The HTC Wildfire S

The HTC Wildfire, well optimized, returns to "S" version very stylish for a price cap on the same ... the most compact smartphone Android Market.

10cm long and 2cm less than a HTC Desire - which includes the visual characteristics - the HTC Wildfire S has a small size, but a lot of ambition! Compact appearance, it still has a good grip. However, price aside, HTC is less in the lace ... 270 euros is 50 euros more than its competitors. After the collapse of its predecessor, the first named Wildfire, is how the Taiwanese manufacturer clears there such a price difference?

First, the HTC Wildfire S can ogle be equipped with a camera well above that of his ancestor. Fine, mixed, just ... the photos of Wildfire S are more than convincing. Handicapped by a poor resolution and incompatible with many applications Android, the first display of the Wildfire name has changed since ...

Its processor has also come a long way: if the data sheet shows a frequency hopping rather modest, this remains a last-flag bit true, because the reactivity of S Wildfire is, as noted in the press, clearly improved. Its use is in fact more parasitized by the many delays suffered by the Wildfire. If the flow is not perfect, the S Wildfire takes over when to perform basic tasks. HTC will however address for the next version of the saccadic widgets, and the premature saturation of the CPU utilization of applications "greedy" qu'Angry Birds such example. Especially as surfing the Internet suffered many delays, especially when zooming on a text ... 5 seconds to reformat the paragraph. 5 seconds too.

Camera, processor, screen ... what else? HTC claims the "organic design", white or many accessories Wildfire S. Yet, how pleasant to look at, the design of its Android smartphone has nothing avant-garde. Compact, well-rounded and aesthetics rather worked, he will still find favor in the eyes of its users. The most incurable regret the back shell, chewy and very dirty ... Fortunately, HTC offers two variations of colors: plum and black.

Multimedia side and outside of the NPC already mentioned above, the Wildfire S VGA video, nice but too jerky, still leave much to be desired ... The MP3 player saves the day by broadcasting the sound of good quality. Finally, the Wildfire plays DivX and XviD. As for its interface, Wildfire has the advantage of being relatively easy to use. Her widget social streaming the news Facebook and Twitter in a single cascade of information.

High price, White messy and slow motion ... the browser Wildfire S saves the furniture with its polished look and multimedia features. HTC has finally benefited from the failure of the first named Wildfire. Yet to complete his web browsing and Samsung will finally die to be.