gadgetshow.channel5.com Updated:
2011-07-31 13:39:06
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Although smartphone manufacturers are offering bigger and bigger screens on mobile phones - with the latest Samsung Infuse 4G boasting a huge 4.5-inch screen, not everybody...
The HTC Wildfire sits at the affordable end of HTC's touchscreen smartphone empire, yet it still has a lot to offer. The 3.2-inch display makes it one of the smaller touchscreen handsets on the market, and it slips easily into pockets. Build quality is excellent, and the Wildfire has more in common with high-end HTC handsets than budget devices. The design is smart, the optical trackpad also look...
Although the HTC Wildfire is more than capable when it comes to specs, it suffers slightly during everyday use. There's more lag than you'll find on more expensive handsets, and the small screen also means a small onscreen keyboard. The biggest compromise is the display, however, which is let down by the low 320 x 240-pixel resolution.
The HTC Wildfire is a good handset, but it's lacking when it comes to stand-out features. We really love the design and the compact footprint, and it's worth a look if you're on a tight budget. If you can afford to spend a little more, however, HTC has...
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zath.co.uk Updated:
2011-07-31 13:39:06
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HTC has gone through somewhat of a surge in terms of success in the last couple of years with phones like the HTC Desire and the Desire HD impressing many of us and setting great standards in terms of Android-based smartphones and now have they done it...
Overall the HTC Wildfire is a great little smartphone: it’s fantastic for those who like to use the internet on-the-go, thanks to its fast connection speed; great for those social networking fanatics, with new status updates arriving within seconds of...
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digitalversus.com Updated:
2011-07-31 13:39:06
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With 3G/3G+, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a GPS chip, the WildFire can rival the best for its connectivity options. We had no problems with network reception or with call quality, which was good at all times. A practical feature we found useful in some situati...
Design and handling, Highquality finish, Google services (Gmail, Gtalk, Google Maps Navigation etc.), Responsiveness / Smooth operation...
Startup time, Touchsensitive keys either too sensitive or not sensitive enough, Screen a bit small for web browsing or watching videos, Battery life, SMS interface not the most practical...
The WildFire is a good basic version of the Desire. It's less powerful than its high-end counterpart but it's also a fair bit less expensive. In other words, this handset is good value for money for shoppers with limited budgets. It's compact and light...
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itreviews.com Updated:
2011-07-31 13:39:06
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HTC has produced a super good value smartphone with the Wildfire. The screen is small and it is rather confined for some uses, but overall the HTC Wildfire offers the key elements that a modern smartphone needs plus some useful extras. HTC - Wildfire...
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gadgetrepublic.com Updated:
2011-07-31 13:39:07
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The HTC Wildfire is aimed at a younger and more cash-strapped audience who want all the benefits of a Smartphone but at a fraction of the cost. It can be seen as a budget version of the HTC Desire and, considering the amazing quality of the Desire, tha...
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The HTC Wildfire is a smaller, cheaper version of the HTC Desire mobile phone. The Wildfire's low-resolution display and occasional lag are down sides, but it is well designed, has impressive features and offers excellent value for money. The HTC Wil...
The HTC Wildfire boasts impressive build quality and the full suite of Android features, but it has a low-resolution display and sluggish performance. When you consider its price though, these minor issues are much easier to live with and are a small...
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Best Budget Mobile Phone We've long-held the belief that what the mobile phone market needs is a small, low-cost handset that packs in all the key features of top end smartphones and is reasonably well made. We've had reasonably feature-packed cheap hands...
Measures up to phones twice the price, Good build quality...
Low resolution screen, Slow processor...
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This phone runs on Android 2.1 with HTC's stylish Sense interface, boasts a smooth, compact design and innovative social networking apps.Weighing 118 grams and at only 12.19mm thick, the phone's slim design makes it easy to store it in your pocket or hand...
This phone runs on Android 2.1 with HTC’s stylish Sense interface, boasts a smooth, compact design and innovative social networking apps.Weighing 118 grams and at only 12.19mm thick, the phone’s slim design makes it easy to store it in your pocket or h...
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The HTC Wildfire is a budget Android smartphone with more than a passing resemblance to its larger cousin, the HTC Desire. Its rounded edges and rubberised, brown-grey finish are identical, and underneath the screen you'll find the Desire's optical tra...
The Wildfire is basically a Desire Lite, with all the utility of HTC's Sense software and the open nature of Android, but with a smaller screen...
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T3.com Updated:
2011-07-31 13:39:07
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The HTC Wildfire is supposedly a budget blower. You can snaffle it right now for just £20 a month, free on contract. But with HSDPA, a sleek capacitive touchscreen and , it’s got all the characteristics of its pricier siblings, the Desire and the Le...
HTC Sense, Caller ID feature, Great keyboard...
Poor low res screen Occasionally sluggish...
A great phone that's well worth investigating if you want Android on a tight budget...
