Announcement of HTC Wildfire

The launch of a new budget-friendly Android phone named the HTC Wildfire has been announced by HTC. In last month HTC ran a poll on Facebook page to allow user to select the name of the device and came up with the name “Wildfire”.

Today’s social networks provide an essential forum for friendship with more than 400 million users – many of whom are young adults – actively sharing their lives with their friends through Facebook,” said Florian Seiche, Vice President, HTC EMEA. “HTC Wildfire makes the HTC Sense experience available to young mobile users for the first time. It brings all your communications into one place, whether it’s through Facebook, Twitter, text messages, images or email, ensuring that you are never far away from the conversation and always close to your friends.

The HTC Wildfire has a 3.2-inch QVGA capacitive touchscreen. A 5Megapixel camera with LED flash is found on the back. For connectivity there is WiFi, Bluetooth and 3.5mm jack as well as GPS/AGPS for tracking your current location.

The HTC Wildfire is running on Android 2.1 from Google and HTC has installed Sense UI on this device. The processor running on the smartphone is the Qualcomm MSM7225 running at 528MHz.

It is expected that the HTC Wildfire will be launch in Q3 2010 with four different colors across European and Asian markets.

(Via gizmodo.com)