14 DAY TRIAL // Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is expected to bring to the market two new flavors of its HTC Flyer tablet PC sometime in the middle of the year, both of which would run under Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system.
Specific info on these devices did not emerge for the time being, but there is a strong possibility that they would include enhanced hardware specifications when made available on shelves.
The handset vendor has already unveiled a few HTC Flyer variants, including a Wi-Fi-only one that would arrive on shelves at Best Buy soon, and a 4G WiMAX-capable one set to land at wireless carrier Sprint in summer.
The tablet PC was officially unveiled during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, with a 7-inch touchscreen display and a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon application processor packed inside.
The already unveiled device runs under Google's Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, sports 32GB of internal memory and a microSD memory card slot, video recording capabilities, front-facing camera for video calling, and the like.
According to the latest reports on it, HTC would plan on making it available for purchase in small numbers on the US market in late March or in early April.
Apparently, the company would plan on boosting production sometime in May this year, due to the fact that it encountered some issue with the production process, which determined it to delay the mass production.
What's uncertain at the moment is when would the aforementioned Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) Flyer models be unveiled, or what specs they would sport.
Most probably, HTC would aim at making them available in larger form factors, so as to be able to compete directly with rival companies that already launched such devices.
Provided that the rumor would pan out, we should be able to learn specific info on these devices sometime during the second quarter of the ongoing year, so stay tuned for updates on this.