HTC has many firsts to its name and ever since the company joined the touch wagon, it was pretty vocal about what smartphones from its quarters are really capable of. With ‘Touch’ added to every phone name launched thereafter, a slight change of mind has also seen gems like Hero, Magic, Tattoo, Desire and Legend among others. HTC’s very recent trickery had enthusiasts glued upon a handset that was finally named Wildfire. The phone was interestingly christened after fans posted in their votes on the HTC Facebook page. Need we mention that having it on our desks for a review had us pretty excited? Dressed in black attire, here’s what our thorough inspection of the phone suggests.
The box offered with the phone included just the USB-enabled charger with a common USB cord. The phone adopts a curvaceous body in a rectangular form factor fitting the mid-weight space at 118gms; not heavy enough to weigh you down and not light enough to be called sleek. The large 3.2” QVGA capacitive screen sits flush on the phone’s frontal area and below it are four soft keys that illuminate when being used namely Home, Menu, Back and Quick Search. All this including the screen is seated in the phone’s glossy portion. A thin strip of scratched aluminum, below gets a matte finishing and right in between these two strips is a central metallic jog dial for navigation. The left chassis of the phone includes the volume adjustment which again has a metallic touch and along the end of this edge is the USB port. There’s nothing to hold attention on the right edge while a duo of speaker grilles are housed above the word HTC inscribed aloft the screen.
The topmost panel is fitted with a 3.5mm port and the power on/off button. Turn the phone over and the black aluminum surface extends from the front and edges of the phone to the back. HTC is etched in metal above this portion with the camera lens and other speaker mesh here. Below this are the words ‘With HTC Sense’. It takes more than a glance to figure out that the back flap of the phone extends to the front jaw and can be taken off. With the front face lying down, there’s a microSD card slot along the left end of the innards. There’s no comprehension needed why we disdain phones that let you do nothing without the microSD card and sadly this phone is one of them. So while we got the microSD card in place, the handset had already used a single bar of the battery. Operating on Android version 2.1, HTC has managed to put more than a bit of ‘Sense’ to this handset. The interface is intuitive and proffers up to seven customizable homescreens that let you add widgets and applications of your choice from among Widgets, Apps, Shortcuts and Folders.
We hopped onto the settings first to get started with the HTC Wildfire phone in just the way we wished. Starting with the Personalize option, we tweaked not just the scenes but also the wallpaper while also being able to lock it and set the default ringtone. There’s much you can do with Wireless & networks too. The option to edit and create a default message suiting your preference is a nice inclusion as well. We liked in particular how the phone offers to save unknown contacts after they call. Other than the regular activities, the Sound & display setting offers a Quiet ring on pickup option, the ability to choose how the haptic feedback of the touchscreen will feel and even SD card notifications. The G-sensor calibration should let you opt for orientation behavior though the phone does take quite some time to register transformation from the portrait to landscape mode. Setting up our Google account followed by syncing it with Calendar and contacts took under a minute and was a snap for sure. You can also tease the phone’s Search settings right from choosing what items can be searched to the Google search adjustments.
The touch keyboard for this HTC offering can be picked from among QWERTY, Phone Keypad and Compact QWERTY types. When we enabled prediction for the QWERTY keyboard it kept us more than happy with its suggestions, being almost accurate at times. Keying in messages on the QWERTY keyboard took more than a few days to get accustomed to and that’s when you’ll know how helpful the prediction feature is. We think the onscreen keys could have been wider instead of longer to identify presses more accurately. It’s much better in the landscape mode though and the threaded messaging ability is an interesting keepsake of talkfest. The User dictionary let us save, edit and delete words too for convenient future use while the included Text-to-speech feature should please road runners. The battery status attribute impressed us with the details it offered and told us that the latest version of Android is using a chunk of the battery life in the About Phone feature. The Maps feature is surprisingly very accurate and provided us with a detailed street view. The GPS satellite gets active almost instantly and you can’t miss the Footprints feature for location storing.
