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The high rolling Android bandwagon gathers a new rider from the world’s leader in smartphones outside of Symbian, the Taiwan-based HTC. Pitched to a wider market with a watered-down feature set of its flagship HTC Desire but at HTC Tattoo prices, the new HTC Wildfire is expected to further boost the growing Android markets while cementing HTC as an emerging leader in Android handsets. It boasts of the same HTC Sense UI and Friend Stream apps running on the same Android 2.1 Éclair OS.

Desirable Features

For starters, desirability of the HTC Wildfire comes from sporting the upscale imaging features it shares with the HTC Desire. It comes with the same 5-megapixel autofocus shooter with LED flash, face detection, geo tagging from its onboard GPS receiver and basic video recording. Multimedia is likewise a carryover with identical stereo FM radio with RDS and the media content playback features for the popular audio and video file formats. Your stereo listening gets a choice of using its 3.5mm headphone jack for wired listening or its Bluetooth A2DP for wireless stereo headphones.
The HTC Wildfire carries the same cornucopia of radio and data connectivity options such as 3G on the dual band UMTS (900/ 2100) with HSDPA speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps, 2G on the quad band GSM (850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900) with class 10 GPRSA/EDGE speeds of up to 236.8 Kbps as well as local high speed data connectivity options with WiFi 802.11b/g for hotspot internet surfing, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP for wireless data transfers and microUSB 2.0 for the wired option.

You also get SatNav connectivity with its integrated GPS receiver with A-GPS support that comes preloaded with Google Maps.

On the apps front, both Desire and Wildfire gets the same HTS Sense UI and preloaded with the social networking apps for seamless integration with Facebook and Twitter as well as media file sharing sites like Picasa, YouTube and Flickr. Messaging apps are likewise supported for IM with Google talk, Gmail as Push Email client. Find the latest HTC Wildfire contracts by searching online and comparing all the very best phone offers from major retailers.

Taming the Desire

Affordability obviously has its price. What stands out is a smaller screen on a smaller body weighing 17g lighter at 118g and measuring 106.8 x 60.4 x 12 mm. The HTC Wildfire accommodates a 3.2-inch LCD TFT capacitive touchscreen with QVGA resolution where the Desire has a 3.7 half-VGA AMOLED capacitive. But you still get a gorgeous 16 million color support and the same multitouch data input capability as well as the usual accelerometer and proximity sensors. Neither model has a secondary video call camera up front.

With a small resolution, its engine can give up the Desire’s Snapdragon in favor of a more modest Qualcomm MSM7225 processor clocked at 528 MHz. Both handsets provide ample onboard RAM needed to launch Android apps. The Wildfire has the same 512 MB ROM but a slightly lower 384 MB RAM compared with the Desire’s 576 MB RAM. It still comes with microSD external memory expandability for up to 32 GB minus the 4GB included in the Desire’s sales pack. When finding a new phone it is good to look for a mobile phone with free gift.

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