![]() What we found interesting about the bezel is that there were two sets of capacitive touch buttons embedded in them, one for portrait and one for landscape. The bezel is just the right size not to obstruct viewing while holding it, and although the front camera is in the wrong spot for portrait mode it is perfect for landscape There is a handy lip up to the left and right of the device while holding it in landscape mode than gives it that bit of an extra grip the bulge in the bottom plastic area also helps to hold the device. The overall design of the Flyer is very sturdy thanks to the aluminium casing and looks great due to the combination of brushed silver metal and white plastic. The bottom USB port is actually a form of HTC proprietary connector as seen with the charger, but will charge and transfer from a regular microUSB cable. That said, the cover never came off accidentally during testing and we’re sure it’s more secure than the give lets on, especially as you won’t need to remove the cover much once you put your SIM/microSD in.Īround the device you have the sturdy power on button and 3.5mm audio jack to the top, volume buttons and two holes presumably for dual microphones to the right and the microUSB charging port to the bottom. The back cover also wraps around to the front of the device, and it has a slight bit of give to it that puts a small amount of secureness doubt in our mind when holding it from the top/left area. Behind it are the SIM and microSD slots, and no removable battery to speak of – not really an issue. Just on the plastic, it is difficult to take the rear cover off it requires more force than we thought it would and almost felt as if we were going to break the cover during the process. Towards the top you have the rear 5MP shooter embedded in the removable plastic. Popping through the aluminium on the rear are two (stereo) speakers plus some rear branding. The device’s body is a mixture of aluminium unibody design, taking up the majority of the back, and soft-touch plastic for the removable cover and bottom section and glass for the front display. You have the screen dominating the front area with a 1.3cm bezel surround - incorporating the capacitive touch buttons, the front facing camera to the left with status light and sensors, and the large HTC insignia to the top. The HTC Flyer is quite obviously a HTC device when you first look at it. You do have the handy microSD expansion slot which enables you to increase the maximum storage to 64GB, and there are both front and rear cameras. ![]() There are no particularly notable things about the specifications here. The Flyer has fairly modest specifications including an unspecified 1.5 GHz single-core processor, 1GB of RAM and a 7” 1024圆00 display. ![]() Our HTC Flyer tablet was kindly lent to us by MobiCity we will be reviewing the top-end model that comes with 32GB of on-board storage and 3G radios for mobile data, and unfortunately our review model didn’t come with the Magic Pen. ![]() ![]() It’s attempting to tackle an area other tablets lack at, and we’ll see just how well they can do it. In fact their taking so much of a different approach to the tablet that along with the capacitive touchscreen they’ve bundled a Magic Pen, allowing you to write on the screen just like you would a notepad. It’s smaller than the iPad 2, making it more ideal for people wanting a more portable device that is perfect for reading books, newspapers, Google Reader, taking notes and the occasional film. It may seem unusual that an entrant to the tablet market space would push out a smaller device with an older operating system, although HTC has a different idea with their tablet. HTC has entered the race with their new and first Android tablet, the HTC Flyer, however unlike the aforementioned big players in the market, HTC has tackled the 7-inch space with their tablet instead of Android 3.0 Honeycomb, they’ve packaged Gingerbread with Sense. Recently the Android tablet market has exploded with a flurry of new devices from companies, including devices such as the Motorola Xoom, Acer Iconia Tab, ASUS Transformer and the soon to be released Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. ![]()
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