HTC Raider 4G revisits FCC in hint of Vivid name change
updated 05:35 pm EST, Thu December 1, 2011
AT&T Still continues to show it as the Vivid
HTC has submitted the Raider 4G once more in an FCC filing for approval. The unusual submission comes for a phone that's already on sale in the US, the Vivid, that AT&T began selling in the US in early November. The reappearance may have been a response to HTC being targeted by a cease and desist notice from adult filmmaker Vivid Entertainment, which claimed potential phone buyers could mistakenly associate the phone with its videos.
The phone was introduced in Canada as the Raider 4G LTE in October. It centers on a large 4.5-inch, 540x960 LCD, a dual-core, 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, an eight-megapixel, f2.2, 28mm equivalent rear camera with 1080p video recording, and a 1.3-megapixel front camera. It ships with Android 2.3, but should be upgradable to Android 4.0.
In its notice, Vivid gave HTC until November 21 to comply. It appears that the phone vendor has chosen to change the handset's name rather than let things drag out in the courts. AT&T continues to show the phone as the Vivid on its website. [via Droid-Life]
