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Monroe Police officer, wife charged with domestic abuse battery

A Monroe Police officer who was arrested Saturday on a domestic abuse TOSHIBA satellite a75 battery charge now faces an internal affairs investigation.
Lt. David Auger, 50, and his wife Kim Auger, 35, both of Leisure Drive in eastern Ouachita Parish, were arrested by a Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s deputy following an altercation at their home.

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Monroe Police Chief Quentin Holmes said David Auger is currently on administrative leave, with pay, “pending the outcome of an internal affairs investigation.”

According to arrest reports, officers responded to a domestic disturbance at the Auger residence. Upon arrival, Kim Auger said she and her husband were involved in a verbal altercation.

Kim Auger said when she attempted to walk away from David Auger, he grabbed her left wrist and the hair.

She also said he attempted to pull her towards him but a struggle ensued and after she separated herself from him, she barricaded herself in the master bedroom. (dell studio 1535 ac adapter)

She admitted to pouring water on her husband during the verbal altercation, but said she never struck him.

David Auger said his wife kicked his leg during the altercation. He initially denied grabbing her wrist or hair, but later admitted that he grabbed her wrist when she poured water on him.

The deputy on scene indicated that neither party suffered any injuries or markings from the incident.

David and Kim Auger were taken to Ouachita Correctional Center for booking.
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Mixing the Berry

Dividing RIM ignores the most compelling argument for an integrated hardware+software solution: Apple

