HTC THUNDERBOLT REVIEWS AND SPECS

The HTC Thunderbolt has the fastest Internet speeds I've ever seen on a cell phone, but using the 4G LTE network really kills its battery life.

In our tests, I got eight hours of 3G talk time with the Thunderbolt, six hours of video playback time, and only 2.5 hours of LTE streaming. So what's an Internet fan to do?

HTC and Verizon will offer a very high-capacity extended battery, the companies told me. The 2750 mAh battery is nearly twice the capacity of the Thunderbolt's built-in 1400 mAh unit. The big battery will cost $49.99 and will be available very soon, said Pat Bucci, Verizon's director of accessory products.



The new battery makes the phone about an ounce heavier than its existing 6.5 ounces, and it comes with a new back that makes the phone deeper as well, Bucci said.

"We want customers who are power users, that are going to have the hotspot on all day, to just go," he said.

Along with the extended battery, Verizon will offer a $59.99 desktop dock, which can charge both the phone and a second standard or extended battery at once. A second standard battery will cost $39.99.

The Thunderbolt will also be the first Verizon phone to support wireless charging. In April, Verizon will start selling a Qi-compatible back and charging pad for the Thunderbolt. The back will cost $29 and the pad will cost $69; it's fully compatible with Energizer's inductive charging products.

You could also go for a third-party charging solution like the Energizer Energi To Go power pack. The Energizer XP4001 ($53.47 at Amazon) weighs about five ounces and holds 4000 mAh of power, which should be enough to LTE all day.

And while you can't turn off 4G here, you can use our tips on how to improve your Android phone's battery life with the HTC Thunderbolt or any other Android phone.

If you saw our HTC Thunderbolt review video a few days ago you’ve likely already noted that one of the weakest points of this device is its pitiful battery life. Sporting a slightly dissapointing 1400mAh battery, it’s no surprise that the Thunderbolt’s 4.3” screen, 1GHz processor, 4G connectivity and other high end hardware and software leave you carrying your charger with you for extended trips. Today we’ll show you how to maximize your shiny new Thunderbolt’s battery life so that you can get much more than the 6-8 hours of usage I got without optimization.

Turn off 4G when not in use. Even if you don’t life in a 4G covered area, the Thunderbolt’s LTE radio is constantly searching for a 4G signal. Turning it off when it won’t be in use for long periods of time [like gaming during a car ride, etc] can really help. Here are instructions provided by Taylor from Phonedog on how to turn 4G on and off.

    Open the dialer, dial
    Select Phone information
    Scroll down to “Set preferred network type,” select “CDMA auto (PRL)”
    Press the back button

This is just as easily undone as it is done. To turn the LTE radio back on:

    Dial *#*#4636#*#*
    Select Phone information
    Select “LTE mode”
    Press the back button
    Repeat the first two steps
    Select “CDMA + LTE/EvDo auto”
    Press the back button

Also note that you can add a this number as a contact and add a direct dial shortcut to your homescreen for one-tap access to this feature. Perhaps a future OTA update will include a 4G switch widget?

    The Thunderbolt sports a massive 4.3” 800×480 SuperLCD screen that drains a lot of power. It is arguably the biggest battery drainer in any smartphone, Android or not. Adding a shortcut or widget to your homescreen to toggle brightness can help out a lot. Even enabling automatic brightness over full-time maximum brightness can make a difference in battery life. This tip is likely gave the most significant improvement in battery life.


