HTC Legend
It may be an over statement, but its true that the new HTC Legend is the best Android handset to date is not just a simple upgrade of the previous HTC Hero. This statement is backed up by the immense features and the stylish design of this phone. The device is crafted from a single piece of aluminum, making it super light and perfectly formed to fit in your hand. The feel of the phone gives a royal feeling. The battery cover is manufactured from soft touch plastic, and also accommodates the antenna. The problem faced because of the battery cover is that inserting the SIM card and the Micro SD card has become bit of a challenge.
At the face of the HTC Legend is a 320×480 pixels, 3.2-inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen. The one thing that is annoying is that once you run camera it prompts you to insert Micro SD card and would not let you take a picture unless you do so. HTC has implemented Android 2.1 in the Legend which benefits from Android’s multi touch functionality switched on. It’s fun to pinch to zoom in the browser and pinch on the home screen to bring up the handy page that displays your entire home screens in miniature and a single tap on one to bring the page up.
It offers a social networking app named FriendStream which is same as Motorola’s MotoBlur that allows access to all of the common social networking platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Even though it’s a brilliant concept, it is very slow, especially when scrolling through the widget. This is mainly due to the fact that it’s permanently trying to update, so your internet connection may have a huge impact on this.
Instead of a trackball which was installed on Hero, Legend comes with an optical track button which makes things easier and makes most of the scrolling error free. Other buttons on the front of the screen include a home key, menu button that changes according to the accessed application, a back key and search button. The search button searches unlike iphone OS searches across the phone and online as well. The 5-megapixel camera on the HTC Legend takes highly saturated shots. There’s also an issue with photos taken in direct sunlight.
One minor bump with Legend is that like every other Smartphone it provides a short battery life. It has even beaten iphone in the poor battery life. Improvement is noticeable one 3g is turned off but that would stop the updating of the widgets.