Hands On with the HTC Desire

Greg Kumparak of MobileCrunch goes hands on with the HTC Desire. Demonstrated by HTC's Eric Lin.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• HTC
• Desire
• MobileCrunch

[genestarwindjf80]

I have the desire to get the Desire.

[BenX74]

I really wanted the iPhone BAD, even though it clearly has its limitations about what apple lets you do with it. Anyway, I really was ready to put all those franklins on the table.

But then I discovered THIS and was thrilled to find out that the android app store isn't significantly inferior and has great apps as well!

So Apple, keep your incredibly overpriced restrictive shit! I'm gonna get me this baby here instead!

[Terminigga]

@sackypack

well this idea is a good one certainly.. but its not that special or unique.. i mean inventing arrow selectors for selecting text is not all that brilliant, is it?

and the "rip-off" actions as you call it happen all the time.. just think about what apple "rips-off" from microsoft and also the other way round.. thats perfectly normal and legitimate.. why? because it serves you as a user with more competition = better pricing = no monopoly!

[sackypack]

Wow, I find it really lame that competitors criticize Apple for not having copy and paste for a year or so and then they completely rip off their UI when they come up with an elegant solution (and text selection in general). There is no way they could have came out with this UI as quickly as they did without copying Apple's solution (it's literally a direct copy). This is a perfect example of why software patents are a good idea. To prevent ripoffs of legitimate software ideas like this.

[Mariomaestro92]

@motomansm SnapDragon my friend. Google it.

[thirteenfingers]

@bluezinc17 I'm still debating whether to get the Desire or wait and see what Android phones come out that look like the iPhone 4 (seriously good looking bit of hardware) but the specs say there's a proximity detector that shuts down the screen when it's up to your ear. That should eliminate the ear-press.

How that works in practice I don't know, hopefully one of the many Desire users will comment on that - but in theory at least it should not be a problem.

[bluezinc17]

When you're actually using it as a phone without the earphone, your ear gets rubbed against the screen, does it affect the screen ? not sure what is the feature to deactivate the screen when it's on phone mode. I know iPhone is really good at that particular feature.

My other HTC (Touch Pro 2) is really a piece of junk, when you use it as a phone, the screen gets rubbed by my ear and by accident, the end call button gets pressed.

[smza24]

nice video



[ProDjo777]

@genestarwindjf80 And I'm getting it : D !

[nilbud]

Nice kit. If they're going to use a series of dick names they should call the next one The Bowstaff because then at least people will be meant to snigger.