HTC Explorer Review
18.05.12
The HTC Explorer A310e arrived in India this September, and yes we’ve wasted no time in grabbing our hands on a unit of this highly-anticipated smartphone for review. If you must really ask us why, well, it’s not every day that you get to feast upon a budget-friendly HTC smartphone in a rather alluring design. Precisely, the Explorer carries on its shoulders the massive responsibility of convincing mobile phone users to venture into HTC’s very affordable smartphone terrain. So has it done a good job at that? Read on.
Design
The HTC Explorer box we received packed in no more than a charger and the device in question. At first glance, the handset looks like any other HTC smartphone, including the matte-finished rear with the thick metallic strip inscribed HTC running below the camera lens. The front is a glossy 3.2″ touchscreen with familiar touch sensitive buttons running along the bottom. Being bright and vibrant, the screen’s only flipside is its warm welcome to fingerprints and smudges. The phone bears a compact lightweight profile, reading at 102.8mm x 57.2mm x 12.9mm and weighing a mere 108gms. Sitting well in the palm, we loved the grip added by the non-slip backside. A 3.5mm headphone jack and power of/on button are affixed along the top edge. Running down the right rim are the volume tweak buttons while the left border is lined with a standard micro-USB port.
Source: TechShout!