The HTC Legend is a phone manufactured by HTC Corporation in Taiwan for the Android platform. It was unveiled by HTC during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 16 February 2010 and went on sale on 31 March 2010.
The Legend is the successor to the HTC Hero and is slimmer and smaller than its predecessor. It has a 3.2 inch active-matrix OLED (AMOLED) display.
The Legend's body is made from one block of aluminium. It has a removable battery, which slides out from a compartment at the bottom of the phone. The back of the battery casing holds the phone's antenna so that its metal body does not hinder signal strength, as in an iPhone 4 (see "death grip").
Vodafone will sell the handset in Europe, wary of losing out after missing the iPhone in some of the company's key European markets. Vodafone also claimed exclusivity rights for the handset and will be the only network provider in the UK and Australia to sell the phone.
In North America, it was first offered by Virgin Mobile Canada and Bell.
In Malaysia, the HTC Legend debuted on 3 major operators DiGi, Maxis and Celcom.
At its release, the unit shipped with Android 2.1 (codename Éclair). Starting November 2010, there was a
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