HTC Legend Touchscreen 3G mobile phone reviews

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Score 8.5/10 Read 47
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+ This mobile phone scores high on features. - It scores poorly on battery life.

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HTC Legend:Smartphone Quad Band Touchscreen See full product description

Ease of use	8.4
Features	9.0
Battery life	5.8
Design	9.2
Value for money	8.4
Overall rating	8.5

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Greatscot, Morecambe Business or web user

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: great interface
graphics
design
fab handset with brilliant apps
Bad points:: battery life

Ease of use	8.0
Features	10.0
Battery life	3.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 31 Jan 2011

Confirmed purchaser Business or web user

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Easy touch screen, much better when typing e-mail or text as Blackberry only let you see a couple of lines of text, so easy to lose thread when composing a long mail/text.
Easy to set up even for exchange server mail, much better again than Blackberry who haven't moved forward but have moved sideways in their own direction.
Android much better than Windows for phone use.
Overall a brilliant phone especially with aluminium case. Looks the biz!
Bad points:: Powers down to save battery life. Bit of a pain having to press power button again to bring it back to life before accessing apps. Blackberry never had to do this.

Ease of use	10.0
Features	10.0
Battery life	8.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 27 Jan 2011

J, Brussels

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: It's a beautiful phone, and feature-packed at a price that is considerably lower than an iPhone or even other smartphones in a similar category. Good value for money, especially at the sale prices!
Bad points:: All smartphones go through the battery too quickly with regular usage, but with WiFi turned off and occasional screen usage, it can last for days on standby.

Ease of use	10.0
Features	9.0
Battery life	8.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 24 Nov 2010

Oliver, Chichester Music and entertainment lover

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: Extremely well made using beautiful materials, fantastic, quick OS, great looking phone with a nice quality music player and, very good as a phone !
Bad points:: I gave found none.

Ease of use	10.0
Features	10.0
Battery life	10.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 21 Dec 2010

Confirmed purchaser Music and entertainment lover

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: I love the design, very striking phone. HTC Sense interface is smooth and seamless. Never had any problems with this phone so far and it blows my previous phone away with all it's features. Fits perfectly in my hand.
Bad points:: Battery life could be better. Speakers seem kind of harsh, music sounded so much better on my previous phone.

Ease of use	8.0
Features	9.0
Battery life	5.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	7.0
Overall rating	8.0

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Confirmed purchase: 21 Dec 2010

Confirmed purchaser Business or web user

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: Great features, sleek design, nice size and relatively light weight
Bad points:: Lack of good instructions for someone new to such a device.

Ease of use	6.0
Features	8.0
Battery life	7.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	8.0
Overall rating	8.0

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Confirmed purchase: 13 Jan 2011

Dan, Halmstad, Sweden Basic text and chat user

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Absolutely full of features, and along with the Android Market which provides hundreds of free apps, allows the phone to do almost anything you can imagine.
The design looks very good.
I would say in every department with the exception of music playback, the HTC Legend beats the iPhone hands down.
Bad points:: No front facing camera
Occasionally for no obvious reason, the firmware slows down a little bit, but then as fast as it happened, it will speed up again.
Battery life isnt so great, if you use the phone more than a couple of times in the day then expect to charge it every night.

Ease of use	8.0
Features	10.0
Battery life	3.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	7.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 01 Dec 2010

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Product Features

Operating system	Android
Software on which the device runs
Type of phone	Smartphone
Smartphones are phones with mobile computing systems and the ability to perform complex processes such as image and video capture and app downloads.
Shape of phone	Bar
Mobile phones come in a variety of shapes: the most common is the bar (or ‘candy bar’) a rectangular block shape. Other common forms are the ‘slider’, which elongates when one section is slid out from the other and ‘flip’, where the two sections of the phone are hinged.
3G	Yes
3G allows mobile phones and mobile dongles to achieve broadband speeds similar to that of home broadband. This allows users to browse the internet, email and download files and video whilst on the move.
Touchscreen or keypad	Touchscreen
Touchscreen phones do not have physical buttons, instead you can dial numbers and type texts using equivalent numeric and QWERTY keypads on the screen. Numeric and QWERTY keypad phones have buttons to allow you to dial number and write texts.
Connections	Bluetooth