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” – Winston Churchill
Early Research in Motion (RIM) insiders used to describe the company as “lightning in a bottle,” and credited the leadership team of Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis as largely responsible for the company’s phenomenal success. At the time, the U.S. government was the company’s biggest customer, and legal firms and banks were quickly adopting the BlackBerry to securely and seamlessly tether their employees to their desks and launch the 24-hour work day.(Kodak cx7300 Battery )
Companies loved the productivity. Networks loved the higher fees. Business users loved the access to information. And RIM shareholders loved the growth. Then, on June 27, 2007, everything changed. The release of Apple’s iPhone disrupted dozens of competing products in the maturing smartphone market, offering an incredibly stable and high-performance mobile ecosystem with all the bells and whistles consumers wanted, like a camera, multimedia playback, and an intuitive web-browsing experience.
RIM’s response – strategically speaking – was painfully short-sighted.(Nikon En-el4 Battery)
“There will never be a BlackBerry with an MP3 player or camera,” Lazaridis would say in meetings. “People won’t buy an iPhone because it doesn’t have a battery as good as a BlackBerry.” Despite the company’s phenomenal early growth and substantial market share (one out of every five smartphones sold in 2006 was a BlackBerry), insiders reported that RIM lacked a grand strategy or a robust product roadmap, focusing instead on a portfolio of pet projects like designing the world’s greatest mobile speakerphone. In the face of an existential threat, the company has been reactive in the worst possible way.(SAMSUNG i85 Digital Battery )
With tech titans Apple, Google, and even Microsoft grabbing ever-larger slices of the expanding smartphone pie, RIM seems unable to muster anything more than a cosmetic upgrade of its original keyboard + encryption + battery-life formula. Perhaps more troublesome is the fact that the company’s co-CEOs don’t seem to care, and that their ambivalence has put considerable downward pressure on RIM’s share price over the last two years.
RBC’s Mike Abramsky highlighted RIM’s structural troubles in a recent report, which has sparked a public debate about the future of the company, and, perhaps more profoundly, about Canada’s ability to foster technology giants that don’t eventually self-destruct.(FUJITSU 530T Adapter)
Abramsky’s key recommendation is to “Split the Berry” into independent hardware and software units, which he suggests might compete more effectively as separate entities than as part of a united RIM. In a thoughtful exploration of the potential value that could be unlocked, his analysis suggests that if “BlackBerry” and “RIM Smart Devices” were floated separately, the companies would be worth roughly twice what RIM trades at today ($30 billion versus $15 billion).(CREATIVE BA20203R79902 battery)
Set aside, for a moment, the fact that “sell-side” equity research is exclusively interested in maximizing short-term shareholder value, and that analyst forecasts are notoriously optimistic (95 per cent of the companies that RBC Capital Markets covers are rated either a “buy” or a “hold”). The core of Abramsky’s thesis is that the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. The only problem with his premise is that RIM’s most successful competitor is taking exactly the opposite approach. Apple’s proprietary software is designed exclusively for its top-of-the-line hardware. (ACER Aspire 5600 Adapter)Paired with a robust developer community that has created over 425,000 apps (compared with 250,000 for Android and only 38,000 for BlackBerry OS), the company has kept both end users and shareholders extremely happy.
In contrast, Abramsky suggests that maximum value can be extracted from the company’s shares by decoupling BlackBerry OS from RIM hardware, and then marketing popular services like BlackBerry Messenger to hundreds of millions of owners of non-RIM handsets around the planet, or pushing more RIM hardware into SMS-centric developing markets. That strategy makes decent sense, except that these initiatives wouldn’t require splitting up the company at all. Applications for cross-platform video chat (Skype) and mobile messaging (WhatsApp) are already free and readily available, leaving little room for unlocking the billions of enterprise value that RBC suggests it could (in the absence of another tech bubble). (Acer Aspire 6920g Battery)This strategy also doesn’t address the rising threat of international competition, as an army of lower-cost Android-based hardware has already made Google the platform of choice in Asia’s fastest-growing markets.
Cloud services might also seem like a potential driver of future profit growth, but both Apple and Microsoft now offer mobile iCloud and Skydrive syncing for free, rendering any fee-based BlackBerry service instantly less competitive. Even the company’s new QNX operating system – acquired in early 2010 and currently running its PlayBook tablet – is still years from its first appearance on a BlackBerry handset, and is unlikely to receive the same warm reception as Android among hardware manufacturers, particularly since Google’s mobile platform is given away for free.(Olympus Stylus 800 Digital Battery)
That said, hacking the company in two would certainly “accelerate organizational change” as Abramsky suggests, but it doesn’t seem like a very surgical solution. In reality, splitting up RIM will not address any of the company’s fundamental strategic challenges, like distracted and ineffective co-CEOs, a lack of co-ordinated strategic planning, a fractured product catalogue, consistently poor performance in addressing evolving consumer needs, and a reluctance to reinvent its relationship with enterprise IT customers, with more than 70 per cent of the Fortune 100 now actively piloting or deploying iPhones. (Fujifilm Finepix 6800 Zoom Battery)The following anecdote from a RIM insider sums it up nicely: “The fact that people are spending their own money to buy the iPhone when their company is giving them a ‘free BlackBerry’ sends quite a message.”
Rather than “Split the Berry,” Balsillie and Lazaridis need to shift their focus away from speakerphones and NHL franchises and toward designing and building the seamless, secure, and feature-rich mobile experience that consumers, IT administrators, and developers have been craving since the iPhone first launched over four years ago. They need to rediscover the “lightning” that characterized the company in its youth, and capitalize on the 70-million-strong RIM faithful who have waited – so far in vain – for a response to Apple’s technological hegemony.(Fujifilm Finepix f610 Battery)
Breaking up the company may provide a short-term boost to shareholders, but, like many prescriptions for growth that originate within the banking sector, it’s really just kicking the can down the road.
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Fujitsu Battery Manufacturing

