It has been described as a "Mini HTC Desire", and is perceived to be a follow-up model to the previous year's Tattoo.

[4] The Telstra branded HTC Wildfire is a special version supporting 850 MHz/2100 MHz UMTS, with the model number A3335.

It has a 6.2" 720×1560 display, 3300 mAh non-replaceable battery, dual-SIM, microSD-expandable storage, and 12-Megapixel rear camera video recording with 1080p at 30fps.

[10] A leaked build of Android 2.2 and 2.2.1 subsequently surfaced from China and Europe respectively, but with limited language support.

On the morning of 20 December 2010, the 2.2 update was released as a modified build of the HTC Glacier's code.