7 Sep
Rumour: HTC HD3 incoming
Posted on 2010 under 1.5GHz phone, Coming Soon Handsets, HD2, HD3, Mobile Phones, New Mobile Phones, Windows Phone 7, htc | Comments are offThe touting HTC HD3 was first rumoured as the successor to the almighty way back in March but back then, the specs listed seemed to be what we’d probably have called unlikely. Listing a 1.5GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, a whopping 4.5 inch AMOLED screen, 8 megapixel camera w/ 720p HD video recording and 4G compatibility. In effect, the handset would have blown anything out of the water back then and it still would today.
As far fetched as the specs may have seemed, the latest rumours seem to tie in with what we heard 6 months ago. Albeit with some small changes; if the rumours are to be believed then the 1.5GHz Qualcomm SnapDragon we previously heard about is in actual fact a dual core 1.5GHz ARM-based chip, meaning that we could essentially be looking at the worlds first hyper-phone. Okay, so that moniker will probably never catch on but considering we have phones on the market already branded as ; it would be unfair to class this in the same league if the specs turn out to be true. Internal storage has also doubled to 32GB since we last got wind of this monster, with the rest of the spec’s seemingly unchanged. This really is a HD2 that’s been chowing down on a whole heap of steroids.
We thought the screen on the HD2 pushed the boundaries of pocket-ability, but a 4.5 inch AMOLED is just insanely big, but insane in a cool, ‘give us one to play with now’ kind of way. Did we mention the screen is rumoured to be sporting a HD resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels? No? Well, it is and with the on-board camera capable of recording at 720p, the HD3 looks set to be one of the first phones ever to be able to record and playback video in 720p HD quality, that is if the rumoured announcement at the HTC event on September 15th comes to fruition.
Our only concern is battery life, if the HD3 does indeed exist with the specs listed above, it’ll need a battery that could power a small house to run it for any acceptable length of time, okay, maybe a slight exaggeration but you get the picture. The current breed of struggle to last a day with heavy use and that’s without a 1.5GHz Dual Core processor and 4.5 inch HD AMOLED displays, so we hope that Microsoft have really mastered power management. Keep an eye on the blog for the coverage of the HTC event on September 15th. (Source: via )