As far as internet access and social connectivity is concerned, the Wildfire will find social butterflies glued. A dedicated application for Twitter, Facebook, Peep and YouTube among others says you won’t have to go far to satisfy those itching fingers. The FriendStream shortcut let us update our status right away when signed in to our social network. The HTC Wildfire handset is good at handling multi-windows though images took a little longer than we would have liked to load. Getting through regular emails wasn’t much of a hassle too with QuickOffice upfront about identifying various file formats. Like most multimedia phones, the audio capability of the handset is on borderline. A more or less complete Music Player and decent sound output was jarred by the integrated speaker getting a little stannic with songs in the higher range. The phone does include FM radio support as well. The implanted Android platform brings with it a plethora of applications and you can instantly hop onto the Android Market lest you fall short. The included Flashlight application is quite bright and uses the camera flash to emit light in dark situations.
The HTC Wildfire has been fitted with a 5 megapixel camera cum camcorder complete with auto focus and flash. There’s also the option of Geotagging photos immediately with a wide choice of settings possible prior to capturing images. The camera will suffice basic capturing needs and nothing more, and video quality too is not something that can be boasted about. The video interface allows full screen view though and includes a direct shortcut to record videos. The phone is quick to be recognized when plugged via USB to the PC with speedy file transfers. Keeping Wi-Fi and GPS satellite search on, the phone got us through just a day of moderate usage. We did also witness an odd lag when switching between homescreens loaded with widgets.
Pros:
A complete smartphone and more that won’t have you searching for applications and features.
The optical trackpad is a nice inclusion and ensures you don’t rely on fancy swipes to get going with the phone.
The form factor is compact and pocket-friendly.
Cons:
A less than 1 day battery life will annoy those looking for more fun when on the move.
The clutter of applications can get you confused and HTC could have helped by having them in a more organized manner.
HTC hasn’t really done anything revolutionary with the Wildfire, though it’s a neat fit in the touchscreen terrain. Its full demeanor is well complemented by a near about full feature and functionality list though there is a hard to ignore resemblance to the HTC Desire. The phone could have been a wee bit better with the voice quality too and the screen isn’t at its best when in bright light. All said and done, at Rs. 15,300, the phone may be a bit expensive for regular users. On a scale of 1 to 10 our rating for this phone reads at 8.
Via [http://www.techshout.com/reviews/2010/19/htc-wildfire-review-a-phone-tamed-for-multimedia-and-connectivity/]
The box offered with the phone included just the USB-enabled charger with a common USB cord. The phone adopts a curvaceous body in a rectangular form factor fitting the mid-weight space at 118gms; not heavy enough to weigh you down and not light enough to be called sleek. The large 3.2” QVGA capacitive screen sits flush on the phone’s frontal area and below it are four soft keys that illuminate when being used namely Home, Menu, Back and Quick Search. All this including the screen is seated in the phone’s glossy portion. A thin strip of scratched aluminum, below gets a matte finishing and right in between these two strips is a central metallic jog dial for navigation. The left chassis of the phone includes the volume adjustment which again has a metallic touch and along the end of this edge is the USB port. There’s nothing to hold attention on the right edge while a duo of speaker grilles are housed above the word HTC inscribed aloft the screen.
The topmost panel is fitted with a 3.5mm port and the power on/off button. Turn the phone over and the black aluminum surface extends from the front and edges of the phone to the back. HTC is etched in metal above this portion with the camera lens and other speaker mesh here. Below this are the words ‘With HTC Sense’. It takes more than a glance to figure out that the back flap of the phone extends to the front jaw and can be taken off. With the front face lying down, there’s a microSD card slot along the left end of the innards. There’s no comprehension needed why we disdain phones that let you do nothing without the microSD card and sadly this phone is one of them. So while we got the microSD card in place, the handset had already used a single bar of the battery. Operating on Android version 2.1, HTC has managed to put more than a bit of ‘Sense’ to this handset. The interface is intuitive and proffers up to seven customizable homescreens that let you add widgets and applications of your choice from among Widgets, Apps, Shortcuts and Folders.
