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“Not a patch on the Desire!!”

written by alialiali on 10/11/2011

First of all I will go into a short explanation of how I came about owning the wildfire. I had the HTC Desire on contract and whilst it did have little niggles that annoyed me I was overall very impressed with the phone. However, my 2 year old daughter + a bath full of water + a poor insurance policy on the phone = a very dead HTC Desire and no cover to get a new one. With another 9 months to go before my contract was due for an upgrade I was having a little look around for a cheapish new phone that still had a good range of features. I saw a few reviews on the wildfire that said it was a good little phone for the price so off I toddled and bought one.
So first things first, the good points. I bought this phone for £150 in the pink colourway. I like the colour, it's not too in your face pink but has a nice girly touch to it. Right, so I think that's the good points out of the way!
The bad points. Where do I start? I knew this wouldn't be as good as the Desire as it's much cheaper (Desire is 500+ this was 360 unless bought as part of a sim deal, although I strongly suspect that wasn't the "true" selling price of the phone as it is most definitely NOT worth that amount of money!) However, this phone is dire. It has a major lag on EVERYTHING! On phone calls the touch screen doesn't respond to hanging up so i press it repeatedly, which results in it hanging up, ringing them back, hanging up again...while it catches up with what I have pressed. Thinking that was just silly, I then tried only pressing once to hang up and letting it catch up, which a full 2 minutes later it still hadn't done anything so I pressed it again only for it to hang up and call back as it finally registered both touches to the screen. Not cool. Which brings me to the main bugbear of this phone; the touch screen is diabolical. I have to press everything numerous times for it to pick up I have asked it to do anything. This happens on everything, trying to open messages, apps, the lot. It's very annoying. It also has it's bigger brother's issue upon opening texts, you can tap whatever message you want to but don't be at all surprised if it opens one that was nowhere near the one you touched. Also, if you reply to someone don't assume it will go to the person you replied to, they have a habit of zooming their way to anyone they fancy in your messages. Can lead to some awkward and embarassing situations! The camera, when you eventually get it to registeer you are asking it to take a photo that is, takes poor qulaity blurry images too. My signal is also very poor on this phone, I have been with o2 for many years and always found it to be one of the best regarding signal coverage, but this one loses it regularly. I just really do not like this phone, and am not happy I am stuck with it until July when I can upgrade but I don't have the money to spend out on another one now unforunately. Personally, I would avoid this phone like the plague, it's not much cop for anything to be honest!