HTC "DLX" - 5" 1080p screen, 1.5GHz Quadcore Krait, Adreno320 GPU

Monkey Puzzle · 8 Sep 2012 at 12:22

Surprised to find there isn't a thread on this already! This looks like a fantastic upcoming phone; rumoured to have a 5" 1080p screen (1796 x 1080 with 126 of the 1920 used for onscreen keys), S4pro (quadcore S4 A15) at 1.512GHz with Adreno 320 GPU and 4G and smokes current high-end handsets specs-wise.

Looks to have a very thin bezel and non-removable battery from supposedly leaked photos in the links - let's hope they put a decent sized battery in it. I've gotten used to taking a spare battery with me for my note. If it doesn't have a fixed battery and they include a Wolfson DAC and microSD slot I would pick one up shortly after release with no hesitation. It certainly makes the Note 2 look like a very lazy refresh by Samsung.

It may be showcased on September 19th with rumours of a potential late September/October release date.

Rumoured details and benchmarks:

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...e-1080p-smartphone-leaked-for-verizon-1088987

http://geekchunk.com/news/htc-dlx-quad-core-android-phone-with-1080p-hd-display-review/

http://www.droid-life.com/2012/07/1...isplay-model-6435lvw-and-a-new-snapdragon-s4/

Possible (?!) photos:

http://www.droid-life.com/2012/09/0...rizon-red-accents-is-this-the-1080p-5-device/

http://www.droid-life.com/2012/09/05/mysterious-5-htc-device-shows-its-face-is-beyond-blurry/

Monkey Puzzle · 8 Sep 2012 at 12:34

Makhaira said:
5"? That's a tablet not a phone in my book...

Well 5 million plus Note owners would disagree with you. This is 5" 16:9 rather than the 5.5" 16:10 aspect ratio of the note, with what looks to be a very thin bezel if those photos are genuine, so it looks to be comfortably usable one-handed.

Monkey Puzzle · 8 Sep 2012 at 12:54

Robbo said:
This does look very interesting.

I think the size would be okay, it's closer to the S3 than the Note anyway. As long as the bezel is small it should be fine to handle.

What if this is going to be the Nexus phone offering from HTC, and it comes with stock Jelly Bean... a dream phone?

In typical HTC fashion, they seem to have abandoned the One S and X (not entirely, but somewhat) as they didn't take much market share off Samsung.

I read it's supposed to ship with ICS, but I guess it's difficult to know considering it's such early days.

I really hope they have a removable battery or a large capacity battery - 1800mAh for the one X is puny.

Monkey Puzzle · 8 Sep 2012 at 13:00

Nexus18 said:
Probably won't have a SD slot though even more so if it is one of the nexus phones.

I think a lack of SD slot in a phone capable of playing such high-res video would be a stupid move.

Monkey Puzzle · 8 Sep 2012 at 19:43

ManCuBuS said:
Well I've owned the Note since release and have to say, everything else feels like a toy now.

Can't say I've ever had any bother with the size in my pocket either.

However I do have chip shovels for hands and I put the Man into Mancubus..!!

You know what they say; "chip-shovel sized hand, big fryer!"!

I can't help but feel sorry for this Mancubus chap you speak of. :eek:

Monkey Puzzle · 10 Sep 2012 at 10:00

The Razr HD Maxx does look pretty good; 4.7" screen in a handset the same width and just a little longer than an iphone 4s made from kevlar and aluminium is pretty impressive, and tempting if HTC balls up the DLX (or whatever it ends up being called) with a crippling battery life or other blindingly-obvious achilles heel. The only thing that concerns me is whether Motorola are going to be crap at rolling out software updates...