AT&T Announces Two New HTC Smartphones, Also Reveals Will Be The First To Offer the Samsung Galaxy Camera
AT&T has been busy beefing up their device portfolio in preparation for the upcoming holiday shopping season and on Thursday announced several upcoming devices. The company plans to add two new HTC smartphones and will be the first to launch Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Camera.
AT&T consumers will soon be able to get their hands on the exclusive HTC One X+ and the One VX. Here’s what we know about the two devices. The HTC One X+ will ship Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ready and will come equipped with a full 64 GB of storage. The phone will sport the 1.7Ghz Tegra 3 quad-core processor and a fifth core dedicated solely to light activity. The other four cores are designed to come into play for all of of your beloved apps that require a bit more juice. This device will feature a 4.7-inch HD screen, an 8-megapixel rear camera, and will only be available in black.
The HTC One VX is aimed at a different demographic with its lower-end specs. Highlights include a 4.5-inch display, a 5-megapixel rear camera and will ship running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
AT&T left out exact prices but did say the devices would be “coming soon”.
Ma Bell also took this opportunity to reveal that it will be the first U.S. carrier to offer the Samsung Galaxy Camera. The camera will be an Android-powered point-and-shoot device. Camera and Android aficionados alike can look forward to specs including a 4.8-inch HD screen, a quad-core 1 Ghz processor, and the ability to run on AT&T’s 4G LTE network. The camera will come Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ready. This baby sports an impressive 16-megapixel sensor and a retractable lens that has 21x optical zoom. Users will be able to download all their favorite photo sharing apps like Facebook and Instagram right on the camera and will be able to load pictures from the camera to the apps. Pricing for the Galaxy Camera will be confirmed when the camera hits retail shelves in the “coming week”.
Full press can be found below.
Today, HTC and AT&T announced two new smartphones joining the acclaimed HTC One family – the HTC One X+ and HTC One VX. Both devices include HTC’s amazing camera and authentic sound experience with Beats Audio, as well as stunning super LCD2 displays with Corning Gorilla Glass and access to AT&T’s 4G LTE network.
The HTC One X+ is the first smartphone in the U.S. running HTC Sense 4+ on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), which improves the imaging and audio experience. Delivering a superior performance, the HTC One X+ comes equipped with a 4G LTE-enabled 1.7 GHz quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor and a 2100 mAh battery. Customers can save more of their favorite files with this stylish carbon black smartphone which includes 64 GB of internal memory.
Also making its debut is the HTC One VX. Running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) with HTC Sense 4, the HTC One VX delivers HTC’s amazing camera and authentic sound experience in a more compact size for even greater mass-market appeal. Consumers can snap pictures while shooting video with HTC Video Pic, utilize the one-press continuous shooting feature so they never miss that special moment and hear studio-quality sound across the device’s entire multimedia experience.
Both the HTC One X+ and HTC One VX will be available exclusively from AT&T in the U.S.
AT&T FIRST TO LAUNCH GALAXY CAMERA; SAMSUNG DEFINES NEW CATEGORY WITH 4G CONNECTED CAMERA
Samsung Galaxy CameraTM combines high performance photography and AT&T 4G wireless connectivity to enable seamless sharing across devices and with social media
DALLAS, OCT. 4, 2012 — AT&T* and Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC (Samsung Mobile)1 today announced the Samsung Galaxy Camera™ coming to AT&T. The Galaxy Camera combines high performance photography with Android™ 4.1 Jelly Bean and AT&T 4G mobile internet connectivity, resulting in a powerful point and shoot camera with a familiar, intuitive user interface and access to all of your favorite Android applications from the Google Play™ market.
The Galaxy Camera is a perfect fit for those who wish to shoot, edit and share brilliant photographs and video easily and quickly without connecting to a laptop or PC. The Galaxy Camera features a 4.8-inch HD Super Clear LCD screen, boasts a 21x optical zoom lens and a super-bright 16MP BSI CMOS sensor for shooting high-quality images close up and in low light conditions. This device is powered by a quad-core 1 GHz processor for quick and responsive performance ensuring you can capture the shots you want. It also includes powerful features like Smart Pro Mode technology, which allows you to toggle through a series of pre-set options that simplify the processes for taking professional-level images.
“Wirelessly enabling Samsung’s Galaxy Camera will create a significant shift in how consumers share and communicate with photos and videos,” said Chris Penrose, senior vice president, AT&T Emerging Devices. “By posting instantly to social networking sites or sending directly to another device, the person behind the lens is essentially offering family and friends the opportunity to share in the moments as they are actually experiencing them. We’re excited that the AT&T wireless network will help enable these opportunities.”
“Once again, Samsung has defined a new category of mobile devices and AT&T is leading the way to bring this device to consumers. The Galaxy Camera brings together Samsung’s latest innovations in mobile and optical imaging technologies to provide the first connected camera running on the latest Android platform,” said Dale Sohn, President of Samsung Telecommunications America.
In addition to being able to share to social networks and cloud services on the go, consumers can harness the speed and connectivity of AT&T’s wireless network to share images and videos between Galaxy Camera and a range of Galaxy™ devices including the Galaxy S® III and Galaxy Note® II.
The Galaxy Camera is designed with several of the key content sharing features first introduced with the Galaxy S III including:
AllShare® Play
· Locate Samsung HDTVs, laptops and other devices on the same Wi-Fi® network that are ready to receive photo and video files. Users can remotely access files from Galaxy Camera with other devices on their home network like a PC or Samsung Smart TV™.
Share Shot
· Automatically send still images taken with the Galaxy Camera to other Galaxy S III, and Galaxy Note devices up to 200 feet away
Buddy Photo Share
· Instantly and automatically tags faces of existing device contacts in photos making it easy to share with them.
Pricing for the Galaxy Camera will be announced when it goes on sale in the coming weeks. For more information on AT&T, please visit www.att.com.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
1Samsung Mobile is the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the United States based upon reported shipment data, according to Strategy Analytics, North America Handset Vendor Marketshare, Q2 2012.
4G when used in relation to Samsung devices refers to the fact that the devices can operate on AT&T’s 4G network.
