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HTC shows off Rezound smartphone with Beats audio

HTC has launched their Rezound smartphone this week, a multimedia-heavy device that promises "thundering bass, soaring midrange and crisp highs" due to integrated Beats Audio.

The company acquired Beats over the summer for $300 million.



Rezound owners will enjoy an Android 2.3 phone with a powerful 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 16 GB of on-board memory, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 16GB microSD card, an 8MP camera with autofocus, dual LED flash and an f/2.2 and 28 mm wide-angle lens with BSI sensor.

The device will have an HD 720p display and a 4.3-inch super-LCD screen.

Beats Audio co-founder Jimmy Iovine added:

HTC fully recognizes the destruction to audio caused by the digital revolution. It embraces our vision to repair this ecosystem and bring the feeling from the recording studio to the smartphone. This is only the beginning of our plan to fix how music is delivered.

The device is upgradeable to Android 4.0 in the Q1 2012 and comes with special headphones included.



Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 5 Nov 2011 3:27

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• 4 comments

• KillerBug

  LoL...I see that they still consider it a "multimedia" phone just by including headphones; nevermind that the speaker is tiny and useless.
  

  
  

  5.11.2011 04:57 #1

• Hyasuma

  Originally posted by KillerBug: LoL...I see that they still consider it a "multimedia" phone just by including headphones; nevermind that the speaker is tiny and useless. i agreed, after i heard they did nothing to the speakers on Sensation XE I was disappointed on how they do things.
  

  5.11.2011 10:38 #2

• plazma247

  However the good news is that HTC has actually listened and has gone back to using conventiontional back covers, instead of the slot in batteries:
  
  Battery Pic
  
  
  Which means extended battery packs are back, whooo :) i can buy another htc phone again.
  
  Specs
  
  Eventually a HTC phone that makes me want to retire my desire :)
  
  Just have to hope cyanogenmod does a rom for it so i wont have to endue the sense rom lol
  
  UPDATE: omgollygosh, cant belive what this guys asking for a set of the headphones lol
  
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  6.11.2011 06:43 #3

• A5J4DX

  Originally posted by KillerBug: LoL...I see that they still consider it a "multimedia" phone just by including headphones; nevermind that the speaker is tiny and useless. well said
  

  6.11.2011 12:35 #4