HTC Wildfire

Introduction

Occasionally HTC takes a little break from high-end smartphones and dips its toes in the waters of the lower midrange. The HTC Wildfire is a down-sized, down-clocked and down-priced version of the HTC Desire. If Sony Ericsson can do it with the [url=http://X10 mini]X10 mini,then HTC have all the right in the world to make a Desire mini too.

  
HTC Wildfire official photos




But while the Desire was something that easily snatched everybody’s attention, the Wildfire is a bit more toned down despite its fire-some name.

Key features

-Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
-3G with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA
-Android OS v2.1 (Éclair) with Sense UI
-3.2" capacitive touchscreen of QVGA resolution
-Multi-touch support
-Qualcomm MSM 7225 528 MHz CPU, 384 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
-5 megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash and touch focus
-Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and GPS receiver
-Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
-Turn-to-mute, lift-to-tone-down
-Proximity sensor
-Smart dialing
-Standard miniUSB port for charging and data
-Bluetooth with A2DP, file transfers
-microSD card slot, a 2GB card in the box
-Standard 3.5mm audio jack
-Social network integration: Facebook, Twitter and Flickr through Friend Stream
-Flash-enabled browser
-Direct access to the official Android repository
-Stereo FM radio with RDS


Main disadvantages
-Poor screen image quality, QVGA doesn’t do Android OS and the display size justice
-No video-call camera or videocalling whatsoever
-CIF@15fps video recording (352 x 288 pixels) is below par
-No voice dialing
-No DivX or XviD video support out of the box
-No TV-out port

The Wildfire is certainly the right phone for those who like to always stay in touch. The high-end connectivity is all there, along with solid social network integration and browsing. It seems the display and CPU are the only downgrades from the Desire.

But that’s still a lot. Android phones with QVGA screens have failed to impress and the size of the Wildfire’s display gives no reason to be optimistic here.