Ladies and… ladies, I present to you the HTC Rhyme. Testing this phone was kind of weird for me, as the whole time I had the weird feeling of having my masculinity under some sort of an attack. Not to mention that my girlfriend gave me a hard time, among other hard things, because she was always bugging me with that dreadful question that every man is afraid of when his girlfriend sees an expensive thing: “Baby, can I have one ? Pretty please etc”. I hope you know I’m mostly kidding. This phone, despite the fact that it's clearly designed for women (if you ask me), also has the brains.
Key Features:
• Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G support
• 14.4 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA
• 3.7" 16M-color capacitive S-LCD touchscreen of WVGA resolution (480 x 800 pixels)
• Android OS v2.3 Gingerbread with HTC Sense 3.5
• 1 GHz single Scorpion CPUs, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 chipset
• 768 MB RAM; 4 GB storage
• microSD card slot (class 4 8GB card in the bundle)
• 5 MP autofocus camera with single LED flash; face detection, geotagging, HDR mode, image auto-upload
• 720p video recording @ 30fps, slo-mo videos (2x at WVGA)
• Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA
• GPS with A-GPS
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• Accelerometer, proximity and ambient light sensor
• Front facing camera, video call
• Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v3.0
• Smart dial, voice dialing
• Office document editor
• DivX/XviD video support
• HTC Locations app
• HTCSense.com integration
• HTC Portable Hotspot
• Ultra-fast boot times
• Rich set of accessories
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The box comes with some cool stuff, enough to please all of them ladies out there: the microUSB cable, charger, 8 GB microSD card, a pair of headphones with in-ear plugs for small, little ears, a phone docking station, leather clothing and the Charm cube.
When placing the Rhyme in the dock, the Dock Mode is launched, an application which features a weather widget, a clock, virtual music controls and a shortcut to the gallery’s slideshow. The Charm cube comes with a 50 cm cable which uses the 3.5 mm jack and serves the purpose of noticing the owner about a message or call by flashing desperately.
Measuring 116.8 x 61 x 10.1 mm and with a weight of 130 grams, the Rhyme has a really nice design and is comfortably in the hand and pocket. It’s also available in three marvelous colors: Plum, Clearwater and Hourglass. Wait, what ? Those are colors ? Nevermind…
The frontal part of the hot, plum colored body is taken by its 3.7 inches S-LCD screen which offers good sunlight legibility and viewing angles. Above it, you’ll find a video-call camera, the earpiece and the proximity and ambient light sensors. Below the screen are the four capacitive keys for Home, Menu, Back and a dedicated search one. They have haptic support.
The microUSB cable is protected and stands on the left side of the phone, meanwhile on the right, you’ll find the volume rocker.
The top is home for the 3.5 mm audio jack, the secondary microphone and the Power/Lock button. The lonely microphone pinhole stands at the bottom.
The back is made out of a soft, rubberized plastic and has a metal piece right under the camera lens, LED flash and loudspeaker.
HTC Rhyme is very sweet and comes with Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread, which is upgradeable to v4 and HTC Sense v3.5. These two are powered by a Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset with a 1 GHz Scorpion processor, Adreno 205 GPU, 768 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage. It moves very smooth and I assure you it won’t cause any problems, as it fears the annoyed woman’s wrath.
Telephony is also great, the People application is used instead of a phonebook, Smart and Voice dialing are here and so is the possibility of video-calling. The secondary microphone takes good care of the call-quality and no reception issues we encountered.
Messaging is also friendly. Your SMS and MMS are organized in threads, which show you a conversation view. The on-screen QWERTY keyboard is easy to use in both portrait and landscape modes.
Coming up next is the connectivity set, which is pretty rich. You have here the HTC Portable Hotspot, quad-band GSM, GPRS, EDGE, tri-band 3G with 14.4 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA, Wi-Fi b/g/n with DLNA support and Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP and EDR.
Surfing the web will also be an enjoyable experience, as the Rhyme comes with a simple, but smart browser, which supports multiple tabs, bookmarks, text reflow, double tab and pinch zooming and many others. The pages are loaded fast, look nice and also here are the most-welcomed full Flash and HTML5 support.
The phone comes with a 5 megapixel camera that takes pictures at a maximum resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels and is equipped with a single LED flash, autofocus, geotagging, face detection, some color effects and other options. The image quality is very good, with bright, accurate colors and nice contrast.
The video recorder produces 720p videos at 21 fps and does a decent job.
The music player supports formats like MP3, WAV, eAAC+ and looks very nice, coming with a Cover Flow-like interface, some equalizer presets and offers a very good audio quality.
The video player supports MP4 and MKV videos and is also decent.
When it comes to applications, the phone is a sweetheart and provides all kinds of useful stuff: a mobile Office application capable of viewing and editing Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, a PDF viewer, Quick lookup, YouTube, Google Talk, Google search, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and others. If still not satisfied, you can access the Android Market for more.
The phone comes with a GPS receiver with A-GPS support and for navigation, Google Maps and HTC Locations.
HTC Rhyme comes with a 1600 mAh battery and lasts for about a day of intensive usage.
My final words ? Well, this cupcake of a phone is a performer and really exceeded my expectations. If you want your girlfriend to love you forever and ever or at least for 2 months, buy her the HTC Rhyme. But be very careful when doing that and don’t you dare NOT ASK HER about the color! Or else… brother, I don’t even want to think about it. By the way, I’m surprised it isn’t a pink version, but I guess the Plum will do for the most delicate and feminine of them babes. Altogether, even if I turned this phone into a woman’s accessory, you don’t have to take for granted all of my blabbering. It’s suited for everyone and it does a great job.
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