At the AT&T Developers Summit, the HTC crew seems to have been withholding on one precious nugget of information. They have had a working prototype of an LTE phone for AT&T's 4G network, which will start rolling out to markets in the second half of the year.
The phone resembled the HTC Inspire 4G, which in its turn is an AT&T rehash of the HTC Desire HD, meaning that the new Sense UI will be slapped on HTC's LTE phone as well. That resemblance means a 4.3" screen, but the person that handled it, says it seems a bit thicker than the 3G-only slabs.
What's more interesting, though, is that it was actually hooked up to an LTE stream, and tethered to a laptop, beaming 50Mbits, close to the theoretical 60Mbits maximum of this generation standard. The streaming was taking place in an enclosed and controlled environment, of course - on an overcrowded commercial network you'd get a tenth of that at times, but the sheer fact that an HTC LTE phone is in a prototype stage for AT&T, warms our hearts.
Daniel, a devoted tech writer at PhoneArena since 2010, has been engrossed in mobile technology since the Windows Mobile era. His expertise spans mobile hardware, software, and carrier networks, and he's keenly interested in the future of digital health, car connectivity, and 5G. Beyond his professional pursuits, Daniel finds balance in travel, reading, and exploring new tech innovations, while contemplating the ethical and privacy implications of our digital future.
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