Online retailer Play has put up a listing for its SIM-free and unlocked variant of the HTC Wildfire, which it’s prepared to let you have for £229 including delivery. That’s a pretty good price for an HTC Android phone, even though the Wildfire’s specs are definitely on the “entry level” side of things.
The only downer is the release date – which Play says is now a distant July 26. Presumably that’s to give the major mobile networks a good few weeks to shift it on their lucrative contracts.
Still, £229 for a phone that you could tell someone is an HTC Desire looks pretty good to us. The only chink in the Wildfire’s armour is its display, which is a bafflingly low 240 x 320 resolution. There will be better low-cost Android phones to come this year.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
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