subject: The Legend Is A Widget Based Android Smartphone With The Htc Sense User Interface! [print this page] The HTC Legend; this High-end little number from the HTC team sports some pretty nifty features. The Legend is a widget based Android Smartphone with the HTC Sense user interface; the Sense interface dresses the phone with beautiful shades of colour and great touch functionality, the phone is packed full of features supporting online activity, messaging, gaming and navigation. HTC have pulled out all the stops with this device providing it with a high resolution AMOLED display and a juicy 600MHz processor.
HTC have given the Legend an alloy uni-body design with a slight curvature of the chassis for added comfort when handling. The 3.2inch HVGA screen has full touch technology, and it is capacitive so it supports multi touch control; it is incredibly responsive and acts as a great navigation tool as well as a fantastic portal for viewing online and captured image content. The slim line device is host to the fantastic Android operating system; it brings some great Google features which are spread through the Legends functions, an online aspect is also made available with the Android Market delivering tons of great apps, themes and games to customize your phone with. The popular operating system offers up some navigational support with the Google Maps application, more support is supplied by HTC Footprints and the built-in A-GPS.
The Legend boasts great web connectivity with 3G and Wi Fi providing fast, reliable, wireless connections, the phone adopts a very good web browser; it boasts very good scrolling and pan and zoom controls, it has Flash compatibility embedded into the browser, web pages look gorgeous on the HVGA screen. HTC have done a great job of integrating your social networks into the mobile experience, HTC Peep incorporates your Twitter account and allows you to receive the latest tweets posted from friends direct to your screen. The People widget will let you collect contacts into groups of friends and displays all forms of communications you can use. FriendStream is a useful application which allows you to handle accounts from all of your favourite social networks and get full streams of online activity from your friends.
HTC have pre-installed a very good media centre; the music player will handle many file types and the speakers pump out a bass-full sound, there is even a 3.5mm jack for personal listening. The video player can comfortably 3gp, 3g2, mp4 and wmv formats and when you take advantage of the built-in accelerometer and flip the phone to landscape videos are played in widescreen at high resolution. The digital camera has a 5 mega pixel lens and manages to generate some very clean images with the help of auto focus and flash, the video recorder shoots 3gp videos at up to 30fps and all of your content can be uploaded to your favourite networks and sites including YouTube.
The HTC Legend is pre-loaded with loads of great apps, but you can build yourself a nice collection of the apps you want via the Android Market, HTC giving there lucky Legend users the opportunity to expand the external memory of the phone up to 32GB with the microSD slot. HTC have produced the Legend in hope they can win people over with its sturdy, quality design and enhanced performance, users are treated to loads of online action, messaging, social networking and media goodies.
