HTC dream - A Blend of Technology and Style!

The HTC dream is also promoted as G1 T-Mobile in US and Europe. It is a smart phone which is internet enabled. The operating system of this mobile phone is designed by ‘Google’ and the hardware is designed by ‘HTC’. It is the first mobile introduced in the market which makes the use of the Android handset device platform.

This handset was released on 22nd October 2008 in US and on 30th October 2008 in UK. It is now available in the European countries also. These countries are France, Austria, Czech Republic and Netherlands. It was released in Germany with the facility of QWERTY in February 2009. In Poland it was launched on 10th March 2009.

Hardware specifications

Display - It has a screen of 3.2 inches with ‘TFT LCD’ flat glass of HVGA display. It is touch-sensitive and gives a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels. It does not even need a stylus because of its feather touch screen.

CPU – The processor of this gadget is ARM based and contains many inbuilt features like wireless Bluetooth technology and 3G capabilities.
Keyboard – It has a sliding screen with a complete keyboard of five row QWERTY. Six navigation buttons have been also flanked in the unit to offer easy switching from one application to another.

Side controls – There are 2 volume buttons which are outfitted on the left of the handset and the camera button is on the right side of the phone.

Audio – It has an EXTUSB jack which is compatible of mini USB. This feature has replaced the headphone jack.

Camera – The gadget has a camera of 3.2 mega pixels with auto focus functionality.

Video – The phone has been enabled to play the file formats of 3GPP, streaming, H.264, 3GP and MPEG4. Video recording can also be done through integrated camera by using the resolution of 352 x 288 pixels.

Storage – Apart from the enormous onboard memory supported, one can also incorporate external memory cards so as to boost up the storage capacity.

This gadget has a lithium ion replaceable battery of 1150 mAh, 3.7V lithium ion which is rechargeable. It is available in three different colors such as bronze, black and white.