Unfortunately few other OS details can be shared, as Microsoft is yet to reveal aspects of Windows Phone 8 — and hands-on time with the device at a recent briefing was limited to exploring the home screen.
The second device, called the Windows Phone 8 S by HTC, comes with a slightly more modest spec list than the WP8 X — a difference that will presumably be reflected in the price tag. Under the bonnet it runs the same Windows Phone 8 operating system and comes with a 1GHz dual-core S4 processor. Without access to the underlying OS it's difficult to say how well the device worked or what lies in wait, feature wise. What we do know is that it comes with Beats Audio software tweaks onboard but it does not have the dual amplifiers found in the WP8 X.
The rear of the phone is home to a 5-megapixel f2. The bottom of the phone is also removable, meaning that you can change the accented colour of your device at whim. The WP8 S, like the 8 X, will not come with Beats Audio headphones as part of the retail package, Wheeler said, though retailers are free to create their own promotional bundles. By Ben Woods. The handset measures Pricing for either device was not available at the time of writing.
The Nexus One launched on Android 2. There was a 5-megapixel camera and it came with a microSD card slot. Something of a hot potato, but important both for HTC and Android. This swapped the trackball for an optical system instead, leading to a sleeker phone. It was launched alongside the HTC Legend and next in our gallery , but there was already a hint that HTC was launching too many phones.
Arriving with Android 2. It borrowed from the Nexus One design in some areas, but returned to physical navigation keys underneath the display. The Desire name still survives today as a mid-range category of devices. It was lower powered with a smaller 3. This was the first time that HTC really went to town with metal bodywork. The results were stunning. The HTC Legend retained an insert in the rear and a removable bottom section, but essentially took the HTC Hero design, slimmed it down and made it a metal unibody.
Some saw this as the company trying to design a phone to appeal more to the female market and we're not including the HTC Rhyme on this list , but the Legend made its mark, a mark that still ripples through smartphone handset design today. The advent of 4G sees two handsets sharing this section of HTC's history.
It was close to the Desire HD which launched a few months later globally. Importantly, however, the Evo 4G is credited as being one of the first 4G handsets, sitting on Sprint's WiMax network. At this time, sticking 4G or LTE on the name was an important factor as next-gen networks pushed faster speeds and the entertainment or business benefits that came with them.
But these two devices serve as an illustration of the approach that HTC was taking: it was building smartphones for individual networks, resulting in an explosion of different hardware configurations and ever-expanding software offerings. Meanwhile, HTC was looking for more adjectives to push its handsets and Sensation was the flagship for It was this model that saw the first integration of Beats Audio. The HTC Sensation launched with a 4. It also had a concave edge to the display. HTC's design panache was unquestionable in the Sensation, but it was the XE that really pushed things forward.
The Sensation XE carried Beats branding and came with iBeats headphones in the box, as well as boosting the hardware slightly over the original version. The Beats integration ran across a number of subsequent handsets before the companies parted ways. Beats Audio is now a part of Apple. In and towing a very fragmented collection of handsets along behind it, HTC redesigned its flagship positioning. It launched the HTC One branding saying that this was one way of thinking about phones, but then launched the One X, One S and One V in three different positions and confused that message.
The One X was the flagship and offered a polycarbonate unibody design. The end of and early will see a number of these devices released into the Australian market and may convert iOS and Android users into new customers. On the camera side the 8X has a 2. And the rear 8 megapixel camera has a 28mm lens and a dedicated image processing chip to produce quality images in all sorts of light conditions. HTC has also enhanced the audio with Beats Audio technology and has an amplifier powering the 3.
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