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Hands-On the HTC Legend, Desire and HD2 Mini from MWC2010

on February 17, 2010 – 4:35 am3 Comments

HTC Corporation, the Taiwan based mobile phone manufacturer announced
three new smartphones at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona,
Spain. The phones were revealed to a packed press audience by HTC’s
President and CEO Peter Chou. Team FoneArena brings you a detailed
hands-on experience on all the three phones.

HTC Legend is an Android 2.1 based phone with an optical joystick. The
complete device is a single block of aluminium which makes the phone
extremely sturdy. The phone runs on a 600 Mhz processor with the
latest HTC Sense UI. The phone weighs about 125 gms (including the
battery) with a very compact form factor of 4.41 x 2.22 x 0.45 inches
with a 3.2 inches display.

HTC Desire runs on a 1 Ghz snapdragon processor with a large screen
size (3.7 inches), thus enhancing your multimedia experience. The
screen is much brighter and sharper than previous HTC smart phones. It
weighs about 200 gms, a bit more than the Legend but that is expected
with the increased form factor and performance improvements.

The new Friend Stream widget brings social networks to the Sense UI.

With the great success of the Windows Mobile based HD2 smartphone, HTC
announced its mini successor the HD2 Mini. The massive 4.2 inch
display on the HD2 has been replaced with a 3.2 inch display. The
processor as well has been downgraded to 600 Mhz. Just like the HD2,
one can use the HD2 mini as a wireless access point. The internals of
the HD2 mini are also well designed as seen from the picture.

All the three phones have the standard 3.5 mm audio jack, a 5
megapixel camera and expandable storage upto 32 MB using the microSD
cards. The microUSB port is used for charging the device.

Peter Chou expressed the goal of HTC to be one of the top three
smartphone manufacturers by 2013. The above three phones put HTC right
there amidst other major smartphone manufacturers definitely
threatening its competitors. The race is on.

All the phones are expected to hit the market in by April

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  • Sam

    Hi Guys,
    Great News from Mobile World Congress.
    Twenty-four mobile network operators have formed the Wholesale Applications Community to avoid fragmenting the apps market and to give developers one point of entry to all the members. The GSM Association announced on Monday that operators will now start working on uniting their existing developer communities, so developers will be able to go to one place to get their applications distributed instead of having to go through multiple application approval processes. The community will also start working on a common development standard that should be ready within the next 12 months. The standard will be independent of phone type and operating system, according to the members.
    We can forget Apple i Phones and i Tunes application website

  • Sam

    Hi FONEARENASCIONS,
    More Latest News from Mobile World Congress at Spain Barcelona:
    Every time a new smartphone is launched it is lauded as the latest iPhone killer. But the new HTC Legend could actually live up to the title.

    Technology pundits are raving about the new HTC handset, which was launched at the Mobile World Congress today.
    The phone has been forged from a single piece of aluminium rather than plastic to give it a seamless compact frame.
    HTC Legend: This brand new smartphone may give Apple a run for its money
    It has a 3.2″ AMOLED multitouch display and 5MP camera with LED flash.

    Kat Hannaford from Gizmodo said: ‘I’m going to throw my hat in the ring and say it’s the best-looking Android phone period.’
    The phone has 600 MHz processor and 512MB ROM (with microSD card slot) as well as 384MB of RAM.
    Chris Davies from Slashgear said: ‘If we had to distill it down – hardware wise at least – into a single metaphor, imagine if a MacBook Pro shrank down to smartphone size.’
    The HTC Legend will go on sale in Europe via Vodafone in April 2010.

    More…We’ve got an app for that: Mobile giants band together to take on Apple apps store

    The model is the successor to the popular HTC Hero and is slimmer and smaller than its predecessor.

    It runs on the latest Android 2.1software with the intuitive user interface HTC Sense. This allows users to see all seven homescreen panes at once with a simple pinch-zoom motion, before a tap takes you to the relevant pane.
    The Legend also has a new application called Friend Stream. This puts all of your friends updates from Twitter, Facebook and Flickr into a single feed.
    The phone’s traditional trackball has been replaced by an optical joystick, surrounded by a narrow button to improve usability, without interrupting the design.

    HTC also announced the launch of the HTC Desire through Vodafone. It’s main feature is its larger 3.7″ AMOLED screen.

    HTC Desire is powered by a one gigahertz Snapdragon processor and is Adobe Flash 10.1 ready. As with the HTC Legend, the HTC Desire also includes an optical joystick.
    A spokesman said: ‘It is the richest way to visually experience news, friends, photos, favourite places.’

  • Rajesh Sehgal

    There are very great phones being launched by HTC with HTC sense UI and Android based which look o be really good ones. I have an IPhone 3gs and guys I betcha there are no comparisons at all. The Iphone rocks and has so many aplications with new one getting updated on the daily basis that you never seem to get bored of this phone. I have had Ipod Touch, Iphone 2G still I took the iPhone 3gs so you can imagine the greatness about this phone. Even this message I am writting from my phone and tying this while message didn’t take
    me more than 30 secs straight.