HTC’s New phone with Qwerty Keypad: ChaCha

Let's get one thing straight: the HTC ChaCha is not the Facebook phone. It's not manufactured by Facebook. But let's get another thing straight, too: the HTC ChaCha is the Facebook experience and it's even endorsed to a certain extent by the King of the network, Mark Zuckerberg, who gave a sermon about it at the phone's launch. So lets take a look at it,

The HTC ChaCha finds itself with the same Qualcomm MSM7227 processor clocked at 800MHz as we saw in the Salsa. You get 512MB ROM and RAM and these specs really set the phone out as a mid range handset

The resolution of the screen on the HTC ChaCha is 480 x 320 pixels. That gives you a pixel density of 221ppi, which is high, effectively cramming plenty of pixels nice and tight into the visible display. This makes it capable of rendering fine detail sharply.

There are front and rear cameras, the back offering 5-megapixel stills and up to 720 x 480 video capture.

In general terms everything on the HTC ChaCha runs very nicely. The HTC Sense side of things works well enough and the keyboard we’ve already detailed: it has some minor flaws, but on the whole it is a good experience. 

Rocking the latest Android iteration, Gingerbread 2.3.3 and fully capable of a dance-off with some other 3G-capable Android devices, it's due to hit stores any day now, with a sim-free price tag around £250, and a contract offering of around £20 per month.