First in depth review of the Legend

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Tech radar did a very good full review of the Legend!!
Some questions have been answered for me:
-VGA camera video recording instead of CIF
-Very nice under direct sunlight opposed to the N1

Here's the Review: http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pho...view?artc_pg=1

Excellent find! Thanks!

I can't wait to get my hands on it when it starts shipping in April!

A couple of concerns I have based on that review:
- can't edit office docs natively
- non-hotswappable microSD
- battery life concern
- buggy wifi and bluetooth connections: I hope this is just because the device was an early non-retail build.

Also the review had the following to say about text-reflow in the browser:

One slight downside - we've let iPhone users play with the HTC Legend (we know, sacrilege) and they've said the text resizing takes longer than on their phone - if this doesn't apply to you, we doubt you'll notice it.

To that I say, "What?!". I wasn't aware the iPhone Safari browser did text-reflow at all! My iPod Touch certainly doesn't! Those fanboys are just sour that something better is out there...

About battery life with ALL new cell phones since 2008 we need at least 6 weeks of battery cycles before saying if it's bad or not, Nobody can judge out of the box if the battery is good or not.
When I bought 2 months ago my SE Aino the battery had to be recharged overnight on first week and I am not a heavy user...now 2 months later the battery is lasting 3 days and half. This experience was the same with my ex-Satio and ex-5800, so I think we don't have to worry about Legend's battery!
The review also complain a little on screen resolution while we know that it's 320x480 on a 3.2'' surface while the iphone (which has a very good reputation for its screen rendering) is the same resolution on a larger surface 3.5'', so the Legend beat down the iphone all the way in this field. And yes HTC could have used the wide empty space under the screen for an additonal 0.2'' but they didn't
What the review doesn't say that's interesting is the ringtone volume
There are still some questions this Review doesn't answer:
- Will the Black version be released in April? (Better for scratches)
- What will be the capacity of the SD card?

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/0,...0.htm?s_cid=82

http://gizmodo.com/5488019/htc-legen...eels-expensive

http://www.slashgear.com/htc-legend-review-0876928/

Originally Posted by kkhalil76

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/0,...9305224,00.htm

http://gizmodo.com/5488019/htc-legen...eels-expensive

http://www.slashgear.com/htc-legend-review-0876928/

Great finds! Thanks!

I'm not sure if it's good or bad that nobody else mentioned the bluetooth/wifi issues that Tech Radar's review had. Either it was a one-off thing or the other reviewers didn't test those features.

Btw, that CNET review ticked me off. The reviewer sounded like an Apple fanboy with phrases like this:

Android is still clunkier and geekier than the iPhone operating system but, if you can't live without features like Flash support, the Legend is a fantastic alternative to Apple's handset.

Then I looked up another article that she wrote and it all makes sense.

Yep Apple bought tons of ''tech journalists'' since the Ipod and Iphone.
The only thing that I didn't like is that the paint can scratch easily, and no word yet about a coming release of the black edition,ok the Legend is ''Alu inside'' but I personally preffer the brushed metal of Hero over the ''cheap'' paint

I'm not so sure you guys are right about cnet's reviewer, if you've read a few more reviews and listened to the cnet podcast you'd know that she's a big fan of android.

It's not a bad thing that android is labeled geekier than the iphone, since the iphone is the dumb blond of the smartphone world, and that will always have more mass appeal

Originally Posted by kkhalil76

I'm not so sure you guys are right about cnet's reviewer, if you've read a few more reviews and listened to the cnet podcast you'd know that she's a big fan of android.

It's not a bad thing that android is labeled geekier than the iphone, since the iphone is the dumb blond of the smartphone world, and that will always have more mass appeal

You're right. It was probably unfair of me to label her as a fanboy since I don't know much about her. But it just seems unprofessional when you're reviewing a product and you make the effort to squeeze in little praises for the iPhone...

"...reminding us of the first-generation iPhone -- the most attractive version so far."

"...holding your finger on a page reveals a magnifying glass that helps you select and copy text, which is a handy feature cribbed from the iPhone."

"...the Android Market. It's not as well-organised as the iPhone's App Store,..."

Well, like it or not, and I personally don't, the iphone has provided a very slick user experience for the first time in the mobile world.

I don't like all its limitations and have no interest in buying any apple prodcuts, but there you have it. And that's why you almost can't read a single review without an iphone comparison, despite many reviewers missing the point that it's not an apples to apples comaprison, that if the apple offered what andriod does, it would also be 'geekier'.

I think Andoid's challenge is to move closer to looking like a dumb blond in terms of the user experience and everything working togetger seamlessly (including a music solution etc) but still offering the hardware variety and software freedom...

Review from Engadget.

This is the 2nd review that mentions the device's wifi reception issues
I wish they would have tested the bluetooth reception....