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.
If you compare the Desire to Google’s Nexus One, you might struggle to notice any significant differences between them. The Nexus One has a slightly better build quality with its unibody construction, but the Desire looks and feels like a solid, high end touchscreen smartphone. With easily accessible touchscreen and traditional buttons, as well as an optical trackball that doesn’t dominate the phone, you start to realize that this smartphone has plans on being more than just the Nexus One’s little cousin.
The Desire is pretty impressive on the inside too. Underneath the 3.7 inch AMOLED screen there’s a fast Snapdragon processor to make dealing with all the different apps and functions a fast and painless experience. HTC have also increased the RAM to 512MB just to make sure there’s enough memory to match the processing power.
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.
From an almost standing start a few years ago, HTC has already proved they can manufacture the kind of smartphones that users want to buy. With high spec technology and impressive software, the HTC Desire simply reinforces this idea.
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