    HTC Sense 2.0 provides a section specifically for Location Settings that has a few toggles your Thunderbolt’s Google Location services, Standalone GPS services, and VZW Location services. At most you only really need one of these on [perhaps if you’re navigating or using for location] but using all 3 at once is simply a battery killer and disabling one or two can’t hurt!
    Turning off Adobe Flash 10.2 may make you cringe but think about it – how often are you browsing a site that’s made up entirely of flash? You may do a lot of your news reading in Google reader or watch most of your online video using the stock YouTube app for Android. If you do love Flash you may want to keep this on; if you don’t however, you’ll see a boost in browsing performance, which translates into less time spent waiting for pages to load, which in the end means less CPU cycles and less battery usage.
    Last resorts: If you still can’t get the battery life you desire after calibrating your battery and following all these tips you can try apps like Juice Defender, which attempts to disable unused settings/services to fully maximize battery life, though I found that it didn’t provide much more than a few extra minutes of usage at the cost of using up RAM in the background. You can also invest in an extended battery for the Thunderbolt; there are a few making their way around the market new that can be picked up for under $100 that nearly double the stock battery’s 1400mAh rating.
    BONUS: Quicksettings is a free application available in the Android market that provides quick access to a lot of features mentioned in this article. A long press of the search button and you have brightness, volume control, GPS and more all at your fingertips.

I’d estimate that fully and carefully utilizing all of the first 4 tips, any heavy Thunderbolt user will notice a significant improvement in the performance of the stock battery – 2 full days of battery? No problem! *A lot of these tips will work for any Android smartphone, so feel free to use them at your own discretion. Note that nothing was said about ‘task managers’ or ‘task killers’ because of their debatable effectiveness. If you’ve noticed a battery life boost on your old phone using a task killer then by all means continue using one!

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Computerworld - Independent speed tests for the HTC ThunderBolt smartphone on the Verizon Wireless LTE 4G network show it runs many times faster than on older 3G networks for Web browsing, emailing, streaming video and music and playing online games.

At the same time, though, its battery life comes up shorter -- sometimes much shorter -- than advertised, according to initial Computerworld field tests.

In four field tests over several days, battery life on a review unit of the ThunderBolt averaged only 4 hours and 22 minutes between charges, two hours below the advertised 6.3 hours for the device's 1400 mAh battery.

The faster battery drain came from relatively heavy video and music downloading, though the tests also included typical voice calls, texting, e-mailing and Web browsing tasks.
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The testing was done as the phone occasionally moved between 4G LTE and 3G cell zones in the Boston suburbs.

Four hours and 22 minutes of battery life is not out of line with the findings of various online reviewers who also pushed the ThunderBolt by receiving heavy downloads of music and video, as well as using it for videoconferencing on LTE.

Some bloggers have offered workarounds -- by shutting off the LTE connection or buying a longer-life battery.

However, our experience with the ThunderBolt found that even in 3G zones, the battery life can be quickly sapped by multimedia data. (The ThunderBolt's voice traffic runs over CDMA for now, separate from LTE data traffic.)

In a separate test of battery life, Computerworld also tried out ThunderBolt's Mobile Hotspot capability. Using the ThunderBolt as a Wi-Fi hotspot, we started with five devices connected over Wi-Fi to the ThunderBolt. The smartphone was also connected to the LTE cellular network in Framingham, Mass.

In the mobile hotspot test, the ThunderBolt's 1400 mAh battery was drained to less than 15% in just two hours. That quick battery drain may be why Verizon suggests connecting the smartphone to a wall charger when using it as a mobile hotspot. (A warning on the phone says: "Mobile Hotspot may use more battery. You may want to connect the phone to a power supply."

HTC and Verizon don't appear to have any official statement of ThunderBolt's battery life when used as hotspot without a power connection.


LTE, battery background

Several early testers of the ThunderBolt found LTE speeds are the device's most striking feature. Network World reviewers reported an average of 12 Mbit/sec downlink speeds on five tests over LTE in Framingham, Mass., while a Computerworld reviewer got 16 Mbit/sec download speeds and 19 Mbit/sec upload speeds in the New York City area.

That Computerworld reviewer found the LTE speeds were 20 times faster than Verizon's 3G speeds, which are far more widely available than LTE. LTE networks are now available in some 40 cities.

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Apple iPhone 4 Review, Specification, and Price

 


Apple iPhone 4 review

So, another year, another iPhone. The latest version of Apple's iconic touchscreen smartphone is now available and it brings with it a whole host of new and innovative features. Is it worthy successor to its forebears the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3GS and, more to the point, is it worth its high asking price or should you hold out for the next round of Android, Windows 7, Meego, or WebOS devices? Read on to find out.

