HTC has announced that it will be launching its new Salsa smartphone in India. The new handset includes a dedicated Facebook button near the base that allows for convenient one-touch access to Facebook’s important services and functions.
There are over 25 million Facebook users in India, and this number is only going to get bigger. HTC India’s country manager Faisal Siddiqui realizes the importance of this trend:
[The] new HTC Salsa offers special new ways to socialize through a mobile device. With Indians increasingly getting hooked on to the social web, we wanted to create the ultimate socially connected phone which makes this experience simple and convenient.
The phone has a 3.4-inch touchscreen display and a 480 x 320 resolution. It’s powered by Android’s gingerbread operating system with the company’s Sense UI over top. The Salsa sports an 800 MHz processor and 512 megabytes of RAM, as well as a five megapixel rear camera. There’s a VGA camera around the front for video calling also. The internal storage is only 512 megabytes, but this can be supplemented up to 32 gigabytes using a microSD card.
The Salsa will be available at a market operating price of Rs.22,000 or about $490. For a video demonstration of the Salsa, see the clip from igyann.in below.
This is not the first time that mobile manufacturers and service providers have made it easier for Indians to access Facebook features on their phones. Bharti Airtel recently implemented Facebook on low-end phones via a handy USSD menu system.
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