HTC Wildfire: A Review

HTC Wildfire

Photo by Ulrich Rozier

HTC is getting more and more popular with the new trend of Android based smartphones. The range of Anroid based Touchscreen large display smartphones by HTC is increasing constantly. The new model HTC Wildfire is a nice addition to this range, and is pretty affordable as compared to other new HTC smartphones. Today, I am going to review this nice phone called HTC Wildfire.

Specs:

• Announced: May 2010
• Released: May 2010
• Dimensions: 106.8 x 60.4 x 12 mm
• Weight: 118 g
• Display: 3.2” TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, multi-touch input method, accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, Touch-sensitive controls, proximity sensor for auto-turn off, optical trackpad, HTC Sense UI, turn-to-mute and lift-to-dim out-a-call
• 3.5 mm audio jack
• 384 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM, expandable memory up to 32 GB
• GPRS class 10
• EDGE class 10
• 3G: HSDPA 7.2 mbps
• Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth
• USB
• 5MP camera with auto focus, LED flash, smile detection and geo tagging
• OS: Android OS v 2.1 Éclair
• CPU: Qualcomm MSM 7225 528 MHz
• SMS, MMS, IM, Emil, Push Email
• HTML browser
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• GPS with A-GPS support
• Other features: Digital compass; dedicated search key; Facebook, Flickr and Twitter integration; Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail; YouTube, Google, Picasa integration; MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA9 player; MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV9 player

Features:

Screen is a decent 3.2 inches capacitive display fixed in a body which is compact and easy to hold in a hand. Looks are not going to disappoint you, as it resembles the beloved Desire. The trackpad is only button on the front pane. There are four touch sensitive buttons above the trackpad for Home, Menu, Search and Back. In the box, there is a charger-cum-USB connector and a pair of earphones.

Despite the Wildfire’s low price, it comes with HTC Sense user interface. You will get seven home screens. Though some of the most frequently used widgets (weather, contacts etc) are there on the screen by default, you can easily replace them with widgets that you use.

Setting up the phone when you switch it on for the first time is pretty simple. Also, the menu system is easy and uncomplicated. Customizing your seven home screens according to your choice and preference is easy and trouble free. Haptic feedback is there by default but you can turn it off if you dislike vibrations every now and then.

Contacts can be integrated with Facebook and Twitter only if the user wishes so (just beware of the duplicates). If a Facebook using contact calls you, screen will display his/her status and birthday.

SMS are shown in threaded form with each contact’s messages in a separate thread (along with their photo). The 5MP camera has, fortunately, a nice LED flash. Media player works fine and there is nothing fancy about it.

Pros:

• Elegant looking budget phone
• Pleasant web browsing experience
• Nice camera with LED flash
• Social networking integration
• HTC Sense UI

Cons:

• Just fine calling and messaging experience
• Average media player
• Android v 2.2 is not there

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