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A few days ago, the Chinese HTC blog 911sniper that most HTC ROM leaks originate from posted images and a minimal amount of information on HTC’s 2 newest and mysterious devices: the Rider and the Kingdom. Not much was known about either, except that the Kingdom has a qHD (540x960px) resolution.
Today, 911sniper gave birth to an actual ROM of the Kingdom, which cleared up quite a few things to us.
Update: Porting of this ROM to the Desire HD is already in progress.
First of all, this is clearly a Sprint device. It is evident from the name of the ROM (Kingdom_Sprint_WWE…) and the fact that inside it contains references to WiMax all over the place.
Going further, the qHD screen matches the one on the EVO 3D, and the only differences I can see are in the looks – 911′s device has "HTC" in the center with the circles around the buttons not visible, while our CTIA hands-on with the EVO 3D showed a slightly different picture. However, having differences between test and production devices is not unheard of.
Finally, there is an abundance of 3D apps in the leak, which may or may not point to a 3D-enabled device. It’s possible that these are just normal 3-dimensional apps visible without a 3D device, which is what we were all used to before glasses-free 3D came along. Specifically, they are:
P.S. I’ve taken a look at the static and live wallpapers and disappointingly found pretty much nothing new.
P.P.S. The HTC Rider ROM was leaked as well.
Kingdom Sprint WWE 0.81.651.0 Radio 1.05.00.0429 NV SPCS 2.25 0429 PRL21078 test 188785.zip
from the original link (very confusing and all in Chinese) or from the collection of faster mirrors I just uploaded.
[source: Sniper]
A few days ago, the Chinese HTC blog 911sniper that most HTC ROM leaks originate from posted images and a minimal amount of information on HTC’s 2 newest and mysterious devices: the Rider and the Kingdom. Not much was known about either, except that the Kingdom has a qHD (540x960px) resolution.
Today, 911sniper gave birth to an actual ROM of the Kingdom, which cleared up quite a few things to us.
Update: Porting of this ROM to the Desire HD is already in progress.
Analysis
After downloading the HTC Kingdom ROM and ripping it apart, there is no doubt in my mind that the Kingdom and the EVO 3D are one and the same, the Kingdom being EVO 3D’s codename.First of all, this is clearly a Sprint device. It is evident from the name of the ROM (Kingdom_Sprint_WWE…) and the fact that inside it contains references to WiMax all over the place.
Going further, the qHD screen matches the one on the EVO 3D, and the only differences I can see are in the looks – 911′s device has "HTC" in the center with the circles around the buttons not visible, while our CTIA hands-on with the EVO 3D showed a slightly different picture. However, having differences between test and production devices is not unheard of.
Left: Kingdom; right: EVO 3D
Based on the build.prop file, we’re dealing with a Gingerbread build with a familiar build number GRI40 (Android 2.3.3) – htc_kingdom-userdebug 2.3.3 GRI40 eng.root.20110430.001439. If you remember, the EVO 3D comes with Gingerbread, so things check out here.Finally, there is an abundance of 3D apps in the leak, which may or may not point to a 3D-enabled device. It’s possible that these are just normal 3-dimensional apps visible without a 3D device, which is what we were all used to before glasses-free 3D came along. Specifically, they are:
- com.htc.htcmsgwidgets3d.apk
- HtcPhotoGridWidget3D.apk
- htccalendarwidgets3d.apk
- HtcFootprintsWidget3d.apk
- HtcWeather3DWidget.apk
- com.htc.FriendStream3DWidget.apk
- htcbookmarkwidget3d.apk
- htcmailwidgets3d.apk
- htcwatchwidget3d.apk
- com.htc.Sync3DWidget.apk
- HtcClock3DWidget.apk
- com.htc.Twitter3DWidget.apk
- htccontactwidgets3D.apk
P.S. I’ve taken a look at the static and live wallpapers and disappointingly found pretty much nothing new.
P.P.S. The HTC Rider ROM was leaked as well.
Download
Feel free to download and play with this ROM, eloquently named (with _ replaced by space for readability)Kingdom Sprint WWE 0.81.651.0 Radio 1.05.00.0429 NV SPCS 2.25 0429 PRL21078 test 188785.zip
from the original link (very confusing and all in Chinese) or from the collection of faster mirrors I just uploaded.
[source: Sniper]
