[Ben]

I... I think I want this one... I swore off HTC after the TyTN, but they're absolutely hosing the market with handsets at the moment and, given the 'PC' nature of the industry now that mobile OSs are falling away rapidly their somewhat generic hardware is becoming a major draw.


HTC has announced the HTC Desire, a slightly tweaked version of the Nexus One smartphone the company created for Google.

The HTC Desire, previously known as the HTC Bravo, features all of the great specs found in the Nexus One, but adds an optical trackpad in place of the trackball and uses HTC's Sense UI to add some polish to Android 2.1.

Other noteworthy items include the 3.7-inch capacitive AMOLED touchscreen with multitouch support, a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and radios covering just about every connectivity known to man.

http://www.knowyourcell.com/news/417295/htc_desire_gets_official_think_nexus_one_but_with_ a_potential_carrier_deal.html

[solo12002]

Pre order one now:

http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=196001&partner=adwords&gclid=COO-rYzx_J8CFQ1f4wod-Ui_kw

or

http://www.desirehtc.com/#reg

[Hands0n]

Cor! April 12th these are supposed to be out with T-Mobile. Is that 52 days? What a delightful handset - it is, after all, HTC's rendition of the Google Nexus One.

I particularly like the new optical scroll tit thing - much better than the trackball of previous, and seems to be making an appearance on a number of new HTC handsets.

Gosh! How quickly do these handsets begin to look and feel "old" ....

[miffed]

Gosh! How quickly do these handsets begin to look and feel "old" ....

Especially since we had a good couple of years of "drought" - Great to see the field opening up again !

[getti]

T-Mobile are getting end of march. I got to use a Desire at MWC the other day and although it is an impressive device, it was too much like the Nexus One for me (get Sence on a N1 and you can hardly tell the difference) and seeing as I had just been given a free N1 i personally see no point getting the Desire.

THe Legend is a stunning design and there should be a Desire spec in Legend style casing in Q3 last I heard.

[The Mullet of G]

I've been somewhat disappointed by the Snapdragon based phones we've had so far, performance hasn't exactly been all that impressive considering the hardware at play, I'm holding off until someone actually manages to combine it with a less weedy GPU solution.

[Ben]

Especially since we had a good couple of years of "drought" - Great to see the field opening up again !
Damn, tell me about it; if Android has done one thing it has made handsets interesting again.