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       HTC LEGEND REVIEW
       By: eba95 Date: August 4, 2010, 11:13 am
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       have never been impressed by
       Android, particularly the UI, so I
       wasn ’t looking forward to receiving
       the HTC Legend for review. But this
       thing runs HTC Sense, and I have
       high hopes that it would be able to
       tuck away some of Android ’s own UI
       deficiency.
       First the hardware. The Legend
       features an incredibly sleek
       aluminium unibody design. This
       gives it a  highly desirable and
       premium look, but it also makes it a
       very slippery phone. There are some
       rubber on the backside, but they are
       on the wrong sides. The front is
       dominated by a gorgeous 3.2 ″ HVGA
       (320×480) AMOLED capacitive
       touchscreen display. It is equally as
       good as my Walkman X-series DAP.
       While the screen works amazing
       indoor, it is for all intent and
       purpose utterly useless during sunny
       days.
       Below the screen are a couple of
       hardware keys. These includes Home
       (self explanatory), Menu (assessing
       the menu), backspace (return to
       previous screen) and a magnifying
       glass for bringing up the quick
       search box. Below the row of keys is
       the optical joystick shaped like a tiny
       ball. While it duplicates the functions
       of a traditional d-pad or optical
       trackpad, I can ’t say I enjoyed using
       it due to its sensitivity and its
       location very near the bottom.
       The left side features a volume
       rocker. After years of getting used to
       the volume keys being on the right
       side, it did take some getting used
       to, but it isn ’t a huge issue. The right
       side on the other hand is bare. The
       power key and 3.5mm headphone
       socket resides on the top. The
       bottom house the micro USB
       charging/sync slot, microphone and
       lanyard loop. Finally the backside
       features the 5 megapixel auto-focus
       camera and a single LED bulb for
       flash duties. The loudspeaker sits on
       the left side of the camera module.
       Accessing the battery, sim card slot
       and microSD card slot requires you
       the pry out the rubber plastic hatch.
       Removing the hatch will expose a
       flap that when flipped will give you
       access to the 1300 mAh battery, sim
       card slot and microSD. microSD cards
       are unfortunately not hot-swappable
       as the battery will merely slide out if
       you try. Overall the build quality is
       excellent with nary a flex or creak
       when squeezing it.
       Booting up the HTC Legend reveals
       HTC Sense running on top of Android
       2.1. Sense is a very pretty and quick
       UI, though it gets tedious after a
       while. I also can ’t say I like the small
       icons that much, which makes it
       harder to select especially those with
       big fat thumbs. Widgets are easily
       accessible by swiping around either
       through the screen or the optical
       joystick.
       There are two hugely annoying bit
       about the HTC Legend ’s software
       (and I suspect all HTC Android
       phones with capacitive screens).
       First the screen is just too sensitive. I
       can ’t remember the number of times
       during the past one week that the OS
       would misinterperate an accidental
       skin contact for something else, thus
       ruining what I was doing. Second,
       the screen vibration feedback only
       works on the virtual keyboard and
       nothing else.
       The Legend has surprisingly good
       audio quality. While it isn ’t no where
       near my Walkman or even some
       mid-end Nokia phones, it is a
       massive improvement over my last
       HTC device (Artemis) – which often
       sounded like a cheap MP3 player you
       get at market stalls. The Legend on
       the other hand sounds excellent via
       my Sennheiser IE 8, with good
       neutral mids though it does suffer
       from bass drop-offs. Overall, the
       Legend is competent enough to be a
       ‘ backup player’. The same can’t be
       said about the bundled headphones
       which is pretty awful sounding, so
       make sure you invest in
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