HTC Rhyme My Android

When I ancient heard about the HTC Rhyme, I acquire I did a accepting at what I was hearing. The behemothic fizz maker was absolution an Android fizz with a twist: it was aimed at women buyers. After accepting I heard things correctly, I apprehend a brace of ancient reviews of the Rhyme and constant abounding it is aimed actually at women. I received the HTC Rhyme a few days ago and it is the first phone I have evaluated that leaves me shaking my head. It is an attractive handset much like other HTC phones, and it has little to set it apart from the HTC Android line. The difference is in the accessories included with the phone that are clearly aimed at women buyers. Rather than review the Rhyme myself, I feel it is more appropriate to share the feedback I have received from those in the target market.

The Rhyme ships in an aberrant brownish purple, that is attractive. The adapt are abolishment special, a 3.7-inch display, 1 GHz single-core processor, and a microSD breach to accede assiduity the 4GB of anamnesis on the phone. The added I accessory at the Rhyme the added it reminds me of the HTC Hero from a while back.

What sets the Rhyme distant from the Android crowd, and determines the appetite exchange for the phone, are the accessories in the box. In accretion to the fizz there is a accustomed tiny adeptness brick and cable for charging, a akin amethyst alive stereo headset, a alive “charm”, and a charging dock.

The anchorage is brash to sit on a lath or table and coact with the fizz in mural acclimatization while it is achievement charged. The fizz accusation be set in the anchorage above adapted or it doesn’t charge, but it’s not adamantine to get it lined up.

The wired headset is a good quality pair of audio earplugs with a microphone integrated for use as a hands-free headset. It matches the purple color of the Rhyme, an obvious effort to make it an accessory for the phone.

The charm, as HTC is calling it, is something never seen in the smartphone world prior to the Rhyme. It is a wire with a purple cube on the end, designed to signal the owner when a call has been missed. The charm plugs into the 3.5mm audio jack on the phone, which activates the purple LED notifications. The idea is the phone can be thrown into a bag, and the charm can be left dangling out so notifications won’t be missed. The purple cube flashes when a call comes in or is missed, until the notification is cleared on the phone.

This charm alone tags the Rhyme as a phone for women, but along with the matching audio headset there is little doubt. It is obvious that HTC wants the Rhyme to appeal to women, but given the reactions to the phone I have seen I think HTC needed to think this through further prior to release.

The first person I handed the Rhyme was my wife, who sees a lot of phones through my work. I would class her as a typical consumer, not too concerned about the technical aspects of a handset, rather if it does what she needs.

HTC is aggravating to accomplish accessories that bend out from the ample Android phones out everywhere, but it absent the mark with the Rhyme on every level.

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