Google have recently released their first ever mobile phone is the United States called the Nexus One. This handset was manufactured by HTC, who have produced the majority of the Android handsets on the market to date. A interesting fact, is that the Nexus One is still to appear on the UK market, yet HTC have gone ahead and released their own in house version called the HTC Desire and have tweaked it slightly – for the better. If you who think this handset looks familiar, apart from being a Nexus look a like, it was previously give the codename Bravo and appeared on several well-known phone blogs.
The Desire is a smartphone handset which will be running on the very latest version of the Android Operating System – V2.1 As well as to the updated OS, this handset will also feature HTC Sense user interface, which didn’t work that well in the past, but has been getting better in recent releases. HTC has got rid of the trackball cursor control found on most Android handsets, including the Nexus One. This has been replaced with Optical pad. There are good and bad points to both trackball and pad, so will have to see if this is a significant difference or not.
HTC Sense will grab your contacts updates from Facebook and Twitter and add them inside your contacts list. You will also be able to add and view live feed updates to your accounts from your phone, send snap shots and pictures to your Flickr account and move around several applications at the same time thanks to the 1GHz processor used for this phone.
The impressively fast 1GHz Snapdragon processor, which has been used in the Nexus One will guarantee that the phone can handle the stress that running multiple applications This processor is much faster than what the Apple iPhone and will be enough to stop the phone from crashing, freezing and losing your data. This is aided by the 576MB RAM found on the Desire, compare to just 512MB on the Nexus One.
It terms of the screen on the HTC Desire, you will be getting a 3.7 inch Amoled touchscreen which will use the capacitive technology (made famous by the iPhone) that allows for multi-touch and pinch to zoom features. Capacitive technology, seems to be the way ahead for advanced smartphones and I think that HTC have managed to integrate this perfectly in the Desire. The Amoled part of the technology will make the display screen really clear to view, with out putting a drain the battery.
The features for multimedia fan are nothing spectacular, it comes with a 5MP cameras, HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, GPS and memory up to 32GB. One thing it does have over the Nexus one is a FM radio, but this is something the Google might add on to their next software update.
Overall, there are only minor differences between the two phones. One major point, if you are in the UK, is that the HTC Desire is available now and the Google Nexus One has yet to be released. Users will have to wait and see what the price difference will be when both handsets are on the market. I am guessing more people might be tempted by the Nexus One because it has the Google name to it.
HTC Desire Contracts
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