The HTC Explorer is the newest Android smartphone from HTC. HTC state that the Explorer is their most affordable smartphone coming in at the £150 mark it’s currently their least expensive (current) model.
The explorer is certainly small, a few millimetres shorter than the Wildfire and a little thinner than the Wildfire S whilst retaining the same 3.2″ HVGA screen size. Not surprisingly, the HTC Explorer doesn’t have the same aluminium construction as its more expensive counterparts, but instead has a rubberised back and edges that looks like an additional case around it.
There is a price to pay for the reduced cost of the HTC Explorer, the CPU is a somewhat limited 600MHz and available storage is just 90MB so you’ll be reaching for a MicroSD card pretty quickly. That said, as you can see in the benchmark in the video below, the Explorer seems to run at a reasonable pace and benefits from HTC Sense 3.5
Full review coming soon but for now here’s the unboxing and demo video.
HTC Explorer specification:
- 2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- 3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 2100
- Dimensions: 102.8 x 57.2 x 12.9 mm
- Weight: 108 g
- Screen: TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colours, 320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches (~180 ppi pixel density)
- HTC Sense UI 3.5
- 3.5mm jack
- microSD, up to 32GB
- Memory: 90 MB storage, 512 MB ROM, 512 MB RAM
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
- Bluetooth: v3.0 with A2DP, EDR
- microUSB v2.0
- Camera: 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, check quality
- Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread)
- Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7225A
- CPU: 600 MHz Cortex A5
- Accelerometer
- Proximity sensor
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- GPS with A-GPS support
- Standard battery, Li-Ion 1230 mAh
Posted by: Matt
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