HTC Edge Tegra 3 quad-core Android 4.7-inch beast-phone to have optically-laminated display, NFC, 8.8mm profile

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  • November 8, 2011 at 1:22 pm

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More details have come through on the HTC Edge, a rumored 4.7-inch 720p Android smartphone and the first to sport a quad-core Tegra 3 processor. Well it seems that the 720p HD display is not just any plain LCD but rather an S-LCD with optical lamination.

Usually, there is a gap between the LCD display and the cover glass. Optical lamination eliminates that gap by bonding the screen to the glass, so that the screen appears to be floating on the surface of the device, making the touch experience better by making it more direct. This also improves the clarity and sharpness of the display by eliminating light refraction, otherwise caused by the gap; dust under your screen also becomes history. The same technology was used for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S’ amazing display, but obviously here we’re talking about a 4.7-inch screen rather than a 3.5-inch one.
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HTC Edge 4.7-inch Android smartphone leaked, could be world’s first quad-core phone

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  • November 7, 2011 at 1:57 pm

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Dual-core smartphones are so yesterday, when you can have quad-core wonders that is. And here we have our first rumor of a new HTC device the Edge, which is said to run on an Nvidia Tegra 3 1.5GHz 1.3GHz quad-core processor. So if you were getting comfy with the idea of having the latest and greatest Android smartphone like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, HTC Rezound or Motorola Droid RAZR, know that their reign will end soon (well not until early 2012 at least).

So the HTC Edge is said to have a 720p HD 4.7-inch display, an 8-megapixel 28mm f/2.2 lens with rear backlit sensor camera, 1GB of RAM and measure only 10mm thick. It’s supposed to have 32GB of storage and Bluetooth 4.0, though no word on an LTE or HSPA+ radio. Sounds like a dream, huh?

Of course no word whether it will ship with Android Ice Cream Sandwich, though since HTC is already upgrading a host of smartphones to ICS in early-2012, we would consider it a done deal.

The HTC Edge is expected to arrive in early to mid-2012, if the rumors are right that is.
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