A security related bug was discovered on certain HTC Android smartphones. This bug allowed any application that has access to the ACCESS_WIFI_STATE permission (something that the apps ask you before you install them) will let the application not only check on the status of your Wi-Fi but also have complete access to all your Wi-FI passwords.
The handsets that are reported to have this bug include the Desire HD, T-Mobile myTouch 4G, Desire S, Sensation, EVO 3D, DROID Incredible, and the Thunderbolt 4G. However, HTC is now reporting that the problem has already been solved on certain devices, although which ones exactly was not mentioned. It also said that the rest of the devices will require the update to be manually applied. The update is not yet available but HTC is requesting users to visit their website again next week for the update.
The bug was apparently discovered back in September 2011 by a couple of security researchers who then contacted HTC and Google, but was kept under wraps until now till the fix was deployed to a sizable number of the affected devices.
If you own one of the above mentioned handsets, check the HTC website mentioned above next week to see if there is an update available for you.

Source

In an era where smartphone usage is more about applications, RIM is yet to make the BlackBerry App World available in Pakistan. App World was made available in the United Arab Emirates only recently.

The App World becomes even more important, for RIM, with the launch of the Blackberry Playbook Tablet PC. We find use of the PlayBook pointless without the ability to download and install applications.

Availability is for RIM’s own good. For their own fast dwindling business, especially with the rise of the Android OS.

There is no clear timeline from RIM on when AppWorld will be available in Pakistan either, we can only hope that blog posts such as this one will reach the BlackBerry manufacturer’s ears!

According to a survey conducted by Security firm Check Point, Corporations Prefer iOS Over BlackBerry and Android. The research that surveyed 768 IT professionals from the U.S, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan demonstrates that Apple’s iOS is the preferred mobile platform, especially for security Purposes.

89% IT professionals, questioned have smartphones or tablets connected to their corporate networks but Apple iOS is the most common mobile platform used to connect in corporate environments. IOS accounts for 30% of the devices connected, followed by BlackBerry with its 29% and Android’s 21%. The Windows Mobil Phone still accounts for 18% of the total connected devices.

71% consider that the addition of mobile devices on the corporate networks contributed to increased security incidents. However, Google’s Android is regarded the less secure among the platforms. It is considered to introduce the greatest security risks, the answer came from 43% of those asked.

Google is working hard to overcome the security risks of Android in order to suit the needs of businesses. There’s even a Security Enhanced version of the platform, released by the NSA, that aims at solving some of the problems related to security. However, the corporate world still thinks it is less secure than Apple’s iOS which is also less secure than RIM’s BlackBerry OS.

VIA Checkpoint

If 2011 was the year of the dual-core processors, then 2012 is shaping up to be defined by quad cores. Among these phones, what we can expect at MWC next month, the X3 looks to be one of the early challengers to HTC in the quad-core market.

The giant processor comes courtesy of the Tegra 3 chipset by Nvidia, and while the 720p screen measures in at a quite large 4.7 inches, it supposedly manages to retain a slim 9mm waistline. LG plans to stick in a 2000mAh battery to power it all.

Other features include 16GB of internal storage, 8MP camera, Touch capacitive buttons, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi, and an NFC. Also, the X3 should definitely come with the latest Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, right out of the box.
We can expect the X3 by the end of Q2 this year.

VIA

App Store Analytics website Distimo has reported that the Google Android Market has breached the 400,000 applications barrier in a rise that has seen the total number of apps on the Market double since April 2011. In April of last year; the Market rose to have an approximate of 200,000 applications, with that figure rising to 300,000 in August 2011 taking four months to gain an additional 100,000 applications.
The Android Market contains applications made up from roughly 100,000 developers releasing an average of four applications each to make up the total number of applications available. Although Distimo are reporting that the Markets rate of growth has caught up to that of the Apple App Store, the absolute number of applications in the App Store is still higher than that of the Android Market, totaling approximately 543,000 if the 148apps metrics are to be believed.
As a market place, the iOS App Store reached the 200,000 available applications in twenty one months in comparison to the thirty one months Android took. However, it took Apple an additional eight months to hit the 300,000 count, which the Android Market place managed in four. The comparison however perhaps isn’t a fair one as it isn’t comparing apples with apples (no pun intended). It is a well known fact that Apple test and inspect all submitted applications to make sure it does exactly what it says; it does and contain any nasty surprises, whereas the Google model is somewhat more open, allowing for a faster submission time.
One trend which appears to be present across most mobile app stores at the moment is the consumer reluctance to pay for mobile software. Reports are indicating that approximately 68% of the applications within the Android Market are free of charge downloads which shows a rise of 8% since April 2011. Both market places have seen an insurgence of what is dubbed as freemium applications. Basically software which is free of charge to download but then requires an in-app purchase to unlock additional or premium content.

