Tuesday, February 17, 2009

MWC 2009: the official announcement of Android-phone HTC Magic.

On international congress World Mobile Congress 2009 in Barcelona took place official presentation of the mobile phone of company High Tech Computer the second HTC phone on Android OS platform, named HTC Magic and specially developed for the operator of cellular communication Vodafone. Communicator HTC Dream or T-Mobile G1 can be named "magic". The device on a platform unfamiliar to anybody, in few months has circulation in one million copies and has considerably promoted Taiwan's success in struggle against global financial crisis. Now HTC announced the second communicator on Google Android with code name "Magic". But whether the second portion "android" is pleasant to users? HTC Magic stuffing is a standard ARM-platform which put in devices on Windows Mobile. The device supports GSM and UMTS networks, possesses all gentlemen's set and weighs less, than the predecessor, - 118.5 g instead of 158. However, it is explainable the keyboard is absent in HTC Magic. The device is executed as a snow-white monoblock, and management of the device can be carried out by means of fingers directly through the big touch screen.
HTC Dream
The basic characteristics of a novelty:
  • Ability to work in GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz) and HSDPA (900/2100 MHz) networks;
  • Processor Qualcomm MSM7201A with clock frequency of 528 MHz;
  • 192 Mb of RAM memory and 512 Mb of ROM memory;
  • MicroSD-cards slot;
  • the 3,2-inch touch TFT-display with the resolution 320 x 480 pixels and support of 65 thousand colors;
  • 3,15-megapixel camera with autofocus, allowing to receive pictures with the maximal resolution 2048 x 1536 pixels;
  • Built-in GPS-receiver;
  • Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g modules;
  • Built-in MP3-player;
  • miniUSB interface ;
  • Integrated speakerphone;
  • 40-voice polyphony;
  • Support GPRS Class 10, EDGE Class 10, SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging, HTML and Java MIDP 2.0;
  • Function of a digital compass and documents view;
  • Lithium-ion battery in capacity 1340 mAh which charge suffices on 7 and a half of hours of continuous negotiations or about 420 hours independent work in expectation mode;
  • Overall dimensions is 117,7 x 55 x 13,7 mm;
  • Weight is 118,5 g
It is necessary to note a plenty of hardware keys under the screen. And lack which is evident, - the low resolution of the display. Today communicators should have a VGA-matrix. In sale HTC Magic will arrive in April in the Great Britain, and then will appear in the Europe.