HTC Wildfire review By Stuff

Aug 14, 2021

At first glance: you could mistake the HTC Wildfire for the HTC Desire, but if you look a bit closer or just put them together, you'll notice, it's shorter thicker, it's not sturdy Eve, which you obviously can't see, and there are no hard keys apart from the optical trackpad down at the bottom. Now the touch sensitive keys, I was sponsored enough, but I definitely prefer having the hard keys of the desire. So clearly the Wildfire is intent on bringing you Android 2.1, but without those high-end features that make the desire so costly and like the desire and the legend, it's loaded with HTC Sense, one of the best skins available for Android. So it's got the seven home screens, which you can customize with widgets and applications and there's the range of familiar apps like the social network hub for aggregated feeds, otherwise known as friend stream. In fact, the Wildfire is a little social network, obsessed integrating Facebook into everything, from the calendar to caller ID and like the desire. This extends the contacts now there's also the leap View feature for a fun nail view of all your seven home pages, which is simply pull up with a pinch or by hitting the home button, and it's also got the HTC Sense QWERTY keyboard, one of the best touchscreen keyboards out there and, as you've probably noticed it doesn't share the desires, quality high-res screen, which is a bit of a shame.

But at least it's still capacitive, and it's led as a pace to AMOLED and at 240 by 320 pixels, the wildfires, low screen resolutions and badly rendered zoomed out webpages. So it's certainly not as sharp and definitely not as responsive, and I felt I had to apply a lot more extra pressure on the screen, especially when scrolling, and it was particularly sluggish at times now. Of course, I really wasn't expecting the kind of speeds found on the desire, but I did experience some juddering when switching between applications and windows, but it does share the desires, easy to use user interface and a rather nice wildfire Edition. Is the sharing system put in place to share application links with your mates rather than having them search the marketplace themselves? Now the HTC Wildfire also comes of a WebKit browser onboard and generally the web browsing experience was pretty good. Loading speeds are fairly nippy, although sometimes images would take a few seconds longer than we'd like and flash content takes longer to load.

So it's fivefold a bit by sluggishness at times, but overall is decent enough and the multi-touch works well, and at least it displays flash. So you won't be restricted to a specific YouTube app, for example, although it's worth noting that flash doesn't work on every website, so it's definitely not a speedy, and that goes for the phone in general, but that is to be expected. Considering the one gigahertz processor found in the desire has been swapped to the 528 megahertz processor found in the hero now, you'll also find a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash there's no camera button, though so you'll have to make do with using the trackball. Now the screen quality can make photos appear low, resume pixelated, but the RAW files will show off their true quality and there's a few useful features too, like geotagging and photo effects, so it's decent, it's affordable, and it's a great little smartphone for those of you on a tight budget. In fact, it's quite the bargain when you consider the amount of features it's packing, including the Sense UI.

Now the screen is a little too low res for our liking, and it's certainly not as pretty to look at as the desire or the legend. But if this kind of thing doesn't bother you or the desire and the legend are just out of your price range, this little smartphone will do the trick nicely.

Source : Stuff