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HTC unveils Htc Desire Hd and Htc Desire Z with New Htc Sense and htcsense.com |
tranced
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LONDON, UK – September 15, 2010 – HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, today unveiled a new HTC Sense experience with the new HTC Desire HDTM and HTC Desire ZTM Android-based smartphones. The new HTC Sense experience continues HTC’s strong focus on the customer, placing people at the center by simply making its phones work in a more personal and natural way. HTC Sense introduces a number of key innovations including a series of connected services called HTCSense.com that enhance people’s mobile experience on HTC phones.
“We’re excited to be taking the HTC Sense experience beyond the phone to a whole new level with a series of connected HTC services we call HTCSense.com,” said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corporation. “Our customers will value the holistic approach we’re taking to enhance their mobile experience. This customer-first philosophy has resonated with people buying HTC phones and this drives us to continue introducing new innovative smartphones like the HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z.”
"As a key Android partner and smartphone brand, HTC continues to bring new innovation to the platform," said Andy Rubin, VP engineering at Google. "Android is about choice and the new HTC smartphones continue to provide customers with powerful choices and flexibility."
HTC Sense
The new HTC Sense experience offers a variety of enhancements that improve how people capture, create, share and access multimedia content. With a newly created camera experience, people can record HD videos or capture and edit images with a variety of fun camera effects. With HTC Locations, a new differentiated online mapping experience, people have instant, on-demand mapping without download delays or incurring mobile roaming charges.
HTC Sense also includes a new integrated online e-reading experience utilizing a new e-book store powered by Koboä and a new, mobile-optimized e-reader that includes the ability to highlight, annotate and quickly search for definitions or translate unfamiliar terms.
HTCSense.com
With the new HTCSense.com service, people can simply manage their mobile phone experience from their HTC phone or personal computer. For example, people can easily locate a missing phone by triggering the handset to ring loudly, even if it is set to silent, or to flag its location on a map. If the phone’s been lost or stolen, users can remotely lock the phone, forward calls and texts to another phone, send a message to the phone to arrange its return or even remotely wipe all personal data from it. HTCSense.com makes it easy to setup a new HTC phone or access archived mobile content such as contacts, text messages and call history from a PC browser. People can also customize their phones with exclusive HTC content like wallpapers, HTC scenes, sounds or plug-ins.
HTC Desire HD
HTC Desire HD showcases outstanding multimedia content with its bright 4.3” LCD display and Dolby Mobile and SRS virtual sound and is the first to be powered by the new 1GHz Qualcomm 8255 Snapdragon processor. The HTC Desire HD enables 720p HD video recording and includes an 8-megapixel camera with dual-flash. Building on the unibody heritage of the HTC Legend, the HTC Desire HD is sculpted from a block of solid aluminum and exudes the air of quality and strength that HTC has come to be known for. It also includes the new HTC Fast Boot that enables people to quickly make a call or check emails by shortening the time taken to complete the power-up sequence.
HTC Desire Z
For people constantly on the go, HTC Desire Z makes it quick and easy to stay connected with friends on Facebook and Twitter or with colleagues and customers at work. HTC Desire Z features a unique ‘pop hinge’ that opens to reveal a QWERTY keyboard for fast, convenient typing. HTC Desire Z’s keyboard also includes a variety of keyboard shortcuts and two customizable keys for providing instant access to common functions without the need to open menus. HTC Desire Z also includes 720p HD video recording and a 5-megapixel camera with automatic flash. It is the first phone to utilize the new 800MHz Qualcomm 7230 processor for improved performance and battery life and also includes HTC Fast Boot.
Availability
The new HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z will be broadly available through mobile operators and retailers across major European and Asian markets from October 2010 with the HTC Desire Z shipping in North America later this year.
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mriley
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The HTC HD looks stunning! Hope the phone feels as good as it looks with the solid alluminium case 
HTC launches the Desire HD: an EVO for the rest of world
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nicv27
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 I like the look of this....
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tranced
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The Desire Z is the same as the T-Mobile's G2. Wondering why they didn't call it Dream Z?
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Bonovox
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I am liking these too like the one with the keyboard. That ram is that the highest ram in a phone so far 768 or something. Will not be long before we see 1 gig of ram in phones.
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julias
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I love HTC's tagline Quietly Brilliant and they so are Nokia made such a huge song and dance about their phones yet had nothing as exciting as these phones
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Toney_Ericsson
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Hooray! HTC Desire HD here I come 
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[ This Message was edited by: Toney_Ericsson on 2011-06-01 23:44 ] "OPEN SOURCE REQUIRES OPEN PEOPLE" Sent from my Quietly Brilliant HTC. |
yoshi77
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HTC is on a roll lately. If you read this press release, you'll see that they've even been hiring former SE employees too:
"Ron Louks, Chief Strategy Officer
As HTC’s newly created chief strategy officer, Ron Louks will be responsible for driving new strategic initiatives, technology incubation and will work closely with HTC’s engineering and operation departments. Prior to joining HTC, Louks was the chief technology officer at Sony Ericsson.
Kouji Kodera, Chief Product Officer
As HTC’s newly created chief product officer, Kouji Kodera will be responsible for HTC’s global product portfolio planning and management. As a seasoned veteran of the mobile industry, Kodera has a strong track record of building device portfolio strategies. Prior to joining HTC, he worked for Sony Ericsson as its head of products." |
masseur
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HTC move closer to me moving away from iPhone. I was so, so tempted with the original desire and the available apps in the Android store so I will not be able to help myself when the desire hd becomes available.
Mind you, I'm not sure yet whether my new iPad will allow me to choose another phone platform now or help me decide to stay with same.... we'll see
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ashyk36
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Desire z......just what I was looking for...and there out next month...no 6 month wait |
etaab
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Great specs, i prefer how the original Desire looked though.
That camera module on the rear is ugly imo. Im not too keen on that sim card / memory card slot cover either. But then its a workhorse rather than beauty queen.
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The HD looks a little too big for my taste. The desire Z is perfect IMO. And I really hope they bring some new eye candy to their sense UI. Its been the same for over a year now.
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Toney_Ericsson
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[ This Message was edited by: Toney_Ericsson on 2011-06-01 23:44 ] "OPEN SOURCE REQUIRES OPEN PEOPLE" Sent from my Quietly Brilliant HTC. |
glorfingal
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desire hd for me then .... anyone wanna buy my X10 ?????
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