The HTC Rhymes Offer Functional multi Media Playback
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The new HTC Rhyme handset is a phone that manages to impress in most areas. The modern design immediately catches the eye and when you begin to use the phone a number of elements impress especially the social networking facilities and the excellent user interface. Here we take a look at the video and music playback options on this model, an area that is becoming increasingly important on the modern smartphone.
Although there is no dedicated video player on the HTC Rhyme video files can still be easily accessed from the gallery that also stores photographic images. Files are presented to you in a neat grid format with a small thumbnail displaying a snapshot of the footage. Any videos that are stored have multiple sharing options which is something that HTC have become very famous for. You can send your files to friends via an MMS message or an email or even post them directly to social networking sites such as Flickr and Facebook. When playing back a video file on the Rhyme the interface is incredibly simple with your basic control keys present in addition to a new toggle which adjusts the footage to entirely fill the screen. Multiple file types are accepted by the Rhyme and we found that when you are viewing footage that is not in high definition some file formats such as MKV will work even though they are officially not supported by the phone. When sticking with the official file types High Definition looked superb as you would expect. These types are MP4, H.263 and H.264 although we also found no problem with WMV files.
The new user interface that is sported by the HTC Rhyme means that the music player offers a slightly different look to previous models. When you first launch this application you are offered two simple options. The first of these is a drop down menu which allows you to choose from tracks that are stored on your Rhyme device or songs streamed to the phone via a DNLA server. The second option opens up another drop down menu where you can choose from Album, Artist, Songs, Playlists and Genres. Full cover art is supported by the phone and the high quality display ensures that this looks superb. There are some options on the device which enable you change the sound settings to suit your own taste. The default setting is good but if you find yourself wanting a deeper sound or one that is clearer vocally then this can easily be adjusted. The phone also includes SRS sound enhancement which helps you get the best possible sound from the speakers and headphones that you use with this model.
A high standard of music and video features are present on the HTC Rhyme which help make it one of the very best mid range phones that we have looked at. Audio performance is superb and video results are very pleasing especially when viewed in High Definition.
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The HTC Rhyme and the Samsung Galaxy Note are available now.
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By :
Emma Rosher
Submitted
2011-12-19 03:49:32 |
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