Magic HTC, Android First in Indonesia

HTC took Telkomsel as the exclusive provider for Indonesia. Interestingly, the HTC does not lock Magic for Telkomsel numbers. This is good news for who want to maintain another provider number already owned, although the bonus of Telkomsel can not be enjoyed. But it was unfortunately too lho, spent bundles of prime simPATI eliminate PeDe 300MB per month for 6 months; valid until December 31, 2009! Especially if it included the first 500 customers, there is another bonus 8GB MicroSD.

Design
Magic inherited lower body curved like in the Dream. Just this lengkungannya smoother and more smoothly. Similarly, the use of a resistive touch screen and trackball navigation.

HTC put more buttons below the touch screen for Magic. Just below the screen lined the Home button (the houses), the menu button (MENU text), the Back button (the arrow curving to the left), and the Search button (magnifying glass image). Do not forget, there is a trackball in the middle. Beneath it there anymore Call button and Call End buttons (at the same time On-Off button).

Overall, his appearance looks simple. There's only port like a mini-USB-bottom and side volume keys on the left body. Then the camera on the back of the body.

Body size feels right held. HTC preparing 2 major chassis color options, namely white and black. Surface of the polished casing is elegant impression. But on the other side of the aesthetic rather disturbing because the surface is very easy to leave the former hands.

Touch screen and Home Screen
Like the iPhone 3G, touch screen input to the Magic must wear a finger. For HTC put a resistive touch screen. This is the reason for the disappearance of the stylus from the Magic.

If you've seen 3D home screen on the iPhone 3G, Samsung Ultra Touch, or the LG Renoir, then the Magic were there. When the screen "swiped" to the left or right, will appear a new home screen. By default, the home screen left empty, and the right home screen includes a Google Search bar.

Home The main screen contains a row of icons Games, TSEL Blog, Browsers and Mail on the bottom of the screen. Plus a big clock right in the middle of the side of the screen. However, it should be noted that this view home screen when using the SIM from Telkomsel. Normally, the home screen lined Dialer, Contacts, Browser and Mail. It seems there is a specific mechanism that identifies what the SIM installed, and Magic customize home screen.

Shortcut and widgets can be added or removed. To add, just push the menu button, push Add, and then push Shortcuts, Widgets or Folders. A more practical way is to open the main menu, push-hold icon to the main menu to close itself, then remove the icon is on home screen.

Oh yes, to bring the main menu, just push the arrow on the tabs at the bottom of the screen. Or string-pull tab toward the top. To remove from the home screen, push-hold for a moment appeared the picture icon to the trash can at the bottom of the screen, then drag the icon into the trash. A little note: as of this writing, signals have not found a way to rearrange the location of the home screen icon. Magic also has a virtual keyboard with predictive text. Can input Chinese characters, as well as handwriting.

Android Operating System
Android operating system is a newcomer to the mobile operating system arena. As believers in open source, like Linux, open wide the opportunity to create a lot of third-party applications support. Officially, the Android OS just bring Quickoffice and PDF Viewer to work and music for entertainment.

Though many called the superficial, signals do not find a bookmark or shortcut to the Android Market, aka online store for Android applications. In fact, would be interesting if HTC could provide these shortcuts.

Synchronization to a PC using Sync HTC. We can synchronize Outlook data and files between devices and PCs. Android OS can also use MS ActiveSync commonly used by Windows Mobile to synchronize with a PC.

Businessman can synchronize data with Microsoft Exchange servers. Setup is very easy to mail accounts and even the Magic supports multi-mailbox. Magic has the ability or 3.5 G WiFi. To browse, Magic brought the browser's own multi-window. When used to access the internet, it looks very nice, bright and sharp. Java script and animation on sites like Kompas.com can work well like in the computer.

Magic turned out to have a motion sensor. This looks like when we're looking at pictures; screen automatically changes orientation when body position changed from portrait to landscape and vice versa. Or we can feel when playing games Teeter. According to specifications, G-sensor can be used also for the digital compass. But this requires a third-party applications.

The sound of the speakers was just standard, with and middle (vocals) is strong. As for the headset, his voice louder and clearer, even though the bass tone is also not appear.

Camera
Camera without a mirror, let alone the light. By default, there is no shortcut to the camera. But with the ease of entering the home screen icon, we live display shortcut icon. To take pictures or record, live push 'trackball' alias small ball in the middle. The lens has autofocus so the resulting image is sharp, both macro and long distances. The results of the images in the room was also good, sharp with a uniform color variations (not pale).

Displacement between the image and video modes can be done from the menu. Just Click on the menu button to bring up the settings menu. The maximum resolution for photos is 3M (2016x1344) and video is a Large (352x288). Video can be recorded with the maximum recording length No limit. Audio for video recording can also choose to record or not.

SPECIFICATIONS: HTC Magic

Network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, WCDMA 900/2100 MHz
Form: Bar
Dimension: 113x56x14 mm
Weight: 116 grams
Battery: Li-Ion 1340 mAh 3.7 V
Standby time: average 3 days
Talk time: an average of 6 hours
Screen: 3.1 ", LCD, TFT, 320x480 pixel
Operating system: Android OS
Processor: Qualcomm MSM7200A, 528 MHz
Internal memory: 512MB ROM, 288MB RAM
Additional Memory: MicroSD
Connectivity between devices: data cable, Bluetooth, WLAN
Internet connectivity: GPRS / EDGE, HSDPA
Camera: 3.2 MP
Applications: Alarm Clock, Browser, Calculator, Calendar, Camcorder, Camera, Music, PDF viewer, QuickOffice, Teeter
Package Contents: Charger, data cable, headset, leather gloves, manual.