HTC Desire (A8181) Specifications
Product Features:
| 3G: Yes | Wifi: Yes | Camera: 5 MP with flash |
| Display: 3.7 inches | Touch: Yes, Capacitive | Memory Card: upto 32 GB |
| Music Player: Yes | OS: Android | FM Radio: Yes |
Product Review:
- Fantastic AMOLED display
- Terrific performance
- Updated Android Sense UI is outstanding
- Records video in WVGA resolution
- More RAM than Nexus One
- Camera isn’t great
- Hardware design is conservative (and a bit bland)
- Speakerphone distorts at times
- No case included
- No US 3G version
Quick Specifications
See Full Specifications- General:
- Android, v2.2
- Display:
- Touch (Capacitive)
- 3.7 inches
- 480 x 800 pixels
- Camera:
- 5 MP
- AutoFocus
- Flash
- Video Recording
- Technical:
- 576 MB Inbuilt Memory
- Memory Card Support, upto 32 GB
- 576 MB RAM
- 1 GHz Processor
- Connectivity:
- 3G
- WiFi with hotspot
- Bluetooth
- GPS
- Extra:
- Music Player
- Video Player
- FM Radio
- 3.5 mm Headphone
Advantages
Display In Groups| Display | |
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Has A Responsive Touch Screen
Capacitive, MultiTouch
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Touch Displays offer a more interactive experience. |
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Has AMOLED Display
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AMOLED Displays have better response time often to under a millisecond, and they consume significantly less battery. |
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Sharp Screen
~ 252 ppi
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Images, videos will look amazing on this sharp and clear screen. Text will be easier to read. |
| Camera | |
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High Resloution Camera
5 MP with AutoFocus
(Average: 5.49 MP)
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High resolution camera for taking sharp and clear photos. |
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Has Flash For Camera
LED
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Having a camera flash allows you to take photos in low light. |
| Technical | |
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Supports Memory Card
upto 32 GB
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Memory cards give your device more storage capacity. So you can store more songs, photos and videos. |
| Connectivity | |
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Supports 3G
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3G Enabled Handsets give you more download speed and a faster internet experience. |
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Faster Download Speed
7.2 Mbps
(Average: 9.2 Mbps)
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Faster Download Speed means stream videos at real time. |
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Supports WiFi
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You can connect to wifi hotspots in your area to experience a superior internet experience. |
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Supports WiFi Hotspot
Wifi Tethering
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Allows you to use your mobile internet connection on your wifi enabled laptop. |
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Supports Bluetooth v2.1
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Bluetooth enables you to wirelessly listen to music and calls using bluetooth headsets. |
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Supports GPS
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GPS is used for determining your location. You can get directions to a place with the help of GPS. |
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Has A 3.5mm Headphone Jack
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Having 3.5mm Jack enables you to connect to large number of other devices (such as speakers) having 3.5mm Port. |
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Has Accelerometer
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Detects motion as well as the orientation of a device (horizontally or vertically). |
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Has Compass
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Determines direction facing relative to North, East, West and South. |
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Supports Video Player
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Watch your favourite video songs and movies in video player. It supports MPEG4, WMV, 3GP, 3G2 file types. |
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Supports Music Player
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Listen to your favourite songs in music player. It supports MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, M4A (Apple lossless), AMR, OGG, MIDI etc. file types. |
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Supports FM Radio
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Listen to your favourite radio stations on your phone. Enjoy music on the go with FM Radio. |
Disadvantages
Display In Groups| Camera | |
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No Front Camera
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Front Camera enables you to take your own photos and do videocalling (on supported phones). |
| Technical | |
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Limited Storage Capacity
576 MB
(Average: 5.2 GB)
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Considering this phone's level of use, it has less amount of memory to store songs, videos, photos and applications. |
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Fewer Processing Cores
1 Core
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More cores result in better parallelism, meaning more tasks can be processed in parallel without slowing down the User Interface. |
