HTC Corporation, a global leader in mobile innovation and design, unveiled 3 of their latest smartphones just in time for the holidays – the HTC Rhyme, HTC Explorer, and HTC Radar.
The elegant HTC Rhyme delivers a fresh approach of integrating distinct colors, HTC Sense and complementary accessories for a natural personal experience.
With a beautiful 3.7-inch WVGA, super LCD display and high-quality stereo sound, HTC Rhyme also offers advanced imaging capabilities that begin with its 5-megapixel camera that includes auto focus, power LED flash and instant shutter for capturing those memorable moments whenever they arrive.
In addition, the camera features a number of photo-taking and sharing elements, including face detection, which ensures that friends are always in focus, action burst scene, which automatically takes five consecutive shots of a scene, and panoramic mode, which lets users stitch several photos for those larger-than-life views. The HTC Rhyme’s locked home screen can be customized to display the most important content, making it quick and easy to see social updates, photos, snapping a photo or the weather forecast by simply turning on the display.
The HTC Rhyme in Clearwater color will come bundled with the HTC Rhyme Docking Station, HTC Rhyme Tangle Free Headphones and HTC Rhyme Charm and is now available at HTC authorized resellers at a suggested retail price of Php 25,000.
The HTC Explorer brings an advanced smartphone experience to first time smartphone customers. With a curved and compact design, a 3.2” HVGA touchscreen and 3MP camera, HTC Explorer offers smartphone performance in an attractive and affordable phone.
With HTC Sense integrated, customers experience sharp graphics, vibrant animations, a wide variety of widgets and a cinematic and immersive weather experience. HTC Explorer also includes a customizable lock screen that functions as a real-time window to the customer’s most important information and content, such as social updates, photos, weather or stock updates that are viewed by simply waking up the display.
HTC Explorer provides a complete web browsing experience with Adobe Flash support, and is the first in its class with a HVGA display, allowing you to run nearly all of the applications in Android Market. Smart URL prediction provides quick access to the top 100 websites, while automatic URL correction streamlines web navigation.
The HTC Explorer allows you to access multiple work and personal email accounts and combine different calendars into a single view. New calendar invites are also managed from one tab allowing you determine the best use of your time. HTC Explorer offers you control over your data and mobile services with a usage monitor that tracks your call minutes, messages and data to keep you on top of your spending.
The HTC Explorer in metallic black is now available at HTC authorized resellers at a suggested retail price of Php 11,900.
The HTC Radar features a dedicated hardware camera button which enables you to capture vivid images while the f/2.2 aperture lens and back-illuminated sensor provide improved low-light performance – making sure you never miss that perfect shot. With 28mm wide-angle lenses you can capture more of the scene in front of you while the new panoramic feature lets you create dramatic pictures of skylines and landscapes. HTC Radar can shoot bright and vibrant HD (720p) videos, making them perfect companions for family functions or a night out with friends. And with the HTC Photo Enhancer, you can quickly touch up pictures and upload them to Facebook, tagging your friends as you go using automatic face detection built in to Windows Phones.
Elegantly crafted with an aluminum unibody, HTC Radar brings you closer to the important things in life, with the new People Hub from Windows Phone. The People Hub keeps you up to date with your friends’ latest news showing all of your communication history with each person, as well as their recent social network updates and photos.
Utilizing Virtual 5.1 surround sound for a rich audio experience, the HTC Radar is your perfect entertainment on the go. Internet browsing is fast and smooth with HTML5 support. You also get an amazing mobile gaming with Xbox LIVE, giving you access to a great selection of games for Windows Phone, which include features like Leaderboards and Achievement that connect you with your friends and the Xbox LIVE community around the world.
The HTC Radar is now available at HTC authorized resellers at a suggested retail price of Php 21,500.
It seems like there’s still life after death after all, at least for webOS. After being killed by former HP Chief Léo Apotheker earlier this year, webOS is being brought back from the dead by HP. The company has announced in its webOS developer blog that the mobile OS will be going open source, with the resources of the company behind it. This means that the mobile OS will now be a viable choice for other companies to use in their products, and we may soon see smartphones and tablets running the once dead OS. Unfortunately, HP doesn’t have plans to make a new TouchPad (or any other webOS powered device), so if you’re one of the few people who absolutely love webOS, you may have to wait until new products crop up (assuming you weren’t able to get a TouchPad) to get your webOS fix.
