There is a good news for those who are patiently waited for the HTC Desire, the HTC's flagship device is launched in the US today for $200 with a 2-year contract through US Cellular.
The carrier announced that the device will be available in stores on 27 august, the device comes with the Google Android 2.1 with HTC Sense UI which is graphically very good than his younger brother Nexus One.It features a big 3.7 inch WVGA AMOLED touch screen, 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 576 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM and a 5 mega pixel camera.The phone is a CDMA version and not available for the pre-paid plans from the carrier.HTC have to fight with the market leader iPhone to stand up in the US market.
The carrier told that they will introduce three more Android phones including Samsung's flagship device Galaxy S(i9000) and two LG handsets.
Specification of HTC Desire:-
Size Dimensions: 119 x 60 x 11.9 mm
Weight: 135 g
Display: AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size: 480 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches
Features:-
- Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor
- Multi-touch input method
- With A-GPS support
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Optical trackpad
- HTC Sense UI
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- Dedicated search key
Internal Memory 576 MB RAM; 512 MB ROM
Card slot: microSD, up to 32GB, 4GB included
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth: v2.1 with A2DP
Infrared: No
USB: microUSB v2.0
Camera
- 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
- Geo-tagging
- Video cam: WVGA (800x480 pixels) @ 15fps
- No cam for video call
Misc:-
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- Colours: Black, Brown, Silver(the availability of colours may vary in US)
- YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA9 player
- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV9 player
- Facebook, Flickr, Twitter applications
- Voice memo
