HTC Salsa : hands-on video with the Facebook phone

Review by T3 Online

The Facebook phone lives, but is it really in tune with your social networks or is the tie up an unnecessary addition?

HTC’s not been shy with bringing phones to market this year; there’ve been a fair few barnstorming handsets already from the Taiwanese giant. The HTC Salsa is one of two new handsets bearing the familiar ‘F’ of Mark Zuckerberg’s social network, but is it any good?

We’ve had a hands-on look and decided a full verdict. Is it the best social networking phone on the market? Watch our video review below to see if the HTC Salsa is worth your hard-earned cash:

HTC Salsa Features & Specifications

- 3.4 inches TFT capacitive touchscreen with 320 x 480 pixels and 256K colors

- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate

- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off

- HTC Sense UI

- 3.5mm audio jack

- Call recording

- 512 MB internal memory and 512 MB RAM

- microSD up to 32GB

- 3G HSDPA speed upto 7.2 Mbps

- Wi-Fi

- Bluetooth v3.0

- MicroUSB v2.0

- 5 MegaPixel with 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus and LED flash

- Geo-tagging

- face detection

- Android OS, v2.4 (Gingerbread)

- 600 MHz processor

- SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM

- Colors option : Black, Silver

- A-GPS support

- Java Via third party application

- Facebook dedicated key

- SNS integration

- Digital compass

- YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration

- MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA player

- MP4/H.264 player

- Document viewer

- Voice memo

- Standard battery, Li-Ion 1520 mAh

- Predictive text input

- Google Search, Maps, Gmail

HTC Salsa : hands-on video with the Facebook phone