While they aren't technically billed as "Facebook phones," these two new handsets from HTC might as well be. Sporting a dedicated Facebook button in front, it's easy to see what the HTC Salsa and the HTC ChaCha were built around.
The HTC Salsa is a slate-type phone with a 3.4-inch capacitive touchscreen display (480 x 320 resolution) and a front-facing VGA webcam. Other details include a 5.0 megapixel camera module (with LED flash) and the typical connectivity options (3G, WiFi, aGPS, Bluetooth).
The HTC ChaCha, on the other hand, takes on a QWERTY candybar form factor, with one of those Blackberry-style keyboards in tow. Details include a 2.6-inch capacitive touchscreen display (480 x 320 resolution), a front-facing VGA webcam, a 5.0 megapixel camera module (with LED flash) and the usual range of connectivity options.
Both devices share the same guts -- a 600MHz processor and 512MB of RAM. The Facebook button at the bottom doesn't only bring up the social networking app on cue, it's context-sensitive, too. That means, it will light up every time you have something on your screen that you can send to Facebook, be it a picture you just snapped or a text you typed on the message editor.
Just in case you didn't buy the Android 2.4 Gingerbread rumor (like I didn't), that turns out to be real. In fact, both handsets will ship with it, along with a requisite HTC Sense layer running on top, of course. No exact pricing yet, but they're slated for the second quarter at a middle-of-the-road cost (pricier than entry-level phones, lower than high-end models).
[via GSMArena]
