM799 only, which is very very reasonable… (I have convinced my friends to get them and 2 of my friends have already bought it… hahaha... i can get commission for being PRO for digi :P)

The speed 600Mhz is good enough for this device coz it doesn’t lag (my HD2 lags so much now :( sad…) I have downloaded some games and other productivity programmes (which I will review later) but I found that it still runs fast and quick to respond as well.

Camera is way better than my HD2 because it has face detection and it minimize the shaking problem. Unfortunately, Aria does not come with built in flash, so the camera is only good if you take pictures under good lighting. I am sure this is not a big problem coz lots of people carries a camera everywhere (I am one of the people… hehehe my lovely Nikon coolpix S3000) Other than that, you can take video and it can be zoomed in and out.

It’s a bit cumbersome to take your own picture because there is no camera button on the side, you need to press the joystick button to take pictures.

Battery Life is relatively good. Lower number of calls, play games once in a while, check emails and browse internet (wifi switched on automatically when it detects wireless), the battery lasted about 1 ½ day. I think it’s pretty good for 1200mAh battery.

By the way, you can never get lost with Aria coz everything that you need whether from your phone or internet, all you got to do is press the search key and find what you are looking for.

I just key in 3 beginning letters and it shows the results

Next, the calendar is an awesome feature for both business users, professionals or students. You can input your appointment and it can be featured in one of the interface in the main screen. 

Do you guys get lost when ever you try to go somewhere... well, I do... so, MAPS come to the rescue... Maps is connected to the google, so, you always get the updated map

If you ask me, Aria is your perfect personal assistance.

HTC HD 7 is released in Malaysia

Yup, HTC HD 7 is released!!! Hmmm... iPhone 4 was released last month and now HTC HD7... wow.. almost all phone manufacturers are competing to produce the best PDA. On the outset, I am sure that you know that a few months back, Apple has sued HTC alleging, they have infringed iPhone patents and in return HTC has sued Apple back as well with the same reason. Personally, I think that iPhone and HTC are from 2 different world. They can never be the same... Both are good touch phones, in fact if you compare them with other touch phones... I would say these two are the best...

So, back to Windows 7 model, HTC HD7, a GARGANTUAN. It has 512 MB ROM and 576 RAM, it looks like HD2 and like HD2, it has 5 megapixel color camera with dual LED flash that can also be used as a video light when capturing a HD video at 720p. As for the still images, you can select scenes such as candlelight, landscape and portrait to match the environment. It has 3G, unfortunately, you can't do video call because there is no secondary video in front. HTC needs to come up with more phones with video call capability.

There is a kick stand at the back, when you want to watch a movie, so, you no longer have to hold it on your hands... phew... it's tiring to hold it for a long time... hehehe....Internal storage is 8GB in Europe and for Asia it is 16GB... whoohoooo... Now, I don't know why they give more internal storage to 16GB... maybe coz Asian are more kaki download stuff... hehehee... I am one of them too... I like to download loads into my HD2... :P

As for the applications, Notes is a cool one, because it allows you to post reminder on the virtual pin board... I wonder whether I can download it on my HD2. Hmmm... must do some research... Other than that, Sound Enhancer can give some difference when you listen to songs...

If you are already thinking of getting it... I have news for you... Maxis is going to be the first telco bringing in these beauties... So, you are going to have a dilemma in choosing between iPhone 4 or HTC HD7... Market price is not revealed yet in Malaysia... but I have compared the price in US and Europe, so, I think it's going to be between RM2600 - RM3200 here.