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HTC Wildfire Review

July 26th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobiles

HTC usually manufactures higher end smartphones. The company sometimes manufactures mid range handsets too. The HTC Desire is a famous Android device and it is a smartphone. The Wildfire is also known as the HTC Desire Mini as it is down graded in its size, down clocked and is of lower price when compared to the HTC Desire. Though the Wildfire is a lower version of the Desire, it is not as attractive as the Desire. It has good connectivity options but the CPU and the display makes it unattractive.

Key Features:

* Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
* 3G with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA
* Android OS v2.1 (Éclair) with Sense UI
* 3.2″ capacitive touchscreen of QVGA resolution
* Multi-touch support
* Qualcomm MSM 7225 528 MHz CPU, 384 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
* 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash and touch focus
* Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and GPS receiver
* Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
* Turn-to-mute, lift-to-tone-down
* Proximity sensor
* Smart dialing
* Standard miniUSB port for charging and data
* Bluetooth with A2DP, file transfers
* microSD card slot, a 2GB card in the box
* Standard 3.5mm audio jack
* Social network integration: Facebook, Twitter and Flickr through Friend Stream
* Flash-enabled browser
* Direct access to the official Android repository
* Stereo FM radio with RDS

Main disadvantages:

* Poor screen image quality, QVGA doesn’t do Android OS and the display size justice
* No video-call camera or videocalling whatsoever
* CIF@15fps video recording (352 x 288 pixels) is below par
* No voice dialing
* No DivX or XviD video support out of the box
* No TV-out port

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  1. wildfire owner Says:

    I am a ‘quickly-to-be’ htc wildfire person from Kenya. I have been doing some analysis on this phone and i have discovered it to be the most effective finances-smartphone.I’m now able to order it, unlocked obviously, since it hasn’t yet started being offerd in my country. The one huddle yet to be falt with is findinga reputable firm willing to export overseas, particularly to Africa. So far the only website i’ve discovered is expansys.co.uk.

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