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HTC Magic Google G2 mobile phone (White) (Vodaphone - Unlocked)

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Buy New: Â£315.00
as of 8/9/2010 23:15 BST details

Seller: just-what-i-need

Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.5 x 2.2 x 4.5

Model: 9903275
EAN: 5900334000828

Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

Customer Reviews:
5 out of 5 stars

No Stylus, Only Android July 19, 2009
Dr Stephen Marcus Ogley (Yorkshire, England)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

I've been hearing the word 'Android' a lot over the past few months. Not because i've been watching some 70's science fiction movie, but because people have been discussing the new mobile operating system Android. It seems that Taiwanese company HTC has decided to ditch the Windows Mobile 6.1 for a bit and stick Android in their newest handsets instead, in this case it's the HTC Magic.

The result is nothing short of fantastic in user friendliness, customization and personalization. Google has upgraded its Android operating system to 1.5, known as the 'Cupcake', and this makes the 3.2 inch 320x480 pixel touch-screen experience much better. The touch-screen is a capacitive screen that senses electrons from your finger tips allowing you to lightly stroke the screen rather than press down as on a resistive screen.

The home screen is made up of three sections and accessing them is as simple as using your finger to literally 'pull' the next screen into view, rather like closing a window blind only sideways if that makes sense. This means you have bags of room to play with your widgets. Sounds a bit rude but your phone is now like a Windows desktop where you can place application short-cuts and icons and widgets such as digital clocks, working battery indicators, talking analogue clocks and sticky note pads anywhere you like. Just touch, and hold, then drag it away and pop it down somewhere else, or take it off the screen and drop it in a virtual dustbin.

The ever-growing Android Market is a place where you can download literally thousands of free applications for your phone. Some are as useful as a chocolate teapot and some are very useful such as battery indicators with percentage readings, a spirit level which uses the accelerometers in your phone to move a virtual bubble and give you a very accurate reading of a surface, maps, alarm clocks, a working compass, dictionaries, and some are just absolute fun such as turning your mobile into a Star Trek tricorder using the sensors in your phone for the readings, jungle animal sound-bites, Transformer sounds, George W Bush sound-bites, and my favorite, the Android Lightsaber that turns your phone into the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Move your phone and it hums like a lightsaber. It even turns the screen a neon red or blue or purple if you're Mace Windu, and power up and down sounds are included. It's all nonsense really but it's Star Wars so it sort of gets away with it.

The camera is 3.2 mega pixels and it takes pretty good pictures for me. It has auto focus but no flash. If you want cracking pictures, buy a camera. You get a 2GB card to support the very sad 192MB of included RAM. The handset can support up to 8GB so that's plenty of room to store your stuff that you'll undoubtably download.

The phone is buttonless almost apart from a BlackBerry style rollerball, send and end keys, a back key, a menu key, a home key, volume rocker and a magnifying glass key which brings up a Google search box. The keypad is on-screen and there is a virtual keyboard which i find unresponsive sometimes and a bit on the small side for fast texting. Turning the phone horizontally makes the screen roomier and the keyboard slightly bigger but my spacebar key is very unresponsive in this position.

There is no 3.5mm headset port, only HTC's own headphones can be used which sound terrible and feel uncomfortable. Still, i use an iPod for music with my own quality cans and would never really use the HTC with a headset. Bluetooth is of course included as is Wi-Fi and mini USB.

I have very little to complain about with the HTC Magic, apart from the virtual keyboard, and it's one of the best phones i've ever used, and i've used literally hundreds. I have the Nokia N97 and it blows that out of the water in many ways, despite the fact that the Nokia has an actual keyboard built in, and it's useless. The HTC is premium quality with a shiny white finish which thankfully doesn't show the fingerprints too much. Remember too that this phone uses no stylus for input so don't go looking for it in the box coz there ain't none!

Android is the best mobile platform i've used EVER and i'll never look back at Symbian again now i've looked forward. With much more Android on the horizon it's gonna be hard to ever look back again.

5 out of 5 stars

The magical HTC Magic June 1, 2010
A. Knox (Nottingham England)
Having spent many years assiduously refusing to use anything more technical than a handset which sends and recieves calls and texts, I realised the time had come to move on. I chose this phone because I liked the name. . . it is as good a basis as any in my case. The HTC Magic is really easy to use, has more "apps" than I could ever want, and feels nice in the hand. My one criticism is the volume control which is easily accidentally activated due to its position, but it is small irritation and does not detract from my overall pleasure of using the phone. For a very low tech person, this phone has been a revelation and a joy to use. I have even bought it a little jacket to protect it. I LOVE IT!

