HTC Unveils a Suite of Smartphones

Latest Android and Windows Phone 7.5 devices to further enhance the smartphone user-experience

SINGAPORE - HTC today unveiled 3 new smartphone offerings to local and regional media guests at the Marina Bay Sands Convention Hall’s Grand Ballroom this afternoon. The HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio, an Android smartphone packed to the brim with multimedia and audio enhancements like no other; the HTC Rhyme, another Android-powered smartphone that is sure to be a hit with the fashionable and stylish with its sleek outlook and all-encompassing user-experience; and lastly, the HTC Radar, HTC’s first smartphone to be pre-loaded with Windows’ latest mobile platform experience, the Windows Phone 7.5.

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The HTC Radar is designed to keep you close to the people, news and entertainment that matters to you most.

Picture Perfect

HTC Radar features a dedicated hardware camera button which enables you to capture vivid images while the f/2.2 aperture lens and back-illuminated sensor provide improved low-light performance – making sure you never miss that perfect shot. With 28mm wide-angle lenses you can capture more of the scene in front of you while the new panoramic feature lets you create dramatic pictures of skylines and landscapes. HTC Radar can shoot bright and vibrant HD (720p) videos, making them perfect companions for family functions or a night out with friends. And with the HTC Photo Enhancer, you can quickly touch up pictures and upload them to Facebook, tagging your friends as you go using automatic face detection built in to Windows Phones.

HTC Radar

Elegantly crafted with an aluminum unibody, the HTC Radar brings you closer to the important things in life, with the new People Hub from Windows Phone. The People Hub keeps you up to date with your friends’ latest news showing all of your communication history with each person, as well as their recent social network updates and photos. You can also stay in touch using SMS, Facebook chat and Windows Live Messenger in one conversation, without having to switch applications or disrupt the conversation flow. Alternatively, speak “face-to-face” with new video calling that lets you see your friends’ faces on the bright and sharp 3.8 inch screen.

Entertainment on the move

With the HTC Radar, mobile multimedia is greatly improved. It includes HTC Watch – an application and service that puts an entire library of the latest, premium movies and TV shows right at your fingertips, letting people discover the latest video content in an easy and visually engaging way. Utilizing Virtual 5.1 surround sound for a rich audio experience, these phones are your perfect entertainment on the go. Internet browsing is fast and smooth with HTML5 support. You also get an amazing mobile gaming with Xbox LIVE, giving you access to a great selection of games for Windows Phone, which include features like Leaderboards and Achievement that connect you with your friends and the Xbox LIVE community around the world.

Availability

The HTC Radar will be available at all mobile operators and authorized retailers at a suggested retail price of $569 in October 2011.

HTC Rhyme integrates sleek new design, a refreshed HTC Sense experience and a family of integrated accessories with advanced smartphone features

HTC Rhyme is a new kind of phone created for people who require advanced features but want a phone that is sleek and fits seamlessly into their lives. The result is the elegant HTC Rhyme that delivers a fresh approach of integrating distinct colors, HTC Sense and complementary accessories for a natural personal experience.

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 color 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 Rhyme makes entertainment come to life through HTC Watch, which features a wide selection of movies and TV shows that can be downloaded for instant viewing.

Availability

The HTC Rhyme will come bundled with the HTC Rhyme Docking Station, HTC Rhyme Tangle Free Headphones and HTC Rhyme Charm and will be available at all mobile operators and authorized retailers at a suggested retail price of $699 by end Q4 2011 in clearwater colour.

New 1.5 GHz dual core processor and longer battery life extend the HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio’s sophistication and overall experience

HTC unveiled the new HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio – the first in a new line of HTC smartphones to feature Beats Audio technology to deliver studio quality audio. Taking HTC’s flagship handset to a new level of high fidelity audio, the HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio offers consumers the ultimate multimedia experience, setting a new standard for audio quality in the mobile market. In addition, the HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio boosts performance and battery life even further with the addition of a blazing fast 1.5 GHz dual core processor and an extended battery of 1730 mAh that enables you to listen, watch, speak and browse for even longer.

The Ultimate Audio Experience

The HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio is the first handset to offer a Beats Audio experience — a combination of software & hardware that allows you to hear music the way the artist intended. When used with the exclusive custom made Beats headset, the handset automatically switches to the bespoke Beats Audio sound profile, delivering audio tracks tuned specifically for the headphones.

Plug in your custom made Beats headset and you’ll instantly notice a fuller bass and crisper vocals and a new level of clarity and range as the specially designed headphones work seamlessly with the HTC Music application.

Beats Headphones

The HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio also ships with a microSD card (8GB) allowing you to carry thousands of songs. The exclusive custom made Beats headset feature a remote control, allowing you to pause, play or skip through tracks and answer/end calls while the phone is in your pocket.

Availability

The HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio will be available at all mobile operators and authorized retailers at a suggested retail price of $868 by end Q4 2011.

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