One of the trends of smart phones now seems to be that the screen is getting bigger and bigger. Even Apple, which has always claimed that 3.5-inch is the best ergonomic design, has enlarged the screen to 4inch on the iPhone 5. HTC, together with Verizon Wireless, released their own 5-inch flagship Droid DNA on November 13, officially entering the battle for 5-inch large screen smart phones. Before that, the market of 5-inch smart phones had been monopolized by Samsung in South Korea. Last year, when the Note generation was released, it was not optimistic. However, the market finally gave Samsung a "correct name". In fact, 5-inch smart phones still had a certain market audience. Business people and many women and girls (you know what women do when they go out with bags...) all like Note. Recently, Samsung officially announced that the sales volume of Note 2 reached 3 million within one month after its launch, which undoubtedly means that the market has given full recognition to large mobile phones.
Although a 5-inch machine has also appeared in China before, it can be said that Samsung Note series did not really meet a positive opponent until the release of HTC Droid DNA. The following is a comparative evaluation video of Note2 and Droid DNA from foreign media, which compares the appearance, screen and performance. It may have some reference value for friends who are considering "big" mobile phones.
From the video, as HTC emphasized at the DNA launch, they do not intend to make DNA into a "tablet phone". This is a smartphone! So we can see that HTC has spent a lot of effort on industrial design. Including the design of ultra narrow border, the author was slightly surprised that the DNA is actually a little narrower than the Samsung S3, 2.78 inches wide, and the S3 is also 2.78 inches wide. However, if it is a millimeter count, the DNA is actually a few tenths of a millimeter narrower than S3, but it is not reflected in the inch count. Then it has to be mentioned that the DNA back adopts a circular slope design, the thickness decreases from the middle of the body to both sides, and the thinnest part is only 4mm. It can be seen that all the designs of HTC are designed to make DNA more like a mobile phone, rather than the tablet phone targeted by Note.
Then there is the screen. In the video, we can also see that the reviewers complain that the color of Samsung Super AMOLED screen is a bit oversaturated, while the DNA screen is more close to the "real life" and "natural" color. Then there is no doubt that the resolution and pixel density of DNA is better than Note2, and the reviewers also mentioned that although the 440PPI has far exceeded the retinal screen standard, that is, the human eye cannot distinguish it without tools, the fineness of the screen can still be felt in actual use, especially in the aspect of page font rendering.
Finally, in terms of performance, DNA uses the currently popular Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro, also known as APQ 8064 (this SoC can only be said to be too popular, and many machines use it). Winning over Note 2 in score, which may be the reason for the processor architecture. The Krait architecture of Qualcomm APQ 8064 is closer to the Cortex-A15 architecture, while the Exynos processor of Note 2 is still the A9 architecture. However, there is no gap in daily use, and the overall performance is not only related to SoC. From the video, we can see that Note2 opens the game faster than DNA!
The final suggestion is that although both DNA and Note 2 have 5-inch screens, their positioning is different. HTC positions DNA as a mobile phone, while Samsung's Note 2 is more like a product between a mobile phone and a tablet - a tablet phone.
