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February 16th, 2010, 10:40
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If you thought that machining a phone from a single block of aluminum might cause RF issues in a phone... well, you can apparently think again, because HTC just went there with its freshly-introduced Legend. The rumored and leaked (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/htc-legend-breaks-cover-on-kpns-site-for-march-launch/) device becomes a proper successor for HTC's time-tested Hero (http://engadget.com/tag/htc,hero) by upgrading the LCD to a 3.2-inch AMOLED display (while still carrying over the old HVGA resolution), moving to a newer 600MHz core, and trading up from a trackball to one of those newfangled optical trackpads, though this one's got a bit of a twist: it's surrounded by a clickable button. The phone runs Android 2.1 with a series of brand new Sense enhancements, most notably the addition of a "Friend Stream" widget that aggregates friends' status updates across services (a trend we've been seeing a lot of lately). We're not hearing about North American availability at this point, but it'll hit Vodafone and direct sales channels in Europe with 900 / 2100MHz 3G in "early" second quarter.HTC Legend takes the Hero to new heights of aluminum (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/16/htc-legend-takes-the-hero-to-new-heights-of-aluminum/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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If you thought that machining a phone from a single block of aluminum might cause RF issues in a phone... well, you can apparently think again, because HTC just went there with its freshly-introduced Legend. The rumored and leaked (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/htc-legend-breaks-cover-on-kpns-site-for-march-launch/) device becomes a proper successor for HTC's time-tested Hero (http://engadget.com/tag/htc,hero) by upgrading the LCD to a 3.2-inch AMOLED display (while still carrying over the old HVGA resolution), moving to a newer 600MHz core, and trading up from a trackball to one of those newfangled optical trackpads, though this one's got a bit of a twist: it's surrounded by a clickable button. The phone runs Android 2.1 with a series of brand new Sense enhancements, most notably the addition of a "Friend Stream" widget that aggregates friends' status updates across services (a trend we've been seeing a lot of lately). We're not hearing about North American availability at this point, but it'll hit Vodafone and direct sales channels in Europe with 900 / 2100MHz 3G in "early" second quarter.HTC Legend takes the Hero to new heights of aluminum (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/16/htc-legend-takes-the-hero-to-new-heights-of-aluminum/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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