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HTC Magic
$200.00
Released April, 2009
The Pros:Built in
WiFi. Runs Android.
GPS functionality.
The Cons:No 3.5mm headphone jack. No hard keyboard. Poor battery life. Needs charged at least every day!
The HTC Magic is an Android powered mobile phone and is also known as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G or Android G2. Hooked directly into Google's services such as mail, maps, search and other features, the phone has access to the Android market of applications.
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This market is stocked with applications and games, and Google fanatics who will continue to make more as time goes on. The HTC Magic offers a video recording capability and makes it easy to publish the video directly to YouTube right from the phone. It incorporates a high speed 3.5G network connection with a Wi-Fi connection. The 3.2 inch HVGA screen is touch-sensitive and the phone comes with a microSD (SD 2.0) expansion slot. The 3.2 megapixel color camera has an auto focus to improve the quality of pictures and video and the HTC Magic has support for Bluetooth wireless stereo headsets.
Features
- Android
- 3.5G network connection
- Screen individualization
- Sherpa app
- Notification pane
- Personalized shells
- Wi-Fi
- microSD (SD 2.0 compatible)
- 3.2" touch-sensitive screen (320 x 480 pixel)
- Bluetooth wireless stereo headsets
- 3.2 megapixel color camera
- Video recording
- Weight: 118.5 grams with battery
- Internal GPS antenna
User Reviews (22)
Pros & Cons
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large 3.2" touchscreen (320×240px)
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full audio format support (including AAC, WAV, OGG, MP3, WMA, etc...)
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high speed 3.5G data connection
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highly integrated with popular online services
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Customizable desktop with shortcuts, widgets, and apps
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Drop-down notification pane and status bar
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Can be upgrade: Sense UI (update)
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Scratch resistant glass screen
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Poor battery life. Needs charged at least every day!
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custom modified firmware for Rogers; disables many of the goodies of the US Android phones
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Internal RAM not expandable
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Slow landscape/portrait screen orientation.
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Case made of plastic, not metal
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doesn't include "HTC Sense" UI like the hero
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Only available in white in UK
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Over-eager automatic phone lock cannot be turned off
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no camera zoom in feature
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expensive off of a contract - $649.99
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Android is still a work in progress - not exactly polished
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proprietary data / charging cable
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no internal storage - microSD cards only
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Comments (1)
Erik:
#htc_magic Intrigued by this coming out for Roger's in Canada. I'm definitely curious to see how things pan out with their custom firmware that's rumoured. What features will they disable?
May 31, 09
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