• Meet HTC's Facebook Phones: The ChaCha, and the Salsa

    Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

    Greg Kumparak is the Mobile Editor at Techcrunch. Greg has been writing for the TechCrunch network since May of 2008. Greg was born just outside of San Jose, and now lives in the East Bay of California. → Learn More

    Are you addicted to Facebook? (Or, as they say on the streets: are you hooked on the ‘book?) Has your inner urge to look at drunk pictures of your friends grown to the point that you need a phone with a one-touch, dedicated Facebook button? You might want to get help — or you could just get one of HTC’s two just-announced “social phones”: the ChaCha and the Salsa

    The ChaCha: Pictured on left. Man, I can guess someone who’s going to be pretty annoyed with this name — way to mess with their search engine results for months, HTC. This one has 2.6″, 480×320 display, a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash, VGA front-facing camera, and a full QWERTY keyboard built in. The candy bar design has an ever-so-subtle bend that puts the screen at a slightly forward angle, which HTC says makes it “easy to view and comfortable to type”.

    The Salsa: What goes better with the ChaCha than a bit of Salsa? This ones got a 3.4″ 480×320 display, a rear 5-megapixel camera, and a VGA front-facing camera.

    The main bullet point of both phones — or at least, the thing that HTC’s pushing the hardest — is definitely that whacky little Facebook button. It’s context sensitive, lighting up “whenever there is an opportunity to share content or updates through Facebook”. Tap it while looking at a photo, and you’ll be able to upload that photo immediately — tap it while you’re on a site, and you can post that site to your wall. Listening to music? Tap the button, and it’ll send out a status update letting your friends know what track you’re jamming.

    Expect these phones to hit Europe and Asia in Q2 of this year, and on AT&T here in the states at some point after that.

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