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HTC 10 With 5.2-inch QHD Display, Snapdragon 820 SoC, 12MP Camera Launched at $699 (theverge.com)
Dan Seifert, writing for The Verge: HTC is today formally announcing the 10, its flagship smartphone for 2016. The HTC 10 follows last year's M9 and blends the design of the M series with the A9 that came last fall. HTC says it spent 12 months designing this phone and integrated feedback from its customers throughout the development process. The 10 has everything you might expect from a flagship Android phone in 2016. There's a 5.2-inch, quad HD Super LCD 5 display that HTC says displays 30 percent more color than last year's phone. The screen is covered in Gorilla Glass with curved edges that blend into the phone's metal frame. You'll be able to find out if that's enough for HTC to compete when the phone ships next month for $699. One interesting feature, which separates HTC 10 from many other Android flagship smartphones, is support for AirPlay. The feature enables the smartphone to stream media content to an Apple TV.
And after three years the battery dies and it's impossible to replace.
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I'm definitely getting one, because the hardware is well within the pack of flagship phones, HTC allows unlocking via htcdev (and being able to load my own ROM is something that makes/breaks a device for me. No unlockable bootloader means no sale.)
I have had very good luck with HTC phones. They are on par with everyone else, have MicroSD cards (which is quite useful for nandroid and Titanium Backup storage), have stood up to daily use quite well, and have done well for a daily workhorse device. With CyanogenMod, one can be assured of security updates, and with Nova Launcher, the UI will be similar across devices.
What about the SD Card slot? With the cameras on phones getting higher and higher resolutions every iteration for photos and videos, the included storage runs out just as quick, if not quicker than it always did.
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LOL, I need an SD slot since I carry my music and podcast collection with me rather than pay my cellular provider $$$ every month to access my own music and other information, if you could get a 128GB phone without spending an extra $200 I wouldn't need an SD slot, but in reality I consider it a required feature. As far as battery replacement, I needed to replace the battery in my 18 month old Note 4, wouldn't hold more than about 6 hours of charge and got quite warm during any activity that drew more power than web browsing indoors, $40 later for two batteries and a charger and I don't need to replace my $800 handheld computer (the same as replacing the RTC battery in desktop computers, some cheap, crappy systems had the battery welded/glued in place so once it died your computer was ewaste instead of spending a few dollars on a new battery).
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