HTC Announce 3 new handsets
HTC HD Mini
Following the well received HTC HD2 - the HTC HD Mini gives the same quality and design in a more compact frame.
Hold great craftsmanship in your hand with a unique design that is simple yet beautiful from inside out. Clean lines, compact form, and elegant construction give the HTC HD mini the looks that fit any place, time or circumstance.
The HTC HD mini features HTC Sense – a user experience that is simple to use, amazing to look at, and loaded with valuable applications.
Make It Mine
Create a perfect phone for you by putting shortcuts to the most important people, web sites, or most used applications right on the home screen. Prioritize your essentials by arranging the tabs of the key phone features to suit your needs. Stay CloseStay close to those you care about with all the ways to get in touch and all your past interactions neatly organized by people – not by applications.
Go from email to a voice call in just one touch. Get everyone from an email involved in a multi-party call with a couple of taps. And take the challenge out of jumping between calendar appointment and phone when trying to join a conference bridge – now you’re guided with a big reminder button – so you can easily join in on the call. Keep track of everyone’s real-time Twitter™ updates on the built-in client. Easily dive into a conversation or share your own thoughts and pictures. You can even post your precise GPS location with a couple of taps.
Discover the Unexpected
Some design features of HTC HD mini are much better experienced than explained. For example, you can virtually feel the weather on the lifelike animated wallpaper that automatically reflects your location.
Experience a phone ringer that knows when it has been heard and when it should ring loudly for your attention. The ringer volume lowers when the G-sensor on your phone detects that the phone has been picked up.
On the other hand, when the proximity sensors detect that the phone is in your pocket or a purse, the ringer volume scales up to ensure that you don’t miss an important call.
Give your music collection the visual décor it deserves. With just one tap, your phone searches the web for the actual album art cover and replaces the placeholder image in your music library.
The HTC HD mini, with capacitive touch technology, is designed for pure finger touch control. Zoom in and out of web pages, word documents, PDFs, pictures, or emails with just a simple pinch. Set up calendar appointments, reply to emails, and adjust your phone settings on the interface optimized for use with your fingers.
Bring the HTC HD mini with you on the road, and you'll never have to hunt for a Wi-Fi® hotspot for your laptop. Your phone simply connects to superfast 3.5G cellular networks and becomes your personal wireless access point – anytime, anywhere.
This is a Windows Mobile 6.5 handset
Specification here
Release Date TBC
HTC Desire
Make It Mine
With the HTC Desire, it’s all about your information, your entertainment, your multimedia … your way. A multitude of HTC Sense widgets makes it easy to transform your Home screen with rich content that personalizes your phone experience.
If you’re a sports junkie or simply love to keep up to date with the latest news, the HTC Desire keeps you in the know with the News application. News makes it easier than ever to collect all your favorite articles from across the web.
Choose from a selection of channels that cover top blogs, news sites or sports pages, or get news updates based on the keywords you select.
Stay Close
The HTC Desire excels at helping you stay in touch with the different circles of friends or colleagues in your life. The new People widget lets you bring any group you create on your phone right to the surface for easy access to calling, messaging, emailing or simply checking up on social networking updates.
The HTC Desire simplifies the way that you tend to all of your social networks. With Friend Stream, your interaction with friends across multiple social networks like Facebook®, Twitter™, and Flickr™ are brought into a single easy to follow stream of updates, photo posts, and shared links. Friend Stream also lets you shout out your thoughts or feelings to all your online friends with a single comment that gets broadcast to both Facebook and Twitter.
Discover the Unexpected
HTC Desire offers an expansive display, a blazing-fast processor, and a great interface. On top of that, it has a lot of little design touches that make a big impact on your overall phone experience: like quick and easy access to any panel of your Home screen with the new seven-panel ‘helicopter’ thumbnail view, or the polite ringer that lowers the ringer volume when you pick upthe phone.
Your work email, calendar appointments, and contacts, are right there on your phone - you can even look up any company contact in the global address book. The HTC Desire also has enhanced support for Exchange security features such as password protection and remote data wipe. And, if you forget to tell your colleagues that you are taking the much needed day off, you can set the ‘Out of Office’ status right from your phone. HTC Desire was designed to thrive on the web. The screen size is perfect for mobile browsing, with the high resolution AMOLED display making everything you view ultra crisp. The pinch to zoom feature makes zipping around websites intuitive - the text even automatically reflows when you take a closer look so you don’t have to pan left or right, and the Adobe® Flash® support opens up the vast video and gaming resources of the Internet.
