15
Jul
2009
HTC Magic. Boxing unclever
Being a keen boxer… wait, that’s not true.
Being a keen boxing fan… wait, that’s a lie as well.
Being the kind of occasional boxing match watcher who can name at least three boxers other than Mike Tyson and Frank Bruno (that’s better), we know the danger of the old one-two. The first punch that weakens you up, then the second one coming in and knocking you out. And we fear that, as lovely as the HTC Magic is, there’s two things that really wind us up. And fair enough, as you’ll see, these things aren’t that major, more lightweight than heavyweight, but being punched twice is never pleasant whoever’s doing in the punching.
First though, don’t get us wrong: the HTC Magic is a far from bad phone. In fact, being the best currently available option for those of you who want Google’s magnificent Android OS, it’s a very decent phone indeed. With it’s v1.5 of Android, it’s light weight, thin body, GPS, G-sensor and all that jazz, it’s more than decent (read this HTC Magic Review for a full spec-attack).
But, keep your chin up, because here’s the first fist on its way: there’s no 3.5mm jack socket. Come on, HTC! Is it really that hard to stick one of these little holes in the thing? Do you not think that most people these days are wanting to use their phones as their music players rather than carrying around another mobile device… Anyway, too late to worry about that, here’s the second fist: kaboom, and it’s the miniscule tap on the jaw of only 512MB of internal memory. 512MB! COME ON, HTC, were you high? The Samsung i7500 (which, fair enough, isn’t out yet) is packing 8GB. And we’re not even going to mention the iPhone….
So there we have it. You may still be standing, you may even not give jot about those two things, but for us, we’re sore. Have a little look at the HTC Official page if you want to go some more rounds with the Magic.
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