As any good magician knows, one of the main tricks to master is that of making things disappear. And, as if by some kind of sorcery (or perhaps through the work of some research and development spods, along with the help of some phone technicians – either way) the HTC Magic has made the physical keyboard of its predecessor the G1 disappear. And, as you might expect, the Magic is all the slimmer, fitter and healthier because of it. That G1 keyboard was taking up a fair bit of room, and adding more than its fair share of grams to the package, and we’re all for this bit of disappearing.
However, what HTC seemed to have done is cast too powerful a spell, because there’s some other things missing from this thing too. And, though we might be stretching the metaphor just a wee bit, because the G1 didn’t have the things that are missing from the HTC Magic either (but look into our eyes, straight into our eyes, not around the eyes, into the eyes: the metaphor is good, stick with it), we don’t care and neither do you. So what else is missing? Well, first up is: a whole bag full of memory seems to have been sent into the top hat of doom to spend the rest of its days with an underfed rabbit. Because at 512MB of internal memory (and yes, we know, you can expand that, but we hate those silly little cards) we nearly snorted our daily breakfast magic elixir smoothie through our noses. And no sooner had we wiped ourselves down than we find out that there’s not even a 3.5mm jack on the thing. So, not only do HTC not want you to listen to, well, any media, they also don’t you to store any either. Not very smart for a smartphone, if you ask us.
But don’t let us conjure too negative an image here. The Magic (HTC Official page here for those who like that kind of thing) is a thoroughly fantastic phone in most other departments, and, well: GOOGLE ANDROID, WOOOOO! Have a little look at this HTC Magic Review for a less magical, more practical rundown of all it has to offer.
