The HTC Legend with Friend Stream social networking app

May 7
07:42

2010

Dominic Burn

Dominic Burn

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The HTC Legend has a stylish alloy-framed handset and a 3.2 inch AMOLED touchscreen which offers a pinch-to-zoom feature. This Android phone running the Éclair Android 2.1 operating system, also provides the HTC Sense user interface.

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The HTC Legend is a very stylish alloy-framed handset with a 3.2 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen which offers a pinch-to-zoom feature. It is an Android phone running the Éclair Android 2.1 operating system,The HTC Legend with Friend Stream social networking app Articles and provides the HTC Sense user interface. The handset comes with a microSD memory card slot, which supports up to 32 gigabytes of removable stored data, alongside the random access memory of 384 megabytes, and the 512 megabytes read-only memory. In addition to this, the phone automatically backs up text and picture messages, web browser bookmarks and WiFi passwords to the microSD card.This phone features an autofocus 5 megapixel camera with a flash, and widescreen photo capture, along with geo-tagging through its internal GPS antenna, which is the reason the handset offers a DIgital Compass, Google Maps and HTC Footprints applications. The camera also records video to the .3g p format, and video playback as well as photo viewing can be done through the Photos application provided. FM radio is also an option available.For social networking, the HTC Legend has Facebook integration, HTC Peep for twitterers, photo sharing on Facebook, Twitter and Flickr respectively and video sharing on YouTube. These are all brought together into one single application included, Friend Stream. This not only shows all social networking updates, posts and photos from friends, but also allows a single update to be shared and broadcast to both Facebook and Twitter simultaneously. The phone also includes a new widget called People, which lets the user create any groups of friends and contacts they like, and easily access that group for social networking updates, as well as quick access to calling, messaging or email. Further widgets are available for download to add more to the handset, in addition to the nineteen useful HTC widgets included.The handset provides good connectivity and sync capabilities through HTC Sync, internet sharing through the USB connection, and Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP wireless stereo audio to connected headsets. Alternatively, there is a 3.5mm jack socket for more traditional wired headphones. The HTC Legend puts an easy user interface and useful widgets and applications into a stunning design and brings them to life through a fantastic AMOLED touchscreen. It offers the user fast access to their contacts, and focuses on who the user connects with, not how. The handset offers good looks, music, social networking made easy, multimedia capabilities and a camera alongside other unique features which make it an altogether impressive mobile.