Smartphones like the HTC Wildfire S have already become integral parts of our lives. Losing your phone, or even leaving it at home for a day, can feel like losing a limb or – perhaps more accurately – a bionic implant. Most of us probably don’t want to wake up one day looking like Robocop though, awesome firepower aside, so it’s a good job the HTC Wildfire S is starting to make Android more human, rather than turning us into Androids.
How? By approaching its apps and features in a way that works more seamlessly with the way we live, that’s how. It’s all down to how HTC Sense works. It’s the custom software laid on top of the Android OS and what makes the HTC Wildfire S a little different from the rest of the pack.
One inbox to rule them all
Now that we all live such connected lives, it’s tricky to fit your social, work and family life into just the one email account. Most of us probably have an email account from many moons ago that too many old friends might one day drop a email into to let us ditch it altogether, or different accounts for different groups of friends. Keeping up-to-date with all of them can be a real pain. Not so with the pocket superhero HTC Wildfire S.
With HTC Sense packed into its petite aluminium unibody frame, the Wildfire S offers a unified email inbox that lets you skip through emails from all your favourite email accounts in one window. It’ll arrange them all chronologically as standard, so the only organisation you’ll have to do is the real-life stuff we’re all lumbered with – the actual social interaction bit.
Multiple social networks, one life
The Wildfire S pulls-off the same trick with social networks, aggregating all of your latest updates in the Friend Stream widget for easy reading on the phone’s home screens. It’ll pull-in status updates from both Facebook and Twitter and lay them out in a simple, easy-to-read and scroll-through stream. No more flicking between apps – the Wildfire S’s super-powers have that sorted for you already.
The Wildfire S can spit out updates like Superman on energy drinks too, letting you post simultaneously to multiple networks. Just remember which friends are on those social networks, mind. Crossing those Facebook and Twitter streams can be a dangerous game, depending on who follows you where.
Reach out, I’ll be there
In its email and social networking enhancements, the HTC Wildfire S acts like a helper – like an Alfred Pennyworth to your Bruce Wayne – but now and then it’ll need your help too. Like a pet, or an unfortunate human companion, you can call to the phone when it’s lost or missing.
The online part of the HTC Sense UI lets you call to the Wildfire S, should it be struck down by a Kryptonite meteorite or captured by a smartphone supervillain. This activates the GPS within the phone and locates it on within a PC or Mac browser window. This advanced part of the HTC Sense is, like the rest of HTC Sense, completely free-to-use too.
If the worst should happen and the forces of evil rip your Wildfire S from your clutches, HTC Sense also lets you wipe your phone remotely, stopping any of your info from getting into the wrong hands. Whether you keep the schematics of your secret lair on your Wildfire S, or just the embarrassing text poems you sent your other half, it’s all safe with this smartphone hero.
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