“HTC builds up Android smartphone arsenal”

HTC builds up Android smartphone arsenal

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 07:59 AM PST

Posted on 25 Nov 2010 at 11:46pm |

Smartphone maker HTC Corporation unveiled in the country recently a new HTC Sense experience with the new HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z Android-based smartphones.

HTC Sense introduces a number of key innovations including a series of free connected services called HTCSense.com that enhances mobile experience on HTC phones.

The new HTC Sense experience offers a variety of enhancements that improve how people capture, create, share, and access multimedia content. With a newly created camera experience, people can record HD videos or capture and edit images with a variety of camera effects. With Locations, a new mapping experience, people have instant, on-demand mapping without download delays or incurring mobile roaming charges.

HTC Sense also includes a new integrated online e-reading experience utilizing a new e-book store powered by Kobo and a new, mobile-optimized e-reader that includes the ability to highlight, annotate, and quickly search for definitions or translate unfamiliar terms.

With the new HTCSense.com service, people can manage their mobile phone experience from their HTC phone or personal computer. For example, people can locate a missing phone by triggering the handset to ring loudly, even if it is set to silent, or to flag its location on a map.

If the phone's been lost or stolen, users can remotely lock the phone, forward calls and texts to another phone, send a message to the phone to arrange its return or even remotely wipe all personal data from it.

HTCSense.com makes it easy to setup a new HTC phone or access archived mobile content such as contacts, text messages and call history from a PC browser. People can also customize their phones with exclusive HTC content like wallpapers, HTC scenes, sounds or plug-ins.

HTC Desire HD

HTC Desire HD showcases multimedia content with its bright 4.3" Super LCD display and Dolby Mobile and SRS surround sound and is the first to be powered by the new 1GHz Qualcomm 8255 Snapdragon processor.

The unit enables 720p HD video recording and includes an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash. Building on the unibody heritage of the HTC Legend, the HTC Desire HD is sculpted from a block of solid aluminum.

HTC Desire Z

For people constantly on the go, HTC Desire Z makes it quick and easy to stay connected with friends on Facebook and Twitter or with colleagues and customers at work. It features a 'pop hinge' that opens to reveal a QWERTY keyboard for convenient typing.

HTC Desire Z's keyboard also includes a variety of keyboard shortcuts and two customizable keys for providing access to common functions without the need to open menus. HTC Desire Z also includes 720p HD video recording and a 5-megapixel camera with flash. It is the first phone to utilize the new 800MHz Qualcomm 7230 processor for improved performance and battery life.

The new HTC Desire HD will be available at all authorized resellers from end December onwards at a suggested retail price of P35,000 and the new HTC Desire Z is now available at all authorized resellers at a suggested retail price of P32,000. (Newsbytes Philippines)

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