Jun 26, 2010

The HTC EVO 4G

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The EVO plays along with one of HTC’s more recent design memes kicked off by the HD Mini earlier this year: brightly-colored innards. Boy, does it ever play along! Popping the battery cover off (yes, you pop it with your fingernail — it doesn’t slide) reveals a fire engine red interior complete with matching battery, just like you’ll find in the Droid Incredible. Sure, granted, if you replace the pack with a third-party model down the road, it won’t likely match — but then again, this is about as superfluous and hedonistic of a design element as we can possibly imagine, because it serves precisely zero function and is almost never seen by the user. Heck, it’s such a covert feature, it’s practically a private joke of HTC’s… and we can appreciate a good private joke now and again.

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