AT&T to avail HTC Facebook phone Status for $49.9 on July 17

AT&T is about to release HTC’s Facebook special smartphone HTC Status. The much-longed-for smartphone from the Taiwanese technology builder will be up for sales on July 17, 2011 on AT&T. The HTC Facebook smartphone has been announced at the 2011 February’s Mobile World Congress in Spain. As you can guess, the smartphone is customized with Facebook social network site. You can update your profile with status, photo and links quite smoothly on the phone.

HTC Status Facebook phone

Unfortunately, the frenzied HTC Status has no more incredible features other than its Facebook friendliness. You may wonder to go through the tech specs and features of the Android smartphone since it is equipped with less powerful components. HTC Status runs on a single core processor when most other Andorid smartphones in the market have switched to dual core chips.

The HTC Facebook phone runs on a 600 MHz processor and sports a paltry 512 MB of memory storage capacity. Display of HTC Status is sized only 2.5-inch and it has a resolution of mere 480×320 pixels. However, the device highlights Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G and GPS. Dual cameras and QWERTY keyboard are other remarkable features with the HTC Facebook phone.

HTC Status plays on Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Thanks to its less competitive components, the smartphone is priced only at just $49.99, but with a two-year data contract with the carrier. Indeed, keypad of the smartphone is specially designed with some Facebook friendly buttons.

Nevertheless, skeptics are doubtful of the success of HTC Status as a Facebook smartphone. Since most other Andorid smartphones offer incredible Facebook social networking experience, analysts are confused about the very requirement of a special Facebook friendly hardware. Anyway, let’s wait and see how worthy will be the forthcoming HTC Facebook phone in our Facebook social networking experiences.

Via: Gigaom