HTC Wildfire

markwilliams82

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My contract is ending soon on my Nokia 5800 and I've been looking at the HTC Wildfire because its cheaper than the Desire etc.

Does anyone have this phone? Is it any good?
 
Its cheaper than the Desire, but its a lot worse in all honesty.

It depends really what you use the phone for, but I would probably get a HTC Hero over a Wildfire. Its cheaper, better screen, now has 2.1, etc.
 
I'm currently on Virgin, if I was to switch networks would I be able to keep my number?

I'm looking for a contract to have the phone for free and £20-£25 per month. And it will only be used for doing the basics, and web browsing, emails etc....nothing too fancy (mp3, media etc)
 
My Brother in Law got the Wildfire after seeing my Desire but not wanting to pay for the Desire. He loves it as it does everything the Desire does albeit slower.

To switch networks and keep your number you need to get your PAC code from Virgin and pass it on to your new network.
 
My brother-in-law got the Wildfire too. Slightly smaller screen than the Hero but slightly more RAM. Personally, if the Desire or Nexus One is out of the question try and get the Legend. It looks gorgeous, has the same amount of RAM as the Wildfire and the same Screen resolution as the Hero.

I've played with the Wildfire and it's a decent phone. It's only a little slower than my Nexus One and I only noticed that because I compared them side by side. If I hadn't have had my N1 on me at the time I don't think I'd have noticed. The smaller screen is a pain after getting used to my 3.7" 480x800 screen though.
 
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markwilliams82 said:
I'm currently on Virgin, if I was to switch networks would I be able to keep my number?

I'm looking for a contract to have the phone for free and £20-£25 per month. And it will only be used for doing the basics, and web browsing, emails etc....nothing too fancy (mp3, media etc)
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http://www.mobiles.co.uk/htc-desire.html

If £20-25 per month is your budget, you can easily get a Desire (and any other phone bar the iPhone 4).

Have fun choosing ;)
 
do not do it i have the desire, and ive just got the missus the wildfire and the screen is absolutely rubbish in comparison, forget web sites on the wildfire you have to zoom right in to read anything, either get the legend or desire, but i promise you, you will regret getting the wildfire
 
I have the wildfire and it's a great little phone.

As mentioned the screen resolution is lower than the desire aswell as being slower but it's more than usable. With the redemtions I've got on my contract it will work out at £6.70 or so per month for 100 free minutes, 500 texts and 500mb internet allowance.

It has just been rooted (if that's the right term!) by unrevoked too.
 
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Nothing wrong with the Wildfire, My missus has one and I have a Desire.

Ive had a good play around with the Wildfire and ive got to say it does pretty much everything the Desire does just a little slower and its a lot cheaper! Ok a few of the apps that are available for the Desire arnt available on the market for the Wildfire, but most are.

Though I agree the screen isnt the best, it is usable.

If you can afford a Desire get one, but if not im sure you'll be happy with the Wildfire.
 
The Mrs has wildfire and I have a desire. If I didn't have the desire I'd think the wildfire was OK, but in comparison the screen is proper crap, and its noticeably slower too. It only costs her nine quid a month but I'd rather pay double that and get the desire or galaxy.
 
I have the wildfire and dont think anything is wrong with it. Yea ok it's not up there with the Desire, or the other fancy phones. Does my everyday job. Got android. Will get the 2.2 update.

All good.
 
markwilliams82 said:
Seems like a good price on there with the Orange Dolphin 25. What's the company like? Always dealt with mobile companies direct before
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They are excellent, never had a problem with them and I've had several phones from them.

People saying about the Wildfire being a slower version of the Desire, yes it is slightly slower, however that isn't its problem.

I feel that an OS like Android is a pain to use on such a small screen, the lowest you can go realistically is the Hero/Legend size.

That is just me though, it might not bother anyone else :p I suppose the main issue with it is web browsing, its painful.

