The first Android full-QWERTY slider from the Taiwanese leader in smartphones was the HTC Dream released back in June 2009. Now you have a successor in the HTC Desire Z. A closer look and it’s really the HTC Desire that just grew a sliding QWERTY keyboard from the outside. Inside, it’s another story, though close.
Familiar Features
Like the earlier Desire, the Z comes with the same 3.7-inch Super LCD capacitive touchscreen with 480 x 800 resolution and 16 million colors, plus accelerometer and proximity sensors and the multitouch input feature. It could have been AMOLED just like the first batch of HTC Desire handsets, but HTC has already shifted to S-LCD in the later batches as Samsung failed to deliver the needed quantities of the screens.
Then there’s the same 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, geo tagging and face detection. But the HTC Desire Z one-ups the Desire with 720p video recording courtesy of its higher Android v2.2 Froyo. But an upgrade on the older Éclair in the Desire should fix that.
Other Desirable Features
Powered by a Qualcomm MSM 7230 CPU clocked at 800 MHz, a bit less endowed than the 1GHz Snapdragon on the first Desire, the HTC Desire Z enjoys the same plethora of radio and data connectivity options, starting with a quad band GMS/GPRS/EDGE on 2G and a dual band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA on 3G.
It comes with hotspot support from an upgraded WiFi 802.11 b/g/n with DLNA and local data connectivity like Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and microUSB v2.0. Other features include a stereo FM receiver with RDS, a 3.5mm audio jack, SatNav support with GPS, A-GPS and Digital Compass.
There’s a 1.5 GB onboard user memory with 512 MB RAM and up to 32GB microSD support. Its 1300 mAh Li-ion battery delivers 9.8 hours of call time on 2G, 6.6 hours on 3G with 430 hours on standby. Some very attractive HTC Desire Z contracts have already emerged and the handset is expected to hit shelves in late October.
Open source mobile platforms are taking a solid cue from the Android operating system. And with smart phones like the HTC Desire placing a new benchmark for the technology, it is hard to deny the fact that other handsets being released are simply following the example that has been set.
Understanding what makes this smart phone so special is not just looking at one simple facet of the device as both the hardware and software are equally impressive.
Android Operating System
On the software side, the Android operating system delivers a mobile phone experience unlike any other. It allows for the easy access of a wide variety of Google’s web features such as email, Maps, augmented reality, search, as well as access to file hosting and media sharing sites such as Picasa and YouTube.
The Android Market also provides users with a wide array of apps to choose from –apps that would allow users to customize battery usage, better screen brightness controls along with other practical add-ons.
Even better is the fact that the HTC Desire is upgradeable to the Android 2.2 Froyo. This version of the Android platform provides better performance thanks to better resource management capabilities (Google boasts of an outstanding speed boost of up to three times faster than version 2.1 Éclair). Naturally, the improved performance makes this the version of choice and you can expect future handsets like the HTC Desire HD to come pre-loaded with it.
Web browsing using the Android WebKit is also a lot faster with the new Java API.
Specs and More
In terms of hardware features, the HTC Desire is the first mobile phone to place the Android operating system on a Snapdragon CPU aside from the Google Nexus One. Speaking of the Google branded Android, the two phones are so similar to each other that choosing one over the other is a simple matter of wanting to have the Sense user interface or not.
While some Android purists might not like having a custom UI, HTC’s newly launched Sense UI features not only makes the custom interface look better, it also provides plenty of new security features not originally available in the OS such as remote device access.
HTC, a Taiwanese mobile manufacturer, has been known to provide exceptional and unforgettable Smartphones. Some of their previously successful releases are the HTC Legend and HTC Wildfire.
Anyone can agree that HTC is doing a great job in satisfying the needs of their consumers. Their mobiles are well praised and much appreciated. No wonder HTC seems to be a tough competitor of iPhone and the BlackBerry. The HTC Desire is another mobile that Smartphone enthusiasts are sure to look forward to having. Let us talk more about it.
Looking Good
If you are looking for a mobile that will stand out because of its design and functionality, then the HTC Desire smartphone should be number one on your list. The design is very pleasing and attractive to the eye. The main highlight of the HTC Desire is its humungous touch screen that measures 3.7 inches.
You can just imagine how big that is. The screen is AMOLED capacitive which is compatible with 16M colours. You would enjoy viewing pictures more because of its high resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. It has an accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, multi-touch capability, a proximity sensor and a highly functional optical trackpad as well.
This kind of touch screen is surely one of kind. Once you have this mobile, you are sure to be the envy of many.
More to Beauty
When looking for a mobile to purchase, don’t just go for the most beautiful mobile available in the market without knowing the kind of features it offers. Good thing is that the HTC Desire is more than just a pretty face, it comes loaded with great features that you would surely need.
