A Guide To The HTC Desire
Taking a quick glance, one would think that the HTC Desire is almost a design twin to the Google Nexus One. It’s almost the same inside, too. With the HTC Desire you get a 1GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor, GPS, A-GPS, a microSD, 512MB of flash and 265 MB of Ram. It also has the same sized (3.7″) WVGA AMOLET screen and great curve, with a power button on the top of the device. As with the Nexus One, there’s a proximity sensor, HSDPA, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Then there’s the 5-megapixel camera on the back (with an LED flash) that includes the capability to capture 800 x 480 video. Both handsets run the Android 2.1 OS and both feature the same handy shortcuts on the front of the phone – home, menu, back and search. So what’s the difference between the two phones? There actually aren’t that many because HTC actually manufactured both phones. So, although, the Nexus One is officially a Google phone, for all intents and purposes it’s actually a HTC handset. But HTC wouldn’t ship an identical product with a different name though would they? Of course they wouldn’t! The mechanical trackball on the front of the phone has gone, as have the touch-sensitive buttons within the screen. They have been replaced with hard shortcut keys and a more precise optical navigation trackball. This is inline with what has been happening elsewhere in the cell phone market, with BlackBerry making the same choice for their latest releases. It’s been recognized that mechanical trackballs struggle to last the duration of an 18 or 24 month contract, and so this change is a major plus. The HTC handset offers the HTC Sense UI, which is also found on the HTC Hero. Obviously, since it’s not an HTC product, you’re not going to find this in Google’s Nexus One. The Sense UI is improved and faster and has incorporated other contact features that make the Nexus One look much more boring than the Desire. A “helicopter view” is new to Sense and works much the way Expose works on a Mac. If you pinch the homescreen it will display all the pages that are running on the homescreen. All you need to do then is tap the screen to grab the one you want or pinch back out as the Desire supports multi-touch. So, which one should you get – the HTC Desire, the Google Nexus One or the iPhone? It really comes down to personal preference, as there’s not much between them at all. However, if you’re really unsure, then the fact that the HTC Desire was released later than the Google Nexus One, and is cheaper than the iPhone, would maybe give it the advantage.
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