HTC Legend

Background Information & Look n’ Feel

The HTC Legend has been machined out of a single block of aluminium which gives it its smooth lines, continuous surface and good looks. The black plastic sections on the phone are there for a reason. Without these plastic strips the signals from the Wi-Fi, cellular and GPS antennae would get blocked. The device is very slim at only 112 x 56 x 12mm, but it’s surprisingly heavy for its size at 126 grams.

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Hardware – Display, Keyboard, Battery, Communications, Memory, Connectors

The looks of this device are greatly enhanced by the 3.2 inch, AMOLED HVGA display which has a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. Whereas this phones predecessor used a trackball this mobile device has been rework to be more elegant by replacing the trackball for an optical device.

Although this is an Android 2.1 device HTC have added their own applications such as the new social networking feature called “Friend Stream”. This application allows you to centralise all of your communication from Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites. The HTC Legend comes with 3G and has maximum download speeds of up to 7.2Mps and uploads of up to 2Mbps. The device also has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and supports mini USB v2.0.

HTC Legend Mobile Phone Review

The HTC LEGEND has a good built in 5 mega pixel camera (2592 x 1944 pixels) which also includes autofocus, an LED flash, geo-tagging, and video. It also comes with a multimedia player, a FM radio and a 3.5mm audio socket. To power all of this hardware and software the phone uses a 1300 mAh battery which is quoted as giving up to 6 hours talktime on 3G and 560 hours (23 days) standby time.

Software

As previously mentioned the HTC Legend is run on Android 2.1. To keep things ticking over at a good lick the HTC Legend has a 600 MHz Qualcomm 7227 processor, which is pretty much standard for this type of device. The internal memory is 384MB of RAM which should be enough for most users.

HTC Legend detailed closeup

Availability & Pricing

All in all this is a really nice phone as it is a small but powerful touchscreen smartphone. The phone should be available for general release in Europe in April.

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General
Status Coming soon
Announced February 2010
Network (2G) GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 / GSM 850
Network (3G) HSDPA 2100 / HSDPA 900
Form factor Block
Antenna type Internal

Size
Weight 126.0 g (with battery)
Dimensions 112.0 x 56.3 x 11.5 mm

Display
Type Graphical
Coloured Yes, AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 3.20 inch
Resolution 320 x 480 pixels
- Sense UI
- Multi-touch input method
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Optical trackball

Memory
- Photocall
- microSD (TransFlash) up to 16GB
- 384 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
- CPU Qualcomm MSM 7227 600 MHz processor

Ringtones
Polyphonic ringtones Yes
Ringtone profiles Yes
- MP3, WAV ringtones
- 3.5 mm audio jack

Networking
HSDPA speed 7.2 Mbps
GPRS Yes, Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
EDGE Yes, Class 10, 236.8 kbps
WLAN Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
USB Yes, miniUSB v2.0
Bluetooth Yes, 2.1 with A2DP
WAP Yes
Browser Yes, HTML
Email client Yes
- Android OS v2.1 (Eclair)
- Push Email
- Instant Messaging
- GPS with A-GPS support

Features
Vibration Yes
SMS Send / Receive
MMS Send / Receive
Camera Builtin, 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, video
Java Yes, via third party application
Games Yes, (changeable)
Clock Yes
Alarm Yes
Calculator Yes
Calendar Yes
To-do list Yes
Voice memo Yes
Multiple numbers / contact Yes
Handsfree Yes
Headset jack Yes
FM Radio Yes
- Dedicated search key
- MP3/eAAC+/WAV player
- MP4/H.263/H.264 player
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
- YouTube, Google Talk
- Document viewer
- Photo viewer/editor
- Organizer

Standard Battery
Type Li-Ion
Amperage 1300 mAh
Standby time GSM: 440h / 3G: 560h
Talk time GSM: 7h / 3G: 6h 10m