HTC has made the HTC Legend official at Mobile World Congress. The d vice looks like a futuristic version of the HTC Hero – but with a much better 3.2” AMOLED display. An optical trackpad has been added, and the HTC Legend also has a 5-Megapixel camera with a flash. For the little story, the HTC Legend is said to be build from a single piece of aluminum – like the Macbook Pro unibody in some ways. Inside, there is a 600Mhz processor and 384MB of RAM. Surprisingly, the battery is only a 1300mAh, so we will take a particular look at the battery life if/when we review this phone. The HTC Legend runs on Android.
The menus and widgets are useful and visually appealing in equal measure, are completely customisable and also lots quicker to flit between than on the Hero, thanks to the latest version of Android behind the wheel. Indeed, the slick user interface does become part of the furniture after a while, you almost forget how impressive the Legend is at keeping up with tapping out a draft e-mail, browsing the web in another tab and checking recent tweets, all whilst streaming music from Spotify in the background barely freezing up for a second.
Straight out of the gate Android sees you right with Google Maps, Gmail and a great suite of calling and threaded messaging functionality. What we didn’t expect was the leaps and bounds taken in the Android browser. It works quickly and easily, the virtual keyboard well spaced for typing in URLs and boasting support for Flash 10.1, but with some sites definitely looking better than others.
The Android Market is still only as good as the apps allow it to be, but is starting to fill out with some decent stuff as Google now point users in the right direction a little better with easier search functionality and a better organised layout.
The camera is worth the effort as it sports a handy flash and is a decent enough replacement for the average digital, although not quite a dedicated SLR. The Legend’s battery life as to be expected from an always-on device of this nature, we’re getting a day’s worth of use but are absolutely thrashing it, to be honest.
Full Phone Specifications
Network
2G GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G HSDPA 900 / 2100
HSDPA 850 / 1900 - American version
Announced 2010, February
Available released 2010, March
Size
Dimensions 112 x 56.3 x 11.5 mm
Weight 126 g
Display
AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches
- Sense UI
- Multi-touch support
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Optical trackpad
Memory
Practically unlimited phonebook entries and fields, Photocall
Practically unlimited call records
384 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
MicroSD card slot up to 32GB
Data
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP
MicroUSB v2.0
Camera
Primary 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging
Video
Sound
Alert types Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker
3.5mm jack audio
Features
Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair)
CPU 600 MHz ARM 11 processor, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7227 chipset
Messaging (SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM)
HTML Browser
Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games
GPS with A-GPS support
Java Via third party application
- Aluminum unibody
- Digital compass
- MP3/eAAC+/WAV player
- MP4/H.263/H.264 player
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
- YouTube, Google Talk
- Document viewer
- Photo viewer/editor
- Organizer
- Voice memo
- Predictive text input
Battery
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1300 mAh
Stand-by Up to 440 h (2G) / Up to 560 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 7 h (2G) / Up to 6 h 10 min (3G)
Available colors : Gray, Black
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