HTC Raider LTE in Canada via Bell & Rogers
HTC has announced the company’s first LTE ready Gingerbread powered smartphone, the HTC Raider in Canada via Bell and Rogers Communications Inc. networks. This new 4G LTE ready smartphone will be coming soon to Canadian market through Bell and Rogers. The Canadian HTC Raider LTE smartphone brings a 4.5-inch touchscreen display, an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera with f/2.2 28mm lens, as well as a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera. As per its specs, the HTC Raider LTE smartphone is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, and runs on Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread OS with Sense UI. The handset also comes equipped with GPS, Wi-Fi, SRS WOW HD surround sound, and so on.
HTC Raider LTE Features
Performance:
- Runs on Android v2.3.4 (Gingerbread) OS
- Powered by 1.2 GHz dual-core processor
- 16GB internal storage, and 1GB RAM
- Supports microSD card slot up to 32GB
Display:
- 4.5-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen 16M colors display
- Display resolution of 540 x 960 pixels, (~245 ppi pixel density)
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Multi-touch input method
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- HTC Sense UI
- Touch-sensitive controls
- Three-axis gyro sensor
Camera:
- 8 megapixel rear facing camera
- Camera resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels
- Autofocus, and dual-LED flash
- Geo-tagging, and 1080p video recording
- 1.3 megapixel front facing camera
Connectivity:
- CDMA 800 / 1900, GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 (2G Network)
- CDMA2000 1xEV-DO , LTE 700 / 1700 / 2100 or LTE 850, HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 or HSDPA 2100 (3G Network)
- GPRS up to 80 kbps, & EDGE up to 236.8 kbps
- 3G Rev.A up to 3.1 Mbps, LTE up to 75 Mbps
- HSDPA up to 21 Mbps, & HSUPA up to 5.76 Mbps
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
- Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP, EDR
- GPS with A-GPS support
- Uses microUSB (MHL) v2.0 interface
Multimedia:
- MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV video player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA audio player
- Stereo FM radio with RDS / SIRIUS Satellite Radio
- 3.5mm headphone jack
Battery:
- Standard Li-Ion 1620 mAh battery
- Up to 293 hrs (2G) / up to 248 hrs (3G) standby time
- Up to 7 hrs 40 min (2G) / up to 5 hrs 20 min (3G) talk time
Others:
- SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
- HTML browser
- Java via Java MIDP emulator
- TV-out (via MHL A/V link)
- Document viewer
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
- YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- Adobe flash support
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Predictive text input (Swype)
- Dimensions: 128 x 67 x 11.2 mm, & weights: 177 grams
Price & Availability:
Reportedly, Rogers is currently offering the HTC Raider LTE for just $149.99 with a new 3-year contract and arrive both online and in stores. While the Bell is scheduled offering the HTC Raider LTE on 1st November, 2011. For your kind information, the new HTC Raider 4G is already available officially in South Korea through SKT.
