<div>HTC isn’t sitting quietly on the sidelines at a time when many new phones and tablets are exploding into the mobile devices market. At a media event at the Ion Sky in Singapore, the Taiwanese handset manufacturer has just launched a beautifully designed set of phones on both Windows and Android platforms. There’s also a special phone for India. <br /><br />To begin with, HTC now has a flagship Windows 8 phone — the HTC 8X. This handset isn’t just one of the first to be based on Microsoft’s Windows 8 OS, but is very carefully designed as well. It’s slim — and looks slimmer than it is — it’s light, and comes in gorgeous colours to match the Windows 8 themes. All these colours won’t be immediately available in India, unfortunately, but the black and blue versions will be. The 8X has a beautiful 4.3 inch LCD-2 screen of 1280 x 720 pixels resolution. There’s an 8 megapixel camera and the phone runs on a 1.5GHz Qualcomm with 16GB of internal memory, 1GB RAM, and a 1,800 mAh battery. <br /><br />The 8X will cost Rs 35,023 in India. <br /><br />Another, more affordable Windows phone is the HTC 8S which has a 4-inch 800x480 pixel screen. Other specs are lower than the 8X such as a 5 megapixel camera, The 8S will cost Rs 19,260. <br /><br />Another addition to the lineup, this time on Android, is an amped version of the HTC One X. Called the One X + and to be available at Rs 40,190, the handset adds a faster processor and newer version of Android (Jelly Bean) to its popular predecessor. It runs on a 1.7Ghz Tegra 3 quad core processor and 1GB of RAM. The much admired S-LCD 2 screen of the One X+ is 4.7-inches. Internal memory is 64GB with additional memory expandable through a micro SD card. <br /><br />A phone specially meant for India — one of HTC’s most important markets — and which packs the features the company assesses to be the most desired by Indian customers, the HTC Desire SV comes in a a very attractive orange colour. It has GSM-GSM dual sim capability, loud music, and a 4.3 inch WVGA screen. Other specs include a 1GHz processor, 768MB of RAM 1 GB internal storage and a 5 megapixel camera. This youthful phone has a whole lot of personality and runs on Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich, upgradeable to Jelly Bean in the near future. <br /><br />Despite poor Q3 results, HTC is optimistic about the strength of its smartphones and their sales and rounded off its event with a sizzling fashion show, emphasising a message of different personalities, all of them very much in vogue. <br /><br /> </div>
