First and foremost, the HTC Desire is great for making calls and sending messages; calls sound clear in a variety of situations, and the on-screen keyboard has been set out in such a way that typing out messages is quick and easy. As for the internal hardware, it packs in a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and 576MB of RAM, which puts it right at the top of the pile in terms of processing power. In general, HTC has got the basics spot on with their latest release, and have clearly built on their well received earlier handsets.

The user interface is a nice mixture of style and usability, and the capability to customize several homescreens with shortcuts and widgets of your choosing is a real time saver. There are lots of good apps and pieces of software pre-installed, which will allow you to do most of the things that you would want to do on a smartphone. Anything extra that you do want can be downloaded from the Android Market for a reasonable price, or maybe even for free.

Browsing the web is a good experience rather than a pain, as pages render correctly and load quickly. Abode Flash content is supported too, unlike with the iPhone. The media player is better than average, but nothing revolutionary. It plays most of the standard assortment of video and music files, all of which look great on the screen and sound great on the speakers. The camera is a cut above the standard ones used on smartphones, but the quality does not seem to be as good as it should be for a 5 megapixel camera.

The HTC Desire supports a wide range of communication methods, from Facebook and Twitter, to old favorites like SMS and email. Staying in touch with contacts and is one of the highest priorities to those using smartphones and HTC has recognized that and met the need. The HTC Desire ticks all of the relevant boxes, and does it in some really innovative ways.

As well as being great for causal / social users, the HTC Desire is perfect for business users too. It comes with Quickoffice installed, which is an app that lets you view and edit Microsoft Office documents, and also supports Microsoft Exchange, so you can easily link up and manage your email contacts. The planner / calendar feature is a real winner too. It has a clean, easy to use interface, and integrates well with your contact lists; it even provides up-to-date weather forecasts.

To summarize, the HTC Desire finds the ideal balance of design, features and performance. It offers a fun, fast user experience and some of the best communications tools available in phones today. It is definitely a good purchase!

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