One interesting point to note is that well known development labs such as Rovio (creator of Angry Birds) and ZeptoLab (creators of Cut The Rope) have preferred to opt for the freemium model due to Android users reluctance to pay for apps, and also in an attempt to combat users not paying for paid apps. However, additional developers such as Epic Games and id Software have made a conscious decision to boycott bringing their software to the Android platform altogether due to the high piracy rate.

(via electronista)

Google holds location data as primarily important to its location service system. According to Android head, Andy Rubin, tracking location data is essential for Google, and more so because of the public protest against its attempts to collect Wi-Fi hotspot location data via its Street View cars.

Both Google as well as Skyhook use Wi-Fi hotspot data to triangulate a position of the smartphone and then the algorithms measure distance from Wi-Fi hotspots in the database to finally locate a person. Hence, location data seem to be a great business for these companies because this helps them to give location-based services such as target advertising. They are important to check-in applications like Foursquare or Facebook.

But the consumers look at it as immoral and consider it to be a breach of their privacy. There should be an option of maintaining privacy and a right to opt out of such data collection. So far, Android is the only operating system that permits this facility of opting out of any data being tracked.

Due to this collection of data about users, many governments have asked Google to reveal personal information from their database about people wanted by them. In majority of the cases, Google has complied with these requests and only in a few had it declined to report back what governments have asked for.

If one thinks that internet is a protected place when one is safe from hacks, spams and online stalkers, then Google itself is a big on it. Hence, there is no privacy on Google. You never know what information of your search or net surfing they have about you.

Android and Google are there looking at you

Here are five of the best Android Smartphones for 2011:

1. Samsung Galaxy S II

This smartphone is really your dream of innovative technology come true. It not only claims to be the next generation smartphone, but it really is. It has a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED screen for better readability and a slimmer design. Not only that, but its dual core processor is unprecedented.

Samsung Galaxy S II

2. HTC Sensation

It comes with qHD display which is crystal clear. It has a Hi-Fi audio technology which is in competence with Nokia N8. It has HTC’s unsurpassable Android friendly HTC Sense User Interface that goes well with Android platform. Thus, it is user-friendly and is a multimedia super phone.

HTC Sensation

3. Droid 2 Global

It is a total business smartphone that you have been always looking for. It has a Quad band GSM that has sufficient e-mail sending technology. It allows you to tie up with Verizon Wireless in the United States for calls from around the world. It has superfast 1.2 GHz processor and enhanced security.

Droid 2 Global

4. Motorola ATRIX 4G

It has some of the best features like web top and finger print technology for accessing confidential folders and files that beat any hackers. You can get entertained by watching full length movies and load web pages faster than possible ever before.

Motorola ATRIX 4G

5. LG Optimus 2X

It has a dual core processor backed by Android 2.2 (FROYO) and gives faster performance. It is extremely user friendly and has fast web browsing. It comes with 1080p HD video recording technology with content mirroring through HDMI interface. It is one of the best gaming smartphones with gaming console with NVIDIA graphical processor.

LG Optimus 2X

According to a tweet by the official Swype twitter account, they say that Swype will not be available on Ice Cream Sandwich for now. The lack of support is caused by problems related to the way ICS reports screen resolution.

And since resolution is an important factor for a keyboard, it explains why the people at Swype are facing issues. They said that they’re working to make Swype work on ICS as well but no estimated date of completion has been given and till then ICS users will have to do without Swype.

Google may be working on a voice-recognition assistant for Android under the codename of Majel, according to an unconfirmed report.

AndroidandMe.com claims the company plans to expand its existing Google Voice Actions, already available on most Android phones, by adding a natural language processing feature.

Voice Actions allows users to give commands by saying keywords such as “send text to. But the updated software could allow it to respond to commands by using more natural verbiage, similar to Siri.

