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HTC Wildfire
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HTC Wildfire ReviewRating:
Date: 21/05/2010
The HTC Wildfire is a budget Android smartphone. It retains most of the features of the HTC Desire, but for a fraction of the price. Highlights include the capacitive touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, music player and FM radio, GPS with digital compass and Google Maps, fast internet access via HSPA and Wi-Fi, a fast processor, plenty of RAM, and of course the thousands of apps available from the Android Market.
Features of the HTC Wildfire include:
- Operating system: Android™ 2.1 (Éclair) with HTC Sense
- Special features:HTC Caller ID that shows the caller's Facebook status and a birthday reminder, In-built, dimmable flashlight
- Display: Capacitive touch screen 240 x 320 QVGA (3.2 inches) with pinch-to-zoom capability
- Camera: 5 megapixels with autofocus, flash and geotagging
- Video Camera: Yes
- Music Player: Music player with FM Radio
- Ringtones: MP3
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, instant messaging, email
- Games and applications: Facebook™ for HTC Sense, Photo sharing on Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter, Video sharing on YouTube™, HTC Peep for twittering, Downloadable widgets
- GPS: Internal GPS antenna, Google Maps, HTC Footprints™, Digital compass
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth® 2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate, micro-USB, 3.5 mm stereo audio jack
- Internet: Up to 7.2 Mbps download speed / Up to 384 kbps upload speed / Full Flash support on the web browser
- Operating Frequency: HSDPA/WCDMA: 900/2100 MHz / GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
- Memory: 384 MB RAM plus microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible) supports up to 32 GB
- Size: 107 x 60.4 x 12.9 mm
- Weight: 118g
- Battery: 1300 mAh
- Talk Time: 440 - 490 minutes
- Standby: 480 - 690 hours
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Reviewed by Tracy on 08/12/2011
Biggest load of rubbish out there as far as mobile smart phones go! Mine started to malfunction 2mths into contract! A complete ripoff!!! I sent it off to virgin technical team & they state water damage! its bin no where near water & its kept in a protective case in my bag at all times when I'm not using it. I dont use it in the rain and it been no where near water! I think its a disgrace that these mobile phone companies & service providers are using water damage across the board to avoid any liability! I wish I had the time and energy to take the manufacturer & service provider to court. this can't be legal! All you legal representatives out there please look into this and put some helpful info out there to tell the common Man exactly what his/her rights are in this instance!!! I will carry on & on if its not addressed soon! In this economic climate we cannot afford to loose money willy nilly!!!
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Reviewed by Dutch on 07/11/2011
Basically it's a great phone, except for the internal memory. It's a joke. Despite a huge SD card with plenty of space you're constantly bugged with 'low memory' warnings. Most apps demand being installed to the phone memory, which is 150MB. So after installing some basic apps to truly unlock the power of this device you're left with about 15MB free space. Irremovable bloatware by the provider adds to this problem. Three stars.
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Reviewed by Dinesh on 02/11/2011
the hardware part is annoying guys coz the ram and the proccesing speed is very less as well as internal memory.. Regards Dinesh :-)
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Reviewed by Lex on 02/11/2011
love my wildfire, but I wish it had a videocalling capability.
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Reviewed by Aardvark on 01/11/2011
Ok I have to agree on the qulaity of the camera, but its as good as the one in the new Desire S and it is OK in an emergency. If you want a camera, buy a camera. Mine has been stripped of all the crapolla and had a new Android install. It syncs all my contacts with my laptop via wifi connection every time I come into sync range and it does actually sound great. I am old and I struggle a bit with the screen and the size of the buttons and so ima get a stylus to work with it. Mine is set up to syc my hotmail and gmail accounts and will also search out for free wifi connections and use these in preference to my data quota. In summary, I love it and mine was given to me pre used 18 months old
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Reviewed by Jazra Aribaz on 31/10/2011
The Battery is so poor on my phone. I have had it for 6 months and it begins to die like anything. I turn off all applications to ensure nothing is draining it. After a full charge within 10 minutes it is allready on half battery! Within an hour it is dead! Phone is good but with my specific phone, it has really poor battery!
