The HTC Desire is the follow-up to the very well-received HTC Legend. The two smartphones are similar in many respects, but the HTC Desire has a more powerful processor and a larger screen, making it potentially more appropriate for business users who find themselves staring at the display more often than not to respond to emails and suchlike.
The HTC Desire sports a 1GHz processor, rather than the 600MHz offering in the HTC Legend. The more powerful processor means the device is better able to run applications faster. This means not only working more quickly within individual apps, for example, responding to screen taps and saving photos to an SD card more quickly, but also running multiple applications at the same time with more speed. During testing we did not experience any of the ‘white screen wait’ situations that we do with our workaday HTC Hero, for example.
The screen is one of the real plus points of the HTC Desire. At 3.7in it is one of the largest on any smartphone, and its 480 x 800 pixels mean it can display plenty of information. Its AMOLED technology makes it pin-sharp and bright in most situations. We did find it faded away in bright outdoor sunshine, but that is not a situation unique to this device.
The size and high definition of the screen come into their own when you carry out tasks that require a lot of detail such as reading emails or browsing the web. As we’ve come to expect from Android handsets you can pinch to zoom into web pages, or alternatively simply double tap on the screen.
The G-Sensor means that the Desire’s screen rotates as you turn it in your hand, so that viewing web pages in wide format is no problem, either.
Business users may also like the copy and paste feature, which you can use while web browsing. Tap and hold on the screen to get a pair of markers you can drag to surround the area you want to copy. It is a little fiddly but nonetheless one of the best implementations of copy and paste we’ve seen on a smartphone.
The capacitive touch screen is very responsive, and helps make text entry both quick and comfortable. The large screen means that even in tall mode the QWERTY tappable keyboard is big enough to use without making too many errors, and in wide mode we were able to tap away with two thumbs at a good speed. Because of this, email-related work is easier on the Desire than it is on many other smartphones we’ve tried. The predictive text system is fast too, and we found it made good guesses at words when we miss hit a letter completely. Email user will also like the PDF reader and version of Quick Office for reading Word, PowerPoint and Excel files.
The large screen isn’t all good news though. Some people simply won’t be able to reach across it for one-handed use, and it makes the HTC Desire sizeable. Its 60x11.9x119mm will make it too large for some pockets. But that is an inevitable trade-off and one many will be happy to make.
HTC Desire Specifications
- Android 2.3 – Gingerbread
- 3.7 inch large Screen
- 5MP camera With LED flash and 1.3MP camera in the front.
- 1GHz Snapdragon CPU with Adreno 205 GPU
- 768 MB of RAM
- S-LCD capacitive touchscreen
- Multi-touch input method
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- HTC Sense v3.0 UI
- Touch-sensitive controls
- microSD, up to 32GB
- GPRS,3G,EDEG
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
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