HTC Desire’s browser is designed to do more than simply browse. With just a press and hold you can select text on a page and look it up in Wikipedia or have it converted into your native tongue via Google translation tools.
This is an Android 2.1 handset
Specifications here
Release Date TBC
HTC Legend
The premier Android 2.1 handset
Overview The sleek unibody design with a brilliant AMOLED display and a brushed metallic finish, feels great in your hand and stirs admiration from those around. Along with powerful social networking, group communication, and unmatched level of personalization, the HTC Legend is set to impress you.
Make It Mine
The HTC Legend raises personalization to a whole new altitude. An expanded selection of widgets brings more live content to the surface, for your instant enjoyment. There is even an online widget library, so no matter what your personality, there is content to help you get more out of your phone.
Stay Close
The HTC Legend builds on the tradition of designing our phones to focus more on WHO we communicate with, rather than the tools used, like email, SMS or calls.
The HTC Legend excels at helping you stay in touch with the different circles of friends or colleagues in your life. The new People widget lets you bring any group you create on your phone right to the surface for easy access to calling, messaging, emailing them or simply checking up on their social networking updates. The HTC Legend also simplifies the way you tend to all your social networks. With Friend Stream, the various interaction with your friends across multiple social networks, like Facebook®, Twitter™, and Flickr™ are brought into a single easy to follow stream of updates, photo posts, and shared links. Friend Stream also lets you shout out your thoughts or feelings with all your online friends with a single update that gets broadcast to both Facebook and Twitter.
Discover the Unexpected
The HTC Legend is loaded with hidden little design touches that are sure to delight you. Like the ringer that knows when it has been heard. The ringer volume politely lowers when the G-sensor on your phone detects that the phone has been picked up, and it completely silences when you flip the phone upside down.
Now you can use a cool phone while keeping your work email and other information safe. The HTC Legend has enhanced support for Exchange security features such as password protection and remote data wipe. You can easily access your company’s global address book to contact someone whose details aren’t on your phone, and you can also set your Out of Office status right from your phone.
Browsing on the HTC Legend is a high fidelity experience. Adobe® Flash® support brings to life the vast video and gaming content of the Internet. Pinch to zoom controls make it extremely easy to zip around pages and take a closer look at text or images. Also, with just a tap and hold you can select text on a page and look it up in Wikipedia or have it converted into another language via Google’s translation tools.
This is an Android 2.1 handset
Specifications here
Release Date TBC
Labels: Android, Desire, HTC, HTC HD Mini, Legend, Windows Mobile
Motorola - Latest Android Launch - Motorola Quench
Today Motorola, Inc. announced QUENCH with MOTOBLUR, Motorola’s Android-powered content delivery service, which organizes messages and synchronizes contacts to keep conversations in constant motion. QUENCH’s sleek touch-screen design, combined with great navigational features such as pinch and zoom and a touch pad, as well as the inclusion of Adobe Flash Lite, make browsing the web on its 3.1” high-resolution display a breeze. Motorola QUENCH™ will be available beginning in the first quarter of 2010.
MOTOBLUR is Motorola’s Android-powered content delivery service created to make phones more personal and socially smart. It is the first solution to sync contacts, posts, messages, photos and much more — from sources such as Facebook®, MySpace, Twitter®, Gmail™, work and personal e-mail and Last.FM — and automatically deliver them to the home screen. Content is fed into easy-to-manage streams allowing you to spend less time managing your life and more time living it.
Messaging is made easier on QUENCH with the combination of MOTOBLUR features, a palm and pocket-friendly design and Swype, a new feature that makes responding to messages and entering text easier than ever. MOTOBLUR keeps happenings, messages, news feeds and more readily available for browsing and responding on the customizable home screen. Contact information, such as email addresses, profile pictures and phone numbers, is automatically synced whenever the details change online, so there’s no need to manually update.
QUENCH delivers a complete Web experience on a full touch-screen device with pinch and zoom capabilities. Navigation is enhanced with a front-facing, centrally-located touch pad, so it’s easier and more intuitive to flick through the Web. Adobe Flash Lite enables rich media content such as banners and videos to be displayed and fully enjoyed on the 3.1” high-resolution display.
The innovative new connected media player on QUENCH is not only connected to the Internet but your social networks as well. QUENCH connects you to your music with a new style of media player that lets you buy and instantly download music from an MP3 store while integrating third-party apps such as TuneWiki, SoundHound, GoTV, and YouTube™. The music search feature makes finding your songs easy while synchronized lyrics in any language you choose make learning songs easier than before. Share your favorite tracks, discover new ones2, find lyrics, watch videos, and stream FM radio.