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So you like the sound of this Android smartphone business, but you don’t want to spend a fortune? Well, the HTC Wildfire isn’t the first budget Android blower, but it’s arguably the best. Hot product: HTC's Wildfire Previously, if you wanted an Android...
There’s a lot to like about the HTC Wildfire, from the low price to the exceptional HTC Sense user interface. The screen is the most low-rent aspect but even though it’s definitely low-res, its still usable and at least it’s not a pressure-sensitive...
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Using the low resolution 3.2in 240 x 320 TFT screen of the HTC Wildfire after the top end smartphones we’ve looked at recently comes as something of a shock to the system. Everything suddenly looks fuzzy and indistinct – it’s almost like going back to...
Excellent software, a multitouch screen and a good list of features – this is a very good budget smartphone...
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3g.co.uk Updated:
2011-07-31 13:39:07
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The Wildfire looks good and has some top-class features packed into its low-cost body. However, we love the added bonus of App Share, and it has all the required apps, social networking and fast internet access. While Android is still considered so...
App sharing, excellent social networking integration, decent value.
idering it’s available for free with a £20 contract, the HTC Wildfire offers an impressive range of social networking capabilities. There’s Friend Stream, which shows an aggregated stream from Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, while a calendar extracts all your Facebook Friends’ birthdays. The contact book is really useful, merging friends with their social networking profiles. Not only that, but it...
Despite a low-cost body, the HTC Wildfire offers a good bundle of features, especially for web browsing and social networking...
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The Wildfire is an Android-based handset from HTC, and for those who don’t have the cash to splash out on an iPhone or HTC Desire, this could be a great low-cost substitute.Design-wise, the Wildfire is compact and curvy with dimensions measuring 12.19m...
Brilliant Android 2.1 OS and HTC Sense UI; responsive touch-screen; small and lightweight; good quality camera; customisable options galore...
Slow processor; annoying haptic feedback; no HD recording...
The HTC is a great all-rounder, which does everything users could require of a current phone, minus video-chat. Considering it is available free on networks such as Vodafone for just £20 per month, it could be seen as an alternative to the iPhone for...
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Having been announced less than a month ago I was initially surprised to see the HTC Wildfire arrive in the office here so soon. Granted, we've already seen the Wildfire go on pre-order sale (SIM-free) at some retailers and some UK carriers announce t...
Overall the HTC Wildfire is another great effort from HTC. HTC are adding more and more models to their range so chances are you'll be able to find something that fits your needs. If perhaps the Desire or the Nexus One are a too big or too expensive th...
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A smartphone for those on a tight budget, the HTC Wildfire doesn't skimp on the specs; the touchscreen handset runs Android 2.1 with the user-friendly HTC Sense UI and is rocking the same processing power as 2009's phone of choice, the HTC Hero.If you're...
A budget phone that doesn't look cheap, Nippy web browsing complete with Flash content, Improved camera with flash, Capacitive touchscreen, HTC Sense with brilliant social network integration...
Calling and messaging not 100% reliable, QVGA screen isn't great for watching video, Media player could be better, Not Android 2.2, Location sometimes a bit dodgy...
While it's not a media powerhouse, the Wildfire takes enough from the top end phones and brings it to a palatable price point...
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There's no denying that the HTC Desire is probably HTC's best Android phone yet, if not the best Android phone available on the market.Now HTC has released a more budget device based on the Desire that should be just as successful for those who don't have...
The HTC Wildfire brings the looks of the Desire, with a budget twist. It runs perfectly well on Android 2.1 and battery life is ample. However, the screen is the Wildfire’s biggest failure and if you do stare at text all day, you may find that you have...
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The Wildfire comes in and supplants the Tattoo as HTC's mid-range device, offering up the now established Sense interface running over Android 2.1. Changes from the Tattoo centre around improved build quality, a capacitive display and styling that owe...
Ticks all the boxes on the spec sheet, great connected experience, easy to use, Android 2.1, great design...
Low res screen, low res video, crashes, occasional touch response slow down...
The connected experience found on the best Android phones is found here, but the low res screen takes the gloss off things, along with some occasional sluggishness and crashes...
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ShareThe HTC Wildfire’s software ought to look familiar by now: it’s running a bespoke version of Android, HTC Sense, just like the superb HTC Legend and Desire phones we checked out a couple of months back. With a slower processor and a smaller sc...
HTC's social networking skin...
Slow, typing easier on a HTC Hero...
This is far from the nippiest Android phone ever made...
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The last twelve months has seen a real explosion of Android devices hitting the Australian market, and this has been especially true for – not five months ago they bought (in my opinion) the second best ever Android phone to market, and in the time si...
Small, comfortable size, Light – easy to pocket without looking odd, Android 2.1 with HTC Sense, Capacitive touch screen display, Multi touch, Amazing signal reception – works in some places other Next G handsets refuse to work...
