HTC is working on a special version of its flagship One X smartphone for China Telecom. Marked as X720d, it doesn’t come with NVidia Tegra 3 nor Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 CPU — rather it uses Qualcomm’s last-year Snapdragon S3 (MSM8660) SoC which two cores clock at the same (like Snapdragon S4) 1.5GHz while ensuring supplies are not the issue. Moreover, HTC also made some other changes for the X720d, including a removable plastic back (as opposed to polycarbonate) and an ever-useful microSD memory card slot.
Rest of the specs are pretty much the same and include a 4.7-inch 1280×720 HD screen, 8-megapixel rear camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facing one, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of built-in storage space, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and… here’s the trick… support for both CDMA and GSM networks, making this smartphone work all around the world. This is fairly important since China Telecom runs CDMA-based network.
Pricing is unknown at the moment though we do hear China Telecom will launch this baby sometime around mid-June…
[Via: Unwired View]