The most basic feature it offers is its compatibility with the 2G or 3G network. This means it will perfectly work with GSM 850 /1800 / 900 / 1900 and HSDPA 2100 / 900. With data connectivity it brags that it offers GPRS, EDGE, WIFI, WLAN and Bluetooth. Therefore you will be able to access the internet freely and share files as well.
With a sizable 3.7” AMOLED screen delivering amazing colours and full contrast, the HTC Desire is truly nothing short of brilliant. Under its hood is a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor which aims to deliver unbridled clock speeds and a silky smooth, highly-responsive, and multi-tasking-capable system that is unmatched. Rounding things off is its famed Sense UI which has received countless acclaims. If there ever was a desirable Smartphone, then surely it has to be the HTC Desire.
It’s YOUR Mobile
One of the best features of the Desire is that it provides limitless customization options, making the device a perfect match for one and for all. Regardless if you’re an on-the-go office worker, a budding entrepreneur, or a college undergrad still searching for his own voice, the Desire can truly be YOUR mobile.
HTC’s proprietary Sense UI provides its users with a boatload of widgets that you can mix and match to convert your home screen into a personal source of information, multimedia, entertainment, or even all of the above, all at once.
Stay Connected
The manufacturers of the HTC Desire appreciates the fact that in order to be an exceptional mobile, a device has to have the ability to connects its users to the rest of the world through a variety of avenues. Voice and data connectivity options on the Desire are second to none and it of course, has support for the likes of IM (instant messaging) and Push Email. That’s not all she wrote for the Desire as it is also equipped with social networking integration which guarantees that you never miss a bet on Facebook or Twitter.
One for the Books
The HTC Desire is definitely a mobile to remember. It has all the elements both critics and consumers look for in a Smartphone. Come the end of the year, when all the mobile phone awarding bodies start searching for the premier mobile of 2010, there is no doubt that the Desire will be there or thereabouts.
HTC has announced its stand against Apple’s previous lawsuit regarding over 20 Apple patents with regards to iPhone’s underlying technology, user interface and specific hardware designs. The Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer has openly declared that they respect healthy competition for their supporters and will be prepared to face Apple’s charges head on. Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corporation clearly said this in his statement:
“HTC disagrees with Apple’s actions and will fully defend itself. HTC strongly advocates intellectual property protection and will continue to respect other innovators and their technologies as we have always done, but we will continue to embrace competition through our own innovation as a healthy way for consumers to get the best mobile experience possible.”
The public announcement then continues with a list of innovations from HTC such as the first Windows PDA (1998), the first Windows Phone (June 2002), the first gesture-based smart phone (June 2007), the first Google Android smart phone (October 2008), HTC Sense user experience (2009) among others.
The vice president of HTC America has also released his views regarding the matter. He states that collaboration has always been a key factor in their overall success:
“HTC has always taken a partnership-oriented, collaborative approach to business. This has led to long-standing strategic partnerships with the top software, Internet and wireless technology companies in the industry as well as the top U.S., European and Asian mobile operators. It is through these relationships that we have been able to deliver the world’s most diverse series of smart phones to an even more diverse group of people around the world, recognizing that customers have very different needs.”
If Apple does get a one up over HTC, then consumers may suffer with the lack of options. The iPhone manufacturer does tend to keep a tight hold of its partnerships unlike other non-exclusive team ups with other phone companies. Having the Taiwanese phone manufacturer as a competitor in the smart phone industry is truly an asset for consumers.
Knowing the myriad of patents that Apple holds, they may be facing more companies in court but that is only if HTC fails to thwart Apple’s plans of dominating the industry.
More information about HTC’s stand can be read at Engadget.
With the introduction of HTC Smart, things have changed at HTC. The upcoming smartphone features a new operating environment, the HTC Sense. This environment is based on three pillars: the first one is ‘make it mine’, the second one ’stay close’ and the ‘discovery of the unexpected’ is the third. The HTC sense can be perceived as an experiment which has you in the centre.
Everybody has a phone, smart or not, but the known smartphones don’t give the user the possibility to customize their phone in the way he wants. The HTC Sense operating environment lets the consumer to feel that the phone really is theirs. Removing, rearranging icons and applications is common in every smartphone on the market. The HTC Sense operating environment – built on a bright new operating system named Qualcomm Brew – goes beyond the usual smartphone offers.
Let’s you bring your content to the surface. It seems like the inner you, and you as a consumer are in the centre of the HTC now. If you are fond of Twitter or you have favourite websites, maybe like weather websites (you want to know how the weather outside without stepping foot outside) or emails, or contacts. The interesting thing is that when you choose to bring these to the surface, you are not making a shortcut. You bring it all up, to your fingertip. Make it mine, also means in the eyes of the creators, that beyond customizing; the style is revealed.