Still, lucky for the OP he's in the market for a Desire ;)
 
What about the samsung galaxy I5700 spica?

IMO, I think it's much better than the wildfire, has a faster processor (800MHz), has a much better screen, doesn't have sense UI on it :p, just plain stock android etc.

Have a look at this Samsung I5700 Spica thread:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18120400

Also have a look at this thread, which might help you more in your decision:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18177779

Plus this week has been great for the Samsung Spica over at samdroid.net :D:

- Multi-touch has been developed for the Spica (and it does look amazing, not many problems with it at all, any problems are being fixed straight away by the developer:

Samsung i5700 multi-touch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPyRhBtKIRk

- Tom3q over at samdroid.net has written a 3D driver from scratch capable of playing any of the 3D games smoothly (only a few problems that needs to be fixed though i.e. missing textures), and it will also speed the mobile up in general things

Samsung i5700 3D driver:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oryj5EfWT88

- Can be overclocked easily to 1GHz and a bit higher
- A new 2D driver is also going to be released, which will improve the general speed a lot

And some things still to come:

- Leshak is currently working on 2.2 (Although the Samsung Spica might get 2.2 sometime between September and December, not 100% sure yet though as a lot of emails from Samsung saying it is and a few saying no)
- The next thing will be freeing up the rest of the unusable RAM

You will need to be rooted in order to get all of this working, however the I5700 straight out of the box (comes with 2.1 pre-installed) is still a very fast, nice looking mobile, just be sure to put launcher pro plus on instead of using Samsungs crap pantheon home launcher, it makes the mobile very slow and unresponsive (I haven't rooted yet, waiting for 2.2 by leshak with all the new drivers in it).

Why Samsung didn't unlock the true potential of the Spica in the first place, I don't know.

So really this was a mid range budget android mobile when it was first released, but it has now been converted to a beast IMO :p

Personally I think it is the best budget android mobile that you can buy today, and possibly going to be just as good as the nexus 1 and HTC desire :p, once everything is fully working and the final versions of the drivers and froyo have been released (which won't be very long, about 1-2 months I reckon) although some things like the camera and screen resolution etc. won't be anywhere as good :(

Also there are mixed reports about the Samsung Spica screen, some people think it's AMOLED (including me at first :p :o), but unfortunately it's not :(, it is a 16M colour TFT (but a very high quality TFT screen by the looks of it and also by other peoples comments).

A video comparing the screen of the Spica to the screen of the Ipod Touch 3GS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPr5kg5jzA

Any more questions feel free to ask :)
 
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Nothing wrong with the Wildfire, My missus has one and I have a Desire.

Ive had a good play around with the Wildfire and ive got to say it does pretty much everything the Desire does just a little slower and its a lot cheaper! Ok a few of the apps that are available for the Desire arnt available on the market for the Wildfire, but most are.

Though I agree the screen isnt the best, it is usable.

If you can afford a Desire get one, but if not im sure you'll be happy with the Wildfire.
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id have to disagree with this as well, im always having to download a app on my desire, and then use root explorer to get the apk out of my phone and then bluetooth it over to the wildfire, thats the only way i can get A LOT of apps to work on the missus phone

id say out of every 10 apps i try on my desire 2 or 3 wont even pick up in the market on the wildfire

proper crap screen, slow, loads of apps dont work, id rather have the hero than the wildfire, but hey saying all that my missus still loves it thou :D


edit all the people saying they love there wildfire, you have no idea what your missing out on imo, considering its htc's latest phone, they should be charged in a court of law for putting a screen which looks like its from 2005 on it

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if your not getting a iphone imo its either a desire, legend, galaxy s, or if you want a little cheaper phone a hero, imo the rest are not as good, im not saying they aint good. just not as good
 
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well i've just dug out the paper work for my mobile contract and it was an 18month contract from july so its ending next year! :(

hopefully this will give me time now to get some money together for an iphone or better smart phone...or see what comes out in the mean time

thanks for all your replies
 
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