Another topline Android phone from HTC. This is the one of few topline Android phones available with subsidized price with a 2-year data plan from AT&T. It is released on 20th June, 2010 and already making big waves in the smartphone market. Measuring 4.1- x 2.3- x 0.46-inches and weighing 3.8 ounces with the 1,200mAh battery installed, the phone is very light and can be treated as mini phone.The Google NexusOne kind features of extra buttons/controls on the phone are becoming the standard. Aria is settling with a 600MHz MSM 7227 alongside 512MB of ROM and 384MB of RAM. It is not close to NexusOne 1GHz but fast enough in the current market to qualify it as the Mini smartphone.
It comes with Android Eclair (2.1) but sure will updated to the next one soon.
Some of the other standard Android features include Qualcomm MSM 7227 600MHz, Dedicated search key, A-GPS support, 3.5 mm audio jack, Accelerometer sensor auto rotation, Proximity sensor, Optical trackpad, Touch sensitive controls, HTC Sense UI, Geo-tagging.
Summary: The HTC Aria is compact, feature rich smartphone which runs on Android 2.1 with HTC's Sense UI. It has a 5-megapixel camera, GPS, Bluetooth, and supports Wi-Fi, 3G networks. It doesn't have the in built flash.
Features:
Operating System Android™ 2.1
Touch Screen Yes (Capacitive)
Screen Size 3.2 inches
Band HSPA/UMTS/EDGE/GPRS/GSM; Dual Mode UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (1900/850MHZ) & GSM/GPRS/EDGE (Quad band 850/900/1800/1900MHZ); HSDPA/UMTS (3GPP Release 5 Compliant; 7.2 Mbps Enabled) EGPRS Functionality
Integrated GPS Yes (GPS/AGPS)
Camera Resolution 5 megapixels
Video Camera Yes
Speaker Phone Yes
Expandable Memory Capability 32GB
Memory Card Type microSD
Bluetooth® V2.1
FM Radio Yes
Talk Time Hours (up to) 6 hrs
Stand By Days (Max) 15.5 days
Weight 115g
Ford Sync Yes