News · 8 Jun 2011 · MTW Editorial Team
HTC was kind enough to send me an HTC Flyer tablet today so I can try it out and give you all my impression about it given that I didn’t have a chance to go hands on with it during MWC11 in February.Most of the website content is about Windows Phone and Microsoft products but the one thing I hate the most is blogs/fansites who critique other products without even having any hands on user experience with devices. That’s why you see me post news and reviews of major Android devices and other Google related stuff every once in a while.
So how’s the HTC Flyer ? I’ve been using it for a few hours now and frankly I’m pleasantly surprised by the performance and overall user experience thanks to the HTC Sense UI for tablet which looks nearly identical to the Sense 3.0 UI of the HTC Sensation. The device is not running Honeycomb (Android 3.0) but Android 2.3.3 instead and on a single core MSM8255 SoC clocked at 1.5Ghz (and Adreno 205 GPU). Interestingly it’s as snappy as the Tegra 2 (dual-core Cortex A9) powered Honeycomb tablets I’ve laid my hands on so this once again shows that software/hardware optimization is more important than silly super high speced hardware most of the time. HTC has already promised that the Flyer will receive Honeycomb as an update later this summer so it will be interesting to see how it really stacks up against the more conventional android 3.X tablets. Anyway, I’ll post more about it in the coming days and keep an eye out on my YouTube channel where I’m currently uploading some HTC Desire HD videos (which I totally forgot to upload a few months ago) and where you will see more interesting stuff soon. HTC is also sending me and HTC Sensation later this week so I can check out the beastly Qualcomm MSM8260 SoC… If you have any questions or comments feel free to post them below.
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