HTC Desire Z (A7272) Specifications
Product Features:
| 3G: Yes | Wifi: Yes | Camera: 5 MP with flash |
| Display: 3.7 inches | Touch: Yes, Capacitive | Memory Card: upto 32 GB |
| Music Player: Yes | OS: Android | FM Radio: Yes |
Product Review:
- Aluminium chassis
- Responsive UI
- Android 2.2 with Wi-Fi hotspot
- Decent enough camera
- Both physical and onscreen keyboards work well
- The S-LCD screen is average (in terms of contrast, reflectiveness and sunlight legibility)
- Non hot-swappable memory card
- No front facing camera
- Loose hinge
Quick Specifications
See Full Specifications- General:
- Android, v2.3.3
- Qwerty
- Display:
- Touch (Capacitive)
- 3.7 inches
- 480 x 800 pixels
- Camera:
- 5 MP
- AutoFocus
- Flash
- 720p HD Video Recording
- Technical:
- 1.5 GB Inbuilt Memory
- Memory Card Support, upto 32 GB
- 512 MB RAM
- 800 MHz Processor
- Connectivity:
- 3G
- WiFi with hotspot
- Bluetooth
- GPS
- DLNA
- Extra:
- Music Player
- Video Player
- FM Radio
- 3.5 mm Headphone
Advantages
Display In Groups| General | |
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Has A Qwerty Keypad
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Qwerty keypad allows you to type faster. |
| Display | |
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Has A Responsive Touch Screen
Capacitive, MultiTouch
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Touch Displays offer a more interactive experience. |
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Sharp Screen
~ 252 ppi
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Images, videos will look amazing on this sharp and clear screen. Text will be easier to read. |
| Camera | |
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Has Camera
5 MP with AutoFocus
(Average: 6.06 MP)
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Has a camera for taking photos. |
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Has Flash For Camera
LED
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Having a camera flash allows you to take photos in low light. |
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Supports HD Video Recording
720p
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You can record videos of beautiful moments, sceneries and watch them later. |
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Supports Memory Card
upto 32 GB
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Memory cards give your device more storage capacity. So you can store more songs, photos and videos. |
| Connectivity | |
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Supports 3G
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3G Enabled Handsets give you more download speed and a faster internet experience. |
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Faster Download Speed
14.4 Mbps
(Average: 17 Mbps)
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Faster Download Speed means stream videos at real time. |
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Supports WiFi
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You can connect to wifi hotspots in your area to experience a superior internet experience. |
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Supports WiFi Hotspot
Wifi Tethering
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Allows you to use your mobile internet connection on your wifi enabled laptop. |
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Supports Bluetooth v2.1
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Bluetooth enables you to wirelessly listen to music and calls using bluetooth headsets. |
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Supports GPS
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GPS is used for determining your location. You can get directions to a place with the help of GPS. |
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Supports DLNA
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DLNA standard enables easy sharing of music, photos, and videos over wifi. You can stream video from your DLNA phone to your DLNA TV via WiFi. |
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Has A 3.5mm Headphone Jack
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Having 3.5mm Jack enables you to connect to large number of other devices (such as speakers) having 3.5mm Port. |
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Has Accelerometer
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Detects motion as well as the orientation of a device (horizontally or vertically). |
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Has Compass
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Determines direction facing relative to North, East, West and South. |
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Supports Video Player
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Watch your favourite video songs and movies in video player. It supports MPEG4, WMV, 3GP, 3G2 file types. |
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Supports Music Player
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Listen to your favourite songs in music player. It supports MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, M4A (Apple lossless), AMR, OGG, MIDI etc. file types. |
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Supports FM Radio
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Listen to your favourite radio stations on your phone. Enjoy music on the go with FM Radio. |
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Long Battery Standby Time
17.9 days
(Average: 20.7 days)
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With long battery standby time, mobile phone battery can last more days without charging in idle condition. |
Disadvantages
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Thick
14.2 mm
(Average: 10.9 mm)
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Slider phones are generally thick. |
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Heavy Weight
180 g
(Average: 232 g)
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Holding Heavy weight mobiles for long time will make your arms tired. |
| Display | |
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Doesn't Use OLED Display
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OLED Displays have faster response times, better viewing angles, improved contrast and consume less bettery power. |
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Relatively Smaller Screen
3.7 inches
(Average: 5.11 inches)
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It has relatively smaller screen than other phones in this price range. You can get better. |
| Camera | |
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No Front Camera
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Front Camera enables you to take your own photos and do videocalling (on supported phones). |
| Technical | |
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Limited Storage Capacity
1.5 GB
(Average: 16.1 GB)
