Announced alongside the Facebook Home launcher, the HTC First for AT&T is the first smartphone to feature the social network's Android add-on out of the box. Launching a dedicated "Facebook phone" isn't an unfamiliar affair for HTC - back in 2011, the Taiwanese manufacturer released the Salsa and ChaCha duo of entry-level devices.
Facebook Home aside, the HTC First features a spec sheet, mostly taken from last year's top shelf Android smartphones. The highlights included a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset and a sharp 4.3" 720p Super LCD display for liking your Facebook friends' online rants. Here goes the full list of talents, which the HTC First has to offer.
At A Glance
- Quad-band GSM and quad-band 3G support
- Tri-band LTE network support
- 4.3" 16M-color Super LCD capacitive touchscreen with HD resolution (720 x 1280 pixels); Gorilla glass
- Unmodified Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean with Facebook Home UI preinstalled
- 1.4 GHz dual-core Krait CPU, Qualcomm MSM8930 Snapdragon 400 chipset
- 1 GB of RAM and 16GB of built-in storage
- 5 MP autofocus camera with LED flash; face detection and geotagging
- 1080p and 720p video recording @ 30fps
- 1.6MP front-facing camera
- Wi-Fi a/b/g/n
- GPS with A-GPS
- Accelerometer, proximity sensor and auto-brightness sensor
- Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
- microUSB port and stereo Bluetooth v4.0
- Smart dialing, voice dialing
- DivX/XviD video support
- Superb build quality and one-hand ergonomics
- Barely visible carrier branding
- 2000mAh Li-Po battery with impressive performance