15 June 2011 by Caroline
HTC Desire owners will be pleased with HTC’s change of heart regarding updating the operating system the Desire runs on – Android 2.3 Gingerbread is heading to the smartphone after all!
After stating yesterday that the Desire would not receive the Gingerbread update, today we hear otherwise. Announced on the company's Facebook page, HTC stated: "Contrary to what we said earlier, we are going to bring Gingerbread to HTC Desire."
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HTC Desire deals on contract
It is not uncommon to see smartphones with similar and often identical features in the market. Many of them are driven by chipsets considered as mere off-the-shelf commodities that can make many of the features we take for granted common to many models.
HTC, the Taiwan-based world leader in smartphones after Nokia is the OEM for Google’s Nexus One Android smartphone. And it’s not surprising that its HTC Passion used in the Nexus would morph into a very similar smartphone in the HTC Desire.
Differences with Nexus One
Ergonomically sporting the same form factor and slim design, the Desire gets differentiated with the use of an optical track pad where the Nexus uses a conventional trackball. Battery life gets a bit of a mess as the Desire gets a shorter 6.6 hours of talk time on 2G while the Nexus gets a more generous 10 hours on the same 1400 mAh Li-Ion battery.
Then there’s Dolby Mobile sound enhancement that the Desire has which the Nexus don’t. Lastly, it’s all about the HTC Sense UI. Many who have seen the Desire easily concludes it’s the Nexus One with a Sense. The two, however, may not ever meet as the 3G dual band UMTS on the Desire can’t work in US markets of the Nexus One, though the latter’s tri-band UMTS can work in Asian and European markets.
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Common Superphone Features
Apart from these obvious and not-so-obvious differences, the desire and the Nexus One can be said to be the same banana. Both run on the same Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon engine clocked at 1 GHz and running the same Android 2.1 Éclair platform. Both are 3G phones with the same WiFi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and A2DP and microUSB 2.0 local data connectivity. There’s SatNav from a built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS support.
The HTC Desire gets the same 3.7-inch WideVGA capacitive touch screen display with multitouch data input support, an accelerometer for auto rotate viewing convenience and proximity sensor for touchscreen sensitivity auto turn-off when holding the handset against your ears in a call. Imaging likewise gets the same 5 megapixel autofocus snapper with LED flash and HD quality video recording at D1 resolution (720 x 480) and 30fps frame rates.
Mobile entertainment starts with the same capable media playback for popular media file codecs, FM stereo receiver with RDS and stereo headphone listening via a 3.5mm AV jack or Bluetooth A2Dp support. Internal phone memory is likewise almost identical with 512 MB ROM on both but RAM is a bit higher on the Desire at 576 MB compared with 512 MB on the Nexus.
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Latest HTC Desire News
28 February 2011 by Liam
It seems that updates are on track and on their way to HTC Android handset owners. According to SlashGear, an HTC spokesperson has confirmed that updates to the latest Android version, 2.3 Gingerbread, will be coming to the HTC Incredible S, Desire HD, Desire Z and the original Desire in Q2, 2011. This will come as particularly good news for those planning on picking up the HTC Incredible S, since the Incredible S was the only one of HTC’s new ...
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It seems that updates are on track and on their way to HTC Android handset owners. According to SlashGear, an HTC spokesperson has confirmed that updates to the latest Android version, 2.3 Gingerbread, will be coming to the HTC Incredible S, Desire HD, Desire Z and the original Desire in Q2, 2011. This will come as particularly good news for those planning on picking up the HTC Incredible S, since the Incredible S was the only one of HTC’s new ...
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17 February 2011 by Liam
If the latest reports coming from MWC are to be believed, the original HTC Desire, the Desire HD and the Desire Z will be getting updates to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Unfortunately for existing Desire owners, these updates could take some time. According to cnet.com, a representative of HTC confirmed to them that Gingerbread updates to the older handsets would be released within two months of the release of the HTC Desire S. However, he also ...
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If the latest reports coming from MWC are to be believed, the original HTC Desire, the Desire HD and the Desire Z will be getting updates to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Unfortunately for existing Desire owners, these updates could take some time. According to cnet.com, a representative of HTC confirmed to them that Gingerbread updates to the older handsets would be released within two months of the release of the HTC Desire S. However, he also ...
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16 February 2011 by Liam
A highlight of yesterday’s activities at MWC was the announcement of the winners in the various categories of the 16th Global Mobile Awards. For mobile and gadget fans like us, the categories of most interest are always the Best Mobile Device and the Device Manufacturer of the Year. Here’s how they panned out. The enviable crown of Best Mobile Device for 2010 was awarded to Apple’s iPhone 4. It’s surprising, really, that this is the first ti...
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A highlight of yesterday’s activities at MWC was the announcement of the winners in the various categories of the 16th Global Mobile Awards. For mobile and gadget fans like us, the categories of most interest are always the Best Mobile Device and the Device Manufacturer of the Year. Here’s how they panned out. The enviable crown of Best Mobile Device for 2010 was awarded to Apple’s iPhone 4. It’s surprising, really, that this is the first ti...
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01 December 2010 by Caroline
December is a busy month when it comes to mobile phone deals, with Christmas and the New Year just around the corner. If all you want this Christmas is a brand new smartphone, we’ve got a quick overview of new releases for this month. The Walkman phone, Sony Ericsson Yendo, is expected to be available through both O2 and T-Mobile in December – and T-Mobile is also launching the Nokia X3 Touch & Type this month. And the iPad is on the netwo...
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December is a busy month when it comes to mobile phone deals, with Christmas and the New Year just around the corner. If all you want this Christmas is a brand new smartphone, we’ve got a quick overview of new releases for this month. The Walkman phone, Sony Ericsson Yendo, is expected to be available through both O2 and T-Mobile in December – and T-Mobile is also launching the Nokia X3 Touch & Type this month. And the iPad is on the netwo...
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