Along with Desire S, Incredible S, Wildfire S smartphones and two Facebook phones, HTC also introduces the FLYER 7-inch Android tablet. Unlike the Motorola XOOM, LG G-Slate/Optimus Pad, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 that use Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS, the FLYER uses Android 2.4 with the tablet-optimized HTC Sense UI. The 7-inch tablet also includes the HTC Scribe technology and a magic pen that make it easy and natural to take notes, sign contracts, draw pictures, or even write on a web page or photo.
The HTC FLYER also features HTC Watch video download service and the OnLive cloud-based gaming service. Powered by a 1.5GHz processor, the FLYER comes with 1GB of RAM and 32GB internal storage. It features a 7-inch 1024×600 touchscreen, a 5 Megapixel auto focus camera, a 1.3 Megapixel front-facing camera, a microSD card slot. The device has an aluminum unibody design.
As for connectivity, the HTC FLYER supports Bluetooth 3.0, GPS, WiFi 802.11b/g/n and quad-band GSM/EDGE and 3G/HSPA mobile networks. HTC will release the device in Q2 2011.