Developers: | HTC Corp |
Date of the premiere of the system: | November 11, 2016 |
Technology: | Tablet computers and smartphones |
2016: Announcement
On November 11, 2016 the HTC company announced the flagman Bolt smartphone which in assortment of the Taiwan producer became the first device with the waterproof body and without traditional 3.5-mm connector for connection of earphones.
HTC Bolt is completed with the Super LCD 3 display with diagonal 5.5 inches, resolution capability 2560 x 1440 pixels and a cover plate of Corning Gorilla Glass 5. In a hardware basis the eight-nuclear Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor with clock rate to 2 GHz is put. The chip contains the graphic Adreno 430 accelerator.
Amount of RAM is equal 3 Gbytes, capacity built in a flash drive — 32 Gbytes. Connection of the replaceable memory cards microSD is allowed.
The main camera received the 16-megapixel sensor of the image, double LED flash, optical stabilization of the image, a phase auto focus (works in only 0.3 seconds), a recording capability 4K-and slowed down (120 fps) videos. For the front camera the producer selected a 8-megapixel matrix.
As it was noted above, by HTC Bolt it is deprived of the 3.5-mm audioslot. Instead of it for connection of earphones the symmetric port USB Type-C is used. The headset with support of USB Type-C goes complete with the new smartphone, however from the plant the adapter on the 3.5-mm connector is not provided.
Phone is certified according to IP57 standard, and it means that it is possible to submerge it without effects on water depth to 1 meter within half an hour.
Besides, HTC Bolt it is equipped with the fingerprint scanner, stereoloudspeakers with support of BoomSound Adaptive Audio technology, modules of wireless communication of LTE, Wi-Fi of 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS and NFC, the Android 7.0 Nougat operating system with shell program of HTC Sense UI and the accumulator with a capacity of 3200 mAh.
| HTC Bolt | ||||
Screen | LDC, 5.5’’, 2560 x 1440 | LDC, 4.7’’, 1334 x 750 | Super AMOLED, 5,5’’, 1920 х 1080 | AMOLED, 5,5’’, 1920 х 1080 | LDC, 5’’, 1920 x 1080 |
Processor | Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, 8 cores, 2 GHz | A8 Apple, 2 cores, 1.4 GHz | 8 cores, 1.6 GHz | Huawei Kirin 935, 8 cores, 2.2 GHz | MediaTek Helio X10, 8 cores, 2.2 GHz |
Cameras | 16 and 8 Megapixels | 12 and 5 Megapixels | 13 and 5 Megapixels | 13 and 8 Megapixels | 13 and 4 Megapixels |
RAM | 3 Gbyte | 1 Gbyte | 3 Gbyte | 3 Gbyte | 2 Gbyte |
Flash memory | 32 Gbyte | 16/64/128 Gbyte | 16 Gbyte | 32/64 Gbyte | 16 Gbyte |
microSD | Is | No | Is | Is, up to 128 Gbytes | Is, up to 2 Tbyte |
Comparison of HTC Bolt with competitors, data of TAdviser
On November 11, 2016 HTC Bolt went on sale at the price of $600.[1]