What To Know About The HTC Dream Smartphone

Are you a Google fan and all of its web applications? If so, you will be sure to love the HTC Dream smartphone with its initial introduction in October of 2008. This is also the first cell phone to include Google’s open operating system, Android. This model gives users one-touch access to mobile online services, such as Gmail, Google Maps, Google Talk, Google Search, and YouTube.

How about experiencing Google Maps Street View on your HTC at anytime? Well now you can virtually visit any city around the world that supports Google Street View in a full 360 degree panorama view. Accessing these maps and all other internet features is done by the HTC Dream’s ability to connect to the amazingly fast 3.5G networks. And now coupled with Wi-Fi you can rest assured you will always be connected either on the 3.5G network or an accessible hotspot.

Access to the Android Market offers HTC Dream owners a host of accessible applications, music, media and entertainment all with a single push of a button. A neat HTC Dream feature is this phone fits itself with a digital compass and motion sensor. The HTC Dream also features a 3.2-megapixel color camera with auto-focus for high-quality photos.

The heart of the HTC Dream is a glorious 3.2 inch, 320×480 high resolution HVGA display which when flipped up exposes a finger friendly QWERTY keyboard and the Dream’s six navigation buttons. You can personalize your main screen with immediate notification when receiving email, instant messaging and text messaging.

With the HTC Dream you will never run out of storage space as this unit is compatible to hold SD 2.0 compatible cards as well as micro SD cards which can hold 16GB of space and higher. The smartphone comes built in with 256 Megs of flash ROM and’2 Megs of RAM.

The HTC Dream smartphone includes a full functioning GPS in conjunction with Google Maps for people always on the go, you will always be sure to find your location where ever you have to go. Video formats supported by this phone are H.264, 3GPP, 3GP, MPEG4, and streaming videos.

In terms of battery life, the HTC Dream has a talk time of up to 350 and 406 minutes for WCDMA and GSM respectively, while standby time goes up to 319 hours for GSM and 402 hours for WCDMA.

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