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Saturday, May 15, 2010

HTC Desire - Everything You Could Want From A Phone

By Mark Walters

First and foremost, the HTC Desire is great for making calls and sending messages; calls sound clear in a variety of situations, and the on-screen keyboard has been set out in such a way that typing out messages is quick and easy. As for the internal hardware, it packs in a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and 576MB of RAM, which puts it right at the top of the pile in terms of processing power. In general, HTC has got the basics spot on with their latest release, and have clearly built on their well received earlier handsets.

The user interface is a nice mixture of style and usability, and the capability to customize several homescreens with shortcuts and widgets of your choosing is a real time saver. There are lots of good apps and pieces of software pre-installed, which will allow you to do most of the things that you would want to do on a smartphone. Anything extra that you do want can be downloaded from the Android Market for a reasonable price, or maybe even for free.

The web browser is faultless. Pages load quickly and render correctly, scrolling through long webpages is smooth and fluid, and the browser supports some Adobe Flash content too. The media player is better than average, but is by no means a show-stopping piece of software. Media file recognition is marginally better than previous HTC Androids, adding Windows Media video and audio files to the standard assortment of MP4 videos and MP3 and AAC music.

Most of us use our phones for messaging and social networking as much as we use them to make calls, and so we have come to expect a lot in terms of messaging features on new phones. The HTC Desire meets that expectation face on, and you will be hard pressed to find another phone that makes messaging, whether it be SMS, email, Facebook or Tweets, so easy. All of the relevant boxes are ticked, and messaging on the move is made more convenient than it ever has been.

HTC have paid particular attention to what business users want from a smartphone, and it would be hard to argue against the HTC Desire being the best business smartphone on the market. Support for Microsoft Exchange is provided, so managing your contacts and emails is no problem at all, and it comes with Quickoffice pre-installed, which allows you to view and edit Microsoft Office documents. Features such as those, along with a professional design, are what have made it the first choice smartphone for businessmen and businesswomen.

To summarize, the HTC Desire finds the ideal balance of design, features and performance. It offers a fun, fast user experience and some of the best communications tools available in phones today. It is definitely a good purchase!

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