It’s been another busy morning in gadgetry and gaming, so come and see what you missed right here in the lunchtime lowdown.
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Tagged ‘Salsa’
Look at the HTC Salsa in the image above. Do thine eyes deceive? Is that a Facebook button? No, good people, they do not. That is a dedicated Facebook button, for sharing your “content”, a word that boring people use for photos, videos and stuff that requires imagination/taste.
An unusual first, to be sure. But you know what? This Android phone would get the same score, with or without it.
The HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa phones turned heads at Mobile World Congress back in February thanks to their dedicated Facebook buttons and tight integration with the big blue social network. HTC’s kept mum on when exactly we’d be seeing them, but Amazon.co.uk now has both up for pre-order, at £249.99 for the QWERTY messenger and £319.99 for the touchscreen-only affair.
With the likes of the HTC ChaCha and INQ Cloud Touch hitting shops in the next weeks and months, and rumours of a Facebook modded Android OS still flying around the interwebs, we thought it’d be a good time to take a trip down memory lane, and see just how we ended up with handsets with dedicated Facey B buttons emblazoned on them. Read on as we dig through the archives…
Want to see the HTC Salsa up close and in the flesh? Then you’re in the right place. We’ve just got friendly with the touchscreen Facebook phone at MWC 2011 and you can see the results right here. Sadly, the HTC Salsa was hidden behind glass, but that didn’t stop us ogling its gorgeous design and spying that very obvious Facebook button.?
Not a fan of HTC’s button-coated Facebook phone, the ChaCha? Then take a squiz at this, the HTC Salsa. It’s HTC’s second Facebook phone, packing a 3.4 inch touchscreen and a bonafide Facebook button. Intrigued? We implore you, read on and treat your eyeballs.
HTC’s product line up for 2010 seems to have slipped out into the wild with a brace of new Android handsets including the high-end HTC Bravo and the super-social HTC Buzz and Tide.