HTC Announces Droid DNA Smartphone With 5'' 1080p LCD
Handset goes on sale on November 21.
Verizon and HTC have, as expected, announced their Droid DNA smartphone during a New York event.
The smartphone features a 5-inch screen, Super LCD 3 display with 440 pixels per inch, runs on Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean and is capable of playing 1080p HD video. HTC said that the device's screen rivals traditional HDTVs, with the pixel density being among the highest available on any smartphone.
HTC's Droid DNA boasts a quad-core, 1.5Ghz Snapdragon Qualcomm processor, as well as having 4G LTE integrated into the device. The handset is also capable of wireless charging and full HD video chat, NFC support, accompanied by an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and a front-facing 2.1 megapixel camera.
HTC ImageSense and HTC ImageChip are integrated in order to deliver faster image processing and better quality photos, in addition to a quick-launch camera option. The Droid DNA also offers Beats audio and two amplifiers -- one for the headphone and one for the device's speaker.
The Droid DNA, which will be distributed exclusively through Verizon, will be available on November 21 for $199.99 with a two-year contract, with pre-orders commencing today.
“It’s no secret that people depend on their smartphones more and more every day which rightfully raises expectations for performance, speed, and design," said Jason Mackenzie, HTC president. "The DROID DNA by HTC embodies a smartphone that pushes the envelope in all of these areas with the first true 1080p HD display, latest quad-core processor, and Verizon’s 4G LTE network, all wrapped in a beautifully crafted design. The DROID DNA by HTC is sure to top wish lists this holiday season.”

Do these companies ever actually research the tech they're using? Are they intentionally being wasteful or is this just ignorance? The human eye won't notice whether your screen is 300PPI or 440, so unless you're buying a phone for your pet owl the resources used to drive that resolution could be far better used on actual processing.
That could be an interesting experiment. Test a phone running at 1080p and 720p using the same processor and see which one actually gets the job done faster.
Soon smartphones will be powered by mini nuclear reactor and able to do 3d holographic projection with many and many of terrabytes in storage. Hopefully it can still make and receive phone calls without disconnections.
As to the phone... luv my HTC One S... even though it's the S. It seems every once in a while HTC slaps something out on the market that raises the bar, even if they don't support it software-wise for much more than nine months (little better than LG in that regard). Battery life has become much more solid since the EVO line but natural evolution in phone processor efficiency has helped that.
Its funny you mention that, I like to use a seperate headphone amp for best quality (a HeadRoom TotalBitHead). Its neat to see a manufacturer care enough about audio quality to put a headphone amp in their phone! Well done on that end.
...and I imagine that 1080p display isn't bad to look at either. I wonder if its as crystal clear and bright as the iPhone's Retina display. As much as I love my Samsung Galaxy gadgets and and as good as they are the displays aren't quite as clear as the iPhones (but they're bigger and they're still quite beautiful). It would have been neat for them to put a 1080p display on the Galaxy Note II (makes me wonder why they didn't).
Why? Qualcomms SOC is actually pretty damn good with Battery Life.
The screen should use about as much power as most others on the market as well.
Battery life should be just as good as the other high-end handsets.
detail with your eyes. However I suppose making the screen any bigger would turn the device into a tablet instead of a smartphone that can fit in a pocket.
Actually it depends. If someone has 20 by 20 eyesight or worse then you can't resolve the pixels on a 300ppi screen 10 inches away. However there are people with eyesight that far exceeds 20/20. There are people that at 10 inch they only stop resolving pixels when the screen has pixel density of 572 ppi or higher.
Since the display on the HTC OneX ( and the one on the X+) is already better than iPhone's display, I don't see a reason why HTC would regress instead of making this one at least as good as the OneX.
As for the Note 2, they will probably make a Note 3 with 1080p. Or maybe they'll make one with flexible display, who knows. Samsung is really pushing it these days.
AFAIK, the only problem with this phone is it's exclusivity with Verizon. HTC would be ill-advised to release this only on one network.