Provisions in the Congressional stimulus bill could aid jump-start a new, multibillion-dollar market in the United States for manufacturing advanced COMPAQ PROSIGNI A120 Adapter batteries for hybrids and electric vehicles and for storing energy from the electrical grid to enable the widespread use of renewable energy. The almost billion economic stimulus legislation contains tens of billions of dollars in loans, grants, and tax incentives for advanced Canon Bp-511 Battery analysis and manufacturing, as well as incentives for plug-in hybrids and improvements to the electrical grid, which could help create a marketplace for these batteries.
Important advances in battery materials, such as the development of new lithium-ion batteries, have been created in the United States in the past few years. But advanced battery manufacturing is practically entirely overseas, especially in Asia. As a result, advanced IBM ThinkPad R60e 0657 Adapter battery startups in the United States usually have their batteries produced outside the United States. But this need to have not be the case, says Prabhakar Patil, the CEO of Compact Power, a subsidiary of the South Korean company LG Chem, based in Troy, MI. Battery manufacturing is largely automated, so labor costs aren’t a lot of a concern, he says. Rather, the Samsung Digimax v50 Battery industry developed in Asia simply because countries there, especially Japan, developed portable electronics and hybrid vehicles, making a marketplace for batteries.
Now, with the push to rely much more on renewable energy and less on fossil fuels, a marketplace for advanced batteries is beginning to develop in the United States. This, combined with incentive for manufacturers in the United States, could enable an advanced SAMSUNG SC-D80 Battery  business to develop in this country. But a lot of experts say that significant obstacles remain to acquiring the market off the ground. Investors are reluctant to present capital for battery plants due to the fact the markets are still comparatively little. And the markets are still modest in component because batteries are costly, which is itself partly simply because they’re currently produced in low volumes.
The stimulus bill could aid address both problems. It sets aside billion in grants for manufacturing advanced Fujitsu Laptop Battery such as Fujitsu FPCBP63 Battery and Fujitsu FPCBP95 Battery, plus tax credits to cover 30 percent of the price of a plant (up to .4 billion in total credits). This is in addition to .5 billion in loans authorized in a prior bill for manufacturing advanced technology for vehicles, which includes Canon Eos-20d Battery. Employees for these factories could be trained as part of million in funding for retraining workers for green jobs. There is also .8 billion going to energy efficiency and renewable energy, which will likely contain cash for battery investigation to bring down costs and improve performance.
Moreover, there are provisions that will support ensure a market for the Sony Np-qm91d Battery. Tax credits of up to ,500 will go to folks who buy hybrids with significant batteries that can be recharged by plugging them in there will also be smaller incentives for converting cars into such plug-in vehicles. What’s a lot more, million is set aside for federal agencies to get option fuel vehicles, which includes plug-ins, as nicely as million for “transportation electrification.” There will also be .5 billion set aside for enhancing the electric grid, some of which is supposed to go for study on and manufacturing of Sony Hdr-Cx Series Battery.
Some specialists are nervous about how the cash will be spent. The Department of Energy (DOE), which will be administering significantly of the funds, is under pressure to distribute funds speedily, which some fear will enhance the possibility that the funds will be misallocated. Patil, whose business will be supplying the battery packs for the Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle due out in 2010, says that there are a lot of lithium ion chemistries that do not make sense for automotive applications, and he hopes that the DOE will take note of this in its funding. Robert Kanode, the CEO of Valence Technologies, a Canon mv300i Battery manufacturer based in the United States (but with manufacturing in China), is likewise concerned that funding will go to technologies that have small chance of commercial success.
Even though it’s not clear that battery costs will come down enough to develop a huge market for plug-in hybrids, the advances in battery technologies in the United States have put the country in a position to develop a new Olympus Mju 300 Battery business, says Ted Miller, the senior manager for energy storage strategy and analysis at Ford Motor Business and a manager at a analysis consortium set up by the Huge 3 automakers. “Our weakness is not in analysis,” he says. “Now we need to have to find a way to kick-start off manufacturing.”
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Canon PowerShot A3200 IS

Canon PowerShot A3200 IS

Stump up another £40 from the Canon PowerShot A800 and you can get the PowerShot A3200 IS – IS standing for image stabilisation. (Canon dm-xv2 battery)
You get a lot more besides, including a 14.1 megapixel sensor, 5x optical zoom, 720p HD video recording, better-looking slimmer metal case, 5x optical zoom and Advanced Scene Detection modes. The A3200 is an upgrade of the A3100 IS camera, which had 12.1 megapixels, 4 x optical zoom lacked HD video capability. So are these extra features worth the upgrade?
For £100 the PowerShot A3200 IS is an outstanding little camera that ticks a lot of boxes. It's very tough and easy to use with an expanded Sony ccd-sp7 battery life (250 shots), so this is an ideal family camera.
The relatively wide lens, with handy 5x optical zoom, will make it an essential accessory for holidays and it's simple enough to give it the kids for a school trip. HD video recording at 720p comes in really handy too. At the same time, the smart looks and image adjustment options make the PowerShot A3200 IS a good choice for more ambitious photographers.
While it's not sophisticated enough to serve as an SLR backup, the ability to adjust metering modes and AF parameters is to be applauded. The lens is impressively sharp and well-engineered too, while the Digic 4 processor delivers smooth, well-saturated images with minimal noise at everyday ISO levels.
The downsides are few, and centre around Canon's sometimes eccentric ergonomics and the tendency of the AF to hunt a bit in low light. (Jvc gr-d200u battery) Once you get used to these quirks, however, the PowerShot A3200 IS should prove a very reliable and rewarding everyday budget compact.

