HTC Rhyme announced, coming to Asia in October

Press release announcing the HTC Rhyme. HTC is scheduled to make the announcement in the US.  Anyway, as expected, it is the Bliss we had seen sometime ago and comes with a range of accessories including the ‘Charm’ – a cube attached to the phone that glows when there is a call or a text message. On the hardware front, we are looking at a 3.7-inch WVGA (480×800 pixels) display, a 5.0 MP camera with auto-focus, Wi-Fi, GPS, Android 2.3.4, HTC Sense 3.5 and a 3.5 mm audio jack. The Rhyme will initially launch on Verizon later this month followed by an Asia release in October.

Hit the break for specs and a video explaining the Rhyme’s design philosophy and features.

CPU Processing Speed
1GHz

Storage
Total storage:
4GB
Available storage:
up to 1GB
RAM:
768MB
Expansion slot:
microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)

Connectivity
3.5 mm stereo audio jack
Bluetooth® 3.0 with FTP/OPP for file transfer, A2DP for wireless stereo headsets, and PBAP for phonebook access from the car kit
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
DLNA for wirelessly streaming media from the phone to your TV or computer

Sensors
Ambient light sensor
G-Sensor
Digital compass
Proximity sensor

Power & Battery
Battery Capacity:
1600 mAh
Talk time:
Up to 480 minutes for WCDMA
Up to 620 minutes for GSM
Standby time:
Up to 340 hours for WCDMA
Up to 295 hours for GSM

Platform
Android™ with HTC Sense™

Network
HSPA/WCDMA:
Europe/Asia: 850/900/2100 MHz
Upload speed of up to 5.76 Mbps and download speed of up to 14.4 Mbps
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:
850/900/1800/1900 MHz
(Band frequency, HSPA availability, and data speed are operator dependent.)

Camera
5 megapixel color camera with auto focus and LED flash
720p HD video recording
VGA front-facing camera

Location
Internal GPS antenna

Multimedia
Audio supported formats:
Playback: .aac, .amr, .ogg, .m4a, .mid, .mp3, .wav, .wma (Windows Media Audio 9)
Recording: .amr, .m4a, .aac
Video supported formats:
Playback: .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .wmv (Windows Media Video 9), .avi (MP4 ASP and MP3), .xvid (MP4 ASP and MP3)
Recording: .3gp, .mp4