The HTC Explorer offers Smart Dial to make looking up contacts faster and easier along with other impressive touch screen methods for quicker access to your phone. The handset also provides a camera and great connectivity.

The phone has a lockscreen as with its counterparts such as the HTC Rhyme, while also offering you the ability to access you emails, contacts, camera and messages without having to fully unlock the screen. This simple feature provides you with faster access to these applications as you require them. The homes screen also focuses on the most used features, and provides push notifications for new messages, emails and more. The overall interface is both intuitive and very clean, allowing you to easily move around and find what you want to do quickly.

The handset additionally provides Smart Dial which prioritizes your most recent calls alongside your contacts and allows you to type a first or last name, or imply the initials of contacts and lists the relevant numbers, ready for you to call. It also offers impressive group text messaging, by allowing you to group contacts more easily and send one message to them all form one screen. As with other handsets from HTC, you have Friend Stream which combines all of your contacts latest social networking information alongside their name, number and other details, as well as offering their latest networking updates onscreen when they call you. This allows the conversation to begin before you even answer the phone.

The Explorer provides other impressive features also including a 3 megapixel colour camera and a gallery application for you to view your photos in. There is also an application for your music alongside an FM radio for live news and music. A total space of 512 megabytes is offered respectively for storage, while the handset is supported by 512 megabytes of random access memory (RAM) and a 600 megahertz clock speed processor. Connectivity to share your media includes Bluetooth 3.0, file transfer protocol and others for file and music sharing along with standard microUSB. There is also an internal GPS antenna supporting location based services available and full support for social networking where you can share photos and more with friends easily.

The HTC Explorer is yet another slim and small handset from this manufacturer which offers great simplicity through its intuitive interface overlapping the fast Android operating system running. As per usual, it also offers a unique set of features which provide the perfect solutions for a selection of smartphone users.