HTC Rezound: First U.S. phone with Beats Audio arrives Nov. 14 during $300
The HTC Rezound will be a initial phone with Beats Audio to strike a U.S. when it arrives in Verizon stores Nov. 14.
At $300 on a two-year contract, a Rezound will feature a 4.3-inch touchscreen, a 1.5-gigahertz dual-core processor, an 8-megapixel behind camera able of sharpened 1080p video, a twin LED peep on a back, a 2-megapixel front camera and 32 gigabytes of storage (16 gigabytes built in and 16 gigabytes on an enclosed micro SD card).
The Rezound will boat with Google’s Android Gingerbread handling system, skinned in a HTC Sense user interface, though will be upgraded to a new Android Ice Cream Sandwich early subsequent year.
The phone will run on Verizon’s 4G LTE network and boat with Beats Audio in-ear headphones; black with red cables to compare a phone, that will be black with red highlights.
HTC is anticipating that Beats Audio will be a differentiator for a smartphones as a foe for high-end handsets grows — a Motorola Droid Razr and a Samsung Galaxy Nexus are both rising this month on Verizon too.
In sequence to get Beats Audio’s name and record into a product line, HTC purchased a $300-million stake in a association famous mostly for offered high-priced headphones marketed by hip-hop fable Dr. Dre.
HTC has already expelled smartphones with Beats headphones and speakers, such as a Sensation XE, in markets outward a U.S.
Record noble Jimmy Iovine, who is chairman of Beats Audio and started a association with Dr. Dre, has pitched Beats as some-more than only imagination headphones and speakers on HP laptops and in Chrysler sedans. Rather, Iovine preaches Beats as a resolution to a song industry’s sales decrease as digital song files and inexpensive headphones have degraded a peculiarity of song being sold.
“HTC entirely recognizes a drop to audio caused by a digital revolution,” Iovine pronounced in a statement. “They welcome a prophesy to correct this ecosystem and move a feeling from a recording studio to a smartphone.”
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Image: The HTC Rezound with Beats Audio. Credit: HTC/Verizon
