Telstra Get HTC Wildfire Exclusive
HTC Corporation has given Telstra exclusivity to its latest Android smartphone, the Wildfire, and is said to be Telstra’s first Android smartphone to be offered to pre-paid customers.
HTC Corporation has given Telstra exclusivity to its latest Android smartphone, the Wildfire, and is said to be Telstra’s first Android smartphone to be offered to pre-paid customers.
It will be available in Australia from 24 August to both pre-paid and post-paid customers exclusively on Telstra’s Next G Network. It features a 3.2-inch capacitive touch screen, a 5-megapixel camera with auto focus and LED flas,h and HTC’s Friend Stream app, which gathers social networking updates into a single stream.
Next-generation Caller ID and the ability to share apps straight from the phone are some of the great new features available on the HTC Wildfire. In addition, HTC Wildfire comes with a new version of HTC Sync (Sync 3.0), and includes a media sync that is compatible with popular media players available on a PC. This enables customers to bring their favourite tunes, playlists, pictures and more to their phone with the click of a button.
Along with the traditional Caller ID features of caller name and number, HTC’s next-generation Caller ID now includes additional information such as friend’s birthday and Facebook status updates. Each contact viewed in HTC Wildfire’s address book includes a thread of recent communications with that person, including the last conversation, recent text messages and emails.
Apps can now be shared straight from the user’s phone to their friends by sending a link via Facebook, Twitter and a host of other social networking sites or Friend Stream, as well as email and SMS. This link allows users to find the app on the Android Market with a single click and download it to their phone. There are thousands of apps available on Android Market – including games, social-networking apps and new arrivals every day.
The People Widget feature can be used to find group of friends straight from the home screen. Calling, texting or emailing is only one tap away.
The HTC Wildfire comes with full Flash support for online video, pinch-to-zoom page resizing, and auto rotation from portrait to landscape. It also comes with useful reference tools including one-touch dictionary, translation and Wikipedia lookup.Telstra customers enjoy a large range of unmetered BigPond entertainment, including news, sport, music and weather.
Telstra’s new Tribe service offers customers free-to-browse social networking within Australia by bringing together Facebook, Twitter and MySpace in a single mobile portal. Telstra customers can also subscribe to exclusive content including Mobile Foxtel from Telstra and AFL and NRL apps.
HTC Wildfire is the first Telstra smartphone to feature Swype text input technology. Swype allows customers to glide their finger across a virtual keyboard to spell words, rather than tapping out each letter. This can make it even faster to compose emails, text messages and to search the web.
RRP
$349