We liked

The great looks, tough build quality, crisp lens, reliable metering and intelligent image processor. The PowerShot A3200 IS comes with some genuinely useful extras too, such as quality 720p HD video recording and some useful scene modes/in-camera lens effects.(toshiba satellite 2100cds battery)

We disliked

While this camera takes great pictures from the box, it's not immediately obvious how to switch between the various scene modes. The autofocus tends to hunt around in lower light conditions and it's the HD video maxes out at 720p rather than 1080.
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc review

With a recommended retail price of R6,599, can Sony Ericsson’s latest Android smartphone, the Xperia Arc, measure up to the competition?(KODAK KLIC-7001 battery)

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc has a decent spec sheet, with a 4.2” 480×854 Reality display with Mobile Bravia Engine, Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon system-on-chip (the same as the HTC Desire HD) with a 1GHz Scorpion processor and Adreno 205 GPU, 512MB RAM, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth v2.1, and an 8 megapixel camera with LED flash capable of 3264×2448 stills and 720p video.
It comes with Android 2.3.3 with some lightly sprinkled UI customisations.
One problem on the sheet is the 320MB of user-accessible internal storage – it’s about a third of what it needs to be for a serious user.CANON NB-2L battery
All of the above fits into a rather light package of 117g and comes with a recommended retail price of R6,599.

Design and build quality

The back cover is plastic and feels extraordinarily cheap. Every time it was taken off to swap out a SIM or memory card it felt like it was one step closer to snapping in half. PANASONIC VW-VBJ10 battery
The power button on the top left is quite sunken and was hard to find and extremely hard to press. On the top right side is the HDMI port covered by a flap.
The notification LED is on the right side all the way at the top, which meant that most of the time I didn’t see it blinking for a notification. Below that you’ll find the microUSB port, volume rocker and the camera button on the bottom right edge. OLYMPUS LI-40B battery
The camera button, like the power button, was hard to press without accidentally jarring the phone (and thus messing up the shot). Thankfully, the camera software also allowed for touchscreen capture.
On the left side is the 3.5mm headphone jack. It’s an odd side to put it on as headphones will now add some extra girth to the phone. This is somewhat mitigated by the bundled headphones having an angled connector, but their sound quality was downright terrible. Sony NP-BD1 charger
You can use other headphones, and we certainly tried to. Unfortunately, if they have a microphone and button the Xperia Arc will probably not recognise them and will output sound via the speaker, instead of just using the earphones and ignoring microphone and button.
The hardware buttons in front (from left to right: back, home and menu) are big and easy to press, but their icons aren’t lit. Instead, the space between buttons is lit.
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Display and responsiveness

The quality of the screen is generally quite average, holding very little in comparison to Super AMOLED and Retina displays. However, when viewing images or video, the Mobile Bravia Engine kicks in and spices things up quite nicely.SONY Cyber-shot DSC-W350 Battery
Responsiveness was generally quite good for general use, browsing, and gaming, though up/down swipes translated to left/right swipes often enough for us to have to mention it.
Sony Ericsson’s keyboard was also fairly below average in terms of responsiveness. Mistypes, to our dismay, occurred frequently, which is strange considering how great the stock Android 2.3 keyboard is on the Nexus S.

Camera

The 8.1 megapixel camera takes excellent photos. Pictures are detailed and colours are vibrant.
It should be noted that final images are post-processed, which means that they aren’t necessarily as “real” as you might like them to be. A nice option would be to disable this feature. SONY NP-F330 battery

Xperia Arc image quality example

Video capture is not as fantastic, but it’s a decent enough option if you’re in a pinch.

Though it’s probably nothing to be too concerned about, the camera app did crash once during our brief time with the Xperia arc. CANON IXUS 85 is battery

Sound and call quality

Call quality was good on both ends without any needless fidgeting.
The speaker on the back is good to listen to a quick clip.

