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High-end HTC Lead AT&T-bound?

By: , IntoMobile
Monday, May 16th, 2011 at 12:15 PM
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While Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint have its high-end HTC handsets either available, or on their way soon, we’ve been wondering what AT&T will bring to the table from the popular handset-maker. The second largest US carrier may have the Atrix 4G, and the Infuse 4G ready to do battle with others, but it looks like we can look forward to the HTC Lead as well, a dual-core super phone.

With the exception of the HTC Thunderbolt, the Lead, Sensation, and EVO 3D look to be virtually the same phone. While Sprint’s handset will be the only 3D version, all of the handsets sport a 4.3 qHD display, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, and likely HTC Sense 3.0.

HTC looks to be doing the same thing Samsung has done in the past – releasing the same handset for all four major carriers, and have them tweaked slightly for differentiation. The only thing we’re not seeing HTC do is give this line of handsets a name, as Samsung did with the Galaxy S phones.

Nonetheless, the Lead should be one hell of a phone, and will challenge the upcoming competition easily with its high-end internal guts. Aesthetically, the Lead looks like every recent HTC handset we’ve seen lately – a brick phone with a large screen.

The specs of the lead were obtained via a leaked ROM, which shows that that handset will ship with Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, 5 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 3.0, and WiFi b/g/n. HTC handsets rarely lack bells and whistles, so we can imagine that the Lead won’t be in short supply. That said, the handset is missing a front-facing camera, which means it won’t be able to take advantage of the video chat capabilities that Android 2.3.4 touts.

We still have no launch date for the Lead, but it could land just in time to do battle with the Galaxy S 2 when it lands in the US as the Samsung Attain for AT&T. HTC has long been the king of Android phones, but other companies are bringing compelling devices to the table. Do you plan on grabbing a HTC device for your next phone, or something else?

 

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Blake Stimac

Blake was born in Beaumont, Texas, about 100 miles away from Houston. Even as a youngster, technology came to him very naturally, tinkering with anything he could. His passion of technology grew with mobile phones when he dreamed that the capabilities of phones would eventually make one's life much easier. Since then it's been his mission to advocate the push of mobile technology to anyone who will listen.

  • http://twitter.com/josephggubbels Joseph Gubbels

     But the EVO 3D has 1GB of RAM, while the Sensation only has 768MB, and I don’t know about this device. Then the EVO 3D has 4GB of internal memory, while the Sensation has 1GB, the EVO 3D has a 1.3 Megapixel FF camera, while the Sensation has a VGA on the front. The EVO 3D has a way bigger battery (1730 mAh to the Sensation’s 1520) and is 0.8 mm thicker and 22 g heavier than the Sensation.
    Then, to top it all off, while both phones have one of Qualcomm’s 1.2GHz dual core processors, the EVO 3D has the MSM8660, while the Sensation has the MSM8260.
    These differences seem to be too great to call these devices variations of the same phone, and thus I don’t believe that the comparison to Samsung’s Galaxy S line is fitting. Rather, the Sensation and EVO 3D are two distinct, though equally high end phones, and the Lead may be a variation of one (there aren’t enough specs out to say), the three devices are certainly not descendants of the same parent smartphone.

  • SaK

    This paragraph sounds confusing: “With the exception of the HTC Thunderbolt, the Lead, Sensation, and EVO
    3D look to be virtually the same phone. While Sprint’s handset will be
    the only 3D version, all of the handsets sport a 4.3 qHD display, 1.2GHz
    dual-core processor, and likely HTC Sense 3.0.”

    Primarily because the Thunderbolt doesn’t have a dual-core CPU, while the paragraph makes it seem otherwise.