Sunday, November 27, 2011

Switched On: HTC goes back to the feature

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Swihttp://www.blogger.com/blog-this.gtched On, a column about consumer technology.


Motorola's Droid RAZR takes enough pages out of the classic textbook of smartphone differentiation to assemble its own chapter. It sets a new standard for thinness in LTE devices, uses leading-edge display technology, resists flexing, glass breakage and water damage, has a striking design and thoughtfully selected materials, stretches battery life, matches with a bevy of optimized accessories, and enables remote file and media access via Motocast software . Who's it for? Just about any Verizon customer willing to pony up.

Its rival HTC has also long played the one-upsmanship game. It has invested in a software layer designed to have populist appeal. Moreover, it has catered to US carriers' priorities by being first out of the gate to support T-Mobile's 3G network (with the first Android phone, the G1) and Sprint's and Verizon's 4G efforts, as well as one of two to initially support AT&T's LTE network.

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Switched On: HTC goes back to the feature originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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