HTC Desire HD

The latest high-end smart phone announced this month is HTC Desire HD. The release date of the device is expected to take place by October 2010. If HTC Desire has won several laurels then its successor, HD2 is definitely going to win more hearts. Moreover, the handset comes loaded with overhauled Sense UI and brings on more latest features. However, we expected somewhat better display screen features with its sharp packing of WVGA resolution; may be in the lines of iPhone 4G or Galaxy Tab, but we are slightly disappointed here. However, there are lots of other features and applications that still make Desire HD one of the hottest products of HTC. The best part of the phone is that it is extremely pocketable because of its slim dimensions at 123 x 68 x 11.8 mm. HTC Desire HD runs on the latest version of Android™ (Froyo), which ensures that the users are going to enjoy smoother and faster experienced of mobile telephony.

HTC Desire HD – Internet and Interface

The interface of the latest Desire is quite friendly. However, those who love the interface of the original Desire, will miss that impact because the new device has made certain tweaks. You can open the notification bar by pulling down the screen’s top portion and then navigate through the applications that are open or most-used so that you can access the vital things easily. The menu system that uses 1GHz Qualcomm processor is excellent as always and you can easily and swiftly use different menus. You can take the advantage of a new feature called Car Dock that can help you to use the phone as a navigator. It comes with pre-cache maps of popular cities of the world.

In terms of the Internet usability, HTC Desire HD is simply awesome. While browsing a text of as site over the phone, you can zoom in. No matter how much you zoom, the text gets resized accordingly to provide a clearer view. High speed the Internet is supported by this mobile phone as it is powered by HSDPA at 7.2 Mbps and Wi-Fi® 802.11 b/g/n. The other connectivity options of the phone include Class 10 GPRS and EDGE with the speed of 32 to 48 kbps and 236.8 kbps respectively. Desire HD supports HTML browser and you can easily use the Internet based applications such as Push Email, instant messaging, YouTube™, Google applications, and social networks.

HTC Desire HD – Social Networking Support

Social networking has become one of the must-do activities among people, especially the young generation. HTC Desire HD integrates the best of social networks such as Facebook™. Flickr, and Twitter™ applications so that you can easily update your profile and interact with your friends whenever you want. Implementation of social network applications is also helpful for the business professionals as they can constantly remain updated with their business proceedings.

HTC Desire HD – Network Support

The latest handset of Desire HD is supportive of both 2G and 3G networks. The users of 2G will get support of quad band GSM service such as 850/ 900/ 1800/1900. The 3G network users will get the support of HSDPA 900/ 2100.

HTC Desire HD – the Display

The display features of the mobile phone are definitely among the best, but if you expect something better than Galaxy S or iPhone4, then you might be a bit disappointed. In fact , the display is the biggest highlight of the handset as the large screen will definitely catch the attention. The gigantic size of the display is 4.3 inches and it is an S-LCD capacitive touch screen that boasts 16 million colours and a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. Other prominent highlights of the display includes proximity sensor for auto turn off, accelerometer sensor for UI auto rotate, touch sensitive control panel, multi touch input method, and of course HTC Sense UI.

HTC Desire HD – the Memory

Desire HD is a high-end smart phone and hence it comes with lots of features and applications. To smoothly run these applications, it is essential that the phone comes with a decent memory back up. The storage capacity of the handset does not disappoint as it can support up to whopping 32 GB storage capacity. However, this is expandable memory where you have to use microSD™ card to increase the memory support. The internal memory capacity of the mobile phone is 1.5 GB, which itself is quite impressive. The internal memory can easily store innumerous entries of phone book and call records.

HTC Desire HD – The Camera

One of the biggest highlights of the mobile phones is a camera. There are many users who purchase the handsets just for the sake of clicking snaps on the go. If you are also one of them, then HTC Desire HD is a dream device for you. The handset comes with a top class 8 mega pixel camera with high-end features such as auto focus, face detection, dual-LED flash, face detection and geo tagging. The resolution of the images clicked with this camera is 3264 x 2448 pixels. The camera can also record high quality videos at 720p, which really boost up the multimedia functionalities of the phone. With such high-end camera and video features along with excellent Internet connectivity, you can upload your favorite snaps or AVs to your favorite social network and share with friends.

HTC Desire HD – Music and Video

Other prominent multimedia features of the mobile phone includes a music player that can play MP3/ AAC+/ WAV/ WMA9 files; and a video play back that can stream MP4/ H.263/ H.264/ WMV9 files. Stereo FM with RDS is there for more entertainment.

HTC Desire HD looks promising and confident to carry forward the benchmark set by the original Desire. Thumbs Up!

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