HTC Legend
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HTC Legend Overview
The HTC Hero packed a powerful punch itself, but now the manufacturer has upped the ante in specs, design and model name with that device's successor - the HTC Legend.
The Legend takes design queues from the HTC Hero with its curved chin, but in this go-round, it comes with a sleek and sturdy unibody frame topped with a brushed metallic finish. With the HTC Legend you'll definitely be travelling in style.
With a 3.2-inch screen, 5MP camera with auto-focus and flash, 3.5mm headset jack, optical trackpad, FM radio and a host of other features, the HTC Legend definitely stands its ground.
With HTC's custom Sense interace, you get a little extra bang for your buck. We're talking sexy graphics, useful and beautiful widgets, and handy extras like your ringer being silenced when your phone is placed face down or your ringer volume decreasing when you physically pick up your phone.
The HTC Legend is yet another shining star in the manufacter's lineup of Android phones and if your local carrier offers the Legend - it's definitely a viable purchase option.
HTC Legend Specs
| General | |
| Form Factor: | Candybar |
| AKA: | ? |
| Date Released (YYYY/MM/DD): | 2010/03/31 |
| Size | |
| Weight: | 126 grams (4.44 ounces) |
| Dimensions: | 4.41 x 2.22 x .45 (inches) 112 x 56.3 x 11.5 (mm) |
| Display | |
| Resolution: | 320x480 |
| Size: | 3.2-inch |
| Type: | AMOLED |
| Camera | |
| Video: | Yes |
| Flash: | LED |
| Auto-focus: | Yes |
| Megapixels: | 5MP |
| Connectivity | |
| GPS: | Yes |
| USB: | MicroUSB 2.0 |
| Bluetooth: | 2.1 with EDR, A2DP |
| Wi-Fi: | 802.11 b/g |
| HDMI: | |
| Multimedia | |
| Headset Jack: | 3.5mm |
| Radio: | FM |
| Battery | |
| Type: | 1300 mAh |
| Hardware/OS | |
| Operating System: | Android 2.1 |
| Internal Memory: | 512MB |
| External Memory: | MicroSD (Up to 32GB) |
| RAM: | 384MB |
| Processor: | 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 |
HTC Legend Reviews
CNET UK (9.2 out of 10) "The HTC Legend lives up to its name. It's fast, fun, and manages to be easy to use and full of potential at the same time. The HTC Desire, among other phones, offers a bigger screen, but the Legend's smaller size and lower price may prove more palatable to your pocket"
ElectricPig (5 out of 5) An amazing achievement by HTC, the Legend is without doubt this year's very best mobile
PocketNow (4 out of 5) HTC has learned a lot since the Hero. For the Legend they've dramatically improved the speed and functionality of their Sense interface and have taken design to a whole new level with a well-crafted aluminum chassis that is as sturdy as it is beautiful.
TracyAndMatt Overall the HTC Legend is as good as I thought it would be. It may not suit everyone due to its size but for those of you that have big hands then the HTC Desire will be with us soon. It seems to do everything very well and with great ease.
PhoneArena We are happy to say the HTC Legend is certainly not a victim of the sequel syndrome. Hard facts of life, you know. Traditionally, first episodes of acclaimed movie series tend to be the best, with sequels proving to be progressively worse. Fortunately, this is not the case with the HTC Legend and it’s more like “Batman: The Dark Knight” – better than the previous iterations.
MobileBurn "we at MobileBurn.com give the HTC Legend a "Highly Recommended" rating, as we'd happily use one of these fantastic handsets as our daily driver. We found it both fun and easy to use, as well as great for keeping track of email, SMS, and social networking, which makes it a great tool for organizing your life on-the-go."
GSMarena "So the HTC Legend certainly has a competitor or two for its place under the sun, but it looks well prepared to tackle them. With the Android platform expanding as rapidly as nothing else we have seen before, chances are there will be enough customers out there for it"
Gizmodo "It's not the best Android phone. That badge still belongs to the Nexus One, or possibly the Desire, when we review it. But it's one of the best all-rounders, when you consider the hardware—and the feeling you're left with once it leaves your hand. I feel bereft without it."
