http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/ 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/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/May 17th 2010 7:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/
Agreed... nothing to see here.

Move along, folks.]]>May 17th 2010 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/They probably chose that name because these will sell faster than a burning wildfire]]>May 17th 2010 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-announced/

Hands-on: http://www.slashgear.com/htc-wildfire-hands-on-1785710/]]>May 17th 2010 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/Seriously HTC, after the Evo, why make anything not as good as it? ]]>May 17th 2010 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/WTF? Is that the best example you can think of?]]>May 17th 2010 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/Same reason Nvidia and Ati make their top end cards and then everything else afterwards.]]>May 17th 2010 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/
It's styled similar to the Nexus One, I guess, but really it takes design cuts from lots of different HTC phones like the Desire, Magic, and Legend.

This is a hardware refresh for the Tattoo, nothing more.]]>May 17th 2010 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/Now only if Nilay understood this also.

blenderman345 thinks that all human beings are nerds.
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C'mon people. Smartphones are like 25% of the market. 75% of all customers are buying crappy cheap Nokias 11XX etc. If they can get in on the smartphone for featurephone price, then good for them and good for HTC. Most people don't need a Nexus One and in Europe, many people are are prepaid(data too) and buy their phones outright.

HTC get's in early with the customer for the next upgrade. Very smart move.]]>May 17th 2010 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/
No need to tell these fools. Arrantly while sitting in their cubicles working for someone else or better still jobless in mummys basement, they believe they and only they fully understand business and multi-billion dollar corporations like HTC have no clue what they're doing.]]>May 17th 2010 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/
It's just not impressive that's all. Nobody's saying its a stupid/wrong/ill-calculated move or anything.]]>May 17th 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/May 17th 2010 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/
It seems that's EXACTLY what you're saying. Or at least, ironically, you're being condescending to those who can't afford the top of the line smartphones and saying they're interests shouldn't be served here on Engadget because YOU have bigger fish to fry.]]>May 17th 2010 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/
More like "Desire Jr.".
]]>May 17th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/
...or "Nexus .6". Heh.
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Exactly. I got in on Android with the Droid Eris on a BOGO deal when my wife wanted an upgrade. I loved it so much I had to upgrade to the Incredible at launch. Low-cost smartphones are the perfect way to grow the user base -- and some people are perfectly happy with them. For her it's a "phone plus" whereas for me I like a "slate PC plus".]]>May 18th 2010 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/May 17th 2010 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/May 17th 2010 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/Joanna, your HTC Desire is a lot better.... like 2 years better.]]>May 17th 2010 7:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/May 17th 2010 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/May 17th 2010 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/May 17th 2010 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/May 17th 2010 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/
Because HTC has a love affair with Qualcomm, no matter how crappy the spec sheet.

I wish this old processor technology would be phased out of mobile devices, TBH...]]>May 17th 2010 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/Engadget commenters are so immature. Since the evo 4g was released every other phone without a 4" screen is "fail". Not everyone wants a 4" media consuming slab to carry around, some just want email and web on a device that looks good and doesn't cost too much.]]>May 17th 2010 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/Well, it will probably be the replacment of current HTC Tattoo, and the Qualcomm MSM7225 is very popular in the entry level smartphone segment today probably due to lower cost or some other cost related factor. Yes the MSM7225 has been used in all of the early Android phones from HTC and others, but if you look at the rest of the specs they are better then on the early models. The growth is in entry level smartphones and a 2+ old cpu works well in that segment.

I see the point in useing the MSM7225 to get rid of inventory, and then useing the MSM7227 on mid-range devices and the QSD8250 in the high-end segment.



]]>May 17th 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/May 17th 2010 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/I agree, it seems insane that a company would constantly release so many intercompeting devices into the market. I guess they're being saved by the bulk sales and branding deals they have with mobile carriers (in the US atleast).]]>May 17th 2010 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/May 17th 2010 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/May 17th 2010 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/
umm... maybe nexus 0.5 i hope that 2 is an upgrade.]]>May 17th 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/May 17th 2010 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/
Annäherungssensor = proximity sensor,
Lichtsensor = light-sensor,

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My bet would be that this will be free on most carrier's (or one carrier's) network, on low cost price plans. Kinda the same reason for the Minis they have released? Competing with low-level opposition like Microsoft's Kin and and the Motorola Droid (and maybe some of Samsung's latest offerings)?

Personally, I'll pay the extra for an Evo.]]>May 17th 2010 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/May 17th 2010 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/May 17th 2010 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/May 17th 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/17/htc-wildfire-escapes-from-yellow-mountain-riding-android-2-1/
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