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HTC Unveils its Most Affordable Smartphone - HTC Explorer
IT News Online Staff
2011-10-03
HTC Corp. has unveiled the HTC Explorer, its most affordable smartphone and the latest addition to its global portfolio of devices. The HTC Explorer brings an advanced smartphone experience to first time smartphone customers. With a curved and compact design, a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen and 3MP camera, the HTC Explorer offers smartphone performance in an attractive and affordable phone.
"HTC Explorer is an easy-to-use smartphone that puts the customer in control, providing quick access to their most important content and information," said Jason Mackenzie, president of global sales and marketing, HTC Corp. "The HTC Explorer is simply a smarter phone for anyone and it represents another clear demonstration of HTC’s global commitment to expanding the market for advanced smartphones."
With HTC Sense integrated, customers experience sharp graphics, vibrant animations, a wide variety of widgets and a cinematic and immersive weather experience. The 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. The lock screen also enables quick access to the camera for capturing those important moments. It also includes a new Smart Dialer that displays a one-touch menu for quick, easy dialing of contacts.
Users can track social updates from colleagues, friends and family with the People widget that displays social updates in a single easy-to-view thread. They can also easily send a photo, video clip or location in a message with just one touch.
The HTC Explorer provides a complete Web browsing experience with Adobe Flash support, and is the first in its class with a HVGA display, allowing users to run nearly all of the applications in Android Market. Smart URL prediction provides quick access to the top 100 Web sites, while automatic URL correction streamlines Web navigation. Users can make restaurant reservations or connect to customer service hotlines just by tapping the phone numbers listed on any Web site. And if you’ve forgotten to print out the map of your destination, simply tap on the address to bring up a real-time map and its location.
The HTC Explorer allows one to access multiple work and personal email accounts and combine different calendars into a single view. Appointments from each calendar are displayed in different colors to deliver a clearer picture of one’s busy day. New calendar invites are also managed from one tab allowing users to determine the best use of their time. The HTC Explorer offers users control over their data and mobile services with a usage monitor that tracks their call minutes, messages and data to keep them on top of their spending.
The HTC Explorer will be available across key markets in EMEA and Asia from the fourth quarter of 2011 in Metallic Black, Active Black and Metallic Navy. Customers will be also able to customize their HTC Explorer with a range of optional back covers including Metallic Blue, Metallic Orange, Metallic White and Metallic Purple.
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