The HTC Desire is a good smartphone packed with features, aimed at the premium or geeky user. This is a Google Android phone, so a handful of apps come preloaded. You can customise with any of the 2000 apps accessible on the growing Android Market.
Facts & Features
The HTC Desire Graphite comes with an advanced high resolution 3.7 inch SLCD WVGA display with 480 X 800 resolution to enhance the experience, showing bright, vivid and sharp pictures. The phone is powered by the fast 1GHz Snapdragon processor. It has a 5MP camera with flash light. It has the 3.5mm headphone jack and Micro USB 2.0/ Bluetooth for connectivity. Audio and video formats are well-supported. The front bottom has an optical trackball and standard front four buttons in addition to the capacitive touchscreen. It supports 3G WiFi and Bluetooth. It has GPS too. It has one of the best on-screen keyboards with a good spelling correction tool. It measures 119x60x11.9mm and weights 135 grams.
The phone has a built-in app that can save into the microSD card your precious data. It has a program to sync with your PC your music and photos by the USB cable. But if you like to update to the latest Android version you have to update the overlying Sense skin too. The phone offers an address book that extracts contacts and photos from Facebook, Gmail, Outlook and Flickr. You can remove widgets you don't like and download new apps you like. The 5Mp camera starts fast and takes decent photographs. The LED flash light helps in the dark. The browser works really fast with multi-touch zoom. According to CNET UK the Desire lacks the noise cancellation feature found in the Nexus One. All these capabilities has a strain on the 1400 Li-ion battery. So don't expect too much.
HTC Sense topping
HTC's Sense skin covering the Android 2.1 (Eclair) operating system is a useful UI with extra features and efficacy. It makes smartphones work in a more natural and simple way. Make it Mine, Discover the Unexpected and Stay Close remain as the close tenets of Sense. The HTC Friend Stream seamlessly aggregates social communication such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr into organised updates. HTC Sense has made improvements to its applications such as the browser, email clients and others. The UI here includes a new widget and newsreader app, a new seven-screen “Leap” thumbnail view for easy access. The Flash support ensures composed pages with enough speed to play a movie. The text realigns to zoom in surfing. The phone has good upload and download capacity if provided the connectivity on this desirable smartphone.
