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Should i buy HTC wildfire s?

by Feb 19, 2013 3:03PM PST

Hey all. I have been thinking about buying HTC wildfire S. I have seen it's specs, liked some of them. My concerns are its battery life and slow processor. Is it worth buying now or should i wait for better phones like Galaxy Y S6102?
Or if there are any better phones in that price group advice me. Thanks Happy

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space for the htc
by Feb 24, 2013 11:39PM PST

The first smartphone that I ever got was the htc wildfire s, I took it back within a week, due to it not having enough internal space for a smartphone. I had to constantly remove apps. It takes great pics. Went to the samsung mesmerize and I love it. A lot of internal space, never have a problem with having apps on the mesmerize.

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by lursmani Feb 25, 2013 7:50PM PST

can't you move the apps to SD card? I had galaxy y and it had only 190mb memory, but I had 7-8 pages of giant apps in it. I had them on the card.

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So a new battery every few years is an issue?
by Forum moderator Feb 19, 2013 11:42PM PST

I looked and see the usual 300 cycle battery so that means a life span of about 2 years. Many smart phones use these so to choose a phone on the life span of the battery is very odd. Maybe you don't like charging it daily but didn't write that.

Bob

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by lursmani Feb 20, 2013 12:32AM PST

Yeah my current phone has 12.30 hours talk time on 2g. That phone has 2x less. Sometimes i need to use my phone all day so I need battery to survive that.

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TALK TIME!
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 20, 2013 12:38AM PST

Most smart phones are fitted with a minimal size battery due to cost and a market that has placed value on thin or weight over function.

My older HTC One had that battery time issue which was easy to cure with a huge after market battery. I could get days of talk time out of it. But it was over double the thickness and weight after the upgrade.

Most smart phones will never come with long battery times or talk times as the costs prohibit such. My add on battery and case ran over 100 so imagine how many they would sell at the store? Probably none since most folk are going with looks, name or thin. Many are fixated on price as well.
Bob

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by planky123 Feb 20, 2013 2:49AM PST

i had a wildfire, whilst it was good i now have a samsung galaxy ace and its far better, with its dual core processor

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The old problem - BATTERY LIFE!
by Feb 22, 2013 5:21PM PST

This is my main bugbear as well with smartphones. My tip is, whatever phone you have, just spend another 10/20 quid on a spare battery. Instant doubling of phone battery life Happy. Also, it stops the habit that I have of overcharging batteries.

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