HTC Legend review

20. one last thing.

despite iphones stupid price tag their headphones suck. everytime i get on a bus and here someones headphones leaking loads i just always know they will be white ones and they normally are. i should be able to sue iphone for that. it is so annoying im going to throw someones earphones out the window. seriously every day and seriously they suck

19. its already been said but it got marked down for app store??? what? its a phone review not a store review. im getting a bit sick of people who dont have common sense telling me iphones rock in any way whatsoever. really easy comparrison. bluetooth a mp3? no. battery life? forget it. drag and drop video playback? no. drag and drop mp3 playback? of course not. how many different ways do you want that it sucks. minus the app store i can buy a £20 payg that has more basic features than a iphone. how can people have something so restricted that even music is controlled and yet still like it? sheep and fashion victims. there you guy i would take any phone over a iphone any day they really suck

18. I just got a new Legend from Expansys. It's a lovely phone, but I'm a bit disappointed, because of the colour. I thought they were all aluminium colour, but mine is a kind of charcoal. I haven't seen any mention of different colours in any reviews.

17. To Quote in your review====But to give it that would mean recommending it over the iPhone - and while we believe it to be a better phone, it doesn't have the weight of the App Store behind it - and that's going to put a lot of people off.====

To give it that==what you said, applies to giving this phone 5 stars. But you can`t because it doesn`t have the istore behind it, even though it is the better phone.

Well I have read some cockeyed, illogical thinking in my time but you take the prize with that. If you consider it the better phone then give it 5 stars, it is after all a phone review, or am I missing a point. It is not a review on how big a store is. Why do you and others always seem to suck up to Apple? Don`t say you don`t as I will pull every single boot licking quote I can find amongst your reviews.

I am puzzled as to why you have NOT marked Apple down due to the fact that one is completely tied to them and itunes, that is a very unworthy state. You have no real freedom to enjoy what you want on your phone, unless Steve Jobs says you can have it. You failed to mention that very important fact. At least you are free with HTC, at least that should have drawn the score to 5. Very biased remarks, very unsporting. And yes, I did own an iphone.

16. I have been waiting to buy a phone for the last one and a half month. Deciding to wait for the legend and desire, I spent my time researching on the available phones and to-be released phones. Cutting a long story short, any windows mobile running a 6.5 version was good but still was not preferable provided that android handsets were readily available in the market. Each feature has been scored twice, one by me(owner of Legend) and the other by a friend of mine (the second one) who has used it but does not own it ( Just to brush of a biased view since I own it). So this is how the rating goes for the legend (Max 10).

1.Touch screen sensitivity: 9/9

It’s a dream using this phone. It is sensitive to the slightest of touch.

2.Market Place (like Appstore): 7/7

Recently the apps crossed 50000 in the market place. Android is new and it will require some time to catch up with the AppStore, but with the rate it is growing at, it doesn’t seem to be an impossible task.

3.Overall Fluidity: 9/9

Screen transitions are very smooth, although in some cases if there are widgets using the network in the background, the screen transition takes a beating (although not very noticeable). FriendStream app by HTC is buggy. It tends to slow down the phone sometimes and once has even crashed it.

4.Battery: 7/7

My battery last for 2 days with moderate use (wifi for about 4 hours, 2 hours of mobile internet, 4 hours of calls, 3 hours of music). I have given it 7 because the battery can take a real beating if the weather widget with the animation is set as one of the home screens. It will last a max of 1 day.

5.Camera: 8/8

Good still images. Snaps during the day are clear and vibrant. I haven’t seen the pink spot yet which was there in the HTC HD2. Snaps during the night without the flash are also decent. With flash the pictures are average during the night. The snaps are grainy.

6.Form Factor: 9/10

The design seems to be perfect for me. It is very comfortable to operate single handedly and is very pocket friendly.

7.Aesthetics: 10/10

GORGEOUS!!! The aluminum body sets it apart from the other phones.

8.Music: 8/8

Music quality and volume are also pretty good. I was using sennheiser CX-300II headset. The music was clear and had fullness to it. Bass and treble were well balanced, although, there are no equalizer settings. I am sure they will include it in the next firmware update. The speaker quality is also very crisp but not very loud.