That’s why their clock palette is quite wide, so you can choose the clock you like best, along with the consumers personal documents, photos, etc. They also are thinking about time management. HTC Smart, with this HTC Sense operating environment, answers to the everyday and weekend moods by scenes. Users can set up their phone look different, even specifically on the weekends.
People use phones to stay in touch, to communicate. Nowadays, in this rhythm in motion life we have internet and email, what we would like to read on Time. HTC Smart offers their consumers the feature, along with the text messaging, and looks like the Facebook website can be reached on every smartphone by default. Next to the updates on users Facebook profile, the phone features a 3 Megapixel colour camera with fixed focus and flashlight what helps consumers to share photos about their best moments in life. Consumers can do this via their HTC Smart.
The creators focused on the efficiency of communication between people. With the HTC Sense, they have come up with a one-place communication structure in one contact. What it means, is that the user does not have to launch different applications to follow-up on communication between them and their contacts, it has all of them in one place: emails, text messages, Facebook updates and flicker photos. All users have to do is navigate between the icons. The creators are trying to get closer at the consumers real life by offering these features with a HTC Smart.
HTC HD2 is one of the latest HTC phones which are equipped with the unique and ingenious user interface experience that HTC has come up with, known as HTC Sense. The presence of HTC Sense is one of the most important features in HD2, as it is unique to support the highly sensitive multi-touch capacitive touch screen of the handset being based on Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. The set is equipped with a G-Sensor, a Proximity Sensor and an Ambient Light Sensor to make the complex multi-touch mechanism possible.
The most amazing feature of HTC HD2 is the remarkable smoothness and the crispness of the resolution with which the interface of the handset works, which is the best attribute of the HTC Sense interface. The capacitive touch screen offers you immense control on the software with remarkable ease and simplicity, as you change the way your phone setup looks and see things happens just like you have them in your mind literally through your fingertips. This is the magic of HTC Sense that brings a smooth and intuitive interface through the powerful, yet miniature hardware with which the HTC HD2 is equipped.
Ensuring a high quality web surfing experience is also where HTC Sense proves such an important factor in HTC HD2, allowing you access to a number of applications and widgets of your choice, and allowing you to completely engineer for yourself how your home screen should look. Your phone brings together all your contacts and updates from your accounts on various websites, and allows you to stay updated on your feeds from Twitter and Facebook. You can place the widget of your favorite website on your home screen to have an instant access, or you could even enjoy the convenience of keeping an eye on the local weather with an amazing weather widget updating constantly on your home screen.
Make sure you stay up to date with the latest deals for the HTC HD2 on contract and Pay As You Go as this is going to be a great phone.
The Android based HTC set with a slim and attractive design, Tattoo, is available on Vodafone’s online store and the shipping of the order starts from October 8. HTC Tattoo is expected to be relatively cheaper than many other high profile smartphones, but is being widely received positively because of its attractive slim design, a simple yet effective user interface, and all the benefits of the popular operating system platform developed by Google, Android. Tattoo also uses a number of other Google web services, such as Google maps, search and email among its features pertaining to the internet and web surfing.
The phone has a simple five button menu and is navigated through a touch-screen and enables users to modify it the way it is convenient to them, The Android platform helps you to stay updated with the latest updates on your Facebook news feed, with the latest videos on YouTube, or the pictures added by your friends on Flickr and respond to them with considerable ease.
The HTC Tattoo handset does not offer as sensitive a touch screen or a 5.0 mega pixel camera as in HTC Hero, but it is much lighter and smaller than the latter and is expected to be carrying a cheaper price as well. HTC Tattoo features a 3.2 mega pixel camera and a resistive touch-screen instead, while its 2.8” inch TFT screen is also smaller than the 3.2” screen of HTC Hero, but with smaller dimensions, the smaller screen is understandable. The rest of the features of both the phones are almost similar, with same processor power and memory.
HTC Tattoo has a much more attractive and slim design, and its interface with an improved version of Android is the main factor why mobile phone enthusiasts will be looking forward to the release of HTC Tattoo on contract.
All right, here’s some good news for all you die-hard HTC fans out there. The upgraded version of the popular HTC Touch PDA phone, which was, in unofficial circles, known as the HTC Mega, has finally been officially announced. A number of details about the phone have been released by HTC, which include it’s final name to HTC Touch 2. It will come running on the Windows Mobile 6.5 OS and will retail without any commitment for 299 Pounds, come the 12th of next month. The HTC Touch 2 Reviews have been nothing short of praise for the phone, so let’s see what the fuss is all about.
The HTC Touch2 has extremely similar looks when compared to the HTC Touch but has a difference in the fact that it has a rounded edge at the bottom, unlike the HTC Touch. It also comes with MyPhone, the first phone to do so.
