HTC Unveils the Radar, Explorer and Rhyme Smartphones

HTC Unveils the Radar, Explorer and Rhyme smartphones last December 7, 2011 held at The Skye, The Fort, Taguig and hosted by former Miss Philippines Earth runner-up and a TV reporter and host for ABS-CBN Ginger Cornejero. HTC Corporation, a global leader in mobile innovation and design.

To know more about the details of the phones kindly continue reading.

HTC Radar

A multimedia powerhouse in your hands

Suggested Retail Price: PhP21,500

HTC Radar

◊    Features
      OS                Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango
      Chipset         Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon
      CPU             1 GHz Scorpion
      GPU             Adreno 205
      Sensors        Accelerometer, proximity, compass
      Messaging   SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
      Browser       HTML, Adobe Flash
      Radio           Stereo FM radio with RDS
      GPS             Yes, with A-GPS support; Bing Maps
      Java             No
      Colors         Active White, Metal Silver
                          - HTC Locations
                          - MP3/eAAC+/WAV/WMA player
                          - MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
                          - Organizer
                          - Document viewer/editor
                          - Facebook integration
                          - Voice memo/dial
                          - Predictive text input  

Social integration across all your channels

The HTC Radar brings all your conversations with someone, including text, email, Windows Live Messenger or Facebook Chat, into one single view. You can switch seamlessly between SMS, Facebook Chat and Windows Live Messenger wherever you go.

◊    Shape and Form

120.5 mm (L) x 61.5 mm (W) x 10.9 mm (T), Weight: 137 grams (with battery)

◊    Outstanding camera experience

Featuring a 5 megapixel rear-facing camera with auto-focus, the HTC Radar’s 28mm wide-angle lens allows you to capture a panoramic shot combining up to five images into one single wide-angle image with a its panorama stitch feature. The HTC Radar is also equipped with a super-bright f/2.2 lens and back-illuminated sensor which allows you to snap photos in low light environment in outstanding quality, reducing noise up to 50%.

◊    A pocket multimedia powerhouse

Designed specifically to be the epitome of elegance, the HTC Radar is crafted with an aluminum body for a premium feel. The 3.8” WVGA display allows your beautifully taken shots to be cinematically viewed with ease, or even watch the latest blockbusters through HTC Watch, browse the web with ease with HTML5 support or indulge in a library of games with Xbox LIVE®. The HTC Radar comes equipped with Virtual 5.1 surround sound, so plug in your earphones and indulge.

◊    A Phone That Just Makes Sense

HTC Sense is an experience designed around many little insightful ideas. Ideas that seem so simple, you think “why hasn’t any one else thought of that? It just makes sense”. It’s a phone experience full of little surprises, delighting you every time. Surprise yourself with simple things like flipping the phone to silence it, navigate roads with not just a map but a compass too or simply tap a word or phrase during your read and look it up on Wikipedia, Google, YouTube or the dictionary.

HTC Explorer

Simple Smart Phone For Everyone
Suggested Retail Price: PhP11,900

HTC Explorer

◊    Features

      OS                   Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread)

      Chipset            Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7225A

      CPU                600 MHz Cortex A5

      GPU                Adreno 200

      Sensors           Accelerometer, proximity, compass

      Messaging      SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM

      Browser          HTML, Adobe Flash

      Radio              Stereo FM radio with RDS

      GPS                Yes, with A-GPS support

      Java                Yes, via Java MIDP emulator

      Colors             Active Black, Active Navy, Metallic Black, Metallic Navy  

                              - SNS integration
                        - Google Search, Maps, Gmail
                        - YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration
                        - MP3/eAAC+/WAV/WMA player
                        - XviD/MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
                        - Organizer
                        - Voice memo
                        - Predictive text input 

◊    Intuitively Social

The HTC Explorer focuses on making communication with your favourite people a touch away. Categorise your family, friends or colleagues into specific groups so you can collectively text or email them with what’s on your mind. The Smart Dial feature also allows you to look up your intended contact easily just by keying in their first or last name, or who you’ve recently called.

