{"id":10532,"date":"2010-05-22T19:02:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T11:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=10532"},"modified":"2010-05-22T19:02:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T11:02:01","slug":"htc-desire-review-first-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/22\/htc-desire-review-first-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"HTC Desire Review, First Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have noticed, HTC Desire was launched in Singapore on the 14th May 2010<\/a>. I was glad to be able to get hold of a review set (thanks to HTC) a few days later. It has a 3.7-Inch AMOLED screen and Android 2.1 OS and of course HTC Sense.<\/p>\n

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The first time I touch this HTC Desire, it has a very sturdy feeling. It doesn’t feel cheap. And when you grip it, it has a rubbery feeling that makes you feel safe that it does not slip off your hand.<\/p>\n

Nowadays, HTC has optical joystick instead of the ball cursor.<\/p>\n

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If you inspect closely, you will realize that the HTC Desire has a chin, a very slight chin. I have received many comments that they don’t like the chin (in Hero,especially). With HTC Desire, HTC has almost completely removed it.<\/p>\n

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The HTC Desire has a clean look. Apart from the optical joystick and physical buttons in front, there is only on rocker switch for the volume and a power on button.<\/p>\n

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The bottom is the charging data\/transfer port.<\/p>\n

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A closer look. It is a micro-USB Port.<\/p>\n

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It has a 5-MegaPixels camera with flash.<\/p>\n

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To open the back cover, you will need to use your nail or something to ply open. I don’t understand why HTC wants to have such cover. It is very troublesome.<\/p>\n

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Opening it out, you can see the battery, the SIM card and the MicroSD card slots.<\/p>\n

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Close up of the slots.<\/p>\n

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And the camera. The speaker is next to it.<\/p>\n

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The battery.<\/p>\n

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Overall, I think that the design of this HTC Desire is nice, although a little dull with the color scheme and the shape. It makes many wonder what phone I am holding since everyone “looks the same”. Unless you have been meddling with HTC’s phones, you will not notice big differences.<\/p>\n

The scrolling is smooth. With a 1 MHz processor, it feels snappy. I compared it with a Sony Xperia X10 using Google Maps. I can immediately see the effect while browsing on Street View.<\/p>\n

I will post some video in the next post. In the meanwhile, if you have any questions, shoot. BTW, I only got this unit for 5 days and had already returned it.
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If you have noticed, HTC Desire was launched in Singapore on the 14th May 2010. I was glad to be able to get hold of a review set (thanks to HTC) a few days later. It has a 3.7-Inch AMOLED screen and Android 2.1 OS and of course HTC Sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1509,5,6,14],"tags":[37,1594,2365,1472,7,82,897],"class_list":["post-10532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-mobile","category-pda","category-techie","tag-android","tag-android-2-1","tag-desire","tag-eclair","tag-htc","tag-review","tag-sense"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-2JS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10546,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10532\/revisions\/10546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}