WIND releasing the HTC Amaze December 2nd

Nov 30, 2011

1:20 PM EDT

Probably the best device that WIND will have in their lineup this holiday season is the HTC Amaze 4G. This runs Android OS 2.3, but will be upgraded to OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a 4.3-inch Super LCD touchscreen display, a 1.5 GHz dual core processor, 8.0 MP camera that captures 1080p HD videos… and officially available on Friday, December 2nd.

The prices are $569 outright or $249 on the WINDTab +.
(Thanks Alex for the pic!)

Comments

Mike
Great phone. Bit high of a price on Windtab+ though…
Awkward Turtle
This is very, very tempting. But I think I want to wait for the Galaxy Nexus. Good on wind getting another high end android!
clay
WOW THIS IS GREAT NEWS FOR WIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alex Perrier
NOTE: It wasn’t Alex me. It was probably the other Alex.
Why didn’t they call this a superphone? It has two cores and all the criteria for a superphone. After all, they call the Optimus 2X a “superphone”, even though it was been criticized by several people, some for the hardware quality, but most for the Gingerbread that’s taking so long to come.
Congrats, WIND, for getting a second superphone! 😀
- kickstart
  Surprise – ’twas me. Alex G., aka bellisbrutal (Old WIND Forum) aka bell-is-brutal (new WIND forum), aka kickstart (here).
  Methinks it’s time to upgrade to this phone from windows mobile 6.5 on my Maple.
- Pahech
  “Superphone” is a Bell marketing gimmick. Kind of like “beyond 4G” for Rogers (it’s not), Canada’s most reliable network (subjective), etc.
- Rocco StiffReddi
  it is not a super phone if it is on a crap network like Wind.. top dollar for a phone with no warranty? ha!
  Jabronied outsourced contracted and now for sale again?!
  awww uncle sawarie why the tears
Bhell
I might be alone in thinking this, but shouldn’t wind release lower end smartphones instead? They need a 200-300 android smart phone, so they can get more people onto their network. 560 is hard to justify. You can buy 2 playbooks for that price!
I rather save up for the GS2 or the nexus.
- Gab
  I consider this on par with the GS2. And I preffer IPS LCD over SAMOLED.
netninja
why is it called the amaze 4G? Does it have 4G speeds? I didn’t think Wind had a 4G network…
Nadim
Nice that wind is releasing the phone but steep price considering the same phone is $100 or less on a 3 year from Telus.
- Rocco StiffReddi
  Less on telus, a warranty, real network, ability to make calls anywhere.. yes all the more reason to buy from wind lol
  on wintab LOL have a look on the forum see the issues with the tab.. hofo with warranty MJ for his expanding waist line.. the steamed veg and Justin imbecile looking for work..
Radar
Great job Wind – I am getting this phone on Dec 2nd – my holiday gift 🙂
- Rocco StiffReddi
  sure you are radar suuuure
  a phone is only as good as the network you put it on.
  so any takers on the MJ challenge? I take any rogers phone and place it against your wind phone.. we see if you get signal everywhere I do? I win I get to watch MJ crush your phone under his fat feet you win he crushes mine..
  sooo any takers?
CaptainZangetsu
if you want android around 200-300 go with the Nexus S or Optimus 2x problem solve.
- Rocco StiffReddi
  but capt’in does it really matter what phone if the network is so shi’te?
Omis
It’s cheaper on Telus? Only if you fail at basic math. I pay $40 a month for unlimited everything. The cheapest rate Telus offers is $50 for next-to-nothing minutes and data. That’s $10 more a month. $120 a year. Now if I want to get the phone “cheap” in a 3 year contract, it will cost me $360 switching to Telus. And that is without adding the cost of buying the phone.
Robelus is lucky there an abundant supply of people too lazy/stupid to determine that actual cost of things.
JP
Hey RoccoLimpReddi, I am up for the challenge but I doubt you would meet me. Come out to Burlington and bring your Rogers phone and let’s do this challenge. How about we surf the internet for several hours on our phones and call the US and long distance Canada for several hours. I guess you can’t afford that on your Rogers plan. Go back to your janitorial job at Rogers little kid.
JustMeAndMe
Overpriced!
Next one please!
Lemon
Called in alot of stores if they would have it tomorrow. All of them said, ‘we dunno’.
Geeforson
So, useful questions: How do the core specs (mostly the CPU, GPU, RAM, and available flash memory / memory expansion) compare with the Galaxy Nexus? The screen? Does the Amaze have a Pentaband radio or will I not be able to bring it over to one of the big 3 if I move outside Wind’s coverage area? Will the bootloader be locked?
- Geeforson
  Replying to myself, because I’m awesome like that:
  The specs for the T-Mobile Amaze show:
  GSM/EDGE
  UMTS 1700/2100/AWS,
  UMTS 2100, 1900, 850
  1900/850 is what you need for Rogers, and 1700/2100 is AWS (Wind, Mobilicity). I’m *assuming* it won’t change, which has got me even more interested.

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