| HTC have impressed with their high end smartphones | | | | quick and easy. An optical trackpad is also fitted to the |
| that have hit the market in the past few months, | | | | unit to make navigation even easier. |
| competing with the Apple iPhone and the high end | | | | A look at the multi media facilities on the HTC Wildfire |
| Sony Ericssons. They have now focused their | | | | show that the handset is certainly well specified. With |
| attention on producing a Smartphone but at the more | | | | regards to the camera facility, this boast a 5 mega |
| budget end of the market with the new HTC Wildfire. | | | | pixel resolution which is fairly standard amongst |
| So exactly how does this impressive looking model fair | | | | smartphones. The snapper benefits from a host of |
| against the more powerful competitors available. | | | | other additional feature however that include an LED |
| Firstly lets take a look at the design of the unit. At first | | | | flash and autofocus, both features make taking good |
| glance the unit looks slightly squarer than others | | | | quality pictures even easier. The handset also supports |
| available, but this is no bad thing and in fact makes the | | | | geo tagging. The Wildfire is also capable of catching |
| phone stand out a little from the crowd. Measuring | | | | video footage and the results are quite impressive. |
| 106.7 x 60.4 x 12.9 mm, the phone weighs 118 | | | | With regards to Audio the handset supports various |
| grammes. Very similar in looks to the HTC Desire, the | | | | formats that include MP3, WAV and AAC. Video |
| handset has neatly curved edges and certainly does | | | | playback is also supported and the results look good |
| not look cheap, even quite the opposite thanks to a | | | | on the phones screen. There is a gallery mode, |
| distinctive metal band placed across the back of the | | | | designed to make viewing both video and photographs |
| phone. The screen featured on the Wildfire is a 3.2" | | | | easier. The 512MB of internal memory is reasonable |
| TFT display. Capable of producing a resolution of 240 | | | | but can be increased by adding a microSD card, the |
| x 320 pixels, the screen benefits from being a | | | | handset supports sizes upto 32GB. The phone also |
| capacitive touchscreen rather than resistive. This | | | | features a 3.5mm headphone jack, giving the user the |
| means it is much more responsive to the users touch, | | | | choice of which headphones they wish to listen to their |
| and navigation around the various homescreens is | | | | material on. |