HTC Panda - the mistake

Exterior

Judging the exterior is something really subjective, that’s why I don’t like to make statements of great importance regarding this aspect of the tested device. Anyway I can say one thing for sure about the Panda: one can say lots of things about it, except that it’s elegant. Instead it is large, almost in an awkwardly manner, at least if we compare it to the devices following current trends. Because of this it seems as if it would be a many years old phone, it belongs more to those phones in style too, which is of course not a problem. It weighs exactly 200 grams, its size is 129.7 x 69.8 x 18.8 mm.

So the display is 3.5” wide, its resolution is 240 x 320 pixels. In my opinion a VGA resolution would be due to such a size, the number of pixels seems a bit low. As a result picture quality is not very good, although it’s sure that it is readable. Thanks to the large body of the device, we can’t really say that the display dominates the front, which feeling is even more emphasized by the small shortcut buttons, two of which are above the display, surrounding the small size, medium-quality speaker. Of course there are buttons under the display too, which are as tiny as their companions from above. The d-pad is circle-shaped, it can be handled without any problems, just like all the others – or at least by those who have a small hand.

The most prominent part of the back cover is the silver circle surrounding the 2 megapixel, fixed-focus camera. The detachable part has the same design, its surface is reticular. The cover is of plastic at all parts of the phone; the designers used the harder, bit slippery type – so much about elegancy.

On top, between the sizeable power button and the infra port, we can find the memory card slot. It uses standard SD cards, which is something very positive, since with the help of an adapter we can use a micro, as well as a miniSD card. The holder of the stylus is in the top right corner; the size of the stylus, compared to the size of the handset, is ridiculously small – if the phone is as large as it is, they could have included a large, comfortable pen with it.

There is not much of a squash on the right side of the device, only the built-in loudspeaker and the exposure button of the camera are placed here.

There aren’t many more things on the bottom either: HTC ExtUSB connector, microphone and reset-gap. On the left only the shortcut button of the sound recorder and the volume slider have been placed.

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