Review: HTC Aria
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The standard Android Web browser on the HTC Aria worked very well for most tasks. Our own phonescoop.com homepage looked picture perfect, and pages like CNN and the New York Times looked great in their full desktop versions. The Aria can't handle Flash, and it won't be powerful enough for a proper Flash 10.1 upgrade down the line, but for everything else, the browser rendered accurate pages with images that looked sharp.
Navigating pages was also smooth and easy thanks to the highly responsive touchscreen. Long pages would glide by at the slightest touch. Pinch to zoom gestures worked equally well.
It has recently been discovered that HTC Sense devices like the Aria save thumbnail images of your bookmarks in a hidden folder on the microSD card. These images are not erased in a factory wipe of the device, though formatting the card should clean them out. This shouldn't possess a problem for most people, but if you want to be extra secure with your bookmark list, be sure to erase the card before you pass the phone along.
Customize
The main home screen panels on the HTC Aria are almost infinitely customizable. You can change wallpapers, shortcuts, widgets and more. To help rearrange things quickly, HTC offers Scenes, which lets you save your custom home screen layouts and swap between your custom sets and a few preset options. Deeper into the phone, there is less to change; you can't adjust the color scheme or the main application drawer layout. There are plenty of settings that you can tweak, from custom ringtones for individuals or groups to the style of the onscreen keyboard. Android allows fairly deep access to the system, so there are plenty of third party options available from the App Market to customize the phone even further.
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