HTC Unveils Budget RenRen Phone


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HTC have unveiled their latest handset for the Chinese market. The budget Android phone is actually just the new HTC Explorer which has had itā€™s UI customized for the Chinese market to work with RenRen rather than Facebook and Twitter.

The Daren, or ā€˜RenRenā€™ phone, as the Chinese version of the HTC Explorer has been christened, will cost 2099 Yuan ($330) and feature a modest mind numbingly unexciting specification such as a low resolution, 480 x 300, 3.2-inch touchscreen and 3.2 mega-pixel camera.

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HTCā€™s Daren is the second phone targeted at Chinaā€™s social network crowd with the Daren designed to interact with Chinaā€™s Facebook style social networking portal RenRen, the first was a modified HTC Salsa, called the Weike which was designed to seamlessly connect toĀ  Sinaā€™s Weibo micro blogging service.

HTC plan to introduce introduce 5 additional Android smartphones to the Chinese maker over the coming weeks, including the companiesā€™s much anticipated Sensation XE phone, which will ship with Dr, Dre Monster Beats headphones.

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