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hey guys John Velasco here with Android thority I'm here in New York City checking out the HTC bolt it's gonna be coming out soon and by the time you're watching this video it's gonna be available for purchase and it's gonna be exclusive to Sprint and its name implies you kind of think it's gonna be all about the speed given the name bolt but before I get into that let's talk about the design now from the front it kind of looks like the HTC One eight and nine from last year but it's actually more in line to the HTC 10 just because it is a unibody aluminum construction and we look at the back it has those same very thick cut contoured beveled edges which gives it a very distinctive look overall the phone feels pretty wide it's a big phone of course but at least with the metal construction it does have that sense of solidness to it what's important to note here though is that has an IP 57 rating which means there is a level of water resistance with the desire which is pretty impressive given that very few phones special and metal phones offer it so nothing worth mentioning is that it doesn't have a headphone jack everything's done through the USB type-c port it's not the first time as you've seen the iPhone and some other recent Android devices do this so if you're used to that you might be bummed about it but it does come included with this special pair of headphones now it utilizes this HTC boomsound audio adaptive technology so that the headphones themselves will deliver a customized experience just to give it more of an immersive feel and fine-tune it to your specific liking now it's named bolt for a reason and that's because it's gonna be running off of Sprint's LTE Plus Network for really fast data speeds you have 3 by 20 megahertz carrier aggregation support thanks to the Snapdragon X 10 LTE modem it's using now here in New York City it's not yet available but just knowing that it has that ability means that you're gonna get fast data speeds as far as the rest of the phone is concerned you have a 16 megapixel rear camera in the back hopefully it's gonna take decent shots just like the HTC 10 you have the eight megapixel front-facing camera you have the fingerprint sensor that doubles as the home button for security it's running Android 7.0 with the Sense UI interface and it's powered by Snapdragon 810 chip with 3 gigabytes of RAM now you might be scratching your head why they went with the a-10 as opposed to something you are like the 820 now they tell us that this is an updated chipset so you're not gonna run into any sort of heating issues and seems to be pretty responsive it's gonna be available starting today November 11th and it's gonna be exclusive to Sprint you'll have to fork over $600 to pick it up outright or $25 on a 24 month leasing plan so if you guys wanna learn more about the HTC bolt you could check our website Android authority coms jaanvi signing off