HTC Legend

Though not radically different from the HTC Hero, this one is designed to impress everyone.

This unibody cellphone from HTC features a large 3.2 inch Amoled display that supports HVGA at a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. With a brushed metal finish body, the Legend, as they say, is out to impress everyone. It is similar to the HTC Hero, but the changes are obvious enough. The scroll ball has been replaced with an optical track pad, the bent chin is still there, but all the buttons have been moved to the left so you can no longer pick calls with them. The battery cover is now seamless and is integrated with the antenna. HTC has also made a lot of neat changes to the user interface and the way the phone works. You can access multiple home screens like in Xperia X1, and you can pinch and zoom into the specific home screen you want to work with.

There is 384 MB Ram on board, and you can expand it using micro SD cards of up to 32 GB. It claims a talk time of up to 490 minutes, and standby time of 440 hours. But with all those live panels and interactions, I suggest you always keep a charger handy. Also, this phone is 3G ready, a facility you should be able to use sometime this year in India (hopefully).

For those of you who have not used an HTC phone with a G Sensor, a nice feature is that when you put the phone upside down, it can go into silent mode. So if you are busy in the office, all you need to do is turn it about and the phone is automatically on silent mode. Turn the phone around and you are back to ringer mode.

What I don’t like about this phone is that though it runs on Android, HTC bundles only a Windows version of the phone sync software. You need to get third-party sync tools in case you are on Linux or Apple.

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