Hands on with the HTC Bolt, a 5.5-inch, Android 7.0 phone exclusive to Sprint

November 11, 2016

Here’s a smartphone for people with very specific, even niche alliances: HTC has announced the Bolt, a 5.5-inch phone running Android 7.0 that will only be available via Sprint. Neither HTC nor Sprint are the most popular names in the mobile space, but the Bolt looks great, and HTC promises it will have screaming-fast speeds on Sprint’s network.The key to HTC’s speed claim is three-channel carrier aggregation, an LTE protocol that combines three bands of the wireless spectrum to widen the pipe, as it were, and deliver faster data for supported devices. HTC says it tuned the software that manages the Bolt’s LTE modem to get the most from its aggregation protocols. That may be especially helpful because the phone runs the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor, which is no longer state-of-the-art.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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