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Reviewed by Peter T on 29/10/2011
The Wildfire is my first foray into touch screen smartphones since I tried an LG Viewty about 3 years ago. The good thing about this phone is the apps and the internet browsing, if you have a decent 3G signal that is, a lot of the time where I am (N Yorks) there is only a GSM signal and anything to do with the internet is painfully slow, but that is not the phone's fault. The GPS is good if there's a 3G signal, Painfully slow if there isn't. The camera is OK, why do people get hung up on how many Megapixels it has? As far as I'm aware few mobiles have an optical zoom or any of the other features you'd find on almost any dedicated digital camera, so if you want a good camera, go buy one! There are two things that this phone is none too good at:- first is making calls and the second is sending text messages, I am a guitar maker so I have fairly good manual dexterity, the virtual keyboard is OKish if used in landscape mode, but in portrait mode it's far too fiddly for texting or phoning, and BTW the phone app is portrait only. I've recalibrated the touch screen loads of times, but the keyboard is just too small. Screen clarity is brilliant. Ability in poor signal areas is not good either. I've tried my daughter's Iphone 4 and it is better but there is a vast difference in price, so not a very fair comparison. Convergent technology is where we seem to be headed, but we aren't there yet. What seems to happen is most of these devices do all the different things, Phone, Music Player, Internet Browser, Camera, Pocket computer but none of them as well as a dedicated device and for a mobile phone not to be much good at making calls or sending texts is daft
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Reviewed by J on 29/10/2011
Though I originally reviewed this phone positively, I have had this phone now for 16 months. I have had several problems with the phone and will shortly be receiving my 2nd replacement due to technical issues. The phone is always lagging too, particularly with texting and typing in general. The phone tries to deliver a lot, but can't handle the weight of its own expectations.
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Reviewed by bengi on 25/10/2011
What a piece of rubbish no a few people with or had this phone And all had probs with it to slow apps stop working and Facebook doesn't work properly with it cant believe this can b allowed to b sold its so poor :( poor mans iPhone its all it is
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Reviewed by April on 22/10/2011
After having this phone for 8 months I wont ever buy a HTC phone or a touchscreen phone again. It just had problem after problem. It drops calls all the time, the longer I had the phone for the worse the battery life got, which wasnt even good in the first place, and when I did charge it it used to cut out all the time and not charge all night, the touch screen didnt respond properly all the time, I would be texting and press the letter a and the letter p would come up? When I went on the internet it would scroll up and down the pages and enlarge them when I wasnt even touching it, facebook chat never worked properly, the processor is slow, sometimes it wouldnt even let me unlock the phone, it freezes all the time and the only way to get it to work again is removing the battery which is bad for the phone and the camera is awful. On the up side, the range of apps are great, the screen is bright, the size is good and its easy to personalize. But that isnt enough to weigh up the bad things, HTC have focused way too much on making the phone up to date and full of features without paying attention to the things a phone needs to work everyday!
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Reviewed by Kate on 22/10/2011
I hate the HTC Wildfire. I want to remove 90% of the icons from the home screen but despite doing what is suggested, the icons refuse to disappear! The phone does not come with a user "manual" just a quick start guide with minimal information. The online user manual seems to relate to a completely different phone as it refers to items on "settings" that do not exist on my phone. It is not at all user-friendly and, for me, has a phenomenal amount of totally useless and unwanted applications. Is there any way of removing all this unwanted stuff?
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Reviewed by rakesh arora on 18/10/2011
i just wanna tell u its amazing.a super smart phone
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Reviewed by Harry on 17/10/2011
Great phone . Just not as solid or as simple to use as an iphone
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Reviewed by S Mills on 16/10/2011
Not a good phone... endless problems of crashing, apps that don't work properly, the alarm going off without the dismiss screen, not being able to dial out... basically I get frustrated with this rubbish waste of money on at least a daily basis!
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Reviewed by Igor on 12/10/2011
The screen size of 320x240 is a nonsense nowadays. You can't play any games on it. So maybe it's just a bugdet phone for ppl who only need basic phone functions and nothing more.
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Reviewed by George on 09/10/2011
It is so cool!!!!!
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Reviewed by JIM HARRIS on 06/10/2011
TICKET ID 11GBD270000208 After waiting nearly four months to have a mobile repaired htc gave me a new mobile'' Great well no!! It was delivered to the wrong address' I have had to take a day off work and drive 100 MILES TO PICK THE MOBILE UP. Guess what IT DOES NOT WORK!!!! Ups are picking it up yet again tommoorw to been repaired!!!! Lets see how long it take this time!!! Being left this long without a mobile is an insult four months and still counting. I have spent nearly all morning on the telephone trying to sort things out. I'm going to give the story to the sun news paper if this continues I WILL NEVER BUY A MOBILE FORM HTC AGAIN!!!
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Reviewed by Liam on 04/10/2011
I've had this phone for just over a year and it freezes very occasionally and sometimes I have to "force close" the apps and messages. If there's a lot going on within your phone, the phone will respond slowly, but does so nonetheless. The camera shutter speed could be quicker, though, as it sometimes lags when you move the camera it can smudge the picture slightly. The whole system is all round very easy to use and very easy to work out. I would reccommend this phone entirely, and I will continue using this phone for quite a while yet!
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Reviewed by roxy on 01/10/2011
it's alright
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Reviewed by Bharat on 30/09/2011
This phone is terrible, its been over a month since I got this phone for free from my office. And this phone has caused nothing but pain and suffering to me. Mainly because of those wrongly placed "Home" and "Search " button. you are in the middle of something and by mistake a part of your hand touches those button, it jumps to home screen. This is supper irritating. Atleast HTC could have used proper tactile buttons instead of stupid touch sensitive buttons for these functions. And overall performance is POOR, and bad battery life, phone is almost dead if you are loading any web page with too much of stuff on it. And totally forget about watching videos on youtube, just forget it.
