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HTC’s Desire combines versatile software with high-end hardware

The HTC Desire is currently among the most popular smartphones available in the market and features an impressive and extensive list of specifications. Its popularity is totally understandable, considering all the included features, as well as its affordable price.

The HTC Desire basically has everything it takes to be a successful product. It has a large 3.7-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, an extremely customizable HTC Sense UI, and it’s also a lightweight phone. It has a long list of features, such as FriendStream, which is a unique social networking app that sorts data from numerous feeds and then displays it on a single screen based on contact and not source. It uses the Android v2.1 operating system and an excellent 1 GHz processor. It is certainly a great addition to the collection of smartphones available.

Access to the Android market allows users to access a database containing numerous downloadable applications, which can be purchased or even downloaded for free. With this option, the overall functionality of HTC Desire can be greatly improved. Basically, there is an app for just about anything users can imagine. With just a few taps on the screen, users can download a large number of games, content, and programs from the Android Market from a variety of different categories.

It is extremely easy to surf the Internet with the powerful Snapdragon processor. Using a 3G or Wi-Fi connection, users achieve high-speed Internet access just like a broadband connection on their home computer. It has a Flash enabled web browser and therefore flash videos and animations can be seen on the sites and that feature is not that common in most of the phones. The AMOLED display is perfect for viewing content-rich sites and only a double tap is needed to enlarge smaller text. This is possible through pinch-to-zoom, which automatically scales text to best fit the screen. Therefore, users do not have to scroll up and down the site. The text on the website can also be easily highlighted and displayed with various options. Users can copy it to the clipboard, look it up in search engines or Wikipedia, or even translate it via Google Translate with just a touch of the screen.

A 5 megapixel camera can be found on the back of the HTC Desire which takes quality images (5:3 Widescreen) with a resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels. Your digital camera comes with a comprehensive software package that offers many image enhancement features. The photos can be edited and also shared through the social networks of your choice. Video footage can also be recorded by the camera with a quality similar to that of still images. It’s a great phone for photography fanatics and casual amateur photographers as well.

The extensive internal media player supports a large number of video and music file formats. Multitasking is no problem, thanks to the powerful processor, which allows users to browse the Internet while listening to music.

Overall, the HTC Desire is pretty much perfect. It is almost perfect from all points of view, including software, hardware and function, and it is no wonder that it is such a popular mobile phone all over the world.

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