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HTC makes some of the finest Android smartphones around, so we were intrigued to see how well its first tablet would perform. While it looks beautiful and its compact form makes it an ideal travel companion, we wonder why it doesn’t have a tablet OS. T...
The HTC Flyer is a superb-looking tablet with enough processing power to drive its multimedia functions. Its high price tag is more of an issue than its use of the older Android 2.3 OS, given that other aspects of this likable tablet are so advanced. W...
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computeractive.co.uk Updated:
2011-10-28 10:26:49
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Many of the tablet computers we've looked at have been disappointing, largely because the Android operating system is designed for phones, not larger-sized tablet screens.But that's been rectified with the release of Android 3 ‘Honeycomb' and some exce...
Good size; great screen; fast and responsive...
Uses Android 2.3; relatively expensive...
An impressive tablet computer that's hampered by an older version of the operating system...
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wired.co.uk Updated:
2011-10-28 10:27:36
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HTC's first tablet has the look of a squished iPod about it, with a 178mm (7-inch) screen surrounded by a 195x122x13mm and 420g case, it's all brushed aluminium and white rubberised plastic -- très pomme.But perhaps a more direct comparison is with Sam...
Delicious casing, Sharp 178mm screen, Sense 2.1 for tablet UI, Sophisticated drawing/writing stylus...
Not Android 3.0 Honeycomb...
The HTC Flyer is a beautiful first entry into the tablet market for the Taiwanese manufacturer. It may not be quite as fast or as smooth as some, notably the iPad, but it's way more pocketable, with an impressive list of features and the stylus shows p...
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zdnet.co.uk Updated:
2011-10-28 10:28:23
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The Flyer's relatively small size makes it seem more like a giant phone than a tablet, despite the lack of voice-dial facilities and the presence of the 'magic' pen. The Flyer is certainly a different beast to 10in. Android tablets and Apple's iPad. It...
Wellmade chassis, Pen input is currently unique to Android tablets, Attractive user interface, Small and portable...
Runs Android 2.3 rather than 3.0, May be too small for some users, Expensive, Poor battery life, No compelling features...
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Apple chief executive Steve Jobs maintains that 7in tablets are "dead on arrival". His argument is that you need something larger to really be productive. But the original Samsung Galaxy Tab proved that this argument was slightly flawed, as the hardwar...
Stylish, easy to use, good pen input...
Expensive, not significantly better than its rivals, lack of phone...
HTC's Flyer is a good tablet overall. Aside from the pen functionality it has little to offer over Samsung's older Galaxy Tab, though, and with its much higher price and lack of phone functionality, we wonder how well it will sell...
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The arrival of a tablet from HTC, the company that has run the furthest and fastest since picking up the Android ball was always going to be something of a Big Deal but in some ways the new Flyer is a surprisingly odd fish. In-flight entertainment: HTC...
In a nutshell, very good but very expensive sums up the Flyer. HTC clearly thinks it can now charge a premium for its devices and adapter cables – a policy I take issue with no matter what the brand or logo. Still, if you have the money you won’t be d...
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I, too, was taken in by the prospect of HTC jumping on the tablet bandwagon. While the likes of Motorola and HP have gone for direct competition to the iPad 10-inch model, HTC and Samsung (at least for now) have hung back a little and gone for smaller tab...
I, too, was taken in by the prospect of HTC jumping on the tablet bandwagon. While the likes of Motorola and HP have gone for direct competition to the iPad 10-inch model, HTC and Samsung (at least for now) have hung back a little and gone for smaller...
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gadgetshow.channel5.com Updated:
2011-10-28 10:29:08
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The HTC Flyer is a 7-inch tablet, offering a smaller and more portable option than the Apple iPad 2. As well as being easier to carry around, it's also packed with features, and a great option for those buying their first tablet. The goodThe HTC Flyer...
The HTC Flyer looks great. It's compact, lightweight and easy to take on the road with you. It's slightly thicker than an Apple iPad 2, but it's more comfortable to hold in one hand, and we prefer it for longer periods of use. The 7-inch screen is one of this tablet's best features, proving just about large enough to watch movies on or browse your favourite websites. At 1024 x 600 pixels, it's al...
Unfortunately, the HTC Flyer stumbles when it comes to video playback – not because of any hardware issues, but because of a lack of format support. Other manufacturers – such as Samsung – offer support for all the major video codecs, so it's a shame that HTC hasn't followed suit.