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Reviewed by rajlitish on 28/09/2011
super
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Reviewed by mini on 26/09/2011
this sucks
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Reviewed by sangeeta dilawri on 25/09/2011
Its been a month that i am using htc wildfire. I am happy with its functions but for the last two three days my youtube is not showing videos only sound is playing i dont understand what is the problem with my phone if anyone of you could be of help.pls help me in detecting the problem..
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Reviewed by Howard on 24/09/2011
Was expecting great things from this phone. Basically it's quite a good internet browser and the voip works ok. But as a phone, virtually useless. Screen is far too sensitive, so scrolling through numbers, it's dialing out before you know it. Ring volume on mine frequently sets itself to zero meaning missed calls! Keypad frequently freezes and only thing that works is to turn it off and on again. So no good in an emergency. My advice is don't buy!
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Reviewed by DougieB on 22/09/2011
This phone is good at everything except being a phone. It doesn't answer calls. It's receptions seems to be rubbish. When you do get a call and turn the phone when lifting it it cuts the call off. Most times when I take it out my pocket it says "No service emergency calls only" and you have to switch on and off numerious times to get it to find a signal. Now it has started telling me I have no Sim card in it. Also the push switch for volume control is right where you hold it so you tend to turn off the ringer volume when you are on a call - a TERRIBLE piece of design. If you want a shiny toy get it - if you want a decent phone get something else !
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Reviewed by Vijay on 22/09/2011
Good phone, but slow texting and just slow overall. Those complaining about battery are probably those who constantly have internet on; turn it off every now and again and you'll see the battery life drastically increase!
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Reviewed by c on 21/09/2011
Dislike. Freezes often.Have to take battery out to reset. Slow to respond to commands. Annoying phone. A lot of my freinds have this phone, they agree with this review.
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Reviewed by Martin on 18/09/2011
Sweet, little phone! Elegant, functional, visually appealing. Has more than I'll ever need in a phone (too much, actually) and won't wear out your pocket like an i-Brick. And affordable.
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Reviewed by Jane O on 16/09/2011
I hate this phone - I have now had it for 6 months and I still hate it. It calls people without warning, it is difficult to kill a call, it is almost impossible to send a text message because the screen is so small, I can't accept picture messages despite trying all the settings under sun; in short ticks all the right boxes, but in actuality it is the worst phone I have ever had. Luckily it is a phone given to me by work so I didn't pay for it - which is how the other 200 people at work feel about this phone. We all hate it.
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Reviewed by lizzie on 16/09/2011
battery life is shockingly bad! when you click on messages it pops up with random ones! sends messages to the wrong people. freezes alot when on messages. Spends half its time loading and is possibly the slowest phone ive ever had! Camera isn't of good quality and is also slow.
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Reviewed by Ranjan on 15/09/2011
I am using the Wildfire since May 2011, almost over 4 months. I feel happy with the phone. I can say it is not atall bad. Before this Wildfire, I was using IPHONE 3g, then Blackberry Curve. So when I purchased this phone and start using it, I got disappointed, as it is little slow/slaggish compare to thosed phones. I was thinking to chage the Wildfire again due to less speed. But due to work load, and unavialibility of enough time to go and purchase a new phone again, so I keep using the Wildfire. Slowly as time passes, the wildfire become dearer to me. Now i dont feel it is a slaggish phone. I downloaded some apps, modified certain settings, which improved the phone's performance. It's screen is butter smooth to opporate. Only thing is I need to kill the unwanted apps in certain interval. But I agree the 5MP camera is not a best caemra. Sound quality, browsing, calls all are very good. Overall My experience is good with the phone. I love it.
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Reviewed by Gill E on 11/09/2011
absolutely hate the HTC - the touchpad screen for texts is too small and it takes so long to write a text I might a well post a letter. So far I really don't like!
