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hey guys it's Jeff arena with pocket now calm and it's time to give you our final word on the HTC Wildfire let's go ahead and get started we're going to first start off by telling you some of the positive to this device some of the things that we really enjoyed and the first one that we want to mention is going to be the price point at a price but only three hundred dollars for an unlocked device you really can't beat what you're going to get here you're going to get a relatively up-to-date android 2.1 device that has also unlocks you can use it on any carrier that uses a sim card now well touch base a little bit later on in this video on the network compatibility but once again it's an unlocked phone you don't have to renew your contract when you buy this phone looking at some of the devices right now that 18 teens mobile do sell some of them are around two hundred dollars with a contract whereas this device is only three hundred dollars without that contract which when you factor in the early termination fee for some people might be worth it next up is the overall design of the HTC Wildfire many people have pointed out on the past videos that it's almost like a cross between a nexus one and the HTC Desire kind of merge together it does definitely bring some of the design aspects of the nexus one by having the aluminum shell as well as the teflon painted plastic on the back overall the device is extremely solid feels very solid in the hand and you're not going to hear the device creaking or flexing as using it it's not a cheap plastic by any means at all you really are getting a lot here for your money on a hardware design sense also because the device comes with Android 2.1 pre-loaded you can likely use a lot of the available apps from the android market some of the applications may not work due to the screen resolution which I will touch on in the next few minutes but for the most part everything you're familiar with now if you've already been using Android is there for you and if this is your first Android device you aren't really that far behind I mean froyo is out now however by getting on android 2.1 right out of the gate you are almost up to date 100 battery life on the HTC Wildfire was phenomenal I was able to easily make it through an entire day of usage in almost two days in some cases it is powered by a relatively small of thirteen hundred million power battery a lot of the devices now are using 1400 and up however because this device only has a three point 2 inch screen with a lower resolution it's not really drawing too much power and because of that you're able to make it through a full day no problems at all which if you're on the phone a lot answering emails a lot browsing playing games this could be a good solution for you in terms of the battery life now getting into some of the aspects we weren't necessarily too thrilled with was first off the screen resolution the 3.2 inch screen is definitely easy to use however the resolution being low at 320 x 240 definitely left us craving a little more at times you're taking picture you can actually see lines through your images and pixels and the images look washed out the colors look washed out it's just definitely not up to the spec that you're seeing with the current screens of the AMOLED the Super AMOLED and even the current generation LCD screens this is definitely a step behind the processor at times did seem to kind of chug along a little slower than other devices with a faster one gigahertz processor which is to be expected loading some of the longer Twitter feeds in the Twitter application as you saw in our past video did tend to sort of jerk up and almost slow down and lag as time goes multitasking is fine with this device and to start to run a few I would say about a handful of applications at once you'll really see slow down there you'll see it almost come to a standstill and lastly one somewhat negative that we like to call a negative only because it affects us here is the fact that this device is not compatible with the US 3g bands it is only going to be using edge using ATT and tmobile now keeping that in mind this phone was created for Europe for the UK that area of the world so you really can't knock HTC there for not giving us the compatibility here because we do use different spectrum and different frequencies if you looking for a device that is going to use 3G and really only use 3g most of the time this probably won't be the device for you unfortunately it is a very strong device in a very good entry-level Android device however if 3g is on the very top of your list this may not cut that unfortunate overall the HTC Wildfire is an extremely strong entry-level Android device if you've been on the fence with Android and you're really you're questioning a large investment in order to get into the platform the Wildfire may be for you at only three hundred dollars at the unlock price it is affordable to most people you're also going to get many of the best design aspects from HTC devices like the nexus one and the desire however if 3g is a must-have for you unfortunately it's really not going to fit into many of your needs that way on the other hand if 3g isn't too critical for you and you can get by using the Wi-Fi no problem i definitely have to recommend the Wildfire as an entry-level device you can certainly get a little bit more mileage out of a faster and newer device but if you're looking to stay unlocked and not pay through the teeth the Wildfire is a great option for you the ability to get through a full day something that's hard to come by today and the Wildfire was able to do that just perfectly if you're looking to pick up an HTC Wildfire you can do so for three hundred dollars over at clove co uk as always thank you very much for watching everyone I'm Jeff ringer for pocket now please give us a thumbs up and stay tuned for future videos and reviews over at pocketnow.com