Despite this, we love the HTC Flyer. It's definitely expensive, and we'd prefer to see more software options – both for video formats and a boost in apps designed specifically for Android tablets. It's easy to change the formats of videos, however, and...
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The HTC Flyer with its stylusAnyone with an aversion to Apple has had a long wait for a serious iPad alternative, but new Android-powered tablets from a number of manufacturers look promising. That said, we weren't overly impressed by the rece...
The HTC Flyer is an interesting and largely successful attempt at a 7in Android tablet, but it needs Android 3.0 to unlock its potential. A better-suited operating system and a more responsive stylus won’t fix the bigger problem though - the Flyer real...
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HTC have excitedly produced their first venture into the tablet market with the HTC Flyer. A 7" Android tablet running version 2.3.3 Gingerbread on a newly designed 1.5ghz processor. No dual-core and no Honeycomb might not sound like a tablet to get to...
The Flyer is pretty good. I can't imagine it ever being a sensation, or even terribly popular. There are some who are waiting for it and will overlook some of the problems but for those who are looking to pick up a tablet you will find better elsewhere...
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We've said for a long while that with Apple having pioneered the tablet market in its modern form, and been pretty successful with it, other companies were either going to have to beat the iPad on price and key specs or try something different to succeed...
Stylish design, Fast performance, Styus is a very useful addition, Slick interface, Portable and easy to hold...
Stuck using Android 2.3, Too expensive, App support limited, Stylus doesn't dock inside tablet...
The HTC Flyer has lived up to our expectations in terms of the experience it delivers. It's beautifully made, easy to use, fast, and that stylus is great. However, not only do we have reservations about the current and long term app support but currently...
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3g.co.uk Updated:
2011-10-28 10:29:29
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The Flyer is a safe effort rather than one that will blow you away. Having said that, HTC will probably sell a decent number. It's not going to be HTC's flagship tablet, but it has excellent social and web features, although they are the same as those...
Topnotch digital notebook; cool stylus facilities such as drawing on photos; Sense interface is really easy to use for navigation; decent social and web apps...
Email is not optimised for tablets; may be a wait for a Honeycomb update; mediocre design reminiscent of smartphones...
Pros: Top-notch digital notebook; cool stylus facilities such as drawing on photos; Sense interface is really easy to use for navigation; decent social and web apps Cons: Email is not optimised for tablets; may be a wait for a Honeycomb update; mediocre...
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Having been first out of the blocks with an Android smartphone, HTC bided its time when it came to releasing a tablet, and has taken an original approach with its first model, the Flyer. It's a 7in tablet rather than the more popular 10in format, and i...
A great design, a unique stylus and a comprehensive collection of software, but it can't quite justify the high cost of the Flyer...
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HTC is well known for ploughing its own furrow when it comes to mobile devices. It insists on using its custom Sense UI on Android smartphones, and its first tablet, the HTC Flyer, is no different. Where most modern tablets are opting for Android 3, this...
A fine 7in tablet, and the lack of Android 3 doesn't hurt it much, but the price is far too high...
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fonehome.co.uk Updated:
2011-10-28 10:30:44
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With several Honeycomb powered tablets on the market already, the HTC Flyer might almost seem a bit too late: after all, the seven-inch tablet is running an older version of Android designed strictly for mobile phones, not tablets. But dig a little dee...
A cracking super portable tablet, that could be even better with Honeycomb...
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channelpro.co.uk Updated:
2011-10-28 10:30:46
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A fine 7in tablet, and the lack of Android 3 doesn’t hurt it much, but the price is far too high HTC is well known for ploughing its own furrow when it comes to mobile devices. It insists on using its custom Sense UI on Android smartphones, and its fir...
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T3.com Updated:
2011-10-28 10:31:17
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HTC has taken a different approach to its first tablet. Like the Blackberry Playbook, the screen is seven inches, this instantly makes it a far more portable option and at just 122 mm wide, it can easily fit into a pocket. This form factor also enab...
Portable size, Looks great, It has a pen, Decent screen, HTC Sense is intuitive...
Limited connectivity, Lacks Honeycomb features, Pen can be tricky to use and costs extra, High price...
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HTC has always stood out among the raft of Android phone manufacturers. The company's been partnering with Google since the start, but still forges its own style, which has won it a lot of fans.Now that Android is a major tablet OS, with Android 3.0 appea...
Excellent build quality, Bright, vibrant screen, Unique pen option...
