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Review: HTC Aria

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Image quality on the HTC Aria was okay, but not impressive. Indoors, my pictures looked washed out and grainy. The camera has no flash, and it had trouble with low light situations. Outdoors, pictures looked much better, but details were lacking and images looked oversharpened and digital at full crop. The touch focus could hardly handle close-ups, and never seemed to focus properly. This left my subject blurry in many shots, while objects farther away came through more clearly. Photos were definitely fine for Facebook sharing and even the occasional Flickr upload. Not quite printworthy, though, and I wouldn't use the Aria to replace a point-and-shoot digital camera on special occasions.

Video

Video quality was worse than still images. Colors looked fine and accurate, but videos had an unnerving shakiness to them. The camcorder shoots videos in VGA resolution, but the quality was poor enough that I wouldn't watch them on a larger television screen. Fine for occasional YouTube sharing, but only if you can hold the camera steady.

3GPP / MPEG-4 format (viewable with QuickTime)

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HTC Aria

3.2" display 320 x 480 pixels
S1 MSM7227 processor
1,200 mAh battery
Memory Card Slot, Headphone Jack (3.5mm)

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