Most striking about the iPhone 4 is its new design. While the front is classic iPhone with its single piece of glass, single button, and symmetrical black bezel, the back has moved away from the curves of old to be replaced by a completely flat sheet of aluminosilicate-toughened glass (what do you mean you haven't heard of it?!). Combined with the new flat stainless steel sides, this gives the phone a particularly industrial, minimalist look and feel that is sure to split opinion even more than existing iPhones have.

To our minds the concept is sound and we really like the exceptional fit and finish of the phone but certainly the front bezel does now look a bit tired. In particular this seems to be because the iPhone 4 is slightly narrower and taller, yet retains the same size screen, as previous models. This makes the screen look a bit lost in the vast blackness of that bezel. It's still a pretty stunning design overall but there's definitely a prototype/engineering sample feel that takes the edge off.

By severely shrinking many of the internal components, Apple has managed to make the iPhone 4 noticeably slimmer than its forebears at just 9.3mm, and the company even touts it as the slimmest smartphone. Normally we would be concerned about this as the slimmer devices get, the more difficult they tend to be to handle but thanks to its flat sides the iPhone 4 is actually pretty easy to get a good grip on. However, the pointy edges that result from all those flat surfaces make the phone feel, if not out and out uncomfortable, certainly less comfy than many rivals and even previous iPhones. Weight remains largely unchanged at 137g, 2g more than the iPhone 3GS.

Another potential pitfall of having so much glass is its propensity to crack or shatter when knocked. However we've never experienced any such problems with any existing iPhone screens (though we have heard reports) so we see no reason why the glass front and back of the iPhone 4 should suffer unduly. Indeed, Apple has been quite happy to bash phones on tables and floors in various demonstrations we've seen and they've all remained spotless.

Moreover, in our experience, unlike plastic, glass screens are essentially scratch proof in normal use so using glass on the back as well will hopefully mean the iPhone 4 will look flawless for years to come, no matter how rough you treat it. Certainly we know many people that have not been overly careful yet own three year old iPhones that don't have a single scratch on the screen, which is more than can be said of the aluminium and plastic backs of said phones.

Those that are concerned about wear and tear can take advantage of Apple's Bumpers. These are the first official Apple branded cases for its iPhone products and they wrap around the edge of the new iPhone keeping the phone protected from the majority of drop related injuries. They're made from plastic panels set into rubber rather than the clever d3o shock absorption material used in similar looking minimalist protective solutions we've seen previously.

They do feel quite nice on the phone, giving it that all important curved edge, which both feels nicer and is easier to grip than the naked phone, and don't obstruct your use of the phone much at all. Also, the raised lip of rubber that runs round the edge of the front and back 'screens' further keeps them safe from scratching when put on a flat surface. What's more it's a rather nice touch that the Bumper incorporates metal buttons, just like the phone.

However, they do break up the minimalist look of the phone and you once again have the first-gen iPhone problem of the headphone socket being too narrow for most headphones. Also, the cynic in us may conclude that the very fact Apple has only now chosen to produce a protective case for its iPhone products suggests the new model is vulnerable, and there certainly may be some merit in that. However, we think it just as likely that Apple has taken advantage of the phone's new flat sides to provide a simple and elegant protective solution.



Looking more closely at those stainless steel sides, as Jobs rightly pointed out when he announced the iPhone 4, the gaps don't look very 'Apple'. However, there is method in the madness: the steel rim actually doubles as the phone's aerial, or more precisely the phone's aerials. By splitting the rim into two sections Apple has been able to use one section as the aerial for the mobile telephony signals of the phone and one for the local wireless services like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Frankly, we think it's a piece of design genius – hard edges notwithstanding.

A potential advantage of having the aerials, which are normally housed internally, mounted on the outside of the phone is improved reception. This seems to be borne out in real life with generally fewer problems with dropped calls than previous handsets. However, there does appear to be one major oversight in Apple's master plan: hold the phone in the right way (with your hand spanning the gaps as seen below) and the aerial completely shorts out and drops the call. Apple is reporting that it's actually just a problem with the signal strength detection and should be an easy fix, but it's still quite alarming. That said, it only appears to be a problem with some units and we couldn't get our review unit to repeat this problem.

