The Aria’s phone features include quad-band world roaming, a speakerphone, speed dial, smart dialing, voice commands, conference calling, and text and multimedia messaging. The phone also has Bluetooth 2.1 with support for stereo Bluetooth, but as a limitation of Android 2.1, you can’t voice dial over Bluetooth. This device is a 3G networking phone and has Wi-Fi. With the Aria, you can stream multimedia content over 3G and Wi-Fi. It supports a number of file types, including MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, OGG, WMV, MP4, and 3GP, among others.

Carriers: HTC	Retail Price: $349.99
Manufactured by: AT&T Wireless	Contact Price: $149.99

Pros: It’s small, sleek, and it has that sexy look sitting in the palm of your hand. The HTC Aria is fully equipped with Android 2.1., making this one hell of a phone. The 5 – meagpixel camera snaps shots quickly and has amazing focus. The GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-fi work awesome with the 3G networks that AT&T has to offer.

Cons: This phone is pretty tiny, so you must know that the screen is small too, along with the keys. Smaller display equals smaller keypad. There is absolutely no flash for the camera, so all those perfect night time moments you will miss. I really hate that you can’t install non-market apps.

At first look you can tell that this device you can tell it hasn’t been caught up in the smartphone movement of “the bigger the better”, this little guy is just perfectly made so. You can see the Android-infused HD Mini with a few chrome accents and a reworked button panel. It is about the same size as the HTC Ledgend, maybe a tad bit shorter and without the chin. This phone is definitely more pocket friendly then most of the smartphones we see today. Measuring 4.1- x 2.3- x 0.46-inches and weighing 3.8 ounces this baby is light and small. I am in love with the back of this phone, it keeps away fingerprints while also sliding in and out of pockets easily. The screen’s display is really glossy, maybe a bit too much when taken into the sunlight it – a 480 x 320 resolution capacitive touchpanel. There are four other buttons — home menu, back, and search, the very basic traditional Android buttons. The back of the phone is completely taken over by the battery cover, which soft sleek sexy color we’ve come to love so very much. The 5-megapixel camera – that comes with no flash, instead there is room for a speaker – is also here along with four screws, which after a bit of tweaking will let you see the yellow interior. The Aria sports a 1200mAh battery. The good news is that because it’s not powering a huge screen, it should last you a little longer than, say, the battery on the Evo 4G. The bad news is that something is still chewing through the battery faster than we’d like. There are no buttons on the right side, but there is a volume rocker on the left. There’s also a power button and 3.5mm headphone jack on top and a Micro-USB port on bottom. The camera is located on the back, while the microSD and SIM card slots are behind the battery door. AT&T packages the HTC Aria with an AC adapter, a USB cable, a 2GB microSD card, a wired stereo headset, and reference material.

Call quality was above average, on both ends everyone seemed to have crystal clear reception. There were no problems with speakerphone or adding in a bluetooth to this mix. 3G network coverage was superb, websites loading within seconds. With Adobe Flash Lite support, YouTube clips played back with no problem. The Aria is equipped with a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM 7227 processor, and the smartphone ran like a well-oiled machine. The HTC Aria ships with a 1,300mAh lithium ion battery that has a rated talk time of 6 hours and up to 15.5 days of standby time. It’s safe to say that we love the idea of HTC-built Sense overlay on top of Android 2.1, Having seven home panels – compared to just five, a dedicated phone button at the bottom and an array of gorgeous widgets to choose from are real boons, and it’s easy to miss these little things when using a stock Android build. If you buy the Aria, you’re buying a phone that strictly blocks a major avenue for installing apps.The other side to having AT&T’s hands in all of this is that you’ll find AT&T FamilyMap, AT&T Hot Spots, AT&T Maps, AT&T Navigator and MobiTV pre-installed, though you’ll have to pony up extra per month to indulge in some of those. The integrated 5 megapixel autofocus camera is fairly quick to focus and snap, and the image quality certainly isn’t half bad for a “mid-range” phone; the VGA camcorder was also a welcome addition, and we like it a lot. If you have AT&T and you’re out on your contract and you’re just jonesing for a Google powered phone then you should consider this because it really does surpass the Backflip. It is really well designed and worth your time.

Forget the size, the HTC Aria is a well-stocked smartphone. The handset runs on Android 2.1 with the HTC Sense user experience, but HTC has not announced plans for an Android 2.2 Froyo upgrade for the Aria yet. With the Aria, of course you get the usual Android staples such as Gmail, Google Talk, Google Maps Navigation, a dedicated YouTube app, and QuickOffice. Which are very handy to the average person on-the-go. Hey even AT&T throw their hands into adding apps onto this phone such as AT&T Navigator, Yellow Pages Mobile, AT&T Radio, AT&T Family Map, and MobiTV. he Aria’s phone features include quad-band world roaming, a speakerphone, speed dial, smart dialing, voice commands, conference calling, and text and multimedia messaging. The phone also has Bluetooth 2.1 with support for stereo Bluetooth, but as a limitation of Android 2.1, you can’t voice dial over Bluetooth. This device is a 3G networking phone and has Wi-Fi. With the Aria, you can stream multimedia content over 3G and Wi-Fi. It supports a number of file types, including MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, OGG, WMV, MP4, and 3GP, among others. It also has an FM radio. Is the Aria the phone for you?