Android 2.1 with HTC Sense, Screen is too small for some popular Android apps, Optical trackpad/trackball thing, Lacklustre CPU for a 2010 phone release, Some audio artefacts during calls.
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The latest HTC Android smartphone to hit the Australian market — the Wildfire — is a Telstra-exclusive, like HTC's flagship Desire Android smartphone. A smaller, cheaper version of the HTC Desire, the Wildfire's low-resolution display and occasional l...
Good build quality, well-designed on-screen keyboard, HTC Sense UI, capacitive touchscreen, multitouch and Flash support, battery life...
Low-resolution display with poor viewing angles, keystroke lag, often sluggish...
The HTC Wildfire boasts impressive build quality and the full suite of Android features, but it has a low-resolution display and sluggish performance. When you consider its price though, these minor issues are much easier to live with and are a small comp...
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Zdnet.com.au Updated:
2011-11-07 15:34:46
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Available plans 9 plans available starting from $30 to $129 HTC is on a roll, with the excellent HTC Desire and HTC Legend handsets selling well in Australia and throughout Asia and Europe, while the Droid Incredible and HTC Evo 4G sell...
The Wildfire is a lot of phone for comparably little money. If you can live without 3D gaming, the Wildfire will tick the rest of the boxes needed by most users from a modern smartphone.
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smarthouse.com.au Updated:
2011-11-07 15:34:46
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Described as the little brother to the highly popular HTC Desire, the new Wildfire is a neat looking handset that comes in two colour black and white. While Apple struggles to deliver their white iPhone 4 HTC has managed to roll out a white phone that...
This is yet another slick phone from HTC. More importantly it delivers a lot of capability for people who cannot afford or do not want to pay for an expensive $900 Smartphone. Compared to the new iPhone 4 there are not too many features in the $999 that are worth an additional $650.
There is nothing shabby about this phone. However there is one capability that I would like to see and that is a better capability to eliminate applications. The Samsung S from Optus choked in a lot of crap applications. As for the Wildfire there are several applications that I don’t want on my phone and what I would like to see is that as part of the initialisation process users are given a choi...
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stuff.tv Updated:
2014-03-22 03:44:37
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HTC has been leading the charge in taking the Android battle to its big-time smartphone rivals. And it’s been pretty successful, with the and sitting just behind the iPhone in our .But while the Desire and Legend have their eyes on toppling Apple’s m...
A bargain with a raft of great features. HTC Sense. Great design...
Screen is a tad lo-res. Feels sluggish while browsing...
A decent, affordable Android touchscreen, but the screen is a smidge too low res for our liking...
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The HTC Wildfire. Let me crack open a beer and tell you a story. We were invited down to London for a preview of thie Wildfire and, unless I'm completely wrong, it was met with a fairly mute reception from the press. Why? Well, it has roughly the same...
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recombu.com Updated:
2014-04-02 02:47:50
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The HTC Wildfire is best described as a diet-HTC Desire. Meant for those on a budget, the Wildfire has the same looks as the Desire, and the same user interface in the form of HTC’s Sense software. The only real differences are the size, screen and pro...
The HTC Wildfire is an excellent mid-range touchscreen with some great features. Though it looks a lot like a small version of an HTC Desire it should be noted that the display isn't as sharp and the phone isn't quite as quick on its feet as it's bigge...
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The HTC Wildfire is HTC's midlevel Android 2.1 smartphone that occupies the Php15k price point range which is not yet populated by other manufacturers. Sony Ericsson's X10 Mini Pro is the only other Android phone in that price range as of this writing.I'v...
The HTC Wildfire is really a great, affordable smartphone if you want to dabble with the Android OS but don't want to spend a lot of money. Despite the nuances with the small screen, which may not run some apps properly by the way, it is still capable of...
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The HTC Wildfire is a budget phone in a pricier handset's body. Specifically, it's an HTC Tattoo in the sleek, metal body of an HTC Desire. Its low-resolution screen struggles to show the powerful Android operating system at its best, but, if you're looki...
The HTC Wildfire doesn't skimp on smart-phone features, offering some of the best social-network integration that money can buy. There's really nothing about this handset that screams 'cheap phone' except the low-res screen.Tags: HTC Wildfire, HTC Wildfir...
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Overall, the device is decent with some minor drawbacks. It is a powerful and affordable Android device and suitable for business users who need a great organiser. The device is also built with social networking in mind, linking Google and Facebook contacts together. Unlike its other...
Responsive touchscreenAndroid 2.1 with HTC SenseAffordable...
Overall, the device is decent with some minor drawbacks. It is a powerful and affordable Android device and suitable for business users who need a great organiser. The device is also built with social networking in mind, linking Google and Facebook con...
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The HTC Wildfire is targeted at a trendier user group on a budget, very much similar and yet different from its more advanced sibling, the HTC Desire . One should spot the obvious difference in its screen size, which packs up to 240 x 320 pixels on its 3...
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