14 DAY TRIAL // Today, Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced the launch of a new handset powered by Google's Android 2.1 operating system, the HTC Wildfire. The new device comes to the market as the successor of the highly-popular HTC Desire, boasts the company's HTC Sense solutions, and is aimed at a younger audience, the handset vendor announced.
“Today's social networks provide an essential forum for friendship with more than 400 million users – many of whom are young adults – actively sharing their lives with their friends through Facebook,” said Florian Seiche, vice president, HTC EMEA. “HTC Wildfire makes the HTC Sense experience available to young mobile users for the first time. It brings all your communications into one place, whether it's through Facebook, Twitter, text messages, images or email, ensuring that you are never far away from the conversation and always close to your friends.”
The specifications list of the new Android-based mobile phone includes a 3.2-inch touchscreen display that boasts a QVGA resolution, quad band GSM and 900/2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA connectivity options, along with a 3.5mm audio jack, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, and GPS/AGPS capabilities, not to mention that it packs a 5-megapixel photo snapper with auto focus and LED Flash. The device is powered by a 525MHz Qualcomm MSM7225 processor, coupled with 512MB of internal memory and 384MB of RAM, with a microSD memory card slot for additional storage space.
HTC Wildfire comes with the HTC Sense solution preloaded on top of Google's Android OS, so as to offer users the possibility to easily stay connected to what matters the most for them. HTC's Friend Stream application delivers content from social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, while the handset's address book offers a thread of recent communications. Additionally, the HTC Caller ID displays a contact's Facebook profile photo and the latest updates.
“We understand that people need a better way to navigate their way through the tens of thousands of applications that are currently available on the Android Market. In fact, our own independent research found that consumers are not only hungry for the latest and most popular applications that their friends are using, they want an easier way to find and download them. For the first time ever, you can recommend the newest and coolest apps to a friend or group of friends with HTC Wildfire. With so many applications to choose from, there's a world of content to discover and pass along to your friends,” Florian Seiche continued.
The HTC Wildfire is expected to become available for purchase in Europe and Asia in the third quarter of the ongoing year.