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HTC's Windows Phone 8X dedicated audio amplifier demoed, ready for your next tailgate party

HTC's Windows Phone 8X dedicated audio amplifier demoed, ready for your next tailgate party

Posted: 20 Sep 2012, 03:03, by Daniel P.

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HTC's Windows Phone 8X dedicated audio amplifier demoed, ready for your next tailgate party

HTC mentioned in the press release that the Windows Phone 8X flagship it unveiled yesterday has a dedicated audio amplifier in addition to the Beats Audio shenanigans for the first time, which pushes the speaker and whatever is connected to the audio jack to their limits.

We didn't know what to think of that claim, as it was unlikely that audio output from a 0.39" thin phone can do wonders, but HTC has obviously put a lot of effort into this differentiating feature, and a video demonstrating what this additional 2.55v amplifier can do is pretty impressive.

As you can hear in the demo below, the music blasting through the speaker of the HTC 8X is pretty powerful for a handset, drowning the speaker's explanation almost entirely. This and the wide-angle front camera that does 1080p video on the 8X are HTC's obvious trump cards in the Windows Phone 8 battle.

via WPCentral

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1. smk1369 posted on 20 Sep 2012, 03:11 6 0

wonderful!!!

2. SemperFiV12 posted on 20 Sep 2012, 03:18 6 0

Very impressive... i remember how my HTC Touch Pro 2 had pretty loud speakers as well. Even today, my old HTC TP2 is louder than current phones. Nice to see some new features!

3. thewhitesoul posted on 20 Sep 2012, 03:29 1 0

It's awesome.....!

4. tiara6918 posted on 20 Sep 2012, 03:39 1 0

Very nice sound quality!

5. darkskoliro posted on 20 Sep 2012, 04:31 0 0

this phone specs + lumia920 camera = gg

7. muhsen posted on 20 Sep 2012, 05:26 0 0

nokia has dolby!

9. darkskoliro posted on 20 Sep 2012, 06:03 0 0

hahaha software is hackable :) Not hardware. They put some real damn good speakers and headset jack on that thing!

6. pikapowerize (banned) posted on 20 Sep 2012, 04:31 1 0

very good very good! but still i really think this is a step down of the titan/titan2!! but still impressive!

11. ngo2dd posted on 20 Sep 2012, 09:12 0 0

how is this a step down? Because it has a small screen and lower pixel camera? Come on people

8. Bluesky02 posted on 20 Sep 2012, 05:56 2 0

wow the sound is so clear

10. Nathan_ingx posted on 20 Sep 2012, 07:57 2 0

HTC...you should have added the hardware long back when you adopted Beats. Now, as a lover of good music and sound this is freakin' AWESOME!!

12. jove39 posted on 20 Sep 2012, 12:15 0 0

Awesome...glad that someone taking care of music listeners...this is second time I am excited to hear music on phone...first was sony walkman series :)

13. KingKurogiii posted on 20 Sep 2012, 13:33 0 0

wow, that's intense. if i ever went to T-Mobile i'm pretty sure this is what i would get. i'd either get the yellow/green or black.

14. 7thspaceman posted on 21 Sep 2012, 14:57 0 0

hmm the HTC 8x could sell pretty well with thia and beats audio going for it and it's sleek
body design and a good camera

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6. pikapowerize (banned) posted on 20 Sep 2012, 04:31 1 0

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