HTC to launch first tablet PC Flyer in late March or early April, say Taiwan makers
Yenting Chen, Taipei; Yvonne Yu, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 23 March 2011]
digitimes.com
HTC is expected to launch HTC Flyer, its first tablet PC equipped with a 7-inch touch screen and Android 2.3, in small volumes mainly in the US market in late March or early April 2011, according to Taiwan-based touch panel suppliers in the supply chain.
Optical film and touch panel module shipments for Flyer started in March in small volumes, substantial volume production of Flyer will begin in May 2011. HTC has encountered some difficulty during the production process for Flyer, which was the main reason for the delay of mass production.
HTC plans to launch two Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) Flyer models in mid-2011, the sources indicated.
Touch panel and optical film suppliers for Flyer include Wintek, Cando, Buwon ACT and Wah Hong Industrial.
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HTC officially announced its new first Flyer Android Tablet in Mobile World Congress 2011.By looking into the Specs list of these HTC Flyer Android tablet, it is equipped with a 7-inch capacitive multi-touch screen display with 1024x600 pixels resolution and it also runs with most powerful 1.5 Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, Android 2.3 OS, 1GB of RAM for handling multi task applications, 5 mega pixel auto focus camera with LED flash on back side, as well as 1.3 mega pixel camera on the front side, so users can make video calls with high video quality.
With its aluminum unibody design, touch and pen interactive makes the HTC Flyer unique and cloud based mobile gaming service gives more entertainment experience to the users. The Flyer tablet comes with excellent battery life 8 to 14 hours in standby mode and HD video playback up to 4 hours.It will be available on the markets in Q2 2011 with price tag around $1000.
HTC Sense 2.1 is new interface in these tablet provides gorgeous 3D home screen, so users can place their most important content and information at the visual center of the experience. The HTC Flyer tablet also offers uncompromised superfast Web browsing with Flash 10 and HTML 5.
HTC Scribe technology introduces a wave of integrated digital ink innovations that make it easy and users to take notes, sign contracts, draw pictures, or even write on a web page or photo.
HTC Watch Service provides the information of latest movies and video in the online and users can play that content through high speed wireless connection.
HTC OnLive is a new cloud gaming service so users can play popular games in their home through internet without any need of special hardware or software.
HTC Flyer Android Tablet Specs
* Android 2.3 OS(Gingerbread)
* 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor
* 7-inch capacitive multi-touch sensitive TFT screen with 1024 X 600 resolution
* 1 GB of RAM , 32 GB of internal storage and Micro SD memory card support
* 5 megapixel camera with auto focus on back side and front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera
* Audio Playback: aac, .amr, .ogg, .m4a, .mid, .mp3, .wav, .wma (Windows Media Audio 9) For Recording; .amr, .aac
* Video Playback: 3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .wmv (Windows Media Video 9), .avi (MP4 ASP and MP3), .xvid (MP4 ASP and MP3) For Recording; .3gp
* Battery Capacity 4000 mAh Standby time up to 8 to 14 hours Video Playback up to 4 hours
* Network: HSPA/WCDMA: 900/AWS/2100 MHz Upload speed of up to 5.76 Mbps and download speed of up to 14.4 Mbps Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
* Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP for wireless stereo headsets,Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g/n, 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, micro USB 2.0
* Internal GPS antenna with navigation system
* GPS Sensors, Ambient light sensor, G-Sensor Digital compass, Accelerometer
* Dimensions (LxWxT): 195.4 x 122 x 13.2 mm
* Weight: Around 415 grams with battery
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