HTC’s Legend smartphone, launched at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this month, boasts design features that could make it a serious competitor for Apple’s iPhone.
Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer HTC’s new phone sports Google’s Android software which analysts are predicting could prove to be a strong adversary against Apple in the smartphone design wars.
The HTC Legend, which runs the latest Android software called Eclair, is made from a single slab of aluminium and has a very bright and clear 3.2 inch AMOLED (ultra-bright LED) display.
“Legend’s clever use of milled aluminium casing could scoop Apple’s direction for the next iPhone design,” market research firm CCS Insight said.
Despite its body being engineered from a single piece of aluminium, the HTC Legend has a removable battery – something which the iPhone lacks. The back of the battery casing also contains the phone’s antenna so that its metal body does not hinder signal strength.
HTC has updated the user face – called HTC Sense – that sits atop Android on the device. Alongside refinements to the phone’s address book, it pulls information from social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter into a single ‘Friend Stream’ of updates.
The HTC Legend will arrive in the UK in April, and already analysts are predicting that it will be a design classic.
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