0HTC
Legend
Announced
16 February 2010
Weight
126 grams
Features
The HTC Legend was announced in 2010 at the Mobile World Congress show held in Barcelona. It was considered one of the most notable announcements at the show.
A successor to the HTC Hero, it had a very unique aluminium casing, which echoed the design language of Apple's MacBook products. Milled from a solid piece of metal, the casing offered structural integrity as well as an attractive finish. This design went on to be hugely popular on many future smartphones from multiple manufacturers.
HTC had to overcome considerable challenges with this approach, including how the antenna would function and how the battery, SIM and memory cards were inserted into the device. The solution was a removable plastic cover at the base of the device which revealed these elements and housed the antenna (see below). It also featured a 3.2 inch active-matrix OLED (AMOLED) display.
The Legend used HTC’s proprietary user interface, Sense which it had developed to work on top of the Android OS. The Legend saw the arrival of the latest version of Sense UI offering more integrated access to social networks. It also delivered improved navigation through a "leap" function that allowed a user to display thumbnails of all seven standby screens by using a pinch gesture on the home screen.
The Legend used HTC’s proprietary user interface, Sense which it had developed to work on top of the Android OS. The Legend saw the arrival of the latest version of Sense UI offering more integrated access to social networks. It also delivered improved navigation through a "leap" function that allowed a user to display thumbnails of all seven standby screens by using a pinch gesture on the home screen. 