Terming oneself after getting hold of HTC Legend as excited will surely be an understatement!
The phone surely tempts you for almost point of no return with its sleek unibody design and a brilliant AMOLED display followed by a brushed metallic finish, the Legend is an attractive handset.
The HTC Desire, HD Mini and Smart are to follow shortly. The HTC Hero (also marketed as T-Mobile G2 Touch in the UK, Austria, Germany, Croatia, the Netherlands and Hungary, and Era G2 Touch in Poland) – it is the third device so far produced by HTC corporation for the Android platform, as part of the A series.
Notably, it is the first phone of that series to feature a 3.5 mm audio jack, multi-touch capability, the HTC Sense user interface, and a “Lite” version of Adobe Flash. The phone was unveiled on June 24, 2009 in London for the first time.
HTC Hero becomes HTC LEGEND by announcing new mobile HTC LEGEND in February 2010. It is 126g phone with ergonomic dimensions of 112 x 56.3 x 11.5 mm supporting 16M colors for AMOLED 3.2 inch capacitive touch screen. It is loaded with new technologies like
- Sense UI
- Multi touch Support
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto rotation
- Optical Mouse Track pad
It is made with block aluminum (silver) with usual hardware buttons for android like
- Home button
- Menu button
- Back button
- Search button
- Optical mouse button / optical track ball
- Volume button (on the left side)
- Lock / unlock button (on the top)
Applications & Operating System:
The device runsAndroid 2.1 operating system with customized HTC home screen plug-in for HTC android devices. In latest Sense UI, pinch to zoom or window tabbing feature has added a value to the device sense UI. Pinching on the LCD screen reveals an amazing quality as it shows 4 to 5 multiple windows on the same screen and by touch on any window will see the phone active on the screen. It’s more seems like Windows 7 Aero function of tabbing windows by pressing (Windows key + Tab key) on the keyboard.
Camera and Location based capabilities:
It has 5 mega pixel camera with LED flash light and autofocus. It is equipped with 3.5 mm stereo audio output jack on top of phone with best sound quality. It is also ready with features like Digital compass, proximity sensor, and ambient light sensor.
Multimedia Formats and features:
It support maximum multimedia formats like for playing videos it supports, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .wmv , .avi , and for audio formats like .wav, .mp3, .aac, .amr, .mid, .wma . You can also increase its multimedia capability by installing third party applications capable of playing new audio and video formats. However, it is also enriched with multimedia function like FM radio and volume adjuster.
Connectivity Features:
Its connectivity options are surely unmatched with maximum connectivity options like WIFI, Bluetooth, HTC Sync, Exchange Servers, web emails, Micro USB 2.0, GPRS, EDGE, 3G and internet tethering sharing through USB. It offers 490 Minutes of talk time and 440 hours of standby time for GSM. However do not forget talk times are actually subjected to network and phone usage.
Make sure the Box offers the following:
- Mobile Phone
- Wired hands free Headset
- USB Charger with Plug
- USB to Micro USB port cable
- Battery
- Manuals
*Please be informed, this depends on the seller offer or also check OEM website.
Availability in Pakistan
In Pakistan, it is pin pack available with PKR 35,990/- on homeshopping.pk , where as prices.pk offers in PKR 50,490/- . If we check on different free online advertisement websites in Pakistan, it is being offered for sale in the range of PKR 39,000/- to PKR 48,000/- dependent on the handset condition. However, price variation could be a factor when you go to the market to purchase the device.
Comparison of HTC LEGEND with HTC HERO
| HTC LEGEND | HTC HERO |
| Dimensions 112 x 56.2 x 14.4 mm | 112 x 56.3 x 11.5 mm |
| 126 gm | 135 gm |
| AMOLED capacitive touch screen, 16M colors | TFT capacitive touch screen , 65k colors |
| Trackball | Optical track pad |
| 384 MB internal RAM | 288 MB internal RAM |
| LED Flash light | No LED flash light |
| Pin pack Available in PKR 44,990/- to 50,000/- | Used HTC Hero is available in the range of PKR 25000 to PKR 30,000/- (Condition dependent) |
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Quite late review, the phone is in market since long!!!
It would have been good if the reviewer used it himself and then posted a review. The information posted in this review is available on a lot of other sites as well.
This seems more like specification rather than review!
Nice Review!!
I am Mobile phone distributor in Pk, and believe me this phone is still scarce in market and consumer demand is quite high.. even almost i have imported bundle of handsets..to deliver in diff. cities….So, this smartfone is not that old… it is released in Feb 2010.
i dont know , how author has gathered information for this review…But the way it is designed and put together in a single post is gr8 and informative…i almost read reviews daily for different phones coz of my nature of work…believe me this is detail analysis of handset without any bias opinion to CASH any sponsor…
with that, we cannot change spex and device in any review…features will remain same…intro will remain same…So, For sure , we might get identical feeling in reading review on phone arena and endagadget or any other mobile phone review website…
Availability..in Pakistan tab is really informative and at-least save my time for searching on internet or at least gives me local impression of prices for these kinds of handsets…
Well Written and Informative…
thnx fr da review….i ws about to buy an iphone 3g…bt i guess now il go fr HTC hero….
fanx alot…
Are the newer hTC smartphones running snapdragon processor coming to Pakistan?
If want to buy from current list of Android Phones… Then don’t buy Legent…Buy HTC Desire… or
wait for HTC Vision…i.e. super fast mobile with dual snapdragon processor 1.2GHz and 1020P HD video capability. Hight speed internet is also there but useless for Pakistan bcoz Pakistan don’t have even 3G technology yet.
or leave all these phones because these smart phones are useless unless telecom provide high speed broadband facility to users. Edge or GPRS is a dead technology right now.
Does anyone know which sort of video files are supported? I bear in mind the Intuition only could dl 3gp utilizing opera mini. I downloaded the twist ap, maybe that’s the issue? How can I watch movies from websites aside from youtube? Which file sorts? Normally I’m given the choice of 3gp or mpeg4. Cannot get both to work. Thanks to your time! Rattling I want I used to be eligible for the improve to EVO!