When set side by side, you would think that the HTC Desire was an identical twin to the Google Nexus One. The insides are virtually the same, as well. Both offer a 1 GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor, a GPS, A-GPS, a microSD, 512 MB of flash and 265 MB of Ram. The 3.7″ WVGA AMOLED screen and the curves of the device, as well as the fact that the power button is on the top, also seem to mimic the Google Nexus One. The HTC Desire even incorporates a proximity sensor as well as a compass so that you can use it with augmented reality apps as well as HSDPA. It is Wi-Fi and Bluetooth ready. Don’t forget the 5 megapixel camera with it’s LED flash and ability to capture 800 x 480 video. Both the HTC Desire and the Google Nexus One offer shortcuts on the screen to options like home, menu, back and search. So what’s the difference between the two phones? There actually aren’t that many because HTC actually manufactured both phones. So, although, the Nexus One is officially a Google phone, for all intents and purposes it’s actually a HTC handset. But HTC wouldn’t ship an identical product with a different name though would they? Of course they wouldn’t! The mechanical trackball on the front of the phone has gone, as have the touch-sensitive buttons within the screen. They have been replaced with hard shortcut keys and a more precise optical navigation trackball. This is inline with what has been happening elsewhere in the cell phone market, with BlackBerry making the same choice for their latest releases. It’s been recognized that mechanical trackballs struggle to last the duration of an 18 or 24 month contract, and so this change is a major plus. The HTC handset offers the HTC Sense UI, which is also found on the HTC Hero. Obviously, since it’s not an HTC product, you’re not going to find this in Google’s Nexus One. The Sense UI is improved and faster and has incorporated other contact features that make the Nexus One look much more boring than the Desire. A “helicopter view” is new to Sense and works much the way Expose works on a Mac. If you pinch the homescreen it will display all the pages that are running on the homescreen. All you need to do then is tap the screen to grab the one you want or pinch back out as the Desire supports multi-touch. So, which is the better buy? They’re virtually the same. Really, it’s mostly a matter of personal preference. If you’re really stuck, consider the fact the HTC Desire is a newer release than the Google Nexus One. That fact alone might make it a better buy.

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Adopting the Android operating system has been one of the main reasons for HTC’s recent success, and has lead to successful smartphones like the Legend, Google’s Nexus One, and now the HTC Desire. Originally manufacturing smartphones for other companies to sell as their own, HTC’s own brand is becoming more and more popular. So what has their latest entry into the smartphone market got to offer consumers?

The first thing that you notice about the HTC Desire is that is certainly has the appearance of a smartphone, with a well built look and feel and a nice big touchscreen. If you know your smartphones, you’ll probably also notice that it isn’t too dissimilar to the Nexus One. What differences there are a quite subtle, the Desire has a useful mix of touchscreen and clickable buttons, to give users the best of both worlds, and the Desire doesn’t have the Nexus One’s unibody construction, but it’s still well built and good to look at.

The HTC Desire complements its looks with top quality performance as well. The bright, clear images you see on the 3.7 inch AMOLED screen are delivered by a powerful 1GHz Snapdragon processor that can call on 512 MB of memory to make sure it’s able to handle just about any demands you place on it.

With a 5 megapixel camera that also has autofocus and an LED flash, the HTC Desire gives you everything you need to get great shots in just about all situations, especially with the wide 5:3 format making sure you get even more in. Video capture is high resolution, if not high definition, so recording moving pictures will give you results almost as good as your still images, and better than many of the other smartphones on the market.

Since abandoning Windows Mobile on most of its smartphones, HTC has forged ahead with Android, and the Desire demonstrates even further development with HTC’s Sense user interface. Overlaying the Android platform Sense works well and lets users easily and smoothly navigate around the phone. Recent additions to the Sense user interface have included the social network aggregator Friendstream, as well as the home screen manager Leap, and these only help to strengthen the case for the HTC Desire being a smartphone that people love to use.

The HTC Desire builds on the success of Google’s Nexus One and HTC’s own Legend, and gives smartphone users a little bit more. With impressive technology, and a user interface and software to match, HTC has reinforced its position as one of the big smartphone brands.

