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Looking for: Mid-Class Android with good camera

Hey there,
Im looking for an Android phone for my girlfriend.
Specs:
- 3" till 4"
- Good cam (better than Htc Desire would be nice)
- Not ugly
- Smooth UI
I've found the Xperia Sola and the Optimus Speed. Does someone got a good choice?
Thanks a lot!
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Did you consider Galaxy Ace 2? It's not too expensive,the camera is 5 Mpixels,but can shoot 720p video+Jelly Bean coming soon too.

The HTC EVO 3D has a CDMA and GSM variant and neither is too pricey. It features 2 5mp cameras on the rear and one forward facing camera (1.2 MP I believe). Hardware specs are nice and it features the same Snapdragon S3 chip as the One S (the One S is overclocked from Qualcomm default clock speed to 1.7 GHz). I have had my CDMA 3D for nearly a year and have been happy with it and ROM/Development support is definitely there.

Thanks a lot for your answers!
The EVO is too big and a bit too expensive. But the Ace looks quite interesting.
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I'm not sure if it's available everywhere, but the Galaxy S Advance should have slightly better specs than the Ace 2 for almost the same price.

r0man.de said:
Hey there,
Im looking for an Android phone for my girlfriend.
Specs:
- 3" till 4"
- Good cam (better than Htc Desire would be nice)
- Not ugly
- Smooth UI
I've found the Xperia Sola and the Optimus Speed. Does someone got a good choice?
Thanks a lot!
-
Sent from my HTC One S using xda app-developers app
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Not sure what you consider Mid class, i assume less expensive? I would look into the droid Razr (original or Maxx) you can get the original for around $50 if you are doing an upgrade and i have seen it go refurbed for $99. It has an 8mp camera and a 1.3mp front facing camera, dual-core processor and the whole thing is thin and beautiful. Battery isnt the best but still get about 8 hours normal usage 12 hours low usage. It comes with 8GB built in storage and an 8GB sd card for a total of 16GB which is awesome if you use the camcorder or camera a lot. You can check out and compare a few prices on Amazon or verizonwireless.com

Captivate?

A goodbye Story :)

Okay after owning a year I finally sold my Optimus 3D [P925]. Its quite a great phone, but sadly I never used the 3D feature . Anyway Thanks to every one who help me on making the Optimus 3D experience more pleasure. The only reason I am selling this phone is because of its weight, thickness and 2D camera quality [Photos, but the Full HD videos are good ].
Anyway cause I don't like bigger screens, I will stick with another 4.3" screen [Maybe I will purchase a HTC One S, Galaxy S2], but I didn't decided yet.
I will come back to this forum though to help others with as much as I know
Thanks Again to all contributors in this Section/Thread

hey good luck btw consider the nexus 4 ..
Sent from my LG-P920 using xda premium

Nexus 4 also have the 4.7" screen, BTW is there any 4.3" phones which have HD resolution [But should have light weight and thin]

ipapun4545 said:
Nexus 4 also have the 4.7" screen, BTW is there any 4.3" phones which have HD resolution [But should have light weight and thin]
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Sony xperia S (CPU 1.5GHz ,, dual core) or xperia SL (1.7GHz dual core)
they have 362 ppi with BRAVIA Engine that means better than galaxy S3 or other HD screen phones .
it has 8 M or 13 M camera (I can't remeber )

Xperia L-Discussion(Bugs,Roots,apps,themes)

Hey, so I have already made a X.L thread before now i'll report that thread to be merged with this.
Use this thread to post all root methods etc
Sony Xperia L Specifications
OS Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean)
RAM 1 GB
Processor 1 GHz dual core Qualcomm[Krait]
Graphics Adreno 305 GPU
Display 4.3″ capacitive touchscreen (multi touch input)
Resolution 854 x 480 pixel
Battery 1750 mAh
Camera 8 MP auto focus camera with Led Flash and HD recording
Front-facing Camera 0.3 MP
Connectivity 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, A-GPS, NFC
Ports micro USB and 3.5 mm audio jack
Internal Memory 8 GB (5.5 GB usable)
External Memory up to 32 GB microSD
ROOTING-http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42150929
FACEBOOK GROUP https://www.facebook.com/groups/199240316894717/?notif_t=group_r2j_approved
Xperia L Kernel https://github.com/varunchitre15/android_kernel_xperiaL
Thanks to @varun.chitre15
Every now and then a person ask's why can't I see photos in Album?
Solution:Clear Data/Cache in setting>apps
For a permanent fix,Just update your phone

I will get mine next week as of now searching to find the cheapest deal Meanwhile request here for a forum if you haven't already - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1660354&page=842

Hope so ROM will improve the display and battery life, I will pick mine up probably this week

^depends on popularity, as of now L doesn't have much of a competition in its price range (apart from l9 with inferior specs) so its more or less bound to get some decent activity here and if that happens we'll easily attract devs

Any one bought it yet? It was selling for 16k in hs18 2 days back

I have using mine for a week and I love it. I moved from an Xperia Neo to this phone, they aren't coparable. I can hardly wait for rooting.

