The HTC Wildfire was released in May, 2010, and is an entry-level phone, made for those who aren’t familiar with Android, but want a decent smartphone to attend to their needs. It’s a little bit unusual for HTC to make such a tiny and simple device, we were used to high end devices but this is like a breath of fresh air and also easy on the budget, it’s a nice move from the taiwanese manufacturer for the regular Joe on the smartphone market. Let’s take a look at the main specs, shall we?
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
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Now,let’s take a look in its box. We can see here a microUSB cable, a charger head, a single-piece headset and a 2 GB microSD card.
It measures 106.8 x 60.4 x 12 mm and weighs 118 grams. I consider it to be very compact, as it fits and feels comfortably in my hand, being also pocket friendly. It has a classy look and its design seems to be solid enough and reliable.
Its front part is taken by 3.2 inches TFT capacitive touchscreen that has a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and comes with Corning Gorilla Glass protection. It offers decent viewing angles and sunlight legibility.
Above the display, you’ll find the earpiece, a status LED and the proximity sensor. Beneath the screen are four touch sensitive keys for Home, Menu, Back and Search. Under the keys is an optical trackpad.
On the left side, you’ll come across the volume rocker and microUSB port. Surprisingly, there’s nothing on the right side. I wonder why didn’t they place a shutter key here. Oh well…
The top is home for the Power/Lock key and 3.5 mm audio jack. Only the mouthpiece at the bottom.
The HTC Wildfire comes with Android 2.1 (Éclair), which is upgradeable to 2.2 and powered by a Qualcomm MSM7225 528 MHz ARMv6 processor, with 384 MB of RAM and 512 MB of ROM. The phone runs smoothly, without lagging through the Sense user interface and you won’t have any problems if you don’t push it.
The call quality is very good and I didn’t experience any reception problems either. The phonebook is replaced by the very cute People application, you also have the Quick contacts functionality and Smart dialing.
Your messages are organized into threads, each thread is displayed as a conversation. Typing is easy on the on-screen QWERTY keyboard, but if you have big, fat fingers, you might want to use the landscape mode instead of the portrait.
You have Google Talk for instant messaging and for emailing, you have two clients: Gmail and HTC Mail.
The connectivity package comes loaded with quad-band GSM, GPRS, EDGE, dual-band 3G with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0.
For surfing the web, you have a simple and friendly browser that supports multiple tabs, switching between them, bookmarks, text copying, find on page, double tap and pinch zooming, text reflow and many others. The pages are loaded fast and look quite decent enough on the small 3.2 inches screen. HTML and Flash support are also here to improve the browsing experience.
Our next stop on the review is the phone’s 5 megapixel camera, which comes with a LED flash at takes pictures at a maximum resolution of 2592 x 1936 pixels. You have, at your service, features like geotagging, effects, settings for brightness, white balance, saturation, contrast and so on. The image quality is average, don’t expect anything spectacular.
The video camera is also mediocre, shooting CIF videos at 15 fps. You also have several options for the video resolution, recording limit, exposure compensation, contrast, saturation, sharpness, white balance, effects and others.
The music player comes with a good-looking user interface and supports MP3, WAV, WMA and eAAC+. The audio quality is very good.
The video player supports only 3GP and MP4 files, so, you’ll have to convert videos if you want to watch them on your HTC Wildfire.
Now, let’s talk about its applications. For document files, the Wildfire comes with a PDF viewer and a Quick Office app for viewing Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. For editing, you’ll have to upgrade to the paid application. Other useful apps are Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Friend Stream, Stocks and the common World Clock, Stopwatch, Timer, Alarm clock and others. For more, you have the Android Market.
The HTC Wildfire comes with a GPS receiver on board, with A-GPS support. Google Maps is at your service for navigation and it offers voice guided navigation, the possibility to plan routes and go into the Street View mode.
The 1300 mAh battery kept my phone alive and kicking for almost two days of moderate usage: I made a few calls, surfed the web for about an hour, snapped some pictures and listened to a little bit of music.
All over, the HTC Wildfire is a decent phone, with a strongly built design, aimed towards people who don’t have high expectations from their phone and use it mostly for calling, messaging, emailing and surfing the web – this phone is quite good at those things and would be a good choice, as it’s also available at a small price.
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