HTC Trophy Review
By Ruben Corbo on November 1st, 2011
The phone is 4.67 inches tall, 2.42 inches wide and 0.47 inches thick. Weighing 4.94 ounces, the phone falls into the middle bracket between a heavy phone and one that makes active attempts to be lighter. It is not overburdened with anything you don’t need and is able to retain a happy medium appeal that does its job well. The screens resolution is at a decent 480x800. It is clear and sharp, offering vibrant colorful displays. However, as with all phones that fall below the retina display qualification, the picture is susceptible to sunlight. This also means that fingerprint marks are all the more obvious and its reflective surface can make it hard to see properly with bright lighting.
The touch screen onscreen keyboard is one of the phone’s best features. It is responsive and clear, on the same level of the iPhone.
The Trophy is a quad-band world phone, offering all the trimmings that come with it. It comes ready with GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support. It is important to note, however, that it is not compatible with 3G bands in North America. In this guise it is a phone that is geared towards the international markets.
All the in-house applications are equal to that of any Windows 7 smart phone. In terms of social-networking, it can currently pull data from Facebook only. HTC have also included apps for sound enhancing and photo enhancing.
The performance of the phone is on level with the market competition. It has a 1GHz processor which delivers comfortable speeds and smooth operation. The phone comes geared with 8GB of internal memory. However, unlike other HTC phones, there is no room for expandable memory. The phone’s call quality is suitable and remains clear throughout – keeping in line with the usual consistent call quality of HTC phones.
The Trophy uses a 5-megapixel camera that is capable of recording in 720p video. As previously mentioned, there are editing tools inbuilt onto the phone to allow you to enhance your pictures. Though the picture quality can at times have a grainy overlay, overall it is of a decent quality.
