Android Phone: HTC Desire comes with Android 2.1

AndroidPhoner.com — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:44:11 +0000

HTC has announced Google Nexus One’s sibling HTC Desire with Sense UI clad Android 2.1 at the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2010. Yes, it’s the same HTC handset codenamed ‘Bravo’ that got a mention on Swedish Mobile Operator 3’s Facebook page last month. With 3.7-inch AMOLED multi-touch display, Desire sports 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. HTC will make Desire available in Europe and Asia in early second quarter of this year.

The new HTC Desire stands different from Nexus One on grounds of HTC’s Sense UI and the former doesn’t have a trackball navigation. Desire has 3.7-inch AMOLED WVGA display that is as much as existing smartphones like Motorola Droid and Samsung Omnia HD. Just like the Nexus One, HTC Desire equips 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU with 512MB ROM and 576MB RAM (while Nexus One has 512MB RAM).

New Android 2.1 operating system loaded on Desire also has layer of HTC’s Sense UI that debuted with HTC Hero smartphone. Sense UI now features new Leap function that allows viewing different home screens at the same time by pinch gesture. We already know about Friend Stream feature that collates all the social network updates to the contacts in Address Book. Other improvements come in the browser, web client, widget and better news reader application.

Along with the Desire, HTC has launched two other devices at the MWC 2010 – HTC Legend and HTC HD Mini.

HTC Desire

Amongst the Android handsets, the current beloved Google Nexus One gets a cloned brother dubbed HTC Desire that may be the next preference for those consumers who won’t get to see former one anytime soon. Both phones with almost the same specifications will kind of confuse users as to why HTC offers two phones with same hardware features.

HTC announces 2 Google Android phones on MWC2010

AndroidPhoner.com — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:40:30 +0000

HTC continues to remind me of Sony and the way they released new CLIE devices faster than I could ever hope to keep up. Both also make very high quality products that I enjoy using and that end up draining my mobile device fund. At MWC in Spain this week HTC announced three new devices, but unfortunately there is no information that we will see any of them here in the US. Two of the new devices are Google Android smartphones and the other is a Windows Mobile 6.5.3 device. If you recall, HTC purchased One & Co in 2008 and you will see major influences from them in the designs of these three new smartphones. The HTC Legend and HTC Desire are the new Android devices and the HD mini is the Windows Mobile device.

HTC Legend

The HTC Legend takes a design tip from the Apple MacBooks with unibody aluminum construction. You will also find an optical trackball, slight chin, and buttons that are physical ones even though they might appear to be capacitive touch sensitive ones. The Legend has a 3.2 inch AMOLED HVGA display and runs Google Android 2.1 with a 600 MHz processor. HTC also will be including their updated version of Sense UI that includes a new Friend stream and groups of widgets. Friend stream offers a single place for Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter streams.

HTC Desire

The HTC Desire is essentially a Google Nexus One with HTC Sense UI. It has the 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 3.7 inch AMOLED display, Android 2.1, and all the rest of the Nexus One goodness. The latest version of Sense is included, along with some other improvements and widgets. For example, you can long press text in the web browser and look up words in a dictionary or Wikipedia, you can send paragraphs to Google Translate, and also use new email, weather, and Agenda view widgets. I personally find a lot of value in HTC Sense, but unfortunately all of us Google Nexus One owners won’t get this Sense update since it is an HTC add on and the Nexus One is a Google-branded device.

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