Looking round the rest of the phone, there are all the usual iPhone signatures with the aforementioned circular Home button sitting below the screen; volume controls, which are now split up into two buttons, on the left edge below the mute switch; lock button on the top edge; and dock connector on the bottom edge along with the speaker and microphone. All the buttons, like the phone in general, feel solid and have a really pronounced action so you know for sure when you've pressed them. The mute switch has been stiffened up and reduced in size, so it's not so easy to knock when in a pocket, but ironically it does now make it quite difficult to use. Likewise, the volume buttons aren't quite so easily activated, requiring quite a precise press rather than a general prod.

Another change is the SIM slot, which used to be on the top edge. This has now moved to the right edge and it also uses a micro SIM. This is a bit annoying, but you can just cut down a normal SIM to fit and adapters are avilable to make your small SIM fit back in a normal slot. Apple's perennial annoyances of having no expandable storage or removable battery also remain. In addition to the normal microphone, Apple has added a second one on the top edge, finally giving the iPhone noise cancellation. This greatly improves the phone's ability to suppress background noise and bring clarity to your voice when making calls. In our tests it proved very effective, successfully filtering out the noise of passing cars and other background din. It's a welcome feature, but it would of course be remiss of us not to point out that this is a feature other decent phones have had for many a year and the iPhone is really just playing catchup here.

As for the phone's speaker, it remains mono and of the same quality as previous iPhones, so watching video and listening to music is limited in scope. However it's still impressively loud and adequate for listening to quiet music in bed, showing your mates a YouTube clip, or of course making a speaker call. Incidentally, the earpiece appears to have improved, with it being less sensitive to how you press it against your ear. One oddity is the speaker and microphone have swapped places on the new phone, with the speaker now behind the left grill and the mic on the right.

After its class-leading build quality and design, the iPhone 4's next standout feature is its screen. Sporting 960 x 640 pixels, it has four times as many as previous iPhones and more than most other smartphones out there. Apple calls this its Retina screen as its pixel density of 326px per inch is greater than the human eye can distinguish. Marketing jargon though this is, the new screen is undoubtedly sharper than any we've seen previously and is quite something to behold.

However, in practice it didn't actually make a huge difference to how we used the phone. We'd still generally zoom in to about the same level to read a block of text simply because having it any smaller would require holding the device three inches from our faces to make out the words. Obviously it's a great feature, but if you've been touting this as the reason to upgrade be prepared to be slightly underwhelmed.

Perhaps of more import, Apple has also quadrupled the contrast ratio, giving images a greater sense of depth and punch. Viewing angles are also excellent and a notable improvement over previous gen devices. All told, this is the best LCD screen we've seen on a phone.

As for the fact that Apple hasn't used OLED display technology, well it does mean the display's viewing angles aren't quite as flawlessly impressive and colours aren't quite as saturated as they could be. However, colours instead look more natural than on most OLED screens we've seen and, because of the transflective nature of LCD panels, the iPhone's screen is much easier to see in bright sunshine, if you can avoid reflections of course. One final note on the screen, it has a much blacker background, when off, than previous iPhones so the screen almost completely disappears from view. It's a small thing, but it definitely adds to the phone's feeling of quality.

Though not as revelatory as the introduction of video and auto focus seen on the 3GS, the camera on the iPhone 4 is still a notable upgrade. With a five megapixel sensor and including an LED flash, its core specs are merely inline with most smartphones and still trail most dedicated camera phones. However, a camera is about more than just its megapixel count; there's the lens quality, sensor size, image processing, ease of use, and performance.

As such Apple points out the sensor in its camera is of the new backside illuminated variety that are supposed to have inherently better lowlight performance than conventional sensors. This was certainly borne out in our tests, where we noticed less grain and colour distortion in the iPhone's photos. It also seemed to reproduce detail and colour better overall than many standard phones we've tried. Be under no pretence, though, it is still well within the realms of phone-camera quality.

