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While everybody is crazy about iPhone and its features, some fans of Google are enjoying the Android new product, HTC Magic. The Taiwanese company, after it brought on on the market the first Android-powered phone, T-Mobile G1, now it is releasing the new HTC Magic. This products has a lots of upgrades, comparing to the previous versions. It has no physical keyboard, but it has an on-screen one, and this because of the Cupcake 1.5 update of Android. Its dimensions are very friendly, and 113x55x14 are very well designed in less than 120g.



HTC Magic has some considerable updates, and it is more functional than G1, and I would be curious to see if it will attract a market segment as big as the one possessed by iPhone. In the box, when you buy it, you get the phone, a USB charger and a headset (on USB too), a phone cover . All are white and I think it's good color option, because you can spot it easily on a full desk, but for people who like other colors, it would have been cool to find it in their favorite color too.The buttons have a slightly different position than on G1: the menu button is just above and to the left of the trackball, since it was at the base of the screen on G1, and now I can see a search button on the right, which is used by almost all applications installed on the phone.

Loosing the keyboard can be seen as an advantage, but in the same time as a disadvantage, because the on-screen keyboard might be difficult to use for some persons, but the space gained and the weight loss by removing the physical keyboard are considerable. The interface is user friendly, and what I liked very much, is that you have to draw a pattern to unlock it. I think this is very classy. You have direct access to Google services, and  the camera is very good on the photo field, while the video is not so high quality as I expected.



I observed that it doesn't have a 3.5 mm jack, so I couldn't listen to music with my headphones, but the ones from HTC are good too, though they are kind of small. The applications installed on the phone are interesting, though I found many of them useless, like the metal detector or the barcode reader. With everything turned off, the battery life is 660 hours, and with heavy usage it worked 24 hours. Maybe with a little less calling, streaming, download and usage, I think it would work easily 48 hours.

All in all, I think it is a good alternative for an iPhone, but the lack of a 3.5mm jack and the standard 3.2MP camera with no flash are the minus points I would give to this product.

On the other hand, HTC Touch is a good product also, and I would mention as a plus the WiFi connectivity and the camera, which is pretty good, but I am amazed that it doesn't have 3G support and that it doesn't have a QWERTY keypad. Both phones , HTC Magic and HTC Touch are cool, but a common "against" point would be the cameras, which aren't too good and I think that HTC Magic should solve the jack lack problem in the future versions.