HTC Desire – Is It Better Than The Google Nexus One?

Posted on 03 July 2010

Taking a quick glance, one would think that the HTC Desire is almost a design twin to the Google Nexus One. It’s almost the same inside, too. With the HTC Desire you get a 1GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor, GPS, A-GPS, a microSD, 512MB of flash and 265 MB of Ram. It also has the same sized (3.7″) WVGA AMOLET screen and great curve, with a power button on the top of the device. This device also has a proximity sensor and a compass so it’s readily usable for augmented reality apps as well as HSDPA. The handset is Wi-Fi and Bluetooth ready. There’s a 5 megapixel camera with an LED flash and the ability to capture 800x 480 video, which is slightly boosted from that of its predecessor. Both offer screen shortcuts to options like home, menu, back and search. What’s the difference between the two phones? The Google Nexus One has better active voice cancellation which means that the “voice to text” functionality of the Desire won’t work either. So don’t set up any lonely Saturday night chat dates with your new HTC Desire. Are you thinking that perhaps the Desire is not as desirable as the Nexus One. Of course it is! The mechanical trackball on the front of the phone has gone, as have the touch-sensitive buttons within the screen. They have been replaced with hard shortcut keys and a more precise optical navigation trackball. This is inline with what has been happening elsewhere in the cell phone market, with BlackBerry making the same choice for their latest releases. It’s been recognized that mechanical trackballs struggle to last the duration of an 18 or 24 month contract, and so this change is a major plus. The user-interface is different too, with the HTC Desire making use of the Sense UI that was used on the HTC Hero. The lastest version of HTC’s Sense UI id bigger, better and faster though. Put simply, they’ve taken what was already a great interface and have made it even better. A new option is the ‘helicopter view’, which works in a similar way to Expose on Mac products. Pinching the homescreen displays all of the homescreen pages you’ve got running at the time. You just have to tap to switch between apps. It really is the best interface that you’ll find on any smartphone, and that includes the iPhone. So, which one should you get – the HTC Desire, the Google Nexus One or the iPhone? It really comes down to personal preference, as there’s not much between them at all. However, if you’re really unsure, then the fact that the HTC Desire was released later than the Google Nexus One, and is cheaper than the iPhone, would maybe give it the advantage.

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