TechRadar (4.5 out of 5) "...as a standalone device, we get a really strong feeling this is going to be our phone of the year - and if not, 2010 is going to be a really, really good year for smartphones."
HTC Legend Videos
IntoMobile Discusses Legendary DesignDiscussion of the HTC Legend design, covering the aluminum unibody frame, design decisions made with that in mind as well as hardware tour.
Legend & Desire Hands-OnA look at the HTC Desire and HTC Legend. Here we see how the battery, SD card and SIM fits into this Legend unibody construction. There's also a look at the new Sense interface and the additional tweaks that have been done under the hood.
Legend at MWC 2010Coolsmartphone gives a 3 minute quickie at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Las Vegas.
HTC Gives Hands-On LegendEric Lin from HTC gives a hand-on demonstration of the Legend to Greg Kumparek of Mobile Crunch.
HTC Legend News
HTCDev Unlocks The Bootloaders For A Couple Of Oldies But Goodies – Hero, Legend, Eris, Mytouch 3G & 4G Make The Cut A few Android senior citizens have found themselves wander onto HTCDev’s list of officially supported devices. The HTC Hero, Legend, Droid Eris, MyTouch 3G and MyTouch 4G are the oldest, er– newest devices ripe for the unlocking using HTC’s handy dandy bootloader unlocking tool. Nice to see HTC throw a couple of oldies in there [...]
HTC Legend Getting Android 2.2 Today We just wondered whether or not yesterday’s maintenance upgrades for the HTC Legend and Wildfire were actually Pre-Froyo upgrades. It looks like that may just be the case. At least for the HTC Legend in Europe, HTC UK has confirmed that users will begin seeing the over the air update starting today – December 9th [...]
HTC Legend and Wildfire Get Maintenance Upgrades HTC’s released a pair of minor (and uninspiring) maintenance upgrades for their Legend and Wildfire. There’s no changelog to be had, but we’re hearing that the downloads aren’t really that big, and nothing noticeable has changed. Many are wondering if they are precursors for a forthcoming Froyo update, but there’s really no way to tell. [...]
HTC Legend Getting Android 2.2 “in the Coming Weeks” HTC’s keeping their promise of delivering Froyo to all of their phones launched in 2010 as they’ve just confirmed – via Facebook – that the upgrade to Android 2.2 for the HTC Legend is going well and should be ready for consumption in the coming weeks. Those with the OEM-branded Legend will get it first, [...]
HTC Legend Gets a New “Phantom Black” Paint Job Getting bored with the silver HTC Legend? One way to get a bit more excitement in your life would be to invest in a newer, more robust handset altogether, but if you are endeared the charm of one of the elder statesmen among HTC’s lineup of Android phones perhaps this new color scheme will satisfy [...]
Bell’s HTC Legend Already Hitting End of Life Due to Supply Constraints Oh, AMOLED, how you are single-handedly able to kill a product off because you can’t be produced fast enough truly amazes me. This time, the AMOLED-equipped HTC Legend for Bell in Canada is getting the axe due to “supply constraints”. While they didn’t offer up any details on what components are causing the constraints, we’d [...]
Desire, Legend, and Wildfire by HTC to Get Froyo Sometime in Q3 HTC’s gone on record to officially acknowledge that the HTC Desire, HTC Legend, and HTC Wildfire will be getting an upgrade to Android 2.2 sometime in Q3 of this year. Essentially, you could be surprised and see it released in two days, because that’s when Q3 starts. Realistically, it will probably be a few weeks [...]
HTC Delivering Froyo to the HTC Desire and Legend Within the Next Two Weeks? We knew Google was drumming up to a grand final release of Android 2.2 (codenamed Froyo) soon, but we only expected the update to rollout for Nexus One devices initially (or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that we’re most confident that the Nexus One will get it first). It seems HTC might be gearing [...]