Camera Battery life

Battery life was fairly good. Heavy data use, along with some gaming and picture taking resulted in it lasting just over a day.
With lighter use, the Xperia Arc made it through two days with just enough left to make it to the charger.

Software

The interface is very similar to stock Android, with some notable exceptions.
The bottom dock supports a total of four elements – shortcuts or folders –  along with the standard app drawer icon. CASIO NP-20 battery
The app drawer is a horizontal side-swiping affair and apps can be reordered in any way you’d like. It features quick options including alphabetical, most used and recently installed.
Standard widgets have been re-skinned to fit in with the semi-transparent blue/white theme.
Sony Ericsson has also bundled a number of applications with the Xperia Arc.
TrackID identifies music by listening to a short segment. It’s fairly good, though outshone by competitors like SoundHound and Shazam.JVC GR-D70EK charger
Media Server allows you to turn the device into a media server (obviously) that can then be accessed by other devices connected to the same local network.
LiveWire Manager lets you set default actions for when you connect headphones, headsets and chargers, helping you shave off seconds between plugging in headphones and launching the music app.
Finally, we come to the Timescape application and widget. Timescape fetches your Facebook, Twitter and SMS feeds and merges it all into one central location. Each item is represented by a card and these can be scrolled through. NIKON EN-EL12 battery
It’s a great idea and the scrolling action has some very slick transition animations, but for someone with busy feeds it becomes nigh unmanageable.
The cards also have a background that’s really just a blown-up image of the user’s profile picture which results in an ugly mess that detracts from the overall experience.

Conclusion

If the Xperia Arc was released a few months ago, depending on its price, it would have been a decent competitor to high-end Android phones. Unfortunately, it’s coming out now and it has to face the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S2 and very soon, the HTC Sensation. SONY NP-BN1 Battery
It’s really hard to recommend the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc considering all of the above along with the RRP of R6,599, the latter being just R100 shy of the RRP for the Galaxy S2.
If you were considering the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc for your next upgrade, consider the Samsung Galaxy S2 or wait and see how the HTC Sensation fares. I’d even recommend the Samsung Nexus S and the HTC Desire HD over the Xperia Arc.
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Coming Soon: the Laptop You Power by Typing

Solar powered laptops are barely here, and — if the hype is to be believed — already headed for obsolescence.
Why so?  Because a team of researchers at Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) have successfully demonstrated a new, “nano-scaled” piezoelectric film’s capacity for turning mechanical pressure into electricity — bringing the (admittedly geeky) dream of perpetually-charged laptop batteries one giant leap closer to reality.
“Piezoelectricity“, as a phenomenon, was discovered in the 19th century and is currently employed in things like electric cigarette lighters.  Piezoelectric materials (like crystals or ceramics) have been studied thoroughly over the last century, but research on thin films is relatively new, according to the team’s research lead, Dr. Madhu Bhaskaran. HP pavilion ze4935ea ac adapter ”Our study focused on thin film coatings, because we believe they hold the only practical possibility of integrating piezoelectrics into existing electronic technology,” she explains.  Dr. Bhaskaran hopes to implement her research findings into consumer electronic form factors on a wide scale — but doesn’t stop there.  ”The power of piezoelectrics could be integrated into running shoes to charge mobile phones, enable laptops to be powered through typing or even used to convert blood pressure into a power source for pacemakers — essentially creating an everlasting TOSHIBA satellite pro a60 battery .”
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John 1 week ago

No. No, no, no, no, NO!

First, Dr Bhaskaran has not invented a product for charging laptops or anything else. What she has done is develop a nanoindentation technique to assist in the characterisation of thin piezoelectric films. No doubt this is very useful research, but it is nowhere near being a product hp pavilion dv6000 battery.

Next, a typical keyboard key force is 45g and key travel is about 3.5mm. The energy from a single key press is therefore F x s = 1.5mJ. My laptop is currently consuming about 15W. Therefore, assuming all the energy from each keystroke is converted into useful power, which it can’t, I would need to average 10,000 key strokes per second. I can’t type that fast.

Even with reduced power consumption and stiffer keys with greater travel, it is clear from this simple sum that this is several orders of magnitude away from a feasible invention.

