New HTC superphone pics, specs unveiled

Don't care where you're from, who you are or what you think............This phone is tits! That's pretty much EVERYTHING "Best of best" of all phones out there combined into one.

800 retail I bet.

It may be a great phone, but if it's not carrier-agnostic, HTC has put another nail in their coffin. They've nearly killed themselves by going along with carrier exclusivity agreements.

It's about damn time they started putting decent screens on the things.

You forgot to mention thati it's also waterproof. And that its display is from sharp which may indicate igzo screen technology that will save on battery life.

nice design

In Japan on Dec.
I like it better that the Samsung Galaxy IV, but I'm skeptic about the water proof thing with the battery lock inside.

Originally posted by Bozobub:

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It may be a great phone, but if it's not carrier-agnostic, HTC has put another nail in their coffin. They've nearly killed themselves by going along with carrier exclusivity agreements.

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ts about damn time they started putting decent screens on the things.

Great phone and having a microsd slot is a move back in the right direction.

Although my first thought when i saw it was, ummm at last a serious contender to the S3 which would make me chose htc again (ive had htc phones since wm5.whatever).

Then i saw the battery was non removable, ok its a 2200mAh cell, but for me the great draw about the S3, apart from the power is the fact i can slap in a 4000+mAh cell, or swap the battery should i need to without voiding my warranty and getting a screw driver out.

Yes there are battery cases, but messing around with the battery case, charging the phone, remembering to turn it on is to much faf, i just want to rip out the stock cell and but in the biggest runtime cell i can and to hell with how thin it is.

At the end of the day, it does show htc is listening after all.

Good to see the return of the micro SD slot on HTC's flagship phones.....but sealing the battery away is just stupid - and a deal-breaker for me.

So for me, at this end of the market, it is still Samsung I would look to 1st.

I don't mind the battery being non-removable if it makes the phone waterproof. At least there's a reason for it.

The batteries in my HD2 and Galaxy Nexus are removable and I always say I'm gonna swap in a bigger one but I probably never will so meh. And I never keep the phones long enough for the batteries to crap out on me.

Originally posted by Bozobub:

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It may be a great phone, but if it's not carrier-agnostic, HTC has put another nail in their coffin. They've nearly killed themselves by going along with carrier exclusivity agreements.

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Originally posted by ZeusAV:

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Originally posted by Bozobub:

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It may be a great phone, but if it's not carrier-agnostic, HTC has put another nail in their coffin. They've nearly killed themselves by going along with carrier exclusivity agreements.

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Agreed. Their best way to get back in the game and compete with Samsung would be to streamline the device across all 4 major US carriers with the core design being the same and only just adding carrier logos to appease the telcos.

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By "carrier-agnostic", I mean multi-antenna phones (or at least multiple builds, so each carrier has a version), more than GSM.