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HTC waited for its competitors in the Android smartphone/tablet arena to show off their wares on day one of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, only to burst on the stage on day two with an onslaught of Android devices, many of which will definitely be a hot topic in the months to come.
The tally is as follows: One 1.5 GHz Android tablet, HTC Salsa and ChaCha, two Android handsets with a dedicated Facebook button, and Android Incredible S, Desire S and Wildfire S, powerful refreshes of HTC’s already very comprehensive Android smartphone lineup.
We’ll start with HTC ChaCha and Salsa, which are mid-range Android Gingerbread-based smartphones, with a 600 MHz CPU and 512 MB of RAM. The main difference between the two is a full QWERTY keyboard on the ChaCha.
What makes them interesting is a dedicated Facebook button. Speaking at a MWC keynote titled “The Power of Applications” this morning, HTC CEO Peter Chou said that the Facebook button “knows where you are.”
“If you’re in an app you want to share, or listening to music, you can share it by pressing one button,” he said. In practice, after clicking the button a menu will appear, letting you write whatever you want into that Facebook status field.
What do you think: Is such a dedicated Facebook button useful? Would you use the feature? Would you like to see it on HTC’s more powerful smartphones as well? Please, share your opinions in the comments.
HTC waited for its competitors in the Android smartphone/tablet arena to show off their wares on day one of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, only to burst on the stage on day two with an onslaught of Android devices, many of which will definitely be a hot topic in the months to come.The tally is as follows: One 1.5 GHz Android tablet, HTC Salsa and ChaCha, two Android handsets with a dedicated Facebook button, and Android Incredible S, Desire S and Wildfire S, powerful refreshes of HTC’s already very comprehensive Android smartphone lineup.
We’ll start with HTC ChaCha and Salsa, which are mid-range Android Gingerbread-based smartphones, with a 600 MHz CPU and 512 MB of RAM. The main difference between the two is a full QWERTY keyboard on the ChaCha.
What makes them interesting is a dedicated Facebook button. Speaking at a MWC keynote titled “The Power of Applications” this morning, HTC CEO Peter Chou said that the Facebook button “knows where you are.”
“If you’re in an app you want to share, or listening to music, you can share it by pressing one button,” he said. In practice, after clicking the button a menu will appear, letting you write whatever you want into that Facebook status field.
What do you think: Is such a dedicated Facebook button useful? Would you use the feature? Would you like to see it on HTC’s more powerful smartphones as well? Please, share your opinions in the comments.
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