HTC HERO, TATTOO ENTER ARMENIAN SMARTPHONE MARKET
Armen Hareyan
HULIQ.com
May 18 2010
SC
Today one of Armenia’s leading wireless service providers VivaCell
MTS announced it will start offering two Android powered smartphones
becoming the first Android introducers in the Armenian cell phone
market.
Starting May 17, Android phones HTC Hero and HTC Tattoo will be
available in all service centers of VivaCell. It will enable the
Armenian users to easily access a number of Google powered mobile
services such as GPS navigation with Google Maps, YouTube, Gmail,
Google Talk and more. It will also enable the users to simultaneously
operate in several programs as well as access the thousands of
Android apps.
Both of these cell phones embody at totally new approach to smartphone
interface called HTC Sense, where human is in the core of any type
of communication. Just a single menu can operate and organize all
types of communications with via HTC Sense.
VivaCell’s CEO Ralph Yirikian, speaking to reporters today, said that
the company is moving aggressively to expand its coverage area and
the customer base. Already today the company has 800,000 customers
in Armenia, the population of which is about 3.5 million. This puts
the company in a leading role in the Armenian wireless market.
VivaCell’s major competitor in Armenia is Orange, the former France
Telecom. Today Orange also announced that it will offer Android
phones to its customers in Armenia. While globally, Orange is also
HTC’s customer, VivaCell is the main business partner of HTC, said
today in the same conference Kate Kormiltseve who is HTC’s regional
representative in Armenia.