Review
HTC has announced new Android smartphone, HTC Explorer. It is an entry level smartphone integrated in small package having sufficient features of smartphone.
Specifications
In terms of software the handset operates on the latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system along with the cool HTC Sense UI. It features 3.2 inch display HVGA display screen of 320 x 480 pixels resolution. The handset is not heavily built having only 108g. On the back of phone it sports 3.15 megapixel camera & also capable to shoot video.
It is powered by 600MHz Sncorpion processor that is very low compared to other smartphones. It has 1,230mAh battery that is enough as a budget phone.
Advantages & Disadvantages
The HTC Explorer is budget friendly smartphone & it operates on the latest Android operating system. The device is very lightweight having 102.8 x 57.2 x 12.9 mm dimension & 108g weight. Its camera is also rocking due to its embedded features like autofocus, Geo-tagging & face detection.
Features embedded with camera are superb but the disappointing thing is that its megapixel is very low. While using the application the performance is low due to its 600MHz Sncorpion processor.
About deals
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Reviewed by Admin
General
- 2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- 3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 2100
- Announced: 2011, September
Size
- Dimensions: 102.8 x 57.2 x 12.9 mm
- Weight: 108 g
Display
- Type: TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors
- Size: 320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches (~180 ppi pixel density)
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- HTC Sense UI v3.5
- Touch-sensitive controls
Sound
Alert types: Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker: Yes
3.5mm jack: Yes
- SRS surround sound enhancement
Memory
- Phonebook: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
- Call records: Practically unlimited
- Internal: 90 MB storage, 512 MB ROM, 384 MB RAM
- Card slot: microSD, up to 32GB
Data
- GPRS: Up to 80 kbps
- EDGE: Up to 236.8 kbps
- 3G: HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
- WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
- Bluetooth: Yes, v3.0 with A2DP, EDR
- Infrared port: No
- USB: Yes, microUSB v2.0
Camera
- Primary: 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus
- Features: Geo-tagging, face detection
- Video: Yes
- Secondary: No
Features
- OS: Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread)
- CPU: 600MHz Sncorpion CPU, Adreno 200 GPU, Qulacomm MSM7227 chipset
- Messaging: SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
- Browser: HTML
- Radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS
- Games: Yes
- Colors: Active Black, Active Navy, Metallic Black, Metallic Navy
- GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support
- Java: Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
- SNS integration
- Digital compass
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail
- YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- MP3/eAAC+/WAV/WMA player
- XviD/MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
- Organizer
- Voice memo
- Predictive text input
Battery
- Standard battery, Li-Ion 1230 mAh
- Stand-by: Up to 485 h (2G) / Up to 445 h (3G)
- Talk time: Up to 7 h 40 min (2G) / Up to 7 h 33 min (3G)