The HTC Desire’s super-speedy Snapdragon 1GHz processor makes flying around Android 2.1 lightning fast
While the latest edition of HTC Sense – HTC’s own Android user interface – is as pretty as ever. You don’t have to spend hours searching the Android Market for pretty widgets to customise your home screen
Because great versions of most of the ones you’ll want are already included. Social netwo
Fast Web browser
With Flash support
Good photo and video quality
Useful touch-sensitive trackpad
Responsive physical menu buttons
Integrates your contacts across social networks
HTC Sense user interface makes Android better-looking and adds handy features
Big
High-resolution screen
Responsive capacitive touchscreen
Great virtual keyboard
Great web-browsing experience
HTC Sense
Glorious AMOLED screen
Solid build quality
Gorgeous screen
Slim chassis
Good quality 5MP camera
Speedy internet browser
Flash video support
Pluses
Classy
Elegant and relatively compact given the large screen
Powerful enough to not slow down
Android 2.1 and Sense work wonderfully together
Extra resolution makes surfing and watching videos great
For HTC Desire
Lightning quick with a flawless touchscreen
Intuitive and customisable user interface and topclass internet and social networking functionality.
Large and responsive AMOLED screen
Android 2.1 plus HTC Sense
Microsoft Exchange support
Bright high-resolution 3.7in screen
Works brilliantly for email
Web surfing
Good on-screen keyboard
Maps
Android Martketplace
Five-megapixel digital camera
Bright highresolution 3.7in screen
Good onscreen keyboard
Fivemegapixel digital camera
Responsive
Excellent screen
User-friendly user interface
It runs on Google’s Android 2.1 platform
But uses HTC’s Sense interface
Flash and other bells and whistles integrated perfectly
Powerful
Flexible spec plus great value
Fine screen
The editors didn't like
Slightly short battery life
Poor performance using Bluetooth A2DP
Android handsets aren't known for their cameras. The Desire's h5-megapixel cam comes with an LED flash
Digital zoom and autofocus. It can compete with the best Android cameras seen so far
But not with the top cameraphones on the market. The SIM and microSD slots are blocked by the battery
Which is kept behind the full-length plastic battery cover. This makes hot swapping of memory cards imposs
Some home-screen widgets need polishing
Android is still somewhat geeky
Short battery life
Slightly boring-looking compared to the HTC Legend
AMOLED screen is hard to see in sunlight
Battery life
Will be too big for some
Unexpected browser closing (likely a software issue)
Widgets still take too long to refresh
Bluetooth battery stutters
Battery life suspect out the box
Can't delete whole inboxes in POP3 messaging
Minuses
This phone deserves so much better than the mediocre handsfree kit
Still no support for Flash
For HTC Desire
Disappointing battery life
Screen can be hard to see in bright sunlight
Could be difficult to use onehanded
Large
Less useful if you don't use social networking sites
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Responsive; excellent screen; user-friendly user interface
On-screen keys frustrating; relatively high SIM-free price
HTC has made a name for itself as the leading vendor of Android phones, and the Desire is possibly the best yet. The large 3.7in screen, the responsiveness of the device and HTC's Sense user interface all add up into a potential rival for Apple's iPho...
Bright high-resolution 3.7in screen, works brilliantly for email, web surfing, good on-screen keyboard, maps, Android Martketplace, five-megapixel digital camera,
Large, less useful if you don't use social networking sites, Marketplace lacks a large volume of quality apps.
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