HTC Desire : An Impressive Phone
When set side by side, you would think that the HTC Desire was an identical twin to the Google Nexus One. The insides are virtually the same, as well. Both offer a 1 GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor, a GPS, A-GPS, a microSD, 512 MB of flash and 265 MB of Ram. The 3.7″ WVGA AMOLED screen and the curves of the device, as well as the fact that the power button is on the top, also seem to mimic the Google Nexus One. This device also has a proximity sensor and a compass so it’s readily usable for augmented reality apps as well as HSDPA. The handset is Wi-Fi and Bluetooth ready. There’s a 5 megapixel camera with an LED flash and the ability to capture 800x 480 video, which is slightly boosted from that of its predecessor. Both offer screen shortcuts to options like 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 Nexus One as well as the touch sensitive buttons on the screen have disappeared and been replaced with hard shortcut keys and a button that offers better optical navigation. This change has been appeared across the industry, with the BlackBerry jumping on the same bandwagon. Trackballs are prone to breakage and nobody who’s tied to an 18 or 24 month contract wants to be stuck with a broken trackball. 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. Which should you buy? There’s really not a whole lot of difference between them. It mostly just comes down to personal preference. But if you really can’t make up your mind, the fact that the HTC Desire was released after the Google Nexus One, may give it a little bit of an advantage.
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