The HTC Wildfire - An Impressive Offering

Jun 21
08:05

2010

Chris Westley

Chris Westley

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The HTC Wildfire is the latest in a long line of impressive Android operated Smartphone from the manufacturer. Boasting appealing key features, this attractive phone looks set to be a success.

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The handset measures 106.8x 60.4x 12 mm making it a relatively compact handset which is comfortable to hold and use on the move,The HTC Wildfire - An Impressive Offering Articles especially when combined with its light weight of 118 g.

The Wildfire utilises a 3.2 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen to display up to 16M colours within a pixel layout of 240x 320 pixels.  As well as touchscreen navigation, an optical trackpad is provided at the base of the handset, which is thumb operated and offers an alternative method of selecting options from the user interface menus.  A built in accelerometer sensor flips the on screen imagery between portrait and landscape mode dependent upon the orientation of the phone so users can view its content in either portrait and landscape.

To alert users to incoming calls and messages, both vibration and ringing are utilised with the option to assign MP3 music files as ringtones.  Hands free communication is made possible thanks to both the inbuilt speakerphone system as well as a 3.5 mm audio Jack.

The HTC Wildfire makes use of its internal standard memory of 384 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM for storage of data such as contact information and documents.  Further storage can be attained by utilising the integrated micro SD card slot, which can accommodate a memory card of up to 32 GB.

As well as class 10 versions of both EDGE & GPRS, the Wildfire provides access to the Internet thanks to an HSDPA connection at speeds of up to 7.2 mega bytes per second in areas covered by 3G.  A faster Internet connection can be attained however thanks to built in Wi-Fi Technology which utilises the signals provided by wireless Internet routers in both commercial and domestic locations.  This allows users to surf the web at up to broadband speeds.

Budding photographers are catered for thanks to integrated 5 mega pixel digital camera.  Thanks to its pixel resolution, this offers the opportunity for users to take extremely high quality photographs with the minimum of effort thanks to the inclusion of features such as Autofocus, smile detection and an LED flash.  Geo-tagging is also provided which, thanks to GPS automatically records the location at which the photos were taken.

Version 2.1 of the renowned Android operating system is provided alongside a powerful 528 MHZ Qualcomm processor.  These to power houses handle demanding applications with ease and provide an excellent user experience.  The HTC Wildfire offers an excellent level of everyday versatility in functionality thanks to its built in features and applications.  Ranging from impressive media functions and social networking integration, if the handset boasts everything you expect to find in and Android Smartphone.

The success of this recently released handset looks assured thanks to the winning combination of both impressive hardware and software. If you like the HTC Wildfire check out the rest of the manufacturers Smartphones.

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