If there is one thing that the Android lacks, it is general mass appeal. Sure, many of us in the tech industry see the wonderful green robot as the symbol of the powerful and versatile open source operating system from Google, but for many mobile phone users, it is just another high-tech brand.
The HTC Wildfire however is set to change the public perception of the Android from being a tech geek icon into something more generally loved -thanks to its many social networking and sharing features. Of course, it also helps that the phone is pretty well balanced in terms of specs. At 528 MHz, the CPU is hardly as fast as the recently launched Desire, but it certainly makes for a cheaper phone that is friendly to everyone’s budget.
HTC has released the full details on the phone’s functions and a quick look at the social networking features in its official announcement:
“HTC Wildfire helps you stay connected with those who are most important to you through HTC Sense, a user experience focused on putting people at the centre by making phones work in a more simple and natural way. HTC Wildfire enables you to stay up to date with your friends’ posts, comments, alerts and photos, wherever you are.”
The Wildfire brings a new function called the Friend Stream. This feature gives users a live feed of content that is being run on their social networks. The big bonus here is that viewing threaded conversations and other bits of information is easily done without having to click through several pages of links just to figure out what your friends are talking about in their latest social network updates. At the same time, this feature also makes it easy to broadcast your latest news. The HTC Wildfire is expected to come out in store shelves later this third quarter of 2010.
