Hey, are you waiting for the Android tablet, Motorola Xoom?  I am!  Here is the good news.  From a leak of Bestbuy document, the Motorola Xoom will be on schedule and will be available for order on 24th of February.  And this is just a few weeks to go from today.

The other piece of Android super phone to be available soon is the Thunderbolt from HTC, which is to be available on 17th of February, one week before the availability of Xoom.

So, let see we can get these two wonderful devices on time.

“It’s undeniably hampered by some design flaws and poor battery life, but the sheer volume of good things it brings to the table can’t be ignored. Froyo is the most polished and accomplished version of Android by a good margin, HTC’s latest Sense enhancements add legitimate value to the proposition, and the aluminum unibody construction, upgraded internals, and jumbo screen are unignorably appealing. On the whole, we feel like the Desire HD’s downsides tend to relate to things that won’t affect you too much in daily operation — you won’t need to access the battery too often, for example — whereas its strengths reside in the critical areas of expanding functionality, choice, performance, and screen dimensions. It’s Froyo on a 4.3-inch screen and it tastes just right.”

The original review is here.

“Dashboard lets you remotely wipe, lock and ring your phone, plus it lets you find your phone on a map, forward SMS, and forward calls. Footprints simply backs up your Footprints, which are photos that have associated coordinates and notes. Next, People is a simple contacts backup tool that offers two-way sync (though many people that already use Microsoft Exchange or Gmail will find this feature unnecessary). The Messages portion of HTCSense is by far the most interesting: it lets you manage SMS conversations from the web. You can even send and reply to SMS in real time, meaning you can send/receive SMS without touching your phone…neat! And finally, HTC Hub lets you remotely push themes, ringtones, skins, scenes, wallpaper, and more, right to your phone from the web. You can even “mark” applications so that you can remind yourself to download them later.”

The phone is rumoured to include a 4.3″ screen, 480×800 resolution, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and aGPS.  From the image, we can see it will come with the HTC hub service.

However, nothing much I know at the moment.

During the HTC product announcement event hosted in London, HTC unveiled its latest creations for Android:

• The Desire HD – It has a massive 4.3″ display housed in a body constructed from a solid block of aluminium. It has a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 8MP camera with dual-LED flash and HD recording, Dolby Mobile, and HSPA+ data with 802.11n connectivity. It also runs the new Sense UI on top of Android 2.2.
• The Desire Z – It is running Android 2.2. According to HTC, it is a pop-out, not a slider It’s powered by an 800Mhz Qualcomm processor and carries HSPA+ and 802.11n connectivity, a 5MP HD-capable camera, and comes with the new version of HTC’s Sense UI.
• The new HTC Sense has a newly created camera application and you can now record HD videos or capture and edit images with a variety of fun camera effects. There is a new HTC Locations which caches maps on your device.  HTC Sense also includes a new integrated e-book with store powered by Kobo™.
• HTCSense.com, which is a set of online services and functionality connected to your HTC mobile phone running Sense.  “For example, people can easily locate a missing phone by triggering the handset to ring loudly, even if it is set to silent, or to flag its location on a map. If the phone’s been lost or stolen, users can remotely lock the phone, forward calls and texts to another phone, send a message to the phone to arrange its return or even remotely wipe all personal data from it,” the press release reads, “HTCSense.com makes it easy to setup a new HTC phone or access archived mobile content such as contacts, text messages and call history from a PC browser. People can also customize their phones with exclusive HTC content like wallpapers, HTC scenes, sounds or plug-ins.”

The new phones will be available for Europe in October, Asia and US to follow.

The full press release is after the break.

HTC Unveils HTC Desire HD™ and HTC Desire Z™ With New HTC Sense™ and HTCSense.com

HTC Sense integrates a variety of multimedia and location-based enhancements and introduces HTCSense.com, a series of new connected HTC services

LONDON, Sept. 15 — HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, today unveiled a new HTC Sense experience with the new HTC Desire HD™ and HTC Desire Z™ Android-based smartphones. The new HTC Sense experience continues HTC’s strong focus on the customer, placing people at the center by simply making its phones work in a more personal and natural way. HTC Sense introduces a number of key innovations including a series of connected services called HTCSense.com that enhance people’s mobile experience on HTC phones.