We hopped onto the settings first to get started with the HTC Wildfire phone in just the way we wished. Starting with the Personalize option, we tweaked not just the scenes but also the wallpaper while also being able to lock it and set the default ringtone. There’s much you can do with Wireless & networks too. The option to edit and create a default message suiting your preference is a nice inclusion as well. We liked in particular how the phone offers to save unknown contacts after they call. Other than the regular activities, the Sound & display setting offers a Quiet ring on pickup option, the ability to choose how the haptic feedback of the touchscreen will feel and even SD card notifications. The G-sensor calibration should let you opt for orientation behavior though the phone does take quite some time to register transformation from the portrait to landscape mode. Setting up our Google account followed by syncing it with Calendar and contacts took under a minute and was a snap for sure. You can also tease the phone’s Search settings right from choosing what items can be searched to the Google search adjustments.
The touch keyboard for this HTC offering can be picked from among QWERTY, Phone Keypad and Compact QWERTY types. When we enabled prediction for the QWERTY keyboard it kept us more than happy with its suggestions, being almost accurate at times. Keying in messages on the QWERTY keyboard took more than a few days to get accustomed to and that’s when you’ll know how helpful the prediction feature is. We think the onscreen keys could have been wider instead of longer to identify presses more accurately. It’s much better in the landscape mode though and the threaded messaging ability is an interesting keepsake of talkfest. The User dictionary let us save, edit and delete words too for convenient future use while the included Text-to-speech feature should please road runners. The battery status attribute impressed us with the details it offered and told us that the latest version of Android is using a chunk of the battery life in the About Phone feature. The Maps feature is surprisingly very accurate and provided us with a detailed street view. The GPS satellite gets active almost instantly and you can’t miss the Footprints feature for location storing.
As far as internet access and social connectivity is concerned, the Wildfire will find social butterflies glued. A dedicated application for Twitter, Facebook, Peep and YouTube among others says you won’t have to go far to satisfy those itching fingers. The FriendStream shortcut let us update our status right away when signed in to our social network. The HTC Wildfire handset is good at handling multi-windows though images took a little longer than we would have liked to load. Getting through regular emails wasn’t much of a hassle too with QuickOffice upfront about identifying various file formats. Like most multimedia phones, the audio capability of the handset is on borderline. A more or less complete Music Player and decent sound output was jarred by the integrated speaker getting a little stannic with songs in the higher range. The phone does include FM radio support as well. The implanted Android platform brings with it a plethora of applications and you can instantly hop onto the Android Market lest you fall short. The included Flashlight application is quite bright and uses the camera flash to emit light in dark situations.
The HTC Wildfire has been fitted with a 5 megapixel camera cum camcorder complete with auto focus and flash. There’s also the option of Geotagging photos immediately with a wide choice of settings possible prior to capturing images. The camera will suffice basic capturing needs and nothing more, and video quality too is not something that can be boasted about. The video interface allows full screen view though and includes a direct shortcut to record videos. The phone is quick to be recognized when plugged via USB to the PC with speedy file transfers. Keeping Wi-Fi and GPS satellite search on, the phone got us through just a day of moderate usage. We did also witness an odd lag when switching between homescreens loaded with widgets.
Pros:
A complete smartphone and more that won’t have you searching for applications and features.
The optical trackpad is a nice inclusion and ensures you don’t rely on fancy swipes to get going with the phone.
The form factor is compact and pocket-friendly.
Cons:
A less than 1 day battery life will annoy those looking for more fun when on the move.
The clutter of applications can get you confused and HTC could have helped by having them in a more organized manner.
HTC hasn’t really done anything revolutionary with the Wildfire, though it’s a neat fit in the touchscreen terrain. Its full demeanor is well complemented by a near about full feature and functionality list though there is a hard to ignore resemblance to the HTC Desire. The phone could have been a wee bit better with the voice quality too and the screen isn’t at its best when in bright light. All said and done, at Rs. 15,300, the phone may be a bit expensive for regular users. On a scale of 1 to 10 our rating for this phone reads at 8.
Via [http://www.techshout.com/reviews/2010/19/htc-wildfire-review-a-phone-tamed-for-multimedia-and-connectivity/]
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