Taiwan-based, HTC Corp. and Reliance Mobile launched the ‘HTC Widlfire’ mobile handset for the latter’s GSM subscribers. The tie-up is exclusive meaning the handset is available only on the Reliance Mobile network.

The HTC Wildfire is 3G-ready and comes equipped with HTC Sense. It is developed on the Android platform and supports popular social networking sites.

As a bundled offer on purchase of the handset, Reliance Communications is offering up to 500 MB of free data transfer every month for a period of six months.

“Social networks have really caught on the fancy of today’s young generation, who like to stay seamlessly connected with each other even while on-the-go,” said Ajay Sharma, Country Head, and HTC India. “The stylishly designed HTC Wildfire combined with the HTC Sense experience bring all your communication requirements into one place, whether it’s through Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, Flickr, text messages, images or email, ensuring that one is never far away from the conversation and always close to one’s friends.”

“The launch of HTC Wildfire is in line with our strategy to offer next-generation service on mobile phones enabled with superior voice clarity, hi-speed wireless data network access and ultra-fast application downloads to Reliance Mobile customers”, said Mahesh Prasad President Marketing – Wireless Business, Reliance Communications.

The model has a 3.2” touch screen, a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus LED flash, FM radio, a media player with a slot for expandable memory, the HTC Wildfire  comes with  special features including Proximity sensor, G-sensor, Digital compass, light sensor and an optical joystick, next generation caller ID, support for phone, email, text messaging, Wi-Fi, HTML web browser and more.

It is priced at Rs.16,590.