For example, if the keys had 35mm of travel and required a key force of 450g (i.e. about one pound-force), and the laptop used only 1.5W, it would require ‘only’ 10 keystrokes per second, still assuming no losses. But at 1.5W, my existing dell inspiron 1545 battery would last 40 hours instead of 4.

The energy harvested from the environment (after all the losses) must exceed the power consumption of the device.

Many energy harvesting ideas fail as soon as this basic arithmetic is done. Too often there is simply not enough energy in the environment available to be harvested. If there were, the world would be unbearably noisy, shaky, lossy, windy, hot, bright or whatever.

Reducing the device power consumption of course reduces the energy that needs to be harvested. However, this then makes it easier to achieve acceptable life from dell xps m1710 ac adapter battery. Thus there is a rather narrow window of opportunity for energy harvesting where it is not more cost effective, compact and reliable to use Dell studio 1737 ac adapter batteries instead.

I am not against energy harvesting in principle. Sometimes there are reasons why energy cannot be stored (e.g. plants that are subject to explosive atmosphere regulations) and HP pavilion dv8000 battery changing or charging is difficult, that create an overwhelming case for energy harvesting.

There are some good products where energy harvesting works well: PV powered calculators, torches with solar battery chargers, bike lights with dynamos, where the power requirements and duty cycle match the available energy. But in practice, good opportunities are scarce and most do not stand up even to basic engineering scrutiny. Like this one.

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ZShahan3 1 week ago in reply to John

Wow, that looks like a pretty powerful debunking of its usefulness & promise
(unless i am missing something). Thank you for that.

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Jo Borras 1 week ago in reply to ZShahan3

I think what you're missing is that power consumption of laptops is dropping with new display technology, and that "laptop" doesn't necessarily equate to "2GHz processor w/ 2GB RAM ..." etc., and could well mean E-Ink display running a simplified Linux/Chrome OS with drastically reduced power consumption compared to current "overkill" devices. (HP pavilion zd7000 battery )

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Jo Borras 1 week ago in reply to John

VERY well-said and a thorough deep-dive into some of the maths involved, but I think you're overstating the power requirements of a usable device. The latest E-ink devices, for example, are certainly proving their use in a number of Android and e-reader systems, and measure power usage in millivolts, which would certainly change the equation, I would think (though, I could be wrong).(Sony pcga-bp3t battery)

I'm thinking this would be less a conventional laptop and more of an e-ink device that could also save word processing documents, spreadsheets, etc., and serve primarily as an e-reader/commuter tool that's a little more type-friendly than the current generation of eReaders and iPads.

What do you think?

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HTC Wildfire S review

Following the commercial success (and technical disappointment) of the original Wildfire -- which featured a miserly 528MHz CPU and QVGA display -- HTC has returned with the Wildfire S ($290). Like the Desire S and Incredible S, the company is sticking to its formula of providing incremental updates to stay competitive for 2011. Not only is this little one sporting improved hardware, but this time it's strutting around with Gingerbread.(Olympus Az-1 Battery) Will this be HTC's budget-line breakthrough, or will it fall face first into the land of mobile misfits? For the answer, check out the full review after the break.
Hardware

 

The Wildfire S is HTC's response to every consumer allegation that smartphones are getting too big and unwieldy. Measuring in at 3.99 inches (101.3mm) tall and 2.34 inches (59.4mm) wide, it's actually smaller than the Wildfire it replaces. (Sony Dcr-pc55e Battery)The handset measures 0.49 inches (12.4mm) at its thickest point, but a curved back and beveled front ensure it maintains a svelte shape that's very comfortable to hold. Naturally, the device keeps its signature chin, which allows users to easily grasp the phone with one hand in landscape orientation. Aside from its chrome accents on the power button, speaker grille, volume rocker (and two thin rings surrounding the display and camera lens), the Wildfire S has a very simple appearance. We tested the tri-color version of the phone, which has a metallic sheen on the front and a darker matte variation on the soft-touch APPLE E225846 battery cover, with the lightest hue encasing the camera pod. Despite the number of contrasting shades, we never felt that its design went overboard -- or posed a threat to anyone's masculinity. If you can't stand the idea of purple (really, it's quite attractive), there are black and silver models, too.

