Samsung Galaxy S IV vs HTC One: Reviews

The two giant flagship android smartphones the One and GS IV have been launched this month and certainly they are competing against each other to be the best android smartphone.

The reveiws are out and coming, here's a look at what the reviewers has to say about them:

Engadget's Brad Molen :

"While our geek senses keep tingling at the thought of so many market-topping specs
contained within the same chass is, we also aren't overjoyed, per se, with excitement.
The design doesn't feel fresh, especially not next to the HTC One, but we can't deny that
it's an improvement over the GS3."

TechCrunch's Jordan Crook writes:

At the end of the day, it’d be foolish to think
that the Galaxy S4 isn’t a top-notch phone.
Where specs, performance and software
innovation are concerned, the company is
clearly making strides. But in playing with
this phone for a while, adjusting to the new
features, trying to make the most of them,
and sometimes failing miserably, I keep
returning to the idea of “Keep it simple,
stupid.”

Wired 's Michael Calore:

"But all that business of waving your hand or
moving your eyes to scroll while reading — it
only works in the crummy Android browser.
It does not work in Chrome, where I do all of
my browsing. It doesn’t work in Google
Reader or Flipboard or Instapaper or the
Kindle app, where so much reading happens.
Looking away from the screen doesn’t pause
a video in YouTube, only in the Samsung
video player."

Ars Technica's Florence Ion:

"None of this takes away from the
performance of the Galaxy S 4, though. It's
an extremely solid phone, and it's going to
be hard to go back to the S III after a week
with this one. It feels great to hold, it's
comfortable to use throughout the day, and
it takes much better photos than its
predecessor. The aluminum ring on its
chassis makes the handset look more
modern than its predecessors. The display
doesn't hurt either—it's really something to
look at. Samsung definitely has another hit
on its hands."

The Verge's David Pierce :
"The Galaxy S4 is fast and impressive, but
it's also noisy and complex. The One is
refined, quiet, comfortable, beautiful, and
above all simply pleasant. I love using that
phone, in a way I haven't experienced with
anything since the iPhone 5. That's why,
when my contract is up in June, I'll probably
be casting my lot with HTC instead of
Samsung."

ABC News's Joanna Stern:
"I just wish Samsung had put that same
attention into the design of the physical
phone. The HTC One and the iPhone 5 are
simply better-designed and crafted pieces of
hardware."

The New York Times's David Pogue:

"And the S4 is still made of plastic —
lightweight and grippy, but not as classy as
the iPhone’s glass or the HTC One’s metal."

Steve Kovach of Business Insider:
"As long as you don't mind a bunch of
plastic, you'll be perfectly happy with the
Galaxy S4."

So, there you have it Samsung Galaxy S IV can't impress the tech experts and HTC One seems to have the upper hand but only sales will say who wins the battle.
Anyways GSIV will out sale the One is probably sure, but HTC has made a really Impressive Android phone no doubt.

Zoom in more than preset limit on Google Maps

Google Maps is used by millions of people around the world and most of us wants to get a more closer view of the object we are viewing but Google has some preset limit upto only which we can view the imagery, but using a simple trick we can get a much closer look of it in some places on the map.

First open a particular place you want to get a closer view, then Zoom in as much as it will let you
by clicking on the "+" sign.

When you have zoomed as much as you
can but not to street view (if the
location you're looking at even
has street view), look over at
the white space just to the top
left of the map....where the little
printer and chain link buttons
are.

Click on the chain "link" button.
That will show open a box with a
long URL to the map you are
looking at and another box with
some HTML code to embed.
Leave the HTML code.
Copy the long URL and paste it
into your browser's address bar,
but don't hit enter to go to that
URL yet. Instead, click to edit it
and scroll all the way to the
right. It should end with
something like "&z=22". Change
the 22 to 23 ("&z=23") and hit
enter.

If Google Maps has
imagery at that higher zoom
level it show up.
It doesn't work for all locations,
however.

We can view some high-res images from them
not available to us by default.

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