HTC Wildfire ->> A 5 megapixel snapper

A 5 megapixel snapper

HTC Wildfire has a 5 megapixel camera for a maximum image resolution of 2592 x 1936 pixels and a LED flash. At least on paper, the Wildfire seems just as capable in terms of still imaging as the high-end HTC Desire.

Thanks to Android 2.1 the Wildfire has a camera interface that is competitive outside the Google OS world. There are a number of customizable settings ranging from ISO speed to aspect ratio and auto focus.

We are yet to see modern-day features such as face, smile and blink detection for example, but the gap is closing.

  

HTC Wildfire camera interface

Unfortunately, the usability is still pretty bad with most of the options sitting on a retractable tray at the left side of the viewfinder which can either be dragged out by a finger sweep or by pressing the menu key.

You get a shortcut for activating the flash and exposure compensation around the viewfinder but that’s pretty much that. The only other shortcut leads to the gallery and that hardly help much with the photography itself.

We can’t quite comment on the HTC Wildfire image quality. Our unit has a major camera defect. It’s most likely a faulty lens ruining the entire left side of scenes.

Interestingly though, it doesn’t affect macro shots – in close focus the bad part of the lens is not used. Anyway, judging by the macro shots and the usable part of images – colors are way off. To an extent that we can’t even imagine this ever passing quality control. We’re obviously out of luck here – it’s simply a faulty unit and we’ll try and update this review shortly.

Here go the samples for you to check out.

HTC Wildfire camera samples

 

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