The lovely Lucy from Snippetsofshinythoughts has recently bought the HTC Wildfire on Three and has agreed to write a guest post for us on your thoughts. So sit back, relax and have a read of what fashion-lover Lucy thinks of the new HTC on Three…

I have never had a new and cool phone in my life, as if it’s cool to be different (read adverse to technology) But all has changed! I’ve finally got myself a phone where I can do the things that I really should be able to do on the move.

My interests lie in Fashion and I run a blog, so I need to be on twitter for free and need to be able to be notified each time I get an email. I need a big, clear screen to view net pages and I need to be able to text quickly because that’s my main means of communication. Luckily I’ve chosen a phone that not only does that very well but, thank goodness, looks stylish doing it!

The Wildfire boasts a sleek shape (I really wasn’t keen on the earlier legend), has minimal buttons and has a stylish, modern colour scheme. (Not to mention the essential little hole to hang my phone charms. ahem.)

Apart from having to re-learn how to text on a flat surface, remember those days?!, I find the messaging style greatly convenient. You can see all your communications with different people so you won’t forget what you’ve said and there’s no faffing with outbox emptying. Another cool trick is tipping the phone on its side to widen the keyboard so fat fingers can be happy!

Ok, what about the more techy things? The Wildfire allows me to scroll sideways to view my emails, weather, rss feeds, messages and bookmarks. There couldn’t be a much easier way of getting information. From the main page I can access Twitter with a touch as well as other apps which I can get on the Android market.

Starting up the phone was made a breeze too *sigh of relief.* I could Bluetooth all my contacts from old phone to new and if you accessed a tool on the HTC site, your contacts were automatically linked to Facebook and Twitter accounts. The Wildfire features a scrolling button at the bottom but I don’t think to use it. Maybe some people find it useful but for me it’s pointless really.

So downfalls, hmm well there are very few. I still haven’t worked out if I can link my emails to the main hotmail system so that if I view or delete an email at home, it will update that info on my phone. Maybe there’s no way of doing this, in which case that’s terribly annoying. I’ve also had a little difficulty in setting the default phone number for my favourite contacts, but again its probably me.

I’m afraid I don’t get more technical than that, by why would I need to? It does everything I need very easily and I am kindly informed of every touch I make with a gentle and rather comforting vibration. I have as much signal as my old providers and my 3mobile plan is very good value.

So if you’re like me and are only just waking up from real-world-hibernation and are not really sure what phone to get, I would recommend this baby. Dubbed as the ‘cooler version of the iPhone’, but ‘quietly brilliant’, you can’t go wrong.

Lucy Nicholls
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