HTC Legend

HTC today announced an Android based smartphone, Legend at MWC 2010 along with HTC HD mini and HTC Desire. HTC Legend is considered to be an update for existing HTC Android phone HTC Hero. HTC Hero was the first high profile Android phone with 5MP camera and HTC sense UI. Powered by the latest Android 2.1 version and new updated HTC sense UI, HTC Legend is expected support multi-touch and Flash. The major attraction of HTC Legend is its full metal body that offer great external appearance and protection against accidental drop. HTC Legend is too impressive in the specification side. It has a 3.2 inch AMOLED display, 5MP camera and 600MHZ processor.

HTC Legend photos:

HTC Legend photos

As seen the image, HTC Legend has an optical track pad, and full aluminum enclosure. The sense UI over Android makes it much user friendly. HTC Legend include applications for social media, navigation and weather updates. The tab like menus, that belongs to Sense enables users to access these applications, email, messages, contacts very easily using touch scrolling. HTC Legend contact menu is very special that we can get all information of person though this feature. We can add favorite contact with photo, sync it with Facebook profile to download details, read updates,  check old communications etc. Like Hero, HTC Legend comes with 5MP camera with auto focus, LED flash and video recording.

HTC Legend specifications:

HTC Legend has a 3.2 inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen display with 16 million color support and 320 x 480 pixels resolution.  This screen also has multi-touch, accelerometer sensor for great user experience.

5MP camera with LED flash, auto focus, and Geo-tagging.

3.5 mm headphone jack, speakerphone and Micro USB port.

HTC Legend hardware specs includes Qualcomm 600 MHz processor with384 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM. External storage upgradable up to 16GB.

Bluetooth with A2DP, Google applications, muli-touch enabled HTML web browser with Flash, A-GPS, GPRS, EDGE, 3G, quad-band GSM and WiFi.

HTC Legend price:

The latest market price of HTC Hero is around 550 USD. So on it launch, scheduled  April of this year, HTC Legend would cost around 650 USD in US and 3o000 INR in  India.

HTC Legend price updated:  As per Amazon web store UK, the new HTC Legend will be available at their store for a price of £399.99 from this April 1. Converting  with the current rates, the price of HTC Legend in US would be around 560$.

HTC Tattoo photos :

HTC Tattoo is one of the cheapest Android touch phone with moderate features. The HTC sense UI makes it easy to access internet services, email and social networking websites like Twitter, Facebook etc. directly from the phone home screen. There is a dedicated website where you can create your special HTC Tattoo covers.

HTC Tattoo notable facilities:

HTC Tattoo comes with Android OS 1.5 cupcake update. There is a 65K 2.8 inch touch screen with accelerometer sensor and Sense UI. Tattoo includes a 3.15 mega pixel auto focus camera with video recording.

HTML web browser, Stereo FM with RDS, music player, 1100 mAh battery, SMS, Email, Instant messaging messaging, Google applications, Assisted GPS, Bluetooth with A2DP,WLAN, 3G, GPRS, EGDE, HSCSD and mini USB support.

HTC Tattoo price in India though Vodafone :

Vodafone announced a pathetic! data plan for its HTC Tattoo customers. In which they will get 20MB of free data transfer per month for first 3 months. As per announcement, HTC Tattoo price in India will be around 17000 INR 18000 INR based on location of purchase.

HTC Hero four side view :

HTC Hero specification :

Available in while and black colors, HTC Hero is known as worlds first Android smartphone with customized user interface.  This phone is built for long lasting durability and operation .  Its 3.2 large HVGA display (320*480)has anti-fingerprint screen coating and is one of the first phone to provide Teflon coating on its outer surface for looks and rigidity . As said earlier , HTC Hero includes a 5 mega pixel auto focus camera which is capable of recording videos upto a maximum quality of 30 fps .

Other notable features of HTC Hero android smartphone :

Flash support for playing internet videos .
Download Applications from Android market
Communication facilities like Bluetooth ,Mini USB ,WiFi are supported .
GPS with Google maps , digital compass, gravity-sensor for navigation .
expandable MicroSD memory.
Weighing 135 grams ,HTC Hero includes a 1350 mAh Lithium-ion battery which is capable of providing a GSM talk time of 450 minutes .
Supports popular video and audio formats like MP3, AAC(AAC, AAC+, AAC-LC), AMR-NB, WAV, MIDI and Windows Media® Audio 9 MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 and Windows Media® Video 9 etc .

New HTC technology called HTC Sense makes it possible to arrange all phone possibilities  like email, photos, internet, communication, social media sensibly for the easy work life of the people   HTC sense debuts in HTC Hero smartphone .

These are some features of HTC sense .

Arrange phone widgets or user interface as per the interest of the user. A new profile feature called scenes enable users to create customized phone appearance based on their preference.
HTC sense makes it easy to stay upto date with friends in social media through Twitter, Facebook updates, Flickr and many other services arranged in one place .

HTC Hero expected price in India :

HTC and Airtel recently launched HTC magic phone in India . HTC magic is price around 30000 INR . So being a 5 mega pixel phone with large display and multimedia features, HTC Hero will probably touch Indian market with a price rage around 33000 INR (650-730 USD) .

Update : HTC announced Hero in India. It will cost 34,600 (720 USD) in Maharashtra  and 32000 (660 USD) INR in other Indian sates. As a part of the launch, Airtel announced  Hero data plan with 100 MB free internet usages each month for a period of 6 months .

Update: Vodafone announced Cheap HTC Android phone Tattoo for its customers in India .

Update: HTC announced a new Hero alike smartphone called HTC Legend. HTC Legend has metal body finish and a new HTC Sense UI.