The HTC Desire Black Offers A Stunning Looking Alternative

Jun 11
07:05

2010

Chris Westley

Chris Westley

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The renowned manufacturer of Smartphones HTC has recently released a desirable new black colour variant of its popular handset, the HTC Desire. Offering the same impressive functionality and technical specifications as the original handset, the black colour variant offers a new level of aesthetic appeal to this Android powered Smartphone.

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A high level of everyday functionality is achieved thanks to a long list of applications and features.  In terms of entertainment features,The HTC Desire Black Offers A Stunning Looking Alternative Articles there is a versatile internal media player which supports a wide range of different music and video file formats, as well as a stereo FM radio player with RDS and a number of pre-installed games.  Social networking fans are catered for with Facebook, Flickr and twitter applications which offer fast direct access to these popular websites meaning they can share their thoughts and catch up with friends and family in a matter of seconds.  GPS with A-GPS support is provided which allows features such as a digital compass and geo-tagging to function.  The highly acclaimed Android OS (v2.1) is the operating system of choice which works in conjunction with a powerful 1 GHz Qualcomm processor to provide a lightning fast speeds of the user interface and handles demanding applications with ease.

As he as standard on most new HTC models, the Desire Black features and impressive 5 mega pixel digital camera which operates at a pixel resolution of 2592x 1944 pixels and offers Autofocus, LED flash and smile detection and image enhancing features which simplify the task of taking great quality photos.  As mentioned, geo-tagging is included which automatically records the location at which a photo was taken thanks to GPS.  WVGA quality video can be shot at a rate of 15 frames per second using the camera, offering an alternative method of image capture.

Along with 576 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM, the integrated micro SD card slot is equipped with a pre-installed for gigabytes memory card for storage of data such as media files and documents.  This can be upgraded however by installing a card of up to 32 GB which offers more storage and is likely to be needed by most users.  The internal phonebook within the HTC Desire Black store what seems like an endless number of entries and fields and also includes the Photocall function which allows a photo to be assigned to a particular contact within the phonebook, and this is then displayed on the screen whenever that person is in contact.

An AMOLED capacitive touchscreen measuring 3.7 inches provides an impressive method of navigating the HTC Sense user interface, and boasts the ability to display up to 16M colours within a pixel layout of 480x 800 pixels offering superb quality display of the on screen imagery, making it perfect for viewing photos and video files.  An accelerometer sensor automatically rotates the on screen imagery dependent upon the orientation of the phone itself allowing a method of viewing the screen in both portrait and landscape forms.  An optical trackpad is also included as an alternative method of selecting options within menus, and this is thumb operated making it perfect for use with one hand.

The HTC Desire has proven to be one of the most popular handsets to date for the manufacturer.  The addition of the black colour variant of the handset means it is sure to win over new fans who will be attracted to its newfound aesthetic appeal.