HTC Wildfire Coming To Unknown US Carriers This Year

By Matthew Chung on 10/28/2010, filed in Home > CellPhones

The HTC Wildfire budget Android phone has been launched in Europe and Asia in the first half of this year and now HTC has announced that it will be landing on American regional carriers before the end of 2010. It wasn’t specifically mentioned which carrier will be offering the phone, but considering regional carriers were mentioned, it could be MetroPCS, Cricket, US Cellular, Cellular South and similar carriers. Pricing wasn’t mentioned, but the phone will generally set you back about $300 without a contract. Specifications of the Wildfire include:

Android 2.1 (with a Froyo update due later this year)
3.2-inch QVGA 320 x 320 pixel multi-touch capacitive display
Wi-Fi
GPS
Bluetooth
3.5mm headphone jack
5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash
microSD card expansion

Android: Android is the mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license. You can follow Ubergizmo on Android with Google Currents.

HTC: High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones and tablets. The company started as an ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) that was building devices for others, but went on making HTC-branded smartphones based mostly on Microsoft's Windows operating system (OS) for mobile. In 2009, it began to shift its core focus away from Windows mobile devices to Android-based ones. In 2010 the company went back to the Windows Phone eco-system.

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