Too expensive, Not Android 3.0, Poor battery life...
A decent, but certainly not excellent tablet. For pen lovers only...
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The HTC Flyer is a very different type of slate computer. It’s no iPad or Eee Pad, but a virtual Filofax designed to be carried at all times: it’s almost a return to the era of the Palm Pilot and the PDA. But on crack. Read on and find out whether...
Stylus, HTC Sense overlay, smart bezel...
Slightly creaky, no Android 3.0 skills...
There’s no question that this is the best 7-inch tablet on the market right now. Comparisons with the iPad and 10-inch slates are inevitable, but are only relevant because both are slightly luxurious product types that people want rather than need. If...
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The tablet market is heating up and heating up fast. So what makes HTC think that it has what you need when it comes to a tablet? Some have called out some glaring spec shortcomings of the HTC Flyer. Can HTC overcome and weave its magic with HTC Sense...
Pen, size, build quality...
No Honeycomb, not dual core, no space for the pen on the actual device...
This is a tablet for those that don’t necessarily want the latest features of Android, but do want something that will work, work well, and ultimately be familiar...
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At first glance, one could find many things wrong with the HTC Flyer WiFi tablet. It runs a non-tablet version of Android, it uses a single-core Snapdragon processor, its screen is only 7" inches wide and it has a $80 digital pen that works mostly on H...
Who is the HTC Flyer for? If the RIM's PlayBook is clearly geared at BlackBerry toting business-oriented folk, where does a smartphone-OS powered pint-sized tablet like the Flyer fit in?We think that Android smartphone users who are already familiar w...
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tech.uk.msn.com Updated:
2013-11-06 16:12:52
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HTC What is it? A strikingly designed Android tablet with 7-inch screen and neat, tactile casing. It's made by HTC so it has great Android modding. What's great The Flyer has a special stylus so you can make notes and annotate photos, documents and more...
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It's been a while since we published an overview of the current tablet market. With the holidays around the corner, we collected all of the tablets we've tested and that are still available, and created an overview of what's what. If you want to buy a t...
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Just like the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the HTC Flyer provides a very manageable 7" of screen size in a jacket pocket friendly 420 g body. These 7" tablet models are generally a bit more manageable, with a screen size big enough for a good browsing and book...
HTC’s first entry into the tablet market provides a very decent Android tablet experience due to a zippy processor, 32 GB of onboard storage and with both 3G and Wi-Fi present. One of the distinguishing features though is the Scribe note-taking techno...
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When it launched, the HTC Flyer was based on the Gingerbread Android 2.3 smartphone OS, rather than the tablet-centric Honeycomb, although an update is due in the near future. However, for the time being, the Flyer is still stuck in a Gingerbread-flavoure...
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recombu.com Updated:
2014-03-26 03:36:01
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The Flyer is HTC’s debut Android tablet and one that stands defiantly out from the current crop of tabs. Sporting a 7-inch screen, the HTC Flyer doesn’t come with the huge screen real estate of Motorola’s Xoom or Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1/10.1V, nor do...
The HTC Flyer certainly succeeds where other Android tablets have fallen down, in that it provides a slick, nicely designed user interface. We really love how HTC Watch is implemented and how the Magic Pen/stylus works; we had hours of fun doodling on...
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It€s smaller than most current tablets, runs on an older OS and includes an old-fashioned stylus-like pen…how on earth will the HTC Flyer compete?€It might seem a little late in the day to launch a new tablet that isn€t running on the made-for-tablet Andr...
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whattabletpc.com Updated:
2014-06-07 03:16:53
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Android tablets need a differentiating feature to stand out from the huge number available on the market. In the HTC Flyer's case this is an intuitive and accurate stylus input option which makes it a great choice for anyone looking to take notes in conju...
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thunderbaylive.com Updated:
2014-08-07 05:51:51
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tekgadg.com Updated:
2014-09-21 02:15:47
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The HTC Flyer steers far away from the usual tablets of today. It opts for a 7-inch screen size instead of 10. It runs Gingerbread and not Honeycomb. It has proprietary stylus. If HTC was trying to differentiate from the slew of Android tablets these days...
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Product Round-up With Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich upon us, it's a good time to take stock of the impact - or lack of it - of Android 3 Honeycomb and Nvidia's Tegra 2, the chipset and release of Google’s mobile OS that were hoped would knock the iPad o...
