HTC Status Review
By Ruben Corbo on November 1st, 2011
The QWERTY keyboard is the return of an old friend. The keyboard is smooth, easy to use and makes extensive typing on the handset all the more pleasant. The phone’s design is compact, fitting comfortably in the palm of your hand. If anything, this is a phone for the more avid texter. It is 4.5 inches long, 2.5 inches wide and 0.42 inches thick. The build is of excellent quality, which you can feel from the instant you pick up the phone. The phone fits comfortable when making a call, with a curve in the middle of the phone to enhance call making comfort.
So whilst the keyboard is the highlight of the phone, its big negative is its comparatively small screen size. For a 2011 phone the screen leaves much to be desired. It is feasible to believe that the reduced size of the screen was necessary for the sizable keyboard and to retain the phones compact form. The screen has a meagre resolution of 480x320. It is touch screen, which is pretty responsive, but with the QWERTY keyboard this isn’t as needed as much as a larger screen is.
The phone comes with the latest edition of Android Gingerbread, 2.3. This comes with the standard improvements over the interface, optimisation and performance. Also, a few neat additions to apps are included, such as the ability to access the front facing camera through the camera app. Its brevity of features equal that of any other HTC phone currently on the market. Its size certainly doesn’t restrict it in this sense – it comes with everything you’d expect from a modern day smart phone, including Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi and portable hot-spot capability for up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices.
The phone has 512MB internal memory with a preinstalled SD card of 2GB. However, this can be upgraded to an SD card of 32GB. The phone also boasts an impressive performing 5-megapixel camera. The camera has auto-focus features to allow for clear, sharp pictures that perform well under different lightings. The call quality on the phone leaves nothing to complain about – it is as clear as you’d hope from a modern day smart phone.