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Reviewed by nathan on 10/09/2011
I know when people read reviews, they tend to look at the average and think to themselves, 'the average rating looks promising so i wont bother too much about reading individual reviews'. While that may be true PLEASE READ THIS REVIEW IT MAY SAVE YOU FROM WASTING YOUR MONEY The HTC Wildfire is one of the worst phones ever put on the market. There are so many flaws with this piece of rubbish i cannot even fathom. For example, unless you have Hagrid like hands, it is impossible to hold this phone and even more difficult to hold it and operate it whilst it is charging. When calling, you have to wait a few seconds until you put it to your ear otherwise the call will simply not be made. The video quality is rubbish as it is only VGA so dont purchase this expecting to shoot amazing quality videos. Opening apps in general is a real pain as is browsing the web (use wi-fi whenever possible, the 3G on the phone is very sluggish). There is also no way to close separate web browsers. HTC has made no attempt in giving us any options for music playback - you simply have a list of your music and nothing more really - no equalisier, no sound enhancement, nothing. Viewing your videos is also very hard, as you have to sift through a library of your most recent ones which means if you do shoot a lot of videos, finding that old video of your cousin falling of your aunts coffee table is going to be one painstakingly long task. The phone also has only one primary speaker, located at the back, so if your hoping to play some music whilst popping the phone on your counter and surfing the web or something, the sound will come out muffled. Sound buttons are also located at the sides, and there really is no differentiation between increasing and decreasing sound, you sort of have to guess which is which or remember it. With no hard buttons, a lot of tasks on the HTC Wildfire are much more complicated than they should be. Something like making a call, will leave you fiddling about for minutes before you actually get through to the person you wished to call in the first place. The Wilfdfire does have a somewhat okay memory however if you have downloaded one too many apps and wish to delete that one, there is no way of deleting it from your ma in screen - you have to go into settings and try and find the options to delete applications from there. Switching on and off also is a missions wwhich you will notice if you do surprisingly purchase this phone. The screen loads up and freezes for a good minute or two. When turning off, you havve to go through various options. When you do turn the phone off, it will start to load and then proced to switch off. There will probably be a couple of more things i have missed out but that basically is pretty much it. Unless you want to punish yourself, do not waste your hard earned dollars on this trashy phone.
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Reviewed by Bob Marley on 02/09/2011
Very, Very Poor, processor is slow. Resolution and battery life are rubbish. You cant even read the text when you go web browsing. You have to zoom in sooo much you can barely fit one line into the screen. The ONLY good thing about this phone is the camera and I am a phone expert.
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Reviewed by olle on 02/09/2011
I got HTC wildfire s it is a great phone but battery could of been more powerful as a have to charge it every day.
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Reviewed by Sarah on 01/09/2011
Diabolical phone. Within a week phone went wrong and it sent a single message to the same person 6022 times over 17 hours. At my end the message had a waiting symbol saying the message could not go so I was totally unaware. O2 wanted to charge me £768 for sending the message that many times. Phone went to engineers who said it had a fault so I didn't have to pay and reloaded the software. Since it has come back the touchscreen works intermittently and today the same fault occurred but the person getting repeated messages phoned me quickly and I deleted the message so stopping it being sent repeatedly. Back to the shop tomorrow.
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Reviewed by Rebecca on 30/08/2011
Having the Htc wildfire for over 2 years, I am very pleased with; the battery life, widgets, the processor and overall i think this phone is both ideal for business and personal. This phone has a great variety of widgets and apps which can also be downloaded on the Android Market. So don't query this phone it the next best thing from an Iphone!!!!
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Reviewed by onkar r. kesarkar on 29/08/2011
awesome phone..........:)
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Reviewed by keith on 28/08/2011
Owned one for some months. In the end my dislike for the dreadful thing caused me to throw it down the stairs. Incredibly slow to turn on (minutes). Keyboard software is dreadful, which prevents a lot of apps being of any real use. Lock-up of the standard software is too common. There are many good points, but the bad points won in the end.
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Reviewed by Kay on 18/08/2011
I have an HTC Wildfire and it drives me crazy to be blunt for SO many reasons. But the thing that really gets to me is that it constantly replaces words I've typed in a text message with it's own words out of it's dictionary! Most of the time these are words which aren't even remotely related to what I typed originally and forget using text-speak, you end up having to replace a load of random words! If you make a typo it will add it to the 'dictionary'!! I can't get rid of this so-called 'feature' I've even tried deleting all the words from the dictionary but it just adds in anything I type in subsequent text messages (even if I type gibberish) and makes itself a new one!!! Argghhh!! One day this thing is going to get me in real trouble, some of the things it puts are things I'd NEVER say, even offensive things!! HELP!! Is there anything I can do to make this phone send what I actually type!!? KILL THE 'DICTIONARY'!!! This is worse than predictive text.
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Reviewed by jack on 17/08/2011
phone battery is poor, phone is slow when typing, slow when updating facebook and using web browser, and there is no sound setting on the music player like other phones.
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Reviewed by alex on 17/08/2011
i have had this phone for around 2 months now and and have to say that this phone is poor, there is not enough memory to allow the software and apps to run properly, if the phone has more than 200 messages or so it slows the phone down far to much. the phone reguarly turns its self off and will not turn on again without removing the battery and putting it back in, facebook and the web browser on the phone are way to slow to update and load even when using wifi. the only way to keep the phone working seems to be having pretty much no apps on it, keeping half of the home screens clear and to be constantly deleting messages, which also takes far to long to delete messages. i can not see the point lin the optical tracker ball on the phone as it has no other purpose other than in the camera. over all i regret buying the phone and wihs id of spent a little more money on either the desire, blackberry, nokia or samsung.
