Here's a little something to make your weekend fly by -- Android Central scored a hands-on look at Verizon's dual-mode CDMA / GSM worldphone, the HTC Merge (or is that Lexikon?)
and it's looking like one hell of a handset. Though the prototype's
Android 2.2 build is saddled with HTC Sense and Bing for search, the
hardware's reportedly superb, with a "clicky and responsive and very
well spaced" slide-out QWERTY keyboard with no Desire Z hinge nonsense,
and a weighty, solid feel. There's also a 5 megapixel shooter that does
720p video, a likely 2GB of on-board storage and 512MB of RAM, not to
mention an 800MHz processor that'll surely help derail the megahertz
myth with superb benchmark scores. See it pull a 1,500 in Quadrant
after the break, and start dropping those nickels into your piggy bank.
