Migration history of Nokia with a flashlight on Android

I present to you a guest article by my friend Bones Gomm, with whom I worked in reklammnom agency. I was unable to work for a year to persuade him to change Nokiyu with a flashlight on a normal modern phone. Finally, migration took place and below sensations bones from getting into the world of high-grade smartphones and how he took advantage of the received power at the time of his trip to the Venice Biennale :) Funny that the review he wrote to the phone, on which I myself insisted - and this was the condition for it to enter Layfhaker.

Smartphone in hands of man, which he has never held anything heavier nokii with a flashlight - a terrible force. Especially if this smartphone - is not just an object gadzhetomana fun and indispensable tool of online journalist. But first - a brief background.

In the spring we suddenly invited to play in the beginning of June, a few concerts in one of the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale - the world's biggest art event. Taking this opportunity, I offered a friendly online edition

Znaki.fm Biennale blog in real time. And, with the consent, he suddenly realized that he was in a difficult situation. How will I do it? The prospect of drag behind a backpack with a laptop, a camera, and endlessly seek Ball wifi - I do not smile. And so, a few hours before departure, in a terrible hurry, I first picked HTC Sensation hands on Android. After 10 minutes of instruction Fame, half of which went to transfer contacts, we stayed with them one on one and did not leave the next two weeks.

first impressions

As you remember, before I do not ever use smartphones, but that did not stop completely understand the shell Sense 3.0 and set up the phone for themselves during the Kiev-Venice flight. Three-dimensional desktop, and beautiful animation amused not only me, but also two aunts-zarobitchanok on adjacent seats, which poahav, asked whether there Skype (what has surprised me).

Looking ahead, I will say that really liked the integration of depth sotsservisy - then I have two accounts to upload photos and videos to Facebook and Twitter, measured out crosses through Venice in Endomondo, in correspondence with the editors through Skype and Google Talk, and notes through Facebook Places Forsquare and in various locations Biennale.

Preset package for working with Polaris office documents in general is quite easy, but somehow robbed my text paragraphs, and instead added the incredible letter spacing. But that was later. And at first it was orienteering. Almost sporty.

Maps and Navigation

Pre-installed maps Location and GPS on board - that is necessary for the traveler in a distant land, where everything, even in English speak very quickly. But it was not there. Biennial island extends at Venice, and is several islands, channels 400, 150 and bridges the labyrinth of the streets streets and alley, built-up old houses, the distance between which are often no more extended hands. All this splendor just was maddening GPS module and me, and each time leaving the house, I absolutely could not imagine, when I find my way back. So after a few days of wandering and loss I found the solution and guided by plaques on the houses, checking the card in the phone. It's nice that even the smallest alley were listed there. Well, for a rainy day, I had a special life hacking - POI marks (points of interest), which I have outlined their house, pavilion, where we were objects of the Biennale, which he wanted to shoot. After this, even a couple of glasses of grappa are no longer a hindrance home late road.

Photo and video

But the shoot had an awful lot. My result - more than a thousand photos and videos of objects and events of contemporary art. Camera - 8 Megapixels, many convenient settings, the picture is ok and sometimes even more juicy than in real life. I was unhappy with only the "grain" when shooting at maximum zoom and the lack of applications like Instagram.

Funny moment - a triumph of face recognition technology for shooting a moving installation of a plurality of persons in Georgia Pavilion.

Another nuance winning HTC Sensation - dimensions, which allowed me to bypass the security guards at the awards ceremony of the Biennale, jumping the fence to push through a tight cordon operators with heavy-cameras and cut right under the stage - at arm's length from the stars and functionaries of contemporary art, to capture exclusive materials for diary Biennale.

Special thanks for the frontal VGA-camera, which gave me the opportunity to be photographed with no background of Chinese tourists and calls on Skype with video. BUT! And in a very convenient way to fumble content, allowing broadcast on Facebook and Twitter turned out to be many times easier than I expected.

the Internet

Whenever I find a mobile phone shop, waited siesta - and she's in Venice nothing to do with this in schedule time, as I was on the clock communication with the editors Znaki.fm, that, in general, and I was necessary. Sensation caught my neighbor wifi faster poppy promised problems with signal loss if you close the back cover by hand in landscape mode, I did not notice.

For the opportunity to use the Sensation as an access point for a laptop I'm ready to kiss developers. It is in the truest sense saved me when, confusing the two cities (hello, clear electronic tickets Wizzair!), 50 minutes prior to departure, I was in Bologna Forli Airport instead. That is 70 km away from the plane, which was supposed to take me to Poland, to my concert on the street Oleina in Lublin. There have already been waiting for my four musicians and organizers. All in all, the concert was broken, smell big trouble, and the phone sat on the train Venice-Bologna while I was the first to have sent to the Editorial Exclusive materials rewarding. But I was saved dear Signora, HTC Sensation, my old MacBook, socket in the business lounge Bologna airport and Polish DJ understudy. To commute all of the above, I have agreed with them via facebook chat, he shipped 300 megabytes of tracks from his set via gmail - actually using the phone as an access point. And after a few hours to get from his musicians report that the concert was excellent. Allluyya!

Case and Screen

Hopefully, you have already realized that the phone I used in full. Many of its features I ignored as unnecessary and lack of time, but let it go mainly to deliver charge. So, hyperintense use regime he endured with dignity. Iron case HTC Sensation experienced two flips to the ancient Venetian bridge, decorated with a pair of micro-scratches. And the vaunted tempered glass Gorilla Glass, especially concave, to protect it from scratches, remained tselehonkim, until they reached my children to the phone. Only inconvenient was permanently erased from the screen fingerprints. As for brightness - the screen worked well at half power under the hot Italian sun even in the siesta, which is not true of local vendors of mobile Internet.

Battery

Indoor nothing, I spoiled simple device capable of pulling a week without recharging. In this sense I have is not easy, because the permanently turned on 3G Internet, continuous shooting, and correspondence with the editorship of the charge lacked the strength for half a day. Then begins the search for the outlet. On the other hand, energy-saving settings and turn off the GPS when not doing miracles, then at least enjoy extended an hour or two. And if you turn off the phone to charge 1% - that it is enough for one last (and often decisive call).

Summary

I am pleased. Not only the first experience of using a smartphone, but by how much he is useful to me during my incredible mission in a distant land. Minus some details HTC Sensation polnotsennno replace a laptop, camera, card, modem. Blog Biennale made and delivered, and I ponder the new travel and reports. And by the way, I have two weeks as a tent set on the coast of the Crimea - so guess, as I write this review.