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Reviewed by geraldoturnbull@yahoo.com on 17/08/2011
I am delighted with my new Wildfire. But can somebody please tell me HOW TO USE THE THING???????Please can someone send me operating instructions?????I'm lost.....
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Reviewed by sadara senevirathna on 16/08/2011
basically phone is good but the problem is you cant take Skype calls even u install it successfully, call are breaking.. problem is processing speed is 528. so if u want do Skype calls please go for other phone such as iPhone,or HTC desire or something other. but other features are brilliant,there for i'm still using HTC wildfire
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Reviewed by Holly on 16/08/2011
The phones really cool. But It does not support Flash so these people who review phones need to get their basic info right like on the above article. IT DOES NOT Support adobe flash for media watching! That is its major down side. So if I had chance I would return it.
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Reviewed by isobel on 14/08/2011
i got this phone a few days ago and i love it! the camera is amazing and so far i have no faults! i also have a ipod touch 3rd generation which is great except it has no camera and obviously no phone! i was going to get an iphone which would e amazing but they are way too expensive and this was just right!!! if you are deciding, buy this now!!!!!
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Reviewed by froggie on 11/08/2011
i had this phone few weeks twice its gone back for repair for software probs and its gone back again becuase i cannot receive text messages. i really regret getting this mobile what a pile of junk
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Reviewed by sa3id on 09/08/2011
well i noticed that wildfire gets sooo hot when charging ... so may be that's why its called wildfire haha :P
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Reviewed by Helena stephens on 07/08/2011
Sold it after 2 months. Hated it. Sluggish and cheap looking.Poor battery. Do not buy one.
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Reviewed by ANON on 06/08/2011
DON'T BUY THIS PHONE!!
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Reviewed by mike on 03/08/2011
all over the place with this phone battery rubbish not a great phone
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Reviewed by Mike on 03/08/2011
I agree with all of the negative comments about this dreadful phone. Like many others I was very impressed with it at the start. It is very fully featured and considering I got it as part of a Tesco deal for £50 (yes ££50)good value as well. Soon after getting it I experienced the Battery problem. I could charge it all night and within three hours it would discharge. Surprisingly this was not consistant but it never held its charge for very long. Gradually all the other issues that others have mentioned started to appear. I reurned the phone to HTC who were very helpful but when returned it was the same. They said they had replaced the LCD or is it the LED (whatever). They also said they would send me a new battery which has never materialised. I returned it once more and HTC returned it to me within 5 days having replaced the motherboard. At first things seeemed ok but the creeping death has just reared its ugly head again and I am going to send it back tomorrow although I cannot imagine what is left to replace. I have tried to get my money back from Tesco but it appears to be better if I sell it to Mazuma who will pay £59. It is a great shame that such a potentially good phone should actually turn out to be such rubbish. To anyone contemplating buying one of these I would recommend they look elsewhere.
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Reviewed by lucy on 31/07/2011
HTC Wildfire is a brilliant phone apart from one small problem, you cannot remove messages easily.If you have accumalated a lot of messages and try to delete them all, thats where the fun starts. either the icon spins, or the phone freezes its a total nightmare. I think the makers of this otherwise fantastic phone should address this major issue.
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Reviewed by kay on 30/07/2011
Do not buy this phone. The bells and whistles only last for about 3 months. I've had the phone now for a year and it has slowed down a LOT. It takes 2 minutes to even access my messages and another minute to process sending a message. Dialing out or selecting a contact and calling takes three to four attempts before the phone registers any kind of action. I do not even have apps installed or a backlog of emails and messages yet it runs slow!
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Reviewed by saurav on 26/07/2011
this is very nice mobile I think best but its gaming is very worst it can't run 3some games but It's battery life is very good.
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Reviewed by Lauren on 21/07/2011
I hate my HTC wildfire it always breaks down on me. it never lets me unlock the screen,it always freezes and the battery is truly appalling.also whenever i take pictures the shutter takes ages to take the picture which normally means i've lost the moment and didnt catch it in time.To be honest i wasted my money on a really bad phone, that i now have to keep for 2 years..GREAT... i hate HTC.
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Reviewed by Zoey on 19/07/2011
HTC Wildfire is quite good but I've had to go back to Carphone Warehouse 3times and it still has faults like the keyboard pop up at the most randomest times and the internet is so squashed up you can hardly read.Another thing is you can't put live wallpaper if you found out how can you tell me.
