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HTC Desire HD and 1.2 GHz CDMA+GSM Slider Spotted In the Wild?
Jason Tsay
We knew HTC had quite a bit of stuff hidden up their sleeves just waiting to be released. Let’s start off with the Desire HD. With the EVO 4G being quite a success in the US CDMA market, it’s a bit of a no-brainer to launch a GSM version of the device. What many people are calling the Desire HD boasts a 4.3 inch touchscreen, 8 megapixel camera, 1 GHz Snapdragon, and Android 2.2 (basically your typical high-end Android device). But a couple of things stand out: an “integrated aluminum body” and “face tracking.” The aluminum body we’ve heard about before might be something similar to the casing found on the HTC Legend but there doesn’t appear to be any aluminum on the face of the device at all so it might actually be closer to the iPad’s enclosure. Now face tracking is the weird part. There is definitely no front-facing camera on this unit so maybe they just mean face detection for the 720p video recording.
Moving on to the slider, we have an unnamed Verizon world phone. The screen measures 4” sliding right between the 3.7” on the Nexus One/DROID Incredible and the 4.3” on the EVO 4G/DROID X. The 1.2 GHz processor may seem a bit out of place amongst a bunch of 1 GHz phones but by the time the 2011 launch date rolls around, it should be pretty common. Are dual-mode phones the future? I certainly hope this becomes a trend so that users can choose the phone they want on the carrier they choose without any sacrifices. Check out some images of the device below!