The MyPhone facility is basically a production of Microsoft and enables you to store a backup of your contacts and data on the free internet storage facility of Microsoft. Best of all, you are able to do it on the phone itself, without having to use a computer, making it extremely convenient to use and ensuring that you will be able to take periodic backups of the data.
The Touch2 is also optimized to surf the internet, having a nice and crisp 2.8 inch TFT LCD touch screen. You can zoom in and out of the web pages by using the zooming facility located at the bottom of the screen. Flash objects can be viewed on the web browser, meaning that you can access websites such as YouTube.
Other features present in the HTC Touch2 include the 3.5 mm headset jack, a multimedia player, Bluetooth, 3G with HSDPA, Qualcomm 528 MHz processor and GPS. When the HTC Touch2 is released make sure you check out all the deals that will come on offer so you can compare and get the best price available.
The T-Mobile G1 Touch is the latest phone to have been released on the Google Android OS. Though the phone gives the initial impression of being a pretender, a couple of minutes of usage of the phone should convince you to think otherwise.
The display of the T-Mobile G1 Touch is quite good and, though it is a tad smaller than the display found on the iPhone, the screen overalledly is better than that of the iPhone, so that’s an encouraging start.
As for setting up the phone, quite strangely, you need a Google account if you are to start doing anything with the phone – this includes even activating the phone on the T-Mobile network. Since I really hadn’t purchased their G1 plan, I couldn’t really get the phone activated for use immediately so I had to get some help from T-Mobile in order to get the phone activated. I didn’t realise the problem immediately and had to grope around for a couple of days before calling the customer service.
However, once you activate it, you will get the main screen, where there are 4 default icons – dialer, contacts, browser and maps – in that order. The order gives perfect priority to each of the functions.
There were plenty of apps which came bundled with the G1. This included IM, Email client, a music player, a built – in calendar, integration with Amazon MP3 and mobile YouTube. The Voice Dialer function is also present, enabling you to dial a contact’s number by just mentioning their name. This function has become commonplace for a couple of years now as far as Nokia phones are concerned, so it’s very applaudable that HTC decided to get it on board as well.
However, the best app by a long distance is the Google Maps, which really kills with its pinpoint accuracy!
The full – QWERTY of the T-Mobile G1 Touch served to make the G1 extremely heavy and the choice of colour scheme on the keyboard is quite disappointing, blacking out some keys when in the dark!
The first Android full-QWERTY slider from the Taiwanese leader in smartphones was the HTC Dream released back in June 2009. Now you have a successor in the HTC Desire Z. A closer look and it’s really the HTC Desire that just grew a sliding QWERTY keyboard from the outside. Inside, it’s another story, though close.
With the introduction of 
Let’s you bring your content to the surface. It seems like the inner you, and you as a consumer are in the centre of the HTC now. If you are fond of Twitter or you have favourite websites, maybe like weather websites (you want to know how the weather outside without stepping foot outside) or emails, or contacts. The interesting thing is that when you choose to bring these to the surface, you are not making a shortcut. You bring it all up, to your fingertip. Make it mine, also means in the eyes of the creators, that beyond customizing; the style is revealed.
People use phones to stay in touch, to communicate. Nowadays, in this rhythm in motion life we have internet and email, what we would like to read on Time. HTC Smart offers their consumers the feature, along with the text messaging, and looks like the Facebook website can be reached on every smartphone by default. Next to the updates on users Facebook profile, the phone features a 3 Megapixel colour camera with fixed focus and flashlight what helps consumers to share photos about their best moments in life. Consumers can do this via their HTC Smart.
HTC HD2 is one of the latest HTC phones which are equipped with the unique and ingenious user interface experience that HTC has come up with, known as HTC Sense. The presence of HTC Sense is one of the most important features in HD2, as it is unique to support the highly sensitive multi-touch capacitive touch screen of the handset being based on Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. The set is equipped with a G-Sensor, a Proximity Sensor and an Ambient Light Sensor to make the complex multi-touch mechanism possible.
The Android based HTC set with a slim and attractive design, Tattoo, is available on Vodafone’s online store and the shipping of the order starts from October 8. HTC Tattoo is expected to be relatively cheaper than many other high profile smartphones, but is being widely received positively because of its attractive slim design, a simple yet effective user interface, and all the benefits of the popular operating system platform developed by Google, Android. Tattoo also uses a number of other Google web services, such as Google maps, search and email among its features pertaining to the internet and web surfing.
All right, here’s some good news for all you die-hard HTC fans out there. The upgraded version of the popular HTC Touch PDA phone, which was, in unofficial circles, known as the HTC Mega, has finally been officially announced. A number of details about the phone have been released by HTC, which include it’s final name to 
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