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Reviewed by Rob on 18/07/2011
I have had nothing but trouble with my HTC wildfire and I have owned it for nearly a year now and I would adivse everyone not to even consider buying it. It has troubles playing videos with youtube saying "the video cannot be played" and then after 3 or 4 times of clicking it the video then finally plays. The touchscreen doesn't always work and you regularly get the "force close" dialogue box up for apps that dont respond. The latest firmware upgrade made matters worse and now things like friends stream just sit there with a "loading" screen and I have to regularly "power off and on" the phone again because the whole thing locks up. The CPU speed is slow too - its the worse phone I have ever owned in my life
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Reviewed by Rachel on 17/07/2011
I have an HTC Wildfire and I must say that its better than any of the smartphones currently available in the Android market. It is compact yet powerful enough to give other phones a run for their money. Thumbs-up :-)
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Reviewed by Sam on 16/07/2011
The phone is great everything works fine NO FAULTS AT ALL I have upgraded to 2.2 running even more smoother than 2.1 so I have to ask what are you guys complaining about I mean I am writing this from my htc wildfire anyway so it is THAT good!!! The apps in the store are great there are loads of iPhone apps in there for free!! Resolution ok but tolerable this phone is great ?????
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Reviewed by les hirst on 14/07/2011
had my htc wildfire for 2wks. its not the best phone i have had but i think its just fine.had no probs with it. but i think htc should put a user guide in the box. apart from that im happy withe the htc wildfire. id mark it 8 out ov 10. im a happy htc wildfire customer.
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Reviewed by Ray on 13/07/2011
This is my first smart phone (upgraded from a Nokia 6300) so I am a bit dazzled but there are one or two issues that do stand out. First of all connecting to the PC is clumsy at best; why a choice, just do all of the above automatically. This is compounded because you can’t do any two things together (except charging of course) and the only way to switch successfully is to remove the USB and plug it again. My other gripe is the battery life. Though I don’t find it as much of an issue as some I do have to think about my use during the day and ensure it is charging whenever I get the opportunity, this I should not have to do. Neither should I have to reduce the screen brightness and get app killer apps (slightly oxymoronic). I don’t have a problem with what the phone is doing, as someone said they are mini computers these days, just make the battery bigger (more mAh) please. If that means the phone has to be a mm thicker then so be it. Now for the positive, what a great little phone. I had a play with two other brands while choosing and this one was by far the most comfortable in the hand, feeling properly solid with the right weight. The screen and the whole touch thing was the most responsive too. It performs the primary function of making and receiving phone calls very well indeed. One last moan; when will the phone manufacturers realise that mobile means taking your phone outside and that means rain so the things have to be at least shower proof.
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Reviewed by gary on 12/07/2011
really bad, simple as that, it wont send texts, it re boots all the time when going in to call history,make a call and be pepeared to wait for severel minutes to get connected, the list goes on, got it free on orange contract all they do is send out re con phone with the same problems i've had 5 up to date
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Reviewed by chloe on 12/07/2011
it was a good phone but quite slow
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Reviewed by Nirmala santhosham on 11/07/2011
i am a unlucky Htc wildfire owner, my daughter presented from australia.In 2 months i was not able to scroll to unlock and i have no service centre in Madurai India, so had to go to chennai.Service man has said it has got fungus and it is due to sweat.And touch panal is out of stock when i went.And altogether i must spend rs 9,000.And it does not come under the warrenty though its in the warrenty period. But i love its features but its not worth spending so much
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Reviewed by Rebecca on 10/07/2011
I have had my HTC for about 6 months for the first 2 weeks it was really good by since then its like hell. Messages take FOREVER to load and when trying to unlock my phone and answering calls the screan desides to brake meaning i have t to pull the batterie out. Sometime the whole system crashes and turns off. After playing about 3 songs the speakers blow so you have to turn it on a nd off before playing more songs. If a friend sends you a picture you cannot save it to your phone. however the camera and flash are very good and there are lots off apps.. not all of them open on the HTC though. If you want my advice DO NOT buy this phone
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Reviewed by Chris on 08/07/2011
Had this phone a week and I could throw it away. So many problems causing no end of frustrations. I agree with all those who have given this phone a low rating.POOR
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Reviewed by Tony on 06/07/2011
I got this phone as an upgrade to my Nokia 6700. I'd heard all about androids and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Firstly it's a nice looking phone. Great colours, resolution and full of good apps. However as a phone I didn't like it. The charger did not work from a socket. I phoned people accidently. I struggled to send messages. I cut people off accidently. It wasn't intuitive. Unlike Nokia. I'm off to get a Nokia N8 now. It may not be as sharp but it is easy to use. It took me 10 days to use HTC. It took me two days to use a Nokia N8
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Reviewed by Yoni on 04/07/2011
Wow! what a phone! I live in South Africa and i only had to pay in $32 for the phone. Its a gr8 phone for basic use and its got some very cool aps and gr8 having an android phone, gives you so much more to your fone. Gr8 buy for a cheap price better than any other fone i hav ever had.Wel done HTC
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Reviewed by angel on 30/06/2011
Although I love the phone I'm getting really fed up with slow text messaging now. It takes ages to open and delete any messages. I also noticed when I took it on holiday to Turkey twice the battery would only give me a few hours before dying, even though I charged it overnight.
