The Legend Succeeds The Hero

HTC has announced a few new handsets during Mobile World Congress. As the event is now a wrap I can finally get down to putting some thoughts into what has occurred.

HTC announced the Legend, which is basically the successor to the popular Hero. Many have been eager to see whether HTC can actually improve on the success of the Hero, no mean feat as it stands. The Hero has won many awards during it's tenure as THE must have HTC Android handset in 2009.

From the look of things the Legend is a more clean cut and minimalist handset than the Hero was. There are less buttons for instance on the front, actually there seem to be none at first glance, with the exception of the optical trackpad. Those buttons seem to be replaced with software buttons which when looked at closely are there, just not physically. There are little updates and upgrades from the Hero which sets the Legend apart, but other than these few changes there really isn't much difference in these two handsets.



Taking a closer look at the differences;

• The processor on the Legend has been bumped up to 600Mhz in comparison to the Hero's 528Mhz.
• There is more RAM on the Legend, 384MB in comparison to the Hero's 288MB.
• Although the screens are the same size physically and with the same resolution (HVGA 3.2inch 320x480) the Legend sports an AMOLED screen instead of the TFT LCD screen found on the Hero.
• The Legend will come with Android 2.1 pre-installed. HTC have confirmed the Hero will get the 2.1 update also. So there isn't anything to shout about there.
• The Legend comes with a 5 Megapixel camera but also with an LED flash, how this performs will have to be investigated.
• The Legend loses the ExtUSB port that is found on the Hero and goes for the more conventional (and cost effective) standard Micro-USB.
• Gone is the chin (not entirely) the Hero had, and is replaced with a unibody design handset with curves and sleekness which looks very Apple Macbook-esque.

Perhaps they should have called this the Desire? (That's another post) check out the video below to see what I mean:



So it looks like the Legend is promising to be a pretty decent handset, probably a very good successor to the Hero. But will it live up to the hype?

More information can be found on the HTC Legend product page with mote in-depth features and specs.

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