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Technical Details
- 3.2" Captive Touchscreen
- 5 Megapixel Camera
- Download and Share Android Apps
- People Widget
- FM Radio
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
The HTC Wildfire is feature-packed and also has a 5MP Camera with Flash & GPS Geotagging Click here for a larger image.
Check Facebook©, Twitter™ and Flickr® at the same time
With Friend Stream, you can see all your friends' Facebook© updates, Tweets and Flickr® photos on the same screen. And when you want to update your own profiles, you can change them all in one go.
Our next-generation Caller ID
When someone calls you, your Caller ID doesn't just tell you their name and number any more - it tells you useful stuff like their Facebook© status and birthday date, too.
HTC Wildfire features Caller ID
Recommend apps straight from your phone
Want to tell someone about an app? Send them a link straight from your phone to theirs. There are thousands of apps available on Android Market™ - including games, social-networking apps and new arrivals every day.
Keep your friends close
Nowadays, staying in touch means more than making a call. The HTC Wildfire gives you instant access to Facebook© and Twitter™ and helps you keep up-to-date with the things that matter, like where the party is this weekend.
Foursquare™
Uncover new ways that you & your friends can explore your city. Earn points & unlock badges for discovering new things. Available for download for Android Market™.
What the Doodle
The addictive social, multiplayer drawing game where you pit your artistic skills against the rest of the world. Available for download on Android Market™.
Abduction
Tilt your way up to space and try to catch the aliens that have abducted your friends, collecting surprises and power-ups as you go. Available for download at Android Market™.
Teeter
Hugely addictive and realistic update on the classic labyrinth game which moves and feels like the real thing.
The HTC features an intuitive music player
Dancing in the street
Looking for an easy and intuitive music player? The HTC Wildfire has got it covered. Flip through your full collection of CDs and downloads stored on the micro SD card. Or visit Android Market™ for the latest music apps like Last.fm© and Spotify™.
YouTube™
Catch up with all the latest music videos on YouTube™. Or if you've starred in your own, share it with your friends.
Shazam©
Hold your phone up to a song you don't know, switch on Shazam© and get the lowdown straight to your phone – simple. Available for download at Android Market™.
Shoot from the hip
Cameras are a pocket essential these days. And with 5-megapixels, auto focus and video capture you won‘t miss that perfect shot. Plus you can add effects, geotag and post your photos instantly to Facebook©, Twitter™ and Flickr®.
Picsay
Spice up your photos with text balloons, stickers and special effects and send a fun, personalized message to your friends. Available for download at Android Market™
Photoshop® for Android
Drag your finger accross the screen to crop, resize and adjust the exposure of your photos – then share them with the world via Facebook© or Twitter™. Available for download at Android Market™.
Search Google Maps™ to find what you need
A bit of local knowledge
Know what the locals know, when you're traveling away from home. Search Google Maps™ to find what you need. Find your way around with turn-by-turn navigation and find friends close to you with Google Latitude™.
Google Places
When you're in an unfamiliar place, it's good to know what's around you. See it all conveniently displayed on Google Maps™. Available for download at Android Market™.
My Tracks
Made for the great outdoors, My Tracks records your routes and gives you vital statistics such as speed, distance and altitude. Available for download at Android Market™.
Other Features
Get news flashes on your phone
With our News app, choose what websites or blogs you want to hear from, then have their latest news delivered right to the palm of your hand.
An in-built, dimmable flashlight
Dropped your keys in the dark? No problem.
FM Radio
Just plug in your headset and listen to whatever station you want!
Much better browsing
The HTC Wildfire comes with Adobe® Flash® support for online video, pinch-to-zoom page resizing, and auto rotation from portrait to landscape. It also comes with useful reference tools like one-touch dictionary, translation and Wikipedia® lookup.
Please note: Applications available for download may differ by region and carrier availability.
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
I didn't think I would like a smart phone, and was quite worried about the touch screen aspect but I couldn't live without one now.
Good points:
- Lots of preloaded features such as navigator which is a great portable sat nav for walking around cities.
- Android OS which has lots of Apps available for download, both free and paid.
- Intuitive layout.
- Stylish
- Big screen for phone size.
- Can use Kindle for Android app.
Bad points:
- Not ergonomic, the case is slippy and it is hard to use one handed.
- Back cover is hard to remove without a bit of force.
- Low resolution screen, which means some games will not work.