QUENCH enables clear calls using dual microphones and noise cancellation technology, while crystal clear pictures are enabled by a 5.0 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash. Finding information online or within the device is made even easier with voice-activated search (English only). Simply say what you are looking for and QUENCH will find contacts, serve up Google™ Web search results based on location, or launch applications. Android Market™ provides fast access to more than 20,000 apps and widgets for limitless customizations and enhancements to QUENCH. Extras such as 3G and Wi-Fi® access, aGPS and stereo Bluetooth®1 make QUENCH a solid Android-powered device.
Finally, MOTOBLUR provides end-users with convenience and peace of mind, as lost devices can be located from a secure personal information portal and even remotely erased if necessary. Then, one user name and password brings back your contacts, messages and connectivity to your previously configured networks and email providers. Plus, with over-the-air updates, Motorola has the ability to improve current features and add new ones to QUENCH, ensuring the overall experience is continually enhanced.
Labels: Android, Motorola, Quench
Motorola announce a new and uniquely designed Android handset - the Motorola BackFlip.
Following on from the recently announced Motorola Milestone (known as Droid in the US) - the Motorola BackFLip will appeal to those looking for a physical keyboard in combination with the touch-screen aspects of the Android operating system.
Standard smartphone features include GPS and HSDPA - for full features and specifications see here
expected release Q1 in Europe.
Labels: Android, Backflip, Motorola
Announced yesterday at Google HQ in Mountain View - this is the first phone offerred direct from Google using the new Android 2.1 OS.
Following on from previous Android handsets (HTC Hero/Tattoo, Motorola Droid/Milestone) - this new handset will be offerred directly via Google using carriers such as Vodafone UK.
Complete with 3.7 inch AMOLED screen for bright clear viewing of data and media, this smartphone includes GPS (with Google Navigation), Wifi/HSPA
Labels: Android, Google
Latest Android powered device is the world’s thinnest, QWERTY slider with 3.7” multi-touch & pinch display.
Designed to deliver Android without compromise, Motorola MILESTONE is a blend of form and function that offers the thinnest QWERTY slider on the market (13.7mm) and a hi-resolution, multi-touch and pinch display with twice the pixels of the leading competitor.
For users who want the ultimate smart phone experience, MILESTONE offers the ability to use multiple applications at the same time, effortless multi-touch pinch and zoom browsing, and cinematic navigation through music, videos and maps of the world.
Features include an enriched Web experience, enhanced navigation features and access to thousands of apps and widgets from Android Market™. A suite of Google™ applications including Google Maps™ with Latitude™, Google Mail™ and YouTube™ are also integrated onto the device.
“MILESTONE is a smart phone without compromise, delivering a wiser, richer web and messaging experience. This is possible through the combination of Motorola’s expertise in design and a truly differentiated Android experience,” said Ralf Gerbershagen, vice president and general manager of Motorola Western Europe.
“In MILESTONE, form and function align to offer a clearer, more brilliant widescreen for enjoyable pinch and zoom Web browsing, the thinnest slider keyboard for messaging and push email that syncs both work and personal accounts, and a range of entertainment features including DVD quality video playback.”
Key features include:
• World’s thinnest QWERTY slider at just 13.7mm
• 3.7” widescreen display with 854 pixel width and more than 400,000 total pixels (more than twice the leading competitor)
• Pinch & zoom and double tap features
• 5 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash
• Motorola Media Link and Motorola Phone Portal to manage and share media content across desktop, phone and the Web
• Stereo Bluetooth®
• 3.5mm headset jack
• CrystalTalk™ Plus for superior talk quality
Additional features and apps include:
• Full suite of the Google applications: Google Maps with Latitude, Google Talk™, Google Mail, YouTube
• Unified Google and Microsoft Office Contacts
• Navigation: GPS, MOTONAV * turn-by-turn navigation, Google Maps, E-Compass Latitude
• Email Support: IMAP and POP, Google Mail
• IM Support: Google Talk
• Calendar: Exchange, Calendar
European and UK launch dates TBALabels: Android, milestone, Motorola
Motorola CLIQ™ with MOTOBLUR™: Smart Gets Social
Introducing Motorola CLIQ™ with MOTOBLUR™, the first phone with social skills. CLIQ is a full touch QWERTY slider, and the first device to feature MOTOBLUR. Developed by Motorola, MOTOBLUR is the first and only solution to sync contacts, posts, messages, photos and much more—from sources like Facebook®, MySpace, Twitter, Gmail™, work and personal e-mail, and LastFM—and automatically deliver it to the home screen.
