AT&T and HTC Corporation today announced that HTC Aria, a rich and powerful addition to AT&T’s Android smartphone portfolio, will be available exclusively at AT&T beginning June 20. The smartphone with AT&T will provide a combination of 3G speed with a responsive capacitive touch screen and an optical joystick.
The HTC Aria is Wi-Fi capable and its customers will receive access to AT&T Wi-Fi, which has more than 20,000 hotspots across the U.S. AT&T’s High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology will provide a considerable boost to 3G speeds. The phone is being shipped with Android 2.1 instead of 2.2. The phone consists a five megapixel camera, 3.2-inch HVGA capacitive touchpanel, inbuilt WiFi. The phone consists of a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM 7227 processor, proximity sensor, integrated GPS, a digital compass, light sensor, 512MB ROM / 384MB RAM, a microSD card slot (2GB included) and a 1,200mAh battery good for up to six hours of chit-chat. It is clearly meant to be a mid-level Android phone – it just isn’t as powerful as HTC Evo or the Droid Incredible. AT&T has announced the starting price as $129.99 on a two-year contract (after $100 mail-in rebate).
In the video below, Dante Martin, Product Manager at AT&T for Android devices, unboxes the HTC Aria.