HTC launches its smallest ever smartphonein the wildfire range the Wildfire Smartphone. The Wildfire S smartphone measures just 10.13 cm long and 5.94 cm wide, with a 3.2 inch touchscreen whichc produces pictures at 320 x 480 resolution. It is being launched in two colours, dark grey and silver white.

The operating system being Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread and is powered by a 600 Mhz processor with a RAM of 512 MB.

Features of the HTC Wildfire S:

> The HTC Sense user interface is further enhanced to include a new integrated online e-reading experience. A new e-book store powered by Kobo and a new, offering the ability to highlight, annotate and quickly search for definitions or translate unfamiliar terms.

> A 5 megapixel camera with auto focus, which is also capable of recording HD videos. One can also edit images with a lot of exciting camera effects.

> HTC Locations has an upgraded online mapping experience, people can have instant, on-demand mapping without download delays or incurring mobile roaming charges.

> An expandable microSD memory slot and support for a variety of audio and video formats.

> The Wildfire S connectivity involves: standard micro USB, 3G, GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and internal GPS antenna.




> The Wildfire S has a 1230 mAh battery which provided 360 hours of standby time on 2G and 570 hours on 3G as well as up to 7 hours of talktime on 2G and 5 hours on 3G.

Faisal Siddiqui country manager, HTC India says - "The HTC Wildfire S is a stylish looking smartphone, offering fantastic value-for-money and great features, and we are delighted to launch it in India, The HTC Wildfire has been among our best selling devices in India. Hence, we are extremely excited and positive that the HTC Wildfire S will garner a tremendous response from Indian mobile phone users", he added.

The highly anticipated Eee Pad Transformer by Asus has been official launched in Australia as a tablet solution for both media consumption and mobile productivity.

ASUS CEO Jerry Shen said "it was the most historical moment since the debut of the industry changing Eee PC. “The Eee Pad Transformer is beyond a tablet. It is a new milestone for the Android Market. We are offering superior features with competitive pricing,” said Shen.

The Eee Pad Transformer is designed to provide a personal and seamless cloud computing experience.

Some of its unique features involved: full-size QWERTY keyboard docking station offers two USB slots, SD card reader and extends battery life up to 16 hours. It also boasts of an IPS panel made from a durable, scratch-resistant glass, dual cameras and supports Adobe® Flash® 10.2 video playback. ASUS has also developed an intuitive user interface called Waveshare which hosts a variety of unique applications including MyNet, MyLibrary and MyCloud.

Xoriant Corporation, a leading software product engineering and product consulting services company, enables Appsongo a mobile application development company to develop and launch a series of mobile applications for the Nokia phones.

Moving with the current market trends, Appsongo wanted to capitalize on the increasing popularity of smartphones on the Nokia platform by developing user centric mobile applications. Xoriant was selected as the vendor having the right blend of skills and expertise for rapidly developing mobile applications on this platform.

For Appsongo, Xoriant added Productivity and Finance applications to their mobile app portfolio. These applications included CurrencyCalc- a currency converter, ExpensIT - an expense tracking application, BudgIT - a budgetary application and TrackIT - a package tracking application. Going forward, Xoriant will build Lifestyle and Business applications which will incorporate advanced features like multimedia and augmented reality.