This month AT&T have revealed their first two 4G LTE devices, the Samsung Skyrocket and the HTC Vivid, the latter device being the one we’re having a look at here today. This device is the next step in the HTC smartphone design evolution, and as you’ll see in the video portion of the review below, it’s almost as if they asked someone on the 3D mockup crew to cut off all the edges and make something sharp! We’ve already got AT&T 4G LTE speed tests from one of the few areas AT&T has its LTE network deployed (in Texas,) now it’s time to see if the phone stands up to the pressure of the rest of the HTC family (and the rest of the AT&T family as well.)
Hardware
This device is certainly part of this year’s HTC device design family, but hold it up next to any one of the other HTC smartphones released in the last 11 months and you’ll find yourself wondering if the crew is thinking about going in new directions. There’s flat edges! There’s a single flat metal slide-out panel on the back! It’s almost as if someone from Motorola came over and slid a few pages of their smartphone ethos into the HTC packet. That said, it’s a refreshing cut from the pack, and said panel does make the whole package feel extra high-quality.
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