Connections	WiFi

Connections	USB

Extra functions	Flash

Extra functions	Camera

Extra functions	Instant messaging

Extra functions	Email

Extra functions	Satellite navigation

Band	Quad
Different frequency bands are used in different countries. Most phones can be used across Europe as they are Tri Band. You will need a quad band phone if you plan to travel to the USA.
Horizontal resolution (Pixels)	320

Vertical resolution (Pixels)	480

Camera resolution (MegaPixels)	5
The amount of data that can be captured when taking a photograph or video. A larger number represents a higher quality image, though this is also affected by other factors such as the lens size and quality.
Talk time (Hours)	8
Talk time dictates how long your phone’s battery will last if you were to talk continuously on it from a full charge.
Stand-by time (Days)	18.3

Depth in cm	1.15

Height in cm	11.2
The distance from the very top of the product to the very bottom.
Width in cm	5.63

Memory card slot	Yes
Having a memory card slot allows you to save data to a memory card and then transfer it to another device. For example you may put a photo from your camera or mobile phone onto a memory card and then plug it into your printer to print directly. Memory card slots come in many formats: Compact Flash Card Memory Stick Duo Micro SD Card MMC SD Card SDHC Card
Autofocus	Yes
Weight (g)	126
The weight of the product in grams.
EDGE	Yes
A precursor to 3G, this technolgy allows improved data transfer rates allowing features such as video streaming. Read more about EDGE on Wikipedia
FM tuner	Yes
An FM Tuner allows you to listen to FM radio stations on the move. You can see a list of FM radio stations at Ofcom.
MP3 playback capable	Yes

HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access)	Yes
Java	Yes
A software platform allowing 3rd party applications such as games to be loaded. Read more about Java on Wikipedia
Release date	2010-04-07
The date the product was originally made available for purchase.

Also known as: Legend

Mobile Phone Buyers Guide

Manufacturer's Description

The sleek unibody design with a brilliant AMOLED display and a brushed metallic finish, feels great in your hand and stirs admiration from those around. Along with powerful social networking, group communication, and unmatched level of personalization, the HTC Legend is set to impress you.

Make It Mine
The HTC Legend raises personalization to a whole new altitude. An expanded selection of widgets brings more live content to the surface, for your instant enjoyment. There is even an online widget library, so no matter what your personality, there is content to help you get more out of your phone.

Stay Close
The HTC Legend builds on the tradition of designing our phones to focus more on WHO we communicate with, rather than the tools used, like email, SMS or calls.
The HTC Legend excels at helping you stay in touch with the different circles of friends or colleagues in your life. The new People widget lets you bring any group you create on your phone right to the surface for easy access to calling, messaging, emailing them or simply checking up on their social networking updates.
The HTC Legend also simplifies the way you tend to all your social networks. With Friend Stream, the various interaction with your friends across multiple social networks, like Facebook®, Twitter™, and Flickr™ are brought into a single easy to follow stream of updates, photo posts, and shared links. Friend Stream also lets you shout out your thoughts or feelings with all your online friends with a single update that gets broadcast to both Facebook and Twitter.

Discover the Unexpected
The HTC Legend is loaded with hidden little design touches that are sure to delight you. Like the ringer that knows when it has been heard. The ringer volume politely lowers when the G-sensor on your phone detects that the phone has been picked up, and it completely silences when you flip the phone
upside down.
Now you can use a cool phone while keeping your work email and other information safe. The HTC Legend has enhanced support for Exchange security features such as password protection and remote data wipe. You can easily access your company’s global address book to contact someone whose details aren’t on your phone, and you can also set your Out of Office status right from your phone.
Browsing on the HTC Legend is a high fidelity experience. Adobe® Flash® support brings to life the vast video and gaming content of the Internet. Pinch to zoom controls make it extremely easy to zip around pages and take a closer look at text or images. Also, with just a tap and hold you can select text on a page and look it up in Wikipedia or have it converted into another language via Google’s translation tools.

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