Droid Market News – HTC’s New Line-up Coming Soon To Your Carrier? Launching April 25, the HTC One S will be available for T-Mobile customers. The HTC One S should retail for around 200 dollars give or take. Already well received in Europe and else where and will be T-Mobile’s first Android 4.0 smartphone.
T-Mobile’s first Android smartphone with Ice Cream Sandwich, will sport a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED screen, 8MP rear camera and support T-Mobile’s HSPA+ 42Mbps network. The issue this author has its just another Android phone, from what we know thus far, there is nothing special about it.
Mean while Sprint will be launching the HTC Evo 4G LTE, reportedly a variant of the HTC One X. While the new Evo version should be well received it doesn’t stand out here in the US market. One thing it does have against it is that the US version will be only a dual core smartphone. While many Android fans where dismayed about what they see is a downgrade in hardware, question is, is a quad core really needed? After all as dual cores becoming more powerful, it does save battery life to stick with a dual core rather than a quad core processor.
Droid Market News – HTC’s New Line-up Coming Soon To Your Carrier?
Speed delivered smoothly: A lot of people have been crying foul since they learned that the AT&T and rumored (until now) Sprint variant of the HTC One X lack Nvidia’s quad-core Tegra 3 chip. I admit I did, too, but after playing with the HTC Evo 4G LTE, it’s clear that my misgivings were unjustified. This phone is fast, and by fast, I mean it zooms. Applications fired up almost instantly; flipping through the app tray and various menus was effortless. Android 4.0 on the Evo 4G LTE flowed with buttery smoothness. Original here.
While T-Mobile’s new HTC product seems to get lost with ease in this years crop of new Android Smartphones, Sprint’s entry doesn’t have that issue. Sporting a massive 4.7 inch display the EVO 4G LTE has a rather large face. It is however surprisingly thin at just 0.35 inches. Its a well built smartphone, for all its sleekness its internally rugged with an aluminum frame.
Boasting a big 4.7-inch Super LCD 2 (720p) resolution screen, menus, Web sites, and apps practically leaped off the Evo 4G LTE’s display. Perhaps that’s because the phone uses smaller icons to indicate Android Ice Cream Sandwich’s virtual menu buttons compared with the buttons I’m used to, like on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The display looked bright as well, but to be fair, the demo I was treated to was in a room with very weak lighting. I’d love to see how this display stands up to phones with OLED screens and in strong sunlight. Original here.
While not stellar it is a very nice entry for HTC to try and catch up with other smartphone manufacturers, however the issue I have with it, that it just doesn’t standout. It doesn’t beat or surge past other smartphones on the stats sheets. Its coming late to the game and its no better than the smartphones that have in the field for months.
Droid Market News – HTC’s New Line-up Coming Soon To Your Carrier? HTC is doing a nice job of meeting standards, but not breaking them. In this authors humble opinion, creating a new smartphone is a balance between extending battery life, making the smartphone a manageable size, and packing the best screen, processor, and new tech as possible. I just don’t see HTC doing that with this round of new Android phones. Time will tell if HTC has hit a happy medium in the price and performance or if more powerful smartphones from other manufacturers will lure the buyers away.