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Considering this phone's level of use, it has less amount of memory to store songs, videos, photos and applications. |
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Fewer Processing Cores
1 Core
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More cores result in better parallelism, meaning more tasks can be processed in parallel without slowing down the User Interface. |
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Slower CPU
800 MHz
(Average: 1.1 GHz)
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Slower CPU has trouble in running graphics rich applications. |
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Relatively Small RAM
512 MB
(Average: 816.3 MB)
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It has relatively smaller RAM than the other phones in this price range. You can get more RAM than this. |
| Connectivity | |
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Can't Output To TV
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You can't connect your smartphone to a TV. |
| Extra | |
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Doesn't Have A Gyroscope
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Gyroscope Determines orientation and rotation and provides more accurate 3D motion tracking than an accelerometer. |
| Battery | |
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Short Battery Talk Time
9.8 hours
(Average: 9.5 hours)
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With short battery talk time, you won't be able to talk continously on the phone for a long period of time without charging. |
Full Specifications
Report An Error| General | |
| Sim Type: | GSM |
| Dual Sim: | No |
| Device Type: | Smartphone |
| Release Date: | September, 2010 |
| Design | |
| Dimensions: | 119 x 60.4 x 14.2 mm |
| Weight: | 180 g |
| Form Factor: | Slider |
| Qwerty: | Yes |
| Display | |
| Type: | Color S-LCD screen, 16M colors |
| Touch: | Yes, Capacitive with Multitouch |
| Size: | 3.7 inches, 480 x 800 pixels |
| Memory | |
| Phonebook: | Unlimited |
| Internal: | 1.5 GB inbuilt, 512 MB RAM |
| Card Slot: | Yes, upto 32 GB |
| Connectivity | |
| GPRS: | Yes |
| EDGE: | Yes |
| 3G: | Yes, 14.4 Mbps Download, 5.76 Mbps Upload |
| Wifi: | Yes, with wifi-hotspot |
| Bluetooth: | Yes, v2.1 |
| USB: | Yes, microUSB v2.0 |
| USB Features: | USB Tethering, USB Charging, Mass Storage |
| Extra | |
| GPS: | Yes, with A-GPS Support |
| Sensors: | Accelerometer, Compass |
| 3.5mm Headphone Jack: | Yes |
| Extra: | DLNA |
| Camera | |
| Camera: | Yes, 5 MP with autofocus |
| Features: | Geo tagging |
| Video Recording: | Yes, 720p |
| Flash: | 1 Flash |
| Front Camera: | No |
| Technical | |
| OS: | Android, v2.3.3 |
| CPU: | 800 MHz Processor |
| Browser: | Yes, supports HTML |
| Multimedia | |
| Supports: | MMS, Instant Messanging, Voice Recording, Calendar, YouTube Player |
| Email: | Yes |
| Music: | MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, M4A (Apple lossless), AMR, OGG, MIDI |
| Video: | MPEG4, WMV, 3GP, 3G2 |
| FM Radio: | Yes |
| Social Networking: | Facebook, Twitter |
| Battery | |
| Size: | 1300 mAH, Li-ion Battery |
| Standby time: | 430 hours, 430 hours on 3G |
| Talk time: | 590 minutes, 400 minutes on 3G |
Its been over a year since HTC gave us a QWERTY messenger. But they still have it in them obviously. The Desire Z is a solid smartphone package with premium finish and a keyboard to be proud of.
There are plenty of smart messengers out there, but only two of them enjoy Android Froyo the Motorola MILESTONE 2 and the Samsung Galaxy 551. read more →
- Quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G support
- 14.4 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA
- 3.7" 16M-color capacitive S-LCD touchscreen of WVGA resolution (480x 800 pixel)
- Android OS v2.2 Froyo with HTC Sense UI
- Comfortable 4-row QWERTY keyboard
- The S-LCD screen is average (in terms of contrast, reflectiveness and sunlight legibility)
- Non hot-swappable memory card
- No front facing camera
- Loose hinge
- Quite heavy at 180 g
We've already given the hardware plenty of love in our G2 review, but let us reiterate here that HTC's yet again done a very good job with crafting the Desire Z into a solid and professional piece of kit. Even after days of playing with the device, we're still impressed by the cunningness of the z-hinge -- despite its minor flaws -- that significantly improves the typing experience. Given the choice, we'd probably choose the Sense-laden Desire Z over the G2 for the added value without sacrificing much performance and battery life, although HTC will need to have a look at some of the aforementioned software bugs. read more →
- Improved Sense UI and new HTC apps
- Cunning engineering with good build quality
- QWERTY keyboard feels good
- Hinge problems could annoy some
- Poor night time camcorder performance
- HTCSense.com still buggy
Whether you like the HTC Desire Z or not is will depend on your love for a physical keyboard. If you want one desperately and love Android with a fiery passion, then the Desire Z is for you.
However, if you can take it or leave it, we'd suggest you look elsewhere. While the Android 2.2 OS works well and plays nicely within the phone, you're carrying round a rather substantial amount of extra heft with the Desire Z. read more →
- Aluminium chassis
- Responsive UI
- Android 2.2 with Wi-Fi hotspot
- Decent enough camera
- Both physical and onscreen keyboards work well
- Screen wobbles in closed mode
- Hinge seems suspect
- Battery not terrible but could have been bigger
- No e-book reader, unlike Desire HD
The HTC Desire Z is one of the only two handsets so far with the new version of Sense UI, and deserved our attention, even just for that. HTC didn't stop here to make it stand out in the Android crowd, however, and added a physical keyboard with clever, if somewhat pointless, Z-hinge mechanism. Wrapped around in brushed aluminum, with soft-touch coating where needed, the HTC Desire Z is certainly a looker - a rather heavy one, however. read more →
- New HTC Sense with cloud services and offline navigation
- Powerful 2nd generation Snapdragon chipset
- Attractive design and solid build
- Generous 1.5GB ROM storage for apps
- Heavy
- Physical keys’ spacing and travel could be better
- Poor choice of shooting modes
- The earspeaker and loudspeaker could be stronger
There aren't many choices for those who need a high-end Android device with a QWERTY, so it's a good thing the Desire Z is more than competent in terms of features and usability of its keypad. Aside from the Motorola Milestone, there has not been any QWERTY-enabled Android devices in Asia Pacific catering to the high-end market. The Desire Z should fill that gap nicely, with its greatest competitor being the upcoming Motorola Milestone 2. read more →
- Good landscape-oriented QWERTY keypad
- nice aluminum finish
- comes with latest HTC Sense addons
- good performance.
- One-day battery life
- heavy
- touch-sensitive shortcut keys
- no front-facing camera.
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