As expected, HTC officially unveiled the Sensation at an event in London today. Previously known as the Pyramid, the launch pretty much confirmed the details that were previously leaked. It’s currently HTC’s flagship phone with a high-end spec that’s similar to Sprint’s Evo 3D, featuring a 4.3-inch, 540 x 960-resolution touchscreen, dual core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, and Android 2.3 OS with HTC’s Sense UI, but without the 3D screen and dual cams found on the Evo 3D.
It looks like the HTC Pyramid will finally – and officially – show up next week. According to a source, HTC will be unveiling the high-end Pyramid during an April 12 event but will be called the HTC Sensation. It’s unknown if the name’s going to hold everywhere else, but that’s what it’s going to be called in the UK.
The still-unannounced (but heavily rumored) HTC Pyramid just turned up in live photos again. Thankfully, the new set of leaked photos sent to XDA-Developers are relatively clearer than the ones from an earlier report. They also show a number of different angles (hey, that’s the front!), including a shot of the system details and one of the phone without the cover. More importantly, the leak confirmed a number of the phone’s specs.
The much-rumored HTC Pyramid just turned up in a live photo, giving us a nice, non-rendered view of… well, its rear end. Just the back. Despite the lack of a front-side live shot, it’s pretty significant in a way, since at least we know that this thing actually exists. Anyway, if the rendered photo from an earlier leak says anything, it’ll look pretty similar to just about every other modern touchscreen Android phone from the front anyway. The front part’s going to feature four Android buttons below a big screen, so it’s really not that big of a letdown. (But still… all that trouble and no one came up with a shot of the front? It just bugs us.)
News of two upcoming (but still unannounced) HTC-made Windows Phone 7, err, phones and the Android-based HTC Pyramid just turned up from a Chinese site, XDA.cn. We have no idea how they got the scoop, but that’s irrelevant. So let’s get down to the phones. First up is the HTC Ignite, which is listed to be the flagship, although the spec doesn’t look that hot. It’ll come packing a 3.7-inch, resistive touchscreen with a 800 x 480 resolution, and an 800MHz Qualcomm processor – most likely a second-gen Snapdragon CPU – along with 512MBs of RAM and a 5MP main cam. The Ignite is also listed to support 7.2Mbps 3G download speeds.
