Introduction:

In such a multitude of high-end smartphones we’ve most likely forgotten about the HTC Inspire 4G for AT&T. But to tell you the fact the HTC Inspire 4G brought HSPA+ connectivity to the people for AT&T carrier and was even priced competitively at $99.99 on-contract. In view of that fact that AT&T is on the edge of ripping everything with their 4G LTE bands, it’s logically right for them to introduce a smartphone that demonstrates their network’s supremacy. Thoughtfully making it reasonably priced on any budget, the $199.99 (on-contract) HTC Vivid appears to be amazingly priced to provide value to your money while at the same time letting we test the potential of AT&T’s next-generation data bands. Here we present you the HTC Vivid Review, take a look:

Key points

• Beautiful, high-resolution display screen
• High-speed HSPA speeds
• Strong contact management
• Stunning LTE data speeds
• Camera quality is excellent

Major drawbacks

• A bit heavy
• Calling quality is below-par
• Useless voice dialing
• Poor battery life
• Video recording quality is below-par
• Somewhat slow
• Slow AT&T LTE network coverage (at present)

HTC Vivid Specifications

GENERAL

2G Network    GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network    HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 (LTE 700 / 1700)

Announced    2011, October

Status        (Available). Released 2011, November

SIZE

Dimensions    128.8 x 67.1 x 11.2 mm

Weight    176.9 g

DISPLAY

Type    S-LCD capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors

Size    540 x 960 pixels, 4.5 inches (~245 ppi pixel density)

• Multi-touch input method
• Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
• Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
• HTC Sense UI
• Touch-sensitive controls

SOUND

Alert types    Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones

Loudspeaker    Yes

3.5mm jack    Yes

MEMORY

Phonebook    Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall

Call records    Practically unlimited

Internal    16GB/32GB storage, 1 GB RAM

Card slot    Micro SD, up to 32GB

DATA

GPRS    Yes

EDGE    Yes

3G    HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE

WLAN    Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot

Bluetooth    Yes, v3.0 with A2DP

Infrared port    No

USB    Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA

Primary    8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash

Features    Geo-tagging, face detection

Video        Yes, 1080p@60fps

Secondary    Yes, 1.3 MP

FEATURES

OS    Android OS, v2.3.5 (Gingerbread)

CPU    1.2 GHz dual-core processor, Qualcomm APQ8060 Snapdragon chipset, MDM9200

Messaging    SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email

Browser    WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML

Radio        Stereo FM radio with RDS

Games        Yes + downloadable

Colors        Black, White

GPS        Yes, with A-GPS support

Java        Yes, via Java MIDP emulator

• SNS integration
• Digital compass
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail
• YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration
• MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA player
• MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
• Organizer
• Document viewer
• Voice memo/dial/commands
• Predictive text input

BATTERY

Type        Standard battery, Li-Ion 1650 mAh

Stand-by time    Up to 288 h

Talk time    Up to 7 h 40 min

The HTC Vivid reminds us the looks of the HTC EVO 4G since it has borrowed a number of the typical design characters. Exclusively, it equips a plastic exterior, beveled frame that diminishes towards the rear, and quite a resembling dimension.

The display screen is also quite large measuring at 4.5” (qHD S-LCD unit) and because of this much of size the bezels surrounding it are kept to a least amount. The detailing is quite excellent, even though it’s not HD. While, the S-LCD panel copes to generate some very deep and effective color tones. On the other hand, the viewing angles of this phone aren’t quite good enough o satisfy us since the display washes out too quickly in addition, its brightness level is somewhat weak. So you’ll have a hard time when using the HTC Vivid on outdoors.

As for the software, the HTC vivid is operated by Android OS V2.3.4 (Gingerbread) out of the box and is covered with Sense 3.0 UI topping.
The camera is quite remarkable since it has improved as compared to the preceding HTC phones, the image quality it produces is quite excellent and yet the shooters are too fast in doing their jobs.

The battery of HTC vivid isn’t quite good. We tested, and found that it only gives below 8 hours of consumption even with a little of playing around.

Conclusion

Since there is abundance of leading Android smartphones approaching, the HTC Vivid will have a hard time and may even be forgotten by users and while there is no promotion campaign going on for this handset, the HTC vivid will suffer for sure. On the other hand, the HTC Vivid features quite excellent hardware specifications and support for AT&T’s 4G LTE network is sure a great thing, while providing good value to your money. Let’s see what happens!