Friday, December 10, 2010

HTC Wildfire

HTC Wildfire
HTC widgets: Bookmarks, Calculator, Calendar, Clock, FM Radio, Friend Stream, Mail, Messages, Music, News, People, Stocks, Weather, Settings (such as Profile, Ringtone, Wi-Fi™, Bluetooth®)...
Available colours: Black, Red. Bronze, White
CPU Processor 528 MHz
Price: ~$430 (w/o contract)


Design:
It is a light weight beautifully designed phone, with a 3.2" capacitive touch screen with pinch-to-zoom.

Screen:
Screen resolution is a pathetic 240 x 320 QVGA. When screen is set to greater brightness, screen looks slightly pixelated.

HTC Widgets
The widgets which I love are clock, calendar and calculator.
There are few design that you can choose to put on your home screen for clock and calculators.
The Calendar is great as besides its beautiful design, it allows us to put full month's calendar on your home screen.

HTC home
HTC home's menu only allows us to view icons of 12 apps (4 columns, 3 rows) at a time , which I feel, can be increased.
HTC home also allows the saving, customisation of scenes, or simply use the preset scenes.
HOwever, this can be rectified by using Launcher Pro (which is downloadable in android market).

Battery life:
With a single charge and normal usage, the battery can last between 2 to 3 days, which is a plus point, as compare to Sony Ericsson Xperia X10.

Apps:
Launcher Pro is a great app. It allows customization for the number of home screens (max 7) and hiding apps that you seldom use, so that your menu will not be packed with unnecessary apps. It also includes dock, which looks like what Apple Mac have in their OS.

Camera:
5mp, geotagging, with autofocus and flash.
I think the camera is relatively fine. It is able to take sharp pictures at times but when hand is slightly shaky or when distance between phone and camera is too close, picture might be unclear.
I was quite disappointed with its videoing function. Most of other phones, which are older and cheaper (eg. Nokia 6288 and SE C902) allow zooming in and out while videoing, but it is not allowed in HTC Wildfire, which is a shame.

*Most photos posted on my blog are taken by HTC Wildfire. =D

Value for money:
I think Wildfire is value for money, though it is definitely not as good as HTC Legend. It is suitable for users who have a tighter budget but wishes to try out Android phones. I love this phone as it allows users to customize their home screens. However, the cons of Wildfire is its screen resolution and videoing function.

2 comments:

  1. i want it but the screen is disgraceful, so i don't know what to do.

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  2. Yes.. screen resolution is low.. it is considered a lower budget android phone. However personally, I am pleased with the colour of the photos taken by its camera.

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