What really helps the iPhone's photo taking abilities is the camera application, which is wonderfully easy to use with just a flash on/off/auto icon in the top left and an icon in the top right that flips between the front and back facing cameras, in addition to the existing three icons along the bottom for the picture gallery, shutter, and switching between video and stills. The app also loads pretty quickly and you can rattle off around six shots in ten seconds, which is very impressive for a phone.

As for that video mode, again the app is impressively easy to use and quick to respond. However, much as with the first phone we reviewed with 720p video, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz, the resulting footage leaves a lot to be desired. It is of course good for a phone and looks okay on the phone's screen, but watch it on a decent screen and the footage's dull colours and inability to deal with high contrast situations (like bright sunshine) really show up.

So, while quality isn't spectacular, both videos and photos are adequate for the casual social use they will see and the iPhone 4 makes taking and using that footage as easy as possible. For a start, as with the 3GS, you can crop the beginning and end off your video before uploading to youtube, emailing to a friend, or sending via MMS. What's more, if you download the iMovie app, which costs £2.99, you can even do some quite sophisticated video editing right on the phone.

Clips can be combined into a timeline along with pictures and you can even overlay music or a voice over. There are multiple transitions to choose from, all manner of overlays and titles, and you can even apply effects, like the Ken Burns effect, to keep your footage interesting. Once complete you can export your video at 360p, 480p or 720p quality and from there you can then upload it to youtube or send it to a friend.

You can also choose from five preset themes, which determine introduction screens, overlays, and transitions and you can just drop your footage in to create a quick film. Particularly clever is the Travel theme that will reference the geotagged info in your video footage and show the location on a map in the background. It's a seriously neat bit of software that's so easy to use, and for the money it's an absolute steal.

The final piece in the iPhone 4's video related puzzle is its video calling application, Facetime. Announced with much fanfare, it allows you to seamlessly flip between video calling or voice calling and between the VGA front facing camera and the main camera on the rear so the person you're chatting to can see your face or what you're looking at. It's very easy to use and quality is excellent. In fact, it's so nice to use, we could even learn to see the benefits of video calling. However, at the moment it's only available from iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 and only over Wi-Fi so a killer feature, it certainly isn't. Moreover, the front facing camera can't be used at all for conventional video calling.


Quick Glance

Physical Keyboard     No

Features
Style     Candy Bar
Screen Size     3.5in
Height     115.2mm
Width     58.6mm
Depth     9.3mm
Weight     137kg
Screen Resolution     640x960
Touchscreen     Yes
Talk Time     420m
Standby Time     300hr
Internal Storage     16/32GB
Memory Slot     No
Camera     5 Megapixel
Front Facing Camera     0.6 Megapixel
Video Camera     720p @ 30fps
Camera Flash     LED
Coverage (Band)     Quad
Bluetooth     Yes
Radio     No
WiFi     Yes
3G     Yes
Email     Yes
3.5mm Headphone Jack     Yes
CPU     1GHz Apple A4
App Store     App Store
USB     No
Physical Keyboard     No
GPS     Yes
Available Colours     Black


Another new internal feature of the iPhone 4 is a three-axis gyroscope, which gives it the ability to detect pitch, roll and yaw. Along with the existing accelerometer this gives it six-axis of motion detection, allowing Wii-mote levels of gesturing to control games and other apps. Sadly we couldn't get hold of any applications that took advantage of this, though expect them to start arriving thick and fast.

Wireless connectivity has also had a boost with 802.11n Wi-Fi and HSUPA to augment the wireless connections on previous models. The faster Wi-Fi is a nice addition, but has few practical uses that we can see beyond it being a slightly more stable and longer range connection. It's main advantage of greater transfer rates is made moot by Apple still not alowing wireless syncing and data transfer.

For all other applications like downloading apps and files, your broadband is more likely to be the limiting factor before your Wi-Fi. As for the HSUPA, again, it's a nice addition but so few network providers support it that you're unlikely to see massive gains. Certainly in our tests, we saw no significant or consistant difference between an iPhone 3G and the iPhone 4 when both on O2.

