http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/render....]]>Dec 13th 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/If you don't like spoilers on new tech. then don't read tech. sites... because most, if not all, will report on information like this.]]>Dec 13th 2009 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 14th 2009 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://bit.ly/htc-legend-will-be-a-legend]]>Dec 15th 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/I agree. An improved Hero I think.]]>Dec 13th 2009 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/both two are pretty,but i can't find out the improvement except the processor..anyway i like it]]>Dec 14th 2009 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/]]>Dec 13th 2009 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/
Yes it is. But more importantly, that little dot on the chin.Is that a touch sensitive scroll wheel like the one found on Blackberry 9700?]]>Dec 13th 2009 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Yeah. Its a clickable optical. It says in the link]]>Dec 13th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Just Looking at it makes me want to bend it Straight even if thsi will brake it.]]>Dec 13th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/
I have owned a hero for a couple of months now and its fantastic, Ive never found that the "chin" ever gets in the way of typing. ]]>Dec 13th 2009 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/HTC, how difficult is it to add call and end buttons on the vastly empty space on the chin? It would only add to to the beauty of your phone and improve the functionality hundred-fold. Please think that this is a phone as well.

TIA.]]>Dec 13th 2009 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/
Is there really any need for a call and end key with all functionality on the screen? Presuming this has a proximity sensor then there's no reason to have an end call key (it's the only thing I use my end call key for on my Hero, and that's only because the screen is usually off when I finish talking). My call button never gets used, what's the need when you're already navigating on the screen?]]>Dec 13th 2009 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/I use my call and end keys quite a bit. The menu, back, search, and home keys are related to phone operation when the user has to look at the screen anyway, so it makes sense to make them soft touch and keep them grouped with the screen.

But, as for the call and end keys, I use them even while not looking at the phone. e.g. pressing the call key twice calls the last person called. This is very handy to keep attention on the road while driving. Pressing the end key ends the call and also blanks the screen when not in use. it also doubles as the power button thus obviating a separate button.

IMO, it's a phone first and that feature should not be ignored. Anyway, the empty space around the trackball does not look that good and is doing nothing to add to the phone's usability.]]>Dec 13th 2009 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Also, call key invokes the phone app from anywhere in the phone. If you need to make a call, I do not want to wait till the home screen loads and then invoke the phone app.]]>Dec 13th 2009 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/
HTC do have a little way to go on their choice of good colours, the graphite coloured Hero looks great...but offering it in brown? Seriously? Hopefully there'll be a nice range of colours, not just the Android-green.]]>Dec 13th 2009 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/HA
HA
Ook ook]]>Dec 13th 2009 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/That was quick]]>Dec 13th 2009 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/
this: http://vempaimia.net/diel-symphony-300-8gt-mp5-soitin-arvostelukohteena/]]>Dec 13th 2009 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/
This is not ARM11 based.]]>Dec 13th 2009 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/
It is actually.

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=cpu&id=a7227&c=qualcomm_msm7227]]>Dec 13th 2009 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/
While I need a cortex A8 device, it makes sense to have a lower cost alternative like this as it seems that the high end HTC cortex A8 android slate device is taken care of with the passion/google phone (whatever the hell it's called)]]>Dec 13th 2009 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/green
>Green
>GREEN]]>Dec 13th 2009 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/I completely agree about smartphone color choice. I think the reason a lot of phones come with boring factory colors is that companies figure everyone's just gonna skin it in some ugly rubber hot pink case
(every rich girl who owns a BlackBerry)

I can't tell you the last time I saw a non-cased iPhone... really I can't remember]]>Dec 13th 2009 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/
hopefully, yes. probably, no.]]>Dec 13th 2009 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/
Because "the" was a terrible handset, that no one wanted. ]]>Dec 13th 2009 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/The Hero is the successor to the Dream, otherwise known as the G1, thus it's called the G2 on T Mobile.

I'm slightly disappointed that they didn't stick a WVGA screen in the Hero, it can be done yet HTC decided to stick with the HVGA screen from the G1. That's the only thing bothering me about the Hero (apart from the camera, but I guess it's adequate), I've never had a problem with the processor being underpowered.]]>Dec 13th 2009 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/
Isn't the Magic(My Touch 3G in the US) called the G2 on T Mobile?(I assume you mean in Europe)..and the Hero is G3?

Cell phone names are far to complicated!]]>Dec 13th 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/Dec 13th 2009 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/13/htc-legend-still-looking-good-as-a-render-anyway/The Magic is called the Magic on every network in the UK as far as I know. It's only the Hero and Dream that are called the G2 and G1 respectively on T-Mobile, the Hero unlocked is still called the Hero and as far as I know the G1 was never sold unlocked and so was always called the G1 over here.

@B3astofthe3ast
Tbh the virtual keyboard is so good that a hardware one isn't really needed. I'm sure one of the recently unearthed phones from HTC has a physical keyboard, not sure if it was an Android or a Windows phone though.]]>Dec 13th 2009 5:24PM