HTC Wildfire S Review By MobileTechReview

This is Lisa from mobile tech review and this is the HTC Wildfire s for T-Mobile in the US. This is a budget Android phone, that's good for folks who are looking for their first Android phone, something that doesn't cost a lot of money or for those of you who hate large phones, it's good, see relative to my hand, sides are pretty big hands. This is a small phone I'll, compare it to the HTC Sensation 4G, also available on T-Mobile. So you get an idea just how small it is tiny right. So if you despise, the idea of these 4.3 inch giant phones that are pretty trendy right now, I just don't want to spend the money for a phone like that. HTC's answer is the Wildfire s now on T-Mobile, this competes really most directly with the Samsung exhibit 4G that costs a bit more money right now online.

The exhibit is 99 bucks with contract or $2.99 without contract. This is 279 with no contract whatsoever, and it's free online or 79 bucks and T-Mobile stores. So if you're going to buy from a store, there's only $20 difference between this and exhibit, but if you're buying it online from T-Mobile directly, there is obviously a 99 dollar difference and then this becomes more attractive. Otherwise, the exhibit has better specs. It is a bit larger, it's not a huge phone, but it does have a higher resolution display a faster CPU and 4G versus 3G.

So keep that in mind then again, this is a smaller phone, it's cute and if you like, the HTC custom software, which is also very newbie friendly, the Wildfire has that going for it. This is a 3.2 inch display. It is half VGA which is 480 by 320, which, as a couple of years ago, was the standard for Android phones going back to the T-Mobile g1, but nowadays most of them are running at 800 by 480, like the exhibit or sometimes even higher, like the sensation. When you get into the very high-end phones, it has a 600 megahertz Qualcomm CPU again. That one also is something we saw a couple of years ago on Android phones, but now we're looking mostly at 1, gigahertz, single, core CPUs or sometimes a dual-core CPUs, that this is not a slow phone, though it opens up the apps quickly.

It scrolls through can run HTC Sense the latest version of their software. Here with all the nice you enhancements just fine, but one drawback is that this does not come out the W flash player, and it's not available for download, because it's probably not smart enough to actually run Adobe Flash. This has 3G HS DPA, not SPA is HS DPA 5.76 megabit per second, so you're, not looking at a lightning-fast download speed. But honestly, we have a pretty good reception here on T-Mobile and pretty good service, and we weren't exactly suffering downloading, even fairly large sized apps from the Android Market, but if you're buying a phone, and you're looking to use it as a Wi-Fi hotspot, which this can do bear in mind, you're not going to get as fast a connection from this is from a more expensive phone that has SPA+ 4G. This also has Wi-Fi calling, which is nice.

You can turn on Wi-Fi calling and use your Wi-Fi hotspot instead of your cellular network, to make phone calls and that costs you nothing if you're calling domestically. Let's take a look around the phone you can see large earpiece here. Voice bonding is pretty good on this reception is about average on it as well. We've got the standard, Android capacitive buttons here and a little HTC chin a little of a curved look going over here. Nothing on this side kind of nice pearly plastic power buttons up here, and this is a little grab spot where you pull the back off 3.5 millimeter, stereo jack. On this side we have the volume, control, rocker or the microUSB port and there's five megapixel camera on the back with an LED flash and actually takes pretty good photos.

And if we pull off the back, if it's one, then we yank off kind of bags take some force, but it's not nearly as difficult as the HTC status, for example, to get off and see you, here's the 13 20 William battery- and here is your micro SD card slot and a 2 gig card is included. That's good. You're going to need that card, because there's only 512 Meg's of RAM and 512 Meg's of storage on this phone. Now a lot of built-in storage. This just slides back into the chin.

You can see right here, interesting design, and then it snaps back in so available and white, and it's also available in gray I believe gray is available online for the special price of free with contract terms of software, there's not too much from T-Mobile on here, but we have the usual HTC Sense software, including HTC Sabra, can download new themes and wallpapers and stuff friend stream for social networking. You've got double twist sync for syncing media to the phone over USB, and we have an FM radio as well from HTC peek for more social networking goodness, and we have all the standard Google stuff on here: the YouTube player, Maps, Navigation, Gmail email, the WebKit web browser latitude news, voice, search, Google, search. All that good stuff is on here terms of T-Mobile extra software, there's not too much as T-Mobile mall, there's visual voicemail and for one more in here. This does not have T-Mobile TV, because it's only a 3G phone runs Android 2.3.3, which is Gingerbread and as HTC Sense 2.1, though it looks a lot like 3.0 and couple. The features are missing like if you do the quick spin here, you won't see the 3d carousel startup to show you all your multiple home screens.

Obviously it supports multiple home screens, like all Android phones, and we've got some widgets running here, like weather, going and here's your wireless control, which is handy for quickly controlling wireless. You can also go to quick settings, you swipe down, and you switch to the quick setting tabs, and you can also access all of your wireless radio is here, which is very handy, usually HTC, big flip clock with the embedded weather on it Google search here, and, of course you can add or remove these widgets, as you see fit music player over here, typical expandable extendable Android experience. Now the lock screen on this doesn't have that neat drag to ring feature you can see here, which means dragging an application to the unlock ring to act, launch it without unlocking the phone and strangely, with this one, you have to drag down to unlock most HTC phones. You drag up sure what I mean on our sensation. So here's the lock screen here and here are my for drag tubes.

So I can launch the phone just by dragging it to the ring, or I can launch the camera, for example this by dragging it down it, but I also get things like options for putting weather and other stuff on my lock screen and HTC also does things like enhance contacts and provide linking between your various social networks and contacts, and they have a nice little messaging application and take a look here. There are a messages, application, and I've got a basic service message here and here's the interface and here's where you would type it well take a look at the keyboard because being a 3.2 inch display, you've got a smaller keyboard than you do on today's big screen phones. So you can see it's its not that, but those of you with big fingers probably will have a little of trouble with it, and you can switch to landscape mode to get it more spread out. But the keys themselves are really not so much bigger. Swipe is also here as an option and if we take a look at contacts you know listing, while the people and if there's a photograph it'll show up in the list of the contact- and this is what the contacts look like a little more spiffy than your standard Android version, and you have Quick Links here to do things like email them stuff like that, send text message, and we've got the standard android web browser on here again no flash playback.

However, we'll visit our own website and the phone is typically a little quicker than this. But we just have that earthquake in Washington DC today and the Internet is being slowed down a little because of that right now we're told so there. It is, if you pinch and zoom in pinch and zoom, and you can see it's reasonably responsive but not Super-duper, fluid tap to zoom in and out as well, and it reflows the text, which is very nice, keeps it readable. So that's certainly an useable browser, and now I'll check out YouTube playback using the YouTube mobile for map layer, and we're doing this over T-Mobile's 3G network. So we'll just pick a video, that's featured here, I'm, not very good at seams, here's a truck! So there you have it YouTube, playback again, not bad, and we're doing this over 3G, not over Wi-Fi, speaker volume.

This is maximum right now, when speaker fires out the back right here, so bad speaker for a relatively affordable phone. So it's the HTC Wildfire s for T-Mobile in the United States, it's a very affordable, Android phones, a good starter phone, and it's a good phone for those of you who are looking for something that's quite palatable and not to mention affordable, I'm Lisa from mobile tech review visit our website for the full review.

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