Custom Home Screen with Live Widgets
Use customizable widgets on CLIQ’s home screen to clearly see live streams of your favorite content, such as conversation threads, friend updates, stories, links, photos and more:
* Happenings: keep all your social site updates current and ready for immediate response.
* Messaging: gives a snapshot of emails, social site messages and texts – in one spot - with the added ability to respond any way you want regardless of how it was sent.
* News Feeds: streamlines online feeds for easy browsing and reading.
* Social Status: lets you blast updates to all social networks or craft unique updates for each.
Universal Contact List
MOTOBLUR updates your contacts in real time and threads their info throughout the device, so it’s easy to keep up with who you know:
* Automatic Syncing: Once activated, MOTOBLUR handles all the updates and syncing of your contacts – from personal and work email and social network accounts.
* Real Time Updates: When your contacts change their photos, status and contact details, it’s automatically updated on the device.
* Context for Contacts: When making or receiving a phone call, your friend’s latest profile picture and status is shown on the screen.
* Universal View: In Contacts view, you can easily scan your history of exchanges with friends, family and co- workers, and instantly communicate with them any way you choose.
Backed Up and Secure
MOTOBLUR is easy to set up and keeps your info safe and secure.
* All Backed Up: Contacts, log-in information, email and social network messages are kept saved on a secure server.
* Remote Wipe: CLIQ is easy to find when it’s lost with integrated A-GPS, and owners can even wipe the data if the device is stolen.
* Easy Upgrade: When you get your next MOTOBLUR phone, all you need to do is enter your account username and password and you’ll be up and running.
Apps for the Masses
Mix and match thousands of apps and widgets from MOTOBLUR, Android MarketTM and GoogleTM mobile services pre-loads so CLIQ gets more and more in sync with your life.
* Personalized Home Screen: If you want more news feeds, shortcuts, or a different message view, the live widgets can be constantly revised and rearranged for the ultimate personal touch on the home screen.
* Google™ Mobile Services: With popular pre-loaded Google mobile servicesTM such as GoogleTM Maps with Street View, YouTube™ and GTalk to create custom home screens that fit anyone’s multi-faceted life. '
* App Access: Android Market provides an app for every need to create custom home screens that fit your multi-faceted life.
So Much More
CLIQ enhances its richly integrated social experience with premium messaging and multimedia features.
* Quick Messaging: Full touch, high-res display and slide out QWERTY for fast messaging
* High Speeds: Full HTML browser, 3G and Wi Fi
* Fun Extras: 5 megapixel camera, Instant Video playback in DVD quality
* Music Options: 3.5 mm headset jack with pre-loaded Amazon MP3 store and IMeem
* Great Sound: Dual microphones and noise cancellation technology
Labels: Android, Motorola, Motorola Cliq
Tattoo embodies three core principles of HTC Sense: Make it Mine, Stay Close and Discover the Unexpected
HTC Corporation today introduced the HTC Tattoo™, an Android-based phone that brings broad personalization to the masses. With its distinct design and ability to personalize all aspects of the phone, from its hardware to its applications and content, people are able to express themselves and create their own individual mobile experience.
"Everyone wants their own phone to feel like it was specifically made for them. The Tattoo, with HTC Sense represents an easy way to shape your own distinct mobile experience and really make it your own," said Peter Chou, Chief Executive Officer, HTC Corporation. "The HTC Tattoo ensures that you can create the most engaging and appropriate mobile experience through simple yet powerful personalization."
HTC Tattoo is the second phone to embody HTC Sense, a mobile experience focused on putting people at the centre by making your phone work in a more simple and natural way. Designed by listening and observing how people live and communicate, HTC Sense revolves around three fundamental principles Make it Mine, Stay Close and Discover the Unexpected.
With HTC Tattoo, you stay close to the important people in your life by integrating your communications and applications including voice calls, emails, texts, photos and status updates into one consolidated view, providing innovative and fun phone experiences.
The stylish HTC Tattoo is small and compact, fitting snugly into your hand or pocket. People are able to design and purchase their own unique covers or search and select from popular cover designs, altering the look of the phone to reflect their mood or individual tastes.
