HTC Desire Now Released In The UK [The Un-Google Nexus One Is Now Out On Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Free With Most Contracts]

Posted on TFTS by Kevin Schram on Monday, 29. March 2010 under: Mobile/Cell Phones

The HTC Desire, the HTC-branded version of the amazing (but not popular) Nexus One is now out for customers in the United Kingdom. One bonus of the Nexus One is that most of the English mobile phone providers are actually offering the phone free with long-term contracts (or tariffs, as they say).

The unlocked price on the HTC Desire is a whopping €503 ($676, £451), but English mobile phone providers T-Mobile, Orange and Vodafone are all offering the powerful device for free with longer tariffs, or for subsidized prices with shorter ones. Not bad, considering the Nexus One (basically the same phone) is still $179 in the States with a two-year contract direct from Google. Needless to say, I’d imagine the HTC Desire will sell a bit better than the mediocre results of the Nexus One.

On the hardware side, it features a mouth-watering 3.7-inch OLED screen with a Snapdragon 1GHz processor. It will have 576MB of RAM and 512MB of internal memory. It will be, of course, running Android 2.1 and unlike the Nexus One will have HTC’s Sense UI (which some people prefer, some don’t). Other features include a 5-megapixel camera. The device is also capable of 720p video playback.

The Desire does have some differences from it’s Nexus One brother. The body of the device is different and there is an optical track pad instead of the trackball. The Desire also has a few more physical buttons, an FM radio and will come with Adobe Flash Lite 10.1 out of the box. Thankfully, the device will support multi-touch out of the box.

The ‘desirable’ HTC Desire (terrible, I know) is now out in the UK. It’s coming to the US via AT&T sometime in the summer.

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