Having seen the new tablets flying about the place, HTC decided to take a flyer on a new tablet – and called it fittingly the HTC Flyer.
HTC has decided to release the tablet running on Android Gingerbread, which will upset some purists that only believe these tablets should run on Honeycomb.
However, the HTC Sense overlay deals with that, offering a new range of widgets and content to mask the fact it's running older versions of the OS (although a Honeycomb update is imminent).
The new tablet has a 7-inch LCD screen, and comes with an aluminium unibody shell that feels very nice in the hand.
There are the standard HTC buttons at the bottom to control the Menu, Back, Search and Home functions, and these glow pleasantly when in use.
The HTC Flyer has very few buttons on the outside of the device save for a volume rocker on the right-hand side, and these are relatively easy to hit without too much jiggling.
The HTC Flyer's interface is pretty much just the standard HTC Sense offering, but made a lot bigger.
The notifications bar at the top of the device is overhauled as well to include both notifications and quick access to settings – something it shares with the new HTC Desire S.
Every time an application can make use of the new stylus, a small icon pops up in the bottom right hand side of the screen to edit the brush types and use case – if the stylus proves to be useful, this will be a nifty feature.
The only other things of note with the HTC Flyer are HTC Time Mark, which can note as and when you're using the stylus in tandem with the audio recording, and the video player.
