The HTC Desire Remains As Popular As Ever

Sep 6
07:38

2010

Chris Westley

Chris Westley

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Often referred to as THE top of the range Android smartphone, the HTC Desire certainly has its fair share of fans. Whether you are looking for a phone for business, entertainment or just everyday general use, this should seriously be on your shortlist.

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With a number of seriously impressive features,The HTC Desire Remains As Popular As Ever Articles the HTC Desire incorporates a 3.7 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, the innovative and customisable HTC Sense UI, and of course the Android OS, in this case, version 2.1 of the increasingly popular operating system.

The large AMOLED capacitive touchscreen is capable of displaying up to 16M colours within the confines of its 480x 800 pixel resolution.  Although the screen is large, it is easy navigation using just your thumb however there is also an optical trackpad which offers an alternative method of navigating menus.  The screen also includes an accelerometer sensor which allows the onscreen content to be viewed in both portrait and landscape forms the automatically rotates the screen depending on how the phone is held.

The HTC Sense user interface allows users to customise up to seven homescreens with applications and widgets of their choice along with other customizable features such as colour schemes and themes.  Access to the Android Market is provided as standard which offers endless possibilities to users was taken browse and download many thousands of applications covering all imaginable categories.

Despite the large screen and impressive amount of technology, the HTC Desire has managed to remain relatively compact at 119x 60x 11.9 mm and only weighs 135g.  The handset is finished in a soft feel material which gives it a luxurious yet durable user experience.

A powerful 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor is ideally partnered with version 2.1 of the Android operating system.  This combination of technologies combines to provide a powerful user experience with a lightning fast speeds and a great platform for customisation and expansion.

Standard Smartphone features that you would expect include full Wi-Fi connectivity and fast Internet browsing, as well as Internet access via an HSDPA connection at speeds up to 7.2 mega bytes per second in areas covered by 3G.  An impressive digital camera offers a respectable 5 mega pixels for the high operating pixel resolution resulting in great quality still images.  A number of image enhancing features are provided as standard to simplify the task of taking photos whilst simultaneously improving the quality.  The camera also doubles up as an effective video camera shooting footage in WVGA quality at 15 frames per second.

A number of entertainment features also included such as a versatile internal media player, a selection of games and a stereo FM radio player with RDS.  With a spec list like this it comes as no surprise that the HTC Desire has proven to be one of the most popular handsets for the manufacturer.  Combined with saint surprisingly affordable deals, the HTC Desire looks set to remain popular for quite some time.