Vodafone Releasing HTC Legend
The HTC Legend smart phone was first officially seen at the Mobile World Congress held last February at Barcelona, Spain. The device was first announced sometime last year before details on the specifications got leaked in the HTC 2010 Roadmap which hit news reports sometime around October of 2009.
The device played second to the HTC Bravo (now known as the HTC Desire). The Legend uses a 3.2 inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen, much smaller than the Bravo’s 3.7 inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen. Bothe devices’ digital cameras were 5 mega pixels each, though only the Bravo had 720p video recording capabilities. The Legend runs at a much slower 600MHz Qualcomm processor when compared to the Snapdragon 1GHz CPU on the HTC Bravo.
Still, the Legend promises to deliver Android at a much cheaper price with excellent hardware; it also comes with a sleek aluminum casing that gives it a very stylish look.
According to recent reports, the Legend is currently being offered only by Vodafone (though it has been seen at retailer Clove Technology’s offerings as well). No word yet if the Android smart phone will be an exclusive offering since many are already offering the Desire to their clients. With the March 23 release date drawing near, it may very well end up with Vodafone being the only operator offering the device, for now.
In the meanwhile, HTC is still battling it out with Apple to show that they hold patents for their technologies used in most of their Android smart phones (and a few WinMo devices). Apple has recently filed a lawsuit against HTC stating that the Taiwanese manufacturer infringed on 20 software and hardware patents. Google has stated that they stand behind HTC in this matter.
For more information on the HTC Legend UK release, go to Tech Radar.
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