HTC Announces New Android Handset, Wildfire

HTC has just introduced yet another Android smartphone into their ever increasing range of handsets. This one, called the HTC Wildfire is looks like a smaller version of the Desire. Like all their new offerings the Wildfire will also ship with HTC’s Sense UI that allows you to easily integrate social networks with other aspects of the handset. Apps like HTC’s Friend Stream will also be on-board.

"Today's social networks provide an essential forum for friendship with more than 400 million users - many of whom are young adults - actively sharing their lives with their friends through Facebook," said Florian Seiche, Vice President, HTC EMEA. "HTC Wildfire makes the HTC Sense experience available to young mobile users for the first time. It brings all your communications into one place, whether it's through Facebook, Twitter, text messages, images or email, ensuring that you are never far away from the conversation and always close to your friends."
Features include -

• 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen – 240 x 320 pixel resolution with multi-touch
• Optical trackpad
• 3G, EDGE/GPRS, Wi-Fi, GPS (with A-GPS)
• Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, USB 2.0 (micro)
• 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, smile and face detection
• FM radio
• microSD card support up to 32GB (8GB included)
• 3.5mm handsfree socket

The new HTC Wildfire will be broadly available to customers across major European and Asian markets from Q3 2010.