HTC Rhyme Review
By Ruben Corbo on November 1st, 2011
So the phone looks good in your hand, feels right when making a call, but does its overall design make an appeal to everyone concerned? We’d have no say no. Though the design is faultless, is does come in a fixed color of purple. It’s not that this compromises the design as a whole, but some people will simply find that the effeminate color is not for them.
The phone is powered by the new Android 2.3 Gingerbread software. The system comes with more options than ever to personalise your phone. This includes the latest Widget capability and the Android Market for downloading all your favorite applications.
In addition, the phone comes with the latest addition of HTC Sense, a graphical overlay which enhances the phone’s interface. The most notable feature to this new version is a customizable hot bar, with the space for up to four of your favorite apps or widgets.
The phone comes with a desktop dock, giving it flair of convenience over its competitors. The desktop dock can be used to charge the phone or, when the phone is slotted, the dock will cause the phone to show the date and time. The dock has built-in speakers so it can also be used as a media device – much like the docks that can be found for MP3 players.
The phone comes with a 1GFz Scorpion processor, 4GB of internal memory and 768 of RAM. Its performance is acceptable, but could be improved upon. In an apparent market race to attain the highest spec phones, the Rhyme certainly does not try to compete, at least not in that sense. Its modest hardware specs work well with the phone’s operating system generally, but the user might find occasional lag spikes on more demanding applications. The phone’s call quality is also of an acceptable standard.
The phone comes with a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, capable of 720p video. The picture quality is again of an acceptable standard. It certainly doesn’t break any boundaries, but rather keeps its capability in the not-so-celebrated bracket of ‘camera phone’ (i.e. don’t leave your dedicated camera at home).
