HTC Rhyme
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HTC Rhyme Overview
The HTC Rhyme is the first smartphone geared specifically towards women. Everything from its soothing plum color scheme, HTC Sense 3.5 and a handfull of accessories, the HTC Rhyme was built with the working girl in mind.
The Ryhme features a single-core Snapdragon and is only comptible with Verizon's 3G network. Where the appeal lies is in the bundle of accessories the device comes with. Featuring tangle-free headphones, a charm notification attachment, and multifunctional docking station, this device is sure to attract women (and some men) everywhere.
HTC Rhyme Specs
| General | |
| Form Factor: | Candybar |
| AKA: | HTC Bliss |
| Date Released (YYYY/MM/DD): | 2011/09/29 |
| Size | |
| Weight: | 4.77 oz |
| Dimensions: | 4.69x2.39x0.43 |
| Display | |
| Resolution: | 480x800 |
| Size: | 3.7-inches |
| Type: | Super LCD, Capacitive |
| Camera | |
| Video: | 720p |
| Flash: | LED |
| Auto-focus: | Yes |
| Megapixels: | 5 MP |
| Connectivity | |
| GPS: | Yes, with aGPS and E911 |
| USB: | microUSB 2.0 |
| Bluetooth: | 3.0, with EDR |
| Wi-Fi: | 802.11 b/g/n |
| HDMI: | DLNA streaming via Media Link |
| Multimedia | |
| Headset Jack: | 3.5 mm |
| Radio: | FM |
| Battery | |
| Type: | 1600 mAH |
| Hardware/OS | |
| Operating System: | Android 2.3.4 |
| Internal Memory: | 4 GB |
| External Memory: | microSD up to 32 GB |
| RAM: | 768 MB |
| Processor: | 1 GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 |
HTC Rhyme Reviews
Phandroid The HTC Rhyme mixes the high-quality design expected from a company like HTC with a touch of feminine softness to create a handset that is both gorgeous to look at and a pleasure to use. Throw in a few accessories and you get a pretty complete package.
CNET Though certain aspects of the phone limit its appeal to a larger audience, the HTC Rhyme is a solid and stylish midrange Android device that comes with some nice accessories.
Engadget The HTC Rhyme is one of the newest additions to the Verizon wireless line-up, setting itself apart from the rest of the family since it's specifically for women -- or hipsters who like purple.
Android Central The HTC Rhyme is a mid-range Android phone from Verizon, that is or isn't aimed at the female smartphone market, depending on whom you ask. It's purple, on the smaller side, and comes with a unique accessory that's perfect for life inside a purse or other handbag.
Android And Me From the very first time we heard about the HTC Rhyme, it was clear it would be a phone unlike any other. HTC has a reputation of creating new phones with amazing features and specifications that are hard to rival.
Talk Android The Rhyme is geared towards the female audience, but aside from the charm indicator, it’s a solid mid-level phone that can satisfy both genders.
Android Community Ladies, the perfect phone for you has arrived! …or at least that’s what you could be forgiven for assuming HTC and Verizon would like you to think.
Geek Verizon Wireless and HTC have a phone that is unlike most other smartphones in that it had a very specific target market. The question was whether or not the smartphone world has room for a phone that is catered to a single market.
Phone Arena Meet the HTC Rhyme from Verizon Wireless - one of the few smartphones that are designed for women.
Pocket Lint With a cleaned-up homescreen, colours that were anything but black and a name that lacked the usual superstar aggression, HTC did everything it could to avoid saying that the Rhyme was a phone designed for girls.
PCWorld The HTC Rhyme Android phone may have originally intended to target females, but this sleek and stylish Android phone should appeal to a broader market, too.
Laptop Mag It's obvious that HTC is going right after the ladies with the Rhyme, an Android phone that sports a smooth purple design and comes with a trio of accessories designed to make your life easier.
Slash Gear When it comes to unique Android devices, generally it’s a manufacturer’s job to make the biggest, the most powerful, or the most thin – all that’s been thrown out the window with the HTC Rhyme.
PCMag The HTC Rhyme is a comfortable, capable Android smartphone that comes with a nice bundle of accessories, but is held back by a lack of 4G and midrange specs.
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HTC Rhyme News
The HTC Rhyme is in line to receive a minor update that will bring its version number to 2.20.605.3. The 67.8MB update won’t bring any major changes but does tweak a few things here and there. Pressing the menu key while on the device’s homescreen will now provide users with an “Edit Home” option, dock [...]
Verizon Wireless Sale: Droid 3, X2, Incredible 2 And Charge Only $10 – Rhyme Free Verizon Wireless is having a few sales over on their site for the next couple of days. In what could be seen as an attempt to clear out their existing stock of their 3G smartphones, the Motorola DROID 3, Motorola DROID X2, HTC Droid Incredible 2 and Samsung DROID Charge are all being offered up [...]
Verizon releases list of devices to receive Ice Cream Sandwich update Verizon knows the die-hard Android fans out there can’t wait to get their hands on Android 4.0. They aren’t spilling the beans on when to expect Ice Cream Sandwich updates to start rolling out, but they are doing the next best thing by releasing a list of devices confirmed to receive the latest version of [...]
