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Running Android 2.3.3 and HTC Sense 2.1 in a case measuring just 10 cms by 6 cms (precise specs below), the Wildfire S is a powerhouse of features and functionality to suit both work and social environments in a convenient and portable package.

The official product page is available here - http://www.htc.com/uk/product/wildfires/overview.html

Features

• Surf in style
  Your HTC Wildfire S knows that the online world, is your world. Being offline is not an option. With the HTC Wildfire S, surfing the web is easy. Enjoy multi-window browsing, watch text resize automatically on screen as you zoom in and out, and simply highlight text to quickly look up what you're reading about on Google, Wikipedia or YouTube. You're as connected on the move as you are at home.
• Snap, tag and share
  Whether it's a photo you've snapped with your HTC Wildfire S camera, or one you've received, it's easy to share it on Facebook and other social networks. Select any photo you want on your phone, upload it and tag it for all your friends to see.
• Share apps in a snap
  The Android market has over 100 thousand of the latest applications, games and tools that you can download straight to your phone and easily share with your friends. So you can fill your phone and your life with everything you love.
• Express yourself
  Make the HTC Wildfire S your very own. Express your personality and customise it with colourful skins, soundsets and widgets – all available to download directly from your phone. Along with inspiring scenes to match your social, entertainment or more serious side, for those that have one.
• All your friends' updates in one place
  Friend Stream groups all your friends' social network updates together, so you never miss what's most important to you. Whether they're on Facebook, Twitter or Flickr, you can keep tab of all your friends' tweets and photos, all at once and on the same screen. Plus a single update from you can be sent to each of your networks all in one go.
• An icebreaker for your calls
  Wouldn't it be handy if your Caller ID not only displayed a name and number, but also vital stuff like their Facebook status and birthday? HTC Wildfire S does just that, so when you look to see who's calling, you know to say "Happy Birthday" the moment you answer the phone.
• All your email accounts in one inbox
  If you juggle more than one email account, the HTC Wildfire S will merge them together so you never miss a thing. They're color coded so you know what's what, and you can sort them by importance, groups or content. It's one easy access point for all your incoming and outgoing mail.

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Specifications

• Size - 101.3mm (3.99in) x 59.4mm (2.34in) x 12.4mm (0.49in)
• Weight - 105 grams (3.7 ounces) with battery
• Display - 3.2 inch touch-sensitive screen with 320 x 480 resolution
• CPU Speed - 600 MHz
• Platform - Android with HTC Sense
• Memory
  • ROM - 512MB
  • RAM - 512MB
    
  • Expansion Slot - microSD memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
• Camera - 5 megapixel colour camera with auto focus and flash
• Sensors
  • Ambient light sensor
  • G-Sensor
  • Digital Compass
  • Proximity Sensor
• Connectors
  • 3.5mm stereo audio jack
  • Standard micro-USB (5-pin micro-USB 2.0)
• Multimedia
  • Audio supported formats
    Playback: AAC, AMR, OGG, MID, M4A, MP3, WAV, WMA (Windows Media Audio 9)
    Recording: AMR
  • Video supported formats
    Playback: 3GP, 3G2, MP4, WMV (Windows Media Video 9)
    Recording: 3GP
• Battery
  • Capacity - 1230mAh
  • Talk Time - WCDMA: up to 350 minutes, GSM: up to 430 minutes
  • Standby Time - WCDMA: up to 570 hours, GSM: up to 360 hours
• Network
  • HSPA / WCDMA: Europe/Asia - 900/2100 MHz
  • Quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• Internet
  • WiFi: IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
  • 3G: up to 7.2Mbps download speed, up to 384kbps upload speed
  • GPRS: up to 114kbps downloading
  • EDGE: up to 560kbps downloading
• Bluetooth
  • Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP for wireless stereo headsets
  • FTP/OPP for file transfer
  • PBAP for phonebook access from the car kit
• GPS - Internal GPS antenna

Home Screen

The Wildfire features the usual 7 homescreens that we have become familiar with on the Android platform, accessed by swiping to the left or right to reach commonly-accessed applications, widgets or hardware controls that you can customise to your heart's content to best suit your needs, be it a live social networking feed of your Twitter and Facebook messages:

SMS, email messages and contacts
:

Or weather reports and music player controls:

Additional widgets can be downloaded either from the HTC Hub or from the Android Market.

The notification area at the top of the screen can be pulled down to access a list of recently accessed and running applications, not to mention a quick-toggle control for the unit's WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and cellular controls:

Applications

The applications available as standard on the Wildfire are as follows:

• Calculator
• Calendar
• Call History
• Camcorder
• Camera
• Clock
• Downloads
• Facebook
• FM Radio
• Friendstream
• Gallery
• Gmail
• Google Search
• HTC Hub
• HTC Hub
• Internet
• Latitude
• Learn More
• Mail
• Maps
• Market
• Messages
• Music
• Navigation
• News
• News & Weather
• Peep
• People
• Phone
• Places
• Quick Lookup
• Settings
• Setup
• Stocks
• Talk
• Transfer
• Videos
• Voice Recorder
• Voice Search
• Weather
• WiFi Hotspot
• YouTube

The application launcher itself can display all applications, your favourite applications, or applications that have been downloaded:

Navigating through the launcher screens is now more user-friendly thanks to the fact that swiping your finger up or down the screen will display the next page of apps and then stopping, rather than scrolling on based on the vigour of your finger swipe.

Email

Besides supporting POP and IMAP email accounts, the Wildfire S features Exchange ActiveSync out of the box, providing push email over the air with your corporate email server.
Using HTC's own proprietary email client rather than the native Android client, full mailbox access is provided to all mailbox folders and email synchronisation schedules can be defined avoiding the need to check for mail during the night, for example, saving both on data charges and battery power:

Out of Office and email signatures can be set and edited directly from the device, and contacts in the Global Address List can be searched for with no need for any additional configuration:

Email messages can further be grouped by conversation for ease of inbox management:

Connectivity

Featuring a high-speed 3G modem, Bluetooth and WiFi, with the Wildfire S you need never be offline, and neither should your laptop with the Smartphone's ability to be used as a USB tethered modem on both Windows and Mac

Or indeed any device that features WiFi thanks to the Wildfire S' ability to act as a 3G wireless access point for up to 5 devices simultaneously:

Alternately, should your laptop have Internet access and you want to preserve your phone's cellular data connection, you can share your PCs' Internet connection via the same USB connection using the device's Internet Passthrough feature.

Voice over IP

New to Android 2.3.3 is a built-in SIP client making it possible to set up your Smartphone as an extension of your corporate telephone system via WiFi, whether in the office or not, allowing you to call, and be called by, staff in the office free of charge by dialling your internal extension number. For more information on how to configure this feature, read this article - http://blog.brightpointuk.co.uk/setting-htc-desire-s-wireless-extension-...

Summary

This article has provided an overview of the features available with the Wildfire S, focussing on those technical details that you might not otherwise be aware of, for more information visit the HTC web site or contact our sales staff on 0870 849 0225 today.