HTC has officially announced its new tablet, the HTC Flyer, at MWC 2011. After the rumors of the past few weeks, the Flyer’s existence hardly comes as a surprise; however, some of the technology decisions HTC has made – including supplying it with an active stylus – are pretty surprising.
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Its brand new 7-inch Flyer Android tablet, which touts a 1.5GHz single-core CPU, 1GB of RAM plus 32GB of flash storage, an aluminum unibody construction, 1024 x 600 resolution, a tablet-optimized version of Sense, and... what's this, a pressure-sensitive stylus! The HTC Scribe trademark we saw floating around in legal waters turned out not to be the branding for a tablet, it's actually the name HTC gives to the technology enabling what it calls a "groundbreaking pen experience." Other details include a 5 megapixel camera on the back paired with a 1.3 megapixel imager up front, a 4000mAh battery rated to last for four hours of continuous video playback, and memory expandability via a microSD card.
It has support for HDMI and this tablet will going to have a HSPA(High Speed Packet Access) 3G that will provide him good speed and fast data transfer over the network. The front panel camera is 1.3 megapixel and allows you to make video calls to your dear ones. Rear panel has 5 megapixel camera along with LED flash light and face recognition technique. You can’t use normal GSM network for making calls. It will use its inbuilt Skype software that will manage all the calls.
On top there’s Android 2.4 Gingerbread with a heavily modified version of HTC Sense to suit the bigger display: a 3D homescreen with floating widgets, a carousel layout in landscape orientation, and a 3D grid in portrait orientation. HTC promises a Honeycomb OTA updated “soon after” the Flyer’s launch which, they insisted to us, shouldn’t be impacted by what’s expected to be minimal carrier modification. Even before then, though, there’ll be split-screen apps of HTC’s own making, with a multi-pane browser, calendar, email, address book and other software to make the most of the resolution.
It’s the stylus that really makes the HTC Flyer stand apart, however. HTC has used an unspecified active stylus technology with a battery-powered pen (that has a pressure-sensitive nib and two buttons, defaulting to erase and text-select) and loaded a new app called Notes that supports sketching, handwritten text and annotation of imported photos and clippings. Notes will also record audio, indexing points in the recording with the notes you’re taking at the time, for easier later recall.
The Flyer will also debut HTC’s new streaming content drive, building on its recent investments in Saffron Digital and OnLive. A new “Watch” app will offer streaming movies and TV shows, while an OnLive app will allow streamed 3D gameplay on the Flyer; using DLNA over WiFi, the Flyer will be able to put OnLive gaming on a nearby compatible TV. Both services are expected to offer pay-per-use and subscription options, and HTC says the same systems are likely to spread to its phones in future.
The competition is getting more and more tough with the release of so many gadgets. A 10” inches Apple iPad is under development so it will be a good competitor too. But right now it looks like Flyer has a direct competition with Samsung Galaxy tab.
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