HTC Confirms More North American Phones for Ice Cream Sandwich HTC took to Facebook today to confirm that more of their phones would be getting Ice Cream Sandwich. They called it the “North America edition” because all of these devices can be had on the illustrious continent. We’ve got the Rezound, which was already confirmed, alongside the DROID Incredible 2, the HTC Thunderbolt and the [...]
Verizon Has Security Update on the Way for the HTC Rhyme, Gingerbread for the Droid Charge Verizon has a couple of updates queued up as we head into the Thanksgiving holiday. Both the HTC Rhyme and Samsung DROID Charge are in line for updates, as revealed by recent changelog postings to Verizon’s support site. For the Rhyme, an 8.89MB update moves the handset’s softwrae to build number 1.26.605.11, which brings several [...]
HTC Rhyme Heads to O2 UK O2 UK is now offering the HTC Rhyme, the Android device that HTC hopes will attract lots of female business. It’s a mid-range 1GHz handset with a 5 megapixel camera that can shoot 720p HD video. Android 2.3 graces the software front but we’re also greeted with the fairly new HTC Sense 3.5. We did [...]
HTC Rhyme Review Video Editing by Gideon Dominick The HTC Rhyme mixes the high-quality design expected from a company like HTC with a touch of feminine softness to create a handset that is both gorgeous to look at and a pleasure to use. Throw in a few accessories and you get a pretty complete package. But before we [...]
Verizon Announces Group Buy for HTC Rhyme on Facebook – Up To 50% Discount While personally, I’m not too excited about the HTC Rhyme (don’t you dare call it a chick phone), I am excited about the way Verizon is going about promoting it. If you jump on the Verizon Wireless Facebook page you’ll see that they are offering a social deal for the device where the discount is [...]
Deal: HTC Rhyme for $80 at Amazon Feeling a bit girlish? Are you a girl? Great! The HTC Rhyme is for you, apparently. (We don’t get into that sexism stuff, but that’s the demographic HTC and Verizon want to target with this phone.) If $200 was way too much for you, Amazon’s got a proposal – how about taking it home for [...]
HTC Rhyme Now Officially Available From Verizon Wireless The HTC Rhyme is now officially available from Verizon Wireless for $200 on a 2-year agreement. The device is built with the working girl in mind and comes with a complete set of accessories featuring charm indicator for notifications, tangle-free headphones and a multifunctional docking station that acts as an alarm clock, digital picture frame [...]
HTC Rhyme On Sale Exclusively through Target Starting September 30, $50 Trade-in Offer When the HTC Rhyme launches on Verizon come the end of this week, Target will be the exclusive third-party retailer of the handset. The exclusive period will last for three weeks, as learned from this internal document provided to us by a friendly neighborhood tipster. During that time, Target will offer a guaranteed “Trade and [...]
O2 UK to be the Exclusive Carrier of the HTC Rhyme Oct. 17th If any of our UK readers were interested in the HTC Rhyme, listen up – it’s definitely headed to your parts of Europe. Unfortunately, you’ll have to be on a certain carrier in order to get it. O2 UK has announced exclusive availability for the HTC Rhyme and they’ve even given a date to look [...]
HTC Wants You to Meet the HTC Rhyme, But Doesn’t Actually Show It in New Design Video Well this isn’t an ad, but we would have appreciated at least 3 seconds of a visible shot of the HTC Rhyme that was officially announced for Verizon earlier today. HTC’s posted a video overview of the design and development process of the phone and how they tried to shape the phone to appeal to [...]
[Update: More Details] Official: HTC Rhyme Headed to Verizon September 29th, Pre-orders Start September 22nd We’ve heard rumblings of this date in our inbox but elected to wait until it was officially official to say anything – the HTC Rhyme is official and is headed to Verizon Wireless starting September 29th (not the 22nd like other outlets have been saying, the September 22nd is the first day of presales) according [...]
HTC Rhyme to Be Street Name for the HTC Bliss While Bliss seemed like a pretty spot-on name for an Android smartphone tailored to women, a new promotional shot of the device reveals that it will go by the name HTC Rhyme in some if not all regions. When the Rhyme name first surfaced the popular opinion was that the brand would be associated with [...]
HTC Rhyme Gains DLNA Certification – Still Shrouded In Mystery The HTC Rhyme (ADR6330VW) received it’s DLNA certification over the weekend. We have little-to-no information on this device other than its name and that it’s coming as soon as September 29th. Thanks to a recently leaked MAP what we do know is that it will will carry a $200 price sticker and be released on [...]
New Trademarks Reveal HTC Enamor and Rhyme HTC is about to bust a rhyme. And by bust a rhyme we really mean bust out a handset dubbed the HTC Rhyme, or so suggests a newly uncovered trademark filing. Also revealed in the filing is the HTC Enamor. The trademark applications cover both smartphones and tablets and their hardware and software, leaving things [...]
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