HTC VIVID

The HTC Vivid is a powerful Android phone with a beautiful screen and fast 4G LTE data

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General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
LTE 700 / 1700
Announced 2011, October
Status Available. Released 2011, November
Size Dimensions 128.8 x 67.1 x 11.2 mm
Weight 176.9 g
Display Type S-LCD capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors
Size 540 x 960 pixels, 4.5 inches (~245 ppi pixel density)
- Multi-touch input method
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- HTC Sense UI
- Touch-sensitive controls
Sound Alert types Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 16GB/32GB storage, 1 GB RAM
Card slot microSD, up to 32GB, buy memory
Data GPRS Yes
EDGE Yes
3G HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0
Camera Primary 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash
Features Geo-tagging, face detection
Video Yes, 1080p@60fps
Secondary Yes, 1.3 MP
Features OS Android OS, v2.3.5 (Gingerbread)
CPU 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, Qualcomm APQ8060 Snapdragon chipset, MDM9200
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games Yes + downloadable
Colors Black, White
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
- SNS integration
- Digital compass
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail
- YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA player
- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
- Organizer
- Document viewer
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Predictive text input
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1650 mAh
Stand-by Up to 288 h
Talk time Up to 7 h 40 min

HTC's attractive Sense UI is in full effect here, with seven customizable home screens, superior contract integration across multiple services like Facebook and Twitter, and HTC's usual array of Android app replacements for common tasks. You can also select from hundreds of thousands of third-party apps in the Android Market.

Inside is a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 APQ8060 dual-core processor. It performed in the middle of the pack for dual-core phones, though its Nenamark 2 frame rate score (at 30 fps) was barely half that of the Skyrocket's; this isn't as good a gaming phone. I also noticed some sluggishness here and there around the OS, in addition to the dialing problems noted above; my impression is that HTC's Sense UI is beginning to show its age, since a 1.2GHz dual-core processor is a pretty fast chip.

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