HTC rolled out the HTC Rezound smartphone for the Verizon 4G LTE network on Thursday, and besides packing some seriously impressive specs, it doesn’t look too bad, either. Let’s take a look.
Running the Android Gingerbread operating system, otherwise known as version 2.3, it’s packing a 1.5GHz dual-core processor with a gigabyte of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. All that’s displayed on a 4.3 inch 720p display, and the good news is HTC has beefed up its battery to handle all that screen real estate.
Just look at it with that snazzy slim body, all-black with swank-looking red trim that makes it appear to be a Droid Incredible from a distance. By the way, if you were waiting around for an HTC Vigor, this is it, renamed to Rezound, presumably to make it seem even more vigorous.
That red trim is part of its Beats audio affiliation, first introduced on the HTC Sensation smartphone in Europe in September. That’ll include upgraded earbuds and a special electronic profile that’s supposed to rock your world as soon as you plug in those special earphones (pictured in our gallery below). I’ve tried Beats headphones and laptops, and their enhanced audio quality makes us take notice when we see that Beats logo on anything else. We’ll believe it enhances the sound on a smartphone, though, when we hear it with our own ears.
Nothing new: its 8-megapixel camera assisted by a dual LED flash and an F/2 .2 lens, and that’s accompanied by a 2-megapixel front-facing camera for conferencing. And by the way, it’s too bad we won’t see the brand-newIce Cream Sandwich (version 4.0) of Android loaded on board at first, but the company says it’s ready for such things and will see that operating system pushed into it early next year.
Will this smart-looking handset be a rezounding success? The HTC Rezound will enter a crowded market on Nov. 14, available at Verizon Wireless and Best Buy for $299 with a 2-year contract. Take a look at the pics of this new phone in the gallery below, and you’ll notice that it’s not exactly the slimmest phone in the world, but perhaps you need a little more heft to pack in all that serious hardware.
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