HTC Salsa Preview

The HTC Salsa joins The HTC ChaCha in a bid to be able to treat young Android users to when lots Facebook as they will can handle. The young blue button forms an appearance back, this time beneath one more acquainted context. While the ChaCha gets its QWERTY computer keyboard away the suffered way, the Salsa is actually a typical Android tool. It’s felt one solid create and seems like one well spec'd midrange mobile - a good HTC Wildfire S for Facebookers.

Both the Salsa offers something the ChaCha doesn't: a family tree. The Salsa is actually part on both the new era on midrange phones through HTC, along with the likes of Wildfire S. But career this a Facebook-centric Wildfire S were oversimplifying or just plain incorrect. As a matter on fact, HTC continue to bring the Salsa a lot more than just that tiny Facebook switch. It cover both the Wildfire S in terms of display size and processor clock performance, and throws beneath a few has the Wildfire S didn't pay attention to - like video telephone calls, HD video and also internet Flash support.


Specifications :

• Quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G support
• 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 384 Kbps HSUPA
• 3.4" 16M-color capacitive TFT touchscreen of HVGA (320 x 480) resolution, Gorilla glass
• Android OS v2.3 Gingerbread with HTC Sense
• 800 MHz CPU, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7227 chipset
• 512 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM
• 5 MP autofocus camera with LED flash and geotagging
• D1 video recording @ 30fps
• Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA
• GPS with A-GPS
• microSD slot up to 32GB (2GB card included)
• Accelerometer and proximity sensor
• Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.1
• Smart dialing, voice dialing
• Front facing camera, video calls
• DivX/XviD video support
• Compact aluminum unibody
• HTC Locations app
• HTCSense.com integration
• HTC Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot
• Ultra-fast boot times (if you don’t remove battery)

Main disadvantages

• Below-par screen sunlight legibility
• Camera not the best we’ve seen
• microSD slot under the battery cover, not (quite) hot-swappable
• No HD video recording