5 out of 5 stars

Magic phone December 17, 2009
serete (united kingdom)
Great phone, it looks good and the colour is quite durable so it is not going to wear off like many of the tinny mobile phones in the market. It has a bright touchscreen user interface, touchscreen keyboard may need getting used to and the headphones have proprietory HTC socket so an adaptor will be required if you want to use 3.5 mm headphones.
The camera is so,so but to be honest photo quality is not what i look for in a phone. The best part about this device is the flexibility to install applications of the android market and customise your handset, the only gotcha is that you will love this phone so much that the battery will really be worked, alos be juidicous in you application settings, apps that use gps and are left running will drain your battery quicker. It probably now has some good price plans as there are newer android phones emerging in the market so a good deal could be had from you mobile operator. It is a fun device and if you are into tinkering and developing your own applications this is probably one of the beest platforms to be on outside of the iphone, interestingly a'lot of iphone applications are now getting android compatible versions. The 3G capability makes it a very good multimedia viewer and i have even converted it to a tethered USB 3G card. What can i say you will be a like a kid in a sweetshop whether using the basic out of the box functions or adding your own look and feel.

4 out of 5 stars

This is my first ever Smart Phone August 26, 2009
K. Odell
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Unlike all the other reviews you'll find of this phone, I am unable to compare it to an iPhone because I have never had an iPhone. Nor have I had an earlier Android-based phone or even a Blackberry. I did have a Palm Pilot a few years ago, so that is my only point of reference.

So! I can tell you that this phone works very well. It does what I want it to do with two limitations, both founded in my earlier experience with Palm: it doesn't synch to your desktop and it's harder to input information.

The Palm Pilot has a desktop application to facilitate synching. However, I use Google Mail, Calendar, Reader, etc., so most of my synching is over the Internet and that means I don't HAVE to dock to a particular desktop. All my info is in ... well, whereever it is out there on some server.

You have to go through a short procedure to access the device from your desktop, but it's fairly easy and all you have to do is copy and paste the files you want. I use iTunes to subscribe to my podcasts, download them to a folder in My Documents, and then copy and paste them into my device. Not elegant, but not difficult.

If you want to edit spreadsheets and Word documents, you will have to buy an app for that. It's only a few pounds, but it's not free.

Inputting information via the touchscreen may be difficult for people who are either used to a Blackberry-style keyboard or using a stylus. I happened to love using the stylus on the Palm, and I'm sad that it's no longer an option. However, the screen on the Magic is not pressure-sensitive. It responds to the electricity in your fingertip. So, a stylus wouldn't do anything to it. This is good in the sense that I can put it in my pocket with no worries.

But, yeah, the touch screen keyboard is not easy to master. Turning the device sideways prompts a switch to landscape view, which makes the keyboard bigger, but not that much bigger. Since the screen is smaller than an iPhone or iPod Touch, that means the keyboard is also smaller. Just a warning.

There is one final fly in my ointment, and I hope that it won't be there for long: there are far fewer apps available compared to iPhone. Don't get me wrong: there are many more than you're ever going to actually need. But, I am currently wracked with jealousy because I have friends who can access things like Catholic devotions, the Missals of several liturgical rites, all sorts of books, etc. If you have a particular field of interest, you may be sad to see friends with dozens of apps on their iPhones that you can't have. I do hope that that will change as more people develop for the Android OS.

4 out of 5 stars

Almost everything it's cracked up to be July 10, 2009
G. J. Owen (Cleethorpes)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful

I was eager to buy this phone as I have been happily using Sony Ericsson's P910i for over 5 years (having owned the P800 & P900 before it).
The G2 is very similar in dimensions, just a bit thinner and lighter than the P910 but with a fantastic screen, better camera and Wifi. Those were the features I had wanted to upgrade to.

However - and this is so wrong that I couldn't get to grips with it - it can't do Bluetooth file transfers! That's right, if a friend wants to send you a picture/ringtone/whatever, you can NOT receive it!

Whereas the P910 can do Word documents and spreadsheets, that will cost you extra on the G2.
No Flash support, minimal video playing capabilities and a distorted camera (slight 'fish-eye' effect on close-ups) with no light make you wonder what went wrong.

The lack of proper headphone socket and USB connection (both use the same wierd connector that I can't find a match for anywhere) start making the chice to buy this phone feel like a mistake.

The screen has a coupe of slight scratches already, something my P910 has never managed...

My summary? I should have stayed with a phone that is over 5 years old - it has more everyday functionality and can be replaced for Â£100. The G2 is better than an iPhone but I can see it being outclassed very soon... HTC Hero maybe?

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