HTC Tattoo integrates Google’s innovative mobile services including: Google Maps, search, Google Mail, and Android market where users can download thousands of popular applications and games. It also comes complete with a broad variety of hardware features including a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, 3.5mm stereo headset jack and expandable microSD memory.
Availability
The HTC Tattoo will be available in Europe first at the beginning of October, and will roll out in markets around the world in the following months.
About HTC
HTC Corporation (HTC) is one of the fastest growing companies in the mobile phone industry and continues to pioneer industry-leading mobile experiences through design, usability and innovation that is sparked by how the mobile phone can improve how people live and communicate. The company is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under ticker 2498. For more information about HTC, please visit www.htc.com.
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Labels: Android, HTC Tattoo
HTC - Announcing new Android handset with included Sense
HTC Hero - HTC have announced a new addition to the Android operating system devices (see here for the first - HTC Magic).
This is the first HTC Android handset with a custom HTC interface - the HTC Sense - an intuitive, seamless experience built upon three fundamental principles - make it mine, stay close, and discover the unexpected.
Make it Mine
With HTC Hero, personalization reaches a level never before possible. Rather than burying important content under layers of menus, the HTC Hero lets you put it at glance view, with a selection of widgets that can be placed right on the home screen. The widgets themselves can be personalized with a variety of designs and sizes that best match your personality. With Scenes, a new profile feature, HTC Hero becomes multiple phones in one. Create and switch between Scenes that reflect different moments in your life. Your Hero becomes a weekend phone that helps you relax with your choice of tunes, catch up with your favorite friends and capture some memories with HTC Footprints™. And when you go on a trip, your phone becomes your personal guide and gives you instant access to local time, weather and maps.
Stay Close
Today, staying in touch with the people in your life means managing a variety of communication channels and applications ranging from phone calls and emails to Facebook updates. HTC Hero makes staying close as simple as turning to your friend and saying hello. When you view people, you see the different ways to get in touch, you also see all your interactions like emails sent to your personal and work accounts. You can even check for social network updates and event notices as well as see the latest pictures your friends uploaded to popular photo sharing sites.
Discover the Unexpected
Many of the most memorable moments in your life are experienced, not explained. Even basic functions like the dialer will pleasantly surprise you on the HTC Hero. You can find a person by dialing their phone number or simply by dialing the first few letters of their name. With HTC Hero, you can look at things through different perspectives.
Your inbox is not just a list of emails, but a catalog of conversations, a collection of notes flagged as important, and a document library of all your emails with attachments.
Your Album is not just the photos saved on your phone. It is also a gateway to online collections of you and your friends on Facebook or Flickr.
Search just about anything, anywhere on your HTC Hero.
The dedicated Search button combs through tweets in Twitter™, locates people in your contact list, finds emails in your inbox, searches through appointments in the calendar and very nearly finds needles in haystacks.
More Images and Specifications can be found online at http://www.htc.com/www/product/hero/specification.html
Release Dates TBC
Labels: Android, HTC, HTC Hero
April 27, 2009, Seoul, Korea - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider, today unveiled the I7500, its first Android-powered mobile phone. With a launch of I7500, Samsung became the first company among the global top three mobile phone manufacturers to unveil an Android-powered phone.
The Samsung I7500 is a cutting-edge smartphone, featuring a 3.2” AMOLED full touch screen and 7.2Mbps HSDPA and WiFi connectivity, giving users access to Google™ Mobile services and full web browsing at blazing speeds.
The Samsung I7500 offers users access to the full suite of Google services, including Google Search™, Google Maps™, Gmail™, YouTube™, Google Calendar™, and Google Talk™. The integrated GPS receiver enables the comprehensive use of Google Maps features, such as My Location, Google Latitude, Street View, local search and detailed route description. Hundreds of other applications are available in Android Market. For example, the application Wikitude, a mobile travel guide, allows consumers to access details of unknown sights via location-based Wikipedia articles.
Based on Samsung’s proven product leadership, Samsung I7500 comes with latest multimedia features. The large and vivid 3.2“AMOLED display ensures the brilliant representation of multimedia content and enjoyable full touch mobile experience. Along with supporting a 5-megapixel camera and various multimedia codec formats, the I7500 also provides a long enough battery life (1500mAh) and generous memory capacity up to 40GB (Internal memory: 8GB, External memory: Up to 32GB) to enjoy all the applications and multimedia content. The phone also boasts its slim and compact design with mere 11.9mm thickness.
The Samsung I7500 will be available in major European countries from June, 2009.
Labels: Android, Samsung