Despite all these hardware improvements, Apple has actually managed to improve battery life with you getting up to 7h 3G talk time, 6h 3G browsing, 10h Wi-Fi browsing, 10h video playback, 40h audio playback and 300h on standby. This compares to the 3GS figures of 5h 3G talk time, 5h 3G browsing, 9h WiFi browsing, 10h video playback, 30h audio playback and 300hrs on standby. We simply haven't had the phone long enough to fully test these claims, but early indications are that it does indeed last that bit longer with a day's intensive using less battery than we would expect. Whether it will stretch to more than a day with anything like extensive use, we're yet to see, though.

To power all the extra pixels in its screen, Apple has given the iPhone 4 a major speed bump, adding the same A4 processor as used on its iPad. We still can't get any word on whether it actually runs at the same speed (we're assuming it's slower) as the that in the iPad but certainly all the same features, like HD video playback, are there.

The result is a phone that feels noticeably, if not significantly, faster than the 3GS, which itself was a huge improvement over the iPhone 3G and '2G'. It does, however, seem slower than the iPad. In terms of out and out app performance, it's probably no quicker than the latest alternative smartphones that use the 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, like the HTC Desire, but the general interface is easily as snappy.

In terms of what the extra power does mean for application performance, it's difficult to tell. The huge catalogue of existing games and apps are of course all programmed to work on the existing iPhones so we've yet to see any app that really pushes the new hardware. Certainly those existing ones we tried did look and feel better and faster. Games in particular really benefited from the combination of the improved screen and performance and provided a much more rewarding and immersive experience.

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HTC TROPHY REVIEWS AND SPECS

HTC Trophy has been announced this May and also will be released this May. HTC is famous for android smartphone but not for HTC Trophy because this smartphone use  windows phone 7  operating system. It comes in black and only weight 139g. This smartphone clearly focus more on gaming because having HTC Trophy is just like having the power of XBOX LIVE in your hand.

The camera for HTC Trophy is 5mp with autofocus and LED flash. The quality of the picture and video taken still quite high. It also features Geo-tagging, built-in scenes include candlelight, landscape, and portrait match the environment of your subject. Since this is a windows phone 7 the operating system for it is Windows® Phone OS 7. It is power by 1 GHz Scorpion processor, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8650 Snapdragon chipset. That totally support to play the latest games available.


Just like other smartphone it has all the basic such as bluetooth, wifi, htc hub, social networking, fm radio, longer lasting battery that can stand by up to 286 hours. The internal memory for HTC Trophy is 16 GB storage, 576 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM. It doesn’t have any card slot memory.


more HTC TROPHY features

more info here

    MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA9 player
    MP4/WMV9 player
    Organizer
    Microsoft office document viewer/editor
    Facebook integration
    Voice memo/dial
    Predictive text input

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Like other high-end devices, it also boasts 3.8-inch wide LCD capacitive interactive display that comes with accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate. As the phone works on quad-band GSM network, it offers global communication without any hassle. Most incredibly, it also includes massive internal memory of 8GB to keep those memories. On the back, it sports 5MP camera with LED flash letting you to take those unforgettable moments. And yet it includes other notable features like A-GPS support, Microsoft office document viewer, and Facebook integration. Powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile 7.0 OS, it is highly user-friendly while doing multi-tasking functions.

What’s more, it offers high-speed web browsing option thanks to the HSDPA 7.2Mbps technology. And yet it offers Assisted GPS support with Bing Maps ensuring its users to navigate desirable locations without any hassle. Nowadays, this kind of high-end device is available in the choice of lucrative mobile phone deals which have offered from the leading network services. We have tied-up with the leading network services including 3-mobile, T-mobile, O2, Orange, Vodafone and Virgin network. The leading network services have offered some of the best deals including contract mobile phone deal, PayG phone and pay monthly deals to suit user’s pocket and requirement. Amongst the best deals, contract mobile phone deal has got many advantages since it comes with free texts, free minutes and instant cashback offers etc. Apart from such kind of offers, customers may gain free mobile handset under contract mobile phone deal. This phone deal is widely used amongst heavy mobile users these days.

