| Of all the recent announcements at the 2010 Mobile | | | | (850/1900) on 3G exclusive to Europe and Asia. There |
| World Congress heralding new smartphones to | | | | WiFi 802.11 for hotspot surfing and Bluetooth 2.1 with |
| appear in the market over the next few months, the | | | | EDR and microUSB 2.0 for local data connectivity. |
| most promising and possibly the best comes from the | | | | Both have the same SatNav functionality with A-GPS |
| Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC. One of them | | | | receiver and Digital Compass. |
| is the new HTC Desire that have been lingering in the | | | | Battery life is an oddity as the Desire gets a shorter |
| rumour corridors online and which is aptly considered | | | | talk time of 6.6 hours on a more powerful 1600 mAh |
| as the Google Nexus One with Sense UI. That's not | | | | Li-Ion battery while the Nexus gets a more generous |
| surprising as the abandoned HTC is the OEM for | | | | 10 hours on a less powerful 1400 mAh battery when |
| Google's first foray into the smartphone business | | | | using the 2G network. The reverse happens on |
| which uses an abandoned HTC Passion which has | | | | standby. You get 340 hours on the Desire and just |
| morphed into the Desire we now have. | | | | 290 hours on the Nexus. |
| Desire Against Nexus | | | | The main advantage of the Desire handset is |
| It's quite easy to see that the Desire is essentially a | | | | obviously its Sense UI that creates the differentiating |
| Nexus twin with the same dimensions and ergonomic | | | | HTC signature wherever it goes in its Windows Mobile, |
| styling in the way they look and feel. Inside, it's the | | | | Android and Brew implementation devices. But this also |
| same story as you have the same 1 GHz Qualcomm | | | | has its price as the future Android release won't be |
| Snapdragon power them up and running the same | | | | able to upgrade to what you have without HTC |
| Android 2.1 Éclair OS. | | | | reworking the Sense UI over the upgraded versions. |
| Back to the aesthetics, both have the same stunning | | | | In short, you can get stuck with the version you have |
| 3.7-inch Wide-VGA capacitive touchscreen with | | | | as is the case with HTC Hero users who won't be |
| multitouch data entry technologies, accelerometer, | | | | seeing any new HTC releases for its 1.5 Android when |
| ambient light and proximity sensors. Imaging is likewise | | | | the 2.1 has been around for quite some time now. |
| identical with a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with | | | | Conclusion |
| geo tagging, LED Flash and D1 (720 x 480) video | | | | After all is said, both Nexus One and the HTC Desire |
| recording but with differing frame rates. The Desire | | | | represent the height of cutting edge smartphone |
| has the edge with 30fps while Nexus One has 20fps. | | | | technology with entirely different markets on both |
| Up close, both have quad band GSM (850/900/1800 | | | | sides of the Atlantic divide. No one would be any |
| 1900) EDGE/GPRS phone on 2G but as 3G phones, | | | | poorer for choosing either. 3G on the Nexus could be |
| the two start to diverge. The Nexus is a tri band | | | | used in Europe but that on the HTC Desire can't be |
| UMTS/HSPA (900/1700/2100) which can be used in | | | | used in the US and HTC has no plans of making a US |
| Europe but the Desire is just a dual band UMTS/HSPA | | | | version so far. |