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Reviewed by biggie on 28/06/2011
i think this fone is awesome
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Reviewed by PeterH on 23/06/2011
I've had this phone for six months now. Biggest fault it has is it drops signal all of the time so sending texts can be difficult and people can't here you during calls. The music player is just about manageable. Good points are it is easy to personalise it by setting screens up the way you want. Touch screen and predictive text are excellent (keys are small though and I haven't got big hands). Internet connection is very good. Battery life was terrible sometimes not even lasting a day, but I downloaded a free app (advanced task killer) which stops features you dont use. Battery now lasts 2-3 days.
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Reviewed by Danny on 18/06/2011
Worst phone I've ever had! Mind of it's own, slow, hardly any apps work properly on it, frustrating to use, battery life is awful! Thrown it against a wall many a time! Don't bother buying a HTC Wildfire, waste of money, I would actually feel offended if someone gives me one as a present!
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Reviewed by Bob marley on 15/06/2011
i think the HTC wildfire is a great mobile
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Reviewed by wrighty on 13/06/2011
absolute pile of pants, had it a around 6 months and it keeps getting worse, texts are failing to come in, writing texts in the first place has become a right pain in the bottom. its slow to respond, i wasnt able to put much music on before it came up with an error so ive been stuck with the same 13 tracks. camera is terrible, make sure you only photograph buildings etc, because if anything moves you wont get it. the phone started off alright but i'm continuously finding more problems. it freezez all the time, making calls is becoming really problematic, if you want an alright phone for around three months then go ahead, but i would really advise everyone to stay away. never had this many problems with a phone in my life. very dissapointed. if i could, i'd put no stars!!!
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Reviewed by Charlie on 12/06/2011
not as good as every one says it is. Games are not compatible, even with android 2.1 (eclair) software on different phones. My advice, dont get it if you want an cheap android phone.
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Reviewed by Sarah on 10/06/2011
Having so many problems with the software, was given a new replacement handset and now that has been sent away to be repaired.Problems were: Phone freezing, switching itself off, not allowaing internet access and force close always on it.
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Reviewed by mukhtar on 08/06/2011
it is the best phone that you can get for that price this is my replacment for the iphone4 when it got stolen the bad thing about this phone is the camera good megapixel but it takes long to capture but if you look at the other side it is a wonderfull phone buy it on 3 it is the cheapest who ever say this phone is bad they're totally wrong
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Reviewed by mark on 07/06/2011
great phone , have had mine now for 2 months. battery life was only a day and a half to start with , but with apps like juice defender i now get 3-4 days. great phone
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Reviewed by Stefan Ostojic on 05/06/2011
The best in the world!!!
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Reviewed by Heidi(: on 05/06/2011
I want a wildfire, One of my brothers has one. I have read LOADS of reviews and every single one is positive! The only negative thing been mentioned is the screen resolution. To be honest i don't mind the screen as long as i could play games and everything works fine... I would love a HTC wildfire and at under £100, Its AMAZING!.
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Reviewed by James on 03/06/2011
"Full flash support"? Haha, good joke. This phone doesn't support live wallpapers, and flash is literally non existent. Flash videos don't work. A lot of YouTube videos aren't able to.be played, especially with a lot of videos being recorded in 720p and 1080p nowadays. Home screen crashes a lot and asks you to force close, in which case the phone has to almost reboot itself. A lot of apps aren't available for this phone because the resolution and flash capabilities are so bad. It may look like a bargain from the outside, but you'll be much more happy on the long run getting a different smartphone with better specs... Unless you're a hacker who's able to root it.
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Reviewed by OliviaLloyd on 02/06/2011
Had the phone for a couple months now, at first the phone was fast and would load an inernet page quickly now it is so slow. I don't know wether it is the apps i am downloading or just the phone. also, i had a lot of trouble with the keypad. Everytime i had to type something eg. Text Message the keypad would not pop up. It took the virgin operators 50 mins to work out what was wrong and i had to reboot it. overall i would not reccomend this phone to people who go on the internet very often but the camera is excellent.
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Reviewed by Kashif on 02/06/2011
When I first got the phone I really liked it and didn't want to get rid of it as it was my first android phone, however, I got it last October and it is now running very slow... I have to reboot it every now and then and I have an 8gb memory card in. I want to get rid of it and get a new one but now its worth nothing!
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Reviewed by JoBlo on 01/06/2011
When I first got this phone I did think it was outstanding but after a few weeks of actual use, I would have to reduce that to a poor. The reason for this is that it reboots itself for no apparent reason usually in the middle of a call or the screen locks so that you cant actually hang up a call and you have to ask the other person to hang up, the screen is over sensitive sometimes and the menus are not intuitive, further the phone has a tendency to not ring even though the sound is up and it is set to general mode, not silent. Personally,this is my work phone, I definately would not buy this phone for personal use.
