Telecom Lead Asia: Taiwanese smartphone major HTC will
bring three Windows Phone 8 models this year – Zenith, Accord and Rio.
Zenith will be the flagship model for HTC and feature 4.7-inch
720p Super LCD 2, 8-megapixel camera, HSPA+, and a quad-core Qualcomm
Snapdragon processor, a news website reported.
HTC Acord will be a mid-range smartphone with 4.3-inch
720p Super LCD 2, 8-megapixel camera with 1080p video recording, 42Mbps HSPA+,
NFC, 1GB RAM and a dual-core processor.
The company’s entry-level smartphone, Rio will come
with 4-inch WVGA display, 14.4Mbps HSPA, 5-megapixel camera, 512MB RAM, and a
Qualcomm MSM8227 processor.
HTC Rio and Accord are expected to hit the market in October,
while Zenith will be launching sometime in the fourth quarter.
HTC to bring Windows 8 smartphones this year
A few days back, HTC announced that it is supporting
Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 8 platform and said that it will bring
smartphones running on Phone 8 platform to market later this year.
HTC has been working with Microsoft since 2000. In
February, HTC unveiled its new HTC TITAN II as the company’s first
Windows Phone to run on a 4G LTE network.