Majel is a reference to the female voice of the computer on board the ship in Star Trek. Mashable reached out to Google for comment, but the company declined to address the matter.

We expect Google will use Majel for search queries at first, and will incorporate other commands such as controlling phone and app actions down the line. Majel could be released before the end of the year, but more likely in the next few months, according to AndroidandMe.

Google recently announced that it acquired a company called Clever Sense, the maker of the app Alfred, which serves as a digital personal assistant. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alfred Similar to Siri, he does search the Internet and provide users with recommendations from restaurant suggestions to bar and nightlife options. Alfred also learns user preferences and tastes over time to make more targeted recommendations.

Google could be planning to pair Majel with Alfred’s “learning” technology — though that’s still speculation at this point.

To control the global market for smartphones, both Google and Apple are in an intense competition for succeeding against each other. Whether they will succeed is a question that a research and analyst firm Gartner is trying to answer through making some predictions which are quite surprising.

According to its report, Microsoft Windows Phone 7 will have a better market share by 2015 than Apple iOS. Android will take over almost 50% of the mobile smartphone market in the next two years. The recent predictions report by Gartner says that Android will increase its market share from this year’s 38.5% to 49.2% in the next, which is astonishingly more than double its market share of 22.7% from the last year.

Same fascinating inferences are about iOS that it will also pace up its market share this year at 19.4%, but it will go down to 18.9% in 2012 and to 17.2% by 2015. On the other hand, Windows Phone will leap up from 5.6% this year to 10.8% in the coming year and will stretch to 19.5% in 2015. BlackBerry is predicted to have a slow decline by falling from this year’s 13.4% to 11.1% in 2015. These are all the research estimates from the firm Gartner.

Smartphone Market by 2015

The current Google flagship smartphone, the Galaxy Nexus by Samsung, is the first device to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The super large, super high-resolution display on the Galaxy Nexus is a dream to look at, and the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system gives users something very new and interesting to work with. Here is the in-depth review of this super smartphone.

Hardware

The Nexus itself is fairly big. With dimensions of 135.5 x 67.9 x 8.9mm, it’s marginally bigger than Samsung’s other flagship handset, the Galaxy S2. It’s also a little bit heavier at 135g compared to the latter’s 116g. Not that it feels larger although you can tell you are not using an iPhone 4S. The rear takes its design cues from the S2 with a snap on cover that feels slightly coarse to give a good grip. It has both Google and Samsung branding on. Ridiculously, in this flagship Google handset which is so set up as a media device, has been crippled by having no expandable memory. Words fail us. And they may fail you when you realise that 16GB internal storage is your lot. It has a CPU of Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9, PowerVR SGX540 GPU along with 1 GB of RAM. It’s available in Black colour only. It is available in 16 and 32GB of storage with no external micro SD option in it.

Display

The phone has a 4.65-inches with a resolution of 720 x 1280, giving a ppi of 316. It really is super sharp. We would have expected nothing less with Samsung’s mobile displays among the best out there but it’s cracking for internet and video. But it’s bright, it’s beautiful, the viewing angles are as close to 180 degrees as you can get. It’s simply a great display, and the delicate curve given to the glass adds an extra touch of class.

Software

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the world’s first phone to run Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and comes with full of top end tech, including a huge but still massively high resolution screen.  The Galaxy Nexus is like nothing you’ll have seen before from Android. It is a complete redesign and although some bits are the same as they were, on the whole, even long-term Android users like us had to spend a few moments figuring out where things now are. Three soft keys are now provided within the OS at the bottom of the screen: back, home and multitasking. The beauty here is that when they’re not needed, the OS disposes of them and gives you more screen space to enjoy your pleasures. Icons have been refreshed and look sharper and clearer too… overall, it’s a much more polished experience to take on the gloss of Windows Phone and iOS. Like the rest of the UI, Contacts has been rewritten and we are massive fans of the new look. The older one was looking really dated and the black colour scheme was hardly imaginative. The new People app is light (white and blue) and feels so much more elegant. Texting has been redesigned to fit in with the whole look of Ice Cream Sandwich. It’s fairly basic. White background, black headers, but it does the job well. It’s very much separate from the other messaging forms – there is no BlackBerry-style unified inbox here.

