The HTC Desire Overview
The HTC Desire is basically an enhanced Nexus One, which makes it possibly the most advanced phone available. It adds an optical trackpad in place of the Nexus One’s trackball, plus HTC’s excellent Sense user interface. Ergonomically, the HTC Desire just slips naturally into the hand with its all-round soft curves, on paper it’s slightly larger than the Nexus One but in real-life this isn’t noticeable.
The HTC Desire has a fantastic 3.7 inch widescreen, AMOLED display, delivering 720x480 pixels resolution. Arguably crisper and clearer than any other display on the market, it delivers touchscreen responsiveness definitely in the ballpark of the iPhone and, moreover, it is fast. The combination of Android 2.1 sitting above a Snapdragon CPU clocked at 1GHz with 512Mb of RAM and ROM really does enable you to zap through opening up applications and then moving between them.
Its multimedia credentials, are quietly competent rather than superb - such as the 5 megapixel, autofocus camera with LED flash and its 32GB memory card capacity. Where the Desire really impresses, though, is in what could be called its charisma, if it could walk into a crowded room, heads would most definitely turn. Its Teflon-coated back and sides are simultaneously rubbery and tough yet soft and almost sensuous, a strangely compelling tactile experience.
Launch Date: 1st March 2010
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The HTC Desire Review
The HTC Desire is currently the mobile phone that everyone seems to want and with good reason. The HTC Desire is HTC’s flagship touch screen Smartphone and runs the latest version of the now famous and highly regarded Android Operating System, Android 2.1.
Following Google’s latest attempt to get in to the mobile phone market HTC, who were employed by Google to manufacturer their latest phone, the Google Nexus One, HTC themselves decided to launch their very own supped up version of the Nexus One.
One of the main differences between the HTC Desire and the Google Nexus One is that the HTC Desire has HTC’s Track Pad rather than the Nexus’s Track Ball. Track Pads are typically more durable and coupled to HTC’s Sense user interface this really is a huge big improvement over the Nexus.
The HTC Desire is without a doubt a beautiful mobile phone with its soft curves and the most noticeably the 3.7 inch AMOLED 720px by 480px screen. The responsiveness of the touch interface is spectacular as well due to the Snapdragon 1GHz CPU and 512Mb of RAM.
The HTC Desire obviously has all the things we have come to expect from a high end phone including a 5MP Camera with flash, Memory Card slot, Quad band antennae, Hands free loudspeaker, Bluetooth, GPS, FM radio and Wi-Fi.
Browsing the web with the HTC Desire is also an absolute pleasure due to the screen and the inbuilt browser which thankfully can handle JavaScript, jQuery and Ajax without any problems.
Overall The HTC Desire is an absolutely stunning mobile phone with technology and usability to rival anything else on the market today.
Some Interesting Facts about the HTC Desire
- The HTC Desire automatically lowers the ringer volume as soon as the phone is picked up and also Mutes the ringer when the phone is flipped face down
- The HTC Desire backs up certain data and settings to the microSD card automatically, such as SMS/MMS messages, bookmarks, Wi-Fi passwords, and more
- The HTC Desire weights 5 grams more than Nexus One
- The HTC Desire does not have a noise cancelling microphone
- The HTC Desire doesn’t come with the Docking Pin as Nexus One
- The HTC Desire's ROM can be used in Nexus One
- The HTC Desire has 64MB more RAM than Nexus One
- The HTC Desire contains Adobe Flash Lite 10.1
- The HTC Desire allows you to see what actually drains your battery
- Most applications won’t run without a microSD card inserted
- The HTC Desire screen vibration feedback works on the virtual QWERTY keyboard but nowhere else on the home screen
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