HTC Desire Review
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by admin in Phones
Source: (blog.rightmobilephone.co.uk)
HTC were busy at the recent Mobile World Congress, with a range of top end smartphone devices on show; one of these phones is the HTC Desire, a generic version of the most hyped phone of 2009, the Google Nexus One.
The HTC Desire is a smart looking handset, sporting a design that lives up to the Desire moniker. With smooth lines and a rounded finish, the Desire delivers a gorgeous, 3.7 inch AMOLED display, with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, supporting up to 16 million colours. Active Matrix OLED displays offer a higher refresh rate than passive matrix displays, and are less power hungry, which aligns to offer mobile phone displays that have a clearer and more natural colour definition. These types of displays also do not need backlight, helping with power consumption, a major consideration for smartphones these days. The screen is a capacitive touchscreen, with support for multi touch input, allowing you to use pinching or squeezing motions on the display to zoom in and out, ideal for web browsing or when using Google Maps. There is also an accelerometer for auto display rotation, plus a proximity sensor which disables the screen whilst in call.
Underneath the display sit the menu, home, back and search keys, sitting either side of an optical trackpad. In general use the trackpad will not be needed much, but can prove invaluable when needing to place the cursor at a certain point, such as correcting a part of a text message or email. Size wise, the Desire is amongst the norm for a modern day smartphone device, measuring in at a respectable 119 x 60 x 12mm, and weighing in at 135g.
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The HTC Desire is a quad band GSM device, offering dual band HSDPA connectivity on 900 and 2100 frequencies. HSDPA capabilities on the HTC Desire offer download speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps whilst HSUPA offers uploads at up to 2 Mbps. As well as HSPA data transfer, the HTC Desire offers WiFi, Class 10 GPRS and EDGE, plus Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP support for stereo wireless streaming. Local data connectivity is also handled with a Micro USB port, which allows you to quickly transfer information between the handset and a PC. There is ample memory available, with 576 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM, with support for Micro SD memory cards available. The Desire can handle memory cards up to 32GB in size.
Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor, the Desire runs the latest version of the Android operating system, 2.1 (commonly known as Éclair). Sitting on top of this is the revamped HTC Sense user interface, which has some tweaks making it even easier to use. The Sense UI still offers a range of 7 homescreens which you can swipe your way through, with different widgets or application shortcuts on each screen. An easy way to access these screens is to utilise a pinching movement from the main screen, which will bring up each of the seven screens as a little thumbnail; simply press the image for the screen you want and you will be taken straight to that screen.
There are plenty of features on the HTC Desire to keep even the most demanding phone geek happy (for a while, at least); The device delivers an integrated 5.0 Megapixel camera, with autofocus and LED flash, and video recording maxes out at an impressive 720 x 480 pixels (D1 Resolution) at 30 fps. For entertainment the handset incorporates a full media player, supporting multiple audio and video formats, including DivX video files. A 3.5mm audio jack is included as standard, and the handset also offers a stereo FM radio with RDS support.
The rest of the things you can use the Desire for will boil down to which apps you decide to install from the ever expanding range found on the Android market. There are a variety of apps, both paid and free, that will increase the functionality on the phone, from simple things like weather and news reports, to video streaming applications, podcasting apps, photo editors and more. All of the usual Google suite of apps comes as standard, such as Google Maps, Google Mail and Google Calendar, and there are a whole host of applications for accessing sites like Twitter and Facebook on the move.
The HTC Desire is out now with deals via our comparison platform starting from £20.31 per month.
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