Camera And Multimedia

The only thing in Galaxy Nexus which is not up to the currently available standards, is it’s camera, which clocks in at 5MP. It’s not the most adventurous of phone camera specs considering the iPhone 4, which launched almost 18 months ago, came with that. Indeed, the Samsung Galaxy S2 has been out since early summer, and that rocks 8MP.

The good thing in that camera is that it takes photos unbelievably quickly. You tap the capture button on screen and before you can remove your finger, the photo is taken and saved. It really is that fast. There is also an inbuilt panoramic mode that you will really enjoy using but don’t do it in a hurry. Even when you’ve finished, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has to stitch the photos together. And it will take almost 20 seconds to do this.

Video on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is captured in glorious 1080p Full HD and looks fantastic on that screen. It’s not amazing when transferred back to a computer, but it’s no so bad that you’ll want to throw the handset under a bus.

The size of the Galaxy Nexus, the quality of its screen and its weight make this an ideal PMP and you will really enjoy using it as such. It’s a real shame, however, that you are stuck with a finite amount of storage as it makes you really selective about what music and videos you load on in case you run out of space.

Watching movies is a more than pleasant affair on the Galaxy Nexus. It is a basic player in that when you start playing one of your flicks, there aren’t dozens of options that you can wade through, tweaking this and tweaking that.

Internet and Connectivity

The phone runs on the latest Google OS, and compared to the internet experiences of both Gingerbread and Honeycomb, we were expecting perfection. But there was one huge omission on our review handset. Flash. Yes, you read that correctly. Flash is NOT on there.

The browser is fantastic and aside from the (presumably temporary) lack of Flash, we had no complaints. However, we appreciate that Android’s browser is not necessarily to everybody’s taste and if this is the case, you can easily download a third party one from the Market.

For connections, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is pretty future-proof. Not only are the staples such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, HSPDA and GPS all built in, we also have the benefits of DLNA and NFC technology, which also incorporates Android Beam.

You can expect blazing fast speeds over Wi-Fi and HSDPA, so internet surfing really is a breeze. Ice Cream Sandwich also provides you with a new data monitor to track how much you get through, which is particularly handy on a data-hungry operating system like Android.

Wi-Fi is quick to set up, and Wi-Fi direct is also supported, so you can bypass the hotspot. We weren’t impressed with the wireless internet signal strength, though. Samsung really needs to sort out the components it uses, since we’ve noticed that on both the Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S2, even when you’re practically sitting on the router, it’s still not 100%.

Detailed Specification

• 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• 3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
• SIZE 135.5 x 67.9 x 8.9 mm
• Weight 135 g
• DISPLAY Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
•                     720 x 1280 pixels, 4.65 inches (~316 ppi pixel density)

• - Oleophobic coating
• - Multi-touch input method
• - Touch-sensitive controls
• Internal  Memory 16/32GB storage, 1 GB RAM
• Card slot No
• GPRS Yes
• EDGE Yes
• 3G HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps; LTE
• WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
• Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
• NFC Yes
• USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB

• CAMERA 5 MP, 2592×1936 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, touch-focus, face detection
• Video 1080p@30fps
• Secondary Yes, 1.3 MP

• OS Android OS, v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
• CPU 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, Cortex-A9
• GPU PowerVR SGX540
• Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
• Browser HTML, Adobe Flash
• Radio No

• Colors Black
• GPS Yes, with A-GPS support

• Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
• Other Features
• - Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
  - MP4/H.264/H.263 player
  - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3 player
  - Organizer
  - Image/video editor
  - Document viewer
  - Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
  YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
  - Voice memo/dial/commands
  - Predictive text input
• BATTERY Standard battery, Li-Ion 1750 mAh
• Stand-by Up to 290 h (2G) / Up to 270 h (3G)
• Talk time Up to 17 h 40 min (2G) / Up to 8 h 20 min (3G)

By Roman Butt

HTC has gone from being an unknown manufacturer for bigger brands to become a leading Android smartphones. The Desire was a landmark phone in the fight against the iPhone, but now things have moved up a level. Today, with dominant market-share and increasingly polished handsets, the battle is between Droids. Into the fray drops the HTC Sensation XE, the new dual-core flagship smartphone from HTC. It’s certainly the best-spec’d HTC to date. We’ll review this super smartphone hereunder.

