HTC Magic User Review
HTC Magic
The HTC Magic was the first phone I had on review and it quite simply blew me away. I have played around a bit with the iPhone so I had a good competitor to compare it to!
The first thing I noticed was the elegant design and sleek look of the phone. HTC have taken the simple looking HTC Dream and packed all it goodness into a smaller phone. Put simply I was very excited to get started with it.
Much like the Dream the Magic has your active desktop with the ability to flick between 3 desktops allowing you to group shortcuts together to suit different “lifestyles”. This includes the ability to add the GMail, YouTube, GTalk and Google Maps icon to the standby screen so that you can easily access your favourite Google applications.
Now for those who don’t know, the HTC Dream is running on the Android system which is Google’s mobile OS. It has really taken the mobile market by storm because of it’s Open Source heritage and with the ability for developers to create apllications quickly and easily.
Back to the phone. The Magic does not have much on the Dream in terms of functionality. In fact, the Dream has most of the functionality the Magic except for 1 thing. As this is not the first phone from HTC that has the Android OS they decided to take it a step further and offer Exchange Active Sync. This means that HTC are now not only offering a OS phone but also extending on it’s functionality with propriety apps like Active Sync.
The phone is really great, messaging is a dream with the threaded messages which allows you to read and respond to an sms without every changing screens. The on-screen keyboard did take a while to get used to though and was very irritating in the beginning which had me pressing characters I didn’t want to. However once you get used to it is a real dream to type with.
Just like the Dream the biggest flaw of the Magic is the lack of a flash with the camera. The camera is really great but there is no way you can get a good shot in bad lighting with out one. A phone that comes bundled with so many multimedia applications like YouTube and GMail having a great capturing device is a must.
The phone is great though and by the sounds of it we can expect a whole lot more from HTC this year.
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