Future Xperia L User
In a few hours from now, i will be holding on to my Xperia L bought from Malaysia!
Woohoo!! can't wait to feel it and experience the positive reviews of it!
Well, downside do exist, but to those people who say that this phone is a crap, hold it right there and keep it to yourself.. haha!!
Let's make it popular!

theserpent said:
Hope so ROM will improve the display and battery life, I will pick mine up probably this week
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The display is good. I had S2 and hated over-saturated colors and the tint, O.O Battery life is good, too. There's a slight problem with the bloatware draining battery uselessly and the famous media scanner bug in 4.1.x
It's a good phone in this range, probably the best. Although Camera is a little too horrible.
Sent from my C2104 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

I found the camera "OK", will buy mine tomo for 16.5k i.e after selling my E6

Some perspective when it is added XDA forum? I'm between it and the Xperia SP, but the SP is bigger screen ...

lvints said:
Some perspective when it is added XDA forum? I'm between it and the Xperia SP, but the SP is bigger screen ...
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Xperia SP Got its forum today We can expect Xperia L To get one within a month

theserpent said:
Xperia SP Got its forum today We can expect Xperia L To get one within a month
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Ok bro, had not seen!!! :victory:

I am thinkin of buying this one in a 2 weeks my budget is rs.20000(approx 350usd)
or sp if i could raise my budget a bit
i wanted to knw the gaming performance of this device and is it better than s2 except for super amoled display?

I'm making an autoroot kernel for XL which will also help you in getting a separate forum as well. I may also work on a custom kernel to remove capped 1 GHz frequency.
Can anyone send me stock kernel.sin?

TheCloneGamer said:
I am thinkin of buying this one in a 2 weeks my budget is rs.20000(approx 350usd)
or sp if i could raise my budget a bit
i wanted to knw the gaming performance of this device and is it better than s2 except for super amoled display?
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Well Xperia L is a beast for it's price you should go for it , gaming you can check in youtube,
btw it got 58 fps in nenamark benchmark

TheCloneGamer said:
I am thinkin of buying this one in a 2 weeks my budget is rs.20000(approx 350usd)
or sp if i could raise my budget a bit
i wanted to knw the gaming performance of this device and is it better than s2 except for super amoled display?
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Rachit Rawat said:
I'm making an autoroot kernel for XL which will also help you in getting a separate forum as well. I may also work on a custom kernel to remove capped 1 GHz frequency.
Can anyone send me stock kernel.sin?[/QUOTE]
Sorry,but whats that?
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theserpent said:
Rachit Rawat said:
I'm making an autoroot kernel for XL which will also help you in getting a separate forum as well. I may also work on a custom kernel to remove capped 1 GHz frequency.
Can anyone send me stock kernel.sin?[/QUOTE]
Sorry,but whats that?
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kernel.sin?
will be present in ftf file but i guess any one who has xperia l can give boot.img
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TheCloneGamer said:
theserpent said:
kernel.sin?
will be present in ftf file but i guess any one who has xperia l can give boot.img
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I am a complete NOOB is this stuff :|, Maybe a experienced user can help.
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I will help you to get ftf firmware file. So if you break anything with rooting or somehow you can always go back to what your phone came when you bought it. A complete noob can do it.
You only need to reflash your phones firmware with SMUS and upload few files to web.
You don't void warranty and you do not need root.
It'll help you to get forums maybe
Interested PM me, it will cost you nothing I promise.

Rachit Rawat said:
I'm making an autoroot kernel for XL which will also help you in getting a separate forum as well. I may also work on a custom kernel to remove capped 1 GHz frequency.
Can anyone send me stock kernel.sin?
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it is not a very good idea to work blindly for a device (especially kernels)
to be specific I would like to say
1. do not work blindly on a device if you do not own at least a similar device (similar or same SoC and vendor, like all the 2011 Xperias)
2. even if working on a device is not a problem, releasing it to a place like XDA makes it a tad dangerous for the users.