Hardware

A typical HTC phone, having dimensions of 4.96 x 2.57 x 0.44 inches and 5.42oz, and combining a unibody metal chassis with soft-touch plastic inserts, the Sensation is slightly longer, slightly deeper, slightly narrower and a fair bit heavier as compared to its rival Galaxy S2.

A unique feature of Sensation is the aluminum frame that HTC has wrapped around the sides, back, and even a small portion of the Sensation’s front. It’s rigid, shaped from a single slab of metal, and makes this a sturdy and creak-free handset. A pair of soft-touch plastic inserts take up a third of the rear cover each, with the upper one protruding a little bit in front of the camera lens and LEDs, lending them an extra bit of protection.

It’s CPU boasts on a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, Adreno 220 GPU, Qualcomm MSM 8260 Snapdragon along with 768 MB of RAM. It’s available in Black colour only. It has an internal memory of 4 GB and can have a micro SD up to 32GB.

Display

The HTC Sensation has a qHD (540×960) Super LCD with a Gorilla Glass display, measuring in at 4.3″. It offers greater pixel density than WVGA screens of the same size such as the Samsung Galaxy S II and a longer 16:9 aspect ratio. The glass display is also inclined, with a smooth raise towards the edges. We definitely appreciate the HTC Sensation’s aspect ratio when viewing movie content or using the phone one handed in portrait orientation thanks to it being narrower. The pixel density is also noticeably better when web browsing which is another plus. So while Super AMOLED Plus screens are generally more desirable, the HTC Sensation still looks immense, especially head on offering great brightness with good colour and contrast levels. Unfortunately, viewing angles can be likened to the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, with colours tending to look a bit washed out when tilting the phone to the side, despite a great head on experience.

Software and Sense v3.0 UI

HTC has smacked Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread onto the Sensation, complete it with the latest HTC Sense v3.0 UI. As we saw on the Flyer, the newest Sense brings with it a useful Active Lockscreen with app shortcuts, more 3D effects in the seven-pane homescreen, and various tweaks throughout the UI that smooth over some of Android’s ruffles.

The redrawn UI sits on top of Gingerbread and carries the premium feel from the construction across to the interface. From a design perspective, HTC Sense 3.0 is so considered, elegant and cohesive, that it’s on another level to any custom UI we’ve seen. Each widget now has a silky smooth 3D transition when swiping the homescreen, so the layers of the widget subtly separate. Widgets are pin sharp and there are some really attractive new ones, such as the gallery widget, a huge improvement over the static photo-frame. If you’re liking the idea of renting movies on the fly, the Watch widget, gives you quick access to HTC’s movie rental service. The 7 homescreens are also now on a revolving carousel system, so the last leads straight back to the first, and all with some rather slick SPB like carousel visuals in the process.

The lock screen is also a definite improvement, with a ring in the bottom of the screen and four application icons just above. Drag a shortcut down into the ring and you will unlock your phone straight in that application, or just drag the ring up to unlock where you left off. There are also personalizations you can apply to your lock screen, the most obvious being selecting your shortcut applications, or going further and selecting your lock screen background.

Camera

The camera on the HTC Sensation is an 8MP effort with dual-LED flash and autofocus – pretty much ticking all the boxes on offer aside from a Xenon flash, but then again some comprimises have to be made to keep the width down. The autofocus is a good feature though, and one we’ve seen from the likes of the Desire HD and Desire S in the past, where tapping the screen will alter the focus of the photo. This extends to exposure values as well, meaning that if you’re trying snap something in a darker area, the Sensation will work out the optimum light levels needed.

The HTC Sensation is a device with a stronger focus on video recording than ever before, with 1080p footage possible from the 8MP sensor, thanks to the dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm processor. A video light is on offer to help make shots look that little bit classier and at 30fps the footage we captured is nice and smooth, with no hint of the choppiness affecting the likes of the HTC Desire HD from before.

Multimedia and Beats Audio

There can be no mistake that HTC is pushing the Sensation XE as a media smartphone. The inclusion of the Beats Audio earphones and the fact that Beats Audio is branded on everything to do with the smartphone gives that away.

If you’re not familiar with Beats Audio, it’s a breed of headphones and speakers developed by Dr Dre and a former Geffen records executive.

