HTC Jetstream Review
HTC Jetstream Tablet 10.1 inches
Review the HTC’s vision for the perfect 10-inch Android tablet, the HTC Jetstream, complete with a Qualcomm MSM8660 1.5 Ghz dual – core processor under the hood and a pricy $700 USD bill attached to it carried by AT&T.
The few questions we’ve got on our minds, and have had on our minds since the pricing was first announced is:-how could a 10-inch tablet enter an environment with several 10-inch tablets already having been out for several months with a significantly higher price and expect to do well for sales? As it turns out, this HTC tablet does not hold back – not in construction or content – but will its individual specifications be enough to create one product worthy of the full price ?
HTC Jetstream Hardware Review
HTC Jetstream is amongst the highest-quality in tablet architecture on the market today. You don’t get much in the way of ports, unfortunately, with only a microUSB at the bottom and a headphone jack at the top, but you DO get a full – sized SIM card slot and a microSD card slot under the ribbed plastic cover surrounding the back – facing 8-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash.
This HTC tablet is mostly made of metal and glass, and though that makes us want to compare it to the Acer Iconia Tab A501 (also on AT&T soon with LTE), the HTC form makes this feel like the most high-class tablet on the market. Unlike the iPad 2, the Jetstream dares to add some form to the back and front of the device instead of making it as minimalistic as possible. Same is true about the HTC-modified software inside, as well, Android Honeycomb still looking very similar to its original form as seen in ouroriginal Android 3.0 Honeycomb review on the XOOM.HTC Jetstream also doesn’t seem to be going for the thinness award either, with its thickest point rivaled only by the massive Toshiba THRIVE tablet. That said, again, the grip is very nice, and this is as high-quality craftsmanship as you’ll see on a HTC device.
HTC Jetstream Software Review
With Jetstream’s tablet you’ll get your first glimpse of HTC Sense for tablets. The HTC Flyer got a new look at Sense, but this was only running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and was not specifically tailored for tablets working with anything larger than that device’s 7-inch display. We get what HTC considers the ideal tablet environment on Android. You’ll find it engaging and that it feels like home to you HTC lovers out there, but right from the outset there does seem to be a few oddities that we hope will be rectified with an update.
Set of apps sits inside this device, a full list of which you can get from viewing the hands – on video above, that you’ve seen in many AT&T or HTC devices. One of the apps is Footprints, an app that encourages you to tap and record your location as you travel through the city, through the forest, or even cross – country. This application alone is indicative of what HTC intends you to use this device for everything.
HTC Jetstream – Camera
This camera combo, but especially the back-facing camera, makes this tablet uniquely able to act as a media collection device that’s decent. Tablets have gotten a terrible rep for their low-grade cameras, turning off the whole first generation of tablet users not only because they’re difficult and awkward to use, but because they result in second-rate photos and videos. What you’ve got here with both nearly the most updated HTC camera interface and a full HD 1080p video and 8-megapixel photo capable camera is a "new vision".
Battery Life on Jatstream
Battery on this device is a non-removable 7300 mAh, this meaning that basically whatever you’re doing this the device, you’ll have more than a day’s use. At this very moment we’re at over 1 day use with the tablet and still have 49% left, and that’s using the AT&T data on the device – you’ll see in the image below that the tablet has been on for 3 days and only a tiny bit of charging, less than a couple of hours, and we’re good to go at least for another half-day usage.