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The HTC Desire continues HTC’s tradition of releasing quality smartphones. Their last release was the HTC Legend, and the Desire carries over a lot of the same features, but with a better processor and screen. With the 1GHz processor you find on the HTC Desire, it is easy to flip between applications and multitask to your heart’s content, knowing that it will keep up with anything you want to do. You can access these great features on one of the largest screens a smartphone can feature.

With the HTC Desire, you get Android 2.1 and HTC Sense that powers your user interface, giving you an incredibly intuitive and easy to customize experience on your smartphone. The touch screen enables you to pinch zoom on the main menu to get to any one of your seven fully customizable home screens, full of the widgets and applications you can get in the Android Market. Check out your contacts, social networking, bookmarks and the like with the press of a button, or the swipe of a finger.

The HTC Desire really shines when it comes to its superior touch screen, which measures in at 3.7″, which is larger than any other smartphone on the market, giving it a lot of information with its 480 x 800 pixel resolution. You can see these applications very sharply with the AMOLED technology behind the screen, which can come in handy when you are reading a lot of small print in web browsing and reading emails.

With the bigger screen, you can use the touch-screen QWERTY keyboard very easily no matter what mode you are in, allowing you to minimize the typos that usually come with these types of interfaces. This way, it is simpler than ever to send out a little email very quickly, and you can look at Word, Excel and PowerPoint files with the Quick Office program, and PDFs are easier to access than ever before with the PDF reader.

Those of you with experience in using Android phones will not be surprised by the user interface, which includes a series of four buttons – Home, Menu, Back, and Search. The Search button is particularly interesting, as it will search both your phone and Google at the same time. As you type out your search criteria, it will sort through both until it is just left with Google, in the event that what you are looking for is not on your phone. This is the kind of intuitive interface that you will be glad you picked up once you get this smartphone.

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Packing a wide array of features inside the handset, the attractive HTC Desire is almost identical to the already released Google Nexus One. It weighs 135g, and measures 119 x 60x 11.9, both about standard. The HTC Desire is a bit larger than the Nexus One, due to the addition of a 3.7 AMOLED screen. It still retains the pleasing curved shape of the Nexus One. By replacing the trackball found beneath the scream of the Nexus One, the HTC Desire offers a more responsive product with better optical capabilities. A high quality 5 mega pixel camera is part of the HTC Desire. Its autofocus and LED flash go far in improving the quality of pictures taken in low lighting conditions. The HTC Desire can also capture video at a resolution of 800 x 400. It comes with a micro SD card slot that increases the 512 MB of built in memory to 16 GB. The HTC Desire offers fast and easy user friendliness due to its extremely powerful 1Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor. The real appeal of HTCs new product is its announcement of a handset that includes a Sense user interface as well as the Android 2.1 OS. The display is clean and offers what may be the best navigation between menus of all handsets available today. The Sense system features, amongst other things, a calendar widget which shows the user their full schedule rather than just a view of the current month. This is a great feature for business users especially. Scrolling your finger across the bottom of the screen whilst using an application opens up extra elements of that app, which makes for great usability. This principle is also incorporated into the messaging, contacts and music screens. You can even change music tracks, due to improvement in the media player facility, by dragging your finger across the bottom of the Desire. A very deep and natural black color and a good responsiveness are features of the 3.7 screen which does a great job with movie playback. The new smartphone, the HTC desire, is one of very few handsets that incorporate great looks, swift performance and a wide array of features. It is, without question, one of the best smartphones to come onto the market in 2010.

In a second attempt to market a device that competes in the heavily populated Android smartphone market, the HTC Desire has been released. The new version expands on the platform of the HTC Legend to provide better usability right out of the box with cues from the Google Nexus One. The HTC Desire is equipped with a rapid 1GHz Snapdragon processor that can handle just about anything. Continue Reading

The HTC Desire, at first glance, has a near identical design to the already popular Google Nexus One. The internal specifications are very similar too. There is a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 512MB of memory and 256MB of RAM. Continue Reading