HTC’s initial Beats Audio phone: a Sensation XE
HTC’s initial smartphone with Beats Audio has been announced: a Sensation XE.
The new 3G smartphone will run Google’s Android handling complement with a HTC Sense user interface and underline a 4.3-inch hold screen, a 1.5-gigahertz twin core processor, an HDMI pier and an 8-megapixel camera able of sharpened 1080p video.
All of those specs are flattering high-end, though a Sensation XE does have one lower-rung spec — only 4 gigabytes of on-board storage. However, a Sensation XE will be sole with possibly an 8-gigabyte or 16-gigabyte microSD card, that can be used to store music, photos and video.
Music, of course, is expected to be a indicate of seductiveness for anyone available an HTC phone with Beats Audio.
In August, HTC invested $300 million in Beats by Dr. Dre, a audio record association that produces cost headphones marketed around a name of Andre “Dr. Dre” Young, a mythological hip-hop record writer and rapper.
On that name, Beats Audio has turn a underline in HP laptops and a killed-off TouchPad tablet, Chrysler sedans and now HTC phones.
So what is Beats by Dr. Dre indeed contributing to a new phone? Well, during slightest a set of headphones.
The Sensation XE will embody an disdainful span of Beats by Dr. Dre in-ear headphones that underline an in-line remote control “allowing we to pause, play or skip by marks and answer/end calls while a phone is in your pocket,” HTC said.
The initial Beats Audio HTC phone will boat in Europe and Asia after this month, though a Korean smartphone and inscription builder hasn’t nonetheless pronounced when a Sensation XE will strike store shelves in a U.S.
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Images: The HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio smartphone. Credit: HTC
