Sprint Epic 4G Touch 1080p Video Sample and Windows 8 Tablet Hands-On!

By on September 16, 2011 in Phones, Samsung, Tablets, Videos

It’s two, two, two videos in one!

Thursday night I headed out to the TechCrunch Gadgets/Mobile reader meet-up in San Francisco. Seeing as the event was sponsored by Samsung Mobile and I’d just received a Sprint Epic 4G Touch to review, I brought the Sammy smartphone along with me figuring I could put the camera through its paces.

Low and behold, TC Editor John Biggs was wandering around the club with a Samsung Windows 8 prototype tablet in his hands. Being as smooth as I am, I lifted the device without his knowing (okay, he knew) and captured a few minutes’ worth of swiping and tapping via the Epic 4G Touch’s 1080p camcorder. Then I recorded an introduction with the cameraphone this morning in a much quieter, much better lit location.

The phone fared pretty well, I think, at capturing full HD video in low light and despite my hasty, shaky-handed videography. While the hands-on footage looks a little blurry, the intro looks much sharper, so I’m going to chalk the blurriness up to the poor shooting conditions and poorer cinematography. As for the Win8 tablet? Super responsive. I didn’t have much time to use thing, and it wasn’t connected to the Net at the time, so I couldn’t gauge much besides a general impression of the Metro UI (good), app launch times (fast), and the Windows Desktop lurking beneath the new UI (so weird, and potentially bad). Also, I drew a self-portrait.

Check out the video and forgive me for carrying on a conversation with a nameless tech enthusiast during the hands-on. It was too loud in there for me to narrate the video, but apparently just quiet enough to capture our utterly useless, if pithy, back and forth.

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Noah Kravitz mourned the day that Star Castle was replaced in the pizza parlour he frequented as a kid. The sadness ended when he saw an older kid make it to the Ninth Key level on the Pac Man that took his place. Years later he’s become a fixture of consumer tech reporting on the InterWebs and TV, and Galaga vies with Zoo Keeper as his all-time favorite arcade games. His loves of music, games, TV, video editing and yapping endlessly at anyone who’ll listen have all been channeled into an Internet addiction that spans screens big and small and devices portable, pocketable, and best left on his desk. Noah has been reporting on gadgets and media for a decade and a half now, including writing, podcasts and videos for PhoneDog, MacDirectory, Maximum PC, PowerBook Central, and a few other publications. He’s also written about the arts, education, and sports for some magazines you’ve likely never heard of, and has invaded your television talking about consumer electronics on CNBC, Fox Business Network, and a host of local TV stations.

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