‘Plastic is nothing to be ashamed of': Hands on with HTC’s Desire Eye

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http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/1U6ADu3oC6yPmuH3Qa1AnA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9Njk7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/bgr-htc-desire-eye-8.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/plastic-nothing-ashamed-hands-htc-desire-eye-204544800.html)A room full of technology bloggers and journalists laughed when HTC’s associate vice president of industrial design Claude Zellweger uttered the above phrase while introducing HTC’s latest smartphone during a full day of closed-door meetings earlier this week. “Plastic is nothing to be ashamed of.” And it is funny, in a bizarre way. During its meteoric rise to the top of the smartphone industry, Samsung has managed to give plastic a bad name. The company’s phones, while durable, feel cheap. All of them. Even Samsung’s first phone to feature metal edges still looks and feels cheap compared to rival devices . But plastic doesn’t have to look or feel cheap. And HTC’s latest smartphone, the Desire Eye, is a great



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