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LG Nitro HD: 4.5-inch 720p display, on AT&T 4G LTE, due Dec. 4

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Smartphone screens keep getting bigger and thankfully, the resolution on displays is finally starting to grow too.

The latest example: the LG Nitro HD, which features a 4.5-inch screen with a 1,280 x 720 screen resolution. That’d be 720p, the lowest possible resolution that can be considered high definition.

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As such, this will be AT&T’s first HD-screen phone when it goes on sale Dec. 4 at a price of $249.99 with a two-year contract, the carrier said in a statement.

But the promising touch screen isn’t all the Nitro HD has going for it. The new LG handset features a 1.5-gigahertz dual-core processor (that’s the same clock speed as some laptops), an 8-megapixel and 1080p camera on the back with an LED flash, and a front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera.

Verizon has a 720p screen phone of its own in the $300 HTC Rezound, which I’m currently testing for an upcoming review. Both of the competing handsets run Google’s Android Gingerbread operating system.

The Rezound, which has a 4.3-inch touch screen, runs on Verizon’s 4G LTE network and the Nitro HD will run on AT&T’s 4G LTE network. The Nitro HD will also offer 20 gigabytes of storage with 4 gigabytes built in and an additional 16 gigabytes on an included microSD card.

Stay tuned -- we’ll have a review of the Nitro HD soon as well.

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-- Nathan Olivarez-Giles

Twitter.com/nateog

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