- Poor battery life (2 days without Wi-Fi on).
- As with any touch screen, can't use gloves.
Good points:
- Lots of preloaded features such as navigator which is a great portable sat nav for walking around cities.
- Android OS which has lots of Apps available for download, both free and paid.
- Intuitive layout.
- Stylish
- Big screen for phone size.
- Can use Kindle for Android app.
Bad points:
- Not ergonomic, the case is slippy and it is hard to use one handed.
- Back cover is hard to remove without a bit of force.
- Low resolution screen, which means some games will not work.
- Poor battery life (2 days without Wi-Fi on).
- As with any touch screen, can't use gloves.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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As a first time user of a smartphone, I'd wondered how big a learning curve there might be, but the set-up process was very quick and the majority of other functions were easy to figure out. A start-up guide is provided with the phone, but the full manual is available online if you want to find out about all the features without playing around with the handset.
The phone came with Android 2.1, but an update was available for version 2.2 and the software seems to work really well. With seven homescreens that you can scroll between, there's plenty of room for shortcuts to the various applications that come with the phone and any others that you download. I'd heard that the Android Market was the poor relation of the iPhone Market, but to me there seems to be an incredible range to choose from. The web browser is great and the pinch screen method of zooming in or out is so handy. I imagine that the speeds are slower than you would get with a phone like the HTC Desire with its greater processing power, but pages load pretty quickly nonetheless. And the touchscreen isn't overly responsive, but I've never found myself having problems with getting anything to respond.
Two criticisms I'd read about that had concerned me before buying the phone were the quality of the camera and the screen resolution. However, for taking photos when out and about when I don't have my proper camera, the end results have been good. With a 5mp camera, there's great scope for cropping photos and still having a good quality image. As for the screen resolution, again I'm sure that it's not a patch on that of the Desire, but I've watched youtube videos and looked at my photos and found the clarity to be good. I was very pleasantly surprised in fact.
I don't use twitter or flickr, so have no idea if they're easy to use with this phone, but using facebook (for my own updates, browsing and commenting on friends' posts, and uploading photos) and picasa is so simple and easy. And having a google account and using gmail with all my contacts entered there, once I logged in to google, all contact details were synced to the phone. One of the shortcuts you can have is to your "people" list, and I find it easy to scroll through to whomever I want to find. Facebook contacts are also put there, and though the phone will attempt to link entries, it is possible that you'll still have some duplicates, but linking them manually can be done in a moment.
Overall, I've experienced no downsides to this phone and given its relatively modest price for an Android phone, I highly recommend it.
The phone came with Android 2.1, but an update was available for version 2.2 and the software seems to work really well. With seven homescreens that you can scroll between, there's plenty of room for shortcuts to the various applications that come with the phone and any others that you download. I'd heard that the Android Market was the poor relation of the iPhone Market, but to me there seems to be an incredible range to choose from. The web browser is great and the pinch screen method of zooming in or out is so handy. I imagine that the speeds are slower than you would get with a phone like the HTC Desire with its greater processing power, but pages load pretty quickly nonetheless. And the touchscreen isn't overly responsive, but I've never found myself having problems with getting anything to respond.
Two criticisms I'd read about that had concerned me before buying the phone were the quality of the camera and the screen resolution. However, for taking photos when out and about when I don't have my proper camera, the end results have been good. With a 5mp camera, there's great scope for cropping photos and still having a good quality image. As for the screen resolution, again I'm sure that it's not a patch on that of the Desire, but I've watched youtube videos and looked at my photos and found the clarity to be good. I was very pleasantly surprised in fact.
I don't use twitter or flickr, so have no idea if they're easy to use with this phone, but using facebook (for my own updates, browsing and commenting on friends' posts, and uploading photos) and picasa is so simple and easy. And having a google account and using gmail with all my contacts entered there, once I logged in to google, all contact details were synced to the phone. One of the shortcuts you can have is to your "people" list, and I find it easy to scroll through to whomever I want to find. Facebook contacts are also put there, and though the phone will attempt to link entries, it is possible that you'll still have some duplicates, but linking them manually can be done in a moment.
Overall, I've experienced no downsides to this phone and given its relatively modest price for an Android phone, I highly recommend it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
great phone,good for anyone who hasn't had an android phone before a bit like myself its easy to use and looks great, though if you use the internet a lot the battery life doesn't last very long but otherwise a brillant phone.
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