| HTC Wildfire | 
| Brand: HTC
Category: CE
Buy New: £226.60
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 232
Media: Electronics
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 3.5 x 2.4
MPN: 99HLC011-00
Model: 99HLC011-00
EAN: 4710937340303
ASIN: B003NCWVH2
Release Date: July 15, 2010
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A little fire cracker ! July 29, 2010
Dan
41 out of 41 found this review helpful
There are plenty of phones out there that will offer something better than the Wildfire. Bigger screen - better resolution - faster processor etc - but they all come at a price. The Wildfire comes in at a brilliant price point and offers a great feature set and a mature user interface (HTC Sense UI). If you trawl through the on line reviews, the biggest criticism is that it only offers a QVGA low res screen. Personally, I decided that it probably wouldn't matter to me as I'm unlikely to watch full length movies on the thing - but it's plenty good enough for you tube and web browsing in my opinion. I'm not disappointed.
The social networking integration is great. Friendstream is a great way to keep track of Twitter and Facebook updates. Smarter still, the phone matches your facebook friends with your contacts - and when they call, you get their latest facebook update and also notification if it's close to their birthday.
As you would expect with an Android handset - gmail integration is there (mail / contacts and calendar). It also connects to Exchange Active sync, which I'm using although it's a Zarafa / Z-Push backend in reality but I have absolutely no problems with it. The calendar appears to aggregate all these sources (including Facebook) in to one so you don't need to check a separate calendar for each.
The Wildfire UI can be customised with widgets and apps. Don't be too worried if you've not faced this before - essentially you can put what you like / where you like on one of the seven Sense UI screens and make the phone your own.
The application support is great. Today, for instance, I installed the latest Google Maps with voice search and also Navigation. The inbuilt GPS allowed me to use this as a Sat Nav unit. Great - I've just saved myself £60 because I no longer have to update the maps on my other Sat Nav device.
I've not had issues with performance or lag in spite of the lower spec CPU compared to the Desire - perhaps the QVGA screen is less demanding.
Ahh yes, the phone bit. Call quality is as good as I've heard on any other handset.
I could go on an on because there's a lot more to say about this little handset but you can tell I'm impressed.
Worth it. July 17, 2010
S. Money (UK)
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
This phone is definitely worth the buy especially if you have never had a android phone.
The phone looks amazing and has a nice feel.
One thing i wasn't expecting is that it doesn't have the normal Mini USB connector which HTC normally use, and is quite annoying as i had many of the original ones lying around the house, if you have never had an HTC im sure you wont worry about that.
It is a great phone and is worth buying.
You'll need fireproof mittens to handle this little fire starter! August 4, 2010
KJ (Leeds, UK)
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
I must admit that I bought my HTC Wildfire in a panic after damaging my HTC Hero beyond economical repair plus working away from home for a long time ruled out the chances of finding the ever popular SIM free HTC Desire or HTC Legend in a normal high street store so I bought the HTC Wildfire knowing that if I didn't like it I could take it back and exchange it for a HTC Desire or HTC Legend and simply pay the difference.
After playing around with it for an hour or two I actually grew to like the Wildfire - it was sleek, well finished, felt great to hold and it seemed to respond faster than my HTC Hero, needless to say I ended keeping my Wildfire for a number of valid reasons;
"5 MegaPixel camera with LED flash and autofocus"
I'm not a photographer or an expert but I've taken a few photos with the HTC Wildfire's snapper and its pretty good at taking pictures. The software is easy to use and its quite fast as well.
"Android 2.1 with HTC Sense"
The combination of Google's brilliant operating system and HTC's excellent skinning software has catapulted handsets like the Wildfire, the Hero, the Legend and the Desire into the iPhone league and arguably way beyond the Apple offering. Slick looking HTC widgets and apps such as a choice of twelve beautifully crafted live clocks to put on the home screen as you see fit, info sharing widgets such as the stocks, news, animated weather, web bookmarks, email, SMS messaging, twitter and facebook offerings to mention just a few.
"Android Market app store"
Universally slammed for not having as many apps as the iPhone offering it's still the fastest growing app store outside Apple - here's a few essential apps that I can't do without;
3 cubed music player - (available free from the market) taking the "cover flow" concept to a whole new level - listen to and navigate your music collection via a rotating 3D album art cube. Also has the ability to find missing album art via the web and check the concert schedule of the artistes in your music folder.
Amazon Kindle app - (available free) The famous e-book reader is now available on Android and it works brilliantly.
Amazon MP3 - (available free) Works exactly like the iTunes music store on the iPhone, I've bought many an album this way.
DoubleTwist - (available free for Mac, PC and Android) Basically does what iTunes does for the iPhone, provides seamless media synching options between your phone and computer.
Spotify - (free to download, need subscription to work) The ever popular music database, access thousands of tracks for a flat subscription rate LEGALLY! You can even download music for off line listening.
Google search by voice - (free to download) Does exactly what it says on the tin, with the added bonus of working quite well. You can even ask for directions to landmarks or maps and will even bring up contacts in you phone book.
Google Maps with street view and navigation - (free to download) Simply awesome, enough said!
I could go on but I wouldn't even scratch the surface of what this phone could do, so in brief;
Things I love about the HTC Wildfire:
- Great styling and build quality
- Responsive and smooth operation
- Good camera
- FM Radio
- Android 2.1 with HTC Sense (strong operating system enhanced by HTC's brilliant skinning efforts)
- Really good call handling abilities
- Excellent multi-touch browser with flash support
- Awesome Google app integration (Calendar, Contacts, Gmail). Seamless Google "cloud" interaction has made synching to my laptop a thing of the past.
- Android Market, some very useful apps on this platform
Things that may cause problems with the HTC Wildfire (although not for me)
- Old school low resolution display
- Touch sensitive controls at the bottom of the screen may take a while to get used to
- Some Android apps are not optimised for the small screen size of the Wildfire and therefore won't show up in the Android market.
Overall, the HTC Wildfire feels like a premium handset and offers unbeatable value for money - I'm a happy customer!
A Class Act August 7, 2010
I. A. Pattle (UK)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I see that there are many reviews here rating the Wildfire highly.
I wish to do the same. The look and build quality of it definitely impress. It is stylish, pleasant to hold in the hand, small and perfectly formed.
An iphone will have more apps, a better screen experience, a bigger screen experience even, but it will be much more expensive and hey, everyone and his brother has an iphone :) You want to be different.
The Wildfire does everything its big brother, the desire does, but at half the price. HTC had to put on a lower res screen otherwise they would have been cutting their own throats. The screen they have used however does the job wonderfully given the limitations necessary. It's a pleasure to use as it is the capacitive variety, rather than the resistive. This means that it is sensitive and solid to use. If like me you use a laptop or desktop to browse the web, the lower resolution, smaller screen on the Wildfire will not be a major problem. It is fine for basic or emergency use, it being necessary to zoom into pages to read them. It's not my experience that the processor lacks punch either. Everything seems to work fast and smoothly when I'm using it.
To conclude, if you are looking for a great looking phone at this price point, that gives you virtually everything that the much more expensive Desire does, there's no need to hesitate any more. My recommendation is go ahead and buy it. Its a really cool package.
HTC Wildfire, quietly brilliant July 27, 2010
Kelly (Lancahire)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I think its great, Smaller than the desire, the processors different to the desires but its just as quick & responsive. It looks great too. Much better than the IPhone, it doesnt freeze (well mine hasn't)
A fantastic Android phone. I wouldnt swap it !!
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