It takes a little getting used to – stroking it from side to side to navigate homescreens or tabs – but once you’re familiar it actually feels more accurate than the trackball ever did. Gone, too, is the Hero’s trackball, replaced by an optical joystick. Everywhere else is soft-touch and sturdy, and the Legend feels great in the hand.
The row of buttons under the display are also plastic, and they’re the sole point on the Legend where the quality doesn’t feel 100-percent instead they’re a little too clicky, a little too plasticky. The only plastic to be found is the camera surround – punctuated with holes for the speaker grill – and the battery compartment door, which doubles as the antenna. HTC describes their latest design focus as “hidden power”, but with the Legend it’s anything but disguised: by carving the phone’s casing out of a solid block of metal, they’ve been able to do away with a separate outer shell and thus make the whole thing smaller than the smartphone it replaces.
Most notable is the construction: gone is the Hero’s Teflon-coated plastic, with a new, unibody aluminum casing taking its place. We can’t argue the strategy – however much we generally prefer faster processors – and nor can we argue what the Legend brings to its new tier. In fact, there’s a feeling that HTC are pushing the Legend into the mid-range market, rather than aiming for the flagship status the Hero once occupied. Where the Hero used a 528MHz chipset, the Legend gets Qualcomm’s 600MHz MSM7227 a speed increase, yes, but short of the 1GHz Snapdragon on the Google Nexus One and HTC’s own Desire. Similarly, there’s a 5-megapixel autofocus camera, but now it has an LED flash. The Legend has a 3.2-inch HVGA display, like the Hero, but this time around it’s an AMOLED panel rather than LCD. You can learn more about the testing process here.Specifications-wise, the Legend marks some key changes over the Hero and some points where we wish HTC had been a little more forthright. HTC Desire vs Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 frequency response graphs We suspect that HTC have found a way to pump up the volume a bit higher, which has naturally led to the minimal differences you see in the table below.Īt any rate the Desire readings are excellent all over, the HTC handset pulling one of the best all-round performances that we have ever seen.
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In fact the two frequency response graphs are so similar that we suspect a similar (or maybe identical) hardware has been used inside the two Android flagships. The HTC Desire pulls off the same remarkable audio quality as the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10, but is louder in terms of earphones volume. It also supports RDS and allows playback through the loudspeaker.
It automatically scans the area for the available stations and allows you to mark some of them as favorite for easier scrolling between them. The HTC Desire is also equipped with an FM radio, which has a pretty simple interface. The other music player weaknesses of the Android platform still need addressing too - no equalizer presets, nor any alternative visualizations. We were disappointed to find no contextual search in the music player for songs and related stuff on YouTube or Google. The new player interface is nice, with no new features inside though The now playing user interface, though very sleek and more comfortable, doesn't offer new features. The standard music library view is the Artists section, but you can easily switch to one of the other six tabs beneath, which are for Albums, All Songs, Playlists, Genres, Composers and Purchased. Like most of the multimedia department, the music player is basically the same as what we saw on the Legend. Tabbed music player with “cover flow” interface