HTC claims that Beats Audio delivers the music “the way the artist intended” and we agree that the sound quality is infinitely superior. It’s more apparent on some songs than others, though. For example, ‘Hallelujah’ by Alexandra Burke sounded pleasant enough but not incredible, while both ‘Just The Way You Are’ by Bruno Mars and ‘Bright Lights Bigger City’ by Cee Lo Green sounded, frankly, phenomenal.

What Beats Audio appears to do is up the bass level and enhance sounds. During that Cee Lo Green song in particular, sounds were heard prominently that we wouldn’t normally have noticed. So much so that we thought someone was talking to us, and kept taking the buds out to ask “What did you say?”, much to the amusement of our friends.

To see the difference, you can easily turn the Beats Audio software off by pulling down the notification bar and tapping ‘Disable’ when playing.

The technology has been implemented incredibly well. There is a danger that this could have been a fad that was included half-heartedly, but that hasn’t happened, and HTC’s collaboration with Dr Dre really pays dividends here.

As for video playback, with the 16:9 aspect ratio, video fits very well on the screen and HD video plays back without a hitch. It needs to be encoded in MP4 format to play on the native player, though 3rd party apps such as Rockplayer play back other formats smoothly. The device is also comfortable to hold in landscape for extended periods, so is easy to recommend as a PMP.
The gallery is HTC’s standard gridded system, with some cool perks such as wireless network printing as well. Interaction with images is very predictable with pinch to zoom being silky smooth and images rendering instantly while looking great on the screen.

Internet and Connectivity

Web browsing on the HTC Sensation Xe is superb. Thanks to the screen resolution, text is legible and crisp from the page overview, and pinching to zoom is quick and smooth. Pages load up very fast and Flash video plays back smoothly. Text reflows to fit the display, which does stagger the process of zooming slightly. That said, it makes the reading experience more enjoyable.
As far as connectivity goes, you’ve got quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G along with Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, DLNA functionality as well as an FM radio.
The GPS was extremely quick, finding our location almost instantaneously on first boot.
HDMI connectivity comes in the form of the MHL port, enabling HD content to be outputted via the microUSB port to a compatible HD TV. With compatible devices, this will simultaneously export visuals and charge your handset, while non-compatible devices will only export visuals.

HSPDA is at an acceptable 14.4Mbps speed, with the upload speed bouncing in at 5.76 Mbps, both of which seem plausible in our tests – plus the lovely option of setting up your own Wi-Fi hotspot if you fancy chewing the battery in heartbeat.

Other features and Apps

HTC Sensation Xe offers various other features and built-in apps:
DLNA, Flashlight, Friend Stream, HTC Hub, Mirror, Music, News, Peep, Polaris, Office, Soundhound, Stocks, Teeter, Watch and Weather etc.

Detailed Specification

• 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• 3G Network HSDPA  900 / 2100
• SIZE 126.1 x 65.4 x 11.3 mm
• Weight 151 g
• DISPLAY S-LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, 540 x 960 pixels, 4.3 inches

• - Gorilla glass display
• - Multi-touch input method
• - Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
• - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
• - Gyro sensor
• - HTC Sense UI
• Internal  Memory 4 GB (1 GB user available), 768 MB RAM
• Card slot microSD, up to 32GB, 8 GB included
• GPRS Up to 80 kbps
• EDGE Up to 236.8 kbps
• 3G HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
• WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
• Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
• Infrared port No
• USB microUSB (MHL) v2.0

• CAMERA 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash, Geo-tagging, touch-focus, image stabilization, face detection, instant capture
• Video 1080p@30fps, stereo sound recordin
• Secondary Yes

• OS Android OS, v2.3.4 (Gingerbread)
• CPU 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, Adreno 220 GPU, Qualcomm MSM 8260 Snapdragon
• Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
• Browser HTML
• Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS

• Colors Black
• GPS Yes, with A-GPS support

• Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
• Other Features
• - TV-out (via MHL A/V link)
• - Beats Audio
• - Beats Headset
• - SNS integration
• - Digital compass
• - Google Search, Maps, Gmail
• - YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration
• - MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA player
• - XviD/MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
• - Organizer
• - Document viewer
• - Voice memo/dial/commands
• - Predictive text input (T9 Trace)
• BATTERY Standard battery, Li-Ion 1730 mAh
• Stand-by Up to 310 h (2G) / Up to 540 h (3G)
• Talk time Up to 9 h 16 min (2G) / Up to 7h 20 min (3G)

By Roman Butt