HTC ChaCha Facebook Smartphone

The smartphone dance floor just got a refreshment with offering Facebook access through a dedicated button - the the HTC ChaCha. The HTC ChaCha is a portrait full QWERTY candybar, which could have huge success among youngsters. After all, nothing could compare to a physical keyboard for typing and typing is what the ChaCha is best for. 

HTC ChaCha

The Facebook centric handset will come with Android 2.4 skinned with HTC Sense, but this time HTC's modifications have reflected the social networking core of the handsets. Interestingly, the blue Facebook button has integrated some context awareness and will flash whenever your environment suggests sharing something on the social network. Stay tuned for our hands-on to see it in action.

dedicated Facebook button on HTC ChaCha smartphone

“HTC Mobile has always understood that different users want different things and the new HTC ChaCha Facebook phone offers special new ways to experience Facebook on a Smartphone,” said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Mobile Corporation. “With more than 500 million active users worldwide, Facebook has become synonymous with the social web and we at HTC wanted to create the ultimate socially connected Smartphone with mass market appeal.” The HTC ChaCha Facebook phone makes it simple to stay in touch with your friends using Facebook & text messages. 

The screen is on the smaller side at 2.6 inches with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. Under the hood, the ChaCha hides a Qualcomm MSM7227 processor clocked at 600MHz. But one of the best things about the handset is its price - significantly lower than that of the HTC Incredible S and Desire S, but still a tad bit more than the price of the HTC Wildfire S. So it turns out those rumors about a Facebook phone (even though not officially supported by Facebook) turned out to be true, eh?

The same updates are also displayed when user receive a call from a Facebook friend. The HTC ChaCha Social Smartphone also features unique tilt design shaped display and physical QWERTY keyboard making it easier and faster to post Facebook updates and write emails and chat text. The HTC ChaCha smartphone feel solid and natural in  hand and runs on Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread operating system with HTC Sense 3.0 touchscreen user interface featuring touch sensitive buttons.

Other features of HTC ChaCha QWERTY social smartphone includes FM radio with RDS, GPS with A-GPS support, Digital compass, audio media player supporting, video media player, Google applications, Adobe Flash 10.1 support and access to Android Market with over 100,000 free and paid apps for Android platform.

HTC ChaCha phone offers even more ways to stay connected utilizing FriendStream application that connects to Facebook, Twitter and Flickr networks and present the updates in a consolidated view. The HTC ChaCha Android v2.3.3 powered smartphone featuring dedicated Facebook button will be available in Asian and European markets in July 2011.