Playing smart is the new HTC smart

The Taiwan based smartphone manufacturer HTC is always in the back of his enviable position as a manufacturer of smartphone in exclusive Palm and Blackberry has reasons to worry over the past years.

And 'now dipping their hands on a "category Smartphone HTC is believed to meet the needs of low-end side of the market for a smart phone-like cell that does not define more than an average cost dumbphone new full-featured.

Announced on January 7, indicating the year 2010CES in Las Vegas earlier this month, the new HTC HTC Smart provided on a collision course with mainstream mobile phone manufacturers who enjoyed patronage for granted stupid mass market with their mobile phones at low cost.

Stupid, but more intelligent

The new HTC looks like a smartphone in order. You feel as one. You will receive an elegant touch screen on a monoblock form factor 104 x 55 x 12.8 mm body with a generous 2.8 inch LCD resistive touch screen.

Compromises are everywhere to bring the costdown. First, the display only supports 256k colors. But it is certainly one of the largest, if not the biggest fool in the cell.

It also has an accelerometer and a characteristic often shared between smartphone and dumbphone this class. There is no WiFi, not a surprise for its price promise. Imaging is also mediocre on the 3-megapixel camera, but you get LED flash, another feature that you can find many dumb phones.

But HTC has the good sense to putIU Sense HTC Qualcomm's BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) platform is a 300 MHz processor is running, you have the impression that you are with a smartphone. Only to realize there is a possibility.

This is a quad-band GSM / EDGE / GPRS and 3G/UMTS and HSDPA connectivity for data download Internet a truly satisfactory.
E 'Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR for wireless local data transfer with other Bluetooth devicesand 2.0 to synchronize a miniUSB data cable with your PC or laptop.
It has FM radio and media player, all common file formats for images, video and audio. Its Bluetooth A2DP provides support for the use of wireless stereo headphones. The phone also offers the possibility of a regular wired headphones, for a 3.5 mm jack you use.
Talk time is a decent 7 hours 2G with a standby time of up to 19 days from a fully charged battery 1100 mAh lithium-ion battery.
InternalIt has a memory of 256 MB RAM and 256 MB ROM, expandable to 32 GB microSD slot on his side.

Conclusion

What looks like a smartphone and smells like a smart phone, but it is not a smartphone? And 'the HTC smart, ironic, for his name, but it is sure to delight mobile users tired of the usual size candy bar. The feature set is nothing to run, except to say that can accommodate even the most smartphones on the market.

If HTC can provide itsI could promise of affordability is to give a cell phone, the HTC to the right in the presence of low-end markets. They expect to arrive in the markets earlier this year, not later than the spring.