Learn About The HTC Desire
HTC was traditionally a business that manufactured smartphones for other people, providing the technology and design for other brands to sell as exclusive products. However, switching from the Windows Mobile operating platform to Android saw the company develop its position not just as a manufacturer for brands like Google, with the Nexus One, but also for its own products, which most recently have included the Legend, and now the new HTC Desire.
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.
Not only a good size, the touchscreen is a 3.7 inch AMOLED display, delivering clear and bright, high resolution images. As well as quality, the Desire also has power, with 512 MB of RAM working with the 1GHz processor to make sure that whatever you are doing, the HTC Desire can cope without any loss of performance.
The HTC Desire has excellent still and video capture capabilities, thanks to the 5 megapixel camera that comes with autofocus and an LED flash. Video recording might not be in full 720p hi definition, but it is a higher resolution than the Legend and the Nexus One. The Desire also captures photographs in the wider 5:3 format, which means you get a lot more out of your camera phone photography than you do with a lot of other smartphones.
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.
With good looks, great technology and simple and enjoyable usability, there isn’t much you won’t like about the HTC Desire. A step up from the Legend, and more than a match for the Nexus One, the Desire can also take on any of the other smartphones in the market.