May 19th, 2010 
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Yesterday HTC announced their new Android smartphone – Wildfire. This phone is likely to have the best price / features ratio among other solutions for the next 3 or so months. Price-wise it will probably be positioned between HTC Tattoo and HTC Hero. Its technical characteristics are better than both Tattoo and Hero, and are similar to HTC Legend.
Technical characteristics:
- Class: smartphone
- Form factor: monoblock
- Materials: plastic, metal
- Operating System: Android 2.1 + HTC Sense
- Network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, EDGE / GPRS, UMTS / HSDPA 900/2100
- Platform: Qualcomm MSM7225-1 processor (528 MHz)
- RAM: 384 MB
- Memory storage: 512 MB (ROM) + microSD memory card (hot swap)
- Interfaces: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (A2DP), microUSB (USB 2.0), 3.5 mm headset jack
- Screen: 3.2″, 240 × 320 pixels (QVGA) resolution
- Camera: 5 megapixel with autofocus and flash
- Navigation: Qualcomm based GPS (support A-GPS)
- Misc: distance sensor, light sensor, digital compass, gyroscope
- Battery: removable Li-Ion, 1300 mAh
So, technically this phone is very similar to HTC Legend, but has lower resolution screen. That’s it, nothing else got removed or changed. It has the same camera, same amount of memory, slower processor, but since the screen has lower resolution, it should be more than enough for the phone to function without any problems. I think that this phone has a potential to become the first truly ‘mass’ Android phone. HTC must be hoping for the same and released the phone with 4 different colour combinations.
Here is the official video of the phone:
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