Can you resist the temptation of HTC's Desire?

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:27

Your IT - Mobility

HTC's new Android handset, the Desire, is a Nexus One beating handset that likewise beats the iPhone 3GS in many ways, but will it be enough to beat the upcoming iPhone 'A+' update?

Ah, temptation and desire, two things well known to any human being, with the Apple iPhone having been and still being the object of desire for many, with many having given into temptation and joined Apple's fruity culture club.

Ever since, every phone manufacturer on the planet has tried its darndest to create an iPhone clone that surpasses the experience delivered by the king of crunch, and although many an iPhone killer is said to have emerged, the apex and apogee of Apple's agora, the iPhone itself, coupled with a copiously overflowing app store, still sets the smartphone standard.

Google's Nexus One brought forth from down the mountain a monumental update to the Android operating system, including even the ability to speak into any location text can be entered into and have that transformed into text, and given that HTC is the manufacturer of Google's Nexussory, it can take those learnings and parlay them into perfecting its own phone productions.

So desirous is HTC of having the best Android smartphones on the market that it has poured forth all it knows into its own HTC Desire, and while it still lacks the Googley Nexonian abilities of speech to text in any field and a voice controlled satnav system, HTC's 'Sense' user interface and pinch to zoom, along with full access to the Android Marketplace has delivered an awesome Android experience that was very, very impressive.

Indeed, it was far more impressive than HTC's other superlative smartphone, the HTC HD2, and given that Android is a far more robust operating system than Microsoft's miserably woeful Windows Mobile 6.5, this should come as no surprise.

Paired with Telstra's still stunningly superior mobile Next G network, and due to exclusively arrive in stores on the 27th of April, the HTC Desire could well be the very best non-Apple smartphone ever released in Australia, affording users almost all the amazing advancements in Android since its original release and being paired with a superfast 1GHz processor, an acutely amazing 3.7-inch AMOLED screen, a lovely 5 megapixel camera and a full suite of social networking smoothness, among many other super features.

Anthony Petts, Sales and Marketing Director ANZ, HTC Corporation proudly proffered that 'HTC Desire continues HTC's leadership in cutting-edge phone design and function. The new HTC Sense experience enhances the user's ability to personalise their smartphone, discover endless possibilities with applications, and stay close to people like never before.'

So what else is within the truly desirable HTC Desire? More is revealed on page two, please click on'¦