Review For You: "HTC Desire"

HTC Desire features excellent multimedia content with its shiny 4.3” LCD. The HTC Desire  allows 720p HD video recording and contains an 8-megapixel camera with dual-flash. Desire is the best cellphone in the marketplace right now. A good display, great style, and a lot of functions incorporate to make this the best overall cellphone we've seen. Desire is big and hefty. Calculating 123 x 68 x 11.8 mm it's 8mm greater, 10mm higher.

HTC Desire  - First Look

Desire - Specs

CPU:

1 GHZ

PLATFORM:

Android™ 2.2 (Froyo) with HTC Sense™

STORAGE:

Internal phone storage:
1.5 GB

RAM:
768 MB

Expansion slot:
microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)

CAMERA:

8 megapixel color camera
Auto focus and dual LED flash
720p HD video recording
Face detection capability
Built-in effects include depth of field, vignette, and more
Geotagging

CONNECTIVITY:

3G:    
Up to 14.4 Mbps download speed
Up to 5.76 Mbps upload speed

GPRS:
Up to 114 kbps downloading

EDGE:
Up to 560 kbps downloading

Wi-Fi®:
IEEE 802.11 b/g/n

SENSORS:

G-Sensor
Digital compass
Proximity sensor
Ambient light sensor

BLUETOOTH®:

Bluetooth® 2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate
A2DP for wireless stereo headsets
FTP and OPP (object push) for file transfer
Other supported profiles: AVRCP, GAP, GOEP, HFP, HSP, PBAP, SPP, Service Discovery Application Profile

SOCIAL NETWORKING:

Facebook® and Twitter™ for HTC Sense
Friend Stream
Share photos/videos on Facebook®, Flickr®, Twitter™, or YouTube™
HTC Peep for tweeting

MULTIMEDIA:

Gallery, Music, and FM Radio
Dolby® Mobile and SRS virtual surround sound
Share videos, photos, or music from your phone to your TV via DLNA®

Audio supported formats:
Playback:
.aac, .amr, .ogg, .m4a, .mid, .mp3, .wav, .wma (Windows Media Audio 9)

Recording:
.amr

Video supported formats:
Playback:.3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .wmv (Windows Media Video 9), .avi (MP4 ASP and MP3), .xvid (MP4 ASP and MP3)

Recording:.3gp

POWER AND BATTERY:

Battery type:
Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery

Capacity:
1230 mAh

Talk time:
WCDMA:
Up to 320 mins

GSM:
Up to 550 mins

Standby time:
WCDMA:
Up to 490 hours

GSM: Up to 420 hours

Source: HTC official Website

THE GOOD THINGS AND THE AND THINGS

The Good Things Are:

• Its the EVO 4G for European countries.
• The ringer checks volume of surroundings, go’s quieter if picked up and mutes if flipped over.
• Made from aluminum.
• 720p recording and 8MP photographic camera with dual flash.
• Easy to use.
• EBook reader is very useful.

The Bad Things Are:

• The HTC Desire  is quite a large phone.
• It’s very costly.
• Battery life is a bit short.
• 16GB or 32GB of internal storage space would have been good like the Iphone.
• Popularity: 5%

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