HTC Legend Being Sold for North America Looks like options just continue to open up here in the states. If the USA-bound HTC Desire is too much phone for you, then you may want to opt for one of its smaller cousins – the HTC Legend – which is now being sold with AT&T’s 3G bands here in North America. This is [...]
HTC Legend Launched on Bell A few days ago, we anticipated that the HTC Legend would be headed to Bell very soon (on its rumored June 16th date) thanks to a Best Buy Canada Mobile listing of the phone. The date turned out to be true, as we expected: the HTC Legend is now available for Bell customers as of [...]
Best Buy Canada Showing HTC Legend For Bell Right ahead of the phone’s rumored June 16th launch date, Best Buy’s showing the device on their Canada Mobile site at $79.99 (3-year agreement) and $399.99 (off-contract). It looks to be an in-store only item, but we’re not sure if pre-ordering is an option. In any case, call or head into your Best Buy to [...]
HTC Legend Launches on Virgin Mobile Canada Today Those crazy canucks at Mobile Syrup have caught wind that the HTC Legend is out today, June 11th, on Virgin Mobile in Canada, just as the we had suspected. This means that the Bell subsidiary gets the phone just a few days before its parent company. The plan is for Bell to start retailing the Legend [...]
HTC Legend Launching on Bell June 16th? New Pricing Details A couple of weeks ago, we learned Bell could be launching the HTC Legend on June 11th. While that date still has yet to arrive, MobileSyrup is now suggesting that the phone will actually be launching June 16th. Their information comes to us courtesy of another internal document that had this to say: The HTC [...]
Does the HTC Legend Screen Have Poor Grayscale Reproduction? After some reports of issues with grayscale representation on the AMOLED screen used for the HTC Legend, Tweakers decided to run some tests to determine if there was in fact an issue with the display. Their results showed that across two separate Legends, grayscale was represented as a combination of black, white, and other colors. [...]
HTC Legend Headed to Virgin Canada, Too We’ve known for a little while now that Bell would be getting the HTC Legend (it should be launching right around June 11th) but we are now learning that the Legend will be available from Bell-owned Virgin Mobile as well. An inventory screenshot dug up by those friendly Canadians at Mobile Syrup shows the device [...]
Bell Saves June 11th As The Date For The HTC Legend We recently learned Bell might be holding a launch party for the HTC Legend on May 27th in Montreal. While we didn’t have an actual launch date for the phone, we’d hoped its launch would follow shortly after. That isn’t the case, but at least we can throw a solid date at you: Bell will [...]
Launch Party For HTC Legend On Bell Happening May 27th in Montreal, QC It appears Bell will definitely be receiving the HTC Legend. Rumors a few days back suggested Bell would be getting the phone this summer, and now BGR has been tipped by an insider that Bell will be holding a launch party in Montreal, Quebec on May 27th. There’s still no release information – nor is [...]
Bell Set To Launch The HTC Legend? Canadian carrier Bell isn’t new to the Android game, anymore, with them receiving their first Android phone some months back, but now they’re ready to up the ante and keep the devices rolling. The latest rumor comes out of MobileSyrup, who’s been tipped that the HTC Legend will make its way to Bell sometime this [...]
AT&T Or The 3 Major Canadian Carriers Might Get An HTC Legend Soon More confirmation comes our way via the FCC, and this time HTC has another device headed to North America. Engadget uncovered a filing for a new version of the HTC Legend with 850/1900 WCDMA data bands (ie, AT&T and most Canadian carriers). It’s probable we’ll see it headed to Telus, Rogers, or Bell before we [...]
European HTC Legend To Receive Fix For Missing Apps Users have reportedly been having problems seeing apps in the market for some time now. Specifically, users of the HTC Desire and HTC Legend overseas have been unable to see certain apps (such as Twidroid, amongst others), however the Legend’s problem seems to differ from what Desire users suffer from. The problem – which seems [...]
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