Archive for June, 2010
HTC Wildfire
With an eye to cementing its position as among the world’s leader in smartphones outside of Symbian, Taiwan’s smartphone leader HTC strengthens its hold on the Android market with the release of the HTC Wildfire. Slated for worldwide market distribution in the 3rd quarter of 2010, the new smartphone tames the upscale HTC Desire to bring it one step closer to wider markets with HTC Tattoo affordability while maintaining some of the popular features of the Desire. It also runs the Android 2.1 Éclair platform. If that does create a wildfire of selling frenzy in its target markets, nothing will.
Imaging and Multimedia
If you like the imaging features of the HTC Desire but don’t have the wallet content for it, the HTC Wildfire could be your answer. It enjoys the same 5 megapixel autofocus camera with smile detection, LED flash, video recording and geo tagging from its built-in GPS receiver. Entertainment on the road is likewise an HTC Desire mirror with the same RDS-equipped stereo FM radio and the media players for the more popular audio and video content formats. You get a 3.5 mm headphone jack and A2DP profile support on Bluetooth for wireless stereo earphone listening. Look for the latest Wildfire offers online at Moby1.
A Scaled down Desire
A more affordable version of the HTC Desire gets obvious modesty inside and out. With slightly shorter monolithic body measuring 106.8 x 60.4 x 12 mm that weighs a lighter 17g at 118g, the HTC Wildfire accommodates a smaller 3.2 inch TFT LCD capacitive touchscreen with QVGA resolution where the Desire uses a 3.5-inch AMOLED. But you still get 16 million colors and multitouch data input capability as well as the standard proximity and accelerator sensors. It actually goes a step further with a turn-to-mute and lift-to-dim-out call functionalities.
Both handsets carry a plethora of radio and data connectivities. But the Wildfire losses HSUPA data speeds. It has the same HSDPA speeds on the dual band 3G/UMTS (900/ 2100) and class 10 GPRS/EDGE of up to 236.8 Kbps data speeds on the quad band 2G/GSM (850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900). It has the same hotspot support with WiFi 802.11b/g while its local high speed data connectivity gets Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0. SatNav features are supported by its onboard GPS receiver with A-GPS, a digital compass and the preloaded Google Maps application for turn-by-turn navigation you can use in a vehicle. Find the best phone with free gift by comparing all of the mobile phone deals that are on the internet.
While the HTC Wildfire also carries the preloaded Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube and Twitter apps for integration with your online SNS on the same Android 2.1 Éclair OS, it comes with a more modest 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7225 engine under the hood. But it gets a 384 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM for its OS system and application files and benefits from a microSD card slot for up to 32 GB external memory expandability.
A standard li-ion battery rated at 1300 mAh yields a talk time of up to 7.4 hours on the 2G network and surprisingly longer 8 hours on 3G. It also gets a standby time of up to 480 hours.
