HTC is back with yet another affordable smartphone, the Wildfire E Plus

HTC is no longer a major player in the smartphone industry, but the Taiwanese company continues to launch new products once a few months. It was back in July that we reported about HTC’s newest device, the A101, a lackluster Android tablet that was initially introduced in South Africa.

Continuing on the same path, HTC introduced today another cheap device (via GizmoChina), the Wildfire E Plus. You don’t even have to look at the phone’s specs to guess that this is an entry-level handset. The Wildfire brand has always been reserved for its most inexpensive phones.

Although there’s nothing wrong with launching a cheap smartphone, it’s weird to have it released in Russia. Even if the Wildfire E Plus will be making it to other countries very soon, the decision to initially introduce it in Russia is baffling.

In any case, Russian customers can pick this one up for the equivalent of $130, but if HTC brings the Wildfire E Plus to other European countries, it will probably be priced at around €130. This one will only be available in Black, at least in Russia.

As far as specs go, the Wildfire E Plus is a completely unremarkable device. The phone is equipped with an quad-core MediaTek MT6739 processor, coupled with 2GB RAM and 32GB internal memory (expandable via microSD).

The entry-level phone sports a rather massive 6.5-inch LCD HD+ display with 60Hz refresh rate, a standard 13-megapixel main camera, paired with a 5-megapixel macro snapper. There’s also a secondary 5-megapixel sensor in the front for selfies, and a side-mounted fingerprint scanner for some extra security.

Last but not least, the affordable HTC Wildfire E Plus is powered by a really large 5,150 mAh battery with 10W charging support, and totally unsurprising, it ships with Android 12 Go Edition as it should.