Our HTC Desire Review

Overview of the HTC Desire

The HTC Desire is one of the most exciting mobiles phones we've had the pleasure to review. Even being much cheaper than the iPhone, it can compete or beat everything that the iPhone has to offer. An Android Smartphone with a amazingly responsive touch screen, the Desire packs in a enormous punch in terms of applications, web browsing, one of the largest and best screens ever, a nice impressive camera, a music player and GPS navigation too. It has a new slim line design and add in a superfast processor, Wi-Fi and a 3.5mm headphone jack, 3.7-inch format display, we think you've got the ideal phone.

Smart Phone

The HTC Desire mobile phone uses hybrid display technology, which is sure to be a hit with the users. The display is a bit higher in terms of quality than that of the previous standard HTC displays and the operating system of the HTC Desire runs on Google Android OS version 2.1. As we've come to expect from HTC, the Desire Smartphone also uses the HTC Sense technology.

Camera

With an impressive 5 mega-pixel colour camera, the HTC Desire also features face detection capability auto focus and nice dual flash. It also sports a really wide screen photo capture with geo tagging.

Screen

The screen of the HTC Desire looks very good indeed with it's professionally finish to a high level. The hybrid display multi-touch screen has wide potential such as zooming in on specific parts. Its touch-sensitive track pad and tactile buttons do the work of the touch-sensitive buttons additionally, various sensors and meters make sure that the screen display can be mechanically rotated to landscape or portrait aswell. The HTC Desire mobile phone menu is very easy to use and gives instant access to the numerous HTC software applications.

HTC Sense User Interface

The new HTC Sense experience also introduces large improvements to the applications as well as to the browser, email client and other software. In addition, the new version of HTC Desire Sense also includes a new newsreader application and widget..

HTC Desite Sensor

HTC Desire has a very good G Sensor; it has digital compass and proximity sensor and also has an ambient light sensor and also contains internal GPS antenna.

The pace with which the HTC Desire Smartphone performs certain tasks is impressive with applications and navigation tasks performing efficiently, without troubling delays. The response of the HTC Sense is spontaneous and the different functions of the Desire can simply be accessed anywhere you wanted to.

Social Networking with HTC Desire

The HTC Desire mobile phone can also be used to keep in contact with social networks. Applications such as Facebook and Twitter can be accessed directly, but also the sharing of content such as video and photo is speedily achieved via Flickr and YouTube.

What We Liked

Fast web browser, with Flash support; good photo and video quality; useful touch-sensitive track pad; reactive physical menu buttons; manages your contacts across social networks; HTC Sense user interface makes Android good looking and adds useful features; large, high-resolution screen; approachable capacitive touch screen; great practical keyboard.

What We Disliked

Some home-screen widgets could use improvement; short battery life.

Our Final Verdict

Overall, the HTC desire is an excellent Smartphone and we would highly recommend it.

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	HTC Desire
General
Form Factor	Candybar
Dimensions	119 x 60 x 11.9 (mm)
Talk Time	400 mins
Standby Time	360 hours
Weight	135 g
Quad Band	Yes
Accelerometer	Yes
Photo and Video
Camera	5.00 megapixels
Video Player	Yes
Phone
Polyphonic Ringtones	Yes
Smart Phone	Yes
Internal Memory	512MB
Memory Card Type	MicroSD (max 32GB)
Screen
Colour Screen	Yes
Touch Screen	Yes
Connectivity
3G	Yes
Bluetooth	Yes
Email	Yes
HSDPA	Yes
WAP	Yes
Web Browser	Yes
Wi-Fi	Yes
GPS	Yes
Music and Radio
MP3 Player	Yes
Additional Content
Downloadable Content	Yes
Downloadable Games	Yes
Downloadable Ringtones	Yes

HTC Desire Full Specification

General

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Music and Radio

Additional Content