NEWS RELEASE
Contact:
Darrell Slocum
Marketing & Communications Director
Golden State Cellular
darrells@goldenstatecellular.com
(209) 770-1557
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 03-11-10: Jamestown, California. Golden State Cellular
the areas premier wireless provider, announced today the launch of its first Android-powered Smartphone, the new HTC Hero™. The HTC Hero is the first of a variety of Android-powered Smartphones Golden State Cellular plans to offer in the future.
Android-powered devices are one of the fastest growing device segments in the wireless industry with worldwide sales expected to soon eclipse the most popular smartphones on the market today, including the iPhone™, according to a March 2009 report by Informa Telecoms and Media, a London-based research house specializing in the mobile, broadband and television industries.
“The arrival of HTC Hero and the Android platform to Golden State Cellular’s new 3G network is an important milestone for our customers” said Dan Rule, General Manager. Any Android phone is fully customizable with access to thousands of applications and one-touch access to your email, music, the web and more.
HTC Hero is the first U.S. device to feature HTC Sense, an intuitive experience that was built with a guiding philosophy to put people at the center and allows the device to be completely customized to the wants and needs of the user. The device’s seven-panel wide home screen can be populated with customizable widgets that bring information to the surface.
HTC Hero users can easily create and switch between Scenes to reflect different moments or roles in their lives, such as work, social, travel and play. For example, a work Scene can be easily set up to include stock updates, work email and calendar, a play Scene could have music, weather, and a Twitter feed or a travel Scene could offer instant access to the local time, weather and maps. Customers will enjoy the robust potential to personalize their wireless experience.
Smartphones are only as good as the network on which they operate. Golden State Cellular’s newly installed 3G technology will be powering the HTC Hero .
The HTC Hero has built-in Google mobile services with synchronization, including Google Search™, Google Maps™, Gmail™, and YouTube™ as well as access to thousands of applications on the Android Market™. It also offers easy access to personal and business e-mail, instant messaging and text messaging through POP, IMAP, and Exchange Active Sync accounts.
It is the first Golden State Cellular device to offer HTC Footprints™, an application experience that enables the user to chronicle their special moments by capturing a digital postcard on their phone. Once captured, Footprints provides the ability to take notes and an audio clip of that favorite restaurant or special place while identifying its specific location. In addition to identifying each postcard with its specific GPS coordinates, Footprints also auto-names each postcard with its general location or area.
The fully-loaded Smartphone also features a 5 Megapixel autofocus camera and camcorder, 3.2 inch HVGA touch-sensitive display, Wi-Fi capability, GPS with digital compass, accelerometer, 3.5 mm stereo headset jack as well as Stereo Bluetooth® 2.0 Wireless technology. Additionally, this Android-powered Smartphone gives customers the option to flexibly upgrade its memory with a MicroSD memory card, so they can easily add more memory without having to purchase a new device.
