HTC Jet Android phone launches in Q2

| Updated: Thursday, March 22, 2012, 17:16 [IST]

HTC has recently announced a CDMA phone termed as HTC Jet. The phone will run in Android version 4.0 Ice cream sandwich operating system.

Features and specifications of HTC Jet

DESIGN

Availability

Device Type

Smart phone

Size

4.7 inches (diagonal)

Form factor

Candy bar

Resolution

720x1280 pixels

Dimensions

2.8 inches x 5.3 inches x 0.4 inches

Touch screen

Yes, TFT LCD multi touch screen

Protection

Corning Gorilla Glass 2 screen

PLATFORM

Operating system

Android OS, v4.0 Ice cream sandwich

PROCESSOR

CPU

Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8960

Clock speed

1500 MHz

GPU

Qualcomm Adreno 225

CAMERA

Rear Camera

8 mega pixels, 3264 x 2448 pixels

Front Camera

Video

Yes, 1920 x 1080 pixels @ 30 fps

Geo Tagging

Yes

STORAGE

Internal Storage

Yes

External storage

RAM

1024 MB

Phonebook

Available

Call records

Yes

Messaging

Yes

CONNECTIVITY

GPRS

Yes

Edge

Yes

Yes, HSDPA 900 / 2100

WLAN

Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11a/ b/g/n with

Bluetooth

Yes, v4.0

Infrared Port

USB

v.2.0 with micro USB connector

GPS facility

Quick GPS and simultaneous GPS support

NFC

Yes

NETWORK SUPPORTS

Networks

CDMA 800, CDMA 1900

MULTIMEDIA

Audio Player

Yes

Video Player

Yes

Games

Yes, preloaded and downloadable

FM Radio

Speakers

Yes, HTC Beats audio

Audio Jack

3.5 mm

POWER MANAGEMENT

Battery type

1200mAh capacity

ANNOUNCED

March, 2012

PRICE

This phone follows the basic android phone design philosophy with a sufficiently large touch screen display at the front along with three capacitive touch screen buttons at the bottom. The phone is sufficiently thin and has about 9.3 mm thickness. This will give the user ease of carrying it around.

The screen has a diagonal size of 4.7 inches and packs in 720 x 1280 pixels resolution. The screen is of TFT LCD touch screen type and supports multi touch commands. HTC Sense 4.0 user interface is used in the device.

Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8960 processor which is clocked at 1500 MHz and having ARMv7 instruction set is used to power the phone. 1 GB of LPDDR2 SDRAM is also provided to aid the processor in its working. The phone is provided with connectivity options like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and USB along with a built in GPS module. NFC support is also present.

HTC Jet price tag is not known as for now. The phone is speculated to hit the shelves by June 2012. Since this is a CDMA device it would come under a particular carrier.