HTC EVO 3D Review

Beautiful Design

First and foremost, the EVO 3D is a gorgeous phone. Like the EVO 4G, the EVO 3D is black with blood-red detailing. The EVO 3D smartphone feels solid, but not bulky in the least. It has a nice, textured rubber backing and a slimmer shape that feels good in hand.

With the battery in place, the HTC EVO 3D weighs 6 ounces, measures about 5 inches tall, nearly 3 inches wide, and 0.47 inches thick. Its display is a 4.3-inch 3D touchscreen with a sheet of Gorilla Glass for added toughness. Unlike the EVO 4G, the EVO 3D doesn't sport a kickstand--mainly because the twin 3D cameras occupy most of the space on the rear.

3D Display

 The phone uses parallax barriers to display 3D images and video, without the need for clunky 3D glasses The EVO 3D's 4.3-inch qHD 960-by-540-pixel screen looks terrific in 2D--and pretty good in 3D, as well. . An absolute dead-on viewing angle must be maintained to properly appreciate the third dimension, as . at a slight angle, the image's a  blurry mess.  If you don't want to view 3D images and prefer to stick to the standard 2D display, a toggle switch on the side of the device allows you to turn the effect off.

New HTC Sense User Interface

The EVO 3D comes with the latest version of the Sense user interface. Sense 3.0 has a brand-new customizable lock screen. You can pick a theme for your lock screen and then select four apps that you visit the most.  To unlock your phone, you drag the circle and move it over an app; you then jump straight to that app.

The new version of Sense also has a spruced-up Walls system. Rather than having to flick back and forth between your walls, as you do in the stock Android operating system, you can flick the EVO 3D's screen to make the walls spin. The effect is slightly reminiscent of a carousel and makes navigation a little easier.  HTC has a nice tradition of creating visual weather apps, and it is cool to see the company continue to improve them. They might not always be pretty, but they sure are dramatic.

Performance

The EVO 3D is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The Snapdragon processor supports advanced 3D technology, including full 1080p 30-frames-per-second HD video and stereoscopic 3D video capture and playback.

 The EVO 3D had a quick startup time of 13.7 seconds with File transfer speed  of 7.2 megabits per second.  The games  graphics in frames per second (fps)of  the dual-core EVO 3D is huge: With antialiasing off, is averaged 36.5 fps.

3D Camera and Video Capture

 3D images or videos  can be viewed  on any 3D TV with the help of the phone's HDMI-out jack. The HDMI jack uses a technology called MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link) that allows both charging and HDMI-out via the same port.

The EVO 3D comes loaded with Watch, HTC's new movie and TV-show streaming service. With Watch, you can download videos and start viewing them immediately.

Data Speeds and Call Quality

The EVO is also juiced with Sprint's 4G data speeds, and it comes with a 4G mobile hotspot feature that lets you share your connection with up to eight devices. The EVO 3D achieved average download speeds of 3.59 megabits per second and average upload speeds of 1.42 mbps.

Bottom Line

 It is fun to watch short videos in 3D or take 3D photos, but it is definitely still a novelty feature. That said, the EVO 3D's design is gorgeous, and the combination of dual-core Snapdragon processors with 4G can't be beat. It is definitely the best phone on Sprint, and a worthy successor to the original EVO

HTC EVO View 4G Specs

Release Date:	June, 2011
Dimensions:	112.3 x 195.3 x 13.2 millimetres
Embedded;Operating:System:	Google Android 2.3 Browse devices running this OS
CPU Clock:	1500 MHz
CPU:	Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8655 Browse devices based on this microprocessor
RAM capacity:	1 GiB
ROM capacity:	29.8 GiB
Display Type:	Super LCD , 16777216 scales
Display Diagonal:	7 "