Tuesday, February 15, 2011

HTC Android introduces its first tablet

Not everything would be smartphones at Mobile World Congress. HTC has followed the footsteps of Apple, Samsung, LG and Motorola and has presented this morning in Barcelona on HTC Flyer, the first tablet operating system Android, 7-inch screen and front and rear camera. The price is a mystery but will be available in Europe before the summer.

"We wanted to launch a product that is a mere copy of what already exists," said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC, holding in their hands the tablet. The team presents interesting new developments such as the possibility of annotating directly on the screen with a pen. Its processor is fast, 1.5 Ghz (the manufacturer Qualcomm), has wifi, 3G, is lightweight (415 grams) and both cameras allow video calls.

Watch Another novelty is a download service on-demand shows and movies that can be accessed directly from the tablet, an attempt to follow in the footsteps of iTunes or Netflix. Games are also an important addition: they have reached an agreement with OnLive, signature game in the cloud, so that from the Flyer can also play online.

OnLive founder himself, Steve Perlman, said during the presentation that your service will be available in Europe in the coming months. The Flyer was the last thing HTC this morning, but soon dropped five new smartphones with which hopes to continue the streak in 2010, when it sold 25 million phones worldwide.

The most innovative are ChaCha and Salsa, two smart phones that incorporate a Facebook button to post in one click photos, messages and video. "200 million people access to Facebook from your mobile phone we had to build more social," said John Wang, chief global marketing officer of HTC.

The ChaCha incorporates a five-megapixel rear camera and has 2.6 inch screen. Salsa in the screen is 3.4 inches. Both will be available in Europe before the summer and Vodafone initially in the U.S. exclusively with AT & T. Price, as usual, nothing official so far. The other three new HTC are less surprising: Desire S, S, and Incredible S Wildfire, upgrades from previous versions, except the Incredible, placed as the new high-end mobile phone from Taiwanese.

The three will have aluminum bodies in one piece, a surprise in the design of HTC. The most basic, Desire, has Snapdragon processor (Qualcomm) of 1 GHz and 3.7-inch WVGA display. The Wildfire will be sold in three color palettes and has twice as many pixels than its predecessor. The Incredible is the most powerful, eight-megapixel camera with LED flash, four-inch screen and ability to connect to your TV via DLNA.

In total, five new smartphones and tablet with the HTC Android aims to round their figures this year. In 2010 he won three percentage points of market share worldwide and grew revenues by 93%. "It's the era of social networks and want to connect everyone with our teams," said Chou. To do no longer apply only phones.

Now is also a thing of tablets.

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