Thread: HTC Wildfire

The HTC Wildfire S is a precious, tinyAndroid smartphone for Metro PCS. But at $179, it's even a bit muchcostly and underpowered. It should fulfilled users who aren't alsodemanding of their devices, but you can produce a better selectionfor less money.


The Wildfire S is almost identical tothe model we reviewed above with T-Mobile (Free, 3 stars). It'sextremely little for a smart phone, at only 4.0 x 2.3 x 0.5 inches(HWD), and weighs a light 3.7 ounces. It's produce completely ofsmooth, white plastic, on silver accents about the projection screenand camera.


It seems attractive, and affords theappearance of a higher end device. The 3.2-inch, 320 x 480 - pixelcapacitance screen lowers your expectations. It seems bright andcolorful, but that result produces images a bit grainy. Typing withthe on-display QWERTY keyboard was all right, thanks to large touchkeys, while they block half of the display.

The Wildfire S is a dual-band 1xRTT(800/1900 MHz) device with 802.11b or g or n Wi-Fi; it linked to myWPA2-encrypted home network without matter. Reception and callquality are both mean. Voices sound full and clear in the phone'searpiece, but the phone rattles a bit at higher volumes. Callsproduced on the phone sound somewhat fuzzy, while howeverapprehensive, on average noise cancellation.




The speakerphone sounds all right, butit's far extremely low to apply outdoors. Calls sounded unclutter viaa Jawbone Era Blue-tooth headset (9, 4.5 stars) and voice dialingdone work all right above Blue-tooth without training. Battery lifewas disappointing at only 4 hours, 28 minutes of talk time.


Metro PCS has no 3G data network, thusif you don't have a 4G device, you're put with 2G. That produces forslow data speeds with the Wildfire, while MetroPCS tries toconstitute for it by having the free Device Scape Wi-Fi hotspotclient (which seems in your notification window like "MetroPCSEasy WiFi"). DeviceScape links together many free hotspots,which is helpful, while it doesn't ensure widespread Wi-Fi coverage.


The 4G smartphones with Metro PCS costa lot more as compared to the Wildfire S. The 2 phones we presentlyadvocate are the capable Samsung Galaxy Indulge, or the LG Esteem,our Editors' Choice, but the priciest of the bunch. Remark that 4Gspeeds with Metro PCS are a lot different as compared to 4G hastenswith Verizon Wireless, or AT & T's novel 4G LTE network. Like wefound in our Fastest Mobile Networks examining, instead of extendingspectacular speeds, Metro PCS is going for merely decent speeds atextremely low prices. The carrier's average 4G speeds are more like aextremely good 3G network.