HTC Smart

HTC Smart review

The HTC Smart is a brand new smart phone, which is announced in the Mobile World Congress, 2010. This year, MWC introduced a wide range of touch screen smart phones like Samsung S8500 Wave, Sony Ericsson Vivaz PRO, or LG GT540. There is going to be huge competition in the market of touch screen mobile phones, when all these mobile phones come out in the market. How HTC Smart can hold on its own in such a fierce competition? The most fascinating aspect about this handset is the simple-to-use features. The users will get spontaneous experience of HTC Sense user interface in this compact touch design handset. The users can customize the touch screen display as per the individual preference. Most importantly, HTC Smart maintains superb communication features. Whether it is texting, emailing, calling or communicating with friends and family via different social networks, HTC Smart excels in a big way.

HTC Smart – affordable and user friendly

So far, the HTC handsets have earned the reputation of being user friendly. The company always takes a note of the customers’ demand and introduces new handsets. HTC Smart is yet another example of well-researched user friendly and affordable mobile phone. However, it doesn’t imply that being affordable means just adding touch interface to a simple phone. HTC Smart integrates HTC Sense that provides unmatched smart phone experience to the users.

HTC Smart review – the Operating System

HTC Smart combines the latest and powerful features of a high-end smart phone. The features are integrated in such a way that the handset gets acceptance in the global market. The mobile phone is powered by Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform open operating system. This operating system includes top-notch potential and a convincing mobile user experience at mass-market price points. The famous operating system allows the mobile phone company to provide high-end smart phone features at affordable price range.

HTC Smart – the look and display

Generally, the touch screen phones are designed in an attractive form and HTC Smart is no exception. The handset looks supremely stylish, simple, and elegant. Available in the black shade with metallic surrounding, HTC Smart is quite appealing. Almost the entire frontal part of the mobile phone is covered by the 2.8 inches touch screen display. The type of this touch screen display is TFT, and it provides a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and 256,000 colours. Accelerometer sensor for auto rotate is one of the prime display features of the handset. At the bottom of the display screen, you will find the logo of HTC and under that, the three major keys are placed. On turning the phone, the camera lens will catch attention. Just beside the lens, you can find the speakers and the logo of HTC under it. At the bottom, Qualcomm is placed. HTC Smart is quite slim and very attractive. The measurement of the phone is 104 x 55 x 12.8 mm, and it weighs just 108 grams. It is easily pocketable and one can carry it quite conveniently.

HTC Smart – network and connectivity

No matter what features are loaded in a mobile phone, if it fails to provide proper network coverage, then it fails the basic requirement of mobile telephony. HTC Smart is supportive of 3G network and the users can have connective of the carriers that support 3G HSDPA 2100. The handset also supports the 2G network quad band GSM. Therefore, the carriers providing access to the GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 are suitable. With the availability of 3G, the users can expect high-speed browsing experience as well. However, the browsing speed is not very fast, it still provides 3.6 mbps HSDPA, in comparison to the 7.2 mbps speed that many other smart phones provide. Wi Fi is not supported in HTC Smart, but data accessibility can be performed by using Class 10 GPRS and EDGE. If you want to transfer any file to/from other handsets or devices, you can do it with USB and Bluetooth®.

HTC Smart Review – memory

HTC Smart requires a good battery back up as it is a smart phone. It is extremely vital to have proper support of memory to store huge data and applications. The smart phones, in general, are integrated with top notch features and applications and therefore, higher storage capacity is a must. If you are a gamer and like to play different games on your mobile phone, then you must store the gaming application in the handset, and it requires good storage capacity. Just like games, the users that like videos and songs would need better memory capacity in their mobile phones. HTC Smart knows the importance of good storage capacity and therefore, it offers decent memory back up. The internal memory of the mobile phone is 256 MB RAM 256 ROM that can record call records and 1000 phone book entries. This much of memory is not enough for a smart phone and therefore, the users can expand the memory by using miroSD card up to 16 GB.

HTC Smart – camera

Being a smart phone is not just about including serious features, the entertainment and fun quotient must also be present. The prominent multimedia features of HTC Smart are camera, music player, video playback, etc. The camera of the mobile phone is a 3.15 mega pixel snapper, and it provides resolution of 2048x1536 pixels. The major highlights of the camera include LED flash and auto focus. There is no secondary camera in the handset. Apart from the camera, the users can enjoy excellent music playing features in the mobile phone. The handset is loaded with an integrated music play that can play music files such as MP3, eAAC+, WAV, and WMA9. Stereo FM with RDS increases the options of music in the handset. Those who love to watch videos can watch video files on the video playback that can play file formats such as MP4, H.263, H.264, and WMV9.

Powered by Li-Ion 1100 mAh battery, HTC Smart is a handset to watch out for. The mobile phone is expected to release in the first quarter of 2010.

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