HTC has announced the availability of the HTC Legend in India. The phone aims to take the Android experience to a whole new level with its improvised HTC Sense experience.
The phone has been designed from a single block of aluminum to transform into a sleek handset. It comes with a 3.2-inch OLED HVGA display. The trackball has now been fitted with an optical joystick alongside a narrow button to enhance functionality without compromising on the look and design of the phone.
Taiwanese company’s foremost BREW based cell phone is expected to get launched in India by the end of March.
HTC is well known to manufacture Windows Mobile and Android OS based Smartphones. The HTC Smart was priory named as the Touch B, the first ever non-Smartphone by HTC.
HTC s upcoming Android based flagship, the Bravo, was first seen in December. While the phone is yet to be officially announced by HTC, chances are that the Bravo would be launched in less than two months from now.
Swedish mobile operator 3, which has a Facebook page, has mentioned about it launching the Bravo sometime in. Keeping that in mind, it can be safely assumed that the Bravo would by then, make it to other countries of Europe as well as Asia.
Taiwan-based HTC has launched a Windows-based handset — HD2 in the Indian market. Featuring a large 4.3-inch display, the phone promises 480 X 800 WVGA resolution.
The phone is company’s first Windows phone to pack HTC Sense user interface which makes the device more intuitive.
Ajay Sharma, Country Head, HTC India said, “HTC HD2 is the first Windows phone to embody the HTC Sense user interface, which makes the phone much more engaging.”
The world’s leading software firm Microsoft is now focusing on the fast growing smartphones market in India after the netbooks segment– a new category created to brigde the gap between mobiles and laptops– received lukewarm response from buyers.
“We have heavily invested in that space and will continue to do so. It is still a very competitive space,” Microsoft Corporate Vice President (OEM Division) Steve Guggenheimer told PTI.
HTC today introduced a new Android-based handset in the Indian market named, HTC Tattoo which offers the user to customize the handset.
The handset is positioned around three core principles of HTC Sense, Make it Mine, Stay Close and Discover the Unexpected. The handset has a 2.8-inch QVGA display, comes integrated with Google Search, Google Mail, Android Market, 3,2 mega pixel camera, 3.5 mm stereo headset jack and expandable microSD.
HTC is brining the new model HTC Touch 2 to Indian market. After the much popular HTC Magic and HTC Hero, the Touch2 would be almost like Touch 3G.
However the Touch 2 is loaded with Windows Mobile 6.5 and would be available with Reliance GSM connection. The offer says you can have free data usage upto 200 MB every month for next 6 months.
Worth Rs 26,000 crore Indian mobile handset market is mainly dominated by branded phones from Finland-headquatered Nokia (more than 50%), Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG and Motorola. Apart from these high profile handset makers, some major brands like HTC, Haier, Bleu, Spice, Videocon, Philips and some smaller brands like Simoco, Kyocera, Sagem, Micromax, Fly, Huawei, Xenitis, GeePee, Usha also peep into this market.
RIM’s Blackberry services are offered on country’s most networks like Airtel, Reliance (CDMA & GSM), Vodafone, Tata Tele(CDMA & GSM), BSNL, MTNL, Idea, Aircel. And last but not the least, Apple’s iPhone also reached India via Airtel and Vodafone.
Intensifying competition in the smartphone segment, Taiwan-based handset maker HTC Corporation today launched Android operating system-based mobile HTC Hero in India priced at Rs 31,990.
With its 3.2-inch display, HTC Hero comes with GPS, gravity-sensor, 5 mega-pixel autofocus camera and expandable MicroSD memory. ‘Hero’ comes with a customisable user interface called HTC Sense. This new feature would be integrated in a suite of future offerings from the company, HTC India Country Head Ajay Sharma said.