Unlike the physically flawed Wildfire, the Wildfire S feels carefully made. At 3.7oz (105g), the phone has a dense feel without being heavy. The raised volume rocker (found on the left side of the handset, above the micro-USB port) is long and slim, and feels very solid and tactile -- for instance, we were able to adjust the loudness at most points along its length. While the power / lock button (located up top with the 3.5mm stereo mini-jack) exhibited a small amount of wobble, you're unlikely to notice this effect so long as you press it with entire pad of your finger. (Canon mv700 Battery)On the front, you'll find four illuminated capacitive buttons for navigation. They work quite well, but became quite annoying when typing in portrait mode. With the space bar in such close proximity to the back button, we inadvertently dismissed the keyboard numerous times -- ultimately forcing us to type solely in landscape orientation. A green / amber light is hidden within the speaker grille, which conveys the charge status and delivers customizable notifications -- a nice touch, indeed.

The 3.2-inch HVGA (480 x 320 pixel) TFT LCD display is a marked improvement over its QVGA predecessor. Despite being fashioned out of Gorilla Glass, the capacitive touchscreen is susceptible to scratches, though it does redeem itself with a bright panel, vibrant colors and decent viewing angles. Unfortunately, it's also extremely glossy and easily doubles as a mirror when it reflects light. (Sony Np-bg1 Battery)On the back of the phone, a 5 megapixel autofocus camera is paired with an LED flash and a dedicated loudspeaker.

Internally, the Wildfire S is powered by a Qualcomm MSM7227 SoC with a 600MHz CPU and an Adreno 200 GPU. We received the international version, which supports quadband GSM and dual-band HSPA (2100 / 900MHz), which unfortunately limited us to EDGE connectivity in the States. Thankfully, HTC sells a variant for our native (1900 / 850MHz) 3G bands. Considering its entry-level positioning, the Wildfire S features a comprehensive assortment of goodies, including: 512MB of memory, WiFi b/g/n (which functions as a mobile hotspot), Bluetooth 3.0, AGPS, and FM radio, along with a compass, accelerometer, proximity and ambient light sensors.

Performance and Call Quality

Featuring only a 600MHz processor, the Wildfire S immediately positions itself as a budget offering. That's a shame, really, because there are plenty of users who would appreciate a compact phone that's also speedy. While the handset responded nimbly when we navigated menus, viewed galleries, and browsed the internet, it noticeably faltered when we stumbled on pages with Flash animation. (SAMSUNG VP-D21 Battery)We also noticed that the menu in the camera application is horribly sluggish -- nearly to the point of being unusable. Put simply, the software provides a live image preview even while the user is more concerned with tweaking the settings. Unfortunately, this is too much for the Wildfire S to handle. HTC would have been wise to disable the live preview to make adjusting ISO, white balance and whatnot actually tolerable. If you happen to be listening to music at the same time, the procedure is all the more excruciating.

Fortunately, if you're interested in using this phone as, you know, a phone, you'll be glad to know that call quality is superb. (Dell Studio 1555 AC Adapter)The earpiece is quite loud even at the medium setting, and voices sound clear and distinct even when the volume is very low. Although our friend's voice came across as sharp and edgy when we called her Verizon iPhone, we never had difficulty understanding what she was saying. Placing a call to a landline was a thoroughly rewarding experience, with natural tones on our end that were crisp and full of depth. In both cases, callers commented on the clarity of our voice, although the microphone may be overly sensitive, because they were able to distinctly hear the sounds of children in the background. If you speak quietly or have trouble hearing, the Wildfire S could be a true blessing.

Battery Life

With a 1230mAh battery, the phone could meet, disappoint, or exceed your expectations -- and this will all come down to how you use it. In our first test, we started with a full charge and fresh boot, enabled WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS, set the display to 50 percent brightness, configured one push email account, and set Twitter and Facebook to poll every 15 minutes and one hour, respectively. (Olympus Li-70b Battery)When playing Lego Star Wars on a continual loop, the handset kept going for five hours and 15 minutes.

