Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Best Buy Announces HTC Flyer Wi-Fi as Retailer Exclusive

HTC FlyerFollowing up, Best Buy and HTC have jointly announced that the retailer will be the exclusive carrier for the Wi-Fi version of the HTC Flyer Android tablet. The tablet is nearly identical to the Sprint version announced as the EVO View 4G, but lacks cellular radios.

Specifications are identical with a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 7 inch 1024600 capacitive display, 1.3 megapixel front facing camera for video calls, Android 2.2 with a future update to Honeycomb planned, 32GB internal memory with microSDHC slot and 5.0 megapixel camera with HD video capture. Like the EVO View 4G, the Flyer will also support HTC’s Scribe stylus-based input method. Pricing and availability will be revealed at al later date.