HTC Gratia

The HTC Gratia is designed to be a relatively affordable Android handset, and its functionally almost identical to the HTC Legend announced earlier this year.

The Legend wasn’t exactly a great sales success. When compared to the HTC Desire, the Legend seemed overpriced considering its modest specification. Out of the two, the Legend was certainly the better looking phone.. but the Desire is the handset that HTC can’t make enough of.

HTC watchers may recognise the Gratia, as this is basically the European version of the HTC Aria which was sold only in Asia. The main difference between the Gratia and the Aria is that the newer handset runs Android 2.2 rather than 2.1.

Featuring a 3.2″ 320 x 480 pixel touchscreen, 3.5G support and WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, a microSD slot, and a 5 megapixel camera, the HTC Gratia is a mid-market Android phone, the Gratia also has a 600MHz processor and 384MB of RAM. This means that the Gratia is better than the HTC Wildfire but not as good as the Desire. We would expect the price to fall somewhere between the Wildfire and Desire too.. our guess is that the Gratia should retail for about €350 SIM-free.

As is typical with HTC Android phones, the Gratia runs HTC Sense on top of the standard Android user interface, and it also comes with HTC’s Friendstream application to help you keep track of your friends and manage updates on social networking sites.

We understand that the HTC Gratia should be available from November onwards in black, white and green colour schemes.