Those who've used the Hero for some time will spot many similarities on the slimmer Legend. The phone's general anatomy on the front and sides remains unchanged, except for the keys below the screen -- the Search and Back buttons have pushed the entire row to the left, thus killing the pick-up-call key and flicking the power button to the top of the phone (near the 3.5mm headphone jack). Naturally, some may miss the ability to jump straight to the dialer, and the keys' occasional stickiness on our unit don't help, either, although this might be an isolated issue. The volume buttons -- now in the form of a thin silver bar that sticks out slightly -- have been moved up from the slope underneath to the straight side, making them more reachable and less prone to accidental presses. On the contrary, we found the new earpiece to be a tad higher than where we'd like it to be, so we often had to deliberately hold the phone lower on our ear to hear the call. The speaker on the back was amazingly loud, so good thing that we can quickly mute the ringer by placing the Legend face down (courtesy of the G-sensor, of course).
The 3.2-inch screen has been beefed up as well - while it's the same size and resolution (HVGA) as the one used on the HTC Hero, the bezel has been reduced to give the impression of a wider screen. And the display itself is now an OLED, rather than LCD, screen. This not only gives incredible colour reproduction, but also displays stunning contrast ratio thanks to not needing a backlight (which also helps with the overall thickness of the phone).
Even though the Legend (Qualcomm MSM7227 at 600MHz) is clocked at just 72MHz more than the Hero (MSM7200A at 528MHz), we thought it'd be interesting to compare boot-up times, and behold: the Legend only needed about 20 seconds, whereas the Hero took almost twice as long. Nice work, Qualcomm! We then decided to test the Legend's battery and camera by treating it to a rare sunny trip around London. As fun as it sounds, the reflective nature of the AMOLED screen meant we had to keep web surfing to the minimal while out in the open.
As long as you don't have the screen brightness turned down to the lowest setting, it's perfectly easy to use the phone even in sunny climes. The frame and display aren't the only aesthetic improvements either - the overall layout has been upgraded to make this phone stand out to those browsing prospective handsets in shops. Read More
Specs:
GENERAL
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100
Announced 2010, February
Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2010, April
SIZE
Dimensions: 112 x 56.3 x 11.5 mm
Weight: 126 g
DISPLAY
Type: AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size: 320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches
- Sense UI
- Multi-touch support
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Optical trackball
SOUND
Alert types: Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
Speakerphone: Yes
- 3.5 mm audio jack
MEMORY
Phonebook: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records: Practically unlimited
Internal: 384 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
Card slot: microSD (TransFlash) up to 16GB
DATA
GPRS: Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE: Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G: HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth: Yes v2.1 with A2DP
Infrared port: No
USB: Yes, miniUSB v2.0
CAMERA
Primary: 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features: Geo-tagging
Video: Yes
Secondary: No
FEATURES
OS: Android OS v2.1 (Eclair)
CPU: Qualcomm MSM 7227 600 MHz processor
Messaging: SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser: HTML
Radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games: Yes
Colors: Gray, Black
GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support
Java: Via third party application
- Dedicated search key
- MP3/eAAC+/WAV player
- MP4/H.263/H.264 player
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
- YouTube, Google Talk
- Document viewer
- Photo viewer/editor
- Organizer
- Voice memo
- T9
BATTERY
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1300 mAh
Stand-by: Up to 440 h (2G) / Up to 560 h (3G)
Talk time: Up to 7 h (2G) / Up to 6 h 10 min (3G)
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