In another battery torture test, we kept these settings and went about the town listening to one hour of music, capturing 60 photos (with location tagging), using GPS navigation for five minutes, talking for 20 minutes and sending 20 text messages -- all the while checking our email periodically. We then returned home to surf the web for another 20 minutes over WiFi, and managed to squeeze in 20 minutes of Angry Birds before the battery gave out. (Hp Photosmart r817 Battery)This added up to approximately five hours of use.

In our final test, we disabled Bluetooth, reduced the backlight to 40 percent, and attempted to use the phone in a more tame manner. After 25 minutes of voice calls, 30 minutes of music listening, capturing ten photos, sending 20 text messages, and intermittently browsing the web and checking our email, the phone managed a full 30 hours before it hit the ten percent mark.

Camera

HTC Wildfire S sample shots

The five megapixel AF camera on the Wildfire S is a fine performer in ideal conditions, but it's held back by a wide range of limitations. (Motorola GP340 battery)For instance, while the phone captures a reasonable amount of detail in the near-field (which is beautifully assisted by the tap-to-focus feature), distant details will look muddy no matter where you place the focus. We also noticed the image sensor was continually overwhelmed in bright areas, which resulted in blown-out pockets. Shooting indoors is a mixed bag, where you're bound to get quite a bit of noise. Fortunately, we had better luck when manually limiting the ISO or leaning on the LED flash for assistance. Speaking of the built-in bulb, it's quite good when lighting an indoor scene that's otherwise completely dark. Unfortunately if the flash hits anything glossy, again the sensor will be overwhelmed.

When we took the camera out at dusk, it struggled mightily to make sense of the situation. (NOKIA 6110 battery)The software would often compensate by cranking the ISO between 600 and 800, making the scene appear as a very grainy daylight. That said, depending on the effect you're going for, it produced some interesting results at low ISO settings, which you can also manipulate with your point of focus. Video capture is limited to VGA (640 x 480) on the Wildfire S, which is a drastic improvement over the original Wildfire, but the CPU struggles to deliver a frame rate that properly conveys fluid motion. It will certainly work in a pinch, but don't expect anything mind-blowing.

 Software
One of the Wildfire S' key selling points is the inclusion of Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread), and naturally, it comes with Sense 2.1 layered on top.(Panasonic Cga-s004 Battery) Upon setup, users are given the option to transfer information from their previous phone over Bluetooth, login to a WiFi network, choose how data is synced, opt-in to Google's location services, and configure their email and social network accounts.

The handset we received was free of carrier customization, which meant little bloatware and just the usual hybrid of Google and HTC apps. Along with the seven home screens and a plethora of widgets, you'll find the HTC Hub, which allows users to further personalize their phones with a free assortment of sound sets, themes, wallpapers, and yes... more widgets. A less useful offering is HTC Likes, which aims to bring a social component to the Android Market, but its app sharing feature is largely superfluous and the software selection is a disappointment. (Casio Qv-r3 Battery) Given that internal storage is always at a premium, we'd greatly applaud an option to remove redundant applications such as this and HTC's Twitter client, Peep.

Which brings us to an interesting point. As is, HTC Sense is a "love it or leave it" proposition. While there's no doubt the company has spent a great deal of effort to refine and polish the interface, certain aspects of it continue to frustrate just as many as those who find it charming -- we're looking at you, keyboard and dialer. Given that Sense was originally created to bring ease of use to the forefront, we'd like to see an option that allows users to pick and choose between HTC and Google applications. Say you love the Sense Music app, but long for the Android calendar -- two clicks later, and that could be yours. Sure, you'll lose the cohesive interface, but why not have the choice? Given Android's openness, communication between the apps shouldn't be an issue. (Samsung bp70a Battery)Put simply, if HTC were willing to let users choose their own personalized blend of Sense and Android, it wouldn't be giving away the crown jewels, but rather doubling them.

Wrap-up
 

At the end of the day, the Wildfire S is a handset that many shoppers will choose based on its size (or color) alone. Fortunately, it's a rather good option. Despite its limitations, the phone offers a compelling set of features at a price that's hard to ignore. (Acer Aspire 3000 Battery)Yes, a faster processor, less glossy screen, and more thoughtful button placement could make this phone truly outstanding, but the device provides a respectable balance when form factor is the biggest concern.

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