HTC Desire Touchscreen 3G mobile phone reviews
+ This mobile phone scores very high on features. - It scores poorly on battery life.
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Most helpful reviewsConfirmed purchaser Music and entertainment lover
- Good points:
- Good multitouch screen, amazing os and lots of great apps
- Bad points:
- software is sometimes glitchy to the point that it will freeze up completely when turning on, but restarting the phone sorts that issue out
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Confirmed purchase: 18 Nov 2010
Krissy, Basic text and chat user
- Good points:
- Lovely phone one of best phones i have ever had x
- Bad points:
- No bad things about it z
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Confirmed purchase: 14 Jun 2010
Confirmed purchaser internet
- Good points:
- a great phone
- Bad points:
- can't see screen in bright sunlight.
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Confirmed purchase: 09 Aug 2011
James, Colchester Music and entertainment lover
- Good points:
- Lots of apps available, good all round phone
- Bad points:
- battery life, have to charge most days
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Confirmed purchase: 08 Sep 2010
Rowan , Exeter Music and entertainment lover
- Good points:
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.Clean feel
.Easy to use, like most phones
.Battery does last long but is highly dependent on how you manage it
.I would advise rooting the phone
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.Would not say it is worth the money
.Severely limited by internal memory, meaning you can get 4 or 5 main applications with maybe 10 smaller ones.
.Kinda lags with only a few applications. This related to the little internal memory.
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Confirmed purchase: 06 Sep 2010
Steve, Aberdeen Basic text and chat user
- Good points:
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Very easy to use.
Processor is a noted improvement on my previous BlackBerry phones.
Crisp visuals from amoled screen.
Intuitive user interface. - Bad points:
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Poor battery life, particularly when web browsing and watching video content - not too bad for normal text and call use.
Predictive auto-correct feature can make your texts a difficult code to break at times.
Sometimes have to manually minimize the keypad to send a text or hit enter to go to a URL. It seems to choose randomly if you have to do this or not, but this isn't a major issue.
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Confirmed purchase: 01 Jun 2011
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Product Features
| Operating system | Android |
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| Type of phone | Smartphone |
| Shape of phone | bar |
| 3G | Yes |
| Touchscreen or keypad | Touchscreen |
| Connections | WiFi |
| Connections | Bluetooth |
| Connections | USB |
| Extra functions | Satellite navigation |
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| Extra functions | Camera |
| Extra functions | Instant messaging |
| Extra functions | Flash |
| Band | Quad |
| Horizontal resolution (Pixels) | 480 |
| Vertical resolution (Pixels) | 800 |
| Camera resolution (MegaPixels) | 5 |
| Talk time (Hours) | 6.67 |
| Stand-by time (Days) | 14.2 |
| Depth in cm | 1.19 |
| Height in cm | 11.9 |
| Width in cm | 6 |
| Memory card slot | Yes |
| Autofocus | Yes |
| Weight (g) | 135 |
| EDGE | Yes |
| FM tuner | Yes |
| MP3 playback capable | Yes |
| HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) | Yes |
| Java | Yes |
| Release date | 2010-02-22 |
Manufacturer's Description
HTC Desire delivers intense brilliance, sharp contrast, and true colors on the expansive 3.7-inch AMOLED display. The 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor makes the phone incredibly responsive as you multitask from app to app without skipping a beat, while the instinctive HTC Sense experience lets you wield the power of the HTC Desire with the greatest
of ease.
Make It Mine
With the HTC Desire, it’s all about your information, your entertainment, your multimedia … your way. A multitude of HTC Sense widgets makes it easy to transform your Home screen with rich content that personalizes your phone experience.
If you’re a sports junkie or simply love to keep up to date with the latest news, the HTC Desire keeps you in the know with the News application. News makes it easier than ever to collect all your favorite articles from across the web. Choose from a selection of channels that cover top blogs, news sites or sports pages, or get news updates based on the keywords you select.
Stay Close
The HTC Desire excels at helping you stay in touch with the different circles of friends or colleagues in your life. The new People widget lets you bring any group you create on your phone right to the surface for easy access to calling, messaging, emailing or simply checking up on social networking updates.
The HTC Desire simplifies the way that you tend to all of your social networks. With Friend Stream, your interaction with friends across multiple social networks like Facebook®, Twitter™, and Flickr™ are brought into a single easy to follow stream of updates, photo posts, and shared links. Friend Stream also lets you shout out your thoughts or feelings to all your online friends with a single comment that gets broadcast to both Facebook and Twitter.
Discover the Unexpected
HTC Desire offers an expansive display, a blazing-fast processor, and a great interface. On top of that, it has a lot of little design touches that make a big impact on your overall phone experience: like the new ‘Leap’ thumbnail view that lets you easily jump to any of the seven panels on your Home screen, or the polite ringer that lowers the ringer volume when you pick up
the phone.
Your work email, calendar appointments, and contacts, are right there on your phone – you can even look up any company contact in the global address book. The HTC Desire also has enhanced support for Exchange security features such as password protection and remote data wipe. And, if you forget to tell your colleagues that you are taking the much needed day off, you can set the ‘Out of Office’ status right from your phone.
HTC Desire was designed to thrive on the web. The screen size is perfect for mobile browsing, with the high resolution AMOLED display making everything you view ultra crisp. The pinch to zoom feature makes zipping around websites intuitive – the text even automatically reflows when you take a closer look so you don’t have to pan left or right, and the Adobe® Flash® support opens up the vast video and gaming resources of the Internet.
HTC Desire’s browser is designed to do more than simply browse. With just a press and hold you can select text on a page and look it up in Wikipedia or have it converted into your native tongue via Google translation tools.
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Tracey, Ipswich Business or web user
Score 8.0/10Confirmed purchase: 28 Sep 2010