The Desire By HTC Offers A Combination Of Form And Functionality

Aug 30
07:02

2010

Chris Westley

Chris Westley

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Whether it’s the Android OS with HTC Sense UI, the 5MP camera, media player, or the huge touch screen, the HTC Desire is a smartphone with something for everyone.

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Running Android 2.1 in conjunction with a powerful 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor,The Desire By HTC Offers A Combination Of Form And Functionality Articles the HTC Desire is lightning fast response times from the AMOLED had capacitive touchscreen, and runs demanding applications with ease.

Measuring 3.7 inches, the AMOLED had capacitive touchscreen can display up to 16M colours.  This is within its pixel resolution of 480x 800.  This results in stunning display of the on screen imagery making it ideal for viewing photos and video files.  It can be viewed in both portrait and landscape no thanks to a built in accelerometer sensor which automatically rotates the contents of the screen based upon the orientation of the handset.  An optical trackpad provides an alternative method of navigating the HTC Sense user interface.  This is a highly customisable user interface which offers an alternative to the standard Android UI, and allows users to assign up to seven homescreens which can be customised by adding widgets and applications as well as portraying allowing colour schemes.

For storage of media files, documents and other data are a 4 GB memory card is pre-installed within the microSD card slot; however this can be replaced with a card of up to 32 GB allowing it potential storage a heaps of files and data.

The HTC Desire provides access to the Internet initially via an HSDPA connection in areas covered by 3G, with speeds of up to 7.2 mega bytes per second being available.  Wi-Fi provides the fastest Internet connection by utilising local wireless Internet networks where available.  Cellular network connectivity relies on GPRS & EDGE, both of which are often in class 10 versions.  Bluetooth and micro USB connectivity finishes off the connectivity package.

An easy to use an effective five mega pixel digital camera is also included within the handset.  Due to its high pixel resolution, the images are of great quality.  An LED flash and Autofocus are both provided to simplify the task of taking great photos.  Geo-tagging is an impressive feature which is also provided as standard, and utilises GPS to record the location at which a photo was taken and then displayed this and a map.  WVGA quality video can be recorded using this camera is keen frames per second, offering an alternative method of image capture.

Thanks to the availability of the HTC Desire in a number of different colour variants it also offers appeal to the style conscious mobile phone user.  The Desire has proven to be one of the most popular handsets a full time for HTC and it is easy to see why given the combination of pleasing aesthetics and impressive specifications.