HTC Flyer Able to Beat Apple iPad 2?

HTC Flyer VS Apple iPad 2: High Tech Computer (HTC), which is known as one of the largest smartphone manufacturer, plans to market the Flyer that the introduction of tablet PCs at the Mobile World Congress on February 14 to 17 and then in Barcelona, ​​Spain.

It seems that HTC was not daunted by the presence of the Apple iPad 2. In the first stage, he was quite optimistic that produces more than one million units HTC Flyer. This figure shows that the Taiwanese company that believes the potential for tablet PCs in the future is promising, especially in segments of the developing countries.

HTC Flyer is the first tablet PC made by HTC that has a touch screen 7-inch size. HTC which has long partnered with Google to adopt Android as the operating system, namely Android OS 2.4 (Gingerbread). This capital is sufficient to compete fiercely with the second generation are also dimodali iPad latest OS, IOS 4.

Flyer powered magnitude 1.5 GHz processor. On paper, this ability is well above the iPad 2 which only has a 900 MHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 proccessor.

iPad 2 VS HTC Flyer

Both can operate in HSPA and WCDMA networks with different versions of the device. For memory capacity, 1GB of RAM and HTC buried on-board storage of 32GB. While IPAD 2 only 512 MB of RAM. Again, Flyers beat iPad 2.

On the multimedia side, HTC Flyer has two high resolution cameras, the 1.3 MP camera on the front and a 5 MP camera on the back. This camera is much better than a camera that held iPad 2, in which the front-level VGA camera and behind only 0.7 MP camera.

Since you already know iPad two first, it helps us peek superior features HTC Flyer. Tablet prime sponsor of this HTC HTC Watch feature, which is software to download video. This feature also supports these games Live On-cloud-based computing. That way, gaming performance should be much lighter.

Priced at U.S. $ 600 (equivalent to Rp 5, 2 million) per unit, HTC Flyer will be launched around April. Compared to Samsung Galaxy Tab with price range of U.S. $ 650 (equivalent to Rp 5, 7 million) to $ 900 (equivalent to Rp 7, 8 million), Flyer cheaper.

When compared to Wi-Fi iPad 2 32GB for U.S. $ 599 (Rp 5, 2 million), Flyer price level. But, two Wi-Fi iPad not Flyer opponent who has access to 3G.

However, if iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G for U.S. $ 729 (equivalent Rp6, 3 million) are juxtaposed with the Flyer, HTC again won because of the difference Rp1, 1 million. The difference is quite large.

No wonder if HTC Flyer become one of the products are "hot" is eagerly awaited. One million first units will begin shipping August evenly.

It was not grandiose if these Taiwanese companies set target to 1.5 million units, and expect the segment of the tablet PC can donate NT $ 30 billion (equivalent to Rp 8, 9 trillion) at the end of the year. As known, HTC Android preparing two new tablet PCs in the first half of this year.

The following comparative table of features and specifications of the Apple iPad 2 and HTC Flyer:

Apple iPad2 and HTC Flyer Spesification