MEDOLOGY

• Alcatel One Touch Hero Hands On, the one with a E-ink Flip Cover
• Acer Liquid S2 Hands-on
• HTC Desire 500 Hands-on
• HTC One Mini Hands-On
• Acer Liquid S1 Hands-on

Alcatel One Touch Hero Hands On, the one with a E-ink Flip Cover As you know by now, we have been walking all over the IFA show floor to bring you some hands on videos of interesting devices and one of them we found really interesting is the recently launched Alcatel One Touch Hero. This device is a proper phablet, sporting a 6 inch full HD display and a very interesting accessory to go with. We'll tell you more, but watch this video first - httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIV_L1toDc As you can see from the above video, the bezel is insanely thin and makes the large device actually manageable. The 6 inch full HD display is powered by the 1.5 GHz MediaTek MT6589T processor, making sure the device chugs along just fine. The front is completely glass, with a white border running along the sides to the back, giving it a rather unique look. The interesting thing about the Alcatel One Touch Hero is its accessory - The eInk flip cover. The eInk flip cover can be used to read eBooks from the phone on the eInk screen and it saves a lot of battery. The eInk flip cover is not a touch screen display, but the text can be controlled using the volume buttons. This is pretty interesting ...

Acer Liquid S2 Hands-on Acer announced their flagship Liquid S2 just ahead of the IFA and we got to see the device on display here at IFA in Berlin. The Acer Liquid S2 is the first smartphone to come with 4K video recording thanks to the Snapdragon 800 processor powering it. The Acer Liquid S2 is an all in all flagship with top of the shelf specification and features. Check out our Hands-on video right below - httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAxuwxklpiQ The Acer Liquid S2 has a huge 6inch Full HD IPS display which is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. The internals of Liquid S2 are just top of the shelf with a 2.2GHz Snapdragon 800 SoC, 2GB RAM and Adreno 330 GPU. There is 16GB internal storage and there is a microSD card slot which support microSD cards upto 128GB.   There is a 13MP camera on the back of the device along with LED ring flash and this camera shoots 4K videos at 23fps and 1080p videos at 60fps. On the front, there is a 2MP camera capable of recording 1080p videos.   The Acer Liquid S2 runs on Android 4.2.2 Jellybean and has near stock UI with some very small customization by Acer. There is DTS sound enhancement for ...

HTC Desire 500 Hands-on HTC Desire 500 was announced sometime in August ahead of the IFA and we have the device on display in Berlin for IFA. The Desire 500 borrows some of its design language from the HTC One series with front speakers. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nv-au3HuNI HTC Desire 500 is powered by a 1.2GHz Snapdragon 200 quad-core processor, has 1GB of RAM and Adreno 203. There is 4GB internal storage and there is a microSD card slot for expansion of internal storage. The design is a bit different very rounded corners and stereo speakers on the front along with a 4.3inch display. Desire 500 has a 8MP camera at the back that is capable of 720p videos and there is a 1.6MP front camera. Desire 500 runs on Android 4.2.2 with HTC's Sense UI on top of it. The Desire 500 comes with a 1800mAh battery. It has the usual smartphone connectivity options with WiFi, 3G, USB, GPS and microUSB port. A dual SIM version is expected to launch in India.

HTC One Mini Hands-On HTC announced the mini version of their flagship, HTC One, back in July as the HTC One Mini and the phone was on display at IFA 2013 in Berlin. The HTC One Mini looks quite similar to the original HTC One, but comes in a smaller package and a less powerful package. Here is our hands on video from the event - httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jA_cqeaPsU HTC One Mini comes with a 4.3inch 720p HD Super LCD2 display and is powered by a 1.4GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 SoC. There is 1GB RAM and 16GB internal storage without a microSD card slot. The main feature about the HTC One Mini is not its spec-sheet, but its design which is almost exactly like the one on HTC One which is consider one of the best built Android smartphones. The HTC One Mini retains the 4 UltraPixel camera from its big brother and has 1080p video recording. On the front,we have a 1.6MP camera that is capable of recording 720p videos. The One Mini has a 1800mAh non-removable Li-Po battery. The HTC One Mini will be available in Stealth Black, Glacial Silver and Blue.

Acer Liquid S1 Hands-on Acer launched their new flagship Acer Liquid S2 just ahead of the IFA and they had announced the Liquid S1 back in Computex which was a couple of months back. The Liquid S1 is quite a big device with a 5.7inch HD display. It comes with Dual-SIM capabilities and is powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core processor from MediaTek - MT6589. It has an 8 MP camera at the back along with LED flash and it is capable of recording 1080p videos. The phone looks huge because of its massive 5.7inch display. On the front, below the display, we have three capacitive touch keys. The build quality is good for the price range. The device runs on Android 4.2.2 Jellybean and has near stock UI with very little customization. The Acer Liquid S1 may or may not come to India as there is no information about it yet. You can check out our hands-on video below. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Q7bAkB5Rc