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HTC has taken a different approach to its first tablet. Like the Blackberry Playbook, the screen is seven inches, this instantly makes it a far more portable option and at just 122 mm wide, it can easily fit into a pocket. This form factor also enables yo...
There are some things we love about the Flyer: the high-quality build, the size, performance and HTC Sense is slick and efficient. Sure Sense lacks features of Honeycomb, but it's arguably simpler to navigate. The Flyer is not a multimedia powerhouse, but...
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2011 is no doubt the year of the tablet. Even just a year ago, the concept of a tablet was foreign to many consumers. Tablets were seen as bulky and expensive mobile computers used by business professionals for serious work. However, Apple ushered in a ne...
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tbreak.ae Updated:
2016-11-24 11:13:54
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HTC has generally been on the forefront of technology when it comes to Android based devices. However, while other manufacturers are releasing tablets based on Google’s latest tablet-approved Honeycomb OS, HTC takes a step back with their new 7” tablet...
Excellent construction quality, pen works beautifully and SenseUI 3.0 is really slick...
Based on older Android 2.x platform, many apps don't scale too well, very pricey...
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thestar.com.my Updated:
2016-11-24 11:13:55
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HTC goes the extra mile to make the Flyer stand out from other Android Tablet computers. THE HTC Flyer differs from the rest of the Tablet offerings with the fact that it comes in a handy 7in form factor and bundles in a pen-like stylus called the M...
Great for watching videos and playing games on the 7in screen; write, draw, annotate and sign digital documents with the Magic Pen.
A tad heavy; poor WiFi detection; not userfriendly enough.
The HTC Flyer seems to get confused when there are too many WiFi networks in the vicinity, and refuses to connect. The device refuses to connect even when you select one of the networks in the detected list. However, it works well when there is a sing...
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technoodling.net Updated:
2016-11-24 11:13:55
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Apple's iPad is obviously the platform to beat in the tablet market . While companies the likes of Samsung and Motorola have ventured into competing with Apple with their own offerings, the public's mindset is still skewed towards the iPad and iOS. HTC ha...
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Adding to HTC's successful line of mobile devices is the recently launched HTC Flyer. First announced at the MWC 2011 . It is the first tablet from the company, and HTC hopes to differentiate the Flyer from the crowded tablet market space. The Flyer comes...
HTC's First Born To say that the Flyer is just another Android tablet on the market will do great injustice to HTC. The Flyer is different from the family of Android tablets in many ways. It is the first Gingerbread-powered tablet we have reviewed so far...
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Adding to HTC's successful line of mobile devices is the recently launched HTC Flyer. First announced at the MWC 2011 . It is the first tablet from the company, and HTC hopes to differentiate the Flyer from the crowded tablet market space. The Flyer comes...
HTC's First BornTo say that the Flyer is just another Android tablet on the market will do great injustice to HTC. The Flyer is different from the family of Android tablets in many ways. It is the first Gingerbread-powered tablet we have reviewed so far...
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While the HTC Flyer is definitely a competent device on its own, the Magic Pen opens up a whole new world of usage options. While there are some setbacks that prevent the device from passin...
The HTC Flyer soars high with features, and has an asking price to match...
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HTC pushes out its first tablet product into the market with a pocketable 7-inch, aluminium encased unibody tablet running a tweaked version of Android v2.3 Gingerbread, sweetened by HTC Sense . I had the opportunity to play with it briefly during last we...
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HTC makes some of the finest Android smartphones around, so we were intrigued to see how well its first tablet would perform. While it looks beautiful and its compact form makes it an ideal travel companion, we wonder why it doesn’t have a tablet OS. T...
The HTC Flyer is a superb-looking tablet with enough processing power to drive its multimedia functions. Its high price tag is more of an issue than its use of the older Android 2.3 OS, given that other aspects of this likable tablet are so advanced. W...
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It's been a while since we published an overview of the current tablet market. With the holidays around the corner, we collected all of the tablets we've tested and that are still available, and created an overview of what's what. If you want to buy a t...
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Android tablets need a differentiating feature to stand out from the huge number available on the market. In the HTC Flyer's case this is an intuitive and accurate stylus input option which makes it a great choice for anyone looking to take notes in conju...
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2011 is no doubt the year of the tablet. Even just a year ago, the concept of a tablet was foreign to many consumers. Tablets were seen as bulky and expensive mobile computers used by business professionals for serious work. However, Apple ushered in a ne...
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