HTC had just announced a new smartphone (or dump phone?) for the masses – the HTC Smart.

This is the first HTC phone that does not use any smartphone OS from the market like Windows Mobile and Android.  In fact, it is based on Brew Mobile Platform from Qualcomm.

It has a 300Mhz CPU (huh?!). The specs include a 2.8″ QVGA touch-screen, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and single-band 3G/HSDPA, 3 megapixel fixed-focus camera with flash, Bluetooth 2.0 and microSD expansion.

The phone does come with “HTC Scenes” which reflect your mood like mode for relaxing, for work and so on. With Sense, you will get Facebook updates as well. Texts and emails are all brought into the “Scenes” and you can browse the web in both portrait and landscape modes.

This will be a low end entry device from HTC targetting for people who are not comfortable with smartphones that can do so many things (and run other apps) but wish to have a cool and nice looking phone to handle daily tasks.

[via HTC]