Friday 10 June 2011

ABOUT THE DETAILS OF HTC WILDFIRE


                               

Accessing the dial pad is as easy as pie – there's a big fat icon at the bottom of the home screen that takes you there. You can then start dialling a number or name (using the T9 predictive text method) and smartdial will work out who you're aiming for from your contacts.

Calls made using the Wildfire could be clearer; although not bad quality, callers' voices were a touch on the fuzzy side. We also had a couple of issues with dropped calls even when the reception was perfectly fine.

We're quite taken with HTC's polite ringer feature – if a caller isn't someone you fancy chatting with, simply turning the Wildfire over puts the ringer to silent until your voicemail kicks in.

Contacts are integrated with Facebook and Twitter should you wish it, which is great in that it means most of your contacts will end up with snazzy photo icons without you having to go through setting each one.

The HTC Wildfire is all about social networks being integrated fully into the phone's operations – this includes caller ID. If the person calling is also a Facebook contact, it'll tell you their latest status update and if their birthday is coming up.

This is great and all, but we're so used to just answering as soon as we glance at the name it wasn't something we found particularly useful.

Messaging on the HTC Wildfire is pretty basic. But what it lacks in features it makes up for in being very easy to use. The inbox features contacts' images which make it quite nice and colourful to look at and each contact has its own threaded messaging for an easy reminder of the conversation so far.
                              
Writing text messages is similarly straightforward; the HTC Sense QWERTY keyboard is one of the best around.

It's obviously a little more spacious if you auto-rotate it to landscape mode, but portrait wasn't too cramped to use either – this is a vast improvement on the resistive Tattoo's T9 layout.

The predictive text learns words quickly and easily so you can be chatting in your own lingo in no time and the multi-touch display is able to register more than one letter at once, so speedy typing is easy.

Our only real issue with messaging on the HTC Wildfire is that sometimes there was a delay in receiving text messages, even with full reception.

Messages were stuck in the ether for several hours, even while we browsed the web over 3G and sent other messages of our own. We were using the HTC Wildfire on post-pay O2, and this could quite easily have been a network issue.

Setting up Exchange or Pop email is no problem as long as you have all the required information to hand. It's simply a case of filling in the fields onscreen and that's it.

Emails can be laid out either as a traditional inbox or threaded conversations – and it's particularly handy to be able to sort emails by date, or look through only unread emails.



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