HTC Wildfire
Running on the Android 2.1 OS, the Wildfire is a social networking wizard, scheduled for a third quarter 2010 release. The Wildfire is HTC’s offering to a more budget-conscious audience, especially younger consumers who make up much of the social networking demographic. Rather than focusing on cutting edge hardware, much of HTC’s focus in the Wildfire is placed on its social applications. Though it has a middling 525 MHz processor, the Wildfire is capable of running things at a respectable speed, and the 3.2 capacitive touch screen makes it easy and intuitive to use with pinch-to-zoom and auto rotate capability. No official pricing is available yet, but the Wildfire is expected to be easy on the wallet to help increase HTC’s market penetration. If you have been considering phone deals for your next mobile phone then you can do no wrong by considering all of the HTC Wildfire contracts on offer.
The Wildfire features the updated version of HTC’s Sense UI, optimised for seamless and intuitive interaction, putting the focus on what is most important. The Friend Stream aggregates all of your social networking information into a single constantly updated stream to make it much easier to see what is important at a glance, or let everyone else know what is going on with a blanket update to all of your profiles at once. The new Sense UI also allows for the organisation of your contacts into social circles and searching through contacts using the People function to help you keep track of everyone. Your most recent interactions with each contact are stored in their profile, along with their social network statuses, and the caller ID also displays Facebook profile photos for incoming calls along with any reminders of important upcoming events for that individual.
