HTC and Telefónica have announced an exclusive partnership to sell the HTC Smart on O2 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The HTC Smart, for those of you that don’t remember, leverages the Brew MP platform to give features like widgets, browsing and connectivity at an affordable price.
The HTC Smart also has HTC Sense, HTC’s ‘unique design philosophy that focuses the mobile experience on people’. People can customise their own, personal HTC Smart experience using a variety of widgets for quick access to contacts, photos, music, weather and more. People are able to follow their friends’ status updates using HTC Friend Stream, an application that seamlessly aggregates all of your social communication including Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr into one organised flow of updates.
The Smart also utilises Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile Platform™ (Brew MP), which apparently enables the device with ‘a mass-market opportunity for new applications and services from software developers worldwide’.
In addition to being exclusively available through O2 in Germany, Ireland and the UK in April, the HTC Smart will also be available in Italy with Telecom Italia, Norway with Netcom and across Europe through the direct channel.