HTC Holiday Gets Leaked, 4G LTE Android Smartphone Heading to AT&T [New HTC Flagship Handset Found in the Wild: 4.5-inch qHD Display, 1.2GHz Dual-Core CPU, Gingerbread & LTE Support]

Posted on TFTS by Chris Smith on Sunday, 28. August 2011 under: Mobile/Cell Phones

We talked about the HTC Holiday in the past but today we have an image gallery for you as well as more specs and features for this apparently almost confirmed handset.

The Holiday is expected to be one of the first LTE devices to hit AT&T stores. We’re looking at a flagship smartphone sporting a 4.5-inch qHD touchscreen display, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of memory, 8-megapixel camera with flash, 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread with HTC Sense 3.0 on top. The phone will also feature four capacitive buttons right below the panel, and, from the looks of it the Holiday already looks like a worthy Galaxy S II LTE rival.

The Galaxy S II LTE has been just announced, although Samsung is yet to tell us what worldwide carriers are going to receive it.

The Holiday could also be an LTE alternative to the Droid Bionic, Motorola’s upcoming flagship device that’s scheduled to hit Verizon on September 8. But while the Bionic is ready to arrive in a few weeks, the Holiday doesn’t have a launch date yet. Pricing details for the Holiday are also missing in action for now, and we may have to wait a while until AT&T makes it official.

AT&T is not in a position to successfully compete against Verizon when it comes to LTE deployment, and while it has already announced two 4G LTE products, its first LTE-ready smartphones and tablets (like the Holiday or the Puccini) are yet to be properly acknowledged.

What’s certain, from all these leaked images we get to see, is that HTC appears to be the first Android device maker ready to provide LTE devices to the second biggest U.S. carrier. The company has been selling the Thunderbolt via Verizon so far, its first Android LTE handset.

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