Dr. Frankenstein would have been very proud of smartphone manufacturer HTC. It appears that they looked around their smartphone laboratory and simply chose the best performing and most attractive parts and pieces they had at their availability, and the result is the gorgeous HTC Droid DNA monster phone. The handset is currently offered from the Amazon Wireless store during that retailer’s online holiday sales event, and runs on the 4G LTE system of Verizon Wireless, which Consumer Reports recently named as “the top cell phone carrier in the United States.”
The HTC Droid DNA is on sale now starting at $149.99.
The handset has a powerful quad core processor, double the RAM memory of the typical smartphone, a huge display, and what is quite possibly the highest pixel density we have found on a smartphone so far. The HTC Droid DNA can operate as a dual mode CDMA/GSM handset, and delivers Near Field Communications (NFC) access out-of-the-box. An HDMI connector is built-in, allowing you to port whatever is on your display to an exterior HDTV or monitor.
And HTC stretches the high resolution display from edge to edge and corner to corner on the Droid DNA, allowing brilliant viewing on a large 5.0 inch screen without making the handset bulky or heavy. Slim at 0.38 inches (9.73 mm), the Droid DNA delivers more than 16 million colors when rendering visuals, at a very high pixel density of 441 pixels per inch. That gives the large 5.0 Inch ImageChip ISP S-LCD 3 display an overall screen resolution of 1,080 x 1,920 pixels, and Corning has given the Droid DNA 4G a scratch resistant layer of Gorilla Glass.
Talk time runs better than the average 4G smartphone, at 12.6 hours from a single charge, and the quad core 1.5 GHz CPU is part of a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 microchip package. Included in that chip suite is an Adreno 320 graphics processor, and the handset contains 16 GB of built-in storage and 2.0 GB of RAM system memory. The full range Beats Audio joins a YouTube video player and built-in music player in the multimedia package on board the HTC Droid DNA 4G.
Upfront and built into the handset is a 2.1 megapixel chat cam which provides video call support, and integrated into the back of the Droid DNA is an 8.0 megapixel camcorder. That rear facing snapper provides video capture at 1,080 P HD resolution, delivering an LED flash, f/2.0 lens aperture, autofocus, exposure compensation, and several other customization features. Popular online application Picasa has been pre-installed, and the HTC Droid DNA can function as a mobile hotspot center for multiple wireless devices.
You can purchase the HTC Droid DNA now starting at $149.99.
