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HTC Wildfire E6 Star

HTC Wildfire E6 Star

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SKU: 4003
Brand: HTC
Category: Mobiles
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RAM: 2GB
Storage: 32GB
Display: TFT LCD
Camera: 5MP
OS: Android 13 (Go edition)

Our Rating

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4.5

Display 5 / 10
Camera 3 / 10
Performance 5 / 10
Battery 5 / 10

PROS

TFT LCD Display

CONS

3000 mAh
No NFC
5 MP Camera

The HTC Wildfire E6 Star brings an ultra-affordable, entry-level option to the South African mobile landscape. Positioned squarely in the budget tier, it offers essential smartphone functionality at a price point that makes it highly accessible as a reliable daily driver, a secondary backup phone, or a first device for younger students.

Here is what you need to know about its local pricing, key features, and where you can buy it.

South African Pricing & Availability

The HTC Wildfire E6 Star starts from an incredibly low ZAR 700.

Please keep in mind that pricing can vary slightly depending on specific retail promotions, seasonal stock levels, and your exact location within South Africa.

Where to Buy

HTC has tapped into a massive retail distribution network across South Africa, ensuring you can purchase the Wildfire E6 Star online or at almost any major shopping center:

E-Commerce & Online Stores: Takealot, Hi Online
Retail & Grocery Outlets: PEP, Ackermans, Mr Price, Makro, Game, Foschini
Electronics & Cellular Specialists: Cellucity, HiFi Corp, 4U
Mobile Network Providers: MTN, Chatz Connect

Standout Features

While keeping the price exceptionally low, the HTC Wildfire E6 Star focuses on delivering the absolute essentials for daily digital communication:

Pocket-Friendly Design: It features a compact and lightweight build, making it highly pocketable and easy to use with one hand compared to today’s massive flagship devices.
All-Day Essential Battery: Equipped with a power-efficient processor and optimized software, the battery is tuned to easily get you through a full day of standard calling, texting, and WhatsApp use.
Android Go Edition: The phone runs on a streamlined version of Android designed specifically for entry-level hardware. This means pre-installed apps take up less storage space, consume less data, and run smoothly without bogging down the phone.
Reliable Connectivity: It covers all the essential wireless channels, giving you steady cellular reception, reliable Wi-Fi connections at home or work, and Bluetooth for pairing with wireless earphones.
Expandable Storage: If you find yourself running out of space for photos, music, or incoming WhatsApp media, the phone features a dedicated microSD card slot to easily expand your storage on a budget.

Full Specifications

General

Brand	HTC
Model	HTC Wildfire E6 Star
Announced	10 June, 2025
Released	24 July, 2025
Status	Available
Price	ZAR 700

Design

Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones.	Bar
Colors	Black

Network

2G Network
3G Network
4G Network
5G Network
SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages.	Nano-SIM + Nano-SIM

Display

Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor)	TFT LCD
Size	6.56 inches, 103.9 cm2
Resolution	720 x 1600 pixels, 20:9 ratio (~267 ppi density)

Media

Audio Playback
Video Playback
FM Radio	Unspecified
Ring Tones
Loudspeaker

Camera

Main Camera Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality.	5 MP
Video	Yes
Selfie Camera	5 MP
Video	Yes

Software

Android 13 (Go edition)

Hardware

RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices.	2GB
Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored.	32GB
Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras.	microSDXC
Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device.	Accelerometer

Connectivity

Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless communications technology for exchanging data between mobile phones, headsets, computers and other network devices over short distances without wires, Bluetooth technology was primarily designed to support simple wireless networking of personal consumer devices.	Yes
Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world.	Yes
Wi-fi Hotspot
USB	USB Type-C
Positioning GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky.	Unspecified
NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches.

Battery

3000 mAh

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Display: Screen size, image quality (brightness, colors, contrast, etc), visibility in sun light, angles of view and touchscreen.

6
Camera: Usability of Camera interface, image and video quality in different light conditions and environment.

5
Performance: Is this device perform good while watching videos, playing games, taking snapshots, browsing internet and navigate through other applications?

5
Battery: What about battery life, while calling, listening music, watching videos, playing games and doing other tasks.

6
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