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Our long national nightmare of watching dozens of HTC Trophy leaks are finally at an end: Verizon and HTC have made the device officialy official: it's coming out on May 26th for $149.99 with a 2-year contract and a $50 mail-in rebate (boo!). Specs are, well, no surprise at all to Trophy-waiters, HTC fans, or Windows Phone followers:

    1 GHz Snapdragon® processor
    WVGA 3.8-inch touchscreen
    Surround sound through SRS WOW HD™
    5-megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash
    720p HD video capture
    16 GB on-board storage
    Wi-Fi connectivity: 802.11 b/g/n
    Global ready - allowing customers to enjoy wireless voice and data service in more than 200 countries, with more than 125 with 3G speeds
    HTC Hub-customization through downloadable applications that offer even more entertainment and productivity

Verizon and HTC are also looking to sweeten the pot (and perhaps make up for the silly mail-in rebate) by offering a free Xbox game (supposedly worth up to $60) if you buy before July 15th. Halo: Reach, Kinect Sports, and Lode Runner are all on the table.

Get'cher full press release after the break and let us know in the comments: are you going to pick one up?

    HTC Trophy™ Brings Windows Phone 7 To Verizon Wireless

    Combine Business and Play with a Smartphone That Lets Customers Do What They Love

    BASKING RIDGE, NJ — HTC Trophy™ is the first Windows Phone 7 device to come to Verizon Wireless, bringing a new dimension of gaming and entertainment to the nation’s most reliable 3G network.

    Windows Phone is the only phone that lets you play games with Xbox LIVE. Customers can sync directly with Xbox LIVE mobile to access their avatar, profile and gamer score to keep track of their wins. HTC Trophy also allows consumers to play by themselves or challenge friends in turn-based games. In addition to the many mobile gaming features, customers who buy an HTC Trophy before July 15 get a free Xbox 360 console game. Game enthusiasts can choose from Halo: Reach, Kinect Sports and Lode Runner – up to $60 value.

    HTC Trophy features the Music + Video Hub, giving customers quick access to music and movies on their device. Customers can stream or download millions of songs with a Zune Pass subscription and access over 15,000 quality apps and games in Windows Phone Marketplace through the Marketplace Hub.

    Additional features:

    1 GHz Snapdragon® processor

    WVGA 3.8-inch touchscreen

    Surround sound through SRS WOW HD™

    5-megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash

    720p HD video capture

    16 GB on-board storage

    Wi-Fi connectivity: 802.11 b/g/n

    Global ready - allowing customers to enjoy wireless voice and data service in more than 200 countries, with more than 125 with 3G speeds

    HTC Hub-customization through downloadable applications that offer even more entertainment and productivity

    View and edit Microsoft Office® documents, including Excel®, Word® and PowerPoint® with the Office Hub and data access on SharePoint® servers
 

    Pricing and availability:

    HTC Trophy will be available online at www.verizonwireless.com on May 26, and in Verizon Wireless Communication Stores on June 2 for $149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers will receive the rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted.

    HTC Trophy customers will need to subscribe to a Verizon Wireless Nationwide Talk plan and a smartphone data package. Nationwide Talk plans begin at $39.99 for monthly access and an unlimited smartphone data plan is $29.99 for monthly access.

    Verizon Wireless customers traveling outside of the United States should contact Verizon Wireless’ global customer support team at 1-800-922-0204 before embarking on their trip to ensure their phones have the right features for global usage.

    For more information about Windows Phone, visit www.windowsphone.com. For additional information on Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.

    About Verizon Wireless

    Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s fastest, most advanced 4G network and largest, most reliable 3G network. The company serves 104 million total wireless connections, including more than 88 million retail customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 85,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (LSE, NASDAQ: VOD). For more information, visit www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.

    About HTC

    HTC Corporation (HTC) is one of the fastest growing companies in the mobile phone industry. By putting people at the center of everything it does, HTC creates innovative wireless devices that better serve the lives and needs of individuals. The company is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under ticker 2498. For more information about HTC, please visit www.htc.com.

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