“We’re excited to be taking the HTC Sense experience beyond the phone to a whole new level with a series of connected HTC services we call HTCSense.com,” said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corporation. “Our customers will value the holistic approach we’re taking to enhance their mobile experience. This customer-first philosophy has resonated with people buying HTC phones and this drives us to continue introducing new innovative smartphones like the HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z.”

“As a key Android partner and smartphone brand, HTC continues to bring new innovation to the platform,” said Andy Rubin, VP engineering at Google. “Android is about choice and the new HTC smartphones continue to provide customers with powerful choices and flexibility.”

HTC Sense
The new HTC Sense experience offers a variety of enhancements that improve how people capture, create, share and access multimedia content. With a newly created camera experience, people can record HD videos or capture and edit images with a variety of fun camera effects. With HTC Locations, a new differentiated online mapping experience, people have instant, on-demand mapping without download delays or incurring mobile roaming charges.
HTC Sense also includes a new integrated online e-reading experience utilizing a new e-book store powered by Kobo™ and a new, mobile-optimized e-reader that includes the ability to highlight, annotate and quickly search for definitions or translate unfamiliar terms.

HTCSense.com
With the new HTCSense.com service, people can simply manage their mobile phone experience from their HTC phone or personal computer. For example, people can easily locate a missing phone by triggering the handset to ring loudly, even if it is set to silent, or to flag its location on a map. If the phone’s been lost or stolen, users can remotely lock the phone, forward calls and texts to another phone, send a message to the phone to arrange its return or even remotely wipe all personal data from it. HTCSense.com makes it easy to setup a new HTC phone or access archived mobile content such as contacts, text messages and call history from a PC browser. People can also customize their phones with exclusive HTC content like wallpapers, HTC scenes, sounds or plug-ins.

HTC Desire HD
HTC Desire HD showcases outstanding multimedia content with its bright 4.3″ LCD display and Dolby Mobile and SRS virtual sound and is the first to be powered by the new 1GHz Qualcomm 8255 Snapdragon processor. The HTC Desire HD enables 720p HD video recording and includes an 8-megapixel camera with dual-flash. Building on the unibody heritage of the HTC Legend, the HTC Desire HD is sculpted from a block of solid aluminum and exudes the air of quality and strength that HTC has come to be known for. It also includes the new HTC Fast Boot that enables people to quickly make a call or check emails by shortening the time taken to complete the power-up sequence.

HTC Desire Z
For people constantly on the go, HTC Desire Z makes it quick and easy to stay connected with friends on Facebook and Twitter or with colleagues and customers at work. HTC Desire Z features a unique ‘pop hinge’ that opens to reveal a QWERTY keyboard for fast, convenient typing. HTC Desire Z’s keyboard also includes a variety of keyboard shortcuts and two customizable keys for providing instant access to common functions without the need to open menus. HTC Desire Z also includes 720p HD video recording and a 5-megapixel camera with automatic flash. It is the first phone to utilize the new 800MHz Qualcomm 7230 processor for improved performance and battery life and also includes HTC Fast Boot.

Availability
The new HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z will be broadly available through mobile operators and retailers across major European and Asian markets from October 2010 with the HTC Desire Z shipping in North America later this year.

• 800 MHz Qualcomm MSM 7230
• Android 2.2
• 4GB ROM, 512 MB RAM
• Radio: 850, 900, 1800 and 1900MHz. Plus UMTS
• WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS/aGPS
• 3.7-inch WVGA 480x 800 resolution, capacitive touchscreen
• 5-megapixel color camera with autofocus and flash
• 1300 mAh battery

HTC is now able to get its phones, like Desire, to run the latest Android release (Froyo) just less then 2 months after Google released it.  And HTC has started to roll out the Froyo update to Desire users.

This is in fact a very good news to many people.  I did not expect HTC to be a first one to update their phones to Froyo, given its track record.

I do hope HTC can keep up with this momentum and hopefully we will see its Gingerbread (Android 3.0) phones coming to the market soon after Google release it at the end of the end.

[via XDA-Developers]

HTC has not been able to keep up with the pace with Google’s Android releases for the pass few devices.  We waited for more than half a year for them to bring Eclair (Android 2.1) to Hero and other devices.  Will HTC be so qucik this time for Froyo?

Well, I certainly hope that HTC will do their best to bring the latest OS from Google to their devices to enjoy all the goodies that Google has brought to Nexus One.

Let’s hope this will happen in July!

[via recombu]