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Earlier today in New York, HTC announced the imminent release of the HTC Rezound handset. Previously known as the HTC Vigor; the HTC Rezound comes with Beats Audio, a promising 4.3" 720p display (that's 342ppi!) and LTE 4G support in the US.
Unfortunately HTC are still using the outdated Qualcomm MSM 8660 Snapdragon core processor (albeit at 1.5GHz) so I think it's pixel pushing powers may be a little lacking - especially without the hardware acceleration of Android 4.0 ICS. It is also very thick, weighing in at 13.65mm, more than 1.5 times the thickness of a Galaxy SII.
Despite any apparent shortcomings this may turn out to be quite a decent handset with such a high res display.Unfortunately it's going to have to compete with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus which is being released at around the same time.
If you're interested in getting one and live here in little ol' New Zealand you're out of luck; however if you live in the USA then check out Verizon and Best Buy stores from 14th November onwards.
Over at The Verge you can find full coverage including a hands-on and if you're interested in the technical specs, over at GSMArena they have the full list.
As a US Verizon customer, it's a good option, but it really can't compete with the Nexus. I don't like Sense, Qualcomm seems to get the least out of their chipsets, clock for clock, and Beats is largely worthless. Plus, after the Thunderbolt update debacle, I don't want to take their word that it'll be updated "soon".
ReplyDeleteYep I fully agree. The main problem with the qualcomm processors is that they are based on Arm cortex a8 so about 20% slower per clock cycle than a9 based chips such as the exynos.
ReplyDeleteBeats is pretty much just a marketing gimmick also.