Well, well. Feels like those leaked press shots (and hands-on photos and video walk-through ) were at the money. HTC just officially announced the Rhyme — that womanly handset otherwise referred to as the Bliss. Because it happens, HTC isn’t explicitly marketing this as a girl phone, though it bears all of the markers of a tool pandering toward those folks with XX chromosomes. That’s to assert, it’s petite and purple with middling specs. What you are looking at is a handset with a three.7-inch WVGA display, a single-core 1GHz Qualcomm CPU, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS radios and dual 5MP / VGA cameras. The telephone runs Android 2.3 with “next-generation” Sense (that might be version 3.5) layered on top.
And, as rumored , you could pair it with an optional “Charm Indicator,” a bubble that glows purple when the telephone is ringing in order that you’ll never again miss a choice because your phone is buried beneath nail files and fifty tubes of lipstick. Other accessories include a wireless dashboard speaker for the automobile and a workout armband. As that tell-tale FCC report revealed, the purple version you notice up there’ll land on Verizon as a 3G device, with a silver version arriving in Asia and Europe next month. HTC has yet to verify pricing or availability. If leaks are to be believed, though, those of you with small hands and deep murses needs to be ready to pre-order yours any day now .
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