◊    Shape and Form

102.8    mm (L) x 57.2 mm (W) x 12.9 mm (T), Weight: 108 grams (with battery)

◊    Indulge In A Captivating User Experience

Browsing web pages on the HTC Explorer’s 3.2-inch touch screen is a pleasurable experience with an experience that is similar to that on a computer. The text and layout of the website automatically adjusts itself to fit the screen so it’s easy on your eyes.

◊    Enhanced Features With HTC Sense 3.5

HTC Explorer features the all-new HTC Sense 3.5, a new minimalistic experience takes away the clutter and organizes all your important information into a single view. This way, you can prioritize what’s significant to you so you’ll never miss an email, a task or an appointment.

◊    A Phone That Just Makes Sense

HTC Sense is an experience designed around many little insightful ideas. Ideas that seem so simple, you think “why hasn’t any one else thought of that? It just makes sense”. It’s a phone experience full of lots of little surprises, delighting you every time. Surprise yourself with simple things like flipping the phone to silence it, navigate roads with not just a map but a compass too or simply tap a word or phrase during your read and look it up on Wikipedia, Google, YouTube or the dictionary.

HTC Rhyme

An Elegant Smart Phone For Everyone
Suggested Retail Price: PhP11,900

HTC Rhyme

◊    Features

      OS:                   Android OS, v2.3.4 (Gingerbread)

      Chipset             Qualcomm MSM8255

      CPU                 1 GHz Scorpion

      GPU                 Adreno 205

      Sensors            Accelerometer, proximity, compass

      Messaging       SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM

      Browser           HTML, Adobe Flash

      Radio               Stereo FM radio with RDS

      GPS                 Yes, with A-GPS support

      Java                 Yes, via Java MIDP emulator

      Colors              Clearwater, Hourglass, Plum 

                              - Light-up Charm Indicator accessory
                              - Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
                              - SNS integration
                              - Google Search, Maps, Gmail
                              - YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration
                              - MP3/AAC+/WAV player
                              - MP4/H.263/H.264 player
                              - Organizer
                              - Document viewer
                              - Voice memo/dial
                              - Predictive text input

◊    Sleek, Fresh and Stylish

HTC Rhyme offers a smart, elegant unibody design in a fresh clearwater colour with every detail carefully crafted to deliver a unique sensory experience. The materials, the curves, and the dimensions are all designed to feel great in your hand, without sacrificing advanced features.

◊    HTC Sense

HTC Rhyme is not only defined by its soft, simple design and distinct colour scheme but by the refreshed HTC Sense experience. This unique twist on HTC Sense carries over the visual language of the hardware design and includes an all-new home screen that provides a clean and uncluttered way to interact with the essentials. The home screen enables quick, uncluttered previews of your appointments, messages or whatever is important to you. HTC selected custom wallpapers to offer a variety of original art to complement the HTC Rhyme experience.

With a beautiful 3.7-inch WVGA, super LCD display and high-quality stereo sound, HTC Rhyme also offers advanced imaging capabilities that begin with its 5-megapixel camera that includes auto focus, power LED flash and instant shutter for capturing those memorable moments whenever they arrive.

In addition, the camera features a number of photo-taking and sharing elements, including face detection, which ensures that friends are always in focus, action burst scene, which automatically takes five consecutive shots of a scene, and panoramic mode, which lets users stitch several photos for those larger-than-life views. The HTC Rhyme’s locked home screen can be customized to display the most important content, making it quick and easy to see social updates, photos, snapping a photo or the weather forecast by simply turning on the display.

HTC Corporation (HTC) is one of the fastest growing companies in the mobile industry. By putting people at the center of everything it does, HTC creates innovative smartphones and tablets that better serve the lives and needs of individuals. The company is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under ticker 2498. For more information about HTC, please visit www.htc.com.

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