HTC Desire Mini: Wildfire Review

Written By Drakor on Monday, August 9, 2010 | 5:49 AM

The Wildfire is certainly the right phone for those who like to always stay in touch. The high-end connectivity is all there, along with solid social network integration and browsing. It seems the display and CPU are the only downgrades from the Desire.

htc wildfire

But that�s still a lot. Android phones with QVGA screens have failed to impress and the size of the Wildfire�s display gives no reason to be optimistic here.

The HTC Wildfire is a down-sized, down-clocked and down-priced version of the HTC Desire. If Sony Ericsson can do it with the X10 mini, then HTC have all the right in the world to make a Desire mini too.

HTC Wildfire features
  • Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
  • 3G with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA
  • Android OS v2.1 (Eclair) with Sense UI
  • 3.2" capacitive touchscreen of QVGA resolution
  • Multi-touch support
  • Qualcomm MSM 7225 528 MHz CPU, 384 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
  • 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash and touch focus
  • Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and GPS receiver
  • Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
  • Turn-to-mute, lift-to-tone-down
  • Proximity sensor
  • Smart dialing
  • Standard miniUSB port for charging and data
  • Bluetooth with A2DP, file transfers
  • microSD card slot, a 2GB card in the box
  • Standard 3.5mm audio jack
  • Social network integration: Facebook, Twitter and Flickr through Friend Stream
  • Flash-enabled browser
  • Direct access to the official Android repository
  • Stereo FM radio with RDS

Main disadvantages

  • Poor screen image quality, QVGA doesn�t do Android OS and the display size justice
  • No video-call camera or videocalling whatsoever
  • CIF@15fps video recording (352 x 288 pixels) is below par
  • No voice dialing
  • No DivX or XviD video support out of the box
  • No TV-out port

On the other hand, the Wildfire boasts the premium finish of the Nexus One and the HTC Desire. Not only is a touch of style always welcome in the lower tiers of the market but users will probably appreciate the compact size too.

Source: GSMArena

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