The HTC Flyer picks up on HTC’s now-familiar unibody design. The 7-inch 1024 x 600 screen offers up HTC Sense, now customised for use on a tablet. Than means it works in landscape much more naturally making much better use of the screen space on offer. The HTC Flyer is very much a HTC Sense tablet meaning it won’t be launching on Honeycomb. Another feature of the HTC Flyer is Bluetooth 3 suggesting that HTC sees you wireless transferring data to your device when you want to add some content.
The stylus is something of a strange addition, it is certainly a rarity amongst the recent run of Android tablets, but we found the interface ran perfectly without it. It does add some cool features, however, and a new Timemark application will let you write and record audio at the same time on the device, and keep the two in sync – great for anyone scribbling notes.
It measures 195.4 x 122 x 13.2mm and weighs 415g, which is pretty light, making this a relatively portable machine.
It looks slick, it seems a considered approach to a tablet device rather than just another large phone. As such, we’ve no doubt that there will be plenty of enthusiasm about the Flyer. Addressing the content issues from the start, the OnLive gaming and Watch movies look like they complete some of the picture missing from rival devices, but we haven’t had the chance to really play with any of this content to examine pricing, quality or anything else.
