| April will see the release in the UK of the new HTC | | | | new calendar widget that shows the agenda as well |
| Desire - which aims to be a great new smartphone | | | | as the month, and more importantly tabbed emails |
| for business mobile phone as well as individual users.It | | | | which makes it a much easier and faster phone to |
| is blessed with some pretty top notch hardware in a | | | | manage your communications on. |
| slim case, so how much is it going to shake up the | | | | The 5 mega pixel camera is fine for general use and |
| Smartphone business mobile phone market? | | | | has a flash, but is not a special point of the HTC |
| HTC have put an overlay onto the Windows Mobile 7 | | | | Desire. There are a number of great widgets that |
| platform that works incredibly well. As HTC built the | | | | work well with the powerful processor, one that falls a |
| Google Nexus One this is actually a very similar phone | | | | little short of the rest is the weather widget which is a |
| just with the thinner, easier to hold shape and size. It | | | | bit shaky when moving through the cities. |
| seems that when building the HTC Desire they looked | | | | The HTC Desire is a superb phone for messaging - |
| closely at the Nexus One, took a lot of feedback and | | | | although it doesn't have a physical keyboard, it has an |
| basically ironed out all of the weaknesses. | | | | incredibly responsive and sensitive touchscreen with a |
| One major difference is that the trackball, which is | | | | great auto-correct function. Also great for business |
| used for navigation is missing from the front of the | | | | mobile users, the Desire has exchange support, |
| phone - and has been replaced with an optical option | | | | webmail and threaded text messaging. |
| instead, this means that it is less of a touch based | | | | The contacts view is good, with apps for Facebook |
| experience to navigate, which just takes a bit of | | | | and Twitter as well a useful app called Friendstream |
| getting used to for those used to a trackball | | | | for managing Friends updates. This widget sits on the |
| Smartphone such as on the Nexus One and many | | | | front screen of the phone and lets you see all of you |
| Blackberry mobile phones.There are now physical | | | | friends' Twitter, Facebook and Flickr updates all |
| keys on the front of the phone instead of the touch | | | | grouped together in one place, including new photos, |
| sensitive buttons which are a slightly nicer and quicker | | | | shared links and statuses.it also lets you post updates |
| way to navigate. | | | | to both Facebook and Twitter at the same time. |
| The HTC Desire also doesn't have the dock pots | | | | The HTC Desire with it's WVGA screen is spot on for |
| needed for the stand and they have made a much | | | | multimedia as well - you can simply slide through artists, |
| more economical business mobile phone through | | | | albums and songs at the bottom of the device. With |
| getting rid of the active noise cancellation - this makes | | | | the powerful processor, video on the Desire is |
| it a lot more accesible for the small business user. | | | | incredibly fast with moving images so the video looks |
| The HTC Desire has a 3.7 inch true colour AMOLED | | | | silky smooth, you can watch loads of different codecs |
| screen and it has an extremelly powerful 1 GHz | | | | on the phone and the 3.7-inch OLED screen has very |
| Qualcomm Snapdragon processor which makes the | | | | bright and clear colours. |
| phone incredibly fast to navigate around the various | | | | HTC have also pulled out a great phone for internet |
| tools and apps. it also has a number of widgets that | | | | browsing - it is fast to load web pages and is clear |
| make the phone great for personalisation. | | | | and simple with the large screen. it also has a function |
| The Sense UI is excellent, this phone is multi-touch | | | | so that you can select and hold a piece of text and |
| enabled and has perfect sensitivity so is a fast phone | | | | look it up on Wikipedia or Google translate. |
| to use for both email and messaging. Like the i-phone | | | | The phone has a text reflow option which lets you |
| you can just pinch in on one of the home screens, and | | | | zoom right in on text and constantly refocuses as you |
| you will see all of the displays currently running with no | | | | zoom. A really nice little touch is that the ring volume |
| need to scroll from right to left. | | | | automatically reduces when you pick up the phone - |
| The WM Sense overlay lets you run your finger along | | | | great for reducing interuptions in meetings. |
| the bottom of the device in applications to open up | | | | Overall the HTC Desire is one of the best mobile |
| extra elements, this functionality is available in the | | | | phones for business users (and others) that we have |
| contacts, music and messaging as well many other | | | | ever tested - it obviously blows the Android out of the |
| functions. | | | | water and I felt was on a par with the i-phone. I really |
| A great little addition to this new version of the Sense | | | | hope that this opens up greater competition for Apple |
| UI for business mobile phone users is that there is a | | | | and Blackberry for business mobile phone users. |