| Connectivity | |
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Can't Output To TV
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You can't connect your smartphone to a TV. |
| Extra | |
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Doesn't Have A Gyroscope
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Gyroscope Determines orientation and rotation and provides more accurate 3D motion tracking than an accelerometer. |
| Battery | |
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Short Battery Talk Time
6.7 hours
(Average: 9.4 hours)
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With short battery talk time, you won't be able to talk continously on the phone for a long period of time without charging. |
Full Specifications
Report An Error| General | |
| Sim Type: | GSM |
| Dual Sim: | No |
| Device Type: | Smartphone |
| Release Date: | February, 2010 |
| Design | |
| Dimensions: | 119 x 60 x 11.9 mm |
| Weight: | 135 g |
| Form Factor: | Classic (Candybar) |
| Display | |
| Type: | Color AMOLED screen, 16M colors |
| Touch: | Yes, Capacitive with Multitouch |
| Size: | 3.7 inches, 480 x 800 pixels |
| Memory | |
| Phonebook: | Unlimited |
| Internal: | 576 MB inbuilt, 576 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM |
| Card Slot: | Yes, upto 32 GB, 4 GB included |
| Connectivity | |
| GPRS: | Yes |
| EDGE: | Yes |
| 3G: | Yes, 7.2 Mbps Download, 2 Mbps Upload |
| Wifi: | Yes, with wifi-hotspot |
| Bluetooth: | Yes, v2.1 |
| USB: | Yes, microUSB v2.0 |
| USB Features: | USB Tethering, Mass Storage |
| Extra | |
| GPS: | Yes, with A-GPS Support |
| Sensors: | Accelerometer, Compass |
| 3.5mm Headphone Jack: | Yes |
| Camera | |
| Camera: | Yes, 5 MP with autofocus |
| Features: | Face detection, Geo tagging |
| Video Recording: | Yes, 800 x 480 pixels @ 15fps |
| Flash: | 1 Flash |
| Front Camera: | No |
| Technical | |
| OS: | Android, v2.2 |
| CPU: | 1 GHz, Snapdragon Processor |
| Browser: | Yes, supports HTML |
| Multimedia | |
| Supports: | MMS, Instant Messanging, Voice Recording, Calendar, YouTube Player |
| Email: | Yes |
| Music: | MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, M4A (Apple lossless), AMR, OGG, MIDI |
| Video: | MPEG4, WMV, 3GP, 3G2 |
| FM Radio: | Yes |
| Social Networking: | Facebook, Twitter, Youtube |
| Battery | |
| Size: | 1400 mAH, Li-ion Battery |
| Standby time: | 340 hours, 360 hours on 3G |
| Talk time: | 400 minutes, 390 minutes on 3G |
The Google Nexus One was given the grace of a market head start but its no longer standing lonely at the top. And even if it looks like a brotherly reunion, the HTC Desire is in fact a formidable rival. Thats between HTC and Google though. Users have hardly reasons to complain.
As to the differences, the HTC Desire seems to get the upper hand but its not just quite as capable as promised. read more →
- Quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G support
- 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA
- 3.7" 16M-color capacitive AMOLED touchscreen of WVGA resolution (480x 800 pixel)
- Android OS v2.1 with kinetic scrolling and pinch zooming
- Slim profile and great build quality
- Disappointing video quality
- Limited storage available to the user on the system partition (you are left with only 120 MB for installing apps)
- No DivX and XviD video playback
- No voice dialing
- Non hot-swappable memory card
The Desire is yet another fine piece of work from HTC – build quality is top notch as usual, and there's little to complain about the software except for the Flash performance. Some may argue that the Desire lacks freshness since the Nexus One's already shown it all, but we'd disagree – at the end of the day it's mainly about the software and service, plus the Desire is available from more carriers to begin with (outside the US, anyway). read more →
- Snappy OS performance
- Enhanced Sense UI
- Large, sharp AMOLED screen
- Average camera quality
- Screen too reflective outdoors
- Weak battery life
The Android 2.1-powered HTC Desire is indeed desirable, with a robust feature set, a mature and attractive user interface, and plenty of multimedia goodness. read more →
- Fast performance
- Sharp, responsive screen
- Attractive hardware design
- Refined HTC Sense UI layer
- Smooth, colorful video playback
In short, this is a phenomenal phone - one of the best we've ever had on TechRadar. Usually when we like a phone on the first use, we end up horribly disappointed after a little time with it, but the HTC Desire kept on performing and achieving when we thought it wouldn't.
The screen is lovely, the design is slick and processor makes everything happen in a flash - all you'd want from a smartphone. read more →
- Gorgeous screen
- Slim chassis
- Fast processor
- Good quality 5MP camera
- Speedy internet browser
- Bluetooth playback stutters
- Battery life suspect out the box
- Can't delete whole inboxes in POP3 messaging
Let's get back to what we said at the beginning. „The HTC Desire runs the famous Sense interface and this is the major software difference to the Nexus One.” ...and its operational speed.. „Speaking of operational speed and specifications, we just have to admit the HTC Desire is lighting fast. „As a whole, the camera of the HTC Desire is acceptable for daily use and allows for instantaneous sharing of images over social networks.” „Unfortunately, the device does not support DivX and Xvid, so you will have to make do with you MPEG-4 (H.264 and H.263) files. read more →
- Great operational speed (virtually all applications)
- Huge screen that equates to very comfortable Internet experience
- Partial Flash support
- Excellent in-call and audio playback quality
- No DivX and Xvid support
- Screen that is barely usable in direct sunlight
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