Infos about ths device

Hello guys, i'm planning to change my phone now, for a temporary time, now I have an xperia sola and I'm hating it like no updates, not performant at all, so i wanted and i've seen this one, and I wanted to have informations about it, like is it performant ? it's camera ? and everything else, thanks for your help

loubar22 said:
Hello guys, i'm planning to change my phone now, for a temporary time, now I have an xperia sola and I'm hating it like no updates, not performant at all, so i wanted and i've seen this one, and I wanted to have informations about it, like is it performant ? it's camera ? and everything else, thanks for your help
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Hi Loubar . I'm happy see you intersting to this device. Ok . For me Xperia L is very awesome . The perfomance not bad , using 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400
MSM8230 Chispet but you can overclock to 1.7Ghz using custom kernel . Rear Camera 8Megapixel not bad too . You can see it post thread picture camera in general section .. but front camera very bad haha and XL Recording video sound very bad . low . dont know why . XL latest update 4.2.2 and for now no information about future updates so sad :'( . XL also low development , only this i can help you . sorry for bad english freinds .

`epiee` said:
Hi Loubar . I'm happy see you intersting to this device. Ok . For me Xperia L is very awesome . The perfomance not bad , using 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400
MSM8230 Chispet but you can overclock to 1.7Ghz using custom kernel . Rear Camera 8Megapixel not bad too . You can see it post thread picture camera in general section .. but front camera very bad haha and XL Recording video sound very bad . low . dont know why . XL latest update 4.2.2 and for now no information about future updates so sad :'( . XL also low development , only this i can help you . sorry for bad english freinds .
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Great ! i don't realy care about camer (video) like i just need it for few months, so I think It'll feet my needs, good performances and good camera (picture) quality, thank yofor your help my frien

Xperia l have multitouch Problem and very bad toucscreen. You buy moto g
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taylan08 said:
Xperia l have multitouch Problem and very bad toucscreen. You buy moto g
Sent from my C2105 using xda app-developers app
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i dont facing any multitouch issue ...

You won't be regretting your choice of sony. Trust me
Be good to people no matter what happens to you in life. being good is a great legacy to leave behind.
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Yeah, I think I'm happy with this device, it has a great camera, sometimes it took great shots, but sometimes don't, but I pretty much took a great ones, and then, for perfomance it is decent to powerful, it sometimes a little lagged, but just sometimes, but that lag isn't disturbing anyway, but no confirmation about future updates like 4.3 or 4.4 firmwares, but I'll keep posting about what's new on Xperia L's software updates here, jist for informing you, and for battery, it is bad to decent, but with active use, it lasts at like 7-10 hours without recharging, with my experience for nearly 10 month using it,
Just reminding it's specs for you :
- 8 Megapixels Camera, Exmor RS Sensor, HD Video Recording.
- Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
- Dual Core 1 GHz, Qualcomm Snapdragon 400, MSM8230 Chipset
- 4.3" 854x480, TFT LCD Display
- 1GB RAM, 8GB Internal Storage
- Lithium Ion, 1750 mAh Battery
- Available colours : Black, White, Red.
- Pricing at around 2999000 IDR or at around 266 USD
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Please hit thanks button if I helped you...!

[Completed] HTC Desire 625......need help with info

I just got this phone & haven't been able to find any information about it. The model name is HTC Desire 625 and other than the info on the box I have nothing. Let me know what you think & if you need more info I'll add what I got.
Thanks

slayon said:
I just got this phone & haven't been able to find any information about it. The model name is HTC Desire 625 and other than the info on the box I have nothing. Let me know what you think & if you need more info I'll add what I got.
Thanks
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Hi and thank you for using XDA Assist
Even i couldn't find anything about this HTC mode, are you sure this is the right model?

I got the model name from system settings, about. I've been playing around with it and writing down the stats I find.
Thanks for checking

Update
HTC Desire 625
Android version 5.1
Display (1280 X 720)
Processor (ARMv7)
Memory (1391 mb)
Back camera (5 megapixels)
Front camera (1.2 megapixels)
Storage (8 gb)
That's all the info I got

slayon said:
Update
HTC Desire 625
Android version 5.1
Display (1280 X 720)
Processor (ARMv7)
Memory (1391 mb)
Back camera (5 megapixels)
Front camera (1.2 megapixels)
Storage (8 gb)
That's all the info I got
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You've got an unreleased phone ! Congratz
No, really even with these info i couldn't find anything about it. So the only that i could say is to ejoy your phone !