HTC Wildfire Software Overview Part 1 | Pocketnow By Pocketnow

Hey guys it's Jeff Farina with pocketnow. com. If you start unboxing of the HTC Wildfire, we were able to actually start the device up and give you a brief. Look at HTC Sense well in this video we're going to dive in a little further and give you a tour of what sense has to offer in terms of being an android operating system skin, and we're also going to look at some preloaded software on the HTC Wildfire device. So without further ado, let's go ahead and get started alright, and we are back, and we're going to start off our series on the HTC Wildfire by giving you a brief intro to the software that is loaded on this device. Now the device itself comes with android 2.1, which is also known as ?clair, and, as you can see here, it's running HTC Sense over the android OS. Now for those of you who haven't used HTC Sense before it is a custom skin that has been developed by HTC for Android, and it gives you some different options as well as some home screen features.

So I can show you right here to scrolling left and right you're going to get 27 different home screens with HTC sense now. The advantage here is, if you've used an HTC device in the past. It's still going to stay consistent to that. However, if you have a using HTC device in the past, this is going to be new to you, a phone button down here, as well as the menu button and this plus button. These are exclusive to HTC Sense.

The phone is pretty self-explanatory. It brings up the phone option. Pressing the menu button will bring up your menu here, which will allow you to scroll through all of your various apps. You have on your system and then going to the plus button will allow you to add a shortcut whether it be a widget and a folder, etc. , rather than just a long press.

You see. Sense is also known for this nice clock and weather widget. You see here which gives you a big flip clock, as well as the brief weather forecast. You can actually tap on the clock to get a few different settings, such as an alarm clock motor, a desk clock type of mode. Furthermore, you can also get your world clock, so you basically add your different cities, your alarms stopwatch and your timer.

Now there is one difference with HTC sense or better. Yet, with Android on this device than a lot of the newer Android devices, you do not have the ability to and live wallpapers and I. Believe that's because of the processor devices on the HTC. Hero have also been updated to android 2.1 and still do not have the ability to do the live wallpapers- and this is very similar to that once again, most likely because of the process are coming in. Only five hundred twenty-eight megahertz using a live wallpaper will definitely dedicate some of that CPU.

So by sacrificing the ability to have live, wallpapers HTC has kept the processor somewhat up to spec in terms of the apps, don't run incredibly slow. However, if you do have a live wallpaper, you would definitely see a difference now, because its uses, HTC Sense HTC, is going to incorporate many of their own widgets as well. That includes stocks, news weather, even a music player, now showing you some of those are up. The bat is going to be the music player application itself with a widget itself, which is much better than the Android music players by default. That's one of the big complaints with Android as the music player.

This widget you're, seeing down here is the HTC music player. If we actually go ahead and click on this, it will bring up the player itself and, as you can see, it gives you the cover art type style. You can actually flow through pretty easily. This definitely runs better than the stock Android music player going back to the home screen. We can continue to scroll toward the right.

You have your stocks widget here these are the default. It will give you can change these, though to it ever fits your portfolio or whatever you want to follow for that matter. Now. You can also pinch in to get a helicopter type view now going back to the opposite side of our home screen. We have the HTC news widget now, as you see here, it is a typical size widget, which will give you all of your new stories.

You can actually just scroll right through select a widget, and it will actually bring up that story for you to read in its detail, going back to the home screen that you can actually change which feeds by pressing the all stories, and it allows you to change which feeds you want to pull from. As you see here, we have the CNET seeing gadgets. The yahoo is, you can even add many more though, if you'd like you can do it based on RSS as well, so it's incense an RSS reader as well. Now we also have the HTC mail widget, which will basically show your email right on the screen as well as you can see here. This gives the ability to actually write a response directly from your home screen and sense, a much faster way to respond to email.

You just type who compose the message, and then you just press the send button and off it goes you're also going to have the HTC bookmark widget, which is once again pretty straightforward. You can see here it gives you some of your favorite bookmarks, and these are the default standards that it's going to come preset with you just scroll up and down. Furthermore, you can actually choose the window that you want to go to so, for example, we can press the Google page right there, and now it's actually to bring us right to google com pretty fast and simple. It eliminates the need of having open up a browser and type in the address every time, and you get the added benefit of being visual a little of eye candy for you, as you can see right there. Now, of course, that doesn't mean that you are stuck having to use the HTC widgets.

You do have to use HTC Sense, but you can load some widgets from the market and any pre-loaded widgets from Android are also going to be included. For example, the power manager here, which is an Android stock widget- you can use that in conjunction with the HTC calendar, breakout widget, as I have on that screen there, which means that for the most part, your standard Android experience will live in harmony with HTC sense, while many people may say that sense does slow down the OS, because it is in fact a skin, and it's a very intense skin. It does also give you the added benefit of some productivity features like this calendar widget here, as well as the well-regarded clock that you see on the home screen now the on-screen keyboard, because it is a 3.2-inch screen, of course, has to be modified to fit that screen. As you can see here, it's very similar to the HTC hero on sprint, it's very similar to that keyboard. If it's the screen perfectly, it's actually very easy to type on very similar to the iPhone in terms of the accuracy.

Really very few errors are had when typing a long message or a quick message for that matter. One great thing about sense is that it's going to incorporate your Facebook and your Twitter contacts with your standard address book so that when someone calls you, if they have a Facebook page, it will actually show their picture, and it may even show their status updates or their recent twitter updates in the contacts profile itself now, you're also going to have the addition of what's called apps sharing. If we go into the menu here, as you can see, app sharing. This gives you the ability to actually recommend an app to a friend, so you can actually, as you see a tease of two to two apps that are currently on this device Facebook and Twitter. So you can actually pick Twitter and you can share it via Facebook friend stream, which is the HTC custom stream to see your feeds from Facebook and Twitter.

You can send it through the Gmail application through the standard mail application, as well as to a text message, etc. , etc. Even on Twitter, if you want it to that's a pretty cool feature, you know being able to show your friends what apps you use and which ones they should download, especially if they're new to android and that's going. To conclude our part, one of the software overview of the HTC Wildfire, which comes pre-loaded with sense, which is the OS skin, make sure you stay tuned for our coming hardware update as well as the software overview part 2, which will incorporate a browser test, as well as some different social networking applications on a speed test compared to one of these devices, big brother, the HTC EVE. As always, please leave us a thumbs up.

Thank you. Everyone for watching.

Source : Pocketnow