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Reviewed by Sam on 01/06/2011
Had this phone for a few months. Started off well, well it was a solid phone. Now it's just guff, taking ages to do anything really. The lack of speed and memory really take its toll and the phones just done now, can't wait to get a new phone.
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Reviewed by Russell on 01/06/2011
I've now had this phone for 6 months and really like it after coming from a Blackberry but did prefer the 'real' keyboard compared to the virtual one on the wildfire. I was getting 2 days max from the battery which annoyed me but (RECOMMENDED TIP) go to www.forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857249 and follow the instructions to improve battery life as after I followed them Im now getting 4 days from a single charge! Overall great phone, easy to use and over all really pleased with it.
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Reviewed by edward on 31/05/2011
it a good phone, with a very thirsty energy demands, the battery life is terrible, and you be charging constantly.apart from that the phone is good buy, now all they got to do is gives us a better batteries consumption.
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Reviewed by malcolm Thornton on 28/05/2011
I hate it with a passion, Ive spoken to other users too , and they say the same. You need a head as big as Birkenhead to operate the thing . Phone is currently locked ,wont let me call out, the airoplane mode is on and cant get it off????????????
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Reviewed by Ian on 26/05/2011
If this was the first Android smartphone I'd owned, then I would be happy with the Wildfire. However, if you've ever used a Desire or Galaxy, you'll soon realise just how 'laggy' this phone is and of course, that is reflected in the cost. Great battery life straight out of the box.
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Reviewed by B.B. Uk on 25/05/2011
Cant get text to send only if I go back to name page then press the key with simm card on .am I doing somthing wrong .
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Reviewed by lee nolan on 22/05/2011
Originally went for pay monthly with a desire s but changed my mind and opted for the wildfire on pay as you go. First of its not as fast and not as smooth but its cheaper and in my opinion the difference between the two is not worth the price difference its a perfect phone for payg rather than desire s on pay monthly just don't expect. Super fast and you won't be disapointed
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Reviewed by flio on 22/05/2011
had this phone for 9 months with orange and dropped it one time too many yesterday so the screen is smashed. Although it still works I have been struggling with it for a long time. 1. It is really slow and often unresponsive when using the internet, once I waited 15 mins for a video to load and it never worked. 2. The messaging got a bit messed up and my texts were being saved in the stream at the bottom so conversation was all backwards 3. Camera isn't great, had a nokia before and that was much preferable. However, it is easy to use, the interface it nice and the screen is high quality.
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Reviewed by Rob on 20/05/2011
My phone, straight out the box, brand new battery will not last in standby more than 24 hours. Not impressed
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Reviewed by Jay on 20/05/2011
Bought this phone about two weeks ago and was great, everything I wanted in my new phone and more. Now the phone's going slowly because there's texts on it but it won't let me delete them. Called the helpline and all I can do is wipe it. Two weeks in...not great.
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Reviewed by Dave on 17/05/2011
I got the HTC Wildfire recently, a fairly standard easy to operate phone with all the normal features. I was however really let down by the camera and quality of pictures, objects in the pictures were very fuzzy with no clarity to them. Even pictures of static objects took a few attempts before they were satisfactory. I wanted a phone with a camera I could use to capture images instantly, this is impossible with the HTC Wildfire.
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Reviewed by Gem on 15/05/2011
I hardly ever have signal! it is not a network problem because when people are next to me with the same network they have full signal. When i call people they cant hear me! it freezes a lot. texts freeze and get jumbled up so i send a text to the wrong person! it is an awful phone!!!
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Reviewed by Rishad on 14/05/2011
Excellent phone, Mine came with Android 2.2 installed and the wifi hotspot feature is the highlight for me. Was easy to activate and worked brilliantly with my Notebooks. Overall great phone.
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Reviewed by matthew on 14/05/2011
Hi, i got my wildfire last week on wednesday, I loved it from the moment i set my eyes on it in the catalogue, and now you wouldnt be able to get me away from it. This smartphone is particulary the best in its range from my point of view, but the downside to it would have to be the automated predictive text. Now that is one downside but I've learned from plenty of friends and my boyfriend included that it picks up the way your writing and process's it until it finally configured itself to your typing mode which personally is rather great, and the other downer which is my last would be the syncronizing contacts from your facebook phonebook although this saves time and effort it caused me alit if trouble because i have a lot of friends and family in the states it syncronised them too and because of the superb touch screen technology built in it presses phobebook and decides to ring them now if its to do this it raises your phone bill to a phenominal charge. Now these are the only problems in my case but I'm hoping it all turns out great just like htc have turned out to be phenominal creators of this fine design.
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Reviewed by jane on 13/05/2011
I got this phone two days ago and i love it i always wanted a iphone but i cant afford it got this htc wildfire for 149 pounds so in my price range i love it best phone ive had.
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