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HTC @ MWC

Here is a breakdown on the new Android mobile devices HTC have released this year at Mobile World Congress – Barcelona, Spain.

You can look at a quick official introductory video from HTC introducing their new products here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syBTF5RGd1c

HTC Desire S
As a continuation of the Desire family, the Desire S hasn’t changed too much but offers more with its newest version of Sense UI and the latest version of android, Gingerbread (2.4). Its new innovative sleek design makes the phone futuristic and improves vastly on its older siblings design. The Desire S includes a front facing camera to bring back video calling features and other useful functions which were taken away from its older siblings. The Desire S should be released to Europe, with the rest of the line in the second quarter of 2011. See the specification breakdown below:

Spec Breakdown:
OS: Android 2.4 Gingerbread
CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz
RAM: 768MB
ROM: 1.1GB
Display: 3.7” WVGA Super AMOLED
Camera: 5MP / 720p HD / Single-LED flash
Battery: 1450mAh




Click here for an official first look at the HTC Desire S: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtp4A5rVy_c  


HTC Incredible S
As a follow up to the previous Droid Incredible, the Incredible S offers a screen enlargement to its previous sibling, and also a capacitive row of buttons along the bottom of the screen, which rotate when you tilt to device on its side to go to landscape mode, as well as a clever little trick this is a very helpful tool to simplify things and avoid confusion when in landscape mode. It also offers a 1.3 front facing camera and supports Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and HSPA with 14.4Mbps download and 5.76Mbps upload. HTC have announced that an upgrade from Froyo (2.2) to Gingerbread (2.4) will be available after purchase so you certainly won’t be lacking. The Incredible S should be released to Europe in the second quarter of 2011 and will come with a new updated version of HTC’s famous Sense UI. See the specification breakdown below:

Spec Breakdown:
OS: Android 2.2 Froyo  
CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz
RAM: 768MB
ROM: 1.1GB
Display: 4” WVGA 800x480 Super LCD
Camera: 8MP / 720p HD / Dual-LED flash
Battery: 1450mAh


HTC Wildfire S
The Wildfire S takes on a new design improvement from its older siblings in its family and will be available in three colour options: purple, black and silver. The Wildfire S has taken on board the latest version of Android, Gingerbread (2.4) as well as the latest version of Sense UI from HTC to make one beautiful, small compact but wild device. Again along with all the others, the HTC Wildfire S will be released in the second quarter of 2011. See the specification breakdown below:

Spec Breakdown:
OS: Android 2.4 Gingerbread
CPU: Qualcomm 600MHz
RAM: 512MB
ROM: 512MB
Display: 3.2" HVGA 480x320
Camera: 5MP / WVGA SD / Single-LED flash
Battery: 1230mAh






Click here for an official first look at the HTC Wildfire S: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru6nfed29Gg


HTC Salsa
The HTC Salsa is a new addition to the HTC range of smartphones and features a VGA front-facing camera and full touchscreen. The HTC Salsa is a dedicated Facebook-enabled phone, with a dedicated glowing Facebook ‘share’ button at the bottom of the device roughly 2/3 towards the right, slightly off centre which will allow users to share their current activity on their device with one click or check into Facebook Places with a long press. The HTC Salsa will be released along with its partner the HTC Chacha towards the end of the second quarter of 2011. See the specification breakdown below:

Spec Breakdown:
OS: Android 2.4 Gingerbread
CPU: 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227
RAM: 512MB
ROM: 512MB
Display: 3.4” 480 x 320 touchscreen
Camera: 5MP / WVGA SD / Single-LED flash
Battery: 1250mAh



Click here for an official first look at the HTC Salsa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpYOrDa8HOs


HTC Chacha
The HTC Chacha is also a new addition to the HTC range this year, also featuring a VGA front-facing camera but also a full physical QWERTY keyboard on the device, the Chacha is NOT a touchscreen-enabled device but still a dedicated Facebook-enabled phone. It has a dedicated glowing Facebook ‘share’ button at the bottom of the device roughly 2/3 towards the right, slightly off centre which will allow users to share their current activity on their device with one click or check into Facebook Places with a long press. The HTC Chacha will be released alongside the HTC Salsa towards the end of the second quarter of 2011. See the specification breakdown below:

Spec Breakdown:
OS: Android 2.4 Gingerbread
CPU: 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227
RAM: 512MB
ROM: 512MB
Display: 2.6” 480 non-touchscreen
Camera: 5MP / WVGA SD / Single-LED flash
Battery: 1250mAh



Facebook Phones
Mark Zuckerberg has announced, following the release of the HTC Salsa and HTC Chacha that these are not the only facebook phones going to be released, and that there will be many more, released from other brands this year. He also specified that there will be no facebook branded phone. So expect many more facebook dedicated phones. These facebook dedicated phones will mostly be low-spec phones focusing on facebook as one of the only functions the user will use the phone for besides calling, texting and browsing, because of this they have kept internal storage to a minimum not allowing many applications to be installed onto the inbuilt memory. On the other hand, these phones will most likely be cheaper to buy.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dguISvkkFYU


Tablet: HTC Flyer
The HTC Desire is HTC’s very first tablet device, with the HTC Scribe technology to beat the other competitors out there. The HTC Flyer comes with a pressure sensitive stylus which will be used to perform different functions on the device. The device features a tablet-optimised version of Sense UI and features a microSD memory card slot for further options for expanding memory. The device unfortunately lacks in not having Android 3.0, but HTC’s reasoning is because they haven’t had enough time to develop with the latest Google code to fit with the full requirements of Sense. On the other hand the high-spec device will hopefully also be released in the second quarter of 2011, but that is unconfirmed as of yet.

Spec Breakdown:
OS: Android 2.4 Gingerbread
CPU: 1.5GHz
RAM: 1GB
Internal Storage: 32GB
Display: 7” 1024x600
Camera: 5MP back-facing / 1.3MP front-facing
Battery: 4000mAh

Click here for an official first look at the HTC Flyer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-x5zyrf_Ew


All image credit (besides facebook logo): http://www.engadget.com


Over and Out,
Daniel Sophianos

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