9.Connectivity: 7/9

Voice clarity is crisp. I haven’t faced any connectivity issues yet. Though I would like to mention the Wifi receiver is a bit on the weaker side. If your signals are weak, it is unable to keep a constant connection and keeps switching between connected and disconnected state.

All in all I would give this phone a 9. Now the question is are you ready to shell out another $100 for desire which probably scores more in fluidity (1ghz snapdragon processor)? The rest should be the same other than aesthetics. So buy Legend if you want the looks with good performance, or desire with blazing performance (mind you the battery life is compromised here because of the 1ghz processor) but with normal candy bar look.

15. Google Navigation works on my Legend and partner's Desire. Weather app disappears from front screen from time to time but seems to only happen when I manually kill Footprints?? Strange but true - otherwise definitely an Iphone improvement!

14. The Sync problem might be solvable by turning off the phone and then connecting to the pc and switching back on - the software is def. suspect bt this works for me every time

13. "it scratches up pretty easily." hmm, I'm really a fan of the aluminum but I thought it was more scratch resistant ? My unibody macbook don't have a scratch and it's been through much :P

Does it scratch easily or is it just something you guys think it should do?

12. bobbyk68 by the way the legend is on vodafone first its the desire that tmobile have

11. Its too bad that Tech radar follows the i-sheep too. I don't agree with the verdict there is weight in the apple app store but there is a lot of dead weight that people can't find or just don't use.

the app store for android is only missing 1 thing for me which is a desktop browser and maybe the next HTC announcement will finally knock the damn apple off the top spot

10. Cant read the comments!!!!!

9. RDS on the FM radio is supported. Reviews on other sites show it in action.

DivX is coming in a future Desire update, not sure about the Legend. Pity as I'd prefer not to have to mess with 3rd party video players.

8. It's a real shame Facebook messaging isn't integrated too! That would be so handy.

For some friends I e-mail or text but others I Facebook Message or text. Many friends simply prefer to communicate with me using Facebook Message but others prefers the tried and tested e-mail.

7. It's MicroUSB not MiniUSB. That's the old unofficial standard.

6. @ Scott: The review says this is a "better phone to the iPhone".

Sure the Android marketplace doesn't have the 75,000 apps the iPhone has but it has 20,000. That's not exactly a small number.

Having used the Hero. It's easily better than the iPhone. The UI is incredible.

To think The Legend and Desire will be even better again! The Legend is getting more attention because of it's design but the Desire has a 1Ghz processor (way more than the iPhone), larger screen, 720p playback, DivX support out of the box.

It's got everything the Legend has and more.

Why does a phone have to be an "whole evolution better"? I don't buy that at all. At least HTC are moving on. The Hero is a massive leap forward from the Magic and the Desire is from the Hero again (if not as big).

The iPhone Classic to iPhone 3GS isn't much different at all. They haven't really moved the phone on at all, in 3 years!

p.s - The Hero's battery is a problem, pity they've not fixed it for the Legend.

5. Dodgy wi-fi puts me off massively.

4. Read the title

Taking Android to the next level - Apple should be scared

Lets think clearly on this, 3 years down the line HTC releases a fone that is nearly on par with the GODfone.

When is a fone company going to do an apple and release a fone that is not just abit better but a whole evolution better.

Google has got to get involve and release apps that will attract water to the horses mouth.

Then set a standard that to use android on the fone there must be a minimum spec.... to ensure that the androids app will work in future.

Do not go left or right aim staight a ******* head. (dont be like BR)

Ps anyone recommend a fone for £15 month???

Signed

A tightarse with a broken leg with a penchant for google to beat apple up.

3. Really excited about this and the Desire, looking forward to that review. I agree with solarwind, it's nice to get some alternatives to the iphone, it's so boring seeing the same phone everywhere.

2. Sounds amazing, though I'd be very careful getting this phone on the T-Mobile Service. I'm currently using the Hero on T-mobile and the 3G service is appaling. The connection is lost every 5-10 mins making the web unusable. T-M customer services basically advised to switch to 2G on the phone.