Smartphone with QWERTY keypad combined with a touch screen into HTC's latest flagship phone. Not only that, the keypad also has a special button to navigate directly to Facebook. The product named HTC ChaCha was designed for social networking with more cool.
"HTC ChaCha offers a unique new way to access Facebook via mobile device to communicate with your circle of friends at a new level," said Agus Sugiharto, HTC Country Manager Indonesia at a press conference here on Monday (7/12/2011). "With more than 750 million active users worldwide, Facebook has been identified as social networking on the Internet and we want to create a fully connected mobile phones with social networks that appeal to mass market," he added.
Moissinac Henri, Head of Mobile Business for Facebook said, HTC is already working with Facebook in the movement of some device applications. "We have teamed up with HTC for a few years to integrate Facebook into their devices, and HTC ChaCha is a subsequent stage," said Henri.
Special button on the HTC Facebook ChaCha has the advantage of context-aware functionality, removing the light blinks whenever there is a chance to share content or updates through Facebook. By simply pressing one button, users can update your status, upload photos, share websites, 'check in' at a location and so on. It also can take photos with the phone and immediately upload them to Facebook, simply by pressing the key. Or it can also provide notification about the song being heard through the ChaCha mobile phone to friends, with just one keypress. The song is automatically identified and shared to Facebook.
The new device is reinforced latest Android software 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) and using the latest iteration of the HTC Sense to integrate Facebook with features HTC Sense. When making phone calls, the screen will display the current status and photos of friends, even tell if their birthday is near. The same update will also be displayed when receiving a call from a friend on Facebook.
Users can also use your existing phone contacts to help connect with friends on Facebook, or further personalize your phone with a lot of widgets-up a new one. HTC ChaCha help to stay in touch with friends using Facebook Chat and Message. Messages and conversations in Facebook will be integrated on mobile phones and appears in a text message and email inbox, like other forms of conversation.
HTC ChaCha is available in three colors, namely: Modern White, Phantom Black and Purple Amethyst and only sold at authorized resellers and Grapari Telkomsel started July 20, 2011 with retail prices in the range of USD 2.999 million. Units will be offered with unlimited data package HTC, free of Telkomsel for 6 months.
Here is the HTC classification ChaCha: 800 MHz processor, 512 MB RAM, Network HSPA / WCDMA (900/2100 MHz), GSM / GPRS / EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), 3G Internet: up to 7.2 Mbps for speed download, up to 384 kbps for upload speeds. GPRS: Up to 114 kbps for download speeds and Wi-Fi ®: IEEE 802.11 b / g / n.
Physically, HTC ChaCha has dimensions of 114.4 mm (P) x 64.6 mm (L) x 10.7 mm (T) and weighs 120 grams (with battery). Lithium-ion polymer rechargeable battery with capacity: 1250 mAh. Talk time up to 420 minutes for WCDMA, and up to 450 minutes for GSM. While the standby time of up to 660 hours for WCDMA and up to 430 hours for GSM. This phone also has an internal GPS antenna and 5.0 megapixel color camera with auto focus and an LED flash VGA front camera.
