Sunday

HTC FLYER TABLET PRICE AND SPECIFICATION..


When I first heard off the HTC Flyer (also know as the HTC View 4G on Sprint) in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress I wasn’t really sure what to think about the product. HTC didn’t allow the press to handle it and the device’s specification left me puzzled about it competitiveness compared to all the more powerful Android Honeycomb tablets all over the show floor.
With Honeycomb tablets being all the rage this year it was definitely surprising to see HTC launching a relatively small Gingerbread tablet powered by a single core CPU with the main differentiator being its n6trig active digitizer and Stylus. I admit, the Flyer didn’t look good on paper. I quickly dismissed this as a dead on Arrival product that only saw the light of the day because HTC was willing to use nVidia’s Tegra 2 SoC and decided to stick with Qualcomm which ultimately resulted in the company only being able to use Gingerbread instead of honeycomb (Android 3.X is only now being made “compatible” with SoC’s other than the Tegra 2).

features


  • 7.0" 16M-color LCD capacitive touchscreen of WSVGA (600 x 1024 pixels) resolution
  • Single-core ARMv71500MHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 16/32GB of user-available storage
  • Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) with HTC Sense 2.1 UI
  • Quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 and tri-band 3G 900/1700/2100 support
  • 14.4 Mbps HSDPA, 5.76 Mbps HSUPA
  • Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with hotspot functionality
  • GPS with A-GPS support; digital compass
  • 5 MP 2592x1944 pixels resolution autofocus camera
  • 1.3 MP front-facing camera
  • 720p HD video recording @30fps
  • microUSB port and stereo Bluetooth v3.0
  • microSD slot (up to 32GB)
  • Flash 10.1 support
  • DivX/Xvid support
  • Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
  • Accelerometer and proximity sensor
  • Document viewing and editing out of the box
  • HTC Scribe technology with Magic pen (separate purchase for the Wi-Fi only model)
  • Aluminum unibody design
  • Two sets of touch-sensitive controls for landscape and portrait use
  • 4000 mAh Li-Ion rechargeable battery