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

HTC Desire Will Be Released on June 18th

Yugatech reported that the launched of HTC Desire will be on June 18, 2010.

HTC Desire

Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor

3.7 inches AMOLED touchscreen @ 480 x 800 pixels

576 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM

up to 16GB on microSD

HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA 2 Mbps

Bluetooth 2.1

WiFi 802.11 b/g

5 MP autofocus camera w/ LED flash

Stereo FM Radio

GpS with aGPS support

HTC Desire will run on Android OS 2.1 but will definitely be ready for upgrade for Android 2.2 later this year.

HTC Wildfire Announced

HTC announced their new Android powered device called Wildfire. See below specs:

3.2-inch QVGA display

Qualcomm MSM7225

528 MHz CPU

384MB RAM

5 megapixel camera with LED flash

Wi-Fi

GPS

3G with HSDPA support

Bluetooth

3.5mm audio jack

MicroSD card slot

This unit is expected to be available in the Q3 of this year.

HTC Confirms Windows Phone 7 in Late 2010

HTC CEO Peter Chou confirmed that the release of their Windows Phone 7 device will on the last quarter of 2010. The delayed release of the said phone according to speculations that HTC may drop the new OS until Microsoft permit the custom UIs.

During the CTIA conference, HTC CEO Peter Chou said that they are excited about making a Windows Phone 7 device.

HTC Ready to Face Apple in Court

Two biggest names in Smartphone making will be facing each other in court soon. Few days ago, Apple sued HTC over 20 patent-infringements, HTC responded that they will fully defend itself.

In a press release, HTC disagrees with Apple's accusations and actions related to the patent-infringement saying that it "strongly advocates intellectual property protection and will continue to respect other innovators and their technologies as we have always done".

Source: Engadget