HTC Desire Still Remains One of the Most Popular Phones

The HTC Desire is the flagship phone that HTC announced in the early part of 2010. It has gone on to become one of the company’s biggest success stories. Part of that was achieved due to the incredible powerful processor and other power-packed features that were previously not seen in any other mobile. The phone was one of the most powerful at that time and soon a number of other mobile phone companies like Samsung and LG understood the merits of the Desire's design ethos and set to work emulating it in their own handsets.

The HTC Desire was launched nearly a year ago, but still the Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHZ processor that runs this phone remains one of the most advanced yet. The phone is not just about raw processing power. It runs on the Android 2.1 operating system, which harnesses this power efficiently and makes this phone run silky smooth no matter what powerful, high end application you intend to run to. The phone measures 119 x 60 x 11.9 mm in dimensions and its weight is just above 130 grams. This makes it incredibly light, despite features like a 3.7 inch capacitive touch screen display that incorporates AMOLED technology. The phone’s display dishes out a maximum resolution of 480 x 800 pixels and supports multitouch input methods.

An optical Trackpad is provided for easy navigation through the phone’s features, and there are plenty of them. The phone features a media player, which can play formats like MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA9 in the music department and MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV9 in the video department. The phone comes standard with Facebook, Flickr and Twitter applications for getting the best out of the connectivity options of this phone. With four different colour options like Black, Brown, Silver and White on offer, the phone has thus appealed to a wide section of people. A Digital compass and Google Maps are some of the third party applications that will guide through any city you need to using the phone’s own GPS.

The phone, as mentioned previously, runs on the Android 2.1 operating system. There is a new version in the market and should you feel the need to do so, you can upgrade this phone to the Android 2.2 Froyo operating system without any trouble as the phone’s powerful processor can easily handle that too. The phone is equipped with a 5 megapixel camera for taking those stunning photos that you previously thought would be possible only by a digital camera. The camera can also record videos in HD mode without any trouble. This can then be played and enjoyed on a HD TV using the phone’s Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity options. Geotagging option is possible on the pictures taken using this camera as the phone comes with GPS. The phone also comes with an FM radio and this has RDS support.

As said previously, the phone was launched in the UK nearly a year ago and now retails for a price of £449.99.

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