Facebook Phone Announced

In MWC 2011, HTC announced their latest phone called HTC Salsa and ChaCha. These two phones also called the Facebook phones, because it feature a dedicated Facebook button on their respective fascias for instant uploads to the Facebook site.

Both phones are running on Android 2.3, HTC Salsa is a capacitive touchscreen while HTC Chacha has a fully QWERTY keyboard. Expected release of these units will be on the second quarter of this year. The price is still unknown.

HTC Salsa

2G/3G

600Mhz

Capacitive Touchscreen

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

GPS

FM Radio

5 megapixel camera

HTC ChaCha

2G/3G

TFT LCD Screen

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

GPS

FM Radio

5 megapixels

QWERTY keyboard

Source: CNN

Samsung i9100 Galaxy S II announced

It seems that Samsung is creating their mark in releasing latest smartphones. They recently announced the Samsung i9100 Galaxy S II with much better display and specs.

Dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor

4.3″ Super AMOLED Plus display @ 480×800 pixels

Gorilla Glass display

1GB RAM

16GB/32GB internal storage

HSDPA 21Mbps, HSUPA 5.76Mbps

WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, DLNA

Bluetooth 3.0 + HS

GPS w/ aGPS support

8MP autofocus camera with LED flash

1080p video recording

2MP front-facing camera for video calls

FM Radio Tuner

Li-Ion 1650mAh battery

Android 2.3 Gingerbread

Expected release would be at the end of this quarter. Price is not yet announced. But according to some report it would probably around 32k to 35k.

Source: Yugatech