MWC2011: HTC unveiled two Facebook smartphones, HTC Salsa and ChaCha

In a previous post we presented three new smartphones by HTC, the HTC Wildfire S, Desire S and Incredible S, but it seems HTC doesn’t stop here. They thought about some dedicated social media phones, and created the HTC Salsa and ChaCha.

What’s so special about these two new smartphones is that they have a dedicated Facebook button, with a more customized Sense UI running on Android 2.4 to have more focus on the world’s largest social network.

“HTC has always understood that different people want different things and the new HTC ChaCha and Salsa offer special new ways to experience Facebook on a mobile device,” said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corporation. “With more than 500 million active users worldwide, Facebook has become synonymous with the social web and we wanted to create the ultimate socially connected phones with mass market appeal.”

HTC Salsa features a 3.4 inch touchscreen display, while the ChaCha will dance its way around with a 2.6-inch display and features hardware QWERTY keyboard. Also, HTC Salsa and ChaCha packs a a 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor, 512 MB of RAM and ROM, a 5 megapixel camera on the back and a VGA camera on the front for video chat, but there is also GPS, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity.

Both of these smartphones come with a dedicated Facebook button for sharing photos on Facebook, will run on Android Gingerbread 2.4 and feature a new version of HTC’s Sense UI.

HTC has not announced yet the price for HTC